I made a little zine to help quickly pick out yarn for your projects! This is just a one-pager zine so I couldn't fit much, but if you want to learn about yarn materials in more detail I recommend checking out the yarn guide on the Knit Picks website. I found it super helpful!

In the future I'll be printing this off to sell at zine shows and it'll be a nifty tiny reference to tuck in your pocket or with your craft supplies.

What order do you take pills in?

The wolf follows.

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Little fucking guy alert!!

[ID: two photos of a porcelain triceratops from different angles. The triceratops is very small and has blue floral designs on its crown and body. Its three horns are painted with gold luster.]

From the article:

NASA has released a free, original tabletop role-playing game, and it’s one part educational experience and another part sci-fi/fantasy epic with magic and dragons. The crux of The Lost Universe, the organization’s first TTRPG,involves a mystery: What would happen if the Hubble Space Telescope disappeared? It’s a simple premise and one that hides the complex backstory underscoring the events of the role-playing game. Without getting into the weeds, the game takes place on a planet called Exlaris, which was once thrown into chaos when a black hole moved too close and kicked it out of its orbit. The planet has since gone back to some degree of normalcy and is now almost completely dedicated to academia. In one city, a scholar named Eirik Hazn made a spell to connect with Earth to study the Hubble Space Telescope, which has famously collected data on black holes. However, the spell and telescope are stolen by a dragon, and researchers working on the project have been disappearing, so the players — Earthlings who worked on the telescope at NASA who were brought through a portal to Exlaris — have to save the day. The official 44-page gameplay book is available to download for free on NASA’s website. You can play it in a party with 4-7 players, but you may need to fudge a few things to graft this narrative onto your TTRPG system of choice. The book says it’ll take around 3-4 hours to get through the adventure.

Nålhus aka needle houses aka needle keepers made with wool fabric, protected by a ceramic case. Stamped patterns with inspiration from plants and nature in general and the geometrical lines somewhat inspired by runes.

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One of these are still in the shop now at nymla.se

Oh hey, do you know what time it is? It is highly specific resource time!

Today we have the Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank! There are HUNDREDS of stitch types in the RSN Stitch Bank.

And more added regularly, let’s look at a recent addition

I picked the first one in the 25 recently added Elizabethan stitches, the Elizabethan French Stitch

The stitch bank provides written and photo tutorials as well as a video option to learn to do it yourself. There are examples of the stitch in use, resources, references, everything but a needle and thread!

rsnstitchbank.org

Bought my uncle a burger and milkshake in exchange for letting me disrupt the holiest day of the week, NFL Sunday Football, so I could install a Pi-hole and free the household of ads...the thing abt the specific boomers I live with is they told me not to trust people on the Internet but they do not understand the algorithm or online advertising and think that Facebook has their best interests at heart. And every time I have tried to explain to them that no, blorbo from my dashboard is not selling my kidneys on the dark web but Google from your capitalism is definitely selling your web searches to every advertising company on the planet, they think I am paranoid. How could their personal friend Mark Zuckerberg want anything bad to happen to them etc. I am fighting battles I did not know existed!!!

Worth Keeping

Padme has an Idea, Leia gets a present, and Anakin is just trying his best.

I'd be unstoppable if I didn't have to worry about time or money or having a body

Beware!

Distance

When grief is the awareness of the distance between us.

Here's the sweater tank top I've been working on for a while. It's a little further along than in this pic, but I'm bad at photographing things.

I'm also working on a gingerbread carousel this year with my roommate, @saltkettling. I design and assemble, she decorates.

That looks really complete, but it also spins... backwards, currently. So I will be baking a new set of horses to be decorated going the other way to replace these.

I have not the energy to do it loud today. But, more than most Wednesdays, I need to see makery and progress and creation and joy.

Show me what you got. Please.

Image included because I know people will miss the post without it.

@mylongsufferingroommate built and I decorated the Paolo Sebastian carousel of my dreams at long last only to notice that it spins backwards 😭. We’ll get it next year.

See under the cut for inspo and progress pics. We’ll get it on the next go around!

The dress

The build

For your Tricks for Treats:

I want the Justice League (any member(s) thereof, other than Zatana) to find out that Red Robin has been a cat for a month and The Batman™ didn't notice.

Sometimes having friends is just the slow dawning horror that there are people that know you Too Well.