Tmro Sun 2-8-26 is #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm SE Division & Chavez in #PDX! All #knitting, #crochet, #embroidery fans & significant others welcome. Meantime please enjoy this #MelttheICE hat, almost finished. #pdxknitting #pdxcrochet

Sun! 2-1-26 = #SundayAfternoonKnitting, my favorite formula, 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant SE Division & Chavez in #PDX featuring #knitting, #crochet, #embroidery & nothin. Y’all come! It’s fun! Meantime please enjoy 1 of 2 red hats now underway. #pdxknitting #pdxcrochet 🧶

I subscribe to @wweek.com (local wkly), @portlandmercury.com (another local wkly & I ADORE them), @oregonian.com (our daily…ish? paper) & @maximumfun.org (@jessethorn.bsky.social’s bunch) & that’s for starters. SUBSCRIBE, folks, it’s what you do! ❤️🗞️🎙️🎤❤️

Sun 1-25-26 it’s #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant SE Division & Chavez in #PDX! Bring yr #knitting, #crochet, #embroidery etc! Meantime please enjoy a cardi waiting for button bands & a hat waiting to begin. Ahem. #pdxknitting #pdxcrochet 🧶

Sun 1-18-26 is #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom's Restaurant SE Division & Chavez in #PDX! Good food, great #knitting, #crochet, #embroidery and card playing. Meantime please enjoy this 85% BFL/15% silk top I'm spinning. Gonna be bulky weight whether I like it or not. #pdxknitting #pdxcrochet 🧶

The past is sailing off to sea The future's fast asleep Today is all we get to have It's all we get to keep --from "All in a Day," one of my counselor's favorite books, by Cynthia Rylant with illustrations by Nikki McClure

No. 2 Kid is the World’s Most Knitworthy Person. She is constantly wearing something I’ve made, most recently the vest I (finally) finished in Brown Sheep Lamb‘s Pride. I am blessed with SO many knitworthy folks! 🧶 #knitting

4/ Remember this, Lynn: I am determined to get better; whatever that means, however small a victory it is, I am determined to get better. That kept me alive when I came within hours of dying. It will keep me alive until it’s time to go.

3/ Yesterday I suddenly remembered the phrase that had kept me alive. It felt like an electric shock running through me: omigod, that’s right. I am determined to get better. I’ve been repeating it to myself ever since just as I did from ‘14-‘20.

2/ I forgot that catchphrase during the pandemic. I stopped working out. I was convinced I would die. I have always been heavy but now I gained so much I was literally having trouble moving.

In ‘14 I had a massive stroke. Lying there I had to decide whether to live or die. I chose to live—that wasn’t an easy choice. “I am determined to get better" was my heartfelt phrase. I worked out & grew stronger than I’d ever been. I was determined to get better, whatever that meant. /1

Ok, help, somebody: my Pressed Flowers cardigan just needs a button band and it’s DONE. I. Can’t. Get. Up. I’m still sitting here in my jammies. The only other project I’ve got is a “health vest” for the hubs (Ok not really but). And that project is frustrating. Halp halp halp.

2.5 years it’s taken me—I’ve finished the body of my Pressed Flowers cardigan. Just need to finish the button band and I’m DONE.

Sun 1-11-26 is #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant SE Chavez & Division in #PDX! Good eats, great #knitting, #crochet , #embroidery & conversation. Meantime, please enjoy this ridiculous thing I’m knitting for the hubs. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Today Sun 1-4-26 the 1st #SundayAfternoonKnitting of '26 1-3 pm @ Tom's Restaurant SE Division & Chavez in #PDX!#knitting, #crochet, #embroidery & nothing, join us. Meantime please enjoy this health vest, I don't know, I just knit. #pdxknitting #pdxcrochet (Sorry for late notice, overnight illness.)

Sun. 12-28-25 come to #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant SE Chavez & Division in #PDX! Much #knitting, #crochet & #embroidery - come keep me company, the hubs is gonna be absent! #pdxknitting #pdxcrochet

Today is the 9th Surgeryversary, on which we commemorate the day @velvetackbar.bsky.social had a triple bypass. He is my love. I mean, really, how could he not be?

Sun. 12-21-25 come to #SundayAfternoonKnitting, Yule edition, 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant SE Chavez & Division in #PDX as the sun is returning to warm us up as we knit. Meantime please enjoy this red wool/silk being spun into yarn. #knitting #crochet #pdxknitting #pdxcrochet #spinning #pdxspinning 🧶🎄🧶

No. 1 Daughter and No. 2 Child atop the Yule Tree, which I’m finally decorating to the frustration of @velvetackbar.bsky.social. “You’ve had ALL WEEK to do this!" I KNOW! GEEZ!

Sun 12-13-25 it’s #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm SE Division & Chavez in #PDX! We have fun & much lovely yarn. #crochet & #embroidery welcome as well as #knitting. Meantime please enjoy current progress on this Pressed Flowers cardigan. #pdxknitting #pdxcrochet

Sun. 12-7-25 come to #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom's Restaurant, SE Chavez & Division in #PDX! Lovely yarn, lovelier folks! Meantime please enjoy this Pressed Flowers cardigan—I’m halfway through the last sleeve. #pdxknitting #pdxcrochet #knitting #crochet 🧶

3/ Since the stroke I have oddly become more myself. Foreign layers that accreted on me between infancy and the stroke are dissolving bit by bit. I am becoming less afraid. Sometimes. May I keep going.

2/ I could whine about how I’m so disabled—my eyesight, trouble walking, trouble thinking or talking when I get too tired—but in truth I have about 85% of my abilities; I was expected to die. I am deeply deeply grateful to the people who saved my life.

11 years ago today I had a massive stroke. My brain swelled 7.5mm to the left. I came within hours of dying but an experimental treatment saved my life; I was 497 out of 500 patients in the study and probably one of its greatest successes. 1/

Stickers in my bullet journal from No. 1 Daughter. ❤️

Today is my 33rd couples anniversary with @velvetackbar.bsky.social. We met, we fell in love almost immediately, we’re still together. May you find a good someone like you or nothing like you or kind of like you, whatever (we are a couple of goons), be blessed. We have been and we are. ❤️

Sun 11-30-25 come to #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant SE Division & Chavez in #PDX! Lotsa yarn & good conversation on #knitting, #crocheting, #embroidery etc! Meantime please enjoy these Pioneer fingerless mitts under way in Malabrigo Arroyo, colorway Borrajas.

Sun 11-23-25 come to #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant SE Division & Chavez in #PDX! Meantime please enjoy these Camp Out mitts I’ve modified to use a smaller gauge. #pdxknitting 🧶

Today 11-16-25 is #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom's Restaurant SE Chavez & Division in #PDX! Good eats & drinks, great #yarn, #knitting, #crochet & #embroidery w/bonus husband! Meantime please enjoy this fingerless mitt underway. #pdxknitting 🧶

2/ I wish I knew then what I do now but don’t we always say that. What I’ve learned since has been deeply humbling. I’m grateful.

11 years ago today our old house almost burned down with us inside. We all barely made it out alive with Henry Dog & Blackberry Kitty but Inky Kitty died. 3 weeks later I had a massive stroke & came within hours of dying myself. 1/

Yikes! Wordle 1,603 2/6 🟩🟨🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Sun 11-9-25 is #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant, SE Chavez & Division in #PDX! Good food, great yarn! Meantime please enjoy a skein I just finished spinning, a bump I’ve yet to spin, and two wools destined for my hands’ warmth (fingerless mitts just underway).

Finally finished. It took me almost two years to spin this bump of Rambouillet. (I was doing other stuff too, not just this.) It’s almost lace-weight I spun it so fine. Next up: a bump of BFL and silk in fire engine red.

Sun. 11-2-25 come to #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant SE Division & Chavez in #PDX! We got #knitting, #crochet, #embroidery & nothin' to keep you entertained. Meantime, please enjoy this damn sock I’m attempting to knit for my dad. 😑 #pdxknitting 🧶

Got it in three. Wordle 1,593 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I voted in Oregon‘s election! Go vote, wherever you are!

Today Sun 10-26-25 is #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant SE Division & Chavez in #PDX! #Knitting, #crochet, #embroidery & nothing etc all welcome. Meantime please enjoy this Close to You shawl for No. 2 Kid, just finished blocking. #pdxknitting 🧶

It’s time to block.

Gee whiz Wordle 1,587 3/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Finis: log cabin lap robe for No. 2 Child and her doggo. Now it’s time to weave in a couple of ends and throw it in the wash (it’s acrylic). #knitting #pdxknitting 🧶

Hot diggety Wordle 1,585 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Exhausted doggo is exhausted

Tomorrow Sun 10-19-25 it's #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom's Restaurant crnr SE Division & Chavez in #PDX! Loads of #knitting, #crochet, #embroidery & nada--come as you are! We do! Meantime, please enjoy these fingerless mitts I knit of handspun. #pdxknitting 🧶

At least three, maybe four times the people at the Tigard #NoKings march.

Headed to #NoKings in Tigard, OR. Smaller group than Portland, still happy and enthusiastic.

Among the last of the roses from the garden. No scent, alas

Today is @velvetackbar.bsky.social's and my 31st wedding anniversary. I could not have had a happier 31 years with anyone else. Happy anniversary, sweetheart. 💝

Tmro 10-12-25! #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom's Restaurant corner of SE Chavez & Division in #PDX! Get yer #knitting on—or #crochet or #embroidery or whatever—eat some good food & get yer drink on too whether it’s alcohol or non. Y’all come! Meantime please enjoy this lap robe I’m knitting.

Tmro Sun 10-5-25 it's #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant crnr SE Division & Chavez in #PDX! Come for the beers, wine, n/a because why not, good eats & every fiber thing you can think of— #knitting, #crochet, #embroidery, etc! Meantime please enjoy my dad‘s pedis I’m making.