This is the second year I've been working on the knitted rug. It's made of strips, like scarves, woven together the way you used to make pot holders in arts and crafts when you were a kid.
As usual, I'm not following the directions very well. And started out by trying out different kinds of stitches before deciding to actually follow the instructions, which by the way results in a much better looking length of knitted material. Anyway, it will turn out to be a crazy quilt rug. And that suits me just fine. I'm hoping to actually finish it this year, so that I can experiment in different ways next winter.
My toes? That's a project in the making as well. Last October I painted my toe nails before going to an all night chant at Omega. I never took the polish off and watched it disintegrate slowly, reminding me of the impermanence of all things. While watching the degredation, I decided I would begin a documentation of the same in the new year. I thought I would take a pic every day, but that hasn't manifested. So once a week is my current goal. And it being winter, it's taking longer for the polish to wear I think. Even back in October, I think I was still wearing sandals around a bit at least on the weekends.
Second pic is what the toes looked like just before I took the last of the polish off in prep for the new project. Still not completely worn off in 3 months time.
I still have some more thinking to do on the project. There are some references of course to beauty, the beauty industry and such - particularly because of my long history of working in that particular business. But for now I'm just taking the pics, and seeing what surfaces.
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