synestheticknits

hello there! so uh... 2020, huh? ugh. so i've actually been drawing again after like a really long time. except this time i'm working on getting better at using a tablet. i learned drawing and painting and whatnot on traditional media, and my brain always seemed to rebel against doin it digital. lately, finally, it's starting to click. yay! i also got myself on redbubble and put some stuff up there just for the heck of it. still feeling things out. i used to be like, yeah i should totally get into silkscreening and stuff. yeah, never happened. so i'm happy that there's this kind of stuff out there now, and that it's easier for people who don't have access to the equipment and all to jump in and get started. right now there are some simple patterns and weird little drawings. also a couple of my old doll photos. unfortunately can't locate the higher-res versions of most of them. although, i never get rid of anything so they'll probably turn up at

transitions are hard. i'm still around, just not doing as much fun stuff (because work, school, etc). things are just moving more slowly than i'd like. sloooow. i did go and freshen things up a little bit around here, fix a few broken things, and whatnot. and i was reminded of the long-running afghan project in my last post... since then, it has been put away again and then taken back out AGAIN. sometime last summer i started working away at it while listening to podcasts (mostly unexplained and binge-catching-up on you must remember this ). i can say that all squares are now done and blocked! now the edging. this may take another ten years. sigh. so, there is still work to be done around here. in the meantime, some old favorite posts: a look through some vintage crafting magazines. early-90s vogue knitting (every hipster in my city looks straight out of 1992 lately anyway, so...?) and granny squares of the 70s ! i definitely have more of these magazines around...

hi people. it's been a while. life is weird. just here trying to fix things up since photobucket decided to suddenly kill off its image hosting. if you see anything around here that looks like it should be a photo but is instead a grey box asking you to pay $$$, that's why. i'm on it. recently i dragged out a super old and decrepit knitting project, for some reason, and have been slowly working at it. (way too many project bags just hanging out.) it's an afghan made up of intarsia panels, picturing knit-related items. knit in whatever assortment of semi-color-coordinated crappy acrylic yarn i had available at the time. which was, incidentally, 2004. because sometimes, i knit like frozen molasses. also, i remembered i kind of don't like knitting from charts. aaaand, i went back to school. so there's that. it's a little crazy. just a little, though. i hang out on twitter, even though i don't talk much. forever a lurker. say hi, though.

so it seems that my long-running (LONG-running) car issues have come to an end. what does this mean? i will no longer have to restrict my post office trips to only fridays. woo hoo! it means other things too, but, well, we'll talk about that later. some other 80s toys and stuff in the shop right now, strawberry shortcake and my little pony! more on the way. still a little hard letting go of ponies, dude... part of my collection. these ones aren't going anywhere. (: especially my fave, bowtie. one day i'll have space for a whole bookshelf of awesomeness. ( goals... )

so.. i don't really watch much tv. (no superiority here - oh, you'll see) we don't have cable, though we do have netflix and a stack of series on dvd and recommendations from friends, etc. i just really have trouble sitting down and just watching something without thinking "oh god i should be washing the dishes or finishing this or that project". but this winter, i did get into... celebrity big brother. look. if you're going to get into reality tv, there's no point unless it's trashy and over-the-top. no pretense of a higher purpose here. yes, vh1 celebreality was my shit at the time. i have been lamenting new york's absence from the airwaves for some time now. so when i found out she would be on this season... #hbic i'll refrain from discussion of the show for the disinterested (but if you want to chat...!) and i was actually glad when it was done.. damn, this thing's on every day? with after-shows? but i realized that th

hello hello, 2016! getting into cleaning, sorting, downsizing, and decluttering mode. i have such an 80s toy horde that i don't really need to keep. there's only so much space in one house, so why not keep just the favorites? there's only so many collections one person can have, you know? i think the first real collection i started was strawberry shortcake. i always loved the book illustrations (see "the winter that would not end" here.. i need to get that one back from my mom's house!). at some point i started re-collecting the dolls of my youth. (cafe ole was always a fave...) i spent a lot of time on ebay back in the day when i had some actual disposable income, seeking out cheap incorrectly-named lots of vintage dolls. i had a thing for my little pony too, but luckily still had a lot of my originals and it also seemed easier to come across ponies in secondhand shops and such. along the way, i would come across all sorts of sesame street, ba