Several weeks ago one of my coworkers called me over into her cubicle and gave me a very unexpected gift. Her mother passed away recently, and she'd been packing stuff up at her condo to give to relatives and sell, so the home could be sold. The mother was an avid knitter and crocheter, and when my coworker came upon her stash of equipment, she told me, she "immediately thought of me as someone who might get some use out of it."
So, I have inherited a varied collection of knitting needles and crochet hooks, cable needles, sewing needles, and, best of all, now-out-of-print pattern books, mostly for blankets, because that was what this lady loved to make most. Plus, I also have a bunch of gauge swatches she made, pinned to little bits of card covered in perfect schoolteacher handwriting setting out the patterns they were made to test.
And also...
My coworker brought another bag, full of yarn and...knitted blanket squares.
Her mother's last started project, before she got too sick to continue.
And she asked if there was anything I could do with it.
It turned out, there are twelve completed squares, and I quickly located the pattern book they are from amid those given to me. It's a book of 60 patterns, meant to be put together however the maker wishes into blankets of 20 squares. I figured out which of the numbered patterns were already made, and selected eight more that I thought might go well with them.
So now!
I am working on completing!
My coworker's mother's last knitting project!
And I really am feeling very good about doing it.
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Then all those years of building - were they worth anything?
Yes - they're just hoping you don't realize it.
Rebecca Sugar going in for the kill with some sketches out of absolutely nowhere. Here's my best attempt at getting an okay-ish image out of a blurry vertical phone recording of a screen. Original video was posted on the official rebeccasugar account on TikTok - a big thank you to @jeejyboard for bringing it to my attention.
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Happy Shimo✨🩵
Had a random thought of drawing Shimo (hadn’t had sudden idea to do it until now lol). She was a lot of fun to do actually. Part of it is that i like to think that now she’s living happy being free & just generally being able to do & see more things on her own. That & also i do enjoy how others draw her (& also motivated me to try it for myself). I have my own figurine of Shimo (i mostly used that as reference) that i have on my desk so i got to basically look at her more (more just so i can draw her ^^::)
She’s a very happy & cheerful kaiju (thats how i like to see things) after GxK & ofc spending it with both Kong & Suko✨
[Bonus note: i actually feel proud of this!!!]
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vi be like “i’m so buff and mean and dangerous and grrrrr i’m just so bad” and then this is literally her
like, yeah, okay… pack it up, pretty baby doll eyes 🙄🙄🙄
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If you want ideas maybe Merlin showing Lance his daughter? (Aithusa!!)
this is a BRILLIANT request, thank you so much!! i can't believe this did not happen in canon :(
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everyone look at her
[ID: Two photos of a brown and white bully-basset dog with floppy ears and short legs wearing a gold party hat standing in a kitchen. The hat is more on her neck than on her head and her tail is wagging so hard it has blurred almost completely out of visibility. The first photo is her standing plainly looking at the camera person, the second photo is blurrier as she takes a step and licks her chops. end ID]
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this is carly-mac, it is her TEN YEAR ADOPT-IVERSARY/BIRTHDAY, she is TEN and she REALLY liked the special treats I made for her <3 that is her demanding more of them <3
everyone say happy birthday/adopt-iversary to her and tell her how pretty and precious she is in her little hat
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