:name_badge: Ind. Spudpuffet @spudpuffet@awoo.space

:white_circle: Good raid, everyone! Better luck next time

:white_circle: I, for one, welcome our new Banana Sun overlords

:white_circle: Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!

:radio_button: Aww, no gay space witch communism THIS time, either.

state of the eclipse, pretty close to my town:

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/@29.363,-100.882?iso=20170821

you can pick your own lat/long too ~

@yomikoma *reads your display name* OOOHHHH okay that makes sense o.o hi!

@yomikoma
haha, i wasn't expecting anyone on here to recognize Moskowitz's astrological symbols! howdy .o/

@catterfly
nooooo
you can't make me

dear mom and dad:

ok i know we're having trouble paying all the bills but listen

i need to buy some chunky yarn and a giant crochet hook A.S.A.P.

what?

no, no of course i'm not going to be really excited about this for a week and then drop it, just like the last ten hobbies

how could you even THINK that

:sweat_smile: :innocent: :volleyball: :pick: :spider_web:

@WelshPixie
thank you! it's only because of your clear explanations :3

well, and i've previous experience knitting, and tried crochet before (it just didn't 'click' then), and played around with paracord bracelets and other super basic knotwork, so a lot of that was applicable here too i think XD

if i ever do more, though, i'll definitely have to drill the basics until my butt falls off - everything looks like a meaningless tangle, i still can't quite trace the anatomy x.x

next gonna do a layer of pink and then sit around feeling incredibly pleased with myself for having Done A Thing, however poorly XD

like, the tension is all over the place and i'm not quite convinced i'm not doing something backwards and i've lost the thread about a thousand times

but the square is still squarish and not falling apart and i could actually make something out of many squares

no matter how shabby, it still works WELL ENOUGH for now and it scratched my textiles itch

<3 <3

lately i've been incredibly unsatisfied creatively

today i watched crochet tutorial series by @WelshPixie

scrounged up smol thread (old bracelet kit; no yarn handy) + smol crochet hook (asst. hooks from last attempt to learn crochet; +5 years of excellent toothpickery)

here's my first granny square!

i only practiced a very tiny bit so technically this is shit; but it's MY shit and holds together and pretty colors!

https://awoo.space/media/rf7wfZ8qlfPOiKfzeVs

oh nooooo OTL

i watched the start of a crochet tutorial series and now i already want to make a crochet vest out of rainbow paracord

(dad crocheted a vest in - college? high school? -and i never saw it but i waaaant one)

(but i only ever learned to knit, not crochet, crochet is so confusing to me X.X)

(but this tutorial set makes it look so easy @u@)

*scuttles around in ansty circles* i wanna play with serial knots agaaaaiiin *whines*