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joanofdarkknits.bsky.social
Knitter, house restorer by pure necessity
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Fans of @knitty.com ; anyone remember a pattern from the olden timey blog days that was a tube sweater with a long sleeve attached on the back, where the chest was sort of open? Please use your powers to read my mind and know exactly what I’m talking about!

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Maria, like many Icelanders, can name the pattern of a 30 year old sweater just by looking at it. From our book “Lopapeysa: a knitters guide to Iceland” by me & @joanofdarkknits.bsky.social #photography #leica #viking #knitting #strik #yarnspiration

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Had to drop the cat at the vet for two days to get his teeth pulled. He’s a rescue and bounced from foster to foster and the resignation that went over his entire body when he saw that I was taking him back to the Humane Society about broke me. (The Humane Society is doing the surgery.)

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

In 2021, @trillianstars.bsky.social & I went to Iceland w/ @joanofdarkknits.bsky.social to unravel the mystery of the Icelandic sweater. We spent a lot of time in moody landscapes talking to amazing 90 year old women, & Joan made a lot of patterns. #leica #knitting #strik #knit #yarn #knitting

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

If you need proof that it’s nurture over nature my daughter who I gave birth to but does not share my dna, just told me the butter I put on her roll is the wrong brand. She only likes that brand on her corn, she likes another brand on her rolls.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Healing my childhood trauma by sending my kid to the scholastic book fair with an envelope full of money and her free will.

submitted 95 days ago • 4 comments

Fireball update: day two and he is still the goodest boy.

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Since my order just shipped, please consider this your reminder that the BEST flavored coffee comes from The Strange Brew in Indiana (run by @joanofdarkknits.bsky.social and @dillhero.bsky.social -- two FAB folks). Snag yours here: www.strangebrewcoffee.com/shop

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

I feel like Bluesky needs to see this one eyed cat we just adopted.

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

I’m going to try Bluesky again because while Threads was fun, the raging dude bros are exhausting me these days!

submitted 101 days ago • 3 comments

Hi @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com! We have some nifty kickstarter rewards your followers might be interested in!

submitted 267 days ago • 1 comment

Also if you’re on TikTok I’m trying REALLY hard to hit that 10k marker. I promise to put more frosting on John if I hit it! (@joanofdark) over there.

submitted 270 days ago • 1 comment

Btw not that I’m surprised but the GORGEOUS sweater worn by the lighthouse ghost in DBD? Knit by @joanofdarkknits.bsky.social!

submitted 304 days ago • 1 comment

YO Want to knit THE sweater from Deadboy Detectives???? Like, for real - it was designed by @joanofdarkknits.bsky.social and @kylecassidy.bsky.social It’s freeeee. You know you want to. www.joanofdark.com/patterns/p/d...

submitted 304 days ago • 1 comment

Proof that she’s my daughter even without the DNA: my 6 year old is currently snuggled on the couch watching the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice.

submitted 421 days ago • 1 comment

Cleaned out our rental today and found this note.

submitted 423 days ago • 1 comment

My husband FaceTimed me from the chicken coop to tell me what’s up.

submitted 426 days ago • 0 comments

Is it even Christmas Eve if you aren’t frantically searching for the gifts you hid? Merry merry!

submitted 427 days ago • 1 comment

And what an amazing future it is.

submitted 437 days ago • 0 comments

With an entire house available to him, he chooses to flop on the path to the coffeemaker.

submitted 437 days ago • 0 comments

My daughter just complained that other kids in her class get their lunch wrapped in wrapping paper for Christmas. For real? Parents we are doing this? Isn’t the elf and pj day and hat day and advent calendar and Santa train ENOUGH?

submitted 438 days ago • 1 comment

I told my husband that we needed a freeze dryer to preserve our harvest. The harvest:

submitted 517 days ago • 2 comments

The house looks a little less like an abandoned haunted house every day

submitted 535 days ago • 2 comments

Exactly what a robot operator would do. Your vanity will be your unmasking!

submitted 535 days ago • 0 comments

This book makes me feel like Mike Schur is actually a robot operated by @scalzi.com and the ghost of Terry Pratchett.

submitted 535 days ago • 4 comments

Lots and lots of things about my daughters tiny rural country school make me happy. But the library is not one of them. What can I do? Do publishers accept requests for donations?

submitted 545 days ago • 0 comments

Drag kid awake for school all week at 6 am, after putting her to bed at 7pm. Have kid swim until 8pm after school Friday. Put her, utterly exhausted, to bed at 9pm. Kid wakes up Saturday ready to go at 5am. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

submitted 547 days ago • 0 comments

My husband is really hard to shop for, but I ordered a play date about a year ago. Today it finally showed up and he’s been happily distracted ever since. I’m not a game person but this is so cute!

submitted 549 days ago • 1 comment

Every time I try to take what I think is an innocent picture of my house it ends up, looking like a ghost story. (I was texting my husband a bulb burned had out.)

submitted 549 days ago • 0 comments

I only believe in a conspiracy theory if rage against the machine sings about it.

submitted 550 days ago • 0 comments

I was just a gal, soaking in a tub by a big window. Then I saw my husband through the screen, so I whipped the screen back and smiled at him from the tub. But it wasn’t my husband, it was a very surprised contractor. And now I need a new identity. It’s been good knowing y’all.

submitted 559 days ago • 2 comments

Keeping in mind that I don't believe in ghosts, I just talked to my husband, who was standing by the stairs. Except he was in the living room. No one was by the stairs, despite me SEEING SOMEONE BY THE STAIRS.

submitted 559 days ago • 0 comments

I've brought my website (and my blog) back from the dead. https://www.joanofdark.com/ It's a work in progress still, but I'm excited to have one destination for my ramblings.

submitted 562 days ago • 0 comments