I recently saw a lovely shawl type garment on Ravelry and decided I had to figure out how to make it. I searched high and low for a way to go about this, looking at motifs to try adapting to suit my needs. And today, while looking at a website featuring Irish doilies, I found the perfect motif. It’s not exactly what I need, but I can work it to fit what I want and that is enough for me.
Not to be slowed down, I decided - for the very first time - to actually swatch the motif. And although it’s only halfway done as I post this, it’s encouraging enough for me. Here is the swatch, incomplete and unblocked though it is.
AND AND AND, I just found out that the project I showed y’all only a few days ago (the peek-a-boo) is very likely IN and my pics will be too, and I’ll be credited for that which absolutely fuckin’ rocks. There’s more to that news but I have no idea how much I can tell at this point. All I know is that I’m fuckin’ psyched. I can’t thank Tracey enough for asking me to do this.
And that’s not all but it will have to do for tonight because the rest is still secret-like. Also, I need to have stuff to tell you sometime soon, right?
In other news, my daughter is loud and I love her. For 7 years she’s used the proper words for genitalia. But apparently that’s bad. In her self-defense class she was taught to say “private parts” instead. Stupid. So stupid. I can appreciate the need to not let kids say cunt and dick, but the ACTUAL words (vulva and penis pussy and junk, of course) should not be banned.
And before I leave, a thought. The word for fart in French is the word for uhm, pet in English. As in PET. And I call my baby face de pet quite often but I promise it’s a helluva lot more cuterestest and acceptable in zee French than it would be to call a child fart face in hick English.
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