lol. lmao.

I went to a paint ‘n sip class last night, behold my masterpiece!

whenever I think of a project to use up my scraps, I seem to need more yarn to bring it all together and end up with more scraps than I started with. which kind of defeats the object. but these socks are a ‘true’ scraps project, made with the leftovers from five pairs of socks. #showMeYourKnits 🧶

dealt with some more deep stash to make this - ruffle top from Breaking the Pattern by Named Clothing. fabric is miscellaneous quilting cotton that must be at least 15 years old, and the buttons are recycled from an old cardigan 🪡 #sewsky

decided to use up some stash fabric (and probably jinx the weather) by making this unnecessarily summery dress 🪡

behold! a finished item. is it summery enough to count for #showMeYourKnits summer knits week? just about. (Rowan Fine Tweed Haze, improvised pattern 🧶)

for #ShowMeYourKnits garter stitch week, here’s my Waiting for Rain. Short rows with neat little lace panels to break up all that garter. it’s brilliantly wrappable, although sometimes I just knot it around my shoulders and waft around like I’m the ghost of a Victorian washerwoman 👻🧶

and for this week’s #showMeYourKnits prompt, here’s some truly YELLOW yellow :) Stitch Treasury blanket from a set of magazine clippings I pinched from my mum 🧶

here’s but a fraction of my public knitting adventures 😅 for #showMeYourKnits 🧶

according to my records, I am on my 20th cardigan (😅), so here’s my first, my favourite, and my fcurrent fwip for #showMeYourKnits 🧶 I made the leopard print one in 2007. if it were human it would almost be old enough to buy me a drink. terrifying.

hot off the needles, some DK for #showmeyourknits - another shortened and cardiganised Saltburn to match my best beloved yellow one. buttons have been in my stash for 10 years, so I’m glad to finally find a use for them! 🧶

well, it’s the two year anniversary of getting the keys my house and a massive hornet just flew inside, so I guess it’s time to move on

just spent an unnecessarily long amount of time peeling a particularly recalcitrant onion, chopped it, then immediately threw it in the compost bin 🥲

three pattern repeats in before I notice the critical error lmaoooooo

there is a bumblebee in my garden of such impressive chonkitude that as she hovers over my patio, she’s blasting it clean like a leafblower. truly majestic.

finished! crochet body with knit ribbing and glorious painted metal buttons. 🧶

have been brushing up on my python recently, going back to text-based basics. made myself a handy simulator for when I have a millennial panic and start looking at the lottery as a viable retirement plan lmao

caught out by an april fool’s joke on march 21st, I’m going back to bed

this is precisely the level of puff I wanted to achieve, well done me

had to go spelunking in the caverns of past projects to find anything green for #showMeYourKnits - definite gap in the current wardrobe I should try to fill. in the meantime, here’s leek from 2012, which I wore to the point of disintegration. (improvised, random cheap yarn from the local market)

it’s off the floor! \o/

bringing a couple of items to the #showMeYourKnits chonk party… 🧶 my most recent winter set (improvised, debbie bliss roma) 🧶 a seventeen-year throwback vest (swizzle from dominknitrix, rowan big wool)

was wondering why I was waking up with sore wrists, then updated my blanket tracker for yesterday. yep, 12000+ repetitive twisty wrist actions over the last couple of days will do that. why did I decide to make this thing bigger again? 🥲

news sites: oh, you hit the back button after reading an article? did you think we’d let you go? here’s an extra page with shit you would never want to read, just to maximise our display ad revenue :) :) news sites: the internet is dying and we don’t know why :( pass-agg stare @arstechnica.com

woman on the train looking with despair at a bottle of beer she can’t open. man whips out his keyring bottle opener and saves her journey. by the look on his face he feels like a goddamned hero, and he is. heartwarming.

was just congratulating myself for finishing knitting the body of this blanket when the little devil on my shoulder said “make it bigger” 5 skeins left, which I’m thinking should be just enough for another zig while still being able to do the border. cross your fingers for me. 🤞🧶

positively giddy to discover today that the word ‘berk’ has its origins in rhyming slang… specifically, ‘Berkeley Hunt’. reintroducing it to my regular vocab immediately.

booked a ticket for an in-person talk without checking the venue… turns out it is not in the easy-to-reach town centre venue, but the one at the end of a 1.5 hour walk through cow-filled fields, or along a road with no streetlights or pavement 🫠

the first ice cream van has emerged from hibernation, spring is truly here

I went for a run I really didn’t want to go on, please clap

I love a lined dress but loathe and despise lining fabric, which is all woven in the most pungent depths of hell. I carefully trim, fold, and sew the hem so it won’t show below the main fabric. it shows anyway. I wear the dress for 10 minutes and it bunches right up around my hips. HOW. WHY. evil.

