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#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition...

I did it! The wraps are a wrap! 😁

Everything went as planned, despite a firedrill where I lost my crochet hook at the start of a long flight that I'd planned to use for finishing them up - fortunately I found it under another seat when we landed. *whew*

I was still far enough along that the recipients could let me know how much more width they wanted... Managed to get a lot done on bus rides while traveling, and I finished them in time to present for the big group dinner near the end of the trip.
Really happy with how they came out, and my friends seem thrilled with them, yay! 🧶🧣 💖

(Friends pic posted with permission, of course!)

Think I'm going to take a break from this pattern and make some slippers for @mbroome before I tackle the wrap for myself. It'll be nice to have a change of pace...

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#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition...

I'm just putting the finishing touches on these two scarves / light wraps for my friends! We're all on a trip together this week, so I'm getting live feedback on how wide each friend desires their wrap to be - and we have some bus rides to excursions coming up in the next couple days, so that will give me the chance to add on a few more rows as needed.

...and of course I forgot to pack any of the yarn I ordered to make *myself* one, so once I get these two done, I will be without a fidget toy for the rest of the week. Hopefully I will get organized enough to use that time to write postcards, so I can actually mail them from overseas, rather than just writing them on the plane home and dropping them in our mailbox when we arrive. 😇

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It's #makeShitMonday! I want to see your projects for the last week, cooking, hacking, crafting, coding, wood work, anything goes Went to

We went to Koroneberg this weekend, this may have been the last one. Photo credit goes to the wife.

Show me what you got!

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#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition, in which I learn a sweet new yarn join...

I'm finally at the point in this wrap where I need to transition to the second skein - and my go-to minimal-complexity join (tie a double knot and weave in the ends) isn't suitable because the crochet lace is so open, I don't think the ends would stay woven. 😬

So I asked in one of my online communities, and a more experienced fiber crafter recommended a [Russian splice](blog.berroco.com/2014/12/09/em). I've seen it mentioned before, but was concerned that 2-ply lace-weight yarn wasn't thick enough - she said it works even on single-ply cobweb yarns, so I gave it a shot, and it's *magic*. The splice is visibly thicker in the yarn strand, but it happened to coincide with a couple of double crochets in the pattern, and it's practically invisible! 🥰 🧶💖

I'm getting pretty close to my target width for this wrap, so hopefully I can finish it up this week... 🤞🏻

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#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition...

Not much to report, just grinding away at this wrap! Making some good progress... I did have to frog and redo a couple rows when I thought I'd back-checked a row and must not have, but other than that it's been coming along nicely.

I took a swag at the math on this and so far I've made over 18,000 slip knots (pull throughs) and I'm only about 2/3rds done. That's a lotta knots! 😁

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#MakeShitMonday, #Meshtastic edition...

I got a Heltec V3 Meshtastic radio a few weeks ago to experiment with at #CackalackyCon. I set it up and did initial config with a naked board, but I didn't want to carry it around that way, so I ended up #3DPrinting a case that was designed for this board.

Had to print with supports to get the structure and shapes to print well. After cleaning all of the support material off - including the one bit I originally missed that was keeping the board from seating correctly - it all fit together nicely. I really like how it turned out!

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It's #makeShitMonday! I want to see your projects for the last week, cooking, hacking, crafting, coding, wood work, anything goes

Busy week, about all I got done was making an acai base at home and then a subsequent breakfast.

Show me what you got!

#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition, in which two new projects are begun, and the timer is ticking down...

I am Not Speedy at crochet. Small projects like slippers that say "easily completed in an evening" generally take me several days, and my frequency of working on projects is often sparse, so larger things like shawls or wraps generally take *months*.

So of course I've started two projects that I absolutely must finish by the end of June... 😬

A friend is turning 50, and my BFF from college and I are joining her on a celebratory trip. I decided I wanted a new light wrap for cool evenings - and then I thought my BFF might want one too - and of course I need to make one for the birthday girl!

So they chose fibers and colors, and I ordered some lovely silk/alpaca yarn at the beginning of April... not realizing it was on back-order and wouldn't arrive for over a month. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Then I mixed up who gets what and started on the BFF wrap, rather than the birthday wrap, but I want to finish the birthday wrap first to make sure it's ready for, well, her birthday - so I switched mid-stream.

And it's my first time working with lace-weight yarn, so there was definitely a learning curve there on tension! But it's a [relatively simple pattern](mooglyblog.com/artfully-simple) and goes pretty quickly, as long as I pay attention and back-check each row to avoid having to frog a bunch if I make any mistakes. I'm optimistic that I'll at least get their gifts done in time... And then mine can be my travel project for the trip! 😇

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#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition... In which I fail my way to success. 😇

I got a couple skeins of bulky yarn (Berocco Remix Chunky) in an online sale and was thinking I'd make this [Honey Moon Bag](mooglyblog.com/honey-moon-bag/)... Saw in the pattern that the yarn gauge was bulky, but I didn't read closely enough to realize that she was using a specific tape yarn. 😬 The texture wasn't really showing up with the Remix Chunky, so I regretfully frogged it and went looking for another way to use the yarn...

