Windows!

Fully closed windows starting at about 8:30 this morning have kept the downstairs at an air-conditioning sort of temperature all day. Upstairs is only pleasantly warm, rather than roasting. Classy! (Ok, admittedly it's only an 80 degree day today, but still, a definite improvement over the old ones.)

( and while the pictures do not illustrate the full contrast, you can get a little of an idea: )

---and on an unrelated note: Does anyone know if there's a way to print a many page PDF in a format that allows it to be bound as a book (ie, paginated to sew into signatures)?

...and now, with pin-weaving!

Once upon a time, a decade ago this summer, I was a rather directionless college student working at a fabric store which has long since closed, and reading all the craft magazines on the racks by the register, where one of them had an article on pin-weaving. And I was quite taken with the idea, but only got as far as buying a couple of boxes of pins and a spool of quilting thread before I got distracted by other things.

With the recent influx of greedily hoarded awesome yarn scraps, I just did a test piece:


I'm planning to sew it onto my infamous (and totally unknown to most of you, sadly) patch cloak which just came out of its box recently, but I'll have to wash that first...

Also, there are in-progress pictures and pseudo-tutorial on Craftster.