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.

Hey! Sun 9-21-25 1-3 pm it’s #SundayAfternoonKnitting @ Tom's Restaurant crnr SE Division & Chavez in #PDX! Come for #knitting, #crochet & goodies! Meantime please enjoy this just-finished knit blue wool/silk cowl & brown/gray/pink wool/silk crocheted hat. #pdxknitting 🧶

#CostaRica is a beautiful place. This is the view from the little restaurant we went to with our good friend Chalo yesterday. Here till Sunday. #vacation

Fun fact o’ the day: Chickens live in Costa Rica. (So do I right now.) #vacation

Sun 9-7-25 it’s #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant SE Division & Chavez in #PDX! Great eats, even better people! Y’all come! Meantime please enjoy this Dilly topper (kind of), almost done now. #knitting #crochet #embroidery 🧶

I got these at #Worldcon2025 in Seattle last month. They were freebies in the disabled lounge. They’ve been on my wall ever since; I look at them several times a day, the one at right the most. Blessings on whoever came up with the disability track. I needed it so, so much. ❤️

Sun 8-31-25 it’s #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant crnr SE Division & Chavez in #PDX! Bring your projects & an appetite! Meantime please enjoy this ballband dishcloth I’m knitting in cheapo cotton yarn as a palate cleanser. #knitting #crochet #embroidery 🧶

Six li’l tomato plants, put in the ground May 15th, just gave us this. This isn’t even the first crop like this. This? This is NUTS, I’m not even good at this any more! #gardening #pdxgardening

Sun 8-24-25 is #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant SE Chavez & Division in #PDX! And I’ll be there along with great #knitting and eats. Meantime, please enjoy the last of my blue Rambouillet roving and the BFL/silk I’m spinning next, or thinking about spinning next… 🧶

Hoop de doo Wordle 1,522 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Today’s culinary experiment: pizza fresh-made by vending machine

Tmro Sun 8-16-25 is #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant SE Chavez & Division in #PDX! I won’t be there but everyone else will be! Meantime, I’m at #Worldcon2025 in Seattle, so here’s a bunch of cosmic crafters!

First beefsteak tomato, early to boot, big to, uh…boot-er?

Sun. 8-10-25 it’s #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant, SE Chavez & Division in #PDX! Good nosh, great #knitting! Meantime please enjoy this log cabin afghan I’m working on—last ball of yarn added. 🧶

Update, in which we learn that we apparently have varicose veins and in which we learn they can be painful like a blood clot, which unlike varicose veins we have had before. To which we say, phooey. #whenI'm64

At the ER. Suspected blood clot. Yay.

Holy cats Wordle 1,508 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Log cabin afghan, no pattern; #knitting on this for ~2.5 years, about to join the 3rd & final ball. I’m enjoying working on it again. It’s been sitting waiting for me to pick it up for at least a year and now I can’t put it down. Giving it to No. 2 Kid when it’s done.

For the #showmeyourknits shawl edition, here’s the one I’m proudest of making, in the only picture I have of it with me, taken four (I think) years ago pre-blocking: the Moon and Other Satellites shawl designed by Larissa Brown.

This Sun 8-3-25 it’s #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant, SE Division & Chavez in #PDX! Excellent company with plenty of #yarn to boot! Meantime, please enjoy my current #spinning, almost done with the one on the bobbin with next spin’s roving awaiting. #knitting #crochet 🧶

Homegrown cukes for breakfast 🥒 Two plants, Marketmore variety. #gardening

Tom Lehrer was all that and then some. Blessings on his pointed lil head. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Tomorrow Sun 7-27-25 is #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant SE Chavez & Division in #PDX! Good food & people, great #knitting & #crochet! Meantime please enjoy this log cabin afghan I’m knitting in Lion Brand Mandala, colorway Fairy. #knitsky 🧶

This small oil painting, Virga 28 November 2023, done on a sanded, stitched, sealed Illustrated Classics Edition paperback, is currently open for online bids in the @350pdx.bsky.social fundraising auction.

“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.” RIP, Joanna R. Macy (May 2, 1929 – July 19, 2025)

Damn Wordle 1,491 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Tomorrow Sun 7-20-24 it’s #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant, SE Chavez & Division in #PDX! Great yarns, good nosh, fun people! Meantime, please enjoy my spinning progress, from fluffy fiber, to an old bobbin to clear, to the newest singles, almost done. 🧶 #knitting #crochet #meetup

First cucumber; mint cuttings; sweet rose. #gardening #kind

Blue knits for #showmeyourknits: Oli hat knit for No. 1 Daughter; No. 1 wearing self-designed mittens to match the hat; Blue Haze scarf for yrs trly; and a Whale Watch cowl knit in brioche, designed by @pdxknitterati.bsky.social.

Tomorrow Sun 7-13-25 it’s #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant corner of SE Chavez & Division in #PDX! Fun w/yarn for #knitting, #crochet & #embroidery, come join us! Meantime, please enjoy my Dilly Topper now under construction. Deets in alt tag.

I mean Wordle 1,483 3/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Pretty good! Wordle 1,480 3/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Tmro Sun. 7-6-25 it’s #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant crnr SE Chavez & Division in #PDX! Tons of #knitting & #crochet & good noms! Meantime, please enjoy this Bumblebee Acres Rambouillet top in Chicory Fairy being spun fine. 🧶 #knitsky

"Impressive!" Wordle 1,473 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

For #showmeyourknits garter stitch edition, I present to you this scarf of an Expressions singles of merino and silk, can’t remember its name. I disliked it at first and love it now that it’s done. #knitting #knitsky 🧶

Left: ripening cherry tomato (chocolate variety, first time I’ve grown one). Right: one of 4 new beds, now planted with Hidcote lavender plants in the back & garlic in the front. The garlic may not do anything. Who cares, it’s there. Deets in alt tags. #gardening

Finished: Close to You shawl by Justyna Lorkowska, free on #ravelry: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... This is the fifth of these I’ve made. I own two; the other two were lost in the Great Moth Attack in ‘22. This goes to No. 2 Kid. Fantastic pattern, 10/10 no notes. #knitting #knitsky 🧶

Boy, this one was a weird one—I solved it almost immediately. Wordle 1,472 3/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Tmro 6-29-25 it’s #SundayAfternoonKnitting 1-3 pm @ Tom’s Restaurant crnr SE Division & Chavez in #PDX! Good eats, excellent peeps! Meantime, please enjoy my goodies from this year’s Black Sheep Gathering! Deets in alt tag. 🧶 #knitting