You can understand the history and intention behind an architectural style, admire a good example of it, and still not find it pleasant to be in that space.

Also, it's only peaceful after it's in your muscle memory. Before then, it's all cussing.

I knit to learn! I do have some finished objects I love, but mostly, I love following the instructions for a new technique and being amazed as the fabric emerges. And I love indulging in a favorite expensive yarn every once in a while, just to fondle it as I work with it.

The Alaska hat has a huge number of project pages on Ravelry. You can scroll through and see how hue and value affects the trees-against-sky pattern and makes the image feel cozy, chilly, lonely, or crowded.
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Color theory is its own course! Artists and designers study it in school. Value is the most essential part for knitters to understand. Here's a great overview of using value to select yarn: brooklyntweed.com/pages/color-...?

I grew up on the book and 70s Rankin/Bass cartoon, so in my head Thranduil is either a grouchy frog or an incompetent party animal probably played by Seth Rogen. Lee Pace isn't NEARLY hung over enough to justify all those Dwarves slipping past him. Tell 'em the Dorwinion wine makes you sleepy.

A year ago, I closed my pink-collar business and made a midlife launch into blue-collar work.

Now I don't know if there'll be more union contracts, or what my status as a "DEI" person means for my ability to support my family.