More knitting happen by way of a Magpie Tendency by Skeinanigans. I was curious about how much I would like a lightweight t-shirt style garment and love that the pattern looks awesome with variegated hand dyed yarns.
How freakin' cute are Snowball Buddies by Susan Claudino. This was a one day project that I used some scrap yarn to make, I even had polyester filling and safety eyes on hand already!
Since knitting and glass obviously go hand-in-hand... ok, yeah, not so much... it turns out that cutting glass, as a beginner, creates tiny cuts at the tips of every finger. Just slices a teeny bit, enough to essentially turn hands into little cacti, so that yarn no longer slides effortlessly along the fingers, but gets snagged on every other stitch and causes the plies of the yarn to come apart. I tried all the lotions and even an overnight Vaseline, but the yarn still snagged. I had the thought that nail filing down the skin around these cuts might be akin to sanding wood to as smooth as a marble, but no, it didn't smooth the tips of my fingers at all and just kind of hurt.
Here we have a little marriage of my hobbies. I made a glass replica of Gnorman, because I thought he looked lonely. And using some highly contrasting streaky glass, I made some socks that remind me of hand dyed socks.
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