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It's update time. I've got September stitched in and working on October now! Yay!!!

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citizen-zero

fiber artists be like “this project has shaven years off my life. for endless hours I have toiled with no end in sight, a man dying in the desert of my own foolishness. my loved ones will find my withered remains hunched over in my armchair, skeletal hands grasping the finished piece that drove me to my early grave. ooooh that pattern looks awesome I must start it right away”

Hello and welcome back to my chaos.

I swear I've been doing stuff last time I posted this blanket it was probably like four rows in somewhere in march territory for the blanket.

I have been so busy with life in general and stressed and doing extra stuff. Turns out I have ADHD. Also getting tested for Autism cause apparently I hoard the letter A.

It's also cold here in Brissy at the moment so hers is a not so little little update. I have August stitched in and many more squares made. The blanket has been oh so lovely and warm over winter and I have used all but three colours in the temp range at the moment.

If you are wondering what the squares are called they are sunburst granny squares and yes I did make my own hell with weaving in ends.

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cripple-punk-dad

Ok so at this point I've had two people roll up to me in manual wheelchairs, well, one of them was somebody pushing somebody who was nonverbal at the time, but it still counts. They asked me why I had zip ties around my tires.

It's winter where I'm living and we have really bad snow. And the snow plow people are really bad at their jobs probably because there aren't snow plow people who clean sidewalks. As a solution I got to thinking about how I could increase the traction on my wheels. And the most redneck thing I could think of was taking a bunch of zip ties and tying them around my wheels. They last surprisingly long, and work surprisingly well. It's basically the same premise as chains for your tires during the winter.

I chose to space them out pretty evenly so there's about one for every spoke. You could probably do more or less depending on how many you want and how much traction you get but I wouldn't go more than three per spoke. I realize that it's a bit later in the winter, and I probably should have made a post about this sooner, but I came up with it about a week ago. So please share this, even if you're not disabled, because there are tons of people I know who are stuck in their houses because they can't get around in the snow. A pack of zip ties costs about $5, which compared to $200 knobby snow tires is a big save, and if you want to invest you could get colored zip ties.

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catgirlwheels

Oh fuck yes. Thank you all the abled people between op and me this is exactly what I needed to see 💜

wishuponastarion

ooh sweet, thanks for the tip

(for anyone using their chair both indoors and outside, highly recommend wheelchair 'slippers'/wheel socks like these so you don't tear up wood/vinyl/linoleum flooring with the zip ties!)

stormofneurosis

! This is fucking amazing and I love it!!!

bodhrancomedy

Shout out to the best joke I’ve ever told, WWDITS style.

(His name is Timothy)

ungoliantschilde

FedEx has amusing aircraft mechanics in their employ.

ungoliantschilde

I posted this about 9 years ago, and it still shows up in my notifications a couple times a week.

foxes-in-love

Right I know I'm forgetfull so here us another couple rows to appease the gods or something. I've had to press pause on this blanket to work on something else for another friends wedding. Maybe I'll post it. I don't know.

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Huzzah we have the first row done!

I'm stitching this blanket with an orange yarn that Heather absolutely loved but just didn't work in the blanket. She loves it so much that I went you know what sure let's use this and if i have a spot where it peaks up at the top well to be it it will be a nice bit of fun.

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So I've had a bit of a wild half year. I quit my old job because of the way they handled my car accident. I was fortunately uninjured. I started a new job and lost myself to the void of stress. I need something to tie me to the mortal plane of existence so I'm starting another temperature blanket for my best friend. Its two blankets in one. First two circles in the square are for Lanark where she was born and the outer two rounds are Brisbane where she now lives.