Tag: done is good
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It Takes a Village
What should I write while the world is descends further into fascism? Our fragile and imperfect democracy is on the verge of collapse and the tenuous progress of the last few decades is swiftly unravelling. I’m scared, and angry, and tired, and lonely. I’ve spent a lot of time dissociating into my art in the…
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Hope, Fear, and Witchcraft
My wife once described my knitting as “weird, indecipherable magic that involves cursing as an incantation”. And she’s not wrong! I’m happy to say my most recent project was a fun and easy knit that involved very little cursing, but it was definitely still a weird and indecipherable magic and it made a profound impact…
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Island Weaver
Do you have someplace that you consider your heart-home? A destination or a community or even a region, that isn’t where you live your day-to-day life, isn’t even necessarily someplace you’ve ever actually lived long term, but is nonetheless “home”? I’ve got a few of those places; Camp Celo is one (where I spent my…
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Magic Bracelet of +1 Calm
Today I’m going to show you a finished product that didn’t turn out at all the way I’d hoped. I’m showcasing it even though it’s not up to my usual standards because I really want to share with you all that I’m learning something new and it’s far from perfect and I’m still proud that…
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Getting my flow back
I think you all know by now that it’s been a bit of a rough year for me. I haven’t done much crafting at all. I hit a wall on a few of my ongoing projects and just couldn’t get into the right mindset to start something new. I really needed a relatively quick and…
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Merry Christmas & Happy (Christian) New Years!
Did you know that this New Years holiday is originally a commemoration of Jesus’ bris? That’s why it’s 8 days after Christmas. There is no secular reasoning to celebrate a New Years on this date; it’s a Christian feast day deeply rooted in Christian theology. But mainstream US culture is so enmeshed in Cristian hegemony…
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Neurospicy Knitting
It’s been a while y’all. I’ve been having a rough time this past year, and I’m about to get real with you. Don’t worry, I’ll still include pretty pictures and highlight some knitwear that I’m really proud of! But my art is inextricable from my politics, and politics is personal, and I need to get…
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Woven Connections
This week I’m *finally* going to share with you the finished product from the project I featured in my very first post on this blog. It seems like just yesterday that I joined the Lucy Quarrier Weavers and started learning how to warp my loom for the first time! Now, almost two years later, I’ve…
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Wingspan
My wingspan shawl is finally done! And now that I’ve had time for a photo shoot, you get to see the final result! This project is by far the most complicated pattern I’ve ever done. It’s a well known pattern, one of the all time most popular patterns on ravelry. I’ve had my eye on…
The Owl Weaver 