putting my cardigan aside for a week, so it’s all about the bead crochet
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on.
I took a break from my mammoth of a granny square cardigan, and started working on a couple bead crochet pieces. With only a handful of minutes here and there for crafting (or blog post writing), it’s hugely motivating to be working on a project that shows significant progress after 15 minutes.
Here’s to more time for crafting next week.
I think my sweater is starting to feel a little neglected.
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on.
My giant granny square is growing – ever so slowly – but still growing. Row by ever longer row. I might have said this before, but I’m at the point where every single round seems never ending.
That feeling of never ending rows, combined with very limited crafting time this week, means I managed to crochet 1.5 rounds…
This project mostly lives at my desk, and I’ve been squeezing in a few stitches here and there throughout the week. Up until this point, that method has made for slow, consistent, and visible progress.
But I think that this shawl/sweater has officially reached the point of needing focused attention, to really grow. Otherwise, I really will be working on this project forever.
Anyway! There’s always this coming week, and cooler weather on the horizon (fingers crossed).
And one more thing!
Penny over at Little Acorn Creations interviewed me about the self-made wardrobe project, my shawl geometry series, and generally creativity & craft. You can read the interview here – it was an absolute delight answering Penny’s questions.
“But either way, I’m still brain-broken and sock-less.” – To Read Over Coffee #11
A collection of links from the past few weeks that I think are interesting/amusing/educational/insightful enough to read/watch/listen & think about over a cup of coffee.
Making, Mending, Art & Clothing:
30 Fair Trade Clothing Brands that are Betting Against Fast Fashion
A love letter to a body, and some awesome handmade lingerie:
“So I’m posting these pictures as a love letter to my body, in its current state, to remind myself that this body deserves something special. And I think yours does too, no matter what it looks like on the outside.”
Amanda Palmer on art, money, and motherhood.
General Humanity:
“…how important it is for us to know about things we don’t know about, and how much it hurts to know these things, and the desire to help and the desire to find the right ways, and the desire to always hold the full truth of knowing that places and people are complicated, and what we hear of them from afar is only one thread in a tapestry.”
This! In the weekly Chicken (check-in) from Havi at The Fluent Self.
From Time Money – What ended up happening to the money from the ALS ice bucket challenge.
And from Jezebel “What ‘The Hustle’ Looks Like on Etsy in 2015”
If you like Sci-Fi and Fantasy:
10 things you may not know about ‘The Doctor’s Wife’ – The Doctor being Doctor Who, of course
Wired had a good piece on who won the Hugo Awards this year, and why it all mattered. And the comments to “I WON 5 HUGO AWARDS. And we all lost.” on The Bloggess, could fill years worth of reading time.
In the realm of real books:
Josef Albert is still breaking my brain. And “Trigger Warning” from Neil Gaiman is scaring my socks off (or maybe just making them disappear into the night.) But either way, I’m still brain-broken and sock-less.
So, what did I miss?
Have you read anything interesting, amusing, educational, insightful, or generally worth sharing, recently?
