Helena

A plastic box filled with bright red wool and silk fibre with a wooden spindle bowl and spindle peeking out from the fibre.

Refilling my portable spindle kit with more glorious red fibre (a wool/silk blend) #supportedspindles #spinningwool #handspun 🧶

PolarPlunge SOBC

Raising money for SOBC by having a plunge in the Pacific Ocean!

Wearing my recently finished Throwback cardigan - made with my handspun yarn 🧶 #handspun #knitting #knitsky

I'm starting to think it was a mistake to no longer require every 15 year old to memorize four Shakespeare plays about kings gone mad

Yup, time to buy Canadian wherever possible! And from the EU, UK, Mexico, Japan…pretty much most countries except one.

Good morning!

It’s day 11 of #RadicalizingMySheep & you know what? It took all of about 6 seconds to convince them that the people who live & work here & make up our communities should be treated with respect & appreciation. After all, they love fresh food. Also basic human rights & decency.

There is no such fucking thing as being “too woman” to pilot a helicopter, “too gay” to land a plane or “too black” to be an air traffic controller.

There is however, such a thing as being too hateful, too stupid & too sociopathic to be president.

And we call that Donald Trump.

Beautiful snowy day in Vancouver!

So much winning.

Thank you! It’s a joy to knit with so far

Go Maggie!

Hello Doreen, nice to see you here ☺️

It’s called the Distance scarf from Olga Putano Designs on Ravelry

First time joining #showmeyourknits #knitsky 🧶 Wearing some favourite striped socks today

It’s so satisfying to weave that I’d recommend learning just to be able to do this!

What do you do with 50g of spindle spun 100% cashmere? Knit a delicate scarf with the most delicate cable texture… 🧶 #knitting #handspun

Another challenging week, another small section of weaving completed regardless. This week, houndstooth. I’m planning to weave more houndstooth soon, it’s just so satisfying. #weaving #craftsky 🧶

Did my shopping locally at #reasonstolivegibsons (they’re not on bsky yet…) and couldn’t leave without this copy of Endymion, the cover is incredible. Looking forward getting back to the Hyperion world. #booksky #bookcovers #dansimmons #scifi

Will never get old #severance

Green wool cardigan with a colour work yoke, laid flat on a table in a sunbeam.

Blocked and dry, ready for the bands and sleeves to be finished. It feels amazing, it’s all my handspun and it’s so lofty! I not sure if my remaining yarn will do the bands and cuffs, so may end up with striped cuffs to match the colourwork. #throwbackcardigan #handspun 🧶

I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

Next section of my silk cowl woven today, enjoyed this subtle twill pattern a lot! #weaving 🧶

It’s an 8-shaft Glimakra, it belongs to my weaving teacher and she has it set up for this pattern.

Weaving a sampler cowl of several different twill patterns at the moment, weaving very slowly one section a week. #weaving

January sunsets 🔥

Trying something new, will be posting mainly about arts and craft and places I love. Finished my first project of the year this week. Heartnut socks #knitting