This one snuck up on me! European Green Woodpecker for #birdwhisperer in #watercolor.

🍐 pear in watercolor from an IG challenge, but I’m happy with its roundness so I’m bringing it over here too. #watercolor #artyear

One of my favorite scarves of all time for #ShowMeYourKnits - this is Hibiscus by Kieran Foley, and there are just two color-changing yarns used here! 🧶 I wear this all the time, when it’s cool enough. #knitsky

Here's something cool I made recently. This is a mathematically generated 2-color crochet square, developed by @mathgrrl.com for the Granny Life project. I'm excited to potentially contribute to a math/art exhibition! And the squares themselves just look neat. Can't wait to make more! #crochet

Nothing like modeling a fall sweater on an 80+ degree day! It’s still snuggly, though, so I won’t complain too much. This is Zico and my newest design is free on @knitty.com! It’s casual and easygoing in a DK weight yarn. 🧶 #knitting

Scarves for #ShowMeYourKnits! I don’t usually make a lot of scarves. 🧣 🧶 Clapotis by Kate Gilbert Sea Fan Scarf by me #knitting

Dessert mode: ACTIVATE! Best pie: sour cherry Best ice cream: any caramel swirl Best doughnut: French cruller Best bar: my brownies Best cake: Princess Best other: cheese Danish

Hey, I have a brand new shawl design called, Again Around the Sun, available for nil dollars and zero cents from Knitty.com. Check out my pattern and all the other lovely new designs at in the Deep Fall 25 edition. I am in great company. #knit #knitting #pattern #free

I'm thrilled to be a part of @knittymag.bsky.social  again! Introducing Zico, a cardigan with a warm, fluffy, squishy feel and casual style. 🧶 Zico features one of my favorite sweater yarns, @missbabs.com Killington. https://knitty.com/ISSUEdf25/PATTzico/PATTzico.php #knitdesign #knitsky

Some roses for your timeline, from my walk. #bloomscrolling

I now possess the World’s Cleanest Garage Floor, thanks to a laundry detergent spill.

🍀 Slowly but surely, the pattern emerges. Rhinebeck sweater WIP for #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 Renaissance Sweater by Elenor Mortensen 🧶 Miss Babs Yummy 2-Ply in Cat Tail and Peace Lily #knitting

We’re going to watch a movie at home. I don’t have a good knit/crochet project to work on during the movie (and the tendinitis means I probably shouldn’t anyway). How to just … sit and watch?!

🍁 Fall is nearly here... you need a new hat! 🍄 This one's for you if you’ve ever gone for a walk in the woods and said to yourself, "here are some nice mushrooms". (Hell yeah!)

A not-too horrible goose. #watercolor and ink #birdart #artyear

Today the dentist told me he couldn’t tolerate a mouth guard either! I feel validated.

Some watercolors for the Sunnyvale art club challenge. I feel rusty! #watercolor #artyear

Finally getting somewhere on this year’s #rhinebecksweater! It’s taken a while to get in to the colorwork, and I’m still pushing up against tendinitis. But it’ll get done! Lots of ladderback jacquard to get to this point. 🧶 Renaissance Sweater by @elenormortensen.bsky.social

Today, I am a joyful member of the ice cream for dinner club

🧶 Time to destash a little yarn… most of these are still hoping for new homes. #destash #yarn Details: www.ravelry.com/people/Golde...

I love art challenges, even if I rarely finish. Seascape in #watercolor for sunnyvale art club

I have paintings on a wall! This weekend at the Sunnyvale Public Library! The Silicon Valley Juried Art Show hosted by Sunnyvale Art Club, Saturday 12-5, Sunday 1-5. #watercolor #artyear

When the curtain drops and you didn’t realize how lucky your seats were…

If you enjoy brioche knitting, I’ve designed my first patterns in five years, using this engaging and clever technique. You can find both variations of the pattern in my ravelry store or on my site: marniemaclean.com #knit #knitting #pattern #brioche

Sulphur-crested cockatoo in watercolor for #birdwhisperer - love that jaunty curve in the crest! I had to paint this one twice - the first came out badly and the paper was so poor I recycled the rest of the pad. #birds #art #artyear

Hello, Octodot Cowl! This has been one of the most fun little projects for me this summer. It's the kind of potato-chip crochet I love, with easy stitches and stitch placement in one special skein of fingering weight yarn. The pattern is free on Ravelry for a limited time. #crochet #crochetsky

Happy Birthday to #ShowMeYourKnits! Here are 2 of my favorite colorful wrap projects… definitely labors of love, but so worth it. 1. Atlas by Kieran Foley 2. Speckle and Pop by Stephen West #knitting #knitsky

Weaving: for when you want to use all the four-letter words in your vocabulary. Some of them are even about weaving! (It’s all okay. Just a shed being annoying.)

Today’s BLT&avocado with garden tomatoes was a thing of beauty and delicious joy.

I want to scream a lot, so instead I warped the loom and I’m making fancy chicken biryani.

🧶 WIPs, plain and fancy, for #ShowMeYourKnits. Most of my knitting lately has been secret/experimental/actually crochet, but I do have a few projects going. “Donnie at the Duck Pond” by Kieran Foley in 4 shades of Zauberball sock, and vanilla socks.

Today’s garden haul: the first of the green beans, which were immediately eaten for dinner! Some days, it truly is the little things.

Crocheting in the hammock and listening to the birds before it gets too hot out here 🧶🥰🕊️ (pattern is Calad Shirt by Jessica Tsung) #crochetsky

I’m looking for a USA charity that takes leftover/unassembled quilt blocks (bonus if they’ll take some fabric, too). Any thoughts? #quiltsky #quilting

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it isn’t actually legally required to bring your entire 8-person family with you to Costco.

In the midst of everything, give your eyes a moment of peace with this magnolia. #bloomscrolling

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I see these tiny little toes and I’m reminded that truly, it’s a miracle that any of this is here at all (in a cosmic sense). Western Fence Lizard.

3/61 cobalt Blue on blue on blue… this is Sennelier Ultramarine and it’s just a gorgeous blue, perfect for #dyicad2025 today. Index card on top of a previous geometric piece. #artsky

2/61: Spring irises for #dyicad2025 - I knew those photos I took long ago would someday come in handy! I used to grow a huge assortment of irises. Colored pencil and pen on card. #art

Time to try some more daily art! Title card and glimmers for #dyicad2025 I’m hoping the small format will keep this achievable. Title card is in Sharpie; glimmers are iridescent watercolor painted over a layer of velvety black gouache.

🧶 I don’t knit a lot of blankets, but I do enjoy making hap-style squares for the occasional babies that I’m close to! #ShowMeYourKnits #knitsky Both are from the Hansel pattern by Gudrun Johnston.

My rendition of the Talamanca Hummingbird for today’s #BirdWhisperer. Loved bringing this little guy to life in watercolor. #art #ArtYear #watercolor

Omg, 😍. “This is a site for pictures of owls… in towels.” owlsintowels.org

Mug of pansies in watercolor. Done? WIP? We shall see. #ArtYear #watercolor

Had a great long walk today: saw jackrabbits, a big gopher snake, and Merlin sound ID suggested a very elusive Black Rail was in the marsh (I love Shazam for birds!) 🪶

🧶 WIPs for #ShowMeYourKnits … I always have a bunch, and this doesn’t count the crochet, a design in progress, or the hibernating projects… Vanilla sock Sea Fan Cowl by me Deliciosa by Norah Gaughan Donnie at the Duck Pond by Kieran Foley #WIP #knitsky

Good morning from my nasturtium, exuberant despite being chewed up by bugs.