Unmitigated Disaster

I don't even know. Just... doing something. Anything. Hands moving brain quiet. Anything to pull back from the abyss.

I'm trying

I'm trying

I don't even know. Just... doing something. Anything. Hands moving brain quiet. Anything to pull back from the abyss.

I'm trying

I'm trying

I don't even know. Just... doing something. Anything. Hands moving brain quiet. Anything to pull back from the abyss.

I'm trying

I'm trying

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.

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