"Divide a loaf by a knife: what's the answer to that?"

It's done. Here's The Red Queen sweater, plus a few other things I made while I've got red loaded in the serger.  I haven't finished the threads yet so you'll see some dangly strings. I like red and gray together, it's sort of sporty and sort of sexy at the same time.

a morbid tale becomes a comfortable dress

I had a picture book when I was a kid that has stuck with me, in ethereal ways, for decades. I remembered inky dense speckled eggs on matte paper, a snake and something about a chimney.  And the snake, all logy, with bulges in it from eating those eggs.

Fast forward to these internet times, and it turns out to be "The Crows of Pearblossom" - one of two children's book written by Aldous Huxley - well, wasn't I a fancy child?  And the eggs, snake and chimney were Barbara Cooney illustrations.  I am not surprised to hear that it is a morbid tale, and I look forward to reading it again.

In the meantime, here is a dress inspired by those dense speckled eggs: