Those who could find a tunnel that has no light at the end of it, and hold it up like a telescope to know the darkness also contains truths that could bring the light to its knees. Grief astronomer, adjust the lens, look close, tell us what you see. (RIP Andrea, what a loss)

Grief Astronomer by Andrea Gibson A difficult life is not less worth living than a gentle one. Joy is simply easier to carry than sorrow. And your heart could lift a city from how long you’ve spent holding what’s been nearly impossible to hold. This world needs those who know how to do that.

Hey Lovely Can you do me a favour? Can you unclench your jaw, drop your shoulders and roll them? Now, can you stretch your body until you make that cute little noise? Inhale 1 2 3 Exhale 1 2 3 4 Shake it all loose Smile like you have a secret Now have a good day on purpose Luv you

Turns out I've done a *few* extra raglan increases on my 🧶 tshirt while I haven't been paying attention 😆 Back I go... #knitsky

. From 'Deaf Republic' (2019) —Ilya Kaminsky #poetry #poem #poems

The sky today

Was struggling to find something yellow to post for this week's #showMeYourKnits without posting yet another cowl, forgetting this glorious crossbody bag I made a few months ago and use all the time and brings me All The Joy. Slightly felted to prevent things slipping through any holes. 🧶 #knitsky

For the #knitsky crew... @terinskyweaver.bsky.social designs the most incredible patterns featuring custom sigils, designed in response to lived experience of disability & chronic pain. This one is 'Hope Grows Roots'. Also check out 'Way Home' (short for 'may your pain guide the way home').

This new pattern is inspired by the Star card, perfect for Matariki and the Winter Solstice. And invites us to ask: 1. Where do we get our nourishment? 2. What futures are we planting seeds for? 3. What are we pouring our love into? #tarotsky #tarottalk #tarotalt #magicalbazaar #tarotspreads

Excited to launch a new knitting pattern with Matariki and the solstice. Here is the Hope Grows Roots Cowl, a 2 or 3 colour repeating pattern suggestive of leaves and flowers. Inspiring us as we turn hopes into stitches and actions for a better world together. 🧶 #knitsky ravel.me/hope-grows-r...

✨ Mānawatia a Matariki ✨ Wishing you a peaceful and warm Matariki and Puanga weekend as we remember those we have lost, celebrate the present, and look forward to the promise of a new year. #matariki

Clothes continue to fascinate me because what we choose to wear is never ever neutral (even if we think it is - even the idea of neutral colours is not neutral!). Clothes rest against our skin, intimately so. They signal who we are, how we live, and what our worldview is.

Sneaking in one last photo of my favourite cowl for #ShowMeYourKnits cowl week. 🧶🧶🧶 #WayHomeCowl #knitsky

Just finished this cowl today, Hope Grows Roots, perfect timing for this week's #ShowMeYourKnits so you can get the blocking mat photo 🧶 It gave me lots of me practice at 3-colour stranded knitting, though there's also a 2-colour version without any float management. 🧶 Pattern coming out soon.

nonbinary as in "blessed are the rulebreakers"

To pompom or not to pompom, that is the question, #knitsky 🧶 I was going to post this colourwork beanie as my #showMeYourKnits #WIP but I accidentally finished knitting it, I was enjoying it so much (and that finished crown is so satisfying!) - though without a pompom, is it really complete?

Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie -Blink a few times, drink some water, take your meds. -Having a hard time coping doesn’t make you a failure.  -The monster under the bed is willing to share space if you need to hide for a bit. ❤️ Auntie Jilli

one thing I believe is it’s important to celebrate good things 10x as hard and to look for them 10x as often because our animal brains are hard-wired to pay 10x as much attention to bad things; it keeps us alive, but it doesn’t keep us happy happiness has to be fought for, survival will tend itself

nonbinary as in "ew, i would never use generative AI on purpose"

We need to rediscover the magic and wonder in making things. No other animal on earth knits. Most humans can't make a pair of socks, and there's a moment where a person moves from not being able to make socks to being able to make socks and that's kind of magical. We should be excited about that.

I'm not starting new project, #knitsky, you are. 🧶 >.> 🧶 <.< 🧶 Don't listen to a word that #wip pile says, it can't be trusted.

You can be disabled, do all these things, and not become undisabled. And weirdly it's your fault for not trying hard enough.

I had the Six of Swords follow me around for 18 months until I made a knitting pattern from it. Did all the enquiry spreads, the journaling, everything I could think of. Wouldn't leave me alone. Until this. 🧶 Name is short for 'May your pain guide the way home'. ravel.me/way-home-cowl

“What radicalized you?” This, really

Chag pesach sameach! May we build a future of liberation for all.

Two fluffy wristwarmers coming up! 🧶🧶🧶 Made from simple rib in the round, worked in the flat for the thumb hole, before joining back in the round. And then fluffying up with a slicker brush. I'd recommend a test swatch first. Now I want to make all the fluffy things.... 😁 #knitsky

Working on this hypersaturated cowl this week #knitsky #showMeYourKnits 🧶 I love how from across the room the colours just blend together into a fantastic pinky-purple of my inner child's dreams

#knitsky my swatch pile is looking amazing right now! Found some cones of bright colours at an op shop recently, so I'm not sure what I'll knit yet, but the colours are making me happy. The green fuzz on top? that's requested wristwarmers for a young friend, made with a slicker brush 😁 🧶🧶🧶

Sky smiles

Celebrating #showMeYourKnits colourwork week by working on yet another version of my Way Home Cowl, my first published pattern. Didn't quite know what to expect with this variegated yarn from hand-me-down stash, but is looking lovely. 🧶 #knitsky

Spent the afternoon stacking firewood. A good way to welcome the autumn. 🍂

Celebrating the equinox by launching my first knitting pattern, based on a sigil developed from the phrase 'May your pain guide you home' and my work with the 6 of Swords as chronic pain shapes my life in ways I never expected. #knitsky #tarotsky #tarottalk #sigil 🧶 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

The blessed equinox is upon us: a time to rebalance. Breathe in; breathe out. As the Sun moves into Aries, tune in to your intuition, and when the moment feels right, punch a nazi.

no cheating, post the last photo of your pet

Not to be controversial but you really should be nicer to yourself and hydrate

Behold the blood moon! By which, of course, I mean, an incredibly blurry photo of said moon, in which you can barely tell it is either moon or eclipse, but there _is_ some red. It was a lovely bright crescent here, with a dark red rest-of-whole. #bloodMoon

This morning's progress was joining in the round. This afternoon's... not so much. Sigh. 🧶 #knitsky

I'm liking the way the colourwork of my #skyKAL is coming out, but long rows on 3mm needles sure do take a lot of knitting 🙃 ...whose idea was this again 🤣 #knitsky

Stash-diving to whip up a quick little felting project, only to find that one of the yarns must be superwash. Sigh. I guess this is what you get when you inherit yarn from someone who never kept the labels. Can't frog it now 🤣 #knitsky 🧶

#ShowMeYourKnits asks for WIPs, but I don't think I can count them all without panicking slightly, so here's one my hands are enjoying. A new colourwork design and some nice shades of green 🧶 #knitsky

My #skyKAL knit looking like a sea of blue in my lap this morning 💙 🧶 #knitsky

I cast on a bold pink project this week because I needed the dopamine. I had to dig out some straight needles for it because all my right size circulars were already taken. So maaaybe I have too many WIPs on the go rn. But at least this one's vibrancy is making me happy. 🧶 #showmeyourknits #knitsky

For #WIPWednesday I'm playing yarn chicken with my bind off. I reeeally needed to knit 1 more row, but then it would have definitely been game over. 🧶 Anyone else playing today? #knitsky

My #skyKAL knitting project 🧶 has a neckhole! Well, again. Second time's the charm. Now just to knit all the tiny stitches to get to the base of the armholes...

Before you finish one project, you must knit the swatch for the next, right #knitsky? 🧶 I'm about to start on the fingering weight sample of my Way Home Cowl and needed to decide which colour to hold as my 'main'. Any preferences for top or bottom of my swatch?