Needles & Nilbogs

 Meant to get this out earlier today. I have a project I intended to share today but didn’t get it done in time. So here’s my Cavandoli lacework so far, in pictures because that’s all I have time for this week.  I’ll be better on getting something out next week — I had a bunch of stuff this week.  Orange is meant to be pumpkins, and is in progress. Purple is just a test of slits mixed with a four snowballs pattern, while the white/pink striped one is just a little sampler. Enjoy!

 It’s been kind of a long week, but I’m feeling much better than I did last week. I have a bunch of ideas for a project, and I’m working on a couple of other projects, but today I wanted to talk about something near and dear to my heart: lace. More specifically, knotted lace. This is a wide category that includes tatting and macrame, so even more specifically, I want to talk about a particular kind of non-lace knot work and adapting it to lace. Today, we’re talking about two interrelated things: Cavandoli work (both diagonal and horizontal), and friendship bracelets.  Pretty much every kid knows friendship bracelets — worked in embroidery floss or thread, using a series of double half hitches to make stripes or chevrons or other similar patterns.  These are pictures of a friendship bracelet I’m making with a simple chevron pattern. It’s pretty simple to do patterns of this sort; almost everyone I knew when I was younger had made at least one or two.  Cavandoli work is a little less wel

 The title says most of it. I’m down with what’s either a cold or (quite possibly) the flu — not COVID, I think, but I’ve got a crazy cough and a mild fever, and I’ve been out since Tuesday. This should tell you how bad I’m feeling: I haven’t crocheted more than half a round on the Current Shawl Project (no, you haven’t missed anything, I haven’t talked about it much) since I woke up Tuesday. That’s bad, for me.  So I’m just going to put random stuff here and not bother making anything coherent. Sorry, but I don’t feel well enough for anything else and if I did, I’d make up the work I’m not doing.  No pictures today. I haven’t taken anything for a while. No gaming stuff. I can’t be bothered to do anything right now. And no buffer to use to fill this week cause I used the last one a few weeks ago when I was swamped.  Here, have stuff I’m reading. I’m reading Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric, 14th edition (cause it ties into something I’m doing); City Spies (a middle grade series I like);

Hi. I really haven’t written much the last few weeks, haven’t I? I’ve been a bit busy, and usually only get a post out by writing it Thursday morning between things I have to do. This isn’t much better, but I have pictures of a bunch of things I’ve been doing, including some vaguely rpg-related things and some yarn things. And I have a pattern — actually, two! I did some very pretty crocheted edgings on some mini-handkerchief-thingies (one tiny handkerchief, one triangle of fabric, and probably some more by the time I actually post this), and they turned out great, so I thought I’d share them. That means this is a nice long post, full of pretty pictures!