Also working on my sock pattern 🧦🧶 and my chicken pattern 🐓 and my child's birthday party prep 🎂 along with a few decidedly less fun things. 🫠 ADHD is a beast.

I'm up to stuff I should be doing after what I need to do, but here are two different versions of a four-point decrease for a knit hat. Both will be in my Any Way Hat pattern+tutorial whenever I'm able to get final edits done. 🧶 Pink is how the pattern is currently written, blue is the addition

Kiddo is dealing with a #gluten sensitivity, but I'm prepared... made an amazing gf sourdough starter so my partner could enjoy good bread the same week I realized kiddo needed to cut gluten If you're looking for an excellent guide, I highly recommend The Art of Gluten-Free Bread by Aran Goyoaga! 🥖

The CA Jungle Primary for Gov is such a pos system. We have 61 candidates this year... including a handful of billionaires and other scum of the earth. Never trust a billionaire, folks!

Glad to see Becerra polling up for CA Gov primary. Steyer can say whatever he wants, but he is invested in detention centers, and that tells me more than all his talk... P.S. Never trust a billionaire!

Obligatory squash blossom picture 🌱🌼 The lower one is a center split squash, and the upper plant is the summer squash. My spot my be a bit too shady, but we'll see 🤞🏻

Between trying to complete my front and back yard mulching etc before the heat, and work days starting the community farm, my body feels broken omg. Not sure how I am gonna do more tonight, but tomorrow really needs to be purely admin. 🥵

I regularly drive by three different apartment complexes that are up for sale, and I'm about to print out flyers on how to start a housing co-op...

TODAY: Our latest workshop for journalists will go through best practices to minimize the chances that sensitive information falls into undesirable hands.

- MTA bus speeds in & around the decongestion zone increased 2.3%, reversing years of decline & delivering more reliable trips. - Ridership grew on routes through the decongestion zone: subway trips +9%, local/select bus +8.4%, express bus +7.8%. - Greenhouse gas emissions in the zone fell ~6.1%

Many hands make light work but OMG 4hrs working on a community garden after hours spent in my own this week and I'm outta commission folks lol

In the meantime, winding a ball of yarn for another "sample" (aka excuse to buy this skein with a gift card I've been sitting on). 🧶

I have no patience for things drying, but here we are.

Pre-blocking - gonna start editing the video and hoping all will be ready to post tomorrow (still need to block, dry, and photograph this lil one). 🧶

Finishing up the video tutorial I started earlier this week on an item that takes all of maybe two hours to make 😅🧶

I am doing the yard on the mega cheap, aka filling IKEA bags with mulch at the free community mulch spot. Did two rounds today since it'll be closed for the long weekend. And tomorrow is a 50% off end of season native plant sale at our local urban farm, so I'm gonna see what there is 🌱👀🌱

Hi I'm obsessed with gardening turns out. 🌱🫛🌻

I've lost two hats in under a week (guessing someone else needed then more than me), both during out-of-town activities. Lets hope the hat gods smile on me this weekend and I find a good gardening hat ✨🙏🏻✨🤞🏻✨👒✨

Bellet class for kiddo = knitting time for me Working on a hat sample for the June Hat workshop 😬🧶

One of these days I am going to knit a half-dozen+ crown decrease styles and document all of them with photos, etc. I am a big fan of mixing and matching parts to make what I want, and all of these crown decreases may become a series of blogs that no one asked for but me lol 🧶

Not sure why I do this to myself, but I don’t like the pattern I was going to use for my intro to hat knitting so I am just going to whip one up since I just wing it on hats all the time anyway… why am I like this? 🧶🫠

Misread when classes would be posted 😬 I have a sign up for each of my three summer knitting classes! ✨🧶✨ And hopefully a tutorial to post this week ✨🤞🏻✨

I need the gift economy to kick in because all I want to do is share stuff with people and no one wants to pay me a living to do that.

Doing the ADHD thing and have decided to publish something ahead of my 🧶 classes that will help people taking those classes, but also have not wrapped up all my materials for those classes yet... 🫠 it's all gonna be fine but I need to act like I may be employed any time and this isn't my ft job 😅

Desert was looking lush 💖 this area had a fire a while back (thats the charred skeleton of a Joshua tree) and there's now a ton of young vegetation.

