Lior 🇺🇦

the "Rachel's beef trifle" energy of this truly laid me out

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Advent packages are all done & most shipped!
15 minis, 6 medieval/Black history facts, 6 charms, knitting needle stoppers, stitch markers, earrings, crochet rings, pompoms, pattern ideas, beads, craft rings, a postcard, a write up on 2025's package inspiration. Yes, all this. Why? you deserve it.🧶

"Creating a pattern requires considering the entire work; each step has to fit with and work with all the others (..) This is especially true since AI can’t “test” the pattern after writing it, which is a big part of what humans do"

Yet another example of ChatGPT enshittification 🧶 🙄😒

I'm very glad the only genAI slop I've seen in the fiber arts world are either dyers/designers using AI slop images or someone offering merchandize with fake knitting images. Then again, my restrictions here are set tight and I usually don't cast a wide search net on ravelry

get to know your moots! List 10 random things you like:

🧶 color gradients
🌳 analog instruments in electronic music
💙🤍💛🧡 sunrise
🐝 listening to my wife practicing the piano again
🌺 being known 🐴
🧶 playing with yarn
🧮 turquoise+teal shades 💠
💠 graveyards
🧦 knitting math working
💜 fluidity, the river

Prattchett would be delighted :D
Also, Tolkien's dwarves are an antisemitic caricature, so I don't care about his opinion 😁

Long rows really are the ultimate test of endurance (I can't even call it patience anymore XD)

Yep
And how normal it is.

extremely niche reader’s advisory question for my library fam: YA with volleyball player main character???? besides Haikyu obv

I mean, Paulus is just a real asshole

Oh, interesting!
Now I'll have to ask her what she used as a base.

Y’all @jimiknits.bsky.social is here now! 💃🧶

Jimi, @knitty.com has some awesome starter packs to connect with other knitters/designers.

Yeah, I got drawn into it, too.
There is a full breakdown of what happened to me here (except for the screenshots as proof), but I have about a dozen stories from other designers, too. Afaik, none went public yet, though.
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Oof

Good luck, and fortunately you're not married to your job ;-)

A mmiw rug hooking art piece in memory of all abused, murdered, missing, indigenous women/people The piece has a red background and a figure of a native person with long braids and a hand palm panted in their face for mmiw remembrance

The gift of the great buffalo a book by Carole Lindstrom

A picture of the book Bad Indians Club a book by @ daanis

A picture of the book We are Still Here by Tracie Sorell

Carole also bought my very first piece, The "ENOUGH". 100% of the proceeds have gone to MMIW organization @csvanw.bsky.social

I feel privileged to been able to shown my art and happy to see people enjoy it. It was truly surreal for me.

You can also peep @daanis book Bad Indians Book Club
🧡❤️

2/2

@libro.fm can you pleeeeeeeaaaaase fix your search engine both on site and in-app? It turns up unrelated garbage on 80% of the searches I do, to the point where author's books are not findable no matter the spelling, even though I know they are there 😢

Ebook cover for The Tale of the Sad Christmas Dragon (green background, light green dragon). Top text: A cozy holiday fairytale for kids and magical souls" Bottom text: Written by a 19yo sour punk-teen who 'hated all about christmas'. Edited by her 32 yo self who went 'aww, you sweet girl'

I guess it's about that time of the year where I should mention I've got a short christmas fairytale for you to read.
I wrote it back in highschool almost 20 yrs ago and found it by accident a few years back, gave it a basic edit, and here you go.

It's free on Ko-Fi and Itch!
ko-fi.com/s/5f3400a90d

How robust are these? Like, would they survive falling from a table?
Bc I'm thinking, you can also market them as stitch markers, if you use clasps and/or rings (4mm, 5.5mm) :) I can't wear earrings, but I love some nice jewelry on my knitting ;-)

Was gonna take some individual pics and actually get these up on ko-fi but the course of the evening darkness is upon us and all pictures turned out terrible.
Guess that'll be the project next weekend.
If anything catches your eye let me know.
Starting at $12 (incl shipping <3)

Muhahaaha XD

Right down to the rustic pottery 🤣
The orchids are thriving, as are the dust bunnies 😁

XD

Wait, now I'm confused. We always had sth my mom called French Onion Soup at home, and I'm quite certain there was no meat/ham etc in it. Am I missing sth?

I mean, they often come together, don't they? Like, I've never met a racist who isn't also anti-trans and ableist.

She is mainly on IG as jpknitsthings (I think), but has started posting here as well

Jennifer Paroccini

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