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[eirstohter]

Holiday / New Year Cards

So, with everything being, you know *waves vaguely at everything* I’m trying to keep myself afloat by cultivating the things that truly make me happy. And since one of these things is sending mail to lovely people, it’s time for another round of greeting cards and / or chocolate packages!

Whether or not we’ve actually spoken in the past two years (or at all) you are warmly invited to make use of

This form

if you believe that recieving a piece of mail from an internet friend / acquaintance / stranger might help to brighten your day.

Thank you, and have a lovely Sunday / start to the week :-)

[eirstohter]

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[eirstohter]

*crawls out of everything-happens-so-much hole*

*throws WIP-shot and bundle of hugs in your direction*

*crawls back into everything-happens-so-much hole*

For life-WIPping purposes: Sat, 17th October 2020; cut fabric pieces

[eirstohter]

I don’t usually do selfies, but I really liked my winter getup today, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Both mask and scarf are made by me and in combination are super comfortable, so that’s another point in favor of “never ever leave the house without a mask again” for me :-)

[eirstohter]

Me: *reads thousands of words of shamelessly explicit Ineffable Husbands smut without batting an eye, reads and writes the shmoopiest, lovie-doviest fluff imaginable every single day*

Neilman and David Tennant: They hold hands on the bus to London :-)

Me, huddled in a corner, head between knees, hyperventilating into a paper bag: I WAS NOT READY FOR THIS

[eirstohter]

@masseffectholidaycheer Look at this wonderful bag I got from my gifter @bronzeagelove! It came with a lovely letter, Paragade sticker and delicious chocolate (actually quite a bit more than in the photo up there, and I honestly intended to get it all in the picture, but in my defense it’s been a rough week and the chocolate is really good)

As someone who often gives hand made gifts but rarely gets them, I am absolutely thrilled with this gift and for now it has taken the place of honour on my crafting table until I find the perfect purpose (part of me is saying “perfect size for carry-around sock knitting”, another part is saying “must not let lovely bag get dirty”, so we’ll see)

Bronzie, thank you so much for this package, I love everything and I feel really lucky that I got to be your giftee <3

[eirstohter]

Yes, after seven years the Shakarian is still strong with this one, so naturally I had to make myself a set of Shakarian bracelets :-D

Unlike the Ineffable Husbands one I made this into two separate bands, and deliberately made each one too long to wear on its own, which is why I can do all sorts of fun things with them instead (so in this case there really can be no Shepard without Vakarian *g*)

I am really happy with how they turned out and already enjoy wearing them, so success!

[eirstohter]

[ID: three photos featuring a pair of hand knit slippers. They are knit with two strands of yarn, one solid black and the other variegated in several bright colours. Two pictures show the slippers worn on bare feet held at different angles, the third picture shows just the slippers draped one over the other.]

My vacation knitting for the year! I actually finished them on the drive home, save for the weaving in of ends which is something that is best not done in a moving vehicle.

They started out as socks, but I quickly realised that they’d turn out way too big for that (somehow the combination of using double stranded yarn, thicker needles and more stitches than usual somehow combined into something bigger than expected, who’d have thought? Not me, obviously.) So I very cleverly decided that they were going to be slippers instead.

Still turned out way too big for that (which was obvious after about 2/3rds of the first slipper, but I still finished the thing because apparently my self-delusion optimism knows no bounds) so they went for a refreshing splash in the frog pond.

After some gnashing of teeth and crunching of numbers the second attempt turned out pretty much perfect, and I really love wearing them around the house.

I made up the pattern on the fly and had a lot of fun with it--lots of simple but relatively short sections that allow for some zoning out but still keep it interesting with visible progress. Just an all around fun and satisfying project to do :-)