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Threaded | Flat

Everything seems to be against me today. Slept badly last night, I've been feeling tired and crappy all day, internet went down briefly, and while I was writing I suddenly started getting a wider gap between lines of text than I have it set for. No idea why, and I couldn't fix it, although I did find a way around it.

Then, making todays spiders, I dropped a couple of the eyes and had to search for them, had to cut a new pair for one spider because I found the colour I'd chosen didn't show up against the fabric, my needle came unthreaded so many times I seemed to be re-threading it every five minutes, and just as I was stuffing one body and pulling the thread tight, it snapped and I had to start from the beginning again.

The old method of sewing the bases on is much neater but seems to take longer. I'm still going to continue with it though; maybe I'll get quicker with practice.

July crafting update, in my journal here: https://althea-valara.dreamwidth.org/1145413.html

It's a new month of challenges in Nerdopolis, and I am already making plans/starting new projects. One of the challenges is "New!" - pick something you haven't done before, including working with a yarn new to you. Well, there's not much I haven't done in knitting or crochet that I can think of, so I'm going with the yarn option. I have a cone of lace-weight cashmere mix from Colourmart, and today set about attempting to knit a kerchief.

It took me forty minutes to cast on and get to row 3. Yeah. It's just so THIN!!! It's hard to work with. I've heard Colourmart yarns are usually oiled and need washing to bloom, but I don't have a niddy noddy to skein the yarn, and lack the money right now to invest in one (don't even have the funds to make a PVC pipe niddy noddy, alas). So my plan was to knit it anyway and THEN wash it, but it's hard, man.

In other Nerdopolis plans: my team has chosen Indie Games as our "Love What You Do" theme this month, so I am being inspired by the indie video game A Short Hoke. The playable character in that game is a bluebird, so I did a Ravelry search for bluebirds and immediately fell in love with this:

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/spring-bluebird-banner

I bought it, even though I probably shouldn't have spent the money... but it's just so pretty! I should have yarns in my stash that will work.

I made the page bases for the (paper) baby book that also needs to be finished this month. I don't know what was I *thinking* when I started this thing! 6 double pages, plus 2 simple ones, plus the cover and the binding... At least I've made a great deal of embellishments in advance, which was time-consuming, detailed work. But I'm starting to seriously worry about deadlines.

Yesterday we were stuck in the flat by high winds and fog/clouds, perfect weather for some crochet.
I finished the dinosaur's head and one back leg.
Next up is the other back leg and joining it to the first to start the body.