I'm watching trends like the Fairphone, Light Phone, and the new Commodore flip phone, and wondering when this trend will spread to cars.
I see the Slate barebones EV truck and I love the idea of a stripped-down vehicle, especially one without a modem and internal spyware.
Are there other vehicles going for this stripped-down style?
https://www.slate.auto/en
#ElectricSUV
Requesting some help finding a knitting pattern, or even just a good designer.
I want to knit a cardigan in fingering weight yarn. I need to be able to upsize the sleeves because I don't have drinking-straw-size biceps. I'd prefer to knit top down, I dislike picking up stitches for a button band, and I'd prefer an open-front cardigan.
Do you have a favourite pattern?
#Knitting
I started this cardigan, Seven Tees by Katrin Schneider, in 2022. It's been with me through 3 homes and is finally blocking.
I had to upsize the arms, because the original pattern was way too small. The yarn is a local rambouillet from Mesta Meadows.
Used an 8 year old video for the underarm stitch pick-up that worked well.
https://youtu.be/8K-IsMdTHK0
I had a need to knit a little potato. Made up a pattern as I went, going for dumpy and lumpy.
#Knitting
Hunter Yoda, sound asleep on the sofa. I didn't expect to see his ears like that when he was relaxed, and some claws poking out on his paws.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastondon
Took my indirect warp off the warping board and got it on the loom! It's been 3 years since I warped up my loom, and this is the first indirect warp and the first solo warp I've done.
I'd forgotten how much I like knitting a lace scarf! Feather and Fan pattern with a 3 stitch border, yarn in Aimee Sher Makes Comfort Silk Linen, in the Forget-me-not colour.
#Knitting #LaceKnitting #YarnBothering
Caught Marie Curie in a yawn. I've posted separate cats this Caturday as an A/B test.
#Caturday #CatsOfMawnstondon
Nap time truce from Marie Curie and Hunter Yoda.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Cardigan in progress, the pattern is Seven Tees, adapted for people with arms bigger than drinking straws, and without the stripes.
Using local Rambouillet wool from a farm I've been to, that I got at the Midwest Fiber Festival. This year the festival is April 24-26 in St Louis.
Looking at pottery throwing classes, and more wood turning at Woodcraft for later in the year. I'm going to try new stuff, probably suck at it, and keep learning and going outside.
Booked a cooking class for April, Kitchen Conservatory sells out way in advance. It will be Mediterranean cooking.
Started a Monthly Adventure tag in my calendar for these. Now I need a March adventure!
Making a commitment to do one thing outside the house with strangers a month. A monthly adventure!
I'm taking a bouldering 101 class at the rock climbing gym this week. Could be fun. I loved climbing trees as a kid.
Did my leg day workout and repeated my personal best on the leg press, so it's not a one off! Added 10 to my previous best on the curl machine too.
And I feel tired but not destroyed by it! I never intended to be a gym rat, but 2 solo sessions a week and one with a trainer helps my sleep and mental health. Plus an hour of karate.
#Workout #fitness #WeightLifting
Found a Jinhao fountain pen with a Kanwrite nib and put Platinum Carbon Black ink in it. I've done a series of doodles or drawings the last couple of days and this one is the best of the bunch.
I know I'm not an expert, or a someone who can do realistic sketches, but this is my kind of art and it makes me happy. When I'm drawing, my shoulders relax and the outside world fades away.
The small lake behind my house has frozen over, but the lake ice was thin. One plump goose was standing on it and fell through, it paddled around a bit before struggling out. As it walked across the lake it fell in twice more, and another goose close to it saw this, started walking off, and that goose fell in too.
Goosecapades, episode 1.
A solitary Canada Goose was standing in the middle of the frozen lake behind my house, honking and walking in aimless circles. It had pooped on the ice.
After some time, it honked and took off.
I have been waiting for the next episode of geese on ice since I saw one land and slide into a group of other geese when I first looked at this house before buying it last year.
The entertainment is right there, behind the house!
I'm counting it a success for the day that I grated a carrot and did not end up bleeding or missing any skin or fingernails.
Followed a new-to-me recipe and I think it worked.
https://www.eatingwell.com/carrot-cake-oatmeal-bars-8404220
#Baking
I'm such a wild and crazy soul I ran the self cleaning cycle on my oven tonight to see what would happen.
Spoiler: it incinerated the grot on the bottom of the oven.