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izzy 32 they/them • narrm, so-called-australia • knitting, spinning + fibrecrafts, gardening, foraging • pedagogy of the worm

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"very slightly felted" but then recommends "gentle soak in warm water with wool wash". teeny weeny nothing felt nonsense. i'm gonna give it a good old smash

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the vest is knit! i need to find buttons and finish it (the pattern calls for, and then forgets to mention later on in the pattern under finishing, fulling slightly so that is what i will do)

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up and close with wildlife

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very beautiful weekend

[worldsandemanations]

György Kepes. Lichtenberg figures, 1951

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almost at the final buttonhole and then decreases and i-cord bind off and then i'm done with dad's vest; good thing because i'm on my last skein of yarn and have no more fleece left to spin

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every year we're offended at how highly rhapsody in blue rates (#7 this time) but it's okay because we're through that and now at holst's the planets at #3 ! and i think it'll be emperor concerto and ode to joy so we'll have a bit of beethoven and feel much better

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we had some beethoven and we WOULD feel much better but they bloody CUT OFF THE THIRD MOVEMENT of emperor just as the second ended and we had the build up to the best bit and NO FOLLOW THROUGH. ode to joy continues to slap, and continues to win the top 100 for slapping

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my top 10* in not exact order

emperor concerto, beethoven

ode to joy, beethoven

four seasons, vivaldi

rite of spring, stravinsky

organ symphony, saint-saens

the planets, holst

bolero, ravel

peer gynt, grieg

messa di requiem, verdi

night on the bare mountain, mussorgsky

*didn't vote can't complain

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every year we're offended at how highly rhapsody in blue rates (#7 this time) but it's okay because we're through that and now at holst's the planets at #3 ! and i think it'll be emperor concerto and ode to joy so we'll have a bit of beethoven and feel much better

[kleinergeist]

Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,

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me every year: how did the soundtrack to how to train your dragon make it in here

also me every year: wow the soundtrack to how to train your dragon goes fucking hard

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they've put the rite of spring criminally low at #73 ! banger

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chariots of fire at #75, i stg people vote this fucking piece in every year as a joke

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listening to the classical radio's top 100 which has a "different theme" each year but features all the same works anyway because the budget for their repertoire has obviously been cut so badly for the past few years. the fun is guessing how close to the top each piece will feature. this year is even more ridiculously same-y because the theme is "greatest of all time"

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we went to see the warrnambalds, the local riff on the national portrait prize. my packer's prize vote went for a $50 mixed media by a child honouring her fire-fighter dad (you can see it in the corner beside mum - orange and black with a figure in yellow) that had nice layering. there was a photographic portrait of my friend for whom i have been spinning a lot, who made the beautiful fisherman's jumper for a young niece out of some dk/worsted merino she gave me to spin - i am giving her some more tomorrow of a lovely lustrous longwool

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weird little bubbles in the muddy carpark puddles at the breakwater

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filled the basket at the very reliable inkcap spot again