I also second the recommendation of making recycled yarn from thrifted sweaters (I wrote a whole ebook/zine about it!) but it is time consuming and kind of its own side hobby so maybe not right now for you.
Ooh fun! I’ve heard good things about this newish spot here in Portland (online too) but I haven’t tried it yet. They sell yarn on cones by weight, people say it’s nice and affordable! goodyarn.us/collections/...
Pet peeve: “an intern is having a really bad day” about a social media situation. For several years sm has been very important for companies, interns aren’t doing it! Just saw someone say it about the company I worked for—the sm guy got paid more than I did & of course his position didn’t get cut!
SO RELATABLE
I was going to write today, but until we know more, I don't have any new words for this moment. What I will say is that if you are reeling, and you know you want to be part of making things better, Mariame Kaba and I wrote a book for you. I hope it helps.
This is my latest knit in “stash yarn” btw, the second (small size) sample of my new hood pattern bsky.app/profile/leed...
New pattern! Bobbie Hood is a worsted weight reversible hood knit with slipped stitches, in two sizes with several options for the bottom, including ties, a buttoning strap, or full scarf ends!
On Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/154662...
On Ravelry: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
It is really, really wild how persistent and prominent this remains in common LLMs. There seems to be an air of "well they fixed that" and it is 100% not true: most of the energy just seems to be going towards 'being plausible enough to be accepted', ie style and not accuracy or truth
Well it’s been 26 days since this went wide and I haven’t seen a single response. I have a huge stash of their yarn I brought home during my 6 years of working there, but I will stop tagging them when I use it because they don’t want to be tagged on anything political and EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL 🤷♀️
"It’s Trans Day of Visibility but it’s also Trans Day of Have To Go To Work Anyway, or Trans Day of Who The Fuck is Hiring, or Trans Day of How Are We Going to Support All These Queers Who Are Internally Displaced Refugees Here in the States."
Small zine opened to a spread with drawings of a camera, headphones, old radio, snorkel, skull, bird
Small zine opened to a spread with drawings of a basketball hoop, koala, bonfire, fridge, campbells soup can, ladder
Small zine opened to a spread with drawings of a reel to reel, plant, tape, gummy bear, Swedish fish
Small zine opened to a spread with drawings of a old calculator, ghost, avocado, bat, coffee
It’s your final day to sign up for a mail tier of my Patreon (only FIVE dollars!! or just 9 if you also want a knitting pattern each month) to get this 2021 time capsule zine mailed to you! You can learn a bit more about it here: www.patreon.com/posts/154121...
Small zine opened to a spread with drawings of a camera, headphones, old radio, snorkel, skull, bird
Small zine opened to a spread with drawings of a basketball hoop, koala, bonfire, fridge, campbells soup can, ladder
Small zine opened to a spread with drawings of a reel to reel, plant, tape, gummy bear, Swedish fish
Small zine opened to a spread with drawings of a old calculator, ghost, avocado, bat, coffee
It’s your final day to sign up for a mail tier of my Patreon (only FIVE dollars!! or just 9 if you also want a knitting pattern each month) to get this 2021 time capsule zine mailed to you! You can learn a bit more about it here: www.patreon.com/posts/154121...
Screenshot with text and poll: Lee Does Stuff writing question, and try my tirst patreon poll! T you're knitting something with lots of slipped stitches, and the slips are always with yarn held to the wrong side of the knitting, but the yarn often needs to move between the needles to get there, eg "p1, s13 wyib, p1", do you like to always be reminded what side the yarn should be on (like how that was written), or once the pattern has been established so you can see how it looks would you prefer the pattern be condensed to just "p1, sl3, pl"? Patreon.com Choose one: Always say what side 41% Update on this Patreon poll: basically ALWAYS and NEVER were nearly a tie so I'm going to go with the last option, which a couple of knitting friends told me outside of this poll that they think is the most "correct" way to write a pattern and is probably what I should've just done in the first place instead of making the poll but I was silly and second guessing myself! Never say what side (just a note saying "always slip with yarn held to WS") 47% Always say what side if yarn is moved between needles, but don't say if that's not the case 6% 17 votes
Here’s how things turned out with that poll - thanks for your input!
I wrote out the final last little section based on my memory of the part it’s supposed to mirror, finished writing it, then actually LOOKED at that first part and realized I’d remembered wrong and have to redo the whole section 😭 trying to work with a fuzzy sick-brain is so frustrating 😭😭😭
I am SO behind schedule on multiple projects, sick with a cold, trying to work on this pattern which has been like alllmost done for over a week but still quite far from being actually really done…
This was a great listen. Take an hour of your day to put this on.
There is a profound historical precedent for librarians and archivists being among the very first people targeted by authoritarians. Librarians are the keepers of collective knowledge. It's a sacred responsibility.
That’s one of the poll options but it has zero votes so far!
I posted some peek photos of my next pattern, and a poll about how you prefer patterns to be written, on my patreon. Do you like when a pattern always tells you to slip wyif or wyib, or do you prefer just a “always slip with yarn to WS” note and leave it at that? www.patreon.com/posts/153373...
If we let them, these people will destroy everything that makes human civilization worth saving.
It’s frightening how much power and influence we have allowed these tech feudalists to accumulate - and it will be one of the twenty-first century’s defining struggles to wrest it back from them.
This post prompted me to make sure my husband knew about the shoes and he did not!! 😮
Between Sean Penn and Brad Pitt, lots of love for abusers this evening
Search your camera roll for “hell”
The voice and method and feeling and ambition and love of contemporary television criticism would be practically unimaginable without Matt Zoller Seitz.
Buy some books from his wonderful store!
Ugh feel like cultural progress has been moving backwards. Rise in vegan foods having been a trend that is no longer in fashion. Learning that the company where I was on the DEI committee & helped design pride flag patterns is now refusing to support influencers who make a red hat.Shit is depressing
I am horrified at how evil this is.
But I'm also horrified at how bad this is.
I've seen One Direction edits that go harder than this.
Thank you and very much same to you!!
Hah, probably! Looks like they sent me the email in late Feb but it went to my spam folder and I just found it last night. I’d really been looking forward to it 🥲
Yeah I need this. Been a frustrating week, being sad more people aren’t signing up for my patreon even after a major price drop and just learned last night I didn’t get accepted to table a zine fest I applied for. Maybe zines were not a good new career choice 🙃 but at least I don’t use ai!
For anyone who missed this, it’s only 5 bucks now to get a new nicely-printed zine in your mailbox every month!
I want anyone who wants them to be able to get them so I’m trying for as low of a cost-barrier as possibly possible! Only $2 for the zine files, $6 for the zine+knitting pattern files!
