Funhilde’s New Around Here

Yule Cat (Jólakötturinn)

It’s that time of year…and the Yule Cat, Jólakötturinn, is out and about and judging your holiday fit.

Matchablossom 🍵🌸 Sweaters

Breaking up & making up in the rain. 

An emotional collab with selfindulgentkitten!

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It's all woven on our 8-shaft loom, designed and woven to represent the patterns of wood grain. There are four colors in the warp and one in the weft. The warp has an echo threading over eight shafts as described in Weaving with Echo and Iris by Marian Stubenitsky. All of the yarn is 8/2 cotton sett at 24 epi on the loom. There is no repetition in the treadling pattern, which helps create that dynamic and natural look.

Isn't she brilliant?! It looks JUST like wood, and if you're a weaver, you know how difficult it can be to get an organic look without a jacquard loom.

Detail pics below:

to go along with my hc that kojiro decided his favorite color completely based on kaoru’s eye color

Joeeeee

Rented cat

This in an idiom in Japanese that means someone is acting quieter/more meek than usual.

Hiyayakko

Sure, this does say hiyayakko, though I don't know if people would know what that is without looking it up... it just means chilled tofu.

But the kanji also makes it a little bit of a joke because the name of the dish is a bit of a pun... the kanji 冷奴 literally means chilled servant. The explanation I've heard of this is because servants of samurai during the edo period wore outfits with a square symbol on them.

The second kanji 奴 is also used for やつ(yatsu) which means guy so you could read it as cool guy.

Karuta

I made a list of all the cards here but even after watching it I feel like people might not know how to play. Karuta is a matching game. You have to make two matching decks, the reading deck and the grabbing deck. The players lay all the grabbing deck cards out in a random order and then they read a card from the reading deck and search for the matching card as fast as they can.

Piggyback

Langa doesn't recognize the Japanese word for piggyback because it's a word that came to Japanese through Portuguese. It originated from the Portuguese word ombro(shoulders/back).

Joe's long nose