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No Flake Monday

Again?!? Are you serious??? Yes. I'm sorry. I'm trying to keep up, but priorities have been smacking me pretty hard. Taxes (ugh!!!), a plethora of medical appointments, necessary garden responsibilities, helping my neighbor move, once again teaching Lizard to quilt, snowflake photos to edit... You name it. Everything got in the way last week!

I did finally get my snowflake photos from March 6 edited, and now I'm working on the March 13 snowflakes. Taxes are nowhere near done. I'm at the dentist bright and early this morning having a stubborn crown re-installed for a fourth time. And I need to finish my final glow-in-the-dark amigurumi for the last of my Sunday school students to turn 8. She's actually moved up into the next class now, and I'm teaching her younger brother (and five other five- and six-year-olds). But no way I'm leaving her out after teaching her and her classmates for four straight years!

She had started 2025 requesting a unicorn, then suddenly a few months ago decided she wants an otter. I've never made either a unicorn or an otter. But I'd never made half the critters I made last years for my students. So, I'm pressing onward trying to finish this otter. I hope to be back with a new snowflake next week!

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No Flake Monday

Good news and bad news... We got eight inches of snow on Friday!!! How ten hours of microscopic flakefall added up to better than 12-inch drifts is beyond me. We SO needed the moisture. However, editing the 98 photos I was able to snap throughout the day contributed to my lack of a new snowflake pattern today.

I pretty dramatically crop most of my snowflake photos because I don't have the high-power equipment some of my favorite photographers use. No complaints. I love shooting snowflakes with my setup, and I love the challenge of trying to make my photographs look presentable.

Well, I guess until Friday... When the flakes are as small as they were and the photographer is as desperate as I was, there is quite a bit of image degradation when cropping so severely. I ended up having to use AI to sharpen the photos just a tad.

That's not an easy process because most AI programs are not built to render exact duplicates of existing photos/artwork. That would be plagiarism. Most of the programs I tried could not simply sharpen the images. However, I did find one that would sharpen one of the images in a collage, and for now, that is good enough to me.

It also gives me something to plug into today's blog post because I haven't finished writing the pattern for the St. Patrick's Day-themed flake I'd planned to share today. I may have to create a diagrame because I don't know that a written pattern will be helpful.

So there's actual doubt this particular pattern it going to see the light of day this year. Doin' the best I can, my fellow and lady crocheters. Full-time caregiving and garden duties (and snowflake photo editing) sometimes take a toll on my ability to produce weekly snowflake patterns right now. I'm very thankful I have plenty of existing patterns to occupy bored hooks.

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No Flake Monday

Sorry, sistas! I couldn't get my act together last weekend. Had family visiting, and it snowed! So I didn't get a new flake done, even though that was one of my main goals for the weekend. I did, however, finish editing a few of the nearly 600 snowflake photos I snapped before sunrise yesterday morning!!!

I'll be editing photos for another week or more, but I'm SO, SO, SO very thankful for snow!!!

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