Rach 🧶

Oh yum, I remember those!
Thank you! 😊

Tiny bear made from velvet chenille

Hand for scale

Sits up by itself, has a little tail

Stitched on eyes and nose mark, too adorable!

Made the cutest wee little bear on stream yesterday!
Traded for a delightful time with friends and some generosity. Have to bug its new owner for a destination, it is spoken for.

Freehanded, second stuffy I've ever made. Came out so cute! Should try this more often.

See U at 11 pdt!
#crochet 🧶

Selfie with fresh hair dye, purple front fading to red in the back

Showing the red in the back. Done it curly today for Pixie. Looks even better on webcam!

Purple AND red today. Thought I'd have a little fun with the hair and it turned out great!

Arm feels really good after crocheting with pencil grip for a few days so I'm gonna use it or rotate grips very often.
Yay!
Honestly hasn't felt this good in a while.

Hope to see ya later, stream at 11 pdt.

The armpit of a tailored hexagon cardigan

Gonna do some hair maintenance today. Purple it back up.
Unless ya really want to see me stream with a turbie twist towel on my head, I think I'll be back tomorrow.
Will have two nice curly hair days for @yarnypixie.bsky.social , both Saturday and Sunday. 😊💜
#twitch #crochet 🧶
Twitch.tv/ranchpesto

Tailored hexi cardigan, first try with measurements. Things were learned for version 4, already on the hook

Making cakes on stream today, should be tasty and full of fiber! 🤣

I'll be back on at 11am pdt, missed yous! ❤️🔥
Needed some down time. I've been sleeping til 4 or 5am. Feel more rested indeed.

Finished another hexi cardi model which gave me good ideas for #4, already underway.

#twitch #crochet 🧶

Yes! I need some more hang time with you, fun! 😊

Believe this is Crafty Intentions Feather Wings Shawl. I have some ideas though, may freehand my own rather than paying $8.50 for a pattern. I'm a cheapskate in the wrong ways cuz I'm $264 into the yarn already. ☠️

Imagine this shawl in black and those yarns.

Anyways, I have a migraine today because of how big a day it was. I don't do that kind of thing regularly enough to handle it well, haha!
I slept all the way until 5!

Don't currently feel well enough to stream today though. We'll see. Prob not.

Feathers will be 1st 3 and last 3, accents in middle 2 colors. Solid black needed. Prob bought too much but better than too little. Feathered hat with remnants? Yes!

Souvenir bag, quality canvas tote. Got autographs!

Funghi pizza at Bombo restaurant in the Summit bldg. Onions, mushrooms, pecorino, mozz, truffle oil! Tasty!

Black nosed sheepies! There were too many people so they were hiding in the corner. I get the feeling. Waaaay too many people.

The haul. I spent too many monies but this will be beautiful once I do it.
Destined to become a raven wings shawl.
I need to find some dk black yarn cuz I sure damn well wasn't paying 30 a piece for solid black.
Had pizza for lunch, they did gluten free!
Also there were sheep!
#Twitch #crochet 🧶

Group rest break before diving back into the fray

Found some streamers and Cherry's brother!

Bro took this shot before TPau was out of class

More streamers! Met PositivelyYarnie and DyoTheYarnDragon who were vending.

What a day! Flock Fiber Festival Seattle was a blast!
Got to meet some Twitch pixel people and they're real! Real cool humans! Club 47 years old! Except Luna who's just a widdle baby.
I hugged em all!
@sleepingluna.bsky.social @tpauofvulcan.bsky.social and CherryBelleDesign are fellow streamers. 💖

I dunno, medicated but slightly groggy Rach is probably smarter and less impulsive than insomnia and weird supplements Rach.
*sits on hands*

Thank you very much!
I had used some bleach in it 2-3 weeks ago, so I'm using a Sally reconstructing conditioner and just L.A. Looks strongest hold blue gel.
Apply to sopping wet hair, then lay down to air dry overnight. Scrunch with fingers to position for volume and increased curl pattern.

In progress tailored hexi cardigan in fire colors 🔥

Be working on this little sweater, making rounds, sewing ends.

Usually brushed out, I put my hair through the whole curly routine this time. Think I needed a bit more gel but this is a good start.

