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KarenStrickholm

@KarenStrickholm@mastodon.online

Zen conscript. 🧘‍♂️ Gentle reader, writer. 📚 Life-long learner. 👩‍🔬 Warrior. 🏹 Knitter. 🧶 Cook. 🍲 Gin martinis thank you.🍸Animal lover. 🐕🐈‍⬛🐢🐘🦎🐝 Outer space. 🪐 Leftie. 🌊 Lover of beauty, arts, humanities. 🙏❤️

Past: Comp Lit PhD student then corp comms suit. Now: Recovering from rare brain tumor, long covid, paralysis. Banged up but still here. 💞

#DisabilityMatters
#ChronicPain
#LongHauler
#Pituitary
#NTBI
#WokeAF
#fedi22
#TwitterMigration 🐘🐘🐘
Ravelry @KarenSantaFe 🧶
Header: #Knitting
Avi: Shawl

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billyjoebowers, to Dogs
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A835906

My name is Willis*.

I am a male, blue and white Pit Bull Terrier.

I weigh approximately 49.50 lbs.

The shelter staff think I am about 8 years old.

I have been at the shelter since Apr 06, 2024 and ready for adoption!

https://24Petconnect.com/DetailsMain/PIMA/A835906

Two beautiful dogs lying in a pile in their kennel. Caption: "Willis is always tolerant of cuddle puddles with his kennel mate!"
Two beautiful dogs. Caption: "Sweet boy and his roomie"
Beautiful dog. Caption: "In spite of being abandoned and his medical issues, he’s super happy and loving"

KarenStrickholm,
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@billyjoebowers What a total sweetie! Snuggler too.

una04, to knitting German
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Gestrickt wird hier hier natürlich auch noch! Und unabsichtlich thematisch sehr passend, denn das Tuch hieß schon vor dem letzten Wochenende 'Polarlicht':

https://wollke7.blogspot.com/2024/05/polarlicht-revisited.html

#stricken
#knitting
#Handarbeitsclub
@knitting

KarenStrickholm,
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@una04 @knitting Pattern please! 🙏💞

KarenStrickholm,
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@una04 @knitting I like the German name actually... Sounds a bit exotic! Looking forward to English version, will definitely be making it. The different sections feel very "balanced," design-wise. Well done! 💞☺️🧶

KarenStrickholm, to random
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Bombshell in that this occurred in the Oval Office.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/14/michael-cohen-testimony-trump-trial

consumablejoy, to knitting
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When you get out of control with organization even though you know it will only last a short time and soon you will have another abandoned tool sadly languishing. Exhibit: Notion workspace that initially had just Stash in it and now has become my full-blown mini-personal-Ravelry-esque repository of knitting data. @knitting (remove group in reply)

KarenStrickholm,
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@consumablejoy @knitting Is that a Microsoft thing? The organizing bug - woman after my own heart!

18+ terri, to knitting
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Mostly for @KarenStrickholm -- look, I made it to the end of clue 2!

There was a moment where I thought I might catch up before clue 3 came out but then my kid was like, "Mom, I think I might be re-infected" and after explaining immunology for 6 year olds to him (aka, it's probably a new infection because your immune system is usually good at avoiding exactly the same thing right away) then we all got sick again. At least we got lots of sleep this weekend?

Pretty excited to see that second colour. I'm a bit worried it's going to be too variegated for the lace to come, but it looks great in this section!

@knitting

A close up of my Way Leads on to Way shawl in progress. This gives you a clearer the variegated yarn at the end, as well as the lace sections. There are triangles near the colour change, thick garter lines with bobbles before that, a more wavey sort of alternating triangle shape, large holes, garter, then bobbles with expanding ribbing (though the last part isn't too visible at the edge of the photo)

KarenStrickholm,
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@terri @knitting Good morning! First of all your C2 is soooo gorgeous, so rich against that blue, which also pops with the contrast. I remember learning about that combo from my graphic design teacher. On the varigation aspect, I think you'll be able to tell at beginning section of Clue 3 - I peeked ahead. 😉 I'm getting excited to see clues 4 & 5. I love how she paces her clues. I'm part way through Clue 2, will post later. Feel better, and TBC!

KarenStrickholm, to knitting
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Now these are my kind of !!

@Knitting

"Paul Chan and His Mom Crochet Criminals Together"

https://hyperallergic.com/913198/paul-chan-and-mom-crochet-criminals-together/

KarenStrickholm, to books
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Interesting!!

"Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the River Thames"





https://news.artnet.com/art-world/doves-typeface-2454807

KarenStrickholm, to random
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What is it I am not seeing??

I fail to understand why Twitter-now-X is necessary anymore. What is it X delivers that Mastodon cannot? Aside from a torrent of ads, increasingly anti-social and manipulative algorithms, and intrusive, unauthorized data scraping? There is scale, but others can achieve that.

Thoughts, anyone?

