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Jan. 27th, 2022 10:01 amThings:
- The darning loom I ordered arrived last night, so I immediately used it to mend the sock that I've been meaning to darn for about a month. The loom works really well! It makes the process of darning much easier, and the patches look much neater - I'm very pleased with it. Alas, I don't know how much longer these socks are going to hold up in general. They're knit from the very first handspun yarn I ever made which was...not great - there are a lot of thin patches that don't stand up well to wear, so it's not really suitable for socks. But I love them anyway and now I have at least extended their life a little.
- Really, I just need to be better about reinforcing all my socks when I knit them. I always develop holes in the same place - under the ball of the foot - so it's not like the need for reinforcement isn't predictable. Sock patterns always assume you want to reinforce the heels, but I rarely if ever get holes there.
- I also mended my favorite red cardigan, again. I love this sweater, but either it is surprisingly fragile or I am extremely hard on it. In the past two years, I have a) added leather patches to the elbows, because both of them developed holes, b) darned it in several miscellaneous places, and c) darned the underside of the left sleeve between the elbow and wrist six separate times. It sprung a new hole in that same area recently, so I decided to just say "fuck it" and patch the thing instead. So now it has a nice new knitted patch under all that darning and hopefully won't develop any new problems for a while.
- I have to write my yearly self-appraisal today and I hate it and it's dumb but it has to be done so I've decided to give myself a prize for completing this anxiety-producing task on time. I'm not sure what the prize is going to be yet. Probably some sort of fancy food item I normally wouldn't buy.
- I've been kinda mildly depressed for past couple weeks, which sucks, but I'm coping. Mostly, I'm coping by obsessively thinking about/playing my current solo D&D game. Solo rpgs usually help my mood a lot - that kind of creative play is restful for me, and they make me think about stuff that isn't awful or exhausting. It's good.
- The darning loom I ordered arrived last night, so I immediately used it to mend the sock that I've been meaning to darn for about a month. The loom works really well! It makes the process of darning much easier, and the patches look much neater - I'm very pleased with it. Alas, I don't know how much longer these socks are going to hold up in general. They're knit from the very first handspun yarn I ever made which was...not great - there are a lot of thin patches that don't stand up well to wear, so it's not really suitable for socks. But I love them anyway and now I have at least extended their life a little.
- Really, I just need to be better about reinforcing all my socks when I knit them. I always develop holes in the same place - under the ball of the foot - so it's not like the need for reinforcement isn't predictable. Sock patterns always assume you want to reinforce the heels, but I rarely if ever get holes there.
- I also mended my favorite red cardigan, again. I love this sweater, but either it is surprisingly fragile or I am extremely hard on it. In the past two years, I have a) added leather patches to the elbows, because both of them developed holes, b) darned it in several miscellaneous places, and c) darned the underside of the left sleeve between the elbow and wrist six separate times. It sprung a new hole in that same area recently, so I decided to just say "fuck it" and patch the thing instead. So now it has a nice new knitted patch under all that darning and hopefully won't develop any new problems for a while.
- I have to write my yearly self-appraisal today and I hate it and it's dumb but it has to be done so I've decided to give myself a prize for completing this anxiety-producing task on time. I'm not sure what the prize is going to be yet. Probably some sort of fancy food item I normally wouldn't buy.
- I've been kinda mildly depressed for past couple weeks, which sucks, but I'm coping. Mostly, I'm coping by obsessively thinking about/playing my current solo D&D game. Solo rpgs usually help my mood a lot - that kind of creative play is restful for me, and they make me think about stuff that isn't awful or exhausting. It's good.