Ladybugs & Yarn

… are ladybugs and yarn. I was looking to give the blog a makeover and a name of its own, considering a) the shiny new index page on the main site; and b) that I’ve been formatting my patterns under a similar name. So! Now I have both.

When looking for beads last week, I went into the biggest arts & crafts store I’ve ever seen, and in the process rediscovered, in a sense, all of the crafty pursuits that I’ve let languish since knitting elbowed its way in. I’m not drifting from knitting by any means (as it seems to be the one craft I honestly feel that I’m good at), but I do think I should get the rest of my craft supplies from my parents’ house soon, so I can dabble here and there. I seem to have packed rather randomly (read: extremely quickly) when it came to those things, too. I have my fabric stash, but no sewing machine at the moment as Mom took it home with her the last time she was here. I have my brushes and dabbers and stencils, but no box of paints. I have beads and wire and crimp pliers, but no findings. I have pretty papers, but no paper-slicer or flat glue to collage them onto boxes.

I also have cats on my feet, but this is unrelated.

The first tweed sock is done and I’ve started the second, but photos will have to wait until they’ve been gifted. They’re on Ravelry, for those of you with access–I’m seventykay there. As far as my Juliet sweater, I frogged it. Loved the yarn, loved the pattern, but didn’t love them together. I think I may try again with some medium slate-ish blue Cascade Pastaza.

Happy Canadian Turkey Day!