- Home is the person that doesn’t bat an eye when you act like… you.
- I finished my first sweater and was very happy! I love the way it drapes, and it ended up being the perfect "boyfriend fit." I have a penchant for oversized sweaters. I enjoyed knitting my sweater so much that I cast on the Big Rib Sweater in Wonderfluff straight after. I'm already on the first sleeve (I finished the body and collar, yay), and it's really a satisfyingly quick knit. Also, it's like knitting a lilac cloud, being so soft, light, fluffy, and airy! I think next I will make a Felix Pullover. I love the lace detailing used to make the raglan increases. I also cast on a Milk Run Shawl with the leftover Upcycle Blend Alpaca from the Very V Neck Sweater.
- Every time I prepare to wind skeins of yarn into balls with my swift/winder, I envision soft sunlight going through the window, drinking bracing black tea between skeins, listening to a folksy thing that is evocative of love at its purest. Reality: ball winder clamp undoes itself every 2 skeins. I forget to use the darn thing, necessitating me to relearn it, making me mess up the start of the first few skeins. Everlasting rage when the swift pieces blow up in the air, and intense teeth gnashing as mysterious knots appear, seemingly out of nowhere.
- Last year we kept a squash outside for decoration. It must have shed seeds, because now we have... a squash plant. I confess that I consider it a beautiful thing. How many times do we try to bend nature, when nature is simply in the background, quietly doing its thing? Sometimes it's refreshing to let something happen and watch it gently unfold.
- Current obsessions: Watermelon, cold from the fridge. Knitting sweaters, bright pastel colors, healing novels. Eerie, atmospheric music with a liminal space vibe.
The fact that when you’d poured all your whole heart into something, a feeling of emptiness was inevitable, reassured Jungmin. Unlike a year before, when she’d fled from this same emptiness in fear, without facing it head on, she now wanted to put in the time and effort to really lose herself in her work. She wanted to once more relish the act of taking each day as it comes.
– Yeon Somin (The Healing Season of Pottery)
