It’s Week 1, Day 1 of #FinishOrFrogAlong! We're kicking off with lintros! Tell us about yourself. What should we know about you? What are your crafts of choice? Why are you interested in the Finish or Frog Along? #knitting #crochet #CrossStitch #LeatherCraft #sewing #quilting #fiberarts #crafting

September is here, and with it, the #FinishOrFrogAlong. More active on Mastodon but I want to make sure I post here in case people are interested in participating. Open to crafters and makers of all kinds - post here or follow me @[email protected]. #knitting #fiberarts #handmade

On Friday, the U.S. is ending its de minimis rule that made it easy for cheap goods to reach consumers. The change will affect roughly 4 million such packages processed each day.

if we can get 50 shares on this video, bluesky has the juice for music promotion

Heg #knitsky - the past few years I’ve been hosting a Fediverse craftalong - the #FinishOrFrogAlong - in Sept. The goal is to support each other getting WIPs over the finish line or deciding it’s just never going to happen. Taking temp on bluesky to gauge interest. Anyone up for it? #knitting

I got my first part of Birkenstocks EVER. These are oiled leather tobacco brown Arizonas with the soft footbed. Your comments on breaking them in, wearing them with (handknit) socks, and any other hints you have for being a Birkenstocks wearer are welcome and encouraged. #birkenstocks #shoes

Finished @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social ‘s Enchanted Greenhouse in a binge and am now listening to the audiobook to catch all the details I missed as I rushed through to find out what was going to happen. Recommended if you like smart women, nice men, magic, and sentient plants. And Spellshop #booksky

Instead of buying fireworks, buy cat food to donate to a local shelter. You’ll feel much better afterwards and you won’t have scared any animals! #nofireworks #stopscaringanimals

From: Desi Oon (2025), dir. Suresh Eriyat, Studio Eeksaurus This is stop motion with wool -- the team wrote that it "spent a year developing this film, walking with the flocks and the shepherds"

Audible recommended this book to me and I assumed it was a parody of current events. Then I realized it was published in 2019. @scalzi.com #books #booksky

I’m going to Paris for about a week at the end of June / early July. I’ve been to a lot of the main touristy things in the past. What should I do this time? Especially anything with textiles / spinning / knitting / fiberarts or food (any price as long as it’s tasty). #travel #food #FiberArts #paris

Here she is, my @daedalusspinners.bsky.social Starling! It took me a bit to figure out some things like how to thread the leader properly, how to fix alignment issues, and how to get the tension band working, but now, smooth and quiet as butter. It’s love! #handspinning (fiber: shaniko from YarnJam)

My Daedalus Starling has arrived! I can’t set it up today but I am super excited. Planning to try it tomorrow ahead of (maybe) bringing it with me to my plying class at Estes Wool Market. Wish i could stay there till the weekend to see @daedalusspinners.bsky.social! #HandSpinning #Fiberarts

Ritual N/A gin with Fever Tree Cucumber, 1:2 ratio stirred, served over ice. Not bad! Crisp, clean, and the quinine makes it taste more like a “real” cocktail. I feel like I may end up with a series like “Ritual N/A gin with…”. This was a good one to start with. #mocktails #cocktails

Signed up for classes at Estes Park Wool Festival - Blending board class with Clemes & Clemes - excited as this is a tool I want and can afford. And plying class with Tammy Jordan. #HandSpinning #FiberArts I wasn’t going to be able to go due to travel for work so hey #funemployment for the win!

Have you listened to the audiobooks of Wheel of Time? Which have you heard, or, if you’ve heard both, which do you recommend? #books #WheelOfTime #audiobooks I’m running a poll over on Mastodon where polls are native. If you can’t vote on Mastodon reply here wandering.shop/@consumablej...

My Mastodon poll ended with Bacon Burner in the lead which is perfectly aligned with what I decided while the poll was running. Probably will spin it end to end and chain ply to make a gradient. #handspinning #fiber

Super excited about my Ghibli-themed batts from @fossilfibers.bsky.social. Which one should I start with? Bacon Burner (Calcifer - purplish/orangish), Ponyo’s Jellyfish Ride, (blues/turquoise/pink) or Paper Airplane Skies (the Wind Rises - sky colors blues through orange to pink)? #handspinning

(Warning: potential KPS spoiler) - I have been wondering what is happening that affects Kaiju Earth with a Certain President having a second term. @scalzi.com #books

I’m staying in a hotel and took a picture of the door and number of my room so I won’t forget which one it is. Like when I take a picture of my rental car in whatever parking spot I use tomorrow. My phone photo album is my outboard brain.

