More crafting thoughts

1) I wound up going through three bins of yarn to find the specific pink yarn that I wanted (Stunning String Studio MKAL 2021 last project). I cast on this week and I am over halfway through the rows (it’s a symmetrical triangle top-down so it gets larger as I go, area goes as 1/2 base x height). As I mentioned over on Bluesky, I get urges to knit with specific colors at certain times of the year. The pink urge tends to hit around early February and then the green urge hits in early March. Cream is always on the color menu, and then I tend to cycle back and forth across the color wheel (so green to red, yellow to purple, white to black, etc.) The blue/gold combination urge tends to hit around early fall ( I keep on trying to find something that looks like the Notre Dame colors and not the Michigan colors. I pulled all those shawls together and I have at least four already made, probably yarn enough for another four or five).

2) I found yet another embroidery project in progress; I may take it with me on vacation later this month. I think that brings me up to seven? projects in progress.

3) If I do the magic knot technique on a bunch of the little leftovers from Winter Wonderland, Costa Rica, and Tour of Ireland, I could make at least three more neck gaiters and clear a lot of yarn entries out of Ravelry. Winter Wonderland was about 11 different colors, Costa Rica was 21, Tour of Ireland was at least another ten. So that would be three small projects that would accomplish a lot of the Roman-style decimation of my yarn stash. It will be a fiddling process to get the yarn all fastened together. But it looks like magic knot doesn’t show any ends to weave in once it’s connected up.

4) I think that Facebook’s algorithm is messing with my posts of my knitting, as I get more likes on Bluesky from total strangers than I do from people I have known for decades on Facebook. And I just joined Bluesky a few months ago at most.