Its finally out!! Wheee!!!

U can now make your own Manta bag!!

Can be found here on ko-fi

Please share and tag me if you make one of these :3

Cindy Rizza, Matriarch, 2023, oil on linen.

Today's Card Is: Snom

Hey kid, look at me.

I want you to T-pose. Turn your right thumb up and your left thumb doen and look at your right thumb. Move your arms up and down a bit until you feel a nerve running from your armpit to your palm. Now turn your right thumb down and your left thumb up, and look at your left thumb. Keep your chest facing forward and your shoulders back. Move your arms again until you feel that nerve again. Keep alternating between these two for a minute, or look at each thumb thirty times each.

Now sit down. Put your left hand firmly under your left buttock, palm down. Keep your shoulders back and put your right hand over the crown of your head, very gently pulling it to the right. Do this for thirty seconds, then do it again but with your right hand under your right buttock.

These are stretches for the nerves in your arms, and are very good for people who sit behind a computer a lot, or fibre artists, or you name it. Do them daily. They will hurt in the beginning, but keep doing them, even after the pain has gone, or it will return and you'll have to start all over.

throwback to my fav socks I’ve ever knit ❤️ I knit these last summer but I can’t have a knitting blog and not have these on it! 🥺 The pattern was already discontinued by the time I found it but I fell in love with them so much that I just had to recreate them as best as I could. Hopefully the pattern is rereleased one day!

Ratten hassen Merz, you heard it here first

In regards of the Trump government scraping all trans inclusion in its queer information portion of its websites I have made this thing. Spread the word. Don't let them pretend we never existed.

P.S: Don't like! Reblog! <3

Interesting interaction on Facebook today.

In one of my quilt groups a member posted some pictures of how she made ruffled aprons for her granddaughters, and then was stumped on what to make for her grandsons. Oh, she thought, custom pillows!

Gentle reader, I saw red. The backstory here is that quilters are overwhelmingly white retired women, and they (or at least the ones who join FB quilting groups) tend to have some VERY old-fashioned views on men and women and girls and boys. (Lots of posts like "what ideas do you have for boy quilts?" and the comments will be full of pictures of quilts with tractors on them.) So I thought, I guess the message here is that girls are supposed to be working in the kitchen while the boys lounge around on their fancy pillows waiting to be served. I was ready to let her have it in the comments and risk getting booted from the group. But first I looked in the comments to see how the post was being received.

I was blown away by the comments. Comment after comment saying things like, "those are lovely, I make aprons for all my grandsons and they love to wear them when they help out in the kitchen!" "I made custom aprons for all my sons, and then more for their sons when they got old enough! They all love them!"

Then, after all these comments, here comes OP with one of her own: "I think next year I'll make custom pillows for my granddaughters and ruffled aprons for my grandsons." My comment: "That's a great idea!"

Sometimes people surprise you.

And sometimes people just need a little nudge, not a flamethrower.

And sometimes people

just need a little nudge, not

a flamethrower.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Can I Please Eat In The Computer Room Tonight? by Nicole Nikolich (2025)

Life tip:

Doing fiber arts in a library may attract the librarians to you. This will be a positive interaction.

Tonight's feature film: Where Did I Put That Thread I Just Cut

And its objectively terrible sequel!: Oh Shit My Fucking Needle Is Gone Too

I think one of the best things I've learned since getting into fiber arts is that something can be absolutely not my taste and I can still be impressed and delighted for the person who made it and people who love it. Almost every time I look through patterns or projects, I have a thought like, "I hate that and it's magnificent" or, "I wouldn't wear that, but HOLY CRAP it's amazing that you made it."

We need more of that.

A Murder of Crows by Mizmo Stitches on Ko-fi

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements

Away with the Fairies, free crochet pattern by Lettice Rose on Ravelry.

Made a new poster! :)