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Rabbit, rabbit! For May Day, I made a garland and ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch photographed me. The inspiration was nineweaving.
The awful razing of our yard last summer produced one unexpected result this spring: we have a ground cover of violets. I picked a sufficient-looking quantity and brought them inside where I discovered that my romantic idea of braiding a garland was woefully inadequate to the tendency of stems to snap. I knotted them at intervals with thread.
Considering that I cannot remember ever making a garland of wild flowers before in my life, I was pleased with the results.
In which I am doing my best to become a green man of the lilac, just budding but already summer-sweet.
The photographer thought I looked like a heroic statue.
Because everyone should be offered a branch of May, even if it's a Bradford pear.
And on the porch was sitting the copy of Vivien Alcock's A Kind of Thief (1991) thatosprey_archer had offered a week ago and Hestia had run across my computer to claim, so she will sit on it and I will read it and we will welcome in the spring.
spatch photographed me. The inspiration was nineweaving.
The awful razing of our yard last summer produced one unexpected result this spring: we have a ground cover of violets. I picked a sufficient-looking quantity and brought them inside where I discovered that my romantic idea of braiding a garland was woefully inadequate to the tendency of stems to snap. I knotted them at intervals with thread.
Considering that I cannot remember ever making a garland of wild flowers before in my life, I was pleased with the results.
In which I am doing my best to become a green man of the lilac, just budding but already summer-sweet.
The photographer thought I looked like a heroic statue.
Because everyone should be offered a branch of May, even if it's a Bradford pear.
And on the porch was sitting the copy of Vivien Alcock's A Kind of Thief (1991) that
osprey_archer had offered a week ago and Hestia had run across my computer to claim, so she will sit on it and I will read it and we will welcome in the spring.
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Thank you!
The violet crown took me about forty-minutes to put together originally and then required fixes after attempting to adjust it on my hair broke it again. As part of the problems I am having with my body, my fingertips have been mostly numb for about a month, so I actually feel smug about having tied a whole bunch of tiny knots. I thought at one point that it would have been much easier if I had tweezers to grip the thread with, but I did not and it still worked.
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Thank you. I hadn't made anything with my hands in a while and it made me happy.
[edit] This was the other picture of the crown itself.
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(Fingertips.)