Last-minute trip to the desert to help retrieve some stuff, and OMG I forgot how much the sun can just zap all the energy out of me..! Brought some knitting and I am just scrolling instead because my brain is too melted for brainless projects.

Went to my first ADHD support group and it was very non-linear in the best way.

Happy Mother's Day to all of you who do the work of mothering in all its forms 💕

Took a composting class today! Made inquiries about how I can wedge myself back into the industry/industry adjacent and got some good ideas 😬

Do not sleep on your thrift store book section! I got some great books on knitting, sewing, gardening, and how to fix shit around the house... like, how to make a custom slip cover for my sofa?! Yes please! 📚🧶🪡🌿🪛

destroying the trees themselves instead of the peaches is where this goes from unmitigated greed into actual evil

Got another round of mulch as I prep more planting area! Currently have time and not money, so I'm doing the free scoop-it-yourself piles from SMUD. It's actually nice though because it's forcing me to slow and think about what I'm planting where. ✨🌱✨

Are there plat ID people on here who might know what tree this is? It's in my neighbor's yard and it's spreading out under the ground all over my back yard and even up into the front yard. #treeID #mysterytree 🌱🌳🍃

Exciting times in bean sprouting ✨🌱✨🥹 The more mature one was our first attempt, when we just sprouted a few beans that fell on the floor. The seedling pots are attempt 2, and we did a better job this time!

This is where I started ruthlessly unsubscribing from campaign fundraising texts and emails.

Got as much mulch as my IKEA bags could carry earlier today, then got obsessed with pulling out weed barrier from under the landscape pebbles as I moved them over to make room for my patches of mulch... I am tired and there is so so so much more to do! But it's raining so I'm on forced pause.

Please do not use weed barrier, particularly not the plastic stuff. 1) it doesn't work, the weeds always break through 2) they'll be harder to pull bc the soil under will be hard 3) plastics leech + micro plastics = not great Whether you like rock or mulch, please let the soil breathe.

Where we buying yarn these days? Like blanket quantity, washable. 🧶

Just over here trying to figure out how to grow food, the person who has killed 99% of their house plants and only keeps the current ones alive (barely) bc my girlfriend gives me dirty looks because they can hear my plants crying for help... 😬

The world’s ten richest people — all Americans — saw their collective net worth increase by $260 billion in April. These ten people are now worth a combined $2.7 trillion. The bottom 50% of U.S. households, 66 million in total, is worth $4.3 trillion. Wondering if inequality is out of control?

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

I'm over here wondering how, with qualifications, an excellent resume, and well thought out cover letter, I can't get a proper call back and then I see this... AI is used by 83% of companies in screening, and AI picks itself nearly 98% of the time. FFS

Just so everyone is clear, please never register online for a protest. You don’t know who is doing what with your info, ever, so you should always keep that to yourself as much as possible. Yes, spread the word that the stuff is happening, but don’t share your info or photos of faces. Thanks!

A big thanks to the organizer of the Stitch & Bitch who helped me figure out my sewing machine! These are the kind people we need around, the ones happy to help you grow your knowledge and skills and create space for community connection 💖🪡

Went to the Friends of the Library book shop 📚 and got a few knitting pattern books, each of them less expensive than a single pattern. Don’t sleep on thrift shops as a knitting resource! 🧶

As of 2023, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain in the United States -- which means that Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs and random other rights-holders can no longer insist that the character be free of any trace of homoeroticism. buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Trying to stay focused on holding better in the imagination and doing better, locally, as my daily practice.

Went to a yarn swap. It was glorious. Highly recommend organizing one in your community! Yarn that I had been trying to will myself to use was happily swooped up by another, and I was able to get free skeins for my free beginner knitting classes + a little treat for me. All the rest was donated 💖🧶

Al-Fassel and Pishtaz News publish pro-U.S. coverage about the war on Iran and the Trump administration’s plan to redevelop Gaza.

If there are any knitters, crocheters, or yarn craft lovers out there interested in buying yarn on Mercari, I’ve listed some skeins of yarn on my shop account there. I had extra pink yarn I’m happy to part with 💖🧶🖤🤘🏼🦇 Link here to some pink yarn I’m selling below. Link here: merc.li/fEFZBjh6b?sv=0