Rachel | Stitches and String Theory

And both financially and environmentally, it's better to drive your current car until the wheels fall off than to sell it and buy another

Yeah, my husband and I tag team with our dog, but it would be great to leave him safely for 10 minutes.

Wrt the picture, if it were me I'd have replaced the plate by now, but I don't really judge owners of non-cybertruck teslas. It was the only real electric option for a long time

You can set your car at a specific temperature, but not be able to be driven, so you can leave your dog in the car without them getting heat stroke. It also sets the display to the current temperature in the car so people don't break your window to save your dog

I'm so honored to be in your top picks! 😍

A screenshot of a humanoid bean, arms in the air in excitement, holding a pair of knitting needles in one hand. Text reads "You want to help? Yay! When you put down your phone to focus, I can focus on my knitting." The whole thing has a cartoony, slightly crayon-drawn aesthetic

I learned yesterday that @hankgreen.bsky.social has a productivity app? As somebody who knits, has difficulty concentrating, and calls everything cute a "bean," I think this was literally made for me? Excited to see how Deep Focus mode is when it comes out -- it might replace Forest on my phone

Yeah, I've tried both weekday brewery events and weekend coffeeshop events, and I've tried in both the more suburban area of the city and in downtown

Thank you for the suggestion! I've actually been trying to get a local meetup started since January, but despite having 50+ members in the group I haven't actually ever gotten anybody to show up. I've tried asking if there are places or times that would work better, but nobody has ever answered

but I'm no longer going to promise a September release.

Anyway, sorry for the trauma dump. This was a long way to say I'm still here, just quietly. Take care of yourselves and your loved ones, everybody. 5/5

But I've really been struggling to focus and still haven't written it up. I want to give my tech editor and test knitters plenty of time to make sure the pattern is top tier. I don't know when that will be. I'm going to try to force myself to sit down this week, /4

but we've pushed so far in the wrong direction so much faster than I thought we could that I don't know how we ever fix things.

I'm still planning on holding charity knit along. I've made the sample for the pattern I want to use to raise money for the Transgender Law Center and I'm proud of it. /3

With the passing of that big fucking bill, though, it feels like even that was too much to hope for. I think these next four years were going to be really important for climate and AI regulation and human rights and now not only have we lost our ability to push in the right direction, /2

So I've been pretty quiet on social media lately, mostly because I've been going through a pretty bad bout of depression. Back in November when the election results came in, I knew it would be bad but really tried to fire myself up for "damage mitigation." /1

I don't know how you hold your yarn, but learning to pick with continental style is a life-changer. There's so much less motion so it's way easier on the hands imo

A set of enamel pins clipped vertically to a piece of cardstock. From top to bottom is a Baphomet head, a she/her plaque, a plaque with rainbow-colored polyhedral dice, a plaque with various videogame implements, and a Baphomet butt

I've been coveting the pronoun pal pins from @kittywithacupcake.bsky.social since I saw the Kickstarter, but because I'm a hermit I couldn't justify them to myself. Now that I'm doing more in-person DMing, though, I decided to get a set for my TTRPG bag. It was so hard to choose just a few!

Yeah, pretty much. It's just knit, purl, knit, purl

It should also raise the alarm for all of AI: If people like Musk are willing to weigh its AI to become mecha-hitler, they're probably also willing to weigh it to support their business interests.

want to overthrow a dictator? you might need an alpaca. seriously.

What do an alpaca, a sex strike, and a protest with a baseball bat have in common? (1/9)

They’ve all helped take down authoritarian regimes.
Here’s how creative activism actually works — and why it’s so powerful.
#ArtisticActivism #CreativeResistance #C4AA

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Good to know! I also like buying fabric in person, though. I got this on vacation in Italy and the store only carried fabric

🚨URGENT🚨 The House is set to vote this morning on the “Big Beautiful Bill” that will reshape all of our lives in order to make billionaires richer. They're trying to jam this bill through, but it is not a done deal—we have one last chance to try and stop this bill.

Cozy Classic Raglan Top down raglans are my favorite garments to work. Intuitive repeats allow for relaxed, meditative knitting, and the ability to try on as you go makes the process as comforting as the finished object....

@jessiemaeddesigns.bsky.social's designs are all size inclusive and I've enjoyed all the ones I've made. I think the Cozy Classic Raglan would be the perfect first sweater
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Sadly, the closest thing in this directory is over two hours away

Looks like those are only in Michigan, sadly, and I am much further south than that

Southeast US

The nearest one is a 10 hour drive away 😔

#Sewsky Where do you buy sewing thread now that JoAnn is gone? I went to Michael's, but they said they don't carry it. I refuse to give Hobby Lobby my money and I don't seem to have a local indie option, but I really want to buy in person so I can color match my fabric

#Sewing

Good luck! Feel free to DM me, too, if you have specific questions and can't find answers

Do you mean things like threading the machine/changing the bobbin etc? Machines are all so different that I'd search your exact model on YouTube. For making things, Jessica Shaw is a good place to start

6 embroidery hoops. Each says Joy in a different font and color from the rainbow.

Happy Pride Family! I made this for you. I also made free patterns so you can make your own!

drive.google.com/file/d/1kVsZ...

#craftivism

A close up of a hand-knit piece. It features a thick center cable with thinner cables branching off at regular intervals against a reverse stockinette background

Apparently the current #ShowMeYourKnits prompt is yellow. The lighting isn't amazing, but here's a little sneaky peek at my latest pattern, Thrive. This will be in testing soon and will be released probably in September as a craftivism Knit-along raising money for the Transgender Law Center

#Knit 🧶