Needles & Nilbogs

 This week has been a little hard for me, and there’s nothing I can do about it. I feel out of control and I’m having trouble coping. So I thought today I’d talk about using solo rpgs as a sort of guided meditation, as well as share two that I recently finished writing.  Update, March 27, 2021: I messed something up with the permalink Thursday when I tried to rename the post after I published it, and I had to unpublish and republish the post to fix it  I apologize if it shows up twice.  Second update: Unpublishing and republishing didn’t let me change the permalink, so I’m sorry if it shows up twice for absolutely no reason.  Third update: fixed, after yet another unpublishing and republishing. I think. And at the expense of having to change the date. It was really bugging me.

Tuesday afternoon, the Easter egg dyes (we use food coloring) were out around here (not for the hard boiled eggs yet, but for some wooden ones and some shells), and I decided it was about time to try dyeing roving with the leftovers. I shared some process photos  yesterday , but I wanted to share a sort of tutorial about it, because it was a cheap, fairly easy, way to dye fiber. 

 I know it’s only Wednesday, not Thursday. I promise an actual post tomorrow is coming about this and that I’m going to try to stick to my Thursday blogging schedule, but look at these pictures! Beauty incarnate. I had to share. You understand, right?

 This comes courtesy of a thing I had to do the other day and an idea it gave me. Fair warning — this is kind of a math-heavy post. 

 I have no explanation for this other than this is what Read Across America Day (March 2nd, aka Dr. Seuss’s birthday) does to me. Back to rpgs and crafts next week, probably. This is only mostly serious; I had fun writing it but ... well, read to the end.