Weekend question:

I'm swamped with finals, so education's on my mind

What have you learned through crafting?

about your skill set, how you learn, your personality, the people around you, discoveries you've made through crafting, etc!

I agree with Lily! feel better soon

Maybe crafting and creating beats back the dark one or something like that

I enjoy creating for that feeling of turning blankness into something. I struggle with depression, and find creating something as a great coping mechanism. When i'm feeling incredibly empty, it helps to show physically that doing one small thing can actually lead to a useful and enganging product. 

I also like to challenge myself to learn new techniques. i'll make things and then donate them or wait for someone to compliment it and then gift it to them. I don't really need seven pairs of gloves or scarves or what not. I just like the process and learning. 

Hey circle!

What inspires you to create? 

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yikes homework *fistbump of solidarity* Me too, sister. me toooo...  and only a month till finals for me. 

I finished my socks, so i'm inbetween projects at the moment. I might wait till the semester is over to really start a new thing. 

But i have this watermelon themed yarn that I really would love to work with. 

Weekend Check In!

Have a hot cocoa and share what you're up to!

Any plans? works in progress?

*cough* certainly not a guilty conscience! I walk in the Light!

Toe beans!

Little dipper or Big dipper constellation?

That is some serious decorating power

I love the windows and the vines!

absolutely crafty. I'll get a set of nozzles brought to the cottage!

a sword captain? that paints? the man's like an onion!

i like the stripe of of black being all casual with the other ajah colors ? 

agreeing with @LilyElizabeth I learned the best from youtube videos.

I also recomend Ravelry.com They have a huge HUGE library of patterns, and many are free. 

I started a friend knitting by teaching washcloths. I like them cause they're fairly small, so you get a good idea of how all the parts of knitting work, and get a finished item much quicker than you'd get if you made a scarf.

afghan squares are also good for learning for the same reasons!

3 hours ago, Lavandula said:

Um..see I didn't see any aiels in book one...?

*adjusts glasses in a nerdy way* People keep telling Rand he looks like one because he's so tall. "tall as an aielman" It's mentioned the most when Rand's in Camelyn. Loial, Gawyn, and Elida all mention it. but it's all mysterious to the reader, cause we haven't met any.

but you don't see any of the society. Which is REALLY cool.  

I'd be quite interested in an aiel group!

I'd try it. For Science!

On 11/1/2019 at 9:16 PM, JamesBrown said:

I've read that during the American colonial period lobster was so plentiful it was seen as trash food fit only to feed prisoners.

I've heard that too! and people would complain about eating ocean bugs. i wish that description wasn't so accurate. then again... maybe normal bugs are just as tasty?

*Idle waves from their seat next to a tea set*

Hiya!

What sort of things are you making, or planning on making?

I'm working on some socks. but I always get so bored about half way through. chatting with folks would help me push through and get them done!

The most notable thing inside this cozy cottage is the variety of chairs.

Plush chairs, stools, rocking chairs, swings suspended from the ceilings, camp chairs that look like they might fold up with a person inside them, benches, love seats, and firm cushions for the floor, wooden, metal, stone, cloth, you name it. A modest loom and spinners wheel are arranged in with the chairs to help conversation flow. 

The second most notable thing are the cabinets!

The glass fronts showcase yarn and thread of every thickness and color, and bolts of cloth of good stout Two Rivers wool and fine Sharan silks and everything in between. Even some 3rd age materials that came from no plant or animal you could think of.

Small drawers show beads and wires to make jewelry and a case of wire rings for chainmaile. 

There's a shelf of paper tidly arranged, and another with scraps of leather. 

Tidy drawers have tools and notions, pens and brushes, pliers and awls, and some of those fancy machines out of that new college.

It's a haven for people who want to weave *wink* and spin *double wink* without any bossy *cough* Towers *cough* saying who can belong.

And for everyone else who likes to create and talk about what we're up to!

Welcome! 

these questions were really interesting

Brown Ajah: 7
Yellow Ajah: 5
Blue Ajah: 5
Gray Ajah: 3
Green Ajah: 3
White Ajah: 1
Red Ajah: 1

Hi Dragonmount!

I've seen the fandom getting excited with announcments about the TV show, so I decided to do a re-read and hang out with fellow friends

I'm a grad student for library science and have knitted my own brown ajah shawl ?

On 10/18/2019 at 10:14 PM, Dreggs Morlock said:

With the TV series coming, I thought I would brush the dust off-but I remembered my user name and password!  Hello to anyone who was around back then... is the "Who killed Asmodean" thread still growing? ?

Same here

I've forgotten my old DM information, but I just had a huge nostalgia attack about that thread