A pleasant evening at the #MakrsSociety Durham Foodie Fare! Live music (nice chill chanteuse), local vendors, and a food truck rodeo at #DurhamCentralPark.

Dinner was multicultural dumplings - chilli momo and crispy gyoza (no pics because I was staaaaarving). With chocolate-smothered strawberries for dessert!

Enjoying the temperate weather before we get trapped under the heat dome descending upon us this week... 🥵

(Also - I love having short hair, but getting regular haircuts is still an adulting challenge, and wow am I poofy when it grows out! Fortunately, I have a haircut scheduled next week... 😊)

#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition, in which I learn a sweet new yarn join...

I'm finally at the point in this wrap where I need to transition to the second skein - and my go-to minimal-complexity join (tie a double knot and weave in the ends) isn't suitable because the crochet lace is so open, I don't think the ends would stay woven. 😬

So I asked in one of my online communities, and a more experienced fiber crafter recommended a [Russian splice](https://blog.berroco.com/2014/12/09/emily-explains-a-few-methods-of-yarn-splicing/). I've seen it mentioned before, but was concerned that 2-ply lace-weight yarn wasn't thick enough - she said it works even on single-ply cobweb yarns, so I gave it a shot, and it's *magic*. The splice is visibly thicker in the yarn strand, but it happened to coincide with a couple of double crochets in the pattern, and it's practically invisible! 🥰 🧶💖

I'm getting pretty close to my target width for this wrap, so hopefully I can finish it up this week... 🤞🏻

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#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition...

Not much to report, just grinding away at this wrap! Making some good progress... I did have to frog and redo a couple rows when I thought I'd back-checked a row and must not have, but other than that it's been coming along nicely.

I took a swag at the math on this and so far I've made over 18,000 slip knots (pull throughs) and I'm only about 2/3rds done. That's a lotta knots! 😁

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