I stopped by the Woodland Handcrafts site just out of curiousity. I’ve only placed preorders and never successfully ordered but I hit the jackpot and soon will be the owner of this gorgeous morel mushroom support spindle. OMG. #handspinning #supportedspindle

Feels like satire that a president would be pro-salmonella only because the last guy was anti-salmonella

I read about the yarn in Ellie’s hat in The Last of Us (someone said Sweet Georgia, speculation was Malabrigo). It made me think about clothing in the post-apocalyptic age. Learning to shear, pick, spin, knit/weave/crochet is smart prep for the apocalypse #HandSpinning #knitting #crochet #weaving

I’ve been doing a lot of comfort media (re)listening. I am back in @marthawells.com Murderbot Diaries (Artificial Condition right now) after a relisten to Cemeteries of Amalo and a brief detour to a couple of chapters of @scalzi.com ‘s Kaiju Preservation Society. #audiobooks

Oops, drank too much caffeine today. #insomnia

Fossil Fibers’ Ghibli collection is underway. I love Haku, Howl, and Ponyo but honestly I already have more stash than I can spin. Still, I decided to get this soot sprites kit because it really hits that target for me AND I can think of many interesting things to do with it. #handspinning #fiber

Goal: 5 minutes a day of some kind of #fiberarts - right now the easiest is this project on my Schacht Ladybug - the roving is already attached, and all I have to do is sit down and get started right away. Even if I really only have 5 minutes it’s easy and approachable. #handspinning #handspun

Starting spinning my Flannel Weather rolags from Hikari Handmade. The singles look significantly different than I expected but I’m still very excited. More than 400g of fiber total so it’ll be a long project. Stay tuned. #handspun #handspinning #supportedspindle

I’ve ordered my @daedalusspinners.bsky.social Starling after ~ 6 months on the wait list. I am so excited! And while spending all that money I also threw in a battery pack and an Akerkate because when you’re already spending so much it feels incremental instead of expensive ;) #handspinning

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Remembering Val Kilmer in Real Genius (1985). Somehow laser science got an astonishingly accurate pop culture movie. It didn’t have to accurately depict building and troubleshooting excimer lasers and yet somehow it did.

We're nearing the end game now: With only two more days of voting left in the tournament—and one until the Championship, let me introduce you to Knit Madness' Final Four. As always, here's a 🧶🧵 to group all of the remaining contenders knitflicks.beehiiv.com/p/knit-madne...

Watching the lead change on this one

Yesterday, I fondly remembered my dear friend Leonard Nimoy, who would have turned 94. His legacy lives on in our hearts. Just days ago, Bill Shatner celebrated his 94th birthday — wishing him continued health and happiness. Live long and prosper, my friends.

Plying this set of Hikari Handmade rolags is complete. Less twist than I intended, but I’m sure it will still be fun to knit. Looking forward to getting it off the bobbin, measured, soaked, and set, figuring out the weight / WPI so I can decide what to do with it. #knitting #handspun #handspinning

Got all of the singles off one of the spindles and still have some left on the other which I will use a plying bracelet to finish up. Excited to get this yarn off the bobbin and see how skein looks. The grey with some pops of color here and there, so interesting #spinning #handspun #handspinning

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Bad experience plying today. Nothing seemed to go right. Not enough take up; too much take up, not enough twist in the yarn; too much tension, slowed down the flyer, spinner made funny sounds. At least I feel confident the yarn will still be usable no matter what. #handspinning #handspun

It's both very cool—and a bit strange, mostly because I'm usually the one doing the write-ups, so I'm not at all used to being the subject—that Modern Daily Knitting wrote about Knit Madness www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/kn...

I am really enjoying @michejaw.bsky.social ‘s Knit Madness with a bracket of the best sweaters from movies. Round 1 is over (sorry I didn’t post until now) but there is still a chance to vote in upcoming rounds for what sweater will be crowned the victor! knitflicks.beehiiv.com #knitting #movies

(Fern:) Goldie the bee says hi! She hopes today is a good day for you. <3 (Goldie lives here: artisans.coop/products/sof... ) #AntiDoomPosting #Bumblebee #Bees #Amigurumi

There is a #knitting themed rhythm game @ #gdc from @immortalfunkgames.bsky.social - Woolderness. The rhythm game involves touching your knitting needles together in the right pattern and timing. I didn’t get to try the shepherding mechanics etc but I hope to soon. #games #gamedev

My Everybody’s Tarot mini deck (by @sarakathleenuk.bsky.social ) is just as wonderful as I had hoped. And my custom “Connection” card, featuring two creatures knitting socks from the same ball of yarn, is amazing and so on point. Can’t wait to start using it for readings. #tarot #knitting

I am halfway through these Hikari rolags. I wasn’t sure how they would spin up because I don’t have enough experience to form a real expectation. At first they seemed way more gray than i expected but now I can see the color. Super curious how it will look once plied. #handspinning #handspun

I ordered this spinning bowl and now I am obsessively checking the extremely inaccurate USPS tracking website to see when it will arrive. #supportedspindle #handspinning #spinning

Totoro is so perfect for amigurumi I am almost tempted to do crochet again. Almost. But i have so many other projects…. #crochet #totoro #studioghibli #amigurumi

I’m fascinated by the difference been how fiber looks in a rolag or roving, how it spins up, how it looks after plying, and then how it looks knit up. I am pleasantly surprised by how well the original tones of pink and yellow to show up so well in the knitted item #handspun #handspinning

My partner keeps telling me that until I have my own sheep I’m just a hipster….