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I knit. Lots. And design knitting patterns. Obsessed, really. (Also: genealogy, linguistics, SCA, and other general geekery. Plus, I'm a Muppet in human form.) www.wipinsanity.com
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The struggle is real.

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Great thread about a completely BS urban legend.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

But if historical records access is taken away, how will white supremacists do the genealogy research they need to get into clubs like the United Daughters of the Confederacy? Best not to anger your base, maybe. Hopefully this is a move that will really backfire.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Out of whimsy, I had arranged my remaining Valentine's Day chocolates like so. Husband: Oh hey, you made them all fancy! Me: It's a Kolvoord Starburst Manoeuvre. #geekery

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

🧶Finished knitting project: a lap blanket! Pattern is my own, cobbled together from some motifs in a resource book. 7mm needles, bulky weight yarn, finished size roughly 3' x 2'. It's reversible because it's #doubleKnitting. #knitsky

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

One strategy to conquer your enemy is to destroy infrastructure. Gum up the works. Make the population sicker: axe food and water safety, dismantle health care. Kill by making travel unsafe. Sabotage the ability to make scientific advancements. Etc. Sound familiar? America: He's working against you.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Middlest child just described the historical relationship of England and France as "the enemies to lovers trope". Then youngest added, yeah, but the kind of lovers who talk smack about each other behind their backs. #parentingMoments

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Thread. Accessibility is good for EVERYONE.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I've started a blog! Unraveling Privilege will be where I host craftivism KALs, such as the #UnfreeKAL in March! It's also where I'll be writing about activism, privilege, and systemic and intersectional oppression. www.unravelingprivilege.com/intro/ #writing #blog #DHMakes #activism

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

More Canadian knitting-related resources in the replies! Also, in case it wasn't clear, ;) I'm a Canadian knitting designer and you can find my stuff at wipinsanity.com 🧶

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada

submitted 20 days ago • 29 comments

So the bad news is that my last meeting of the day ran overtime and I finished work 20 minutes later than usual (oh well). But the good news is that IT WAS STILL LIGHT OUTSIDE when that happened!!! #happyDance

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🧶 It's #TBT, so here's my First Ever published-by-a-magazine knitting design: the Sweetness Top. It appeared in the April 2008 issue of online magazine MagKnits...which folded about a week later, alas. This baby is now almost EIGHTEEN (motherly sob). #knitsky wipinsanity.blogspot.com/p/pattern-sw...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

🧶 It's #wipWednesday so here's what my Zingiber project looks like at the moment. I'm about 14 rows away from starting the bottom edging. It'll be a hooded cardigan with pockets. Design from talvi knits. Yarn is Rowan Pure Wool Superwash Worsted. #knitsky

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

It's National Hugging Day! 🫂 To celebrate, here are a few examples of medieval hugs First up we have a scene from an early fifteenth-century manuscript of a man and woman enjoying a rather close embrace @MedievalMss (@walters_museum) MS W. 166, fol. 118r 🧵 1/

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Great advice, this.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Just learned that my eldest has been steadily improving her tracking-work-hours-and-income spreadsheet to the point where she is now using stuff like CONDITIONAL FORMATTING and SUMIFFING FROM MULTIPLE SHEETS and other such things...and words cannot describe how proud I am! ❤️❤️❤️ #whenGeeksParent

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Today, a #genealogy win: New set of 6x-great-grandparents for my husband! 🎉

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Anybody else always read "OTP" as "One True Password" in their head? ...Just me?

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

🧶 Santa put a ball of Regia 4-fädig Color in colour #3085 in my stocking at Christmas, and now I have glorious new socks! :squee: I love the colours and the striping. #knitting

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

Nothing says "the future is here" quite like getting to tell your husband, as an update on how the car is doing, "Sensors are back online."

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments