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You can see it here. If patterns had dedication pages like books do, this would be dedicated to my partner Sparkly, who definitely did not expect “what if you made a lemon wedge that was, like, a huggable size?” to lead to a project that took over a year to finish. Sparkly also gets credit for picking the very pleasing yarn colors for the samples.

Now all I can do is hope that there aren't any errors (a pattern tester did catch one for me) and that other people are as pleased with these as I am. I still really love how the fancy seams on the grapefruit slice look, even though they're so fiddly to do, and I'm proud of myself for persevering on the no-seams version and making it work after countless hours of testing and frogging different ideas.

Making the apartment more homelike:
- Reasonably-priced scratching post for the cats, so we can redirect them from scratching the couch (which along with all other furnishings belongs to the property owner)
- Light-blocking curtain for the bedroom window, which has already helped my sleep immensely. I've gotten used to streetlights more or less, but I am definitely not used to having one right outside the window.
- Frying pan with lid which, in addition to the ceramic casserole dish & other utensils that the kitchen came equipped with, allows me to cook actual meals.

Other things I want to do:
- Pack away some of the weird knicknacks that the property owner left here (including a machete???) to make space for our own things that will be arriving eventually. This apartment has quite high ceilings with some tall built-in cupboards, so I'd like to box them up nicely and put them up there. Our suitcases can also be put away up there, or at least I'm crossing my fingers that they will fit. This all requires us to obtain a stepstool though.
- Get some fancy cleaning products to clean the cats' carriers so we can put those away too.
- Hang up the rest of my clothes, now that we got some more hangers.
- Figure out a better system for sorting trash somehow. Currently I have two different trash bags hanging from a drawer pull in the kitchen, one for Plastic And Metal and the other for Food Waste, a cardboard box just sitting on the floor in the corner for Paper and Cardboard, and when I clean the cats' litterbox I use a small bag for Other Things and immediately take it out. But like. There has to be a better way to do this. All my life until now I've had mixed recycling where everything is either recycling or trash and that's it, I'm not used to this.
- Find some of those little corkscrew pins to keep the cover on the couch.

We celebrated the arrival of the frying pan with this recipe that Sparkly found. The big(ish) supermarket near here (Lidl) didn't have coconut milk, so we ended up going to one of the tiny middle eastern grocery shops that our neighborhood is full of. (I am imagining trying to explain to my classmates that I used to work at a supermarket in the US which was considered unusually small, at about three times the size of this Lidl.) It turned out absolutely delicious and I made a second batch yesterday, with the addition of all the veggies we had in the fridge. Which is good because today I woke up with a sore throat and a runny nose.