Crafting Creature

Pottery sounds terrifying to me. Every post I see is like "Here's this awesome art I made!! Pray for me that it survives The Kiln™ :')" I don't think I could cope with making art that could quite easily blow up and I have no way of controlling that. You guys are true heroes.

I think they’re super pretty, but I thought they were abstract at first and didn’t read them as birds until I saw the caption.

Cats fucking love lanolin (naturally occurring on sheep's wool, secreted by their skin) so it's possible that whatever brand of wool you buy doesn't strip all the lanolin off during processing. The majority of wools will have as much stripped out as possible but it depends on what you buy and where/how it was processed.

And even your average wool with most of the lanolin stripped still has kind of a “sheepy” smell when damp, even to my human nose. Which explains the reports of cats being drawn to finished projects being wet blocked.

I wonder if Pamela Colman-Smith (the artist for the Rider-Waite-Smith deck) based the bed spread on one she'd seen in real life. Did she have a nightmare once under a rose and blue quilt cover? Would she be pleased to see her art recreated in three dimensions? (I hope so)