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A rainbow striped handmade scarf made with a double seed stitch border and a cable in the middle.

A person wearing a rainbow striped handmade scarf they just finished making.

I don’t tend to enjoy making scarves much, but here’s one I did out of spite that ended up being a really lovely gift for a friend. One of the first things I designed entirely myself, it’s fairly simple but the striped yarn kept my brain just interested enough to finish.
#showmeyourknits #knitsky

A close up photo of a scrappy quilt made of small 60 degree triangles. Some of the seams are slightly off, but the central one pictured features six triangles coming together to perfect points in the center. Fabrics pictured are all in shades of red, and feature gingham, bunnies, rings of white dots, red dandelions, large poppies, and black and red buffalo check.

Making a scrap quilt and playing with triangles for the first time. The rest of my seams so far are pretty rough but LOOK AT THIS PERFECT CONVERGENCE POINT AAAAAAAHHH
#quiltsky #upcycle #sewing #scrappy #handmade #satisfying

Finished a scarf for my sister and added it to a display advertising the employee crafting group at work. Hoping to start a knitting club for students this year as well 🧶
#library #knitsky #handmade #literacy #community #academiclibrary #makerspace

A hand drawn quilt block pattern in pencil with notes in the left hand margin. The block depicts a citrus slice composed of eight wedges, plus narrow strips for pith and the peel.

A quilt block depicting a slice of lemon on a light blue background. The lemon is oblong and the eight wedges are smushed together in the middle due to the block’s mediocre construction.

A quilt block depicting a slice of lime on a periwinkle background. The block is imperfect with some mismatched seams, but it shows a vast improvement over the lemon.

Spent the weekend designing, patterning, and stumbling through practicing my own citrus quilt block from scratch. First attempt was pretty slapdash but I took my time with the second one and I’d say that’s a recognizable lime. Only 98 more to go and I’ll have myself a quilt.
#quiltsky #handmade

A person spreading a handmade quilt over a queen size bed. The quilt has a horizontal pixelated wave pattern which transitions from pinks to blues to light and dark grays.

The back of the quilt spread out over the bed. The back is a disappearing nine patch pattern with pink and light blue floral large squares, beige floral horizontal rectangles, abstract lines suggesting faces in the vertical rectangles, and small dark green squares with red, white, and yellow flowers.

The same quilt as before with the back side facing up. One corner has been flipped to show both faces at once.

Finally finished my second quilt! It’s tough to get a nice picture of something this size, but I’m super proud of how it came out. Top is my own wave design, back is a disappearing nine patch in duck cloth at my beloved’s insistence. Vast skill improvement already!
#quiltsky #handmade #queercraft

A partially used cake of hand spun yarn that gradually transitions between yellow and bold orange tones

A hand knitted pumpkin about the size of a grapefruit. The pumpkin has ombré chevron bands of yellow, orange, and red. There is a curly green stem ending in a large leaf of mottled green handspun yarn.

Truly obsessed with how this yarn my sister spun worked up into a cute little pumpkin! Pattern is by Nimble Needles.

#knitsky #handmade #plush #pumpkin

Thank you! I did all flat felled seams because they’re my favorite and I wanted to reinforce everything.

Finished my first ever quilt just in time to use it as a photo backdrop for lavender graduation! I definitely learned as I want so don’t look too closely, but it’s a great blanket and it makes me happy.
#quilt #pride #handmade #firsttry #textileart #progresspride

Right??? I’ve been calculating hypotenuse left and right

My partner and I both started exclaiming “chickadee-dee-dee-dee” as soon as we saw this. Absolutely beautiful!

One half of a handmade quilt held vertically. The quilt is a progress pride flag, and the portion pictured features the red, orange, and yellow stripes as well as half of the black, brown, light blue, pink, and white diagonal portions of the flag. Distinguishable prints in the quilt include large and small florals, orange fruits, strawberries, dandelions, gingham, bunnies, pine cones, and geometric motifs.

Locked in for 9 hours today and got half of my first quilt top assembled. Absolutely humbled by math throughout this process but I’m not giving up.

#quilting #handmade #pride #rainbow #transrights #DIY

I’ll be interested to see the difference over time. About 70% of the fabric is an expensive fat quarter set, and the other 30% is random craft store bolt fabric and remnants to account for my bad calculations. Luckily I’m doing all reinforced seams so it will be indestructible either way.

It is!! I can’t wait to see everything put together with the progress pride stripes too.

Update: I started the quilt. Also holy smokes fabric is expensive

#quilt #sewing #handmade #pride

A person in a white shirt with blue flowers wearing a dusty pink cowl knit from handspun yarn. Subtle bands of blue and orange appear naturally in the yarn. The cowl is slouchy, with occasional purl stripes throughout. It comes to a sharp point in front, with a tassel of the same yarn attached to the tip.

The same person and cowl, with slightly more of their face showing.

Remember that yarn my sister spun for me? Looks like I figured out what to do with it. No pattern, just worked off a photo and experimented. I’m obsessed with the subtle color bands in the yarn- it worked up more beautifully than I could have imagined.

#knitsky #handmade #yarn #knit

Sorry I need to keep yelling. The amount of etymological research alone that had to go into this?? And the attention to detail in the time period, right down to dress (a nitpick for me)?? Unbelievable. I cannot fathom how one would even start preparing to write this book, yet here it is.

I was going to stop with the book posts because I found them boring, but HOLY SMOKES I need to yell about this book! Absolutely brutal, richly researched, and devastatingly timely. I love media that hurts me.

#booksky #linguistics #revolution #historicalfiction #bipoc #🌎📚💙

Ooh I love the edging!

Definitely didn’t just work out the rough measurements during a Zoom meeting at work… 👀

I’ve got four knitting projects on the needles. Someone convince me I shouldn’t start a quilting project just because I saw a progress pride quilt that looks super doable…

#knitsky #quiltsky #crafting #queermaker #multitask

Are these AI generated?

A sweater vest is one of my big knitting goals for the future. Not sure these yarns are the ones, but if you have a favorite pattern please share the title!

Ooh! A cowl sounds perfect for the pink. Thanks for the lead!

A large skein of hand spun yarn hung on a light green wall. The yarn is worsted weight, mostly a muted pink color with flecks of blue and purple and some strands of sparkle throughout. The handwritten card reads “sheep wool, firestar, maybe bamboo? 445 yards of Sparkle Unicorn Farts. Couldn’t decide on a project”

A close up view of Sparkle Unicorn Farts from photo 1

A huge skein of hand spun yarn hung in front of a light green wall. The yarn is a bulky weight, primarily orange with bits of green, brown, and red plied in throughout in very autumnal tones. The handwritten details cars accompanying it reads “100% sheep wool. 517 yards Hot Mess. Fiber by: The Bird’s Nest Knits and More”

A close up view of Hot Mess handspun yarn described in the third picture.

Alright knitters, I need some help. My sister is a spinner and has sent me these two ENORMOUS skeins of handmade yarn to play with. What do you think I should knit with 445yd of worsted muted pink “unicorn farts”, or 515yd of bulky autumnal variegated “hot mess”?
#knitsky #handmade #spinning #yarn

A hand knitted mitten is pictured with the thumb not yet complete. In place of the thumb is a small ball of yarn about the diameter of a U.S. quarter. The mitten is a hand dyed green with three rows of white in a horizontal stripe near the second knuckle. It’s in mainly stockinette stitch, with a long k1p1 ribbed cuff.

Playing a dangerous game of yarn chicken with this glove for a friend. Maybe they’ll just have one thumb poking out so they can use their phone…

#knitsky #yarnchicken #mitten #handmade

Book cover for Modern Poetry of Pakistan. An abstract mosaic features small brown tiles that gradually grow lighter in one area to give the illusion of a rough sphere, or a light shining down a hole from far above.

🌎📚💙 Book 25 of the year is Modern Poetry of Pakistan, an anthology of translated works from several of Pakistan’s languages. While I didn’t connect with the style as much as I do with my old favorites, I did feel a kinship with the authors as America faces struggles.
#booksky #pakistan #poetry

💙📚 Book 24 in 2025 was Taproot, a collection of poetry by Kathy Mangan. It was less nature focused than I had hoped based on the title. On the one hand it didn’t blow me away, on the other it was a nice experience of an older woman’s reminiscence on life.
#booksky #poetry

💙📚 Book 23 in 2025 was The God of the Woods by Liz Moore. I’m not normally one for thrillers, but this is based in upstate NY and I adore the Adirondacks. A little formulaic but with a nice twist at the end. Great character development all around

#booksky #bestseller #thriller

Book cover for Go to Sleep (I Miss You) by Lucy Knisley. Two side by side illustrations of a mother and baby next to a crib. In the first, the frazzled mother holds a crying baby. A spiky speech bubble containing a picture of a lightning storm erupts from the baby’s mouth. In the second, the baby is asleep in the crib while his wistful mother looks on, a thought balloon containing a heart floating above them both.

In honor of a good friend and new parent, book 22 for this year is Go To Sleep (I Miss You) by Lucy Knisley. It’s a cute collection of comics reflecting on the first few months of parenthood and all the blowouts along the way.
#booksky #comics #parenting #baby

Book cover for The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan. A rectangle of cloud is set amidst an off white background above a darker gray rectangle of the same proportions. Three red-orange circles the size of nickels are scattered across the image.

💙📚 Book 21 of the year is a tidy little LitFic novel called The Hearing Test, in which a sound designer for short films suddenly begins to go deaf. Extremely introspective, it’s as much poetry on the page as it is plot driven, which I always love.
#booksky #disability