I am also currently making a twee little pinafore that was blessed by a rare blast of sunlight this afternoon… you can just about see the shadow of the clips holding it onto the dummy because the next step is the zip and I don’t wanna 😅 #sewing 🪡

ooh, current WIP for #ShowMeYourKnits - this throw is starting to get big… but not quite as big as the last one was when it broke my foot, so hopefully I’m safe on that front. ~75k stitches done, ~35k to go 😅 🧶

there are some very strong contenders, but I think the best/most relatable lyric from the Lambrini Girls new album is: “also, diet drinks taste like absolute fucking shit. give me full fat, you fucking bastards. AAAAAAAAAHHHHH”

I’ve spent the last six days interviewing people for a work project and I am SPENT. begging my boss to just let me sit in the basement with a spreadsheet for the next project 😭

sometimes I think it would be great to be a bird, what with the flying and the unrestrained screaming and the not having a job. but then I watch one having to smash its entire face into a suet feeder to get a morsel of food, and I’m really not sure if that sits on the pro or con side 🤔

ok… I legitimately can’t stop thinking about this one. the 3D butterflies! the slightly inaccurate representation of metamorphosis! the buttons! the use of texture (bouclé for the stems, angora and chenille for the flowers/butterflies)!! true artistry 🥲

finally managed to score some knitting books in a local charity shop. couple of sensible ones, and then this… I wheezed so hard and audibly when I pulled this off the shelf and saw the styling I could not leave it behind. 😂

I had to go back a long way to find anything heart- or love-themed for #ShowMeYourKnits… 2008, to be precise (mad to think I’ve been at this for so long. and my level of nerdery has not changed 🥲). one set of love heart pillows from Domiknitrix, and one improvised Companion Cube :) 🧶

so after complaining about the ends (and after ignoring them for a month after finishing the knitting 🥲) they only took 30 mins to do. lolz. another for #FOFriday, this time on the #knitting 🧶 side: I’m calling these Unicorn Fart Socks because idk, they just have that vibe. 🦄💨

my thoughts on knitting scrappy socks 🧦 🧶 looks: 😀 construction: 😀 thriftiness: 😀 weaving in approximately 4000 ends: 🤬

I have now not just threaded, but actually made something on my new overlocker. this is a dupe of my favouritest bought dress, which I have worn to the point of disintegration. overlocker really is a gamechanger - the time I saved not having to finish or trim all those seams 🥹 #FOFriday #sewing 🪡

people don’t often comment on my knitting in public, but when they do they usually ask if it’s crochet. so today I’m being deliberately obtuse and carrying my crochet in my knitting bag. see what they make of THAT. #WIPWednesday 🧶

and now the object is truly complete ☺️

got up to have a bit of a coffee and craft 🧶 before work. crocheted three rows. found an error I’d made four rows ago.

for #ShowMeYourKnits stripes week I’m going with this - boardwalk blouse by poison grrls - which fully converted me to a short/crop top enthusiast. I made a slight mistake making it in 100% cotton - I have to really contort myself to get it on, but at least it holds its shape 🧶

I set myself a challenge this year to wear at least one hand-made item every day. so far I have a 100% success rate, and have worn an average of 2.4 items every day, with 32 unique items. I wore something hand-knit 90% of the days. 🧶

taking a brief excursion into the land of crochet, like some kind of craft-tourist. 🧶

one of my doors wasn’t opening properly, so I took off the handle just to have a look… only for the inner mechanism to fully disintegrate in my hands. like, a day longer and I could have been trapped in my kitchen forever 😰

back when I was a new knitter and completely reliant on patterns, I did balk at paying £6 for a single one (not to the point of piracy, though, I just used free ones). now I theoretically don’t need a pattern, I’m more than happy to outsource the maths and the testing.