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@jess-knits.bsky.social

Knitting - walking - more knitting - reading - play a song. Manage libraries by day and knit by night

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I’m an addict now…I’ve got ‘Helm’ on pre-order 🙈 happy reading!

25.08.2025 07:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is true! So beautiful and full of energy

26.05.2025 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is a lush read! Why haven’t I gotten around to Sarah hall before?! #booksky

26.05.2025 16:37 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

#Knitting #Showmeyourknits #Knittingonbsky -
This 👇 😍 WOW

14.05.2025 06:13 — 👍 21    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations 🧶

09.05.2025 17:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today is the Christian feast for Julian of Norwich. She happens to be an excellent role model if you wanted justification for living/spending time alone with many books & a cat because in her cell, she wrote the first English book by a woman which is still quoted today 📚 🐈‍⬛

#booksky #allshallbewell

08.05.2025 07:15 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2

Ahh! Thank you! Taken in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

06.05.2025 05:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DK for #showmeyourknits. Bobble hat for youngest. He still wears this in winter but I fear it’s head fitting days are numbered

#knitsky

05.05.2025 18:15 — 👍 48    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Why thank you!

03.05.2025 18:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It really is a lovely design 🐠

03.05.2025 18:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gardening day! It’s a little late for us this year but a lovely bank holiday means we can get quite a bit done 🍃 🌹 🍃 . This is my most used jumper - made about 6/7 years ago and is amazing for the lack of pilling - looks still quite new

#knitsky #OOTD

03.05.2025 08:07 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ahhh!! This is lovely 😻

02.05.2025 07:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Happy knitting! 🧶

01.05.2025 19:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes ( I have one of these on my needles at the moment). Or even the more balaclava like my profile pic - they go well with jeans and a top. All above would be good for evenings at festivals etc

01.05.2025 19:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I can’t stop making hoods at the moment - they are very on trend though ( I’m led to believe by those younger!)

01.05.2025 18:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
An illustration of a woman standing with arms outstretched amid flowers and banners promoting workers’ rights, titled “A Garland for May Day: 1895,” dedicated to workers by Walter Crane.

An illustration of a woman standing with arms outstretched amid flowers and banners promoting workers’ rights, titled “A Garland for May Day: 1895,” dedicated to workers by Walter Crane.

01.05.2025 09:06 — 👍 34    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Oh, absolutely!

01.05.2025 17:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can imagine that being really difficult and frustrating it really isn’t the same when you order online as you end up reverting to the same few brands and lines as you know it is good rather than experimenting!

01.05.2025 16:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This is such a lovely initiative on Substack (If you’ve not seen this already - I’ve probably arrived late 🙈) 🧛 📚🦇 Dracula, coming to your inbox on the diary entry/letter dates 🤩

#booksky #substack #dracula

01.05.2025 16:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I know exactly what you mean! May/June is always an frustrating time to finish a project 🤣

30.04.2025 17:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a lovely combination 😍

30.04.2025 17:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nooo! Did you need online order or travel?I didn’t realise how lucky I was until I went to Cardiff (a capital!) a couple of weeks ago and nothing there!

30.04.2025 17:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Fantastic to see #showmeyourknits looking at indie yarns 🧶. Feel very lucky to live in a place with 3 independent wool shops! The below is a job lot from one of the shops and a beautiful alpaca from ginger twist in Edinburgh 😍 #knitsky

30.04.2025 07:32 — 👍 23    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ah that’s great! Really pleased you have it - it’s the mitts front cover 🧶

20.04.2025 20:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Ravelry: Knit Like a Latvian: 50 Knitting Patterns for a Fresh Take on Traditional Latvian Mittens - patterns

I can’t dm you but I’ve worked out it was not a bought pattern but from this book which I borrowed from the library. It’s a lovely book which I made a few pairs of mittens from 📚 🧶

www.ravelry.com/patterns/sou...

20.04.2025 16:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🤣🤣🤣 sorry! I’ll have a look around the house and dm you if I find anything

20.04.2025 16:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This looks great 👍

20.04.2025 11:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gifts for #showmeyourknits - I made these for my lovely friend, Anna’s birthday a few years ago - they were a very sweet knit but u cannot remember what the pattern was 🙈 #knitsky

20.04.2025 10:59 — 👍 38    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s a really lovely book, very much worth bumping up that list 📕❤️

19.04.2025 16:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It is fun!

19.04.2025 15:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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