These [cable slippers](mooglyblog.com/simple-chunky-c) looked like just the ticket - except that I misread the instructions! She says the initial chain-2 doesn't count as a stitch in the first row, and I extrapolated that (incorrectly!) to *all* the rows. So I was starting each subsequent row a stitch off, and my cables ended up going slightly sideways. 🙄

Mom likes soft slippers, so I figured I'd have her try these on for size and see if she wanted any changes to the width, length, or ankle opening before I frogged them and redid them correctly. She put them on, declared that they fit perfectly... and then decided she was keeping them as-is. I think her exact point was: "well, *I* don't see anything wrong with them!" which is hard to refute. 😁

I have enough of the Remix Chunky left to make another pair of slippers, so eventually I *will* do them correctly - but in the meantime, my yarn order finally came in for a couple of time-sensitive spring projects, so the slipper remake is on hold until I get these gifts done! 🧶💕

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Nothing new this week for #makeShitMonday, but I got the cat scarf shipped out to my college roomie...

Her cat Luma was the inspiration for her color choices, and I'm still giggling at her reaction:

"It’s like… catception! (Luma models the latest in cat lady scarf fashion. Thank you so very much, Lisa. The yarn is luxurious!)"

Honestly I think the best part of being able to make beautiful things out of lovely yarn is the joy of giving them to my friends. 💖

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#crochet #CatsOfMastodon

#MakeShitMonday, #bluebird box edition...

We've had a bluebird box in our garage for years. I'm pretty sure someone gave it to us as a gift, but it's been so long I can't remember who. I've never put it up because (1) I never got a pole or post to mount it on., and (2) it doesn't open, so it would be impossible to clean it.

When my @llorenzin's mom moved last summer, she gave us her nice post from Wild Birds Unlimited, and last week I stopped by the local WBU shop and bought a mounting bracket. That took care of (1).

Then I finally took the time to modify the bluebird box so the front will hinge open for cleaning. That took care of (2).

Now we have a bluebird box in our yard!

(The bluebirds locally are just about to start their 3rd brood, so we might - or might not - get any nesting this year.)

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#makeShitMonday, #baking edition...

Tried a new whole-wheat-crust recipe for my ongoing crostata experiments tonight. Did not compare it to my previous recipe, which I already overloaded with fruit as a matter of course, to see how much dough it made. And I had all the strawberries macerated already, so...

(Pre-baking, there's solidly 4" of strawberries mounded up in that crust - it was hard to get a truly representative picture of this ridiculousness.🍓)

I wasn't sure whether the crostata walls could retain structural integrity if they're that short. But hey, anything worth doing is worth overdoing, right? 😇

As it turned out, they utterly could not... so I transferred it to a casserole dish, and I'm calling it an upside-down strawberry sonker. 😂 #NCeats #IYKYK Still delicious!

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#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition...

Cat scarf is doooooone! 🐈🧣🧶💖 We had a long car trip this weekend - perfect for tedious loose-end finishing. Also I won at yarn chicken - had just enough black yarn to shape the top black-cat head row! 🎉

I need to wash the scraps of yarn I have left in Soak to check for colorfastness before I wash the whole thing - I'd hate to wash it and end up with grey cats... Hopefully all the dye will stay where it belongs. 🤞🏻

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#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition...

My cat scarf progresses! I've worked through all four skeins of yarn - our original guesstimate on dimensions (10" wide by 54" long) wasn't long enough to girth-hitch, so I got it out to 60" before using up all the yarn. Time to send pics to my ex-roomie and see if it looks long enough to her. 🤞🏻

Aaaaaaaand now my color-change chickens have come home to roost, and I have to weave in All Those Fucking Ends. Sooooo tedious. Managed to get through one side, so 42 down and 44 to go...

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#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition...

This week what I made was... Progress! We had road trips last weekend and this weekend, so I had some quality cat-scarf time, and it's starting to actually look like a scarf. 😁

Soon I'll figure out whether the four skeins of yarn I bought will get me to my target length... I'm thinking I may need to pick up a couple more. Which normally would be a good excuse to hit up my local yarn shop, but I just kitted up for five new projects in an online yarn-shop sale, so I need to stay away from temptation for a while. 😇

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#makeShitMonday, #mending edition!

Our local caving grotto has a large canopy structure that we use for group camping events - as is common with shared equipment, it tends to be roughly handled, and the soft case that holds the poles and canvas for transport has come apart at the top seam.

It's pretty sturdy fabric, and well-constructed - the corner is joined by one seam, and there's a separate seam holding down some thin rubber tape that keeps the seam allowance from fraying. Fortunately that means the failure is the thread holding the pieces together, not the fabric itself...

It's a bit tedious to fix, since I'm trying to use existing holes rather than introduce new points of weakness. And I'm doing each seam as two lines of alternate running stitches, so if the threads break on one line, the other will hopefully hold it together enough for me to fix it more easily next time.

I got through both lines of the joining seam and one line of the edge-tape seam before I ran out of time (and patience) today. Should go a lot quicker tomorrow since the edges and tape are already lined up, so it'll just be a simple running stitch!

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#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition...

I'm making good progress on the cat scarf for my ex-roomie - despite multiple rounds of frogging!

My mom gave me a gorgeous new set of [Dyak Craft crochet hooks](dyakcraft.com/shop/p/tunisian-), so I switched from my old bamboo hook to the equivalent new hook - and the action is totally different, so my stitch tension is different, so I ended up frogging my entire first 11 rows and starting over. 😭

(It made a nice diversion on a rainy morning during our caving trip to TN last week...)

Then on the way home I was listening to an interesting podcast and missed a cat leg, which cost me another round of frogging. So now I check each row when I finish it, and double-check before I break the yarn and switch colors. 🙄 But despite all that, it's starting to look scarf-like!

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