We have exchanged hostages with the Monster under the Couch. I was returned a ball of yarn I need to finish a project from '21 and the hook end of loop & hook closure has been remeened a worthy trade. I was also able to retrieve one of the needle tightening tools, so it wasn't a bad trade...

Now, did I learn from the first time? As you are reading this, safe to say no... 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

It's really not that hard to draw a line from brushing off memeified social media Nazi content as "hahaha it's just a joke, lighten up, nobody takes this seriously," to murdering people in the street.

Apparently I'm in need of a website and a domain name. I have zero thoughts on simple domain name, which would work with relative ease in English and Finnish (it will be .fi-domain). Any thoughts around looped textiles?

My Christmas Cactus (Schlumbergera × buckleyi, I assume) has buds! All 3 of them.

The year long thread for finished objects.

Long before the term existed, Star Trek's heart was "woke" & even though that word has been hijacked & made a cudgel to insult, to ridicule & - at the toxic extremes of social media - to justify prejudice & racism, Star Trek's heart is strong & still beating for those listening

You know what doesn’t cause wars? Women and renewable energy.

i don't want to wake up to any news bigger than "raccoon breaks into a liquor store, gets drunk" anymore

In 2025 I finished 42 projects using 14 different techniques to 17 different people. I used 4445g of yarn, spun 1340g new yarn and bought 700g new yarn. 🧶

youtu.be/vjlUE23ofsM?... I mean, I have (male) millenial friends who are shocked that I own power tools and know how to use them... I don't do tiktok though...

"Kenen maa, kenen ääni? on ensimmäinen kokonaisesitys Suomen saamelaisten historiasta. Hajallaan olevaa tietoa on saatettu yhteen, ja tuloksena on vähemmän tunnettu luku Suomen historiaa."

I don't know if this is the stuff of nightmares or a miracle of evolutionally design, or possibly both, but looking at the structure of spider silk makes the collection machines of spider silk to make more sense.

Sometimes research requires buying tools to use as example why theory doesn't work as many assume it to work (the size of the i-cord is based on the distance of the nubbins, NOT on the size of the hole). Locally 3D printed Roman dodecahedrons. #TextileResearch 🧶🏺⚱️

The III 7400 at the @museumderkulturen.bsky.social is very interesting knitted item, onced owned by young child. Did the toddler do toddlery things and kicked and squarmed out of their sock, or is there a Medieval toddler spending their Eternity with cold foot? #Medieval #Knitting #Socks #Cotton

If you are interested in the early blue & white knitted socks found in Egypt, the Museum der Kulturen Basel has put their collection online. As the search engine is a bit tricky as yet, I put together a blog post that includes them and a few from other institutions: nalbound.com/2025/11/04/b...

I'm looking for book recomendations: - Strong female characters - Not gory, not crime, not just spice - Writen in Finnish, Swedish or English - No black leather for every Viking Books I have enjoyed: 7 Sisters, Outlander, Anne of Green Gables Books I haven't enjoyed: LotR, SoIaF #Books #ReadingTips

Two weeks ago I got to meet her! I was very envious when so many of you were posting about the #Neanderthalerin exhibition earlier in the year, but two weeks ago I happened to be close enough to drop in for a quick look! And it was deffinetly worth the walk! neanderthal.de/en/our-museu...

Tämä ei ole hyvän mielen postaus, mutta ehkä syksyn tärkein postaukseni. Suosittelen kaikille tutkijoille ja tutkimusryhmille: käsitelkää törkyriskejä ja suunnitelkaa toimenpiteitä etukäteen yhdessä. Lähiaikoina on tiettävästi odotettavissa törkyä tiedeyhteisöä kohtaan. Ketjusta muutama pikavinkki.

I frogged a dormant project today. It was casted on on a whim to be knitted with my knitting machine. After 10 years of owning a knitting machine, I have come to the conclusion, that I don't like knitting with the machine and I don't think the sock blank-hype came to stay. It's time to say farewell.

Löytyyköhän täältä ketään, joka osaisi avata disability studies -alan käypää suomenkielistä termistöä? Kamppailen käännöskysymysten kanssa.

Ask and you shall be given. 📸 Dad #YarnCrafts #AncientCrafts #SprangLoom 🧶

The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine. Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.

Have you seen this sock (?) "Current location unknown"

If you were a #TextileNerd and had a day in #Berlin (Germany), what would you go and see? Destinations, say within an hour~ish, with bus/regional train are also considered.

Althought crafts are very much part of the material world, crafting in the other hand is very strongly immaterial. What aspects of the immateriality are the important factors for you in crafting? 🧶 #KnitSky #YarnCrafts #CraftingScience #MaterialCulture #SlowFashion

Reading a pattern is a rather crucial skill to obtain... 🤦‍♀️ And being able to estimate how much 2,5m is might help too... 🧶 #Frivolite #LaceMaking #YarnCrafts

How about some knee-high colourwork socks? (collections-gwu.zetcom.net/en/collectio... ) 10 stitches and 15 rows, knitted with 1,5mm needles, in cotton-silk blend with 800m/100g. #CraftingScience #ArchaeologicalTextiles #YarnCrafts #KnitSky 🧶

Have you seen this sock? It has been at the collection of the German hosiery online museum, which has been closed down. Do you know which museum the physical object might be?

This is one of those occasions where @bsky.app would need more emotions to respond with! I'm not saying I'm always perfect at collecting trash, but this is devastating, think about the bird with not one, but two bottle caps in their stomach!

Does anyone know if any of the Fatimid/Mamluk knitted socks have been DNA typed for the cotton type or isotope analysed for the area of growth? #TextileArchaeology #Egyptology 🏺

www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar... Independent science is the quarantee that there will be inhabitable planet for the future generations, and a quarantee for that there will be future generations!

Tieteentekijöiden liitto on huolissaan tieteen vapauden heikentymisestä niin kansainvälisesti kuin Suomessa. Viime aikojen tapahtumat osoittavat, että poliittinen valta pyrkii yhä avoimemmin ohjaamaan sitä, mitä tutkijat voivat tutkia, julkaista ja sanoa, liitto toteaa kannanotossaan. 1/2

What (textile) crafting related question you would love to know answer to? #KnitSky #YarnCrafts 🧶

I'm crocheting an ovaloid project bag, and would prefer adding a sturding line at the top. As the shape is free form, the hoops I have won't work, what would you recomend instead? 🧶 #Crochet #Crocheting

May he rest in peace, and may God grant endless wisdom to the cardinals who will gather to elect a new pope. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Stories of crafting: "few" ball bands from the first ~20 years of my crafting history. - 52 different manufacturers - 16 handdyers - 9 spinning fibre providers I know these aren't all, I couldn't find any Red Heart bands or few others I can remember working with. 🧶 #Yarn

Harvest New Year is turning up to be my favourite feast!

He is risen!

For once the idea to start new project didn't come at 2am! Tubular brick stitch beading. Will see if it is going to be a bracelet or necklace (as intended), or nothing at all 🤷‍♀️ #Beading #JewelryMaking #NewSkillsUnlocked 🧶 #YarnCrafts #QualityStreetRePurpose

Nothing quite to build the mood like a fire alarm going off at 3.18am... Stupid teenagers who don't know how to open a window before making their midnight snacks...

Another spinning project half done! 🧶

A small hat with leftovers. What do you think, how many leftovers I used? 🧶 #KnitSky #YarnCrafts

What kind of shoes were worn in Egypt after Roman period? 🏺

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

One (well, two) of the items lost at the looting of Sudanese National museum is this pair of nalbound socks from 9th-11th C Semna South, when most likely Christian woman was sent to Eternity with cozy feet. This is one of very few pairs with intarsia compound nalbinding pre-modern times.

I've used just over 3kg of yarn for 14 projects in 3 techniques this year so far and I haven't bought any new yarn. I have spun almost 1,1kg new yarn. I'm contemplaiting if I should buy a bit acrylic DK or Worsted for a sample, or if I would have something suitable at home... 🧶 #YarnCrafts

I love the subtle colour pattern of this shawl section. My original plan was to knit one leftover ball first and then follow with the second, but I was in a sunny room, when I was starting and noticed the difference in shades, so ridges it is! 🧶

It’s difficult to find graphing paper here, but our data indicates that the US Tariff on our island is causing their stock market to be shaped just like our biggest cliff. Impeccable