Fiber Monday 231: More, More, More

I've been hard at work today, and it should show:

Here's our shawl in all of its unfinished glory!

It's about 39 inches long (that's about 99cm for the rest of the world)

And for length, it's about 20 inches from top to tip (~51cm)

See? I like this measuring tape, btw. It's much more flexible than my white tape.

I'm still working on those shorts from last week, so here's my progress on those:

I still don't entirely understand the instructions, but I'm doing my best...

I'm also reworking a fancy purple silk/merino shrug based off of this pattern, and that's going pretty well right now! I took the repeated motif and stretched it out so that it's a little over 30 inches wide and a little over 16 inches long, which will make a rectangle. I'll sew the ends in by about 5 inches on either side to make a partial tube, and then I'll make some lace to go around the arm holes and the shrug opening :)

That'll about do it for me today, guys.

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Fiber Monday 229: Meer skedels

Guess what I worked on today? Can you guess? Can you?

That's right - more skulls.

I managed to get us to 16 new chins across - which is just a little more than last week. I am hoping to get going on this in the coming week. I'm also thinking that this will need a nice press when I finish it. I'll have to look up how to block/press linen, since I believe this is a linen lace-weight thread.

Family-sized box of mac n cheese for scale, lol

I'm still in love with the colors on this shawl. Yeah, the patchiness is a bit weird, but if I'm gonna use a quirky pattern like skull lace, it may as well be in a quirky, weird colorway. It's pretty lightweight, still, too, which will be great when I wear it!

The ball was originally about the size of a grapefruit, and now it's a little smaller than a tennis ball, so I think we're going to have to wrap this up in a couple weeks! How exciting!

Also, it was really nice this morning, even though it was still 70℉ (~21℃) at 0900 (9AM). It's bright and sunny, and since I slept in shorts, I woke up feeling pretty cozy instead of overheated and sweaty. I wasn't the only one feeling pretty good this morning, either...

Look at this lovely, demanding lazypants.

The kitty greeted me when I came down the stairs, staring at me and waiting for me to settle down in the chair with my crochet. Then she hopped up onto the couch and stared pointedly at "her" spot. I know this code. She wanted me to set up a "tent" with one of the heavy fleece blankets. I did it and held the flap open until she decided it was good enough. This is how she looked 30 seconds later!

What a fluff :)

That'll do it for me today!

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Fiber Monday 228: More Skulls More Problems

Guys, I didn't even close this latest group of skulls, so I'm sorry about that. It's been a busy few weeks - Pay Per Views, birthdays, cookery, national holidays... I've been on the move since the Thursday before last... wow.

Still, I made it to the upper lip, and progress is progress!

Kind of a wonky photo, but hey, it's here and it's a little bigger than it was!

That's all from me today!

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Saturday Casual Gaming 227: Tap! Dig! My Museum!

I used to want to be a paleontologist. I was little, Jurassic Park had just come out on VHS, I had the flu so I sounded like a Velociraptor when I coughed... good times. Finding Tap! Dig! My Museum! by Oridio on the Google App Store seemed to be just the thing I needed to feed my dino obsession.

And it was!

So, you start out with an empty, run-down museum and a small bag of cash. You take that money and build a display case, then you go dig for dinos! The digging is a lot of fun.

If really simple

Basically, you're taken to a screen and, with a limited number of moves, you dig into the dirt by tapping on a section. Sometimes you'll find money. Sometimes you'll find fossils. You can watch an ad to get more moves, too, but only once per dig. When you run out of moves (or find all available fossils), you get sent back to your museum with your spoils. The first dinosaur I uncovered was a Velociraptor, but after that some of the choices are... weird but awesome. I'm pretty sure I dug up dinos I'd never heard of before - seriously.

And they're fairly accurate representations!

While you build up your collection, guests will arrive at your museum. They drop money, which you can then use to buy upgrades or fund digs. The upgrades come in five varieties - on your main museum, you can upgrade things buy opening new exhibits, or you can expand your museum. This, sadly, can only be done once so far (as of the writing of this blog), but the developers say they're working on new expansions and upgrades, so that's cool. The other three kinds of upgrade are in the yellow museum button. These will let you fit more people in your museum at a given time, hire more diggers (and thus have more moves per dig), or increase the power of your taps during digs. I tried to maximize my museum perks as quickly as possible, which made digging the larger dinos much easier!

I flipping love spinosaurus!!!

I'm a big fan of cute pixel games like this, and this game has everything I like. It's simple and easy to understand and play, it's pretty to look at, and it's got great music. It even has a camera button to let you take quick screen shots! They save as .png files, which means...

Yes.

The museum shots are from my actual in-game museum! That makes it so much easier to talk about on the internet. No complicated multi-button presses on my phone hoping I'm doing it right and missing the good shots! Just... tap! Done. Save it to my Drive!

I hope a lot more games start doing that!

So yeah, Oridio's Tap! Dig! My Museum! is a nifty game that I can't wait to get updates on. Especially since it only took me 5 days to play out the missions...

If you're looking for a cute game with dinosaurs, museums, and a great sense of accomplishment, try it out!

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