What I did today
I got off my sorry self-pitying butt and went to the library (where I have managed to rack up a remarkable amount of overdue fines, AAARRRGH! I better put the new books' return date in my calendar). Anyway, I got this book: http://www.japanesetemari.com/japanese-temari-book.html
because it was all shiney and pretty and I've been feeling unmotivated about knitting for the past week or so (despite having 4 projects in process and about a million more planned for). About 4 hours later, with sore fingers, I have this:





and the other side



its cute little obi



and since 4 hours was a lot of time to spend on a cat toy, it is safely out of reach in the magical artificial lemon tree (where many other random things also reside)



It is fun, but I am not a very precise person, so the end result is a little, shall we say, wabi-sabi.



So now I'm feeling more motivated about knitting, because you at least get a somewhat more practical item for all your work. Like a felted squirrel, hee hee hee hee hee.