I'm loving fisherman's rib lately. It's so gorgeously squishy. So I'd choose that.

Strangely reassuring that even a cable expert like you does this too😊

Today was perfect for a visit to @bluebellwalk.bsky.social Had a lovely short stroll through the woodland anemones and first bluebells.

It’s nearly time for our national diary day! Every 12th May we ask people to write down what they got up to. This year we’re also really interested in experiences of nature and wellbeing, as well as what else you get up to on the day! #diary #journal #nature #skystorians #write #Archive

Yet I see TV ads recommending it for business purposes. Something for advertising standards?

That was when I rediscovered knitting and haven't stopped since. Not much of a silver lining from a horrible time but it's something.

Baby blanket in honeycomb stitch with cream background and cells in brown, gold, green, blue, lilac and silver.

Navy and grey hat with stripes and simple fairisle-ish motifs

This week #ShowMeYourKnits this week is colour work which I rarely do. I did some nice things about 40 years ago but no photos ☹️ Most of the colour in my knits is stripes or self patterning yarn 🧶 I've done a lot of honeycomb blankets and last year I did one patterned hat.

That's one I've not heard of. We have a similar white 'bluebell' in our garden so I'll give it a sniff 😊

Definitely not wild garlic.www.rhs.org.uk/weeds/wild-garlic-and-cr...

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A woman in a red National Trust fleece stands in a wooded valley looking up at the light that illuminates the lush green surroundings. Overlaid text reads, Nature = Future

The message is simple: our future depends on nature.

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Large baby blanket in honeycomb stitch with cream borders and background and 6 shades of green.

Peacock feather shawl https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/peacock-feather-shawl-5 in oddments of green and gold with blue highlights

Vest with cable and lace panels in Highland Heathers Gorse (green/yellow). Pattern is Stylecraft 10061

Baby teabag hat in lime green

I didn't think I had much in green for this week's #ShowMeYourKnits but I found these. A baby blanket for a mum who asked for green, a peacock feather shawl in oddments, a greenish vest and a baby hat. Details in ALT 🧶

Sometimes it just has to be done. Quite agree with #GottaLoveWhatYouMake 😊

Knitting with panels of different patterns in King Cole Simply Denim.

Fisherman's rib knitting in multicoloured stripes using leftovers of Yarn smiths Lagoon

Swatch with multi coloured slip stitch stripes against plain background in shades of blue

This week for #ShowMeYourKnits it's 'What’s on Your Needles; what are you excited about?' I'm currently knitting a 'sampler' sweater and a leftovers cardigan. Looking forward to visiting my favourite wool shop soon to buy 🧶 for my next project.

How knitting can help you kick harmful habits From preventing nail-biting and doomscrolling all the way up to helping people addicted to drugs, knitting can have a surprisingly powerful affect on your brain.

Love this! 👇

How knitting can help you kick harmful habits www.bbc.com/future/artic... by @eabrown18.bsky.social

One of my children (in medicine) doing research on using knitting as an affordable, accessible, scaleable and community building mental health intervention!

#TeamKnitting! 🧶

1/ THREAD ;

You might see the below image going around being circulated regarding the Union St fire in Glasgow.

It's AI slop. pure AI slop. Relatively convincing if you don't know the place, but 100% Fake.

Don't share it - debunk it.

Lets go into more depth....

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Renationalise the water industry.

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Red camelia

Pink flowering shrubs

Pink blossom on tree

Multicoloured striped knitting in fisherman's rib

It was so warm today I'm going to put my squishy cardigan WIP on hold to focus on a cotton blend summer sweater 🧶#Knitsky

Two swatches of knitting with lots of different stitches in a sampler

Multicoloured Swatch using slipped stitches.

I've been knitting some practice swatches for the two sweaters I'm going to knit soon.🧶 Looking forward to getting started but have a few WIPs to finish first #Knitsky

I used that yarn (maybe even that colour) for a cowl. This was how the stripes knitted up in a basically moss stitch over 144sts if that helps.

Fighting for songbird survival and safer everyday veterinary medicines Beloved songbirds are disappearing. Everyday veterinary medicines containing pesticides may be contributing to the decline

Dog groomers, pet owners, anyone who puts fur out for bird nesting... STOP

Read this 👇 especially if you use spot tick, flea or pesticide treatments

But forgot the #Knitsky hashtag 🧶

A Padlet board showing images of colourful sweaters and stitch examples

Using Padlet padlet.com to collect ideas for my next project.

Lovely texture. Can you remember what pattern it was?

William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night

What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

It depends what you use it for. Maybe Flipboard would work?

Hand holding knitting in foreground. Fire with 2 cats sleeping in front of it in background.

Perfect Sunday afternoon with a fire, cats and knitting #knitsky #cats

Baby wrapped in silver & mint chevron baby blanket

Lacy sweater in shades of grey

Vest in combination of cable and lace in stripes of grey, lilac and beige

Grey lacy cowl

It's greys for #ShowMeYourKnits. 1 is a silver & mint chevron baby blanket. 2 is a pattern I've used dozens of times (King Cole 5004) but quite different in King Cole Fjord. 3 is greyish (Stylecraft 10061). 4 is an unblocked cowl adapted from the Birch Trees scarf
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... 🧶