anagramofbrat | Dec. 2nd, 2012

Just finished up row 25; am taking a break today because the last week or so I've just been beading like whoa. Not ten at a time, not a line at a time, just nonstop, pouring ten yellow beads at the ends so I can immediately flip a line instead of stop. This is not good for a number of reasons, the primary one being hi, repetitive strain possibilities, but also more clearly, bad brain weather being sublimated through MAKE IT MAKE IT MAKE IT MAKE IT MAKE IT FASTER FASTER FASTER FASTER WORK THROUGH THE PAIN! WORK THROUGH THE PAIN! Which is its own brand of not good. So I need to put the beads down for a bit and attempt to deal with stuff. Unsure how long the hiatus will go; could be a day, could be a week, could be later tonight. There's a lot upstairs that needs... dealing with.

I'm also extremely grumpy about the last three rows, owing to switching batches of beads for the middle green. Apparently this batch doesn't have as tight of a bond with the silver lining, or something changed with the angle of my needle, who knows, but there are a lot of beads in one row with the lining scraped out. It's one of those things that probably no one else would notice if I didn't point it out, but it irritates fuck all out of me. That plus the first broken bead in row 22 in what seems to me like a fairly visible place has me sorely tempted to rip out the last four rows entirely and do them over. Yeah I know. I most likely won't, because that's a lot of work and a lot of beads to pick out not to mention a waste of thread, but it's gonna bother me until I get further in the piece. In the meantime, I'm gonna be more careful about scraping the pointy bit of the needle against the inside of the bead.

1/6th of the way through though. Not too bad of an accomplishment. The sun is done, the top of the tower at the right end of the desert is starting to peek through, and I've got a few rows left before the first badge is done. Again, the desert won't get really interesting until line 44 (!!!) but getting there. Slowly.