Mom was in the hospital for a few days, so this week has been all messed up. I did do a bit of crochet on the cardi while visiting her at the hospital, but otherwise didn't touch my crafts because I was too exhausted from stress. She came home yesterday and is recovering, so we're slowly getting back to normal...
Today was Stitch Club. I wasn't going to go because of mom, but she insisted, so I did. One of my college friends showed up! I haven't seen her since, frak, maybe her wedding? SO good to see her again! I worked on the capybara while there but only managed one motif, partially because of all the chatting distracting me, but mostly because the yarn is a PITA -- it's Yarn Bee's Yarntopia and it's SUPER slippery and thus the skein fell apart and I had to spend some time untangling it. It's been balled now, so I should be okay from here on out, but that wasn't fun.
This afternoon I decided to work on Alphi. I had started a tunic for him, but decided I hated it, but instead of ripping it out right away, I put it on waste yarn so I could reclaim the needles for an attempt at a different piece of his clothing. That attempt was his pants, which I was going to do with fingering weight cotton that FINALLY arrived from Hobbii (never ordering from them again; the yarn is fine but the shipping took longer than I'd like) but I think the cotton will look too stringy, so I am making an attempt with worsted weight acrylic. I didn't get far though before I got fed up (black yarn! never fun to work with) so now I am just refreshing websites before dinner.
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Today was Stitch Club. I wasn't going to go because of mom, but she insisted, so I did.
One of my college friends showed up! I haven't seen her since, frak, maybe her wedding? SO good to see her again! I worked on the capybara while there but only managed one motif, partially because of all the chatting distracting me, but mostly because the yarn is a PITA -- it's Yarn Bee's Yarntopia and it's SUPER slippery and thus the skein fell apart and I had to spend some time untangling it. It's been balled now, so I should be okay from here on out, but that wasn't fun.
This afternoon I decided to work on Alphi. I had started a tunic for him, but decided I hated it, but instead of ripping it out right away, I put it on waste yarn so I could reclaim the needles for an attempt at a different piece of his clothing. That attempt was his pants, which I was going to do with fingering weight cotton that FINALLY arrived from Hobbii (never ordering from them again; the yarn is fine but the shipping took longer than I'd like) but I think the cotton will look too stringy, so I am making an attempt with worsted weight acrylic. I didn't get far though before I got fed up (black yarn! never fun to work with) so now I am just refreshing websites before dinner.