“Winding Road”, another @wonderwoolwales exclusive inspired by the beautiful country roads we travel to get there. It takes us two days to get there as we stop for a break overnight. I’ll be putting out extra tadpoles food (they are three weeks old now) and plenty of nuts for the squirrels as we think there might be three of them. We’ve never seen more than two at once but there seem to be three patterns of movement/behaviour/feeding.
It is currently being blocked, but -- I think I just evolved into a higher form.
I crocheted stained glass.
The pattern is NOT by me; you can find the tutorial here. However this is my prototype, and I am so blown away by how nicely it turned out on the first try.
The one bizarre thing to me about textiles is that warp-weighted weaving is at least 6500 years old, but our oldest knitted artifacts are only ~1000 years old, and crochet 200 years old. Even though you need less equipment to knit (two sticks) or crochet (one hook) compared to warp-weighted weaving (frame, loom weights, batting, heddles). Why the big gaps between these inventions? And why did each one appear and spread when it did?
Little graphghan update. Took my piss poor artwork and now crocheting it. The tension is everywhere. Some of the yarn is different weights and it's been frogged about 9? times now. But! He has a shoulder so we are getting there. Probably going to stitch this onto a pillowcase and have a nice Gale cushion...
Then when it's done maybe something else a little more detailed but that might be after I've moved house and have space for all the bobbins.