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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶
@peridragon.bsky.social
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I design colourful knitting patterns with innovative details, often inspired by science and nature but occasionally best described as, “But why would you do that?!” Trekkie, LOTR fan, nerd in general. Website: https://www.periwinkledragon.ca/links/
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Here’s my proper intro thread!

I design unique and sometimes unhinged knitting patterns (mostly socks). I have technique videos and help articles on my website: www.periwinkledragon.ca

🧶 I love indie yarn, and I like to find ways to use wild colourways that are more interesting than vanilla socks.
I think my least favourite genre of music might be: “Four minutes of angsty whining about a simpler time when I was a struggling, starving artist instead of the popular, well-paid one I am now.”
How cool is this double knitting technique? 🧶 🤯
#knitting #knittinghowto #doubleknitting #🧶
Four needle double knitting: improved tension & a better display of the design as you go. Easier to see, easier to work.

Many years in the making, I hope you will find it useful.

Post contains two videos.
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Those are Stripe Central Socks (www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/str...) and the yarn is from Stitch Noir (www.stitchnoir.com). Absolutely zero bleed in the wash, even the dark one. They still look great, even after a year of wear by my spouse. Highly recommend that dyer!
Stripe Central Socks
This easy and fun striped sock knitting pattern offers maximum sizing flexibility and plenty of helpful resources!
www.periwinkledragon.ca
Stripes in knitting are so fun! Self-striping yarn or pattern-made stripes; there are so many fun things you can do with them.

🧶 More patterns for stripes: www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/fea...

#showmeyourknits #knitting #knittingpattern #knitsky
Yoga instructors just do not understand the concept of a beginner. Case in point: I took a “beginner” yoga class today and we spent — no joke — 2/3 of it on the finer details of the two warrior poses. 30 minutes of, essentially, never-ending lunges. It was horrendous. Unbalanced and boring. Why.
I want to enjoy yoga. It seems like a thing I should like: slow-paced, detail-oriented, easy to see incremental improvements in your skills over time. But every time I take a yoga class, I hate it. Trying to learn enough to not be a beginner anymore is a nightmare.
Got sock yarn scraps? Knit up every last bit with super-easy flair with the Yocto Socks!

🧶 Pattern link: www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/yoc...

#knitting #sockknitting #knitsky #knittingpattern #showmeyourknits
I’m trying out Bluesky Flashes to see if I like it as an IG alternative (I’m more of a photo/caption person than a text thread person on social media). Everything gets cross-posted automatically, but if you’re curious, my profile there is here: www.flashes.blue/profile/peri...
‎Flashes for Bluesky
‎Flashes is a native Bluesky photo/video app. Amongst other features the app offers: • Discover and Share photos & videos on Bluesky – a vibrant community of over 30 million users. • Enhance Your Cr...
www.flashes.blue
🧶 The eBook is available on Payhip and Ravelry, and individual patterns are available on my website and on Ravelry. All five designs have both toe-up and cuff-down instructions, and flexible sizing (including optional mini-gussets) for a great fit!

My big July project was releasing five new sock patterns for my latest eBook! I had so much fun designing and knitting the patterns for Interjection! Socks, and after months of work behind the scenes, it’s so great to have them all finally released.

So glad you enjoyed your project! ❤️
I have disliked PP since I met him in 2015, before most people knew he existed but after he’d already been the architect of (later overturned) voter suppression laws.

The fact that he is fine with allowing foreign interference in his party and our democracy is not a surprise.

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CBC tells our stories. The Conservatives want to erase them. Sign the petition to protect independent journalism in Canada: forwardcanada.ca/protectcbc
I opened this one and gasped! So gorgeous in person. Can’t wait for March. 😁
Thank you so much! Can’t wait to see your project. 😊
For #ShowMeYourKnits this week, it’s about knitted love! ❤️

These are my Llama Tracks Socks, inspired by the footprints of the guardian llama of a local sheep farm who spent his whole life protecting his beloved sheep family. 🦙

🧶 Pattern: www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/lla...
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This is my semi-regular reminder that if we live in Canada, we should be paying rent to the indigenous peoples who the land actually belongs to. I do this, and you can too, very easily:
payyourrent.ca
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Niikinaaganaa Foundation
Collecting funds from people living on stolen land and disbursing them to Indigenous people
payyourrent.ca
One of my great-uncles spent 2 years in a POW camp after Dieppe. He spent the rest of his life talking to young people about his experiences to drive home how horrible wars are and how seriously we need to take protecting democracy.
Canadians now see the US as a threat, not as a friend, no matter how many Americans try to apologize or rush to say, “But *I* didn’t vote for him!”

It doesn’t matter. The damage is done.

We won’t forget. 🇨🇦
I’m sitting at my kid’s dance studio and all the parents are talking about buying Canadian/boycotting US products. Permanently.

It doesn’t matter what’s “on pause”. We all know the threat of tariffs and even invasion/annexation could come back at any time with the next random whim.
#ShowMeYourKnits this week is all about stripes! I love manipulating self-striping yarn on knitted socks — here are some of my favourite striped projects:

Oblique Reflex Socks
Dizzy Diamonds Socks
Pictum Socks
X-pression Socks

🧶 More here: www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/yar...

#SockKnitting