Homemade pepper jam time! Used the remaining hot peppers from the garden, store-bought bell peppers, used just apple cider with no added water, and the low sugar pectin. And just before this week’s freeze warnings! 🌱🫑🌶️ Tart and spicy, just like me! #vegetablegardening #gardening #zone6a #zone6b

It’s harvest time! Used veggies fresh from the garden for a while, time to harvest and preserve. Bags of tomatoes in the freezer for sauce and jalapeño jam from the peppers. I’ll need to buy bell peppers since critters ate those plants. 🌱 #vegetablegardening #gardening #gardensky #zone6a #zone6b

Hey @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.org Want to tell us again how lower healthcare costs are your #1 priority? Because I’m not sure how we’re supposed to enjoy any healthcare benefits when we can be pulled from our homes in the middle of the night for no reason and our belongings stolen.

Finally a Democrat is getting the messaging right. Don’t fund a dictatorship first, healthcare costs second.

I don’t care how much my healthcare costs if I’m living in an authoritarian dictatorship. Get 👏🏻 The 👏🏻 Messaging 👏🏻Right 👏🏻 Democrats!

My #WIPWednesday offering, my version of @babycocktails.bsky.social White Russian pullover, using Queensland Collections Bebe CotSoy. #Knitting #KnitSky #ShowMeYourKnits

I’m dying…

Asters are such a pretty flower, it almost makes up for them being the signal for the end of the gardening season. 🌱 #BloomScrolling #Gardening #GardenFeed #Zone6A #Zone6B

It’s nice to know that no matter what is going on in the world, Pillsbury toaster strudel will always have just the right amount of icing to squeeze on it.

After nearly 50 years, I am no longer a registered Democrat.

A special kind of #FOFriday post. 🧶 #Knitting #KnitSky #ShowMeYourKnits fineartofprocrastiknitting.blogspot.com/2025/09/fifr...

Trying something new… fineartofprocrastiknitting.blogspot.com/2025/09/tait...

#WIPWednesday Update on my White Russian pullover, including what I would have done differently but decided it was good enough when knitting with arthritis. 🧶 #Knitting #KnitSky #ShowMeYourKnits fineartofprocrastiknitting.blogspot.com/2025/09/wipw...

Matthew Dowd suggested the hateful rhetoric that Charlie Kirk spewed helped lead to the state of political violence we are currently in, and he was immediately fired from MSNBC. Kilmeade suggests people people be killed simply for being homeless and he’ll probably get promoted at Fox.

My third #FOFriday in a row! Here’s my blog on how and why I decided to knit a miniature sweater. 🧶 #Knitting #KnitSky #ShowMeYourKnits fineartofprocrastiknitting.blogspot.com/2025/09/fofr...

Some thoughts on the gun violence yesterday that didn’t involve Charlie Kirk. fineartofprocrastiknitting.blogspot.com/2025/09/wher...

I decided to blog my #WIPWednesday project, which happens to be what is on my needles this week for #ShowMeYourKnits. This is @babycocktails.com’s White Russian. The blog talks about the changes I made to the pattern and concessions I make knitting with inflammatory arthritis. #knitting #knitsky

Lately with the state of the world I’ve felt like trying it again, my version of screaming into the void. If you’re interested in liberal politics, knitting, and living with a chronic disease, give it a look if you get a chance. fineartofprocrastiknitting.blogspot.com/2025/09/proc...

As a Pennsylvanian, I can say without a doubt we are not a blue state. We are very purple. This is not a long-term solution. We could easily elect a Republican governor who would remove us from this coalition, and then we’re back to where we started.

Another #FOFriday offering just one week after the last! Used a couple of leftover skeins of Berroco Ultra Pima in Lavender knitting Orange Flower Yarn’s The Age of Brass and Steam shawl. Added an extra 1.5ish repeats to use up all the yarn. 🧶 #Knitting #KnitSky #ShowMeYourKnits

I grew these tomatoes! 🍅 I grew these onions! 🧅 I grew these peppers! 🌶️ I grew this basil! 🌿 My housekeeper made this salsa! (And my grandmother crocheted the table runner.) 🌱 #gardening #gardensky #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #zone6a #zone6a

