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Pattern: DK Weight Vanilla Socks by Crazy Sock Lady. Yarn is Purl Soho Pepper and Knitting Yarn. 🧦

A pair of colorful hand knit socks resting flat on a wooden table

First pair of socks, in all their happy, lumpy glory!

Husband’s toes are extra cozy in the 100-degree Austin heat 🤪🧶

I’m so grateful to #knitsky for inspiring me to finally try socks. I still can’t believe these came off my needles. (And of course, next pair are already cast on! lol)

A home baked pie with a red strawberry filling and white icing with rainbow non-pareil sprinkles

Closer pie

Even closer pie

Increasingly close portraits of STRAWBERRY POP TART PIE (!!), because she deserves to feel glamorous

A giant yellow, black, and orange bumblebee takes a nap in the center of a yellow flower in a garden. There are little white dots of pollen all over the flower and the bee’s fuzzy head.

Pollen bender 🤭

#garden #gardening

🚨PACK THE HEARINGS! 🚨
The Texas House Redistricting Committee will host three public meetings as Republicans try to redraw the Congressional map to steal 5 seats at the request of Trump. It’s essential that we pack the room and speak out through public testimony

Details in thread #txlege

A blue jay is perched on the side of a low birdbath in a backyard. The bird is very fluffed up from its bath, like a popped popcorn kernel. Behind the bird is a planter with flowers and greenery, and a small fountain.

A blue jay perched on the side of a low birdbath in a backyard. The bird is looking directly at the camera. Its feathers are fluffed from its bath, so it looks round, like a tennis ball. Behind the bird is a planter with flowers, greenery, and a small fountain.

A new bombshell has entered the villa

Both are Purl Soho: main color is Pepper in Comic Book, and then the cuff is their Knitting Yarn in Sour Citron. They’ve been really nice to work with, IMO! Super soft

A knitted sock in progress lays on a glass table. The sock yarn is a creamy white with random flecks of hot pink, blue, green, and yellow, and the sock has a chartreuse-colored ribbing along the ankle. A printed sock pattern rests behind the knitting.

Just turned my first-ever sock heel! It felt every bit as magical as everyone always says. 😍

I did end up with a little hole off the gusset (whoops!), so I’ll need to learn how to fix that later. Lol.

This might be the beginning of a new obsession… 🧶🧦

Wow, absolutely gorgeous!

A long, rolled-up fabric case for storing knitting needles. It's made from a red and gold old-fashioned upholstery fabric, with a blue silk ribbon tied around the middle of the case to keep it closed.

A rectangular fabric case for storing knitting needles is unrolled on a table. There are pockets across the case that keep each set of needles tidy. The fabric is embroidered with red and brown stripes of thread, and features a small pocket made out of a red poppy print fabric.

I'm reorganizing my craft closet and just found my ancient #knitting needle roll!! I remember sewing it in my very first (teeeeny tiny) studio apt from a pile of free fabric. 😂 🧶

It's not the most functional, but it still makes me smile. Do y'all have #crafting storage hacks? I need inspo!

Thank you so much, James! The Vanilla socks look perfect for a first try, I’ll start there. (I shoulda guessed just from your user name that you’d have a great recommendation! 😆😄)

A woman stands in front of a mirror. She is wearing a handmade, light blue knit camisole. The camisole features a simple, repeated lace pattern that from a distance looks like diamond-shaped flowers.

The Saturday Top is finally done!

This one showed me the joy of #knitting a repeatable pattern — just enough movement to stay interesting, and simple enough to watch The Gilded Age at the same time lol.

Next, maybe my first pair of socks. Does anyone have a fave beginner pattern? 🧶

Thank you! This will be a camisole with i-cord straps 💕

Absolutely, it can be horrific. I’m so sorry ❤️

I’m furious we still have to fight for the medical industry to take our pain seriously.

A knitting work in progress laying on a table next to a cup of coffee. The knitting features a lacy pattern with holes that form flower-like shapes. There’s a paper chart showing the knitting pattern, and a ball of light blue yarn.

A new #knitting adventure to bolster my psyche against the horrors. This is the Saturday Top by WAK, in pima cotton. It’s my first time knitting with a chart, which has been SO fun.

Having a bit of a tension issue, but happy to always be learning. Can’t wait to get to the neck shaping!! 🧶

A woman stands in front of a mirror, wearing a handmade knit sweater that features long, drapey rows of stitches

Fiiiiiinally finished this oversized, drop stitch marshmallow! It sat forever in pieces, because if there’s one thing I’ll put off every time… it’s assembling. And blocking, which was not done here. Lol. (🧶 Ginkgo sweater by WAK)

Oh you don’t say. You’re telling me women actually… FEEL the pain they’ve been telling us about? Like, it’s real, physical pain? I dunno, sounds sus guys, I don’t think we should trust em

Profile of a small brown baby bunny sitting in front of a tree stump in a backyard. On the tree stump is a terra cotta planter full of colorful petunia flowers.

TINY BABY BUNNY

Glorifying motherhood with hollow “gifts”, and also making sure we can’t access the care we need to have healthy pregnancies (including safe abortions), education we need to raise informed children, fair wages we need to support them, or affordable housing we need to keep a roof over their heads.

Save Medicaid Please call your Representative right now and leave a voicemail, or first thing on Monday morning before the mark up session begins.

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TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.

MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.

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DEEP DISH COMMUNION WAFERS

A black and white greyhound sleeping blissfully on a fuzzy dog bed, resting its head on a giant rainbow-colored caterpillar toy like a pillow. There’s a little alien toy resting on top of the dog’s body.

When you go to the dog park AND the pet food store in the same day

YouTube video by Kevin Lammi Gordon Bombay World Cup Inspirational Speech

DeBoer: 🙂‍↕️📝✅

#GoAvsGo

🗳️ It’s Election Day, Texas! 🗳️

These municipal elections determine the future of reproductive rights, health care access, and education in our communities.

We have 100% rated candidates in San Antonio, Fort Worth, and Dallas!

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#txlege

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lol 👏

"Did the referees cause the Avs to outshoot the Stars 48-23? Did the zebras conspire to bounce the puck off of two of your fourth-liners and into your own goal? Did the pinstripes open up the defense so you could gag away four straight goals after taking a 4-3 lead?"

I would like a 100 goal lead now, please

#GoAvsGo

Still screaming over that nauseating Benn flop last night. Even the dives are bigger in tx 🙄 #GoAvsGo

One of the most dangerous anti-abortion bills we’ve ever seen is being heard in Texas today. If you live in Texas, make calling these 14 people to vote NO on HB 5510 your number one priority today #txlege