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Apr. 7th, 2026 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koshka_the_catThe surgery is done!
Everything is weird. On the way home, i was able to read some signs and things weren't tripled. It's a little blurrier now and I have zero close up vision. And glasses with one lens!
Things should be blurry for 1-3 days. Hopefully one!
Everything is weird. On the way home, i was able to read some signs and things weren't tripled. It's a little blurrier now and I have zero close up vision. And glasses with one lens!
Things should be blurry for 1-3 days. Hopefully one!
*yawn*
Apr. 7th, 2026 11:11 amkoshka_the_catSleeping in with purpose! As long as I don't get up, I won't notice that I want coffee or water or toast. Thankfully eye two in two weeks is in the morning! Normally I prefer afternoon things, but not when they involve fasting!
Currently the most stressful part of surgery is wondering if I'll come out of it to find nuclear war or something. I just hope I get both eyes done before the potential apocalypse...
Currently the most stressful part of surgery is wondering if I'll come out of it to find nuclear war or something. I just hope I get both eyes done before the potential apocalypse...
Sweater!
Apr. 6th, 2026 04:20 pmkoshka_the_catAt staff development day, I cast on stitches for the neck and bound off one sleeve!
Then I took a half day because I was caught up and didn't need time in my room.
Meetings can be useful!
Then I took a half day because I was caught up and didn't need time in my room.
Meetings can be useful!
Responsible!
Apr. 5th, 2026 07:17 pmkoshka_the_catAs of now, I'm going to staff development day tomorrow. There's no need to be there, just listening to meetings, but I've taken off so much time this semester. So, I guess I'll go to work...
Finally
Apr. 4th, 2026 05:46 pmkoshka_the_catI finally did my taxes today. Such an accomplishment. Once I figured out how to get my W-2 to my phone, it was locked to my work account, it took about 15 minutes.
I also started eyedrops for my cataract surgery! That's actually exciting.
I also started eyedrops for my cataract surgery! That's actually exciting.
Shoes!
Apr. 3rd, 2026 06:27 pmkoshka_the_catI decided to try to make the shoes the model is wearing in the picture with the seahorse bathing suit. It's a flat with net at the toe and laces. I ordered thin espadrille soles (https://diegos.com/collections/espadrilles-soles/products/traditional-espadrilles-soles?variant=39627609473201), a palm thimble, needle, and 4mm ivory cord from Diego's. The pictures of making them look basically like the cork shoes I've made.
I ordered sagebrush cotton in sizes 3 and 10, and a tiny crochet hook from Knit Picks. The same color as the suit. Normally I don't want to match things, but there are patterns for matched sets of other things, so why not? I also found a book of knit and crocheted shoes. (https://www.etsy.com/listing/57721702/stunning-1930s-knitted-and-crochet-shoes) I'm not planning on using the patterns, but proof that it was done!
The shoes are a mesh pattern so I looked up mesh stitches, and it looks within my crochet capabilities. Chain, single or double crochet (I found patterns using each. I like the double crochet one more, but single would be easier), keep going, next row, do the single or double crochet in the middle of the last row's single or double crochet. I think if I make the pattern in cloth, I can just make a mesh the right size.
Maybe if it works I can make that cute bathing beret. More likely I'll run from crochet, as usual. Counting is hard for me. I can count knitting because the loops are right there, but it's so hard to see the stitches in crochet to count them. To be fair, counting rows and stitches below the needle is also hard in knitting. Thankfully you rarely have to do that.
I ordered sagebrush cotton in sizes 3 and 10, and a tiny crochet hook from Knit Picks. The same color as the suit. Normally I don't want to match things, but there are patterns for matched sets of other things, so why not? I also found a book of knit and crocheted shoes. (https://www.etsy.com/listing/57721702/stunning-1930s-knitted-and-crochet-shoes) I'm not planning on using the patterns, but proof that it was done!
