Hunter Hammersen

Found this on the side of the road. Almost left it, but then saw that the top opened.

So of course I brought it home, cleaned it up, oiled it, and replaced the knobs.

And now it (briefly) looks like this. Its real use for me will be as a plant stand, but we needed the rainbow thread pic!

Lovely little brioche hat...with a sneaky error

zoomed in version of the previous pic with the error circled to draw attention to it

in progress pic of the other error i noticed being fixed (because apparently i was too cranky while fixing the first one to take a pic of it, but did manage to take a pic while fixing the second one)

After the fix, not yet blocked, but once it is, the error will all but disappear!

Series of thoughts, more or less in order:

1: Ohhhh, pretty!
2: God fucking dammit...oh wait, there's another one on the other side...do I even actually know how to knit?
3: Hold on, I can fix it...
4: I shall now be smugly satisfied that at least my mistakes teach me to be good at fixing things.

If you are able to avoid the news and make something today, I highly recommend it. You don't have to watch the absolute travesty taking place. It will still happen whether you watch or not, and watching it will probably hurt, so you're allowed to care for yourself instead.

It's one giant piece of paper folded up to make several pockets. The idea is that I'll hang it on the wall and fill the pockets with things that bring me joy.

Photo of a wall hanging made from one giant sheet of white paper, folded up into several rows of pockets, with various bits of pretty papers tucked in the pockets. It's laying on my dining room table and you can see my bookcases in the background. The other pictures in the thread are more pictures of the same thing from other angles.

My country is inaugurating a fascist rapist today. Again. Instead of a competent woman. Again. And that's doing a number on my brain, so I'm going to spend the day working on the next iteration of this.

Oh this is beautiful!!!

And I want a story of that border guard's thoughts!

Photo of embroidery. The embroidery is on gray felt using pink, yellow, and white silk embroidery thread. The design is a circle with the same design repeated on eight points to make sort of a snowflake/kaleidoscope/round stained glass window sort of vibe.

Libraries are so damn cool!

My local library is doing a four week embroidery class, and it's been so fun. First two weeks turned out this, and you can totally come join for the next two weeks if you're so inclined!

🧶

www.librarycamden.org/event/healin...

I am currently experiencing the Discworld books for the first time and finding them absolutely astonishing.

I'm binging the audiobooks from the library and they are wonderful. I wasn't ready for them earlier, but damn do they hit hard right now.

Strong Murderbot vibes.

screenshot of me setting up a new tiktok account

I'm trying out tiktok. Which I realize this is hilariously bad timing, what with the ban. But whatever, that's what being a small business is like!

So, if you're on there come find me: www.tiktok.com/@HunterHamme...

I don't know what I'm doing, so there may be amusing mistakes! 🧶

Photo of two knitted sea urchin shells, three real sea urchin shells, and a small tube of glass beads. All piled together on some rocks and driftwood.

I thought I was done knitting urchins. I really did.

But then you see I found myself somewhere that sold beads.

And I was quickly overcome. As so often happens.

So now there must be at least a few more urchins.

I'm sure you understand.

🧶

photo of three knitted pouches of different sizes and designs, arranged on a gray table, with various small knitting notions scattered about. there are also some pretty yellow flowers for good spring vibes.

Remember those pinchy pinch purses your grandma had in her bag? The ones where you pretended they were monster mouths when you opened them?

How about a knitted version?

Going 'chomp chomp chomp' is optional, but encouraged!

🧶

rav: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

payhip: payhip.com/b/plj4H

Northern lights from my yard in Maine. All photos are of this.

Oh my.

Maine.

Help the folks doing good work in states with bad laws. They really need it.

You can. It'll suck, but you can. And when it's done it'll be so awesome.

Correct.

P.S. It doesn't matter what size the buttons are! I'm sewing the button band shut (because four buttons do not hold a form fitting sweater nicely closed over the topography of my body), so the buttons will just be for show, not to actually use.

photo of a solid black cat, sitting in loaf position atop a BRIGHT pink sweater, which is resting on my black desk

photo of the same sweater with three different button options

close up on the three button options. one is a large white shell button, one is a small pewter button with a floral pattern, one is a glass button with a geometric design

I possess:

1) an eye-searingly bright pink sweater with substandard buttons (& bonus kitten guardian)

2) three options for slightly better buttons

3) plans spend tomorrow evening at one of the rare events at which this sweater would be appropriate

4) crippling indecision

Help me pick!

🧶

oooooh, shiny!

Dette er en vanlig bivirkning!

Well this looks like a good thing to do when I sit down at my computer this morning!

Cats suffer H5N1 brain infections, blindness, death after drinking raw milk Mammal-to-mammal transmission raises new concerns about the virus's ability to spread.

DO
NOT
DRINK
RAW
MILK

EVER

but particularly not now

arstechnica.com/science/2024...

A photo of some sea urchin shells, two real, and three knitted, atop a piece of driftwood.

This is fine. This is a reasonable thing to do with both my time and yarn. Totally fine. Absolutely normal. No need for alarm. 🧶

Photo of the 20 books destined for the used book store. I am intentionally only showing the bottoms of the books because I don't want anybody to see their book in that pile and have a bad feeling, so please no one ask for the titles of the books.

I have successfully done a bookshelf purge.

I have 3 tall bookcases in the dining room, and between them I was able to locate 20 books that are ready to go live happier lives somewhere else.

This, plus a little rearranging, led to the creation of One Empty Shelf, which I shall fill with plants.

First one!

And if brain is angry, things can be improved by fine tuning the bin situation.

All of this.

Plus amazon's new return policy is traaaaash.

I have to take anything I want to return to Staples, which is more than an hour of driving for me. They require this even if the item is damaged/defective. They charge for other options.

This policy has cut my orders by at least 75%.

Yay for new growth!

Photo of my plant showing several new leaves

The plant I thought was dying has made a bunch of new leaves.

This is one of the five good feelings.

Others include "happy cat on me," "excellent leftovers in the fridge for lunch," "fresh sheets," and "ooooh, I forgot I'd already done that bit, now I'm ahead of schedule."

‘Alarming’ rise in Americans with long Covid symptoms CDC data shows nearly 18m people could be living with long Covid even as health agency relaxes isolation recommendations

What’s the emoji for no fucking shit you reap what you sow that’s what comes from being a bunch of selfish assholes disabled people fucking told you this would happen our system wasn’t set up to handle all the chronically ill we already had now we’re gonna all fucking suffer for it we are in hell