I needed some EB White wisdom tonight, maybe you, too?
"Hang onto your hat. Hang onto your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day," from a 1973 letter: https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/wind-the-clock-for-tomorrow-is-another
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mastodon 4.7.3Fiber artist & technical writer full of typos - knitting, spinning, embroidery, sometimes poetry, more. I'm a perpetual weirdo, dabbler, atheist, on the left, writer, aspiring intersectional feminist, fan of eclectic music, bi & bipolar 2. I live in northern Virginia, in the US et je parle un peu de français, mais toujours j'ai des problèmes grammaticals, so I read it much better than I write or speak it.
I try not to toot or boost uncaptioned images, but occasionally one slips past me.
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Marguerite Duras-me (trying to imitate a portrait of her)
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Cover picture alt text: partial view of two skeins of dark brown (like damp coffee grounds) hand-spun yarn. The skeins undulate a little vertically.
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Ok. Before I keep going, I thought I'd share my hack for creating a light box for tracing embroidery patterns (or whatever floats your boat). I have a glass baking dish with a cover, so I trap a light source in the dish - a phone flashlight or a battery powered dome light would work better than the flashlight - flip it upside down, and trace away. Before this, I was taping paper and cloth to a window during the day. Using the pan is much more comfortable.
#embroidery
I found it finally @welshpixie@mastodon.art and @joybooster@beige.party - the uterus with the googly eyes, but I was wrong about the position of the eyes - ovaries as grabby hands is way better.
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@moonrabbit Once there was a snail who was tired of being slow. He went out and bought a really fast sports car and had the dealer paint a big 'S' on each side of it.
Whenever someone saw him zooming past in his new car, they would say, "Hey, look at that S-car go!"
....And that is one thing I think about when I think about snails.
I'm not sure what's going on in Eevee-land that makes the steps an attractive, safe place for her to nap. Someone - Jeff or Lola - marked the stone chimney for our gas fireplace (currently disconnected) in the family room this morning. Sigh. Cat politics.
My native honeysuckle vine (lonicera sempervirens) has buds and blooms all over it and (hopefully) it will be like this the rest of the spring, all summer and fall, to the last frost.
Edited to correct spelling
#BloomScrolling
Hand spinners: I have a Schacht Matchless wheel with a jumbo flyer and bobbin and am thinking about getting a dedicated wheel with a jumbo flyer for plying so I don't have to change out the orifice and flyer every time I want to ply onto the jumbo bobbin. #HandSpinning… (1/2)
I'm still working on the Embroidered Mixtape and took a 24 second time-lapse video of about 45 minutes of work embroidering one line of a lyric using couching stitch. https://youtube.com/shorts/r8PulbUnKso?is=qgwaRDh0DvaLeUwx #Embroidery
The hat that I couldn't stop looking at last summer jumped into my shopping cart last night along with a smaller one that will hopefully take up less space on our trip at the end of May. If the trip actually happens.
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@NorcalGma2@sfba.social There are a lot of mutual aid posts and a lot of posts from Gaza and fraud from others. Set your boundary with a "I don't make $ donations" in your profile. I need to take my own advice.
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@Cassandra@ottawa.place My inner judge is like this also, very demanding and accepting of nothing less than perfection. I've worked for a long time to react to it differently and quiet it some - Byron Katie's The Work and the four questions helped me enormously. I also have those internal conversations a lot. I think it takes extra imagination and empathy to be able to do that, even though it's mostly not fun.
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@NorcalGma2 I love everything you've done so far with it; thank you for posting updates about it!
@MariaLiv@toot.io Thank you so much for this reminder! One of my college friends who's active on Facebook only (he's a weirdo), reminds me often that "Your outrage is being monetized" and I see it now in a new dimension.
It's the perfect day to play soccer/football here today! It's breezy and 60° F, partly cloudy. Suddenly wishing I had kept up with that, I played in the days when shin-guards weren't required.
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@catmisgivings@stranger.social @SeaFury@aus.social I have some casein (milk protein, I think) straights that I never use that were marketed that way in the late 90s early 00s. They're beautiful and they are pleasant to work with the few times I've used them.
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@emery@sunny.garden @jkirkendall@wandering.shop I'm low-key afraid I'll get obsessed with it and stop doing everything else - it's so cute and I bet making a coaster is like eating chips: you can't have just one.
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@nev@flipping.rocks @welshpixie@mastodon.art @joybooster@beige.party That's awesome - thank you for sifting through the interwebs for the original source!
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@lclarke522 @knitting@a.gup.pe The photos and the lack of meaningful content in AI bullshit ... it all makes me so angry. And I refuse to be the human in the loop helping to improve the application of AI to applications like this, that obscure human contributions to a field - any field.
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@Star12Mt My Jeff (he's an orange & white tabby) is usually aware and poses when I take pictures of him, also! Smart kitties!
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@Cassandra@ottawa.place I love this! I've been edging towards Buddhism since I married into a practicing family of Vietnamese-Chinese Buddhists. I wouldn't say that I am one but I've definitely borrowed from it in my personal journey. My uncle in-law passed last year and his sons gave him his requested full Buddhist, multi-day funeral, which very moving and a fitting goodbye for him.
Tonight is the perfecy night to rewatch Wim Wender's Until The End of the World (1991). And that is what I'm doing.
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@emery@sunny.garden I need to do that if only for the digital resources and breadth of books we don't have
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@gazsp@mastodonapp.uk @welshpixie@mastodon.art @joybooster@beige.party I really wish I had done this but alas, it was someone else. I did carry googly eyes in my handbag for a few years but used very few.
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@jkirkendall@wandering.shop Thank you so much, Jon! I had a great time at MDSW and saw so many people I knew! I also stuck to my yarn buying goals and only got 4 skeins, 2 of Miss Babs sock yarns and 2 undyed skeins of Bare Naked Yarns cashmere-silk yarn for a shawl the guild is doing a KAL for. And a bag, a shawl pin, a coaster loom, and some woad (both ready to be dyed with dried woad and seeds). I hope you had a fun time yesterday!
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@TheEddieShow That's great news!I have 2 kitties on 2 different Science Diet doets; Jeff is c/d and Eevee is z/d. They both feel much etter when they eat the right food, but I battle 3 cats each with Goldilocks feelings each day.
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@jkirkendall Memememememe!!! I'll be there Sunday to watch the Sheep to Shawl competition- one of my friends is on one of the teams. And then we're going to poke around and will definitely visit the skein & garment competition. *whispers* it's also my bday. So fun will be had!
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@MPgh I completely agree with you: cats live longer lives indoors and aren't really built to be outdoor animals anymore.
Listening to Christine and the Queens (and more, but this a few times on repeat): https://youtu.be/ZzFYmz2lfT4?si=54L4AbkhW3reoTCa
@MariaLiv@toot.io Understood and taken to heart. Thank you! ♥️
@MariaLiv@toot.io Oh hey, also: I'm very sorry that's learned from experience; I have my own expertise with that around SA.
Oh, NPR I love you (I really really do) but I remember now why I stopped listening 24x7: it's bleak.
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@lia_pas@vis.social Wow Lia!! You did a great job! Maybe I'll dig mine out and give it another try! I found a darning egg to be easier to use but I've mostly been mending socks.
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@emery That happened to me after working in Illustrator for days and days. It's discombobulating!
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@bomkatt Not unless you want to make it legendarily awkward! Remember: there's always money in the Banana Stand!
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@cris@social.lol @mayintoronto@beige.party I have 2 driftwood sets - with one, the tips are short. I used to prefer wood but got the first set about 10 years ago and my hands love them! I still used metal for anything less than a US 3.
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@TheEddieShow@beige.party Awwww extra wee milbones for her the next time you talk to your sister. I want to offer homemade sourdough & pumpkin based dog bones but realistically can't deliver on that till June. I'd also love to send some cat toys for Charlene. So. If that's cool, LMK.
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@emery Thusly, I'm on the patio listening to the birbs with Rosie and glancing up to see if I can see any of them. Now if the damn Robins would just shush for a minute ...