Another reason to gauge swatch: When you’re knitting a shawl to use up some leftover yarn but totally misjudged how many rows you can squeeze out at the end, you can always cannibalize your gauge swatch to get the bind off done. 🧶 Yarn/pattern in alt text. #Knitting #KnitSky #ShowMeYourKnits

Finally, a #FOFriday offering. I started this two years ago, but it sat in the naughty basket for much of that time. This is the Donner pull over by Elizabeth Doherty, knit in a variegated, wet-spun linen from Claudia Handpainted Yarns. 🧶 #Knitting #KnitSky #ShowMeYourKnits

When it’s August and you wake up to temps in the 50s and you sleep with the windows open and you refuse to turn the furnace on, you’re glad you’re a knitter. 🧶 (And no wool in any of it - cotton wrap and afghan, linen tank top, cotton/silk blend cardigan) #kniiting #knitsky #ShowMeYourKnits

This week’s #WIPWednesday offering is a bit of a palette cleanser. I just finished up a Donner tee in a wet-spun linen, which is a little hard on the hands. I decided to use up a couple of leftover skeins of soft Berroco Pima 100 cotton to make an Age of Brass and Steam shawl. 🧶 #knitting #knitsky

It seems much of what I post is baby knits, so I dug deep into the archives to find something new fo this week’s #ShowMeYourKnits prompt Here are a couple of sundresses I knit for my grand nieces using Tahki Yarns Cotton Classic. 🧶 #Knitting #Knitters #KnittersOfBlueSky #KnitSky

I grew these herbs! 🌱 I dried these herbs! 🌱 I harvested these herbs! 🌱 My housekeeper cleaned up my mess and said it looked like I rolled a joint with these herbs! 🌱 (I couldn’t disagree…) #Gardening #GardenFeed #GardenSky

A bucolic interlude for your midweek pleasure. 🌱 #gardenfeed #gardens #gardening #pondlife

Some late summer vignettes from the back garden. 🌱 #GardenFeed #Gardening #GardensOfBlueSky #BloomScrolling

It’s knitter’s choice for #ShowMeYourKnits this week, so I choose to share why I knit… 🧶 #Knitting #Knitters #Knitsky #KnittersOfBluesky

Feeling cute. Might delete later. 🌱 #gardening #gardensky #gardensofbluesky #floralfriday #flowersonfriday

Here are a handful of #SummerKnits for #ShowMeYourKnits, including my current WIP, all knit in a favorite summer yarn, sport weight wet-spun linen (like Louet’s Euroflax). You can toss it in the washer/dryer and it lasts forever. The oldest is the pink lace at least 16 years. 🧶 #knitting #knitsky

There is something seriously wrong with me. I just saw a missed purl stitch on my current WIP and rather than leave it, knowing that no one will see it other than me, I am still laddering back over 30 rows to fix the damn thing. (It’s on the front, so…) #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitting #KnitSky

Pulled my Donner Pullover out of the naughty drawer so it is now my entry for #WIPWednesday. Designer is Elizabeth Doherty from Blue Bee Studio; yarn is a hand painted linen from Claudia’s Handpainted Yarn in shades of pink, light olive green and tan. 🧶 #knitting #knitsky #knitters

Ten years. It’s been ten years since the New Horizons fly-by. I remember the excitement watching the NASA stream of all of the different systems pinging back their response and the applause as each ping came through. I wonder how long it will be, if ever, we see anything like that again.

The peonies are definitely done and the foxgloves are on their last legs, but still worth an entry for #MagentaMonday 🌱 #Gardening #GardensOfBlueSky

A garter stitch blankie and a binkie in the sunshine. Who could ask for anything more!?! 🧶 #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitting #Knitters #KnitSky #KnittersOfBlueSky

Yea, this will end well. www.scientificamerican.com/article/weat...

I do love me some yellow; it took me years to find the right shade of yellow siding for my house. Here’s a little thing I did a couple of years ago showcasing Tahki Cotton Classic yellow yarn. #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitting

I don’t get out in public much, but I do like to knit on my front porch. So here’s a little bit of porch knitting for this week’s #ShowMeYourKnits. And my front porch. 🧶🌱 #Knitting #Knitters #KnittersOfBlueSky #KnitSky #Gardening

#NoKings #DumpTrump

While my original skeet referenced something other than the deployment of troops against US citizens, it was in reference to a related matter. It seemed rather apropos to use here. #LAProtests #FreedomToDissent