Once again, I am Green Fox, and @mbroome is Blue Fox...
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Lisa Lorenzin (she/her)
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And the good girls go to heaven, but the bad girls go everywhere...
#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition...
I'm just putting the finishing touches on these two scarves / light wraps for my friends! We're all on a trip together this week, so I'm getting live feedback on how wide each friend desires their wrap to be - and we have some bus rides to excursions coming up in the next couple days, so that will give me the chance to add on a few more rows as needed.
...and of course I forgot to pack any of the yarn I ordered to make *myself* one, so once I get these two done, I will be without a fidget toy for the rest of the week. Hopefully I will get organized enough to use that time to write postcards, so I can actually mail them from overseas, rather than just writing them on the plane home and dropping them in our mailbox when we arrive. 😇
Happy Saturday! Today's farmers' market flowers are from my go-to flower vendor, [Bluebird Meadows](https://www.bluebirdmeadows.net/)... So cheerful!
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... 🤞🏻
