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I’m having brain zaps from stopping my SSRI (long story ugh) so today Frankie took me on a walk in the sunshine and then heated water for my bath and now I am tucked up under the heated blanket on the couch feeling very clean and loved.

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Thanks, this is reassuring. I’m so scared of my husband getting sick like, at all, now because if he gets a fever for any reason we go straight to the ED since he is so high risk for another implant infection. Still sucks that communication has stopped and I’m glad others are working to fill the gap for now.

PSA: the FDA is no longer issuing recalls for contaminated foods. This would be a really good time to give up eating raw vegetables if you possibly can, or at least just lettuce, cabbage, and sprouts. Also a great time to buy an instant-read thermometer to check your meats for safe temperature (especially poultry) and avoid eating raw eggs entirely. Also remember that flour is very unsafe to eat raw now—it’s frequently contaminated with E. coli.

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The long awaited double knitted twisted rib bind off method is finally here! Big shout out to the genius in my fibre community who developed this method for me and graciously allowed it to be shared. Happy knitting!

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unfortunately i have a deep love for humanity and choose to believe conditions will improve. despite it all

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Important actual information update

PSA: the FDA is no longer issuing recalls for contaminated foods. This would be a really good time to give up eating raw vegetables if you possibly can, or at least just lettuce, cabbage, and sprouts. Also a great time to buy an instant-read thermometer to check your meats for safe temperature (especially poultry) and avoid eating raw eggs entirely. Also remember that flour is very unsafe to eat raw now—it’s frequently contaminated with E. coli.

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Working on the Halibut Sweater by Caitlin Hunter! Finished the body earlier this afternoon!

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"30 years old isn't old man" what privilege do you live in where your life expectancy is far past 30 years

This post blindsided me so bad I spent a full minute staring at it in shock

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You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

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PSA: the FDA is no longer issuing recalls for contaminated foods. This would be a really good time to give up eating raw vegetables if you possibly can, or at least just lettuce, cabbage, and sprouts. Also a great time to buy an instant-read thermometer to check your meats for safe temperature (especially poultry) and avoid eating raw eggs entirely. Also remember that flour is very unsafe to eat raw now—it’s frequently contaminated with E. coli.

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@eatingmuffinsinanagitatedmanner here you can see the back of the top with the foundation squares and the lines of stitching where she stitched down each piece!

My new crazy quilt is almost finished! Kitty approves.

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@eatingmuffinsinanagitatedmanner this was a collab with my mom—I picked out the fabrics and she did the piecing. It’s a style called crazy quilting and it’s done by sewing randomly shaped scraps around a center on a muslin backing. Every square is different and unplanned (mostly. As you can clearly see, she fussy cut some of the pieces to feature the dahlias and queen Anne’s lace flowers that I liked so much!) It’s not as labor intensive or difficult as traditional piecing but you do have to learn the technique. Here’s a relatively simple explainer showing how it is done. You could definitely do one for yourself!

My Kaffe Fassett lap quilt had developed some holes and another torn seam so I did some repairs today! Very fun.

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I loved the colors for this sweater but the contrast between the textures was really not working for me. But I didn’t want to cast on 296 stitches again, so:

I put a smaller needle tip on my circular cable and used it as an afterthought lifeline one row before the colorwork. Then I frogged the colorwork and was left with:

My nice provisional cast on and short rows, ready for knitting as soon as my other colors of yarn arrive!

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Thank you!! Try it, it was incredibly satisfying and I use these literally every day, which is my favorite kind of handmade object.

Finished the coasters! I love sashiko embroidery.

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Well, if you go back in my archive, it looks like I started them around September 14th! So about 15 days. But I was very sick during that time and was voluntarily quarantining so as to avoid infecting my husband (a success!!) so I spent most of those two weeks shut in the bedroom doing nothing but sewing and reading.

Finished the coasters! I love sashiko embroidery.

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My Kaffe Fassett lap quilt had developed some holes and another torn seam so I did some repairs today! Very fun.

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crochet aquarium