AND ALSO a fingering weight jumper is going to be rough in my hands so breaking it up with spinning will be good

However my first colour of choice is one of the few fleeces I haven't even scoured so it's quite a lot of tasks before that'll be ready to go on the needles

The good news is that I've finally figured out what to do with the pound of raw fleece that's been languishing in my storage

The bad news is that this colourwork jumper is now going to take five times as long

But it's a jumper with sheep on, it will be perfect to have lots of breeds/colours

Literally every single person who comes to visit me is so charmed by the animals and will go out of their way to keep a note as memento

Nobody cares about the king

Sending you lots of love 💚

Goblin Market
Kobold Boutique
Bugbear Haberdasherye
Ogre judgmental Byke Shoppe
Hill Troll Comic Booke store wyth weirde hours
Mountayne Giant Real Estate Agencye that wil nevir call you back

Why have my tomatoes not sprouted yet

First seeds have come up so I'm planting a second round - time to find out if my own woad seeds will germinate!
Plus some tomatoes, even if it's a little late for them

Oh that sucks so much!! Bodies are the worst. I really hope you can find a way to still do the art you love!

Ahhh feck!

Du kommst da durch, ich drücke die Daumen!

Hi I love this

Alt text: a spindle whorl made from a pale brown limestone forming a thick disc with the centre hole worn smooth. The central line of the ogham is an uneven circle all the way around, the letters thinly carved and almost worn away in one third

A court lady who keeps pulling weapons out of the pockets of her ridiculous high waisted big pannier gown

my mama is a luminous goddess and I love her very much!!

#art #artsky

Oh that's so cool, I don't think I've ever seen this style of perspective/depth work in a manuscript before!

A pool of shallow water reflecting a deep blue sky, surrounded by reeds

A smattering of red backed bracket mushrooms on a mossy log. A small fern-like moss frond has fallen on the tops of one of the fungi

A tree, the bark of which has fragmented into geometric patterns

Wet! Land! Wet! Land!

Tonsillitis sucks, my sympathies

@lycomorpha.bsky.social might have paints that use a different preservative, or thoughts on sources/what might be useful coping strats?

Man I gotta go see more theatre this year

Also thanks to Edinburgh I got to see Coriolanus as an opera in Mandarin where between acts they wheeled out stands with metal bands from either side of the stage and they did a lil solo

Not my fav adaptation but delightful in its out there choices

M is for maybe this starts with an m N is for next letter, and that one's an n E is for easy, like spelling this word M is for magpie, the stealingest bird O is for only three more letters to go N is for nearly there, you mnemonic pro I is for imminent, this poem's end C is for congratulations, my spellingwell friend

If you are unsure of how to spell mnemonic, here is a handy mnemonic:

Also they only had 15 minutes to clean up every day (joys of the Edinburgh Fringe) so had devised a full choreography set to music for it to keep on track, a joy to watch

I saw an incredible production by an all female Shakespeare troupe that had pots lining the stage and every battle was done with brushes liberally laden with red paint. Absolute bloodbath by the end, it was glorious

A top-down closeup photo of a pale yellow flower with serrated-tip petals, with the ground and leaves below out of focus. There are two little moths in the flower; the moths have a fuzzy gray thorax, and cream-colored wings with thin bands and edges of deep pink.

These pretty, day-flying moths (Heliolonche pictipennis), only about 1 cm. long, are one of my favorite desert spring insects. The only flowers they visit (desert dandelion, desert chicory, or scale bud) close up at night; the moths sleep inside them, which is scientifically adorable. #BugSky 🌿🐙🌼

It's lost some swooshiness that I want to bring back but we'll have to see if that happens when I'm tired of seeing the imperfections in the drying swatch or in a few years when I randomly find it in my swatch collection. I'm fine with either! This was fun to do, it's nice to learn by playing

Machine knitted swatch pinned to a beige mat to dry flat. On a green ground it shows a stylised white horse with a big flowing mane in profile, based roughly on some art in Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy

Getting over my fretting about "wasting" a whole 15g or whatever of yarn to make a swatch 🙄 when it is inarguably useful to have a knitted record of what the current pattern looks like before I shove it in a cupboard because I don't have the patience to fiddle with the tweaks I still want to do

Illustration of a lady knight with braids holding a sword on a backgorund of flowers

Knight of flowers

Trying to pick a crafting project for upcoming train travel and unfortunately I've realised it would be incredibly funny to bring my bobbin lace setup

The Small Gardener, a tiny cat-shaped plant guardian in a red cloak, scribbles in a journal while resting up in their cosy seed pod lodge, surrounded by berries, acorns, nuts, leaves, a huge persimmon, and a little fire warming up a tea pot.

The same ink and watercolour illustration / sticker shown in full, in the shape of the seed pod.

The Small Gardener has many secret shelters across their patch, from shady nooks for sunny days to cosy caverns for when the temperature falls. This seed lodge is one of the Small Gardener’s favourites, with a good stash of supplies for the cooler months. 🌾🌰🫖🪵

Photo of a flat section of rock completely covered in flat-growing lichens. Includes two yellow lichens, one orange lichen and one grey lichen.

A lichen collage on seaside rock. Newfoundland, Canada. Includes Xanthoria (leafy yellow), Physcia (grey), Rusavskia (orange) and Polycaulinia (the other yellow lichen). #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

AND I finally tackled some old crafting projects! And might keep drinking teas that bring me joy!
Now all is ready for Mending March, in which I dive into my always enormous repair pile in the hopes to have comfy trousers again eventually

Okay wrap up time: I ended sorta yesterday with tamales from the freezer and a mug of a lovely honeybush. Then promptly found a whole new unopened box of tea today!
Overall I'm really pleased, the freezer has new stuff but I finished like five teas and threw out a bunch more I'll never drink