Needles & Nilbogs

 I’ve had a few ideas of what I wanted to write this week, and I’ve begun drafting a few patterns, but I think I feel like I should share this thing. It has sort of a long story behind it, and it’s really detailed, so I’m not sure how much I should explain, but I think I can give the gist of it easily enough. I just really want to show off some of the lore I’ve been thinking about lately. This might be a bit long and rambly, and I definitely got it out later than usual. I’ve been busy.

I finally finished a second Papagena Shawl . I talked about this earlier, when I mentioned I was making it for my mother’s birthday in early May. Well, I didn’t finish by her birthday, but I did finish it. 

Monday, someone in my house was singing “Alligators All Around”. Originally, that was a book by Maurice Sendak, and in 1975 (according to Wikipedia), alongside other Sendak books, it was turned into the animated special Really Rosie . So we watched Really Rosie, just because. Tuesday, I had a bunch of the Really Rosie songs stuck in my head, and I’ve been humming them all week. And as I hummed them (and sang them), I started to recognize some of the things the songs are teaching me about RPGs. 

Over last weekend, I went camping with my family. It was nice to be out in the fresh air and with people I love, and I got to play with fire a bit, so it was very fun. But it got me thinking about books, because lately, I’ve been reading a bunch of young adult (YA) and middle grade literature, and I brought a few amazing books on the trip to (re)read. And because the library’s Summer Reading Challenge starts this week and I realized just how many books I’ve actually read lately.