I promised a big surprise. Here it is.

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IT'S DONE! Oh my lord, it's done. It fits. THE FUCKING PURPLE SWEATER IS DONE! Purple Agony will torture me no more ( Read more... )

I've posted some more pictures to my crafts gallery, in case anyone's interested. I'm not gonna spam y'all with all of them, but I wanted to show one off. :)

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For those of you who missed my post about how I got a pattern accepted to a book, know that back in January, I learned that I'd gotten a hat pattern that I spent most of last year perfecting accepted to the Anticraft's new book. I crowed and bragged about it nonstop for a couple of months, but then I got distracted with other things, and also most ( Read more... )

For those of you in the Davis area who need furnishings of any kind, get thee to L St. Furniture on (guess!) L St. They're doing a drastic stock reduction right now and so a LOT of their stock is 'name your price'. Sam and I stopped by there yesterday looking for some things that we've been needing for a while, and found quite a lot of them. I ( Read more... )

Today, nickel noted that when I'm designing a difficult project, there's a progression that happens. At first, I'm very excited, if somewhat trepedatious, about the work ahead of me. Then, literally seconds later, I hit my first stumbling block. At first, I bear the confusion gracefully,try again, hit the same stumbling block, get increasingly ( Read more... )

Okay, guys. I am issuing you a challange. I am challanging you to find the funniest videos that YouTube has to offer, and then either post them in comments here, or post them to your journal and link to the post in comments. I want to see the rolling on the floor laughing with tears streaming down your face stuff. Show it to me ( Read more... )

Why must all spinners envy me, do you ask? I will tell you why.

I just got a used (but in perfect condition) Ashford Traditional spinning wheel. For $150. With two large bags of fiber. I don't know what's in the bag of white fiber, but the biggest bag holds quite a lot of what's either llama or alpaca hair ( Read more... )

Okay, it's official, so I can tell you now ( Read more... )

Yup. Good day. Despite getting a flu shot (ugh) and also only getting three hours of sleep last night. Lots of good things happened to tide me through the day ( Read more... )