I’m laying out a paper sewing pattern, figuring out which bits I need, which bits I don’t. just said out loud, ‘what’s the flap for?’ at which Siri stopped my music and said ‘hm?’
girl. not your place. in any context. 💀
utterly magnificent, 10/10, A++, no notes 🤩
just heard the first ice cream van of the year and I really don’t know how to feel about it 😭💀
- Queuing
- Tutting loudly at people who do not queue correctly
- Going fully elbows-out rabid half a second after queue etiquette breaks down
pure fluke! I just knit what came off the skein :)
thanks! I had a purple gap in my cardigan collection and I thought this would fill it nicely :)
(own design, yarn is James Brett ‘Emotions’ which has been pilling just while knitting it up, so I dread to think what it’s going to look like after a few wears 🥲)
a hand-knit cardigan in random stripes of blue, pink, and grey.
I have made yet another cardigan. I cannot be stopped. 🧶 #knitting
text notification: “If you're going to try SCAM us, the least you can do is not add us all to a group message you idiot!”
it’s all popping off in the (spam) group chat
small joys: I have a sunrise/sunset/length of day app, and at this time of year when the sunrise notification pops up I take great pleasure in squinting at the leaden sky and hissing ‘so where is it then?!’
thank you! 🥰
screenshot of text stating: What has happened? A freight train has failed just East of Reading station and blocked all four running lines. All trains currently cannot run between London Paddington to Reading until freight train has been rescued.
screenshot of text stating: What are we doing about it? The freight train company are sending an additional train to rescue the train which has failed.
I know the next part of this joke 💀
a small pile of ducklings next to their mother, in a delightful leafy riverside scene
I believe this is referred to as a ‘cuddle puddle’
this is what it’s all for! vindication!
I’m sure I could fit another couple on. my knees are probably the coldest part of me, so maybe some leggings? 🤔
-5°C as I walk to the train station this morning. I am wearing 5 separate hand-knit items and am cosy as can be. I cannot express how insufferably smug I feel right now. 😂
Pattern: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Yarn: La Bien Aimée Merino DK in Winter Garden loopknitting.com/products/la-...
a hand-knit shawl draped messily over a hanger. it’s cream in colour, with multicoloured speckles, and is mostly squooshy garter stitch interspersed with a few lace panels.
First knitting finish of 2026! It does need blocking, but my need to be wearing it is greater, so it can wait 🥶🧶
right?! I was dead pleased with myself, it’s precisely what I was wanting!
socks are Froot Loops: knitty.com/ISSUEspring0...
shawl is Aeolian: knitty.com/ISSUEspring0...
hat was improvised, iirc 🤔
a pair of vibrantly-coloured hand-knit socks
a bright orange hand-knit lace shawl draped over a pair of knees
me wearing a simple hand-knit hat in marled hand-spun brown and cream wool
getting back into the swing of #showMeYourKnits with some firsts: my first socks (2008), my first hand-dye job (2009), and my first hand-spun, hand-knit into an object (2012). 🧶
the simulation is running out of names again, caught a radio show earlier referring to ‘Russian author’ Ivan Goncharov as if we don’t all know that name was made up in 1973 for the film 🙄
ah! I should have said. the body is from Dec issue of Simply Knitting, with improvised wings and feet to make it more borb. :)
thank you! :D
completely accurate and to scale, naturally :)
actually, I can use this for this week’s #showMeYourKnits - I am very rarely affected by the christmas spirit, but when it does hit, I make a new bauble for my tree. and then I’m back to grinching lmao 🧶
a knitted bauble in the shape of a robin.
I made a borb-le 🧶
as a data analyst who was roped into customer interviews in her last job, I feel you 🫠
thank you! :D
a hand-made coat hanging against a worn wooden fence. it’s a dark peacock blue, with a gold lining and four gold buttons visible. the lining also features little crowns because I’m fancy and deserve them.
starting a new job next week so have made a new coat to mark the occasion! even made the shoulderpads :) 🪡