Japanese Apricot

Not much repair work at my contest, but multiple completed knits to show for it!

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Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!

For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!

Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!

Row 31/31, 496/496 pieces

It is done!!!! I finished sewing (see my earlier post) and managed to get a nice sunny picture of the whole blanket as well 🥰 incredible. I haven't measured it but I'd say it's more than the envisioned 2m in length 😅 not dramatically more though and it's a really nice length as well, so I'm very happy ❤️

This doesn't mean the blanket is finished though. First order of business is to clean up the sewing. There's places where either the seams have come undone or I forgot to weave in the end or the end is tiny and I now have to magic knot on a longer end to properly secure the seam - as well as the edge seams that have come undone quite a while ago. I've already started on this in the afternoon (after taking this picture 😁). Second order of business is to crochet a border around the whole thing so a) the edge is really secure and b) it looks more cohesive and finished (like it's framed 😃). Both of these make it kind of hard to have a cat in your lap while you're doing it though, so let's see how well Tilly lets me progress on this 😁 I still have to look up which crochet stitch will look good for this and then probably practice a bit before committing on the blanket. I've dabbled a bit in crochet before but it's not really my thing, so I'm not super great at it. Any suggestions for edging stitches are welcome!

To celebrate this milestone we have two Tilly pictures in the blanket 🎉🎉🎉

I started sewing this together on 14.08.2023 and finished today, 06.04.2025, which means this took me 1 year and almost 8 months. In the grand scheme of this project, that's nothing 😁

Thank you everyone for your enthusiasm for my little project, it's really nice to see other people being excited for this thing I started almost 10 years ago ❤️❤️❤️ Here's to finishing it off by November! I'll keep you posted 😊

As always, the pattern is "Puzzle Pieces" by Megan Ellinger and can be found on Ravelry. Find my other progress posts under the tag "#puzzle pieces blanket".

Started some socks 🧦

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Thinking about how Princess Bubblegum isn’t technically even a humanoid. She’s just sentient gum. She just chooses to be human shaped. She can pull some of her hair out and it’s just gum. One time she lost an arm and she just stretched out her gum and made a new one. She’s human shaped by choice. Moreover, that means she’s girl-shaped by choice. And that’s based

fyi i will be extending some dark tendrils across the sky later today. just a heads up

via @swatercolour [insta]

Tape peel on some little near work paintings. Gouache. 2022

Tomato tray is heading outdoors to harden off

I could definitely move the lavender outdoors too but I’m feeling very helicopter mom about them

I probably should though. I have things that need the grow lights more. I might just repot them with some fresh mix and risk it. I can always bring them back in - they’re not going into the ground until autumn.

I changed the location where I set out my seedlings, to a much shadier and cooler, more sheltered area. I think it will make the transition easier for everybody. There’s much less risk of them getting burned.

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i'm expecting a tiktok exodus since this seems to be the bomb shelter of the internet. have another update/repost. NOW WITH HIGHLIGHTED MAJOR HOLIDAYS!

IT JUST HAPPENS

DAY 15 GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15

Thursday the 20th

The Fifth of Wednesday

Second Week of May: Eurovision

Sometime in June: That One Halloween Post Starts Circulating

Sometime in July: Dancing Pumpkin Man Video/Gif

First Monday In September: Todaybor Day Is Labor Day

WEEKLY EVENTS (at least the ones i celebrate)

Every Monday: Garfield Hates Mondays

Every Tuesday: Tuck Him In Tuesday

Every Wednesday: It Is Wednesday My Dudes

Every Thursday: Out of Touch Thursday

Every Friday: Thank Gnome It's Friday

Every Saturday: Caturday

Every Sunday: Energy Sword Sunday

YEARLY EVENTS

January 1: Copyright Expiration Day

January 2: New Years, New Tears

January 8: Spiders Georg Day

January 16: Appreciate a Dragon Day

January 18: Bug Race

January 29: Threshold Day

All of February: Funguary

ALSO All of February: Femslash February

February 3: WOE, VANILLA EXTRACT BE UPON YE

February 8: King Taejong Fell Off His Horse

February 13: Galentines Day

February 14: Aromantic/Asexual Day

February 15: Annoy Squidward Day

February 18: Perserverance Rover's Birthday

March 9: Miku Day

March 10: Mario Day

March 14: Pi Day

March 15: Ides of March

March 23: Ever Given Got Stuck Today

April 1: Mishapocalypse

ALSO April 1: Staff Does Something Fun On The Dashboard

April 2: Dashcon Announcement Anniversary

April 3: Dannypocalypse

April 5: First Contact Day

April 8: Rex Manning Day

ALSO April 8: MARGARET THATCHER IS DEAD

April 13: Neil Banging Out The Tunes

ALSO April 13: Homestuck Day

April 19: Some Roman Made Bread Today

April 20: haha 420 blaze it

April 24: Josh Fight

April 25: The Perfect Date

April 28: Ed Balls Day

April 29: 94 Meetings Day

April 30: It's Gonna Be May

All of May: Mermay

May 3: Beginning of Dracula Daily

May 4: May the 4th Be With You

May 5: Revenge of the Fifth

May 6: Revenge Of The Sixth

May 7: World Language Day

May 25: The Glorious 25th of May

ALSO May 25: Towel Day

All of June: Pride Month

ALSO All of June: IT'S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

June 5: Barricade Day

ALSO June 5: RONALD REAGAN IS DEAD

June 12: Another Homestuck Day

June 16: Let Papyrus Say Fuck

June 22: Summerween

June 23: FUCK This Post And Happy Birthday Sonic

All of July: Disability Pride Month

July 11-13: Dashcon Anniversary

July 20: Moon Landing

August 5: Curiosity Rover's Birthday

August 30: Frankenstein Day

September 8: The Queen Is Dead and Sans Undertale Killed Her

September 11: Mole Interest Monday

September 19: Talk Like A Pirate Day

September 21: DO YOU REMEMBER-

All of October: SKELETON WAR

ALSO All of October: People Draw A Lot Month? (so many names)

October 3: Mean Girls Day

ALSO October 3: Fullmetal Alchemist Day

October 13: Treat Yo' Self

October 18: None Pizza Left Beef

October 20: Unnecessary Feelings Day

October 25: Homestuck Day The Third??

October 31: HALLOWEEN

November 5: Destiel Nevada Putin Elec'tion Covid Way

ALSO November 5: Doc Brown Invents Time Travel

November 19: Goncharov

November 29: HENRY KISSINGER IS DEAD

All of December: Will the Gävle Goat Get Destroyed Again?

ALSO All of December: WHY WEREN'T YOU AT ELF PRACTICE

ALSO All of December: Season's Greason's

December 4: Deny Defend Depose Day

December 10: Please, It's Christmas

December 12: Hawaii Part 2

December 23: Christmas Adam

ALSO December 23: Festivus

December 24: ALMOST CHRISTMAS MEANS IT WASN'T CHRISTMAS

ALSO December 24: Cabinet Man Day

December 25: happy chrismum

December 27: Porn Ban Effective Today