A hole in cobalt blue knit fabric. The hole is encircled by a few running stitches in light blue thread.

The unravelling top and bottom edges of the hole are held together with more blue thread that spans the hole a few times.

After darning the blue fabric has a rectangular white patch over the hole. The darning matches the texture of the original knit.

A tiny bit of swiss darning to fix a pair of fleecy sweatpants. 60% of the way through I realized that dark grey would have been a better choice than white. Oops.

This is part of my winter biking base layer collection, which I think will be back in action sooner rather than later…

I like how “Bicycle Master Race” sounds like some kind of elite bike handling competition

The SUP that was installed on the west side of 97 St between 167 and 160 Ave as part of Lorelei-Beaumaris neighbourhood renewal is already cracking in some places. It's only been 4 years! :(

There’s a lot less spitting in the highlights…

Watching live baseball on tv for the first time in my life today and thinking I should give it up and go back to watching highlights the next day

one simple fix here is to make a world that you'd actually want to bring a child into, and put everyone who says that doing so would be expensive and unrealistic into an individually-sized tupperware® container

I tried and failed to come up with a squash pun. *sigh* The dad joke posters of yegbike twitter would have had this well in hand.

Once again I’m embarrassed by the difference between how long it took for me to get started on this fix and the actual amount of time it took to complete (2 years vs. 2 evenings) 🫣

A black turtleneck laid flat on a book, with the neck folded over once.

Flat-lay of a black turtleneck with the neck unfolded. There are 5 white arrows pointing at the elastic threads, which form rows that are roughly evenly-spaced across the bottom half of the turtleneck (which becomes the “inner layer” when the neck is folded over).

Close up photo of the turtleneck, slightly stretched so the rows of black elastic are more visible.

A large blunt needle threaded with elastic thread is held between two fingers.

The latest item to graduate from my alterations pile is a knitted turtleneck dickey/bib that I bought for winter bicycling. It’s drapey to the point of sagginess (because superwash wool), so it wasn’t great at keeping my neck warm. I inserted 5 rounds of elastic thread and now it’s perfect.

153 Ave is now 100% complete! It’s actually been done for a little while but it was only today that I could get a picture while the sun was still up. Photo taken from the east side of the re-located electric box for a change.

IDK who needs to hear this but a well planned city is an affordable city.

A social media post by David Staples, columnist with the Edmonton Journal Post Media Newspaper, posted on October 27, 2024 which reads: The huge win for everyone on all sides, left, right and centre, is an election where everyone believes the results are credible. We used to do this effortlessly. Vote on Election Day with proper ID. Vote with paper ballots. Votes counted by citizens with scrutineers.

A social media post by David Staples, columnist with the Edmonton Journal Post Media Newspaper, posted on October 20, 2025 which reads: Unbelievably stupid process to vote in Edmonton. Do they have no voter list anymore? Where they quickly check your name, ID and give you a ballot? Long line up to fill out paper with name/address, line up again so someone can check paperwork. Idiotic slow, stupid process.

A snippet from a news article stating "The process for voting is different this year, which can impact the time it takes to vote. All electors are legislatively required to complete a Statement of Eligibility Form (Form 13) at the voting station. This form is a declaration by an elector that they meet the required legislated criteria to receive and cast ballots. Also, some electors will need to be added to the permanent electors register before receiving their ballots. This can take time. We ask Edmontonians to plan ahead and please have patience.

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Nobody tell David Staples this is all because of the changes me and my UCP have made to how municipal elections are held in Alberta.

Let's see if he can use his "journalism" skills to figure it out on his own!🤭

#abpoli #yyc #yycvote #yeg #yegvote

Oh great, it looks like none of the businesses on this street (82 St north of YH) except the habitat for humanity restore has a place to lock bikes. This may be the most annoying place to which I’ve ever had the displeasure of planning a trip. #yegbike

Yet again I am trying and failing to find a bike rack (via streetview) that I can use on my trip later this week. A bike shop being located beside a bike lane but having no bike rack just doesn’t make sense. I think the message being sent is that cyclists aren’t actually supposed to use 82 St.

Update from Elections Edmonton:

"Voting has been suspended at St. Timothy Catholic Elementary School in Ward Anirniq due to a power outage. EPCOR is accessing the situation.

Voters assigned to St. Timothy Catholic Elementary School can cast their ballots at Caernarvon School, 14820 118 St NW."

*The last day of early voting in the 2025 federal election was the longest I’ve ever waited to vote. An hour in hell (the mall) 😵‍💫

Ah, I forgot to look at the time when arriving and leaving my polling place but I got through 5 or 6 rnds of sock knitting while waiting in line for ballots, so… close to 20 mins? Not very long but I’m sure that’s the longest election day* wait I’ve ever experienced

The discomfiting ordeal of being perceived is the unspoken prerequisite to the mortifying ordeal of being known

It’s not the same but someone once messaged me to say they had just seen me go past their house on my bike and I was mortified for no rational reason

Question for candidates: is it embarrassing to go to the polls to vote for yourself? How does it feel if the poll workers recognize you? 😳

Right, so much character! Seeing experimental, sometimes “imperfect” hair-styling was how I started to understand the versatility of kinky/curly hair.
I’m a big fan of the “unnatural” hair trends from this time too. My cousins had different colour hair at every reunion and it was amazing.

This post makes me want to wear bantu knots, long earrings, and burgundy lipstick soon 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

When people mock millennial style I am never bothered because surely you don’t mean me! 2010s Black hipster fashion is something I will always look back on fondly, with 0% cringe. IMO this wasn’t just Peak Fashion but also Peak Hair (and makeup)

My one-sided beef with the ready-to-wear clothing industry continues. You wouldn’t think that someone who’s less than 5’6” should have to buy tall sizes. And yet >:(

Length added: 5 cm (8.5 when cuffs are turned down), which I had hoped would be a little too long. Not so; they turned out normal length.

Closely cropped photo of a person in white and blue long-sleeved flannel pyjamas holding out one arm to show the sleeve hem. The sleeve is a couple of inches too short.

Pyjama-clad person adjusting sleeve cuffs, which were made from blue and white plaid flannel in similar shades as the original flannel of the pyjamas.

Pyjama-clad person with outstretched hands showing the new, longer sleeve length.

I finally remembered that I can sew, so now my too-short pyjama sleeves have turn-up cuffs. 😌 And it only took [mumbling] years for me to get annoyed enough to make this fix.

Don’t mind the basting threads, I got too excited about posting. #garmentsewing

Screenshotting this post to send to my mother and make her happy

*rubbing temples*
I just helped some family members book their seasonal immunization appointments online and I have some questions, beginning with: why does the appointment booking change every year? Why is it a different process on a different website every time?

Everything I have learned about [insert name of far-right US media pundit], I have learned entirely against my will.

Cycling couple struck, injured 2 days apart at same Winnipeg intersection | CBC News A Winnipeg couple is raising safety concerns after both were injured while bicycling through the same Winnipeg intersection two days apart.

Separated.
Active transportation.
Infrastructure.

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