Things that have been occupying my mind
Now that's it's over, I can talk about the Big Thing that occurred earlier this week. Back in March 2025, I competed for the first time in our kingdom Arts and Sciences Champion competition. I wasn't expecting to win, but was told I was in the top 10 of all entrants. Spring forward a bit to May, where I was asking to be on the team for the A&S War Point. There are 10 spots with 2 taken by the King's and Queen's champions. I was blown away to be asked and thrilled with the honor. I was pretty confident in my knit pillow, but knew I could improve my documentation and my display. I need to give shout-outs to everyone who let me stress-babble at them, were willing to read and reread my documentation, offer suggestions for improvement and all the support. Taking into account suggestions from the feedback from the kingdom competition, I started two experimental archeology projects. These were a matched set of cuffs, 120 stitches each, knit on identical sets of dou...