Notes from a knitter

Ant scarf is done!! im so happy with how it turned out. can't wait for the right weather to wear it!

lovely pattern by devout hand:

I’d say I’m probably an intermediate knitter, but I’ve never really made a proper wearable before.

So I decided to knit a vest for my Teddy Bear 🧸🤭 using a knitting pattern from a book I bought in Japan.

I definitely improvised parts of it — especially the neckline! 😹

But somehow it all worked out, and I’m quite pleased with the result 🫶🍀

#KnittingProject #HandKnit #FinishedObject #SlowMaking #MadeWithLove

finished a shawl, blocked the shawl, took pictures of the shawl

very, very pleased with this one. it's soft and drapes amazingly, the gradient flows like i was picturing in my head and i was able to make the shawl i wanted

pattern is Knitting By the Pool by Romi Hill. great pattern, not so complicated i couldn't watch something while knitting while being just complicated enough to make sure my brain stayed engaged. also an excellent pattern for a gradient. i could see making this pattern again in another gradient, possibly for gifting purposes

yarn is a handspun 2 ply laceweight 100% BFL gradient from Hilltop Cloud's Never Ending Gradient Club. i used around 90 grams for the shaw,and i extended the last section by 8 rows. the yarn is from the beginning of my study of consistency in spinning lace and gradients so i can see the areas i was looking to improve at the time and how i would handle them now. still i'm very happy with how the yarn knit up

so I said, "I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about" and the manager made an excited face and said "hold on!!" and ran away to the kitchen

they came back with fun little zines someone had made and posted anonymously! they were full of library jokes and other neat and weird stuff.

and the new person read them as well and we all chatted about them for a little bit about who we suspected posted them, and then manager left and we got back to work, such as it is when its half an hour from closing

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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NEW PATTERN ALERT!

Ahhhhh happy Legend of Vox Machina release day!!

This show and these characters mean SO much to me, and getting to do cosplay shoots with friends like this is truly one of the highlights of the critter community!

Can’t wait to keep adding pieces to my Vax build 👀👀

Vax: me!

Matron: @makermage