Accidents will happen

My finished knit scrap blanket!!

the parade

Lost my mind a little and added (if my math is correct) 5,615 beads to Nim Teasdale's Odenwald pattern. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!

The goal was “soothingly weighted but not uncomfortable to wear, even as someone with chronic pain.” It could have been a little heavier, so maybe I’ll make a shawl with larger beads another time, but I’m very pleased with this one. I used size 6/0 seed beads, applied as I go with a .6mm crochet hook.

Yarn-wise, used 2 cakes of YarnArt Flowers. I knitted the fully purple sections from both, then knitted all the way through the yellow-oranges with a single ball. When I hit the beginning of red-oranges, I used yarn from both cakes, alternating between them. (Not the entirety of both, I played it by ear to make sure I made it through the full rainbow.)

I do have edited charts with bead placements. I will only share them with Nim's permission.

To know why it is significant, you have to understand how they work: they are not precise missiles and they don't have to be - in the vastness of open sea a ship is one huge metal target such type of missiles easily "see" and they target it precisely.

When put to use on a city, however, these missiles get "confused" by all the "noise" the objects of the city give off.

Its how they are designed to work.

In other words, throwing these missiles at Kyiv in huge numbers, Russians are consciously just trying to randomly blow up anything and everything in the city, just madly destroying as much of the city as they can.

They are not "precise-targeting" some factory or other such facility. They are just throwing a dumb bomb at the general circle of the city centre not caring what it hits, just wanting to cause death abd destruction.

And yeah, using these type of missiles on a city is considered a war crime by every international convention possible.

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