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Happy New Year!

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:36:53 +0000

Yes, I have been away. These are the reasons for my radio silence:

Giant sweater for Chris.

Giant tall socks for my dad:

Fingerless gloves for me (remember that last post about it being cold in our apartment? Yeah, still the case.):

A bag for my almost-mother-in-law:

And a hat and bolero set for me!

Also, I feel obligated to warn all of you. I got this:

And this:

For Christmas. I have to admit, this doesn’t exactly bode well for my free time…

Happy New Year, one and all!

It lives! It lives!

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:38:08 +0000

All the links are back up and running on here, so regular posting will resume this week on a variety of subjects.

On that note, here is some yarn I made!

YanYan approves this message.

One I am done with my somewhat massive amounts of holiday yarncrafting, I will be back to playing video games and posting about those. Until then, you can probably expect more yarn.

At least it’s pretty yarn, eh?

My Yarns. Let me show you them.

FizzTheCarbonated — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:21:50 +0000

Since I am not annoyed at any aspects of video gaming right at the moment (and annoyance is the source of my powers!) I will instead be sharing with you some of my yarn-related pursuits today. I recently purchased a drop spindle and some fiber, and over the course of a few days I managed to turn a pile of this:

Into this:

It’s about 22 yards of my very first handspun yarn, and I’m quite proud of my lumpy messed-up wool baby. I’m finding spinning to be very relaxing, in a similar way to yoga. You do some of the same movements over and over again, slowly and carefully, and just pay attention to what happens. In yoga, what happens is you get some nice exercise and are hopefully a little closer to being able to touch your toes when you bend over. In spinning, you end up with yarn! I found it so enjoyable I felt the need to repeat the process with another pile of roving:

Mmm… The colors.

PS: If anyone has any questions they’d like to me answer about video games or whatever, please ask ‘em in the comments! I’d like to make the Q&A a more regular part of the blog.