Nostr notes by Vereesh

#WindowFriday #MagicInTheMundane ...

2026-01-17T00:06:52Z

#WindowFriday #MagicInTheMundane

what an interesting construction. Did you use a pattern, or wing ...

2026-01-10T13:19:05Z

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what an interesting construction. Did you use a pattern, or wing it?

Hot off the...weaving in a million ends. The green yarn is some ...

2026-01-05T03:08:35Z

Hot off the...weaving in a million ends. The green yarn is some commercial merino silk, and the rest is my #handspinning BFL silk, dyed with kool-aid. So much drama. I started and ripped out several projects with this yarn, but I'm happy with the result. Just a simple rectangle folded in half and seamed. #knitting #handmade #fiberarts

I've followed a similar trajectory, going from highly verbal ...

2025-11-05T21:54:01Z

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I've followed a similar trajectory, going from highly verbal and explanatory to almost taciturn. For me, I attribute it to a combination of progressive illness and emotional trauma.

I just finished my latest pair of socks. These are handspun, four ...

2025-11-04T20:46:55Z

I just finished my latest pair of socks. These are handspun, four ply, toe-up, double gusset, princess sole, with built-in bunny fur. Whew! I think it took longer to write that than it did to make them. #handspinning #handmade #handcraft #wool #fiberarts

I used to make paper, and a few sprigs of these gorgeous things ...

2025-10-31T00:28:50Z

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I used to make paper, and a few sprigs of these gorgeous things in the slurry makes some very cool looking art paper.

#CognitiveDecline and pattern #knitting are very awkward ...

2025-09-22T22:53:13Z

#CognitiveDecline and pattern #knitting are very awkward bedfellows, but I love knitting so much. Even if I have to redo every section, sometimes multiple times, it's still worth it for me. And my #handspinning is holding up very nicely, despite too much unraveling. It's so difficult having #memoryloss and #brainfog. I have to be patient with my mind. It's doing the best it can. It's going to be a beautiful sweater one day soon. #positivity #handmade #ageing

I am so happy with this book. It offers blueprints for making ...

2025-09-22T22:26:38Z

I am so happy with this book. It offers blueprints for making several of the most popular styles of top-down sweaters, including raglan, set-in sleeve, saddle shoulder, and round yoke. You can design your sweater any way you want, any yarn, any gauge, any stitch pattern. The saddle shoulder I made with it is the best fitting one I've ever made. Now I'm making a second one. #knitting #handmade #fiberarts #books https://annbuddknits.com/books/knitters-handy-book-of-top-down-sweaters/

great picture, too! Excellent subject and composition.

2025-09-19T03:26:23Z

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great picture, too! Excellent subject and composition.

I frequently tell my kitties that the whole internet thinks they ...

2025-09-19T03:25:50Z

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I frequently tell my kitties that the whole internet thinks they are awesome. But they already know.

Another step in my ongoing quest for a me-perfect sock. This is a ...

2025-09-16T21:16:23Z

Another step in my ongoing quest for a me-perfect sock. This is a blend of polwarth, rabbit angora, and mohair, dyed with kool-aid, and the pattern is a custom toe up, princess sole with a gusset, some sole increases, and short row heels. They fit pretty well, but I spun the yarn thinner than I prefer, and next time I want more bunny fur in the mix. Onward to the next pair! #knitting #sockyarn #sockknitting #handmade #fiberarts #handspinning

My witchy sisters, cats in the craft room, oh my! #cat ...

2025-09-07T15:41:48Z

My witchy sisters, cats in the craft room, oh my! #cat #catsofmastodon #floof

that's healthy. Thank you for indulging me. ;)

2025-08-05T00:26:56Z

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that's healthy. Thank you for indulging me. ;)

well. The worm and the fish are both prey animals, and will both ...

2025-08-04T23:12:53Z

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well. The worm and the fish are both prey animals, and will both likely be eaten in the fullness of time. Worms are, if I'm understanding correctly, an invasive species in North America, and many ponds are man-made and stocked with fish. So, circle of life in artificial environments, I guess! :ablobgrin:

My second attempt at #sock #yarn. This is 83 grams of 12 wpi ...

2025-08-04T19:06:03Z

My second attempt at #sock #yarn. This is 83 grams of 12 wpi (sport - fingering) blended polwarth, kid mohair, and angora rabbit. I made rolags on my blending board. Next time, I will diz the rolags to predraft them. I've got it divided into 2 41 gram balls, a ready to #knit. It's a gorgeous, natural linen color, no dye, and soooooffftt! I'm a little worried it might be too soft to last. #handspinning #handmade #handcraft #wool #fiberarts

Marooned in Realtime (2nd novel) is one of my favorite books, and ...

2025-08-01T10:33:32Z

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Marooned in Realtime (2nd novel) is one of my favorite books, and also one of the few from that era that aged very gracefully in terms of male female politics.

This is probably my oldest wip, a recreation of a medieval ...

2025-07-27T01:24:00Z

This is probably my oldest wip, a recreation of a medieval stocking worn by Eleanor of Toledo. I can't even remember when I started it, although I took a class from the designer. I was even able to pick it up where I left off! Maybe I'll finally finish it, long after my reenactor days are over. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/eleonora-di-toledo-stockings-first-edition
#knitting #wip #frogorfinishalong #handmade

I'm so taken with this color, I think I'm going to have ...

2025-07-20T18:42:43Z

I'm so taken with this color, I think I'm going to have to make a gradient with it in silk, going from maroon to chocolate. #handspinning #handmade #handcraft #wool #fiberarts

just FYI, temporal is a girl spider.

2025-07-10T10:56:18Z

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just FYI, temporal is a girl spider.

I'm over superhero movies, although I do maintain a certain ...

2025-07-09T04:47:51Z

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I'm over superhero movies, although I do maintain a certain fondness for Superman, mainly because of Chris Reeves. And if something annoys the nazis, I would be tempted to watch it just out of spite. But I probably won't.

I can't even begin to describe my feelings right now. I have ...

2025-07-08T05:07:21Z

I can't even begin to describe my feelings right now. I have spent over 20 years learning various short row sock heel techniques, and haven't been quite happy with any of them. WHY didn't anyone TELL ME about afterthought heels?! If you can knit a sock toe, and do a basic graft, you can work this heel, and it looks exactly like a short row heel. I want to scream. #knitting #whining #rage #handmade No more short rows for this girl, dammit. https://youtu.be/bfIxrhqbeT0?si=QSb7lAWg6j5RTIIZ

and it's DECAF!! 🫢😨

2025-07-07T15:22:48Z

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and it's DECAF!! 🫢😨

I'm drinking my instant coffee now,completely without shame.

2025-07-07T13:33:05Z

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I'm drinking my instant coffee now,completely without shame.

Definitely. Being rude to a disabled person *about their ...

2025-07-04T23:44:48Z

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Definitely. Being rude to a disabled person *about their disabilities or their request for inclusion* makes for an easy block.

the thing with the beans, I call those "out of coffee ...

2025-07-03T16:40:03Z

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the thing with the beans, I call those "out of coffee errors," and I once cataloged at least a dozen different ones.
And yes, responsibility is that thing so many of us arrive at kicking and screaming, after we've painfully exhausted all other options. Grumble.

Five little rolags, my first attempt at #handspinning yarn for ...

2025-06-30T17:49:43Z

Five little rolags, my first attempt at #handspinning yarn for socks. My feet are so tender that previous socks made with commercial sock yarn hurt to walk in. This is polwarth, rabbit angora, and mohair, and I'm going to spin woolen. We'll see. #spinning #handmade #fiberarts

My first time trying a gradient spin. With rolags. I'm sure ...

2025-06-25T03:13:37Z

My first time trying a gradient spin. With rolags. I'm sure I'm not the first one to try this with this fiber prep, but I never heard of it before. It's going to be a little tricky when I get to the shortest repeats. I've made a cheat sheet to help keep track of all 7 of these very similar shades. This is BFL with mulberry silk, dyed with kool-aid. #handspinning #handmade #handcraft #wool #fiberarts

Is there an easy way to remotely monitor another person's ...

2025-06-07T23:02:26Z

Is there an easy way to remotely monitor another person's pulse? My partner and I are getting older, and sleep in different rooms at different times. We've both worried about the other dying unbeknownst. I wear a pulse watch, but don't know if it will do what I want. Any ideas, friends? I'd like us to be able to glance at a screen and see a heartbeat. #ageing #wearables #wearable #disability

"There was an old woman who swallowed a fly..." I've ...

2025-06-06T20:26:10Z

"There was an old woman who swallowed a fly..." I've only lately come to realize it's not just a cute children's ditty, but a serious cautionary tale. The old woman did one stupid thing, and instead of accepting the consequences, she kept doing increasingly stupid things until she was "dead, of course." I see parallels all over, in society, technology, and most certainly in politics. And in my own life. Perhaps wisdom is knowing when to just digest the fly and move on. #justchatting #philosophy

I'm always amazed by the way animals can just rocket into ...

2025-06-06T03:12:04Z

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I'm always amazed by the way animals can just rocket into motion from a standstill. I once caught a raccoon in a live trap trying to catch a feral cat. It put up one hell of a racket, and when I waded across the frozen porch to gingerly open the trap with the broom handle, I swear the thing broke the sound barrier the instant the door came up.

I voted no, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with trans ...

2025-06-05T20:34:23Z

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I voted no, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with trans people. I'm absolutely fine sharing the toidy with trans women. But having cleaned many public toilets, I'm unwilling to share with cis men. Gross. Pee everywhere, and it reeks. I've heard male cleaners say the same about women's toilets, so maybe we just don't like each other's funk. Plus, I'm not scared of trans women, but I damn sure am scared of cis men. Sorry not sorry.

I have only just realized that most yarn swifts are marketed to ...

2025-06-05T20:18:15Z

I have only just realized that most yarn swifts are marketed to knitters and not to spinners, and this difference is important. Yarn is often sold in hanks, which need to be wound into cakes or balls before knitting or crocheting. This is easier than winding it into the hank to begin with, which is what a spinner does. If you're a #disabled spinner, you can get really picky about your tools! #knitting #spinning #handspinning #handmade #handcraft #bitchingandwhining

I made some rolags on my blending board, just a bunch of stuff I ...

2025-05-18T23:37:26Z

I made some rolags on my blending board, just a bunch of stuff I had small amounts of. There's some merino, mohair, peduncle silk, and some Wool of the Andes. It will be one of a kind, for better or worse. I think I'll call it Pennies. #handspinning #handmade #handcraft #wool #fiberarts

I use an espinner because of my disabilities. I can spin in bed, ...

2025-05-10T08:00:45Z

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I use an espinner because of my disabilities. I can spin in bed, which is great for me. I also use a support spindle for the same reason. Both are portable.

Turkish is support. The spindle rests in a small bowl in your lap or btw your thighs. I love spinning this way, although it can strain my shoulders. At first, you mostly "park and draft," but as you develop skill, you can draft while keeping your spindle going.

The kitty blanket is finished! I'm so chuffed with it, but ...

2025-05-03T19:16:36Z

The kitty blanket is finished! I'm so chuffed with it, but also a little sorry to be done #knitting it, because it was fun to make. My partner loves it, and asked me to make more for our den. The #cats continue to produce fur, so I see more #handspinning in my future. This is a blend of Jacob #wool and cat #floof that I spun. It is WARM! The pattern is my variation of the famous 10 stitch blanket by Frankie Brown. More details in the alt text. #handmade #fiberarts #textiles #homespun

no problem! Rowling is dead to me.

2025-04-30T04:37:24Z

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no problem! Rowling is dead to me.

My cat fur blanket is coming along nicely. I just spun up another ...

2025-04-27T16:26:06Z

My cat fur blanket is coming along nicely. I just spun up another huge cake of yarn, but the end is in sight. This has been a great "resting" project, just semi-mindless #knitting #handmade #handcraft #handspinning #cat This is my own variation of the 10 stitch blanket by Frankie Brown,a free pattern on Ravelry.

"For they have made piñatas of themselves, shall they ...

2025-04-04T20:39:30Z

"For they have made piñatas of themselves, shall they complain when we beat them with sticks?"

From the Book of Reason, 2025

#politics #philosophy #revolution #equality

I've been making a cardigan using Ann Budd's Top-Down ...

2025-04-03T18:28:55Z

I've been making a cardigan using Ann Budd's Top-Down Sweaters book. This is a saddle shoulder version, and it does the armcap shaping with short rows. After knitting and ripping out the first sleeve A LOT, the second sleeve went quickly. I feel very comfortable with Japanese short rows now! If at first you don't succeed, try again and again and again! #knitting #handmade

I've been dyeing some new wool using several shades of ...

2025-03-23T21:46:32Z

I've been dyeing some new wool using several shades of kool-aid. This is 8 oz of blue-faced Leicester. I doubled the strand of roving, and poured my dye to make a long gradient. Image hidden because it looks like it could be a pan of guts, but it's just wet wool. Very pretty once you know what it is. #spinning #handspinning #handmade #dyeing #Koolaid

I'm fascinated by his shoes. The rest of his clothing looks ...

2025-03-13T22:29:17Z

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I'm fascinated by his shoes. The rest of his clothing looks very homemade, and custom made for him. But his shoes look more commercially made. I don't know if shoes were being mass-produced yet at this time, but at least they would have been made by someone who specialized. Oh dear, that's another rabbit hole!

Yesterday, I posted a picture of the single strand of my yarn ...

2025-03-10T10:34:41Z

Yesterday, I posted a picture of the single strand of my yarn wound into a cake for plying. Today, here's the finished yarn, washed and air-dried, and caked again for knitting. Looks a little like a cut red cabbage, huh? Except gray instead of purple. A noir cabbage. #handspinning #handmade

This is one stage of #spinning yarn, the plying. After making one ...

2025-03-08T21:42:34Z

This is one stage of #spinning yarn, the plying. After making one long strand, called a single, I wind it into a fat cake so I can put my finger through thru the center to wind both ends together at the same time, making a 2 ply yarn. This is more yarn for my ongoing blanket I'm making with fur from my kitties. See alt text for more details. I'll post another progress pic in a few days. #handspinning #handmade #handcraft

remember when the Rolling Stones hired members of the Hell's ...

2025-03-01T21:21:46Z

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remember when the Rolling Stones hired members of the Hell's Angels to provide security at their concert at Altamont?

My kitty blanket continues to grow. It takes longer to make each ...

2025-02-04T16:25:01Z

My kitty blanket continues to grow. It takes longer to make each round, so apparent progress is slower, but it's looking beautiful, and I'm enjoying the #knitting. This is a variation on the famous ten stitch blanket, worked in a spiral, joined as I go. The fiber is wool and fur from my kitties. #spinning #handspinning #handmade #cat

Today's progress on my #cat fur blanket. It's coming ...

2025-01-22T19:30:13Z

Today's progress on my #cat fur blanket. It's coming along so nicely. #handspinning #knitting #handmade

is it a lighter? It's beautiful.

2025-01-13T19:26:36Z

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is it a lighter? It's beautiful.

Vernor Vinge's Marooned in Realtime is one of the extremely ...

2024-11-15T07:41:54Z

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Vernor Vinge's Marooned in Realtime is one of the extremely few pre-2000 books written by a man that I can still read today without a hard cringe at the sexism. His A Fire Upon the Deep is also very good. Both of these are sequels, but I feel they're both best as standalones.

Thanks for the recommendation. I am happy to see it's ...

2024-11-14T03:30:13Z

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Thanks for the recommendation. I am happy to see it's available in the US National Library Service (for blind and print disabled peeps.) Looking forward to my next listen.
bookstodon group (npub1ny7…uv57)

His last term was more than enough for me to cut off everyone who ...

2024-11-12T23:03:21Z

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His last term was more than enough for me to cut off everyone who supports him, be they family or former friend. Fuck them all.
Ricki Yasha Tarr (npub19zu…0jum)

Can you please add different pictures to the rotation, and remove ...

2024-11-10T22:36:23Z

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Can you please add different pictures to the rotation, and remove this one? It has been posted over and over for at least a couple of weeks.

"All color drained from his face. Corpses had healthier ...

2024-11-08T14:12:26Z

"All color drained from his face. Corpses had healthier complexions. I knew--I had one right here for comparison."

- Honor Raconteur, A Matter of Secrets and Spies, book 10 of The Case Files of Henri Davenforth series.

I highly recommend this series if you're looking for something charming, and fairly wholesome for a series of murder mysteries. She sells epubs here. https://www.raconteurhouse.com/the-case-files-of-henri-davenforth

#books #bookstodon

Here I sit, safe in my loo on a totally different continent, and ...

2024-10-28T23:37:41Z

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Here I sit, safe in my loo on a totally different continent, and my pulse just bumped up a notch!