"Jack Dorsey Rains on Bluesky"

https://gizmodo.com/jack-dorsey-bluesky-twitter-founder-elon-musk-x-1851469847

shekinahcancook, to emacstory
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Jews from Arab lands are the missing piece of the Israeli-Palestinian discourse by American Syrian Jew Lisa Sayegh May 7, 2024

"...Over the past years, I have often been frustrated when I find people do not understand the trauma of the 700,000 Jews from all over the Middle East who were violently expelled from their countries in 1948 and how it resonates today. Pro-Palestinian activists who call out Israel as a “European settler colonial project” omit a critical part of the story that calls into question their claim. They ignore the Mizrahi majority in Israel who are descendants of Jews expelled from Arab lands when Israel was declared a state..."

https://www.jta.org/2024/05/07/ideas/jews-from-arab-lands-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-israeli-palestinian-discourse

KarenStrickholm,
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@RunRichRun @shekinahcancook My Tibetan Buddhist friend told me he can trace his family tree back ~5,000 years! If you ever get a chance in NYC, I recommend a visit to the Metropolitan Museum Of Art's Middle Eastern wing. Really blew my mind - a magnificent collection.

https://www.metmuseum.org/press/general-information/2010/ancient-near-east#:~:text=The%20works%20of%20art%20in,loans%20from%20other%20museum%20collections.

KarenStrickholm, to knitting
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Cracks me up, because so true!!

@Knitting

KatyKnits, to knitting
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@knitting @fibrearts This is the inside of my sweater. I’m only going to weave in the ends that are visible (so ones near any openings). The rest will be left as they are. I’m hoping that over time, they will felt slightly.

The inside of a multi coloured striped sweater showing loose ends

KarenStrickholm,
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@KatyKnits @knitting @fibrearts Stephen West has a nifty trick where he holds the last yarn end with the new color and knits them together on the row with the new color. Voila! No ends to weave in at the end.

Is your yarn all non super wash? Just curious. Bet you could just tie square knots on those ends. That is a LOT to deal with, but your end product is so beautiful!

KarenStrickholm,
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@KatyKnits @knitting @fibrearts I think he calls it the Weavin' Stephen. He made a YouTube about it. 😊

KarenStrickholm,
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@KatyKnits @knitting @fibrearts I've got my own weird way of doing ends. I change midrow because I don't like bump on edges, and I don't have trust in woven end alone. So I knit 1-2" past ends, then I square knot them once my tension is clear, then weave them in, in all directions (sideways, up-down, diagonally). Or, now that I'm starting to wet block, I do it after the blocking.

A new technique also - put the old end on a yarn needle, and weave that end into the new end, continue knitting.

KarenStrickholm,
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@KatyKnits @knitting @fibrearts

https://youtu.be/Fz292NAjH2M?si=QKYLH-rBvjv6u0v6

KarenStrickholm,
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@KatyKnits @knitting @fibrearts Caveat - when it's a color switch, I do that on the edge and do the Weavin' Stephen

KatyKnits, to knitting
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@knitting @fibrearts
I finished my sweater the other day. I had several odd 100g of fibre and wondered what I could do with them. This seemed like a good solution. I just need to weave in the ends 😂

A short sleeved striped sweater in many different colours.
A close up of a hand knitted striped sweater In many different colours. Stripes on the left are horizontal. The stripes on the right are vertical.

KarenStrickholm,
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@KatyKnits @knitting @fibrearts Gorgeous!! I would buy that pattern. Love!!

KarenStrickholm,
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@KatyKnits @knitting @fibrearts Thank you!

KarenStrickholm,
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@KatyKnits @knitting @fibrearts? Or enable heh heh!

KarenStrickholm, to random
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@alberto_cottica Oh this intriguing image you have on your profile page, could you share a bit about what we are looking at here?

KarenStrickholm,
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@alberto_cottica So modular signifies a distinct group withh its. Own operating rules, like one bl9b could be Twitter ND another Ttumblr etc¿

KarenStrickholm,
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@alberto_cottica So interesting! How is that information then used?

SuzyShearer, to knitting
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Look what I got!!!
I was April's prize winner for the #flmalclub2024. Along with the May colour (in the gorgeous mug) I got two skiens that will co-ordinate with those in the club as well as the mug.
You can see my April square in the 2nd pic. Colour is part of the Seascape series hand-dyed by https://fiberlily.com.au/product/make-along-club/
The pattern - https://berroco.com/patterns/norahs-vintage-afghan

#yarnClub #makealong #handdyedYarn #handdyedYarnAustralian #neverNotKnitting #knittersOfTheWorld #knitting #knittingAddict #knittingLove #knit #knittersOfMastodon #fibreArts #crafts #handmade @knitting

Knitted 30cm square - coloured olive green. 3 sets of twisted double cables separated by single cables.

KarenStrickholm,
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@SuzyShearer @knitting Love that pattern!

KarenStrickholm,
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@SuzyShearer @knitting OMG adore your color coding system! Right now I don't have easy access to a printer so using KnitCompanion (app). Mostly great, but sometimes I miss paper. And highlighters!

KarenStrickholm,
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@SuzyShearer @knitting Lately I'm preferring written out anyway. Usually it's just a short repeat anyway, like on the Way Leads On To Way MKAL shawl happening now.

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