The shoes are a mesh pattern so I looked up mesh stitches, and it looks within my crochet capabilities. Chain, single or double crochet (I found patterns using each. I like the double crochet one more, but single would be easier), keep going, next row, do the single or double crochet in the middle of the last row's single or double crochet. I think if I make the pattern in cloth, I can just make a mesh the right size.
Maybe if it works I can make that cute bathing beret. More likely I'll run from crochet, as usual. Counting is hard for me. I can count knitting because the loops are right there, but it's so hard to see the stitches in crochet to count them. To be fair, counting rows and stitches below the needle is also hard in knitting. Thankfully you rarely have to do that.
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Nice!
Apr. 2nd, 2026 06:34 pmkoshka_the_catIt's a three day weekend and I'm probably going to call in for staff development day on Monday, then I have Tuesday and Wednesday off for eye surgery. I'm ok with this!
Another!
Apr. 1st, 2026 06:43 pmkoshka_the_catI'm finally enjoying my sweater again, but bathing suits are addictive and atherleisure posted progress on hers and now I want another one.
I decided on the first pattern I bought, years ago, when Etsy sellers still emailed patterns. I amazingly still had it in my Dropbox when I looked for it a few years ago, but I also found it in the Minerva Capri Book on Etsy. There are parts of the pattern that I don't quite believe will work, but I'm going for it anyway. It has a pointed waist for the shorts and you sew a straight halter to it. We'll see! It calls for aquamarine and chestnut yarn. I'm using Knit Picks Pallette in sagebrush and jay. The sagebrush is actually close to one of the three yarns called aquamarine in the digital Fleisher's yarn sample book I also bought on Etsy. I didn't like the idea of brown with it. Jay is close to navy.
I'm using fingering weight instead of my normal sport weight. It's 9 stitches an inch and I measured my sport weight sample (actually, failed start to the blue striped suit) done on size one needles and it was dense and 8 stitches an inch. This has a hemmed neckline channel. Too dense isn't good. I did a quick swatch if Pallette on ones, and it looks like the gauge is right, or at least close too it.
So, another bathing suit! And this will be my third seahorse themed 30s project.
atherleisure posted progress on hers and now I want another one. I decided on the first pattern I bought, years ago, when Etsy sellers still emailed patterns. I amazingly still had it in my Dropbox when I looked for it a few years ago, but I also found it in the Minerva Capri Book on Etsy. There are parts of the pattern that I don't quite believe will work, but I'm going for it anyway. It has a pointed waist for the shorts and you sew a straight halter to it. We'll see! It calls for aquamarine and chestnut yarn. I'm using Knit Picks Pallette in sagebrush and jay. The sagebrush is actually close to one of the three yarns called aquamarine in the digital Fleisher's yarn sample book I also bought on Etsy. I didn't like the idea of brown with it. Jay is close to navy.
I'm using fingering weight instead of my normal sport weight. It's 9 stitches an inch and I measured my sport weight sample (actually, failed start to the blue striped suit) done on size one needles and it was dense and 8 stitches an inch. This has a hemmed neckline channel. Too dense isn't good. I did a quick swatch if Pallette on ones, and it looks like the gauge is right, or at least close too it.
So, another bathing suit! And this will be my third seahorse themed 30s project.
1600!
Mar. 31st, 2026 07:26 pmkoshka_the_catMy crossword streak hit 1600 today! I think I'd have had a new best time if it weren't for the typo!
But! I looked at the stats and it said two day streak! The solved puzzle said 1600! I didn't miss one!
It looks like the Monday puzzle didn't save correctly. This happened once before, and tech support fixed it. So, I wrote tech support again!
My streak is a source of joy in *gestures broadly* all this.
Like last time, daily screenshots until it's fixed! But I won't post them all...
But! I looked at the stats and it said two day streak! The solved puzzle said 1600! I didn't miss one!
It looks like the Monday puzzle didn't save correctly. This happened once before, and tech support fixed it. So, I wrote tech support again!
My streak is a source of joy in *gestures broadly* all this.
Like last time, daily screenshots until it's fixed! But I won't post them all...