A patch of dirt with tiny little flowers poking through. There is a yellow one (daffodil?) and two purple ones (crocuses?)

Seen on today's stupid daily walk for my stupid mental health: tiny little harbingers of spring! 🌸🌼

A purple, tweedy knit baby cardigan. The sleeve stitches are on holders.

I've had this pattern (Fairy Dust, by Dani Sunshine) in my queue forever, and I finally decided this purple Rowan Felted Tweed was the perfect yarn for it.

I'm trying to get one more shipment of warm baby things out to Pine Ridge before spring!

#knitsky #knitting

Relatable. I think of this picture every single day that I go for a walk.

Exciting! Even if it's not wide enough, you could do the front and back separate, and then just seam the sides? Still way faster than hand knitting it all!

I love that style sweater! I've heard of people knitting the yokes by hand, then doing the body and sleeves on a machine. I have a WIP that I'm pretending I'll do that with, but it's been languishing for a few years now.

I send my items to Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, through the Friends of Pine Ridge Ravelry group. One of the things they'd like are baby layettes, so I'm enjoying knitting itty-bitty things right now 😊

It's a great little machine, and as most of my knitting is for charity, I appreciate being able to use DK and worsted weight hand knitting yarn with it. I just wish I could knit in the round. (Although my seaming skills have definitely seen an improvement through all the practice they're getting!)

That's interesting that it's more sensitive. I know my machine can't take a ribber, so I've done almost no research on them. I know my limits, and learning all the cool things you can do with one would probably be beyond mine 😆

Fancy! Is that what the maker space had?

I have a basic little lk150, and all the buttons on an electronic machine are very intimidating to me. I'm very jealous of you having a ribber, though!

That shows great restraint! What model did you get?

a cartoon drawing of a vacuum cleaner with a sign on his head that says vacuum ALT: a cartoon drawing of a vacuum cleaner with a sign on his head that says vacuum

And picturing this guy, of course.

I finished the row, so now I'm mentally making the "typewriter guess back to the left and dings" noise.

Now that I'm done with my Basic Decency piece, I'm back on my bullshit*

*working on this giant polar bear playing cards

#crossstitch

One thing I love about this pattern is that each of the flowers means something.

Snowdrop: hope, rebirth, friendship in adversity.
Petunia: Rage.
Lavender: LGBTQ+ community.
Violets: women's suffrage and women's rights.
Tansy: a declaration of war.

A finished cross stitch on blue fabric. Across the top are snow drops, pansies, and lavender. In the middle are words that say "radicalized by basic decency." At the bottom are violets and tansies.

When I first saw this pattern a few weeks ago, it immediately spoke to me. Yesterday I finished stitching it!

Pattern by SonovaStitch on Etsy

A red and white Australian Shepherd walking on a sidewalk next to a very large wall of snow. The dog appears unbothered.

No, it's fine, we didn't want to go that way anyway

A pair of knit baby mittens in blue, pink, and teal. They're on a blue background, and above then is an orange pen that says "I work hard so my dog can have nice things."

My stash of worsted weight scraps was calling to be, so...

One pair of itty bitty baby mittens done!

Sorry, I forgot to post the pattern!

It's by SonovaStitch on Etsy- highly recommend!

www.etsy.com/listing/4448...

*nap I took. No cartography theft was involved 🤦🏻‍♀️

A partially finished cross stitch on blue fabric. Across the top are snow drops, pansies, and lavender. Below are words that say "radicalized by basic."

I made progress yesterday! (Not shown: the map I took and the game of Catan I lost.)

A partially finished cross stitch on blue fabric. Across the top are snow drops, pansies, and lavender. Below are words that say "radicalized by."

Today's goal is to get a bit more done on my "radicalized by basic decency" cross stitch piece. I'm just past halfway done now!

An excellent life theme!

I'll cross my fingers for you that you find something that works.

Have you tried Portuguese knitting? I feel like your shoulders don't really move when doing that. (I experimented with a few things before landing on the belt as what worked for me 😄)

It's possible it might? My left rotator cuff is messed up, and I've found that the small movements I use when knitting with the belt mean my shoulder doesn't really move, so it stays happy. But YMMV depending on how/why your shoulder hurts.

I have tendonitis in my wrists, and using the belt is just about the only way I can knit comfortably anymore. Because of the way the belt holds the working needle, I don't have to grip the needles as tightly, which is the triggering issue for me.

I bought mine (and a bunch of long dpns) many years ago from here: www.etsy.com/shop/BobNWeave . Highly recommend!

Longer/more thorough explanation here: www.principlesofknitting.com/how-to-use-a...

You use longer dpns with it, and push one end of the working needle into the belt (which is traditionally stuffed with horse hair), which holds it steady.

Gladly! It's the thing shown to the left of the pants in my pic. It's a traditional knitting tool that lets you knit with less stress and strain on your wrists.

A pair of dark heathered blue knit baby pants, next to a knitting belt.

I finally got my crafting mojo back today, and finished up these baby pants. I picked this heathered blue yarn because I think it makes them feel like blue jeans.

Shout out to my knitting belt, which makes knitting possible for me again!

#knitting