Happy 7th anniversary to my blog, a couple days late. One of the traditional gifts for a 7th anniversary is wool, so I grabbed some off my counter (yes, really) and staged a photo. I also realized that I have four in-process spinning projects at the moment. Hm. I’m not going to count the number of other works in process, let’s just say that it is over three.
The mossarium I made in a case was not doing well. I tried adding a plant light and it was too much for some of the moss. After six months of steady decline, I decided to clean out the container and put in something else. I have a young African violet that I received from a friend that currently fits.
Izzy the calico cat is kept indoors, except for the catio. She is allowed in the yard under supervision, but is not allowed outside the fence. She protests to this gilded cage, but she is an urban princess and not prepared for the things that live in our woods. Still she tries, and did manage to slip out the door when I was distracted. I only found out when I let the dog out and she came sauntering back in covered in dust. She was quite pleased with herself. When I checked the trail cam, there were photos of her adventure, all the way out behind the chicken coop.
The pictures didn’t show any encounters with other critters. The series stopped after the one where she spotted another cat.
This gave me a chuckle when I looked at my phone. It isn’t perfect, but the AI attempt was surprising. My lock screen is set to show random pictures of my kids, and usually the program stretches the numbers and tucks them behind the head of my eldest, who is tallest. I enjoy seeing the different presentations of the current time digitally inserted into glimpses of past times. On this particular grab from the folder of the past, the app floated the numbers way above my kids’ heads (not shown because I don’t post their faces on this blog), but dimmed the bottom corner of the number zero to show the head of a giraffe statue. The way it chose to not reveal the neck and just one ear makes the giraffe look like it is putting its head through the number. Ha.
I have been fascinated with Wool & Pine’s “Seaglass” series of knitwear patterns and have been collecting patterns, but haven’t tried knitting them, until now. A friend gave me a bag of skein ends, which are all the same yarn size, but a variety of colors, which was perfect for the pattern.
I am currently randomly choosing two colors for each row. The original pattern was in the round, but for the cardigan they have a clever way of knitting and cleaning up the edges. Here is a link to the pattern. My test piece is a good opportunity to test my understanding of their method and play with color to see what I like, and what I don’t. I already know that for me I need to not stack similar color intensity, or have rows with the same hue, even if they have different shades.
Critters and Craft 