After getting mostly deer body parts on the trail cam, I adjusted it to look down rather than across and was rewarded with full body deer pictures! How many can you spot in the picture below?
I find four deer, all does as far as I can tell. I do have the advantage of seeing all the pictures before and after this one, but here are all the deer circled.
Even cooler, the deer rest within the camera view, so the trail cam is going to stay in this position for a while.
Crew neck t-shirt necklines bother me. I don’t like things touching my neck, but I do like the longer short sleeves and longer hem of crew neck shirts. I have found a new way to fix the problem.
Rather than leave the raw edge, which looks OK from a distance but untidy up close, I whipped stitched a tiny hem around the neckline.
Yes, it is hand-sewing. I did see a tutorial that used a narrow zigzig machine stitch, but I’m not good with knits and machine stitching. I like sewing some things by hand because it gives me more control.
I liked this method so much, I pulled shirts from my closet and redid them as well!
Long haired cats really need daily brushing. I have not been able to brush Mr Tom daily (yes, he’s my neighbor’s cat, but he lets me brush him, so I do), so over the winter he had matts build up under his legs. When I first noticed them they were tight to the skin, making cutting them out a risky business. As his fur grew, the matts came away from the skin and I was able to slip a small pair of scissors in to clip it off while he was lying on his side. He only allows me to get one off before he lets me know he’s had enough, though, so there is still some work to do. Spring time shedding should help, and will be a good time to get him matt free again.
I brush Shadow less, but Shadow keeps himself groomed better than Mr Tom.
I saw the idea of using a numbered chain to count knitting rows. A simple sequence of 1-10, with a melody clip to mark the tens, will allow counting up to 110. I did not want to buy plastic beads, but I did have copper circles and chain in my stash.
I started by punching two holes in the sides of the copper circles, then I stamped a number between the circles and planished the back flat. I connected the number links with links of chain.
I made a small melody clip out of 20 gauge copper wire. The size of the copper links means this will only work on knitting needles that are size 2 or smaller, which is perfect for sock making.
To use the row counter, every time you knit to it, you move it one link. For the start of the sock toes, I’m really just using it to keep track of odds or evens, an increase row or no increase row. This is because I had to rip out these socks already because I forgot the no increase rows. I do like the row counter!
Thor the cat is obsessed with my brass singing bowl. He really likes to try to chew the wooden mallet, and stick his head in the bowl. I recently figured out how to make the bowl sing, loud, and I see why it is a good meditative process, if you get distracted, you lose the ring sound. It takes some concentration and focus, but not intensity, to get a clear loud tone.
I think Thor could smell the felted wool ring that came with the bowl and was looking for it. Once he found it, I had to put the bowl away lest I loose the ring to becoming a cat toy. The boy really likes wool.
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