Rusty Raven

Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sustainability.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Embroidery is a nice hobby - it is very meditative. This sort of embroidery takes a fair bit of practice to get right because you have to judge the position of the needle and size of stitches evenly, but things like cross stitch are usually done on fabric with evenly spaced holes to guide you. It is not too complicated but gives you something to do with your hands, and it gives you just enough to do with your conscious brain that you don’t get bored without taking up all your attention, so most of your brain has space to process things and do some quality sub-conscious thinking.









  • I have just worked out why I’ve been having trouble with the connection between my phone and headset. I’ve got my GPS unit on in the other room and it’s trying to make a handsfree connection through that instead. Most of the introductory recorded message got played in another room, if it had been a real person they’d have hung up on me before I got it figured out.


  • I’m glad it’s a nice day to dry washing, I have just picked up a bunch of sheets gifted through a buy nothing group and will have a couple of loads. There are a couple in there that have some great patterns on them. They’ve probably been sitting in the cupboard for years as the unwanted top sheet out of a set, finally their time has come!

    Edit: a few of the sheets are pure polyester. They will not be making it to the bed and are going straight to the “other projects” pile