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My brain is tired today. I’ve decided knitting needles shall now be written as kneedles.

That will be all.

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read pattern then buy yarn read pattern THEN buy yarn READ PATTERN THEN BUY YARN

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why is acrylic so squeaky?!?!?! i hate it...

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on the train and ive just lost yarn chicken 😭 my pattern calls for me to break the yarn after this row 🙃🙃

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on the train and ive lost yarn chicken 😭 my pattern calls for me to break the yarn at the end of this row...

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on the train and ive lost yarn chicken 😭 my pattern calls for me to break the yarn at the end of this row...

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So my sister wants to start sewing more, because

a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

And I, of course, crashed into the group text like “GET A PEN I HAVE WEBSITES FOR U” and honestly I’m thrilled about this

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Have I ever shown you the Link costume I knit myself? Because I knit myself a Link costume.

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Lon Lon Milk with small weighted whorl spindle cop of wool..

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a little collage i made 🍂

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btw I've found these stretches from the WAK blog very helpful when knitting a lot:

Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!

especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it's really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)

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At this point half the reason I still put up with TiKTok is the insane bakers and cooks. I mean LOOK AT THIS.

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Repairing holes in knitting