What Are You Working On is a community diary series for all things crafty and artsy, in a variety of mediums and techniques.
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My twitter stream is a mix of politics and friends, with sports, knitting, and young adult writers tossed in for variety. Here are a few tweets from this week that caught my attention:
LiviaBorak Livia Borak
“If you let the possibility of not winning stop you, you’re going to end up sitting on your bed at home knitting sweaters.”
Well Gosh. Isn't it a good thing that some of us can win, and knit sweaters when we're done. ;-)
GreatDismal William Gibson
Thrifts that had those sweaters also had the patterns for knitting them, for ten cents. Always imagined having them knit in bright colors.
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Saw patterns for a Sherman tank, a Spitfire, a VW bug... Now the patterns cost more than the surviving sweaters, I suspect.
Photo of
cow cardi in previous tweet, there was apparently a sweater mood. Even for a famous author ;-)
sccs Susan Shelton
I was given 4 home grown tomatoes on Friday.While I pondered what to make with them, I ate 2 of them as though they were apples.
Hlth_Literacy Health Literacy
Why #quilting gives you a sense of well-being http://ht.ly/... Quilting improves your health in ways exercise can’t manage
Quote from Linked Article:
Further research is needed to see whether quilting and other hobbies are good for mood, wellbeing and health. Ideally, studies in this area would take the form of a randomised control trial, perhaps measuring changes in factors such as blood pressure or wellbeing scores in groups assigned to try a new hobby, and comparing these changes to people performing no activity.
Fun with Hashtags
Hashtags on Twitter are like the tags here at dailykos. It's a way to find tweets on the same topic from total strangers!
#knit
#knitting
#quilting
#pottery
The kids and I spent time yesterday and today at our wonderful and local Utah Arts Festival. My son made a glass paperweight, and I documented some of the yarn bombing. Here is a 90-second video to get you started and there will be more next week.
Diaries of Note
Community Quilt for Jester the Marine -- Round 2+ from Sara R. This diary is live, please give a rec and a comment for Jester.
ArtKos: Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.306+ from boran2 - there is a weaving photo in the comments.
I ran into Tamar in the comments this week - not only does she also have a daughter adopted from China, she is a weaver.
What Are You Working On?