I been spotlighted at whiplash, it makes me feel all fluttery! And kinds of lousy for not having extended a better welcome to readers-future-friends in the entry itself, and for not having updated the blog in a while.
For my own records, there was an entry in Mama Urchin’s blog linking to me here too - I’m using this psot to keep track, as I am likely to lose the link otherwise. How would that be bad? you ask, and let me tell you: I know it wouldn’t matter, not to a normal person who sanely has integrated the fact that life is all about moving *onwards* - but I am neurotically afraid of losing and forgetting the past, and accordingly to the neurosis I collect; links, lint, everything.
Another link, this time both for me and you, because I find the project all sorts of fascinating: brown dress, ‘a year-long performance project’ in which the artist made herself a little brown dress and swore to wear it every single day of an entire year. Very inspiring, and well worth a look! She posts a journal there with her reflections about the ongoing project, and of course pictures of the dress in situ(s).
Since the previous post I knitted and beaded a second necklace, this one with the grey yarn, and then a third one from the pale green, which I have not photographed yet.
Yesterday I went shopping for cabled beading thread to reinforced all necklaces with, and for closure mechanisms. Since I also started weaving the grey yarn in a strip to see if I can make a woven chocker, I ended up bringing back home a series of little crocheted flowers to embellish that project. Even though I felt utterly reasonable, like I’d proved how damned restrained I can be (I didn’t allow myself to even look in the direction the shelves full of beads!), I still spent about 75 Euros all told..
But this is because I succumbed to
A. wonderful smooth 100% bamboo yarn, expensive but so hard to find around here - I bought it in grey and deep green to try and knit an elegant, summer, slytherin-y scarf (possibly suitable for a man if I manage; I’m not sure sure that the pattern I came up with will be unisex, but I hope).. I kinda told myself I would sell the resulting accessory if it’s nice enough, to alleviate the spending guilt; and
B. two large table cloths / light bedspread type 100% cotton garments, which I simply HAD to buy as there are a few garments Mom bought recently for her summer of which I badly want to try and rip the pattern. I got them for 50% OFF, they were both cheaper than their equivalent, on-the-roll, by-the-yard type fabric would have been, so I refuse to feel guilt over them. They’re different patterns and differet colors, and I’m now looking at the stripey, candy-colored one wondering if it would be the right lining for a bag based on a tablemat that I’ve been pondering lately.
The downer of the shopping excursion: I seem to have completely lost the turcmeric-dyed fraction of felted rope that I also intended to make a necklace out of. Maybe I forgot in the bead shop?
I even had posted the pictures of it as a WiP in the Fickr pool and now, I might ever have the rest of the process to show. Sadness.
I’ve also been watching a lot of football… I’m enjoying the World Cup. I shall now go back to doing just that, while knitting this bamboo-Slytherin experiment!
