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seeing people my age talk about how scared they are of memory loss, which they only associate with old age, is so surreal to see as a 24 year old who has actively experienced memory loss for a long time now

there are causes for memory loss besides dementia and alzheimer’s, i hope y’all know that. dissociative disorders, trauma, brain injuries, thyroid problems, even just stress and lack of sleep can fuck up your ability to store, process, and access memory. and that’s just a few of the many causes i can think of off the top of my head right now.

please stop treating disabled people like some scary “other” that you might become only in the distant, decades-away future. we are your age, too. you may become one of us sooner than you know. stop acting like memory loss marks the end of a life, when so many of us have so much living left to do!

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i don't generally bother posting the stuff i knit exactly from existing patterns but i finally wove in the ends on a couple frankensteined socks and figured i might as well throw them up here? they're very dumb but i'm fond of them.

for the first pair i made up a colorwork pattern for the feanorian heraldic symbol, and slapped it together with the pisqu sock structure and toe pattern, and a snippet of a mitten for the sole halves. the yarn is 100g of jamieson's of shetland that i got on the high street of fort william, as a treat after walking 100 miles from glasgow to get there, and i had... maybe 10 yards total left over? i had to cut off the long tail from my cast-on and use it to graft the toe closed on the last sock; it was nerve-wracking. if i did this pattern again, i'd probably put the toe motif in between the two heraldic lozenges, but the first time through i wasn't sure how the math would work out so i frontloaded them. ah well!

the second pair is the structure of an existing sock i've forgotten the name of (worked in the round from the tip of the heel to a hat-like shape with six sides; two opposite ones are grafted together to form the instep and the other sets of two open into the cuff and close into the toe), with the colorwork pattern from the gogink sweater yoke. i thiiiink you could do this with basically any colorwork sweater yoke, but i've only tried it with this one. if i did it again i'd add some short rows to the front side of the cuff; the construction sort of pulls it down so that the heel side of the cuff is higher than the front, and a couple short row rounds would probably level it back out. i like these because they neatly smash the cuff-down/toe-up binary and make everybody mad, and i am at all times an imp of the perverse.

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The 2 cute Goobers

Bridget x May

#QueerSummmer - 14/30

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Sweater (probably American, 1895), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The large gigot (leg-of-mutton) sleeves of this wool knitted sweater were one of the most distinctive silhouettes of 1890s fashion.

If you want to knit your own, a similar pattern was published in Fancy and Practical Knitting (1897) on pages 167-168.

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i desperately want to make these wrist warmers but the pattern (tudor rose by regina hoppel) has been discontinued<\3 if anyone still owns a file for the pattern, could you please send it to me???

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knitting but make it ✨dark academia✨

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"Two Paid Ads And A Trans Girl's G-Rated Selfie" (tumblr, 2025)

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This is so scik!

Not actually sewn together or given a neck yet, but look at it all laid out! (Red dots are my friend’s initials blotted out)

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sweater progress

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knitting update: started armhole shaping!

also had another instance of the lattice work colour partially snapping which is. slightly worrying. trying not to think about it too hard, just as I also try not to think about how many ends I have to weave in later 🙃

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he sells his patterns on etsy!!! he’s also on instagram and youtube- his name is marcus and he’s pretty damn cool :)

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this messed up vintage cat sewing pattern has tormented me since i saw it & like some other folks have done in that post - i tried my hand at tweaking the pattern to resemble the illustration (and my personal tastes) a little more. i've ended up with this. i bestow it upon you nice folks now 👐

(update 2, added instructions & it's also on my Kofi!)

go forth and make weird little beanbag kittens! pls show me if you do!

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These are beautiful and look like they'll turn out amazing! The thumb looks good and there doesn't look like *too* much space above the finger.s

I have to finish 2 pairs of mittens by the end of August for a wedding and I’ve spent months agonizing over the design instead of knitting, please tumblr just reassure me I’m not totally off base, tell me how tf to cover that top space better, does the thumb go with it,, AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH. I accidentally cut off the edge but it’s not actually lopsided.

I like the palm pattern and edge and I think ram’s horn stars are magnificent, so I’m working within those constraints, just need some feedback and ideas on how to fill the blanks in.

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of course char plays as a catgirl online

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Maple leaf shawl

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Sorry no cat in this one.

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Are there versions which differentiate the black pixels? It's kind of hard to tell how many in the thumbs.

I released some free crochet / knitting charts if you want the pdf downloads get them from the link below or you can just save these thumbnails.

Find them over here