I dont really style my hair properly curly very often, but today the curls go all the way to the top.
Will go with my fancy dress very nicely.

I have not touched a crochet hook since Sunday, so hopefully I can go on longer on stream today.

11am pdt twitch.tv/ranchpesto

#twitch #crochet 🧶

White, lavender, and purple foxglove seeds all mixed together. Grows best in freshly disturbed dirt, takes two years to flower, poisonous as heck

Blackberry bush with half ripened berries, with wild blueberries unripe in the upper left corner.

Harvest time!
This year's foxglove seed harvest gathered in a pan. It's sitting a while so the bugs depart. 😅
You can see the white and dark mix of seeds, they are white and purple flower seeds mixed together.

The blackberries are coming ripe and the blueberries are not far behind. Cobbler time!

It's a good year to be a quail at my place! Quite a bumper crop of little baby chicks! Look at the cute little things!

#PNW #IslandLife #birds

Ad for Flock Fiber Festival in Seattle WA

Ad for Flock and Fiber Festival in Albany OR

I'll be at both Flock /and Fiber Festival events, Seattle and OR. Hoping to meet other Makers and Crafters a little too eagerly. Like a yarn nerd.
I'll be the one with purple-maroon hair and a granny block stitch sweater.
Face blindness is going to be a problem for me but I'll keep an eye out.

And then I played pinball and the rest of stream without fullscreening omg

Throw that one away lol!

Of course I captured the game audio just fine after stream, too. 🤔

Back to yarn and games tomorrow I think.

That was a hilariously choppy test stream, woops. Hahaha!
I gotta take a hint when I see 40% dropped frames.

In theory I get fiber next year, I'll save the VR for then.
Streaming VR = triple the data use of my usual streams and I've only got 2.9mb up on a good day right now, barely enough as it is.

The cutest! Artist and products! 💖

I have two additional tag recs for you, #blueskynightmarket and #bsnm

Got dem eyeballs stuck on pretty straight, haha! Little slice of behind the scenes

Will I make better eye contact if it's looking back at me? Hmmmm...

Strim today, same bat time, same bat channel

#twitch #itslookingatme

Posing in a defunct costume change booth

There's a few of these relics near me. I remember when they took a dime and lots were still rotary.
Then it cost a quarter... 50c, then swiping a phone card was so modern, and then cell phones killed em.
Unsurprisingly, there was no dial tone. Or most of its parts lol!

#IslandLife #PNW

Selfie with a fresh dose of purple

Re-purpled! 💜

Wrist is quite tired so I'm gonna mix it up with some games on stream for today. Prob can't resist crochet entirely 🤣🧶

Live at 11am pacific.

#crochet #twitch #hopetoseeyou

Playing in the yard, practicing balance.
It's only 56 degrees out for some reason.

If you see this, post a flower.

Flower on a hat

#crochet #bloomposting #fiberart

Slightly dusty black bike, patio accumulations, and a summer evening.

Got on the bike, played around, didn't fall over, had fun! Got tires dirty.
It's a very good bike. But I had a perfect bike for a while that got stolen. This one's quite all right though.
If I had pavement I could stand still, but I have gravel, crusty grass, and deep powdered clay dust. Challenges!

You is a cutie!

It is mosaic. I switch hands to avoid ends which makes the stitches lean back and forth a bit. 🧶😊

@retrostreamers.com
Here's the swatch! 🧶

First draft sample of circuit board rendered in yarn. Kinda poor resolution in pixels, lol! Practiced diagonals and zigzags.zigzag. Learned things, should have begun with light green.

I am feeling very pleased with myself!
Got a fun sample outta my brain, can't wait for a reference pic. Dear Hitch, hope you dig it.
Resolution is about 16x20 pixels in a 4x4 square.
I coulda sewed better, crooked processor 🤣
I'll probably put a magnet in it and give it to my dad who still tinkers.

Sitting on the patio toking and this guy comes out all bold.

He's eating my dandelions so I guess he's alright.

No stream today, taking a break, maybe a nap, and working on a prototype swatch because of inspiration in a channel chat.
Should really go play around with my bike!