Trust the hours. Haven't they carried you everywhere up to now?

“Vicious” Leopard seal tries to keep national geographic photographer alive by feeding him penguins.

@maculategiraffe tags

Crochet says measure with your heart. Knitting says “if you do not do a gauge swatch, I will so thoroughly destroy your concept of relative size in any given space that you will not recall where head meets you neck fast enough to remember how to breathe”

I freehanded this, only unraveling a little bit. Yet I can’t do a simple dishcloth in knit. I tried. It was a simple heart in a square, using all purl stitches for the background. It was sloppy and I hated every minute of it. My stitches always seemed too tight, refusing to move on the needles, yet the needles would just randomly completely fall out of the project as I was working on it.

It didn't. I've made a bunch of things crochet, and have no idea how to read a crochet pattern, because most of the time in crochet? You don't need to.

Butterball and his tracks. Tulit’a, Northwest Territories, Canada.

Linh San

from rayne fisher-quann’s latest substack post

Woman with a Daisy, Alphonse Mucha, 1900

a warm cup of tea 🍵

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head.

Winter landscape, c. 1926 Valerius De Saedeleer