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Jan. 4th, 2018 05:56 pmщ(◉Д◉щ) Holy crackers, writing characters who are supposed to be intelligent is such a pain in the ass. How the heck do people do this? IT'S... REALLY CHALLENGING.
Jan. 4th, 2018
Random stuff found while cleaning out the top of my closet:
-Many, many skeins of yarn
-An exceptionally large embroidery hoop
-T-shirt from Ursula Vernon's Digger kickstarter
-A sword (ornamental)
-A furby
-Enamel mug from the Fram expedition replica series
-Three empty cell phone boxes
-A zip sleeve full of floppy disks
...Among other things, much (but not all) of which is useless junk.
I also found my poor Marimekko messenger bag, which I'd abandoned because of some stains that it acquired somehow and were set before I noticed them. But I'm not ready to give up on it yet! I'm going to make another attempt. We'll see what happens. (If it were white, I'd just bleach it to smithereens, but it's dark fabric, sigh....)
Anyway.
Upside: I have (somewhat) conquered the horror that is my closet!
Downside: I sure do have a lot of yarn to go through. Wait, that's not a downside. The downside is that it takes up a lot of room, so I'm going to have to work my way through it. Luckily, I plan on doing just that. ...Anybody want a hat? xD
Some of it, well, I'm going to have to think of something special to do with it. See, that one time I was in Estonia, I bought some very nice yarn in red and white. Problem is, it came with no label whatsoever, so I have no idea what the yarn weight and yardage is. The only thing I know for sure is that it's 100% wool. I can guess at the weight by comparing it to other stuff in my stash, but yardage... hmm. Looks like it might be good for some kind of scarf - that way I can just knit until I run out of yarn. Upside, I have a lot of it, so I probably wouldn't need to worry too much about running out. :D
Speaking of knitting, I am totally not sure about the project I'm working on right now. It's a hat pattern that I like a lot (Man Slouch) but the yarn I'm using is... uh. It's some self-striping stuff and it's exceptionally hideous. Oh god. What was I thinking when I bought this?! What on earth was I planning to do with it?! Maybe I'll get lucky and it'll turn out looking cooler than it is right now - I've only just started this thing - but hooooo boy.
OH AND I used up my second skein of Malabrigo Arroyo, with the same pattern as above, and it's lovely. Oh man, I love this yarn, I love this hat, and I can hardly wait until I can block the scarf that matches it. :D
Aaanyway. I'm so glad that this part of the cleaning is over with. Next challenge will be my clothing drawers. I'm prepared to discover 20 t-shirts that I completely forgot that I own.
-Many, many skeins of yarn
-An exceptionally large embroidery hoop
-T-shirt from Ursula Vernon's Digger kickstarter
-A sword (ornamental)
-A furby
-Enamel mug from the Fram expedition replica series
-Three empty cell phone boxes
-A zip sleeve full of floppy disks
...Among other things, much (but not all) of which is useless junk.
I also found my poor Marimekko messenger bag, which I'd abandoned because of some stains that it acquired somehow and were set before I noticed them. But I'm not ready to give up on it yet! I'm going to make another attempt. We'll see what happens. (If it were white, I'd just bleach it to smithereens, but it's dark fabric, sigh....)
Anyway.
Upside: I have (somewhat) conquered the horror that is my closet!
Downside: I sure do have a lot of yarn to go through. Wait, that's not a downside. The downside is that it takes up a lot of room, so I'm going to have to work my way through it. Luckily, I plan on doing just that. ...Anybody want a hat? xD
Some of it, well, I'm going to have to think of something special to do with it. See, that one time I was in Estonia, I bought some very nice yarn in red and white. Problem is, it came with no label whatsoever, so I have no idea what the yarn weight and yardage is. The only thing I know for sure is that it's 100% wool. I can guess at the weight by comparing it to other stuff in my stash, but yardage... hmm. Looks like it might be good for some kind of scarf - that way I can just knit until I run out of yarn. Upside, I have a lot of it, so I probably wouldn't need to worry too much about running out. :D
Speaking of knitting, I am totally not sure about the project I'm working on right now. It's a hat pattern that I like a lot (Man Slouch) but the yarn I'm using is... uh. It's some self-striping stuff and it's exceptionally hideous. Oh god. What was I thinking when I bought this?! What on earth was I planning to do with it?! Maybe I'll get lucky and it'll turn out looking cooler than it is right now - I've only just started this thing - but hooooo boy.
OH AND I used up my second skein of Malabrigo Arroyo, with the same pattern as above, and it's lovely. Oh man, I love this yarn, I love this hat, and I can hardly wait until I can block the scarf that matches it. :D
Aaanyway. I'm so glad that this part of the cleaning is over with. Next challenge will be my clothing drawers. I'm prepared to discover 20 t-shirts that I completely forgot that I own.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.