I am Knitting, Really

Bird

I just don’t have anything interesting to show.  I do have two inches of 2×2 rib and eight inches of stockinette, which means I almost have the back of my sweater done.  It was 100° outside today and I’m knitting a long sleeved sweater.  I think I’ve lost my mind.

The picture at the top of the entry is something I whipped up Friday.  I have nothing hanging on my walls and it’s making me crazy.  I had this 16″x20″ canvas board and a picture of a bird on a holly (I think) branch.  So I used Adobe Illustrator to turn the bird into a vector and resized it, made a stencil out of lightweight cardboard and painted it on the canvas.  The edges came out terrible, so I had to repaint all of them, by hand, with a tiny paintbrush.  It sucked to paint but I like it, now I just need to figure out how to hang it.  Any suggestions?  I’m thinking about leaving it leaning against the table that it’s on now, I kind of like it there.

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