01/30/2024
My phone camera is having trouble focusing on this tiny swatch... I've been sampling yarn blends for spinning and I really don't know if I love or hate this blend.
I feel like lately I've been chasing a "perfect" yarn, one with a pure white base and colorful nepps/slubs to add a pop of colour and texture. I've found wool nepps to make the perfect look, but they can't be spun finely, and sari silk (as I've used here) and silk noil to mix in too much with the base yarn and make it look heathered and muddy, rather than a pure white. Nothing wrong with either a heavier weight or heathered look ofc, but that's not the yarn I want to make.
I am still going to dye up some noil and see how it goes.
This swatch was made with all SCs, using 1.5mm hook over 24 sts on the bottom section, and a 3mm hook over 18 sts for the top few rows just to see what it looks like at a different gauge.
Not sure if I've mentioned it before, but it is immensely frustrating that the algorithm pushes reels instead of photo posts. (If I wanted to be seeing/making short-form videos, I'd use tiktok. I do like tiktok, but I wish not every social media app was a tiktok clone nowadays.)
I don't use instagram nearly as often as I used to since they made this change, and I guess that's on me, but it doesn't seem worth the stress to try to keep making content that the algorithm won't promote.
And I don't *like* making videos? Like, why isn't that ok? I like making soft things, and I just barely learned how to make them look good in still photos, and now I have to learn a whole new art form just so people can see the art I already make and arrrgh i hate that so much.
Idk what to do about it too. I could pay someone to make videos for me, but that's not realistic unless my art becomes a business, and that probably won't happen if the algorithm doesn't promote my content, soooo I'll have to learn to make my own algorithm-friendly video content, which in the best case, means I won't need to hire anyone cuz I'd have already learned the skill.
Anyway, to the three of you who do interact this post, thanks ♡
