A good bead day

You know I said in my last post I was going through my bead archives? The photo above is from May 2014 and I looked at these petal beads for ages, trying to remember how I made them. They're not like my 'scales' beads which are just layers of stacked dots; these have more depth to them.

Yesterday I decided to try and let my hands remember how they were made, as opposed to my brain. Honestly, muscle memory never fails to amaze me. How can you make a few beads eleven years ago and think you've forgotten the method you used for them, yet your hands have remembered? As soon as the tiny little thing I thought I'd forgotten clicked into place, I was away.

Petals V2.0

I added an extra layer of small petals to make them a bit different and although these reminder beads are made in just three colours - clear, periwinkle blue and light violet - I can picture these in multiple colours within one bead. What is beyond me is why I opted for bands of seven petals. When it comes to placing dots on beads, four is easy, five is tricky but okay, six is typical, eight is pretty simple, but why did I choose seven for these? It's the same with my polka dots; those have bands of nine dots. When it comes to drawing geometric shapes with a compass and ruler (which I have done lots of) heptagons and nonagons are the bit-more-complex ones to execute. I seem to have an in-built need to make life complicated for myself.

But yes, what is important is that I'm making progress on the bead front. I really enjoyed my shed time yesterday. I hit play on my massive Weezer playlist and got totally lost in glass and music and I haven't felt that way for a long while. Here's hoping I'm starting to crawl out of my beady misery hole.

In sock news...

In the evenings I have a spare hour or so before getting the dinner ready in which I knit and watch telly. Last month I was doing the trawling-through-streaming-services thing, looking for a series I'd not seen before for my pre-dinner knitting television and I decided to try The X-Files. I never watched it in the 90s and it's always seemed like a lot of TV show to catch up with but I decided to dive in anyway and oh my word, I love it.

I am over thirty years late to this but goodness me, Fox Mulder is a huge bit of alright, isn't he? (Especially in his season one specs. And his season two sunglasses.) I'm surprised by how much some of the episodes have freaked me out (Tooms, possessed children, general aliens-coming-to-Earth stuff) but I am thoroughly enjoying it.

When I happened upon Charlotte Stone's The Truth is Out There socks pattern a couple of weeks ago I knew I had to knit them.

These were made with Opal Uni 4 Ply in shades 2619 Black and 2011 Neon Green.

And here are the socks I'm currently working on. These are Summer Lee's August Colorwork Cuff Club pattern. I think they're very fitting to post today seeing as it's the first day of spring. 

I adore this mossy green. The yarn is Drops Nord which is an alpaca and wool mix.

Right, shed. Let's see if I've got any more petal power in me...

See you later!