To my fellow local craft ppl who barely use instagram, please be advised that Reimagined Fabrics (the fabric/sewing supply store in Hazeldean) has extended their store hours 🥳

Resetting the “days since encountering Heated Rivalry content in the wild” counter back to zero lol

ah, they appear to have written Woke where they meant to write WoC - common mistake!

I’m the new owner of a Singer 191J and while this isn’t my first vintage sewing machine, it’s my first cast iron machine and I was almost literally floored by its weight when it came out of the cabinet. It’s a very healthy 31 lbs, which is around 7 lbs heavier than my road bike.

Fort Rd and 132 Ave: not loving the transition between the SUP and one-way bike paths. If you're going south via the Fort Rd SUP and you want to go west on 132 Ave you need to cross 132, press a beg button, wait, cross Fort Rd, wait more, and then cross 132 Ave again to get on the right bike path.

There’s now a second, larger box in the grass between the SUP and the street. I guess that means the first box will be removed at some point? I don’t know. In the meantime the snow clearing is going exactly as you’d expect, they’re going around the box as if the SUP swerves to one side of it.

Value Village is not pricing their books with consideration to the fact that I’ve literally never found a book there that wasn’t also available for free at EPL or the Internet Archive’s library. I will not be buying a $7.99 book that still has a $1.99 sticker from the last thrift store that sold it.

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

Ew, the 82 St bike lane is windrow storage but then again you’re not actually supposed to bicycle on 82nd, you silly goose, so it’s fine. On the plus side several north side SUPs (not pictured) are looking good. #yegbike

The University of Alberta approved a tuition increase of 75% in graduate nursing. They slashed all funding to the affiliated child care centres, leaving students faculty and staff without spots At the same time the president's hospitality expenses have increased by 290%.

Do you ever decide to sew something that will use up most of your four types of leftover black bias tape and then realize that not only do none of the four match each other in hue, you are also half a metre short in total and have to go to the store to buy more…

I’ll see you all on r/craftsnark later 🫡

…You’re telling me this isn’t a high school in a 90s/00s American coming-of-age film? 🤨

I’m not 100% sure, but I don’t think this is the winter weather I signed up for

As Alberta completes its first full year without coal in its power supply mix, renewables (wind, solar, and hydro) have reached 22% of total generation and natural gas makes up 78%.

For xmas my sister has asked for a capelet to wear at the office. It’s so nice that we openly tell each other what we want bc how would I have guessed "office cape" of all things? She likes Twig + Tale's Traveller Cape but the price is not right, so I'm mixing together parts from other patterns. 👩🏾‍🍳

You know, I don’t think any elon/grok screenshot I’ve seen on here has brought me new information about him that I really needed to know. The guy sucks in several different ways, all of which are already publicly known, no?

one shitty thing about bluesky is that people keep posting Twitter screenshots, but only of posts by the most vile people

You don’t actually have to share whatever nonsense Elon Musk is saying on any given day. You can of course but you don’t have to. The people what want to know what he is up to follow him. The rest of us don’t.

I can’t believe I didn’t start wearing a base layer under jeans in the winter until I was like 25. So much unnecessary suffering.

It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️

102Av bike lane is solid pebbled ice. Skill level: expert

Trying a new craft this weekend: tatting! 45 minutes of brain-bending labour has yielded a whopping 2 cm of work, not including the time that I spent practicing stitches earlier and the time I spent last weekend reading/watching tutorials. 😮‍💨

Dear everyone who has to use the sidewalk in front of my house: I did my best but I physically cannot remove more ice than I have already done 😔

Just saw an impatient driver speed around a bus in a residential area, and then when the bus caught up mere seconds later we (passengers) saw that same car spinning like a ballerina through the intersection because the driver had taken a turn too fast. Great work, you have saved 0 seconds.

I can’t believe we live in a world where I can’t have both 40 mm tires AND fenders 😔

Last week I made an appointment for tmrw morning. That’s looking like a pretty bad decision right now. Save me, ETS. Public transit save meeeee

Guilbeault resigns from cabinet after Carney signs Alberta pipeline deal globalnews.ca/news/1154707...

In this article a family member says they’d like to see the crossing’s pedestrian lights upgraded to traffic lights (because drivers do not respect soft limits), and then there is a quote from the police telling pedestrians to take responsibility for themselves and avoid stepping in front of cars. 😵‍💫

(side note: every time I find my bike covered in frost I wonder if it’s inside the frame too and if I need to be doing anything about that)

One of my slowest bike rides ever because I was convinced that my apple crumble would fall off the back at any moment.

Oh, this is terrible news. I can’t imagine that trying to make a left turn in Sunday morning traffic was so urgent or distracting that one hits a pedestrian? 😵‍💫

Ugh, suddenly having flashbacks to the persistent gravel section in the middle of the 153 Ave SUP.

My dream of finding the missing cams for my Singer buttonholer (the original, I don’t have the Professional… yet 👀) for a not-ridiculous price came true this week. 😭😍🥳 Sure, my sewing machine has a built-in round-end buttonholer but the process is fiddly and not even a little bit as fun as this.

I am once again asking the city to make SUP users’ lives easier and stop putting SUPs in places where they won’t get sun exposure. This is like the one way in which Edmonton’s weather conditions can actually help with snow/ice clearing but we refuse to take advantage of it in any way. :(

While most moderately busy roads are bare, most paths/sidewalks in the shade look like this. Studs probably a good idea to stay upright. #yegbike #yeg

Seen on the new SUP on the north side of 137 Ave between the north and south-bound legs of Manning Drive. I thought the city had stopped doing this kind of thing. Surely there were other options? #yegbike

I locked my bike at the downtown library this evening. When I came back to the rack there was another bike locked to the same loop, plus a dude walking around the bikes, touching and pushing each of them this way and that, I guess to see if they were locked properly? #yegbike

Today someone asked me if my bike has a name. I forgot that other people give their bikes human/boat/horse names, so I got a bit of a funny look when I said its “name” is 3M. 🫥

I’m directly across the street from a street light but was still able to see the aurora :)

Go look outside right now, we are having the most interesting sunset we’ve had in months

A tiny bit of swiss darning to fix a pair of fleecy sweatpants. 60% of the way through I realized that dark grey would have been a better choice than white. Oops. This is part of my winter biking base layer collection, which I think will be back in action sooner rather than later…

The SUP that was installed on the west side of 97 St between 167 and 160 Ave as part of Lorelei-Beaumaris neighbourhood renewal is already cracking in some places. It's only been 4 years! :(

Watching live baseball on tv for the first time in my life today and thinking I should give it up and go back to watching highlights the next day

one simple fix here is to make a world that you'd actually want to bring a child into, and put everyone who says that doing so would be expensive and unrealistic into an individually-sized tupperware® container

The latest item to graduate from my alterations pile is a knitted turtleneck dickey/bib that I bought for winter bicycling. It’s drapey to the point of sagginess (because superwash wool), so it wasn’t great at keeping my neck warm. I inserted 5 rounds of elastic thread and now it’s perfect.

IDK who needs to hear this but a well planned city is an affordable city.

🤫 Nobody tell David Staples this is all because of the changes me and my UCP have made to how municipal elections are held in Alberta. Let's see if he can use his "journalism" skills to figure it out on his own!🤭 #abpoli #yyc #yycvote #yeg #yegvote