A collage of four cowls: a scrappy tube, a direction changing rib, a double-knit pattern, and a folded over colour peeking through grey lace.
This week's #ShowMeYourKnits theme is #cowls.
Clockwise from top left:
Fiddly Bits by Jana Pihota
Treppenviertel Cowl by Nicola Susen
Hide & Seek by Katie White
Xara Cowl / Kragen by Alexandra Wiedmayer (double knit)
Very glad to see you back.
Not this project, but also walking-related: Do you know if the extension of the Trans-Canada Trail all the way through Bells Corners is in the plans?
Oooh, I like it!
🤑🤢🤮
A needle felted beach scene with a piece of fence on the left, a path through the front, and swirling clouds overhead.
I'm back from crafting retreat, and I've discovered the world of #NeedleFelting. I need another craft passion like I need a hole in the head, but this hooked me hard, you guys.
Class project still needs to be finished, but so far I like it:
No matter how good your beer is, I'm not going to the nazi bar to try it.
Get off Substack.
Pinch the tops off.
Food for thought:
In '24, 245M Americans were eligible to vote.
just 73.6 % of those (174M) registered to vote.
just 154M of them actually voted.
US voter turnout ranked in bottom 1/3 of all democracies.
This is how democracy dies.
Too many people have taken too much for granted for too long
I love this so much.
Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable sources, proving the transition is not theoretical but already operational. The barrier is no longer technology, but political will, investment priorities, and the courage to move faster.
Denmark didn’t “transition” its grid—it replaced it.
~15% → 92% renewable electricity in 25 years.
Wind did the heavy lifting. Solar is scaling. Interconnection balanced. Flexibility solved variability.
Wind built it. Solar is scaling. Fossil lost it.
This IS system replacement. ⚡#Bettrification
Spoiler alert: nothing trickled down.
A small cluster of snowdrops growing through an old layer of dry leaves on the edge of a snow bank.
They're here! The snowdrops have emerged. #Spring is arriving in Eastern
Ontario.
#gardening
#BloomScrolling
One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire.
One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.
ME. Keeps ME sane. I can't even type anymore.
This little girl keeps sane these days.
#NeedleNose
#SalukiLove
#Snugglebug
#DogSky
#DogsOfBluesky
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
What a great opportunity to add a bike path.
🤣
This. Exactly.
Normal Tuesday. Got a few meetings today but not too many. President's threatening to genocide millions of people and there are folks flying around the moon in the fucking sky. Gotta take out the garbage later
I don't think autocorrect likes anyone. It's the most annoying neighbourhood Karen, running around with a flip board, chirping, "I'm sure you meant...", followed by that grating, tittering laugh.
No, Karen, I'm in Canada, I did mean neighbourhood with a "u". 😎
This wins today's internet.
Do you mean, what? It's a cardigan with a slightly unusual construction. Nothing major, just not easily pick-upable (that's totally a word). I have to rtfm (aka the pattern), and read my knitting to see where I am.
*Le sigh* The projects I have to put up with. 😜
Have someone else measure your body and then swatch.
C via B (where tricky means, I haven't picked that project up in 3 months, and have no clue where I am).
We've subsidised oil companies for decades as we "need" their products to run society, but now we dont, we need to use those same subsidies for heat pumps, EV's, solar panels, turbines, bio mass what ever else we can use to generate electric, it's only fair, we'd get to "net 0" real fast that way.
