Some flowers for Nana Betty. I cut them from the pots on the patio and we brought them out to the graveyard during the week.
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Paper Snowflakes
Some traditional paper snowflakes, hastily cut out and hung up before our little Christmas party this year.
SVG Grid
Ever since Aviary took their lovely online tools down, including my beloved Raven, I’ve been searching for a suitable replacement. Inkscape, the best of the open source options doesn’t support some of my transforms or use xlink, while Illustrator, the best of the paid options can’t always handle my tidy nested layers*. What to do?
Today, a really extreme notion occurred to me: I should draw in Notepad++. “That’s madness!” I hear you say, and maybe it is, but I’ve optimised many of my old Raven SVGs using just a text editor and a browser to view, and I think I can do it.
With this crazy announcement, I now present my first concession to convenience, the grid. This will help me to assess coordinates, and draw my characters onto their backgrounds. Isn’t it tidy? Pixel precision in action.
*Also I’m way too cheap to give them over seven hundred euro, just for one program. Feck off, Adobe.
First Socks
My first pair of socks! I put off attempting socks for so long; I was intimidated by the turn at the heel. It wasn’t as tough as I’d imagined.
Many thanks to Hanna, who gave me a big dollop of encouragement, and a link to this quite straight-forward sock pattern.
Knitted Creeper Balaclava
Last winter, the lovely Cian requested a creeper balaclava. I could not resist this challenge! Here is the result, as photographed recently. I kept some notes about my pattern, but I think I need to refine it a bit more before releasing it on the world.
Ambient Eggs
I’ve been quiet lately! First I was doing an online course, and then I spent a week in London!
Here is a phrase I’ve been hearing a lot lately, from a guy on a keto diet, “Ambient Eggs”. True enough, there are a lot more eggs around then there used to be.
Calla Lily in Pixels
The Quilting Bee is running another garden based activity this spring, and this is my entry, a calla lily. Mum would grow these in the garden when I was growing up, and I always thought they were so elegant and beautiful…
Last summer she gave me a potted marigold to put on my windowsill, and it bloomed all autumn and then died away. I never bothered to move the pot with the dead marigold all winter, and in the spring I was surprised to see a little calla seedling popping it’s head up! It smuggled aboard in the marigold pot!
Hopefully, I can take good care of it, and one day grow some beautiful calla lilies of my own.
Rainbow Stash
This is the prettiest part of my stash. All the odds and ends off various balls of yarn are quarantined here, in a woolly rainbow, until I can find a suitable purpose for them.
Die Kartoffel
Still trying to learn German, still puzzled by gendered veg! Here is a potato about to attend her first ballet lesson.
Der Apfel
So I’m trying to brush up on my German lately, but it’s hard to remember all genders that random objects have. Apples are of the gentlemanly persuasion.