It's aliiiveee!
The journal, I mean. I haven't posted here in years...No fun posting about crafty stuff without pictures. And there's still no camera, so no pictures. *sad face*
But I'm still crafting. Mostly quilts. And some knitting, which is what got me to posting; I have an almost finished shawl, which I was looking forward to wear for the first time during my New Year's trip. I mean, there are bats on it! Black lace bats!
And then my circular needle broke. The needle that I bought new for this project! I did salvage the knitting, without losing a single stitch (but there was a nerve-wracking fifteen minutes where I wondered how the hell I was gonna fix this...). But there is no such thing as a 100 cm size 5 bamboo circular needle here in Hicksville, Middle-of-nowhere... I have been in every store in town I thought might have anything to do with knitting needles. (All three of them.) And the closest I got was aluminium and 80 cm. No good. (If I change what kind of needles, metal instead of bamboo, my tension will go all haywire, and that will not be pretty.)
And I don't have time to go to the city before Christmas...
I am NOT amused.
But I'm still crafting. Mostly quilts. And some knitting, which is what got me to posting; I have an almost finished shawl, which I was looking forward to wear for the first time during my New Year's trip. I mean, there are bats on it! Black lace bats!
And then my circular needle broke. The needle that I bought new for this project! I did salvage the knitting, without losing a single stitch (but there was a nerve-wracking fifteen minutes where I wondered how the hell I was gonna fix this...). But there is no such thing as a 100 cm size 5 bamboo circular needle here in Hicksville, Middle-of-nowhere... I have been in every store in town I thought might have anything to do with knitting needles. (All three of them.) And the closest I got was aluminium and 80 cm. No good. (If I change what kind of needles, metal instead of bamboo, my tension will go all haywire, and that will not be pretty.)
And I don't have time to go to the city before Christmas...
I am NOT amused.