This post is entirely inspired by Rachel Maksy’s video she posted yesterday: my complete ineptitude to do a new to me yarn craft: nålebinding. This morning the headline of a triumphant article shouted at me that OpenAI now has created human intelligence or something stupid like that. I didn’t read it as I had something more important to do: shopping for wooden needles for my newly discovered hobby: nålebinding or nalbinding or needle binding. With it you use one wooden sewing needle, some 100% wool yarn and a lot of confidence you can do it. I had some part polyester scrap yarn, a video or seven on YouTube and two left hands. After an hour of trial and error had a… thing. A wobbly, wonky, -absolutely not resembling the example- thing and I was so proud. I immediately ordered some wool from my favourite knit shop (as felting part polyester yarn is just a nono) and when it arrives, I will attempt a hat. Or wrist warmers, or a cowl. The possibilities are endless. The result will most likely be as crappy as the one row I made yesterday. Do I care? No. I live to make bad art. Bad art makes me utterly human and as far removed from the thing I read about earlier. I have now bought wooden needles from a craftsperson in France. Do I need them? Well, yes because the vintage darning needle constantly snags the wool and I hate that feeling so much. So yes, gimme perfectly smoothed wooden needles please! Making bad art is just perfect as a form of resistance too. What better way to resist techbros is there? Ever seen an AI do fiberarts? Ha! And I just saw that a new favourite seller has something on his website called a medieval loom. How bad would I be at that? Gloriously!