math challenged

no matter how well planned and counted sometimes  i end up short of warp ends. not fun especially when they have been custom dyed for the project as in this case. good thing i still had some murasaki steeping in alcohol. now time will take its course with the yarns.

in the meantime staring at my design wall and having a feeling that all of this is irrelevant given the situation. thinking about life and how it goes on. though not in the superficial sitcom way we're used to  where even the most compelling issues have to be solved in twenty minutes. not even in the let's not think about it and keep moving way.

comfort  came by way of one of my favorite reads.

and outside is  raining and thundering. ides of march?

neki desu

on current events

 photo credit:http://japanesesymbolsofpresence.com/shinto.html

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne, Meditation XVII

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neki desu

i can do grunge

without much effort and avant la lettre. i'm older than the term, had been practicing it for fear of falling into the cutseyness trap long before the term was coined. grunge  contrary to boro has not to do with make do, grunge is more wtf i really don't care attitude.

funny how  it became an adjective-oh the glory of the english language and the easiness  with which it  can make a noun an adjective- synonymous  to raunchy  until this word changed meaning  its to obscene. merriman cites as synonyms  fro grungy befouled, begrimed and besmirched, but quite honestly i haven't heard those much lately. unless you want to prove something, that is.

now try to convince an english learner the language is a cinch! 

language aside  the grunge series development, aka what to do with all those machine knitted tension swatches is  finding a fun way.
dropped stitches glamour,some dyeing and stitching.

and if y'all not already tired of this twisted post  some weekend fun for devout photoshopers: here for textures and here for brushes.
yes and they're all grunge (^_^)

good weekend
with my japanese friends in my mind


neki desu