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It pisses me the fuck off that yoga is actually ancient and really good for you. Part of me still feels like it was invented to extract wealth from white socal moms.

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TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."

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A gingham coaster and gingham potholder!

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Persian Tiles Blanket — Journey Inspired

In February, I began making a Persian tiles blanket for the (platonic) love of my life @kiffobaby. I had them select the colour palette for me, and they decided on a colourway inspired by one of their favourite games: Journey.

We’ve spent many hours playing together and enjoying the gorgeous scenery of this game. However, I was a little nervous to start this project because these aren’t colours I typically use in my projects.

Now, two months later, I have completed the blanket and I’m so pleased with it.

Beth, I cannot thank you enough for all your encouragement while I worked on this and for giving me the opportunity to create something totally different from what I would otherwise have made.

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i made a fish (:

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I finished my man and he got kidnapped to be a hat rack

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I know a lot of people are intimidated by the prospect of working with thread, but IMO that's where interlocking crochet really shines, and it's not as hard as one might imagine—everyone has limits, but if (relatively) simple embroidery like cross-stitch is or would be achievable and fun for you, so would thread crochet. For reference, that image shows a 1.30mm hook and #10 (beige) and #20 (green) crochet thread. The patch is about 4in/10cm wide, and that represents, I don't know, 4, 5 hours of work? [Pattern here. End mandatory shill.]

In any case there are 2 things sighted people can buy relatively cheaply that will make any kind of detailed handiwork much easier: (tl;dr it's reading glasses and a lamp)

Drug-store/dollar-store reading glasses (or clip-ons like these if you already wear glasses, or whatever form of magnification works best for you), and the cheapest positionable LED ring light you can find. The reflection in my glasses is a powerful steel thing with a clamp mount and built-in magnification, but we have a few $15 plastic, rechargeable jobs from Online with big clips for bases that are if anything more versatile.

Anyway. It doesn't matter how old you are or how good you think your eyesight is, magnification and more light will make things vastly easier for you, and if you elect not to use them I will assume you are being lazy, vain, silly, or some combination of those things.

See, I too was once young and beautiful just like you(sarcastic). Now put on some damn glasses before you go cross-eyed, and while you're at it, a sweater. You'll catch your death and the whole neighbourhood can see your business. Have you eaten today? You know, it would be nice to see some grandchildren before I die

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Crocheting some squares 👀 maybe I'll make a bomber of sorts from these hmm

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More crochet! Just two bags and a scarf this time, I'm slowing down a bit

Currently making a worsted mosaic blanket with a neat sort of leafy pattern, and I also recently found a gorgeous flower pattern on ravelry I'm gonna try after that which calls for sport weight. That'll be my first time using sport weight so we'll see how it goes.

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somehow the poor cops who we were told are simply too understaffed and underpaid because of Woke to deal with 'rampant rising crime' have found the strength to beat the shit out of college students across the whole country for peacefully saying "divest from the country killing innocent palestinians in the tens of thousands"

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Coloring page (from Dark Art: A Horror Coloring Book) by Bad-Luck-Duck

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HR Giger Tribute by VentralHound

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full of hay

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