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Author, illustrator, photographer, designer, knitter. American expat in Paris. Textiles fanatic. Host of patreon.com/franklinhabit. Student of Latin, Roman history nut. Devoted fan of The Archers.
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Today my sewing drag name is Fussie Cutts.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

They're so stupid that if you stuffed all their brains into a bumblebee it'd fly backwards.

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That moment when a friend posts, "I'm thinking about knitting a [name of hideous pattern redacted]," and you narrowly stop yourself from replying, "OMG WHY".

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

[Expat Diary: Helpful Local] My wagon train stopped at the Les Halles Sephora to pick up supplies, and I came to the aid of an English lady who was asking the puzzled saleswoman* for the "île des cosmétiques." 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Warmed up just enough to sit and knit for a little while in the garden of Palais-Royal. First time wearing my linen stitch scarf in a rich and subtle grey-lavender-brown from Canon Hand Dyes. (Linen stitch will be the focus of the next educational series for my Patreon patrons, launch date TBA.)

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Immensely pleased with the transition from the first half to the second half of my Victorian Duet Scarf (the subject of the current KAL in my Patreon group). I decided to use a different color for each half, both Cricket DK from Anzula.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

www.archeologie-actualites-et-decouvertes.fr Trump aurait détesté ça : la Rome antique acceptait mieux les trans que lui ! #archéologie #antiquité #histoire

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Pausing to admire my progress on "Victorian Duet," the 1880s scarf KAL that began this past weekend in my Patreon group. At the second or third knitting circle I ever attended, a more experienced knitter scolded me for stopping too often to look at what I'd made because it was slowing me down.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Saw a dumbass comment on a friend's feed from a Trumper who joked that next Dear Leader was going to rename the San Andreas Fault after Gavin Newsome. Haw haw haw. I replied that it's probably the one thing FOTUS wouldn't name after himself, since nothing is ever Trump's fault.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

I know these are scary times, friends; but I just started a new skin care routine and now I feel sure that things will get better.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Fashionable café-goer on the Rue St-Honoré today. It was sunny and fair, and simply tout le monde was out for a walk.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

You've got a letter from Paris! In which I walk a mile for a Balenciaga. www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/le...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

In the workroom armchair, the hood awaits its bind off. The air crackles with anticipation.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Linda had warned Peggy not to cut her own bangs.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Reached the next try-on stage for the hood I'm making (no pattern, though I'm writing up all the steps and methods for Patreon). Slipped off the needle and onto scrap yarn to avoid distortion while checking the fit.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

"Darling, next Halloween you should go as Louis Quinze." "The king?" "No, the sideboard." I just crawled out of the Louvre Couture exhibit. Holy cow, is it big. Wear comfortable shoes.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Self-soothing by playing with my mood board. Yes, I have a mood board.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

In case maybe you thought some of them were getting it, a trumperina just told me our protests against the coup-in-progress are "whining." They're living in an alternate reality. Keep calling. Keep protesting.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

My Patreon group is going to have a dandy little knit-along. Details via the link... www.patreon.com/posts/announ...

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

I'm doing a monthlong photo-a-day fiber arts challenge on Instagram, and today's prompt gave me a reason to sort out the cases for my collection of antique needlework tools. Here's a smattering.

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

Making emoji parmesan for supper.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Walking home after a friend's birthday dinner I passed by Notre-Dame. This group is in the left-most of the front portals, and includes dear old St Denis, one of the city's patrons, holding his own head. That makes him (all together now, Patreon patrons!) a *cephalophore.*

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment