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All the granny squares for the cropped vest are now blocked! And this placement feels pretty good. Might need something more at the shoulder, depending on the fit, but I'll try it like this for now. Just need to start joining I guess.

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While waiting for my granny squares to block I've been making some granny hexagons with this lovely variegated yarn. They are really cute and pretty small. Whippet for scale lol. No idea what to make with them though. Suggestions?

Also, the three yarns in the last pic are my options for joining the granny squares I'm blocking rn. Leaning towards using the brownish pink, but either of the greens could also look really nice. Decisions decisions.

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My improvised setup for blocking granny squares... A solitaire board, some chopsticks and a plastic lid lol. Good enough!

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Front and back for a phone belt bag.

Also, the feeling when you are freehanding and the stitch count around the edge of the back and front still match.

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Scrolled past the chart for this star in my feed on Facebook and thought I'd try it. (Cannot read a written pattern for the life of me, but charts just make sense.) Thought it might make some nice stars for the christmas tree, but it was a bit finicky and I wasn't completely happy with how it worked up. Might try to freehand something similar though.

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If I make three more I'll have enough for a little open front cropped vest. Definitely considering it.

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I mean, how pretty is this!! This yarn was so perfect tbh. Almost gives an oil slick rainbow sort of impression.

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Look at this fancy yarn! Using it to make yet another beret lol.

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Made some more granny squares.

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My pile of granny squares is growing.

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Another episode of 'freehand crocheter tries conventional crochet'. This time, behold my first granny square! I had a bunch of leftover yarn from my beret-palooza, so I though I might as well.

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Well. At least the radfems are showing their colors very clearly. I'm sure they hate that I'm deleting their comments, and will claim that I'm silencing them. But there has really been very little of substance. Just a lot of very crude language and insults. "Shut tf up you kweer mofo." and the like...

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Lol, now the terfy radfems are mad that I'm "deleting reblogs". Nah, I'm just blocking all y'all. If I could block every single radblr I would.

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Perhaps predicably the radfems found my previous post about the 4B movement... And suggested that us trans people should just shut up and not center ourselves in a matter of life and death for people with a uterus.

Well fuck that. Lots of trans people have a uterus and a majority of those who don't are still impacted by misogyny. Also, don't fucking use the fight for rights for one demographic to silence or harm another minority demographic. That's really shitty behaviour.

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This 4B/6B/6B4T/4A movement making strides since the US election results came in is making me have thoughts.

I'm all for it in theory. As a childfree self-partnered aroace it's kinda my normal mo. But like, it so easily hides or glides into transphobia. As I understand it it's a radical feminist movement from the start... and maybe Korean radfems don't have the same hangups re: trans people... or maybe they do. Idk. But anyway, while there are some radical feminists that are explicitly trans inclusionary, those are rather few and far between. Gender essentialism tends to be a pillar in the radfem framework.

I'm worried that this movement might become a terf pipeline for women who, rather rightfully, find the main idea if it appealing. So, if you are a woman, or otherwise the owner of a uterus, and want to join this movement... be mindful and look out for any hidden (or blatant) transphobia. If you see it, call it out. Don't accept it because you think it's for the greater good or some shit.

Also, this movement tends to ignore that nonbinary people exist, and that's a major red flag tbh. Most of the groups popping up on Facebook are 'women only', not 'no cis men'...

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So gorgeously frosty and foggy today!

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In light of Project 2025 and probably more wide scale book bans to follow for you in the US... Well, here's a tip. This is a Little Free Library that my dad built for our village community center. Get together, build one, and stock it with all the queer and trans rep and whatever else the powers that be want to limit access to.

Access to books is a human right!

(Ours is just full of random books, because thankfully I'm not in the US and our libraries aren't under threat.)