DroppedStitch

I'm home from work. And it's not 9:00 PM. I don't even know what to do with myself. I mentioned before that we hired a new assistant manager at work. Finally. This is his first week without supervision. He's actually working a regular full time schedule now, and that means that I don't have to cover as many hours. I'm only scheduled for 46 hours this week - that's a full ten hours less than last week. Today I got home at 2:00. Normally on a Tuesday, I'd be there 'till 9:30. I am so incredibly happy about this turn of events, that I don't even really know what to do with myself. It's like having an entire extra day off. In yarn-related new

I'm compelled to celebrate the purely arbitrary achievement of surpassing two hundred page views. I intend not to make a habit of drawing attention to what are essentially meaningless landmarks. But, at the same time, I freely admit that I am something of a glory hound. Modesty being a virtue that I never found much use for, I must admit that I feel greatly gratified at the thought that two hundred people have seen the fruits of my labor, and that at least a handful of them have enjoyed it. I would like to thank everybody who viewed my page, and especially those who have found it enjoyable enough to comment or favorite. Self-aggrandizing a

https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/ This is just straight up amazing. An eleven foot long tapestry, woven entirely from spider silk. You must click that link and take a look at the brocaded tapestry. And the spiders that produced the cloth. Four years of effort, collecting spiders, acquiring their silk, and of course weaving it into cloth. This tapestry is currently on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. I'm hoping I can figure out a way to get up to New York to check it out.