Thinking About Yarn, Part 1
Ok...y'all are as interested in this sensory issue thing as I am. So, I'm going to try (emphasis on try, taking something that happens real deep down in your brain and putting it into words and then into someone else's brain is not always as easy as you might like) to see if I can explain How I Think About Yarn. And then I'm going to try explain How That Helps Me Find Yarn I Like Using. Because once I got better at thinking about yarn, I got better at finding yarn that would work for my sensory issues. But, to [...]
Sensory Issues
Let’s talk about sensory issues and yarn! I’m autistic, and I have a LOT of sensory issues, and they very much dictate what yarn I like and use. I’m not alone (and lots of us HAVE sensory issues without KNOWING we have sensory issues). I was talking with someone who is starting to get into yarn and also has sensory issues, and we were talking about how going into a yarn store can feel HARD when you don’t know much about yarn yet, and sensory issues just make that even more complex. So I started trying to launch into the [...]
Not-so Friendly Reminder
For the avoidance of doubt—if you voted for him, you're not welcome here. I do not want you as a follower. Or a customer. Or a friend. I think you are a bad person. You voted for someone who will gleefully make the lives of women & people of color & queer people & disabled people worse. You voted for someone who will make your groceries & your clothes & your cars & your housing more expensive. You voted for someone who will make the air you breathe & the water you drink & the food you eat less safe. [...]
Should we do kits?
Should we do kits for this pattern? Because I get the impression that there are folks out there who want to make these, but do not want to go out and find all the pieces. And I get that! But also, I kinda already found them. So if we were to do this, it would look something like this: three clear ornaments three big styrofoam balls three small styrofoam balls a handful of the wee doodads to turn the balls into hanging ornaments a couple colors of the lovely Seven Sisters Arts yarn that I used to embroider with, plenty [...]
Throw Something
So most of them have plain glass ornaments in them. And that's lovely and dainty and delicate. But some days I am not interested in delicate. I am interested in hurling something. Hard. Which is why I am now the proud owner of quite a lot of styrofoam balls. For, if you fill these with a styrofoam ball instead of a bit of dainty glass, you can toss them like a snowball, should the urge come upon you. You know...in case that's something you're needing these days.
More Distraction
Testing call up over on patreon (it's a public post, you absolutely do not have to be a paid member to test). I suspect I shall be making an entire snowday's worth of these over the weekend. Because they are soothing, and my brain needs that right now. I hope you're doing something soothing too, because this week is hard. And I was really really really hoping it would be celebratory. But we have done hard things before, and we will do more hard things in the future, and with any luck at all we will find tiny things to [...]
Soothing distraction
Look, I am absolutely 100% aware that I am using these as a soothing distraction while my brain comes to terms with the fact that we've just cheerfully elected a convicted felon instead of a competent woman, and that I am watching my country turn ever more fascist. I am aware. Very very aware. And I'm still going to do it. Because sometimes a soothing distraction is the right thing in the moment. So I'm going to go sit down and write this pattern so that some of you can perhaps soothe and distract yourselves as well. Because you can't [...]
It worked
Have I felt like knitting, At All, for the last two months? Nope. Did this freak me out? Eh, yes and no. I know it tends to happen this time of year. And I know it's always been temporary. At least so far. But also yes at least a little, yeah. Did I wake up yesterday, leave my house well before sunrise, obtain a whole box of plain ornaments, and sit down with the scrap bin 'to see if this idea would work out the way I think it would?' Also yes. And did it work? Yup. So do I [...]
Evidence
The chop was a success, and I decided the cuffs needed to get a trim to match. Because to do otherwise would bug me. I don't make the rules, I just live here. And when I went to trim them, what did I find but evidence of a previous bit of intervention on this sweater. Turns out at some point in the past (do I recall when? no. can I find mention of it on the blog with a cursory search? also no.) I had mended a tiny little snag on the arm of this sweater. It looks like I [...]
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