@NMWoman My grandmother's favorite was butter pecan. Ever since finding out I can get it here, I sometimes buy a pint of butter pecan and have in memory of her. But it's always vanilla if I can also get a bottle of Magic Shell to pour on it.

@NMWoman We live in Kansas now, and my sister-in-law brings home Blue Bell one day and says, "They were out of what we usually get, so we'll try this." She's not from TX. She didn't know. She was not prepared for my happy tears!

@Merovingian76 Oh, man! That made me check to see if the "Bohemian Rhapsody" parody of it is still around. It is!

https://youtu.be/qE6emvdmg-M

I've knitted ten of the hexagons for my blanket! No idea how long it'll take me to knit all of them. Depending on what size I go with, I'll need somewhere between 300 and 1k. Ten is a good start!
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It's been a rough winter, and that makes me kinda wary...but good things might be starting to come together! I want to believe this is a different kind of Spring starting. That good things will grow and bloom and bear fruit in our home.

@corlin Wow... I had a doctor explain to me how my PTSD physically changes my amygdala, but I've still been thinking of it as "just one area of the brain". This puts a lot of things in different perspective for me! Very interesting.

It's a quarter to 4 in the morning and I'm crying because my hands won't open a bag of M&M's. I'm done for the day. Been done for the day for a couple of weeks. Might be done for the day for the next month.

@th3j35t3r We should have one of those hanging up in our house. 😄

@wolpertinger I don't do quilting myself. I grew up around people who did and went to quilt shows with them.

@wolpertinger I know enough quilters to know more people make hexagons than ever finish a hexagon blanket, but I'm going to give this a go! Each one gives me that dopamine reward of, "You finished a thing!"

@Cmnslivn Yes, that "looser than expected" thing! I feel like I need to tighten things up or it'll all fall apart. A couple rows later, I'm looking back at it and wondering how it got so tight.

I haven't done much colorwork, so I figured I can get some practice with these hexagons. The tension is different with multiple strands. That's why I need practice.

This one ended up looking like an Easter egg!
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Have I mentioned how much I hate panic attacks? I H A T E panic attacks!

In other, actually related, news - Probably a good night to curl up under a blanket and knit!

A scrap yarm project can be transformative and healing. All those leftover yarns have stories. The gloves I knitted while sitting on the front porch. The shawl I knitted so that the knitting would help with winter depression. The hats I worked on during therapy sessions. The socks I was going to knit, but then life changed.

All of them becoming pieces of a blanket that will hold those stories.
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@Janet Since it's going to be leftover and scrap yarn, I'll be interested in seeing how the colors all go together, too! 😄

@ProjectShadow Cry. Let it pour out. Anyone worth that love wouldn't want you to hurt, but would also know there's no way not to when you love that deeply.

@Janet It's one of my favorite yarns...so of course I lost the label and have no idea what the name is. But I know I got it from KnitPicks, so if they still carry it I can find and order it again.

Knitted my first hexipuff today! Learned Judy's Magic Cast On for it, and Kitchener is my preferred way for finishing socks, so I'm grafting things to finish these, too.
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Maybe I should take a break from agonizing about writing and finally start knitting those hexipuffs. I couldn't do a hexipuff blanket when that Beekeeper's Quilt pattern came out because I couldn't knit. Then I could knit, but...dishcloths! Hats! Socks! Scarves! More dishcloths!

A bajillion knitted hexagons sounds like a peaceful distraction. Productive fidgeting.
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