the algerian place near me does harissa loaded fries _and_ they deliver. they understand their audience (people with the munchies) so well.

the god of christianity got a 12 year old pregnant.

you might want to take the log out of your own eye before worrying about anyone else.

A news report screenshot. There's a grim reaper. The chyron says "Yikes! Stay tuned."

Me every morning in this fucking country

the Port of Oakland: the end of a bart train carrying commuters, a power line with a few birds, and three cargo cranes that look like giraffes all lit up by a peachy sunset behind soft blue hills

the giraffes are pretty today

#photography

a cookie tin filled with macaron cookies, with light brown shells and a yellowy-browny filling

phew, no cracks this time. 300° for 12 minutes in the exact center of the oven is the magic timing

these have mocha shells & salty hazelnut cream tea filling

#Baking #Macarons

I'm wearing a large, long grey and burgundy crochet cardigan. I have my hands in front of me but the sleeves are very long and the cuffs hide my hands.

I'm standing with my arms outstretched slightly, displaying the stripes on my grey and red cardigan. It has a large pocket on the right side.

I am leaning forward slightly, with my hand holding the two sides of my cardigan together. The cardigan has a deep shawl collar with a cozy ribbed texture.

I have my hand in the pocket of my large grey and red cardigan. the sleeve is voluminous, and it is bunched up around my elbow, just above the pocket.

I finished one sweater this year. that's better than zero sweaters, which is my usual number. this was a good road trip project.

this is a hexagon sweater with a shawl collar and a pocket. it is too big in a very cozy way.

#Crochet

two tabby cats, cuddling together on a bed under a quilt, with their faces squished cheek to cheek

two cats nestled together between a pillow and a large fluffy pile of blankets

two cats curled up in bed under a fluffy pile of quilt.

happy tucked in kitty season to all who celebrate

#CatsofMastodon

they are!

this is the basic recipe:
rebeccamgreen.com/grammys-yell...

and I use this for the candied cherries but I make it with amarena cherries instead of maraschinos
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/diy-...

a plastic tub, formerly full of chocolate cat cookies from trader joes, currently full of sugar coated chocolate cherry bourbon balls

last year my mom gave me her recipe for chocolate cherry bourbon balls and they're my favorite thing to make

they're not complicated but I like to make things hard on myself so I make my own candied cherries instead of using the dry ones that go in fruitcake.

a big skein of fluffy nubbly handspun bouclé yarn in pastel rainbow stripes

this was a triumph
I'm making a note here: huge success 💕

#handspinning #boucle

a nubbly twisty skein of lightweight handspun bouclé in a rainbow gradient, sitting on top of a spinning wheel

ohmigosh this is so fun. it's like an underwater candy store 🍭

a bright yellow spinning wheel bobbin wrapped with rusty red singles yarn

I'm working on consistency with this skein. practice makes perfect. ✨

#handspinning #corespinning

a bright yellow spinning wheel bobbin wound with red-orange singles yarn with minor texture variations

dang it's fucked up out there

I'm #spinning - learning how to corespin for texture. it's keeping me sane(r).

a tricolor border collie herding four sheep around a fenced arena

a black border collie herding four sheep towards a fence

a brown border collie herding four sheep in a fenced arena

a blue merle border collie crouched close to the ground, looking intently at something off to the right of the frame

working through the photos I took at #Lambtown last weekend

I love watching the sheepdogs run around. they are clearly having so much fun.

My transgender bathroom agenda is giving Gavin Newsom the biggest swirly of his life.

it is ice-dyed, so kind of intentional. it's always hard to predict the results, but I like the way it turned out 💙

handwoven cloth in progress on a loom, with a complex diamond twill pattern woven in black on a grey and light aqua blue background.

recently I've been learning about double two-tie twill. at some point I should try a new treadling but I like these fancy shapes too much

#weaving

Joel Grinstead Boat Shuttle 4" bobbins Looking for a beautiful, hand-crafted boat shuttle?  These exquisite shuttles are lovingly handmade by Bellingham, WA artisan Joel Grinstead, using exotic and recycled woods. Each of these boat shuttl...

aren't they gorgeous! they're amazing and they're handmade by a guy up in Bellingham, Washington, and the pretty woodburned ones are not widely available (unfortunately!)

but NW Yarns may have some of the plain ones in stock.
nwyarns.com/collections/...

a pink and orange and red towel in progress on a wooden floor loom. thick vertical stripes are crossed by thin horizontal stripes, and the weaving patterns alternate to create a stair-step effect inside the thick stripes.

it reminds me so much of one of your photos - I hadn't seen that before, what a funny coincidence that I have a towel just like it 😂

orange is my favorite! 🧡 it goes with all the warm colors, it goes with all the blues, it's best friends with pink, just a warm friendly sunbeam of a color.

these were a red, pink, orange and burgundy warp, with lots of leftover bobbin stripes.

a small lithops plant with a large orange and yellow flower, surrounded by other small succulents

#Bloomscrolling

handwoven cloth in progress on a table loom, with an asymmetric checkerboard pattern overlaid on a blue and grey ice-dyed warp

these are the non-stripey windows, for comparison

blue and white stripey cloth in progress on a table loom. the cloth has a pattern of darker and lighter alternating blocks, broken up by thick and thin light stripes.

🧶 more of this #TurnedTwill experiment - what if contrast stripes? what _if_ contrast stripes! these windows are different than the non-stripey windows, in a fun way.

#Weaving

YOUNG MAN, there's no need to feel down
i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown
you can SEE HIM
he is playing in town
you should go
and
have
a
good time

a beige tabby cat with blue eyes and a fluffy brown tabby cat with yellow eyes are sitting in a red suitcase, looking up at the photographer with an air of mischief.

they're ready to go to the cat show

(they did not go to the cat show)

a table loom weaving grey splotchy fabric with an asymmetric check pattern

a day off work is a day for #weaving :)

ice-dyed 10/2 cotton warp, soft grey merino weft 🩶

oh haha. when I fixed my DNS over on mastodon it broke my handle over here. 🙃

I like that all the people I miss from twitter are here now

it's like 2017 and we're all doomscrolling together again 🙃

rebecca (@rebecca@toots.ravenoak.dev) 402 Posts, 3 Following, 135 Followers · making stuff out of yarn, petting cats, talking to computers. weird.

I have an art notebook on mastodon where I post my #knitting #crochet #spinning #weaving and other projects

for now, this is just going to be my "liking shitposts account" because I don't know if my local server can handle bridge traffic or not.

toots.ravenoak.dev/@rebecca