This is my first ever Keith sock. Find the free (make a donation!) pattern (great) by Sadie Slater in the comments. Yarn is Dream in Color Smooshy. Color is Element. 🧶 #Socks #Knitting #Knitter #Maker #Handknit #Wool #WithMyHands #Resist #AwaitingRedYarn #AbolishICE #Knit #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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No one cares about the release of MELANIA "documentary." We care about the release of the EPSTEIN files. #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #ReleaseTheFiles #BelieveWomen #NoPedophiles #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinIsland #EnoughIsEnough #Resist #IReallyDon'tCare #Melania #IfYouFindaBetterFontGoForIt #Now #Impeach

Fluffy Sock Inspector Claude approves of this Hawthorne Mock Cable Short Sock. He also says, "Release the #Epstein files now." Pattern by Love. Life. Yarn. Yarn is Regia Tweed. #Knitting #Socks #Handknit #Caturday #Maker #Cats #LongHairedCat #SockKnitting #CatSky #JoyIsResistanceToo #WithMyHands 🧶

'L’ange protecteur (Guardian Angel)' by Niki de Saint Phalle, at Zurich Main Station #WomensArt

I don't always sleep well...getting up and making something helps. These berry scones make me think about last summer, when I picked 2 quarts of berries out in the back field each morning. Recipe linked in comments. ❣️ #Baking #Berries #Hygge #Winter #Scones #Breakfast #BakingSky #Home #WithMyHands

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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Since 2010, I've shared a weekly poem along with a few thoughts at The Poem Farm, my blog-for-students. Today's post offers a triolet & a bit about repetition. #Writing #KidLit #Authors #Poetry #Poem #ChildrensAuthor #Triolet #Writing #ChildrensPoem #NoAds #NoAI poemfarm.amylv.com/2026/01/repe...

Democats Winnie and Claude are sending these vote-by-mail postcards to Florida today. If you want to help democracy from home, write postcards @tovoters.bsky.social. Sign up linked in comments. Easy clear instructions help us make a difference. #Vote #AVoteIsAVoice #Democracy #VoteBlue #Democats 💙

RIP Alex Pretti. 💔

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

Storms are coming, and Nap Expert Winnie recommends basket-naps for all. Wishing you safety and coziness from here in Western New York. Thank you, plow drivers! #Caturday #Cats #Winnie #LongHairedCats #CatsOfBlueSky #CatSky

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Since 2010, I've shared a weekly poem along with a few thoughts at The Poem Farm, my blog-for-students. Today's post suggests taking inspiration from a question or concern. #Writing #KidLit #Authors #Poetry #Poem #ChildrensAuthor #ELA #Technology #Parenting #Author poemfarm.amylv.com/2026/01/expl...

After lingering on the needles for months and months, my Aran Garter Stitch Cardigan by Audrey Wilson in Noro Ito is finished at last! I am using a shawl pin to close instead of a button. Pattern in comments. #Knitting #ShowMeYourKnits #Noro #NoroIto #Wool #Winter #Maker #WithMyHands #Handknit 🧶

If you want to "do something," you can do something from home. Write postcards to voters, this week to Democrats in Hillsborough County, Florida. @tovoters.bsky.social Sign up at Postcards to Voters, linked in comments. Easy clear instructions will help you make a difference. #Vote #AVoteIsAVoice 💙

The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaking #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

These are my newly-finished, Valentine-y Purl Soho Ribbed Hand Warmers in a mystery (lost the tag) yarn. I have made this pattern several times...a winner to be sure! #Pink #PurlSoho #Knitting #ValentinesDay #Maker #WithMyHands #ShowMeYourKnits #HandWarmers 🧶💕

Today is National Thesaurus Day. Personally, we find these made-up holidays contemptible, abhorrent, nauseating, repugnant, and unpalatable.

If you ever need a cat to sit on your knitting project, just call Winnie. #Caturday #CatSky #LongHairedCats #Knitting 🧶

Block ICE. Done.

Today at my poetry blog for students (15 yo, no ads, no AI), I suggest asking advice from a person in a photograph. I did so with a 130 year photo of my Great Grandpa George. #Kidlit #Writing #Teaching #Education #Poetry #ELA #Authors #Photography #Author #History #ChildrensAuthor #Poem #BuffaloNY

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

"....snow on snow on snow..." -In the Bleak Midwinter It's beautiful here in Western New York today, and I need to pause to see it. Dark times require me to intentionally open my eyes and heart to what is good. #Snow #Winter #Calm #Nature #Beauty #Resist #WesternNewYork #Home #ViewsFromOurWindows

Has anyone made the connection that these ICE assaults, because let’s be honest they’re assaults, are concentrated in Ilhan Omar’s district & she is up for reelection in 2026?

Grape Nuts bread is easy and tasty and just right for a winter day. Recipe in the comments. #Baking #Bread #WithMyHands #GrapeNuts #BakingSky

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From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

I just finished this #WIP, a pair of Petty Harbour Socks by Rayna Curtis in Regia Tweed. These are for our son's 24th birthday...yesterday! ❣️🧶 #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitting #SockKnitting #HandKnitSocks #WithMyHands #Regia #Wool #Cozy #GoBills

Here is the video message of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell regarding the Justice Department’s criminal investigation related to the Fed’s building renovations. Watch it. youtu.be/KckGHaBLSn4

Winnie says, "When it's raining, take a nap." #Caturday #LongHairedCat #CatsOfBlueSky #CatSky

Mine? Intrepid.

I stand with Mark Kelly.

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The Sock Knitter, 1915 by Australian painter Grace Cossington Smith #WomensArt

I so look forward to this conference next month where I will speak about poetry and writers notebooks. It will be an honor to spend a couple of days with such thoughtful educators. ❣️ #KidLit #Poetry #CCIRA #Writing #Education

"Every winter day is a good wood stove day." -Claude #Caturday #Cats #LongHairedCats #CatSky

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"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." -- James Baldwin

I enjoy making these cozy headbands...thank you to @mullaneygem.bsky.social for sharing the pattern! Wild Thistle Headband by @whiletheyplay in Universal Yarn, Deluxe DK. I made this one for me, took the picture...and then gave the headband to a friend. ❣️ #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitting #Cozy #Maker 🧶

These socks will be for our son who is working building terrain parks at Copper Mountain in Colorado this winter. Rayna Curtis's Petty Harbour sock pattern in Regia yarn tweeds. #Knitting #ShowMeYourKnits #Socks #SockKnitting #Maker #WithMyHands #WarmFeet 🧶

Just chop & simmer those chopped pears you bought cheap from your guy at the flea market, sprinkle with lots of nutmeg, stir, zap with an immersion blender, &...pear sauce! We await a big snow here in Western New York, so I am in cooking mode! #Pears #Cooking #Winter #Cozy #Hygge #Snow #StormCooking

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Don't worry. Claude is guarding the woodpile. He's got this. ❣️ #BuffaloNY #Buffalove #Caturday #LongHairedCats #CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky #Wintertime #WinterinWNY #Cats

"Creating in a time of destruction and chaos, that is resistance in and of itself." Great article about #craftivism here. #knitsky #knitting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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