Notices by Violinknitter (violinknitter@wandering.shop)

If I wanted to keep the spending under 10k, I could get the gator table instead

Look at the water ripples!

If I win the lottery, there will be signs

Yes, I would absolutely drop 20k on a Kraken table

When you have adequate English skills and top tier comeback skills

Growing up means being a ridiculous number of decades old before you realize that that mean depressive voice in your head tends to start mouthing off when you need 1) food, or 2) a nap*

Like literally I’m just a toddler who needs a snack and a lie down and then I’ll be ok again

*honorable mention to “a walk outside”

Sorry, busy

Assassins all the way down

RE: https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/116998439438529345

I’m legitimately so excited about this!

Past me remembered to pick up chocolate at the grocery store yesterday, and I cannot overstate just how important that was for the success of today

If you teach violin, especially the Suzuki books or the Barbara Barber “Solos for Young Violinists” books, the Martha Yasuda duet books are so great!

Accompaniments for so many of the solos in those books, well composed and fun to play… my students really love it when I play the Yasuda duet accompaniment with them!!!

#violin #Violinist #SuzukiViolin

Kids put up with a LOT from adults

In case anyone was wondering how the Celestarium shawl is coming along:

It is blue. It has sparkles. It has several lifelines and soooo many stitch markers. I’m happy with it, but there’s soooo much of it left to knit

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Last round of increases complete, and last set of charts begun! I’m nearly finished!

(Dear reader, she is nowhere near finished. She’s just delusional, and we shall leave her to her happy obliviousness.)

Pattern: Celestarium by Audrey Nicklin

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I don’t know how other people knit this pattern, but one thing I for sure am not doing is ceaselessly counting while knitting

At the beginning of the round, I insert locking stitch markers where each YO or bead should go, and then knit merrily away without needing to count at all while I work

Also, I can obsessively count & recount while placing the stitch markers, instead of reknitting for fear I missed something #Knitting #FiberArts

Celestarium update:

Still blue. Still beaded. Still going to take approximately 6,789 months to finish

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Round 120 of 156

The thing I truly love about long projects like this is the ability to just sink into the present moment

I’m making blue stitches, I’m occasionally placing a bead, and I know I will be doing these two things for probably the next month to three months

It becomes what feels like a timeless activity. Click, click, click, bead, click click click

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Round 136 of 156

About 12k stitches to go before I start the border

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Today I discovered a star was left out of the night sky, so Desperate Times, Desperate Measures

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And the stars are back in alignment! Pic one is post-fix, but showing the reknit stitches wonkily sized because of the fix. Pic two shows the stitches looking a bit better after I readjusted tension between loops.

(I’m not sure the difference looks like much to anyone but me, but I like the adjustment)

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This may not look different than all my other pictures of the Celestarium shawl, but it is. That’s the beginning of the first round after completing ALL the charts

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There are a number of different edgings people have used for this shawl. I think the original garter stitch edging is just a bit too plain, but I love the double row of simple beaded lace knitsoftwear on Ravelry did for her shawl, so that’s what I’ll be doing, too!

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