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A woman in a light purple shirt and cardigan wears an aggressively floral patterned turquoise red and navy tie.

Sometimes I want #badtiemonday to be pretty, but I don't always get what I want!

#workwear #monday #tie

Might do. It's got some interesting themes. Let me know what you think.

The Seven Miracles of Beatrix Holland Most visitors to Skerry Island see only its lush greene…

I finished The Seven Miracles of Beatrix Holland by @rachaelherron.bsky.social . It's so good! Witchy found family, high emotional stakes and also cosy. I hope there will be more set in that world, because I was sad to leave.
#booksky #netgalley #magic

A woman wears a green cardigan and a navy tie with a small gold repeating pattern

A close up of the tie. It appears to have tiny gold teeth and sunbursts on it.

One of my favourite kinds of bad ties are the type that looks fine from a distance, and then you take a closer look and think "what is that?". In this case, are those tiny teeth?
#badtiemonday #womeninties #workwear

The Seven Miracles of Beatrix Holland Most visitors to Skerry Island see only its lush greene…

This afternoon I'm going to sit at my wheel, spin and keep listening to The Seven Miracles of Beatrix Holland by @rachaelherron.bsky.social a witchy, family drama, magic story, which I am loving. 🧶📖🎧

#booksy #netgalley #audiobook

Beautiful. What are you planning to make with it?

Oh, and you can still click it even if you have previously sent it to Kindle.

It's great. Once you've linked your Kobo it's one click to get it. No messing around.

A woman wears a dark coloured tie with a small repeating pattern of sheep.

Last weekend I had a great time at the Australian Sheep and Wool show, and now I'm back and wearing a tie made of silk, but woven with sheep
#badtiemonday 🧶

A woman wears a blue tie with a repeating pattern.

I like the way the little canoe things seem to move when you look at this from different angles.
#badtiemonday 👔

A woman in a pink shirt wears a tie with a geometric pattern. Behind her is a man wearing a wrinkled tie with diagonal stripes. You cannot see either of their faces.

This week's tie looks ok, until you realise the fabric is sideways. As a bonus, here's a tie that's not so bad, but why is it so wrinkled?
#badtiemonday 👔

If you got a Kindle, I got a freebie for you. Some sex, some violence, zero dollarydoos this week. The Girl Who Came in From the Cold.

A woman wears a wide brown tie with a bright blue diagonal stripe and then stripes made of faded boxes. The other direction has a satin stripe too.

Stripes, but in two directions and also fading boxes. #badtiemonday 👔

The Allusionist - language podcast, fun and a bit random.

Torso wearing a diagonally striped red, navy white and grey tie. Playboy logo in the bottom corner.

Close up of the playboy logo

Back of the tie. Label reads "Trade mark of Playboy Enterprises INC"

I just wear it for the articles

#badtiemonday

A woman stands outside wearing a pale pink jumper.

#showmeyourknits is garter stitch. My most recent finish was Andrea Mowry's Wool and Honey. Theoretically knit in the round, but I knit it flat because I'm not a masochist. 🧶 #knitsky #craftsky

A poster with socialist text about no loyalty to the institution. Photographed in Ballarat.

Wheels can be expensive for something you may not enjoy. I did a 6 week learn to spin course with my local guild, and they lent me a wheel. One I knew I loved it, I dropped the $$.

Moldy toast.

A woman wears a pink shirt with a tie as described in the text. Some of the stripes are the exact same shade of pink as the shirt.

Just like last week, this week's #badtiemonday features uneven stripes. I particularly like / loath the black wiggles in the widest stripe.

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It was a really fun knit!

A woman wearing a yellow and grey striped jumper stands at a beach. It's windy and she is struggling to smile.

Turns out I rarely knit with yellow, which meant for this week's #showmeyourknits I had to go back to (shudders) March 2020, to find this lovely Joji Locatelli Japan Sleeves. You can't actually see the lace sleeves in this picture, but you can see the yellow!
#knitting #memories 🧶

A woman wears a wide tie. The tie has diagonal stripes, thin red, thick in white, light grey and dark grey.

The stripes on this make me feel slightly I'll. We can talk about the width later.

Pearly Gates A dead drag queen. A cozy café. A shady deal—and an une…

Nearly finished the audiobook of Pearly Gates and I don't want it to end. Lovely, wholesome, cosy fantasy. A book that centres friendship and community. Perfectly narrated by the author. So good. #booksky #netgalley #audiobook 📖

A navy cowl with grey rib and colourwork goats in pink and teal sits flat on a marble table.

#showmeyourknits is cowls - I don't wear a lot of cowls, but I knit this one, based on Kate Davies goats of Inversnaid hat. I wear it camping. When we hiked the West Highland Way in Scotland we saw the goats of Inversnaid and they were huge! #knitsky #colourwork #stranded 🧶

I do. I printed mine and laminated it. Otherwise I'm just guessing what width I should be spinning. I'm not great at eyeballing it.

A 50 gram skein of oatmeal coloured handspun yarn sits on a teal cushion.

We all love spinning beautiful hand dyed fibre, but this natural tweed from Bendigo Woollen Mills was so satisfying to spin and so lovely now it's done that I'm going to embark on spinning a sweater quantity.
#handspinning #craftsky 🧶

Moonlight and Dust An intriguing, fast-paced debut YA fantasy novel, featu…

Moonlight and Dust is a fantastic (in both senses of the word) story about a group of teenagers who gain access to magic potions. It's about belonging, friendship, culture and family, but most of all it's a great read. Thanks #netgalley for the eArc.

A woman in a polyester tie, printed with ugly print the sort of looks like fleur-de-lis

A woman with a manic smile. She is wearing the same tie as in the previous photo, but now she has a great tunic dress on.

This tie is made of such thin, slippery polyester that is was so difficult to get a decent knot in it.

#badtiemonday #workwear #fashion

A blanket, knitted in natural wool colours with sheep motives. It has holes, large and small.

This week's #showmeyourknits is blankets. Blankets are the one thing I don't knit much of, but here's Rams and Ewes by Kate Davies, a steeked, colourwork blanket. This picture is after it was attacked by moths.😤🦋💔