My new guy fits right in with the big happy family. He’s fourth one in the top row.

And now you must all admire the sweater I finished today, after working on for about 13 months!

Dyed with Cushing “Burgundy.” The stuff in the back is Knit Pix originally a khaki color. I overguessed how much dye I needed, so the stuff in the front is some white handspun I threw in to soak it up.

It’s a purple that’s basically gray. Hey, neutrals gotta live, too.

Hmm, I thought Cushing Apricot (on loom) was closer to Pro Chem Spiced Pumpkin (in blanket) than it really is, I guess. It’s pinker. Makes sense. An apricot & a spiced pumpkin aren’t remotely the same thing.

I got a big stash of old Cushing dye envelopes. Tried “Apricot” for starters. This reminds me a lot of Pro Chem “Spiced Pumpkin” which I wove into a blankey long ago as one of my first dye/weave projects. Anyway this Cushing seems to work perfectly fine and it’ll be fun to go through all the envelopes.

They call it mellow yellow…. quite wrongly.

The color on the right, that is. On the left, the original white, for comparison.

So from the Little Book of Life Skills, look at this trick I learned:

It’s what to do with the toilet brush after you’ve cleaned the toilet. Let it drain right there for a while. It seems so obvious, yet I never thought to do that!!!

Working on beading patterns.

I had to send away for some new bead colors. I was in a totally different mood colorwise the last time I did any beading.

This was taken yesterday – it’s not much different today:

Ridiculous.

I finished this weaving. It still has no final destination. But I think I’ll trim the edges with some beadwork. I am going to pull out my bead loom for the first time in years.

Just taking a timeout from the whole damn shebang.