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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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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Jan 8

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.

Collage of sixteen colourful knitted items (fourteen pairs of socks, one shawl, and one scarf).

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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Aug 22

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.”

Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Aug 18

How cool is this double knitting technique? 🧶 🤯

TECHknitter @techknitter.bsky.social · Aug 18

#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.
techknitting.blogspot.com/2025/08/four...

The illustration shows two hands holding four knitting needles, with each needle tip numbered. The needles are working a double-sided "double knit" fabric, green on the front, maroon on the back.

Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Aug 17

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

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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Aug 16

Oblique Reflex Socks

🧶 www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/obl...

It’s actually a very easy pattern to knit! All you need is self-striping yarn and some increases and decreases in the right places. 😊

Oblique Reflex Socks

These socks with an afterthought