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The Wild Roses sock knitting pattern is live!

Wild roses bloom in spring, heralding warm weather and growing greenery. These flowers may be smaller and less elaborate than their cultivated cousins, but they’re hardy and enduring, and their tiny pink blossoms a wonderful sight for any prairie traveller. They always make me nostalgic for childhood days spent wandering the countryside under the bright, open sky.

I knit my pair up in Little Wing Fibers' LW sock in the colourway Cherry Blossom Season.

As always, a huge thank you to my test knitters for all their help getting this pattern ready!

The pattern is written for four adult sizes, and can be found on my website or on Ravelry.

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“How’s your WIP going?”

"Have you made any progress?”

“How close are you to being done?”

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They should make more tiny knitting patterns

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"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

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Things need to be cheaper. Free, even

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oh my GOD you can’t just ask someone why they’re barking

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nosferatu? no. tuferatu. no es mi problema.

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let's lay on mama!

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Let’s be whimsical in the flowers with mama

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They complained that a 4% surtax would force the ultra-wealthy people to flee the state. It passed narrowly. Not only are these multi-millionaires NOT fleeing en masse, more of them live here now than before the tax was enacted. It raised almost two and a half BILLION dollars in 2023 alone, funding free school lunch statewide and free community college for state residents.

Moral: TAX THE FUCKIN RICH

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So much data entry but it’s all worth it

ok project revamp ravelry complete. went thru all my projects, queue, and stash. phew. took me a bit but feels so much better.

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Every time I see someone try to claim that "elder daughter syndrome" is "just parentification" I want to bite glass.

I'm not saying parentification is a bad term. I think it's a GREAT term to describe the general concept! I think it's a good and important umbrella term!

But there is an inherently gendered aspect to the subset of parentification we call "elder daughter syndrome" and I think you do everyone a disservice when you pretend that it doesn't exist.

Because when you try to dismiss people using the term "elder daughter syndrome" you are saying "the specifically gendered ways you were parentified don't matter and were not harmful to you".

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Don’t a let a little thing like being a boy keep you from being a girl

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absolutely love abusing the power that comes with 3rd person limited pov and just ignoring things and being vague sometimes. does the character know all the details? no? then I don't have to either.

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i didn't do favorites because i don't hate myself

ok project revamp ravelry complete. went thru all my projects, queue, and stash. phew. took me a bit but feels so much better.