You know how it is. When you look at Etsy, browse a bit, find an amazing chart... BAM! Suddenly, your project pile (that you just promised to stop growing) is in sudden need of a new chart. Here's what I saw.
Hobbiton looks amazing, but I want Rohan too.
Okay, so this one needs to go on my rotation as well...
I might need more project bags and Q Snaps.
Exciting developments this week on the Mystery band sampler by Linen & Threads! I'll let the picture speak for itself:
The sun has arrived, and the first dragon has too! Now I can start brainstorming a name for it. Leave a comment below if you have any ideas.
You know how when you go on city tours, the tour guide lifts her umbrella and says, "Follow the umbrella! This way please!" Well, follow the umbrella to the next WIP, Paris Market:
Isn't the 10 x 10 method remarkable? You can cover a TON of ground in no time flat. This part of the chart is almost exclusively half stitches as well, so that has something to do with the amount of progress that I've made.
Have you ever read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens? I picked it up when I was much much younger, and only made it through a few pages. I recently checked out the audiobook from the library (the narrator had an English accent, naturally) and boy oh boy, was that a thrilling read. About three quarters of the way through I made a rough guess about a few plot points and was proven right. Don't worry, I won't give away any spoilers :) I love libraries, and books, and the artwork and architecture of different libraries. What I didn't know was that bats like libraries too.
According to this Atlas Obscura article:
Most libraries control such pests with ethylene oxide, methyl bromide, or gamma radiation, but the Mafra Palace Library has a very special force of airborne defenders: bats.
During the day, a colony of bats sleeps behind the bookcases or out in the palace garden. At night, after the library has closed, these small bats swoop between the stacks, hunting down the very pests that would otherwise chomp through the pages of the library’s precious collection.
Read the whole thing.
Here's an aerial view of the Portuguese palace. No doubt a familiar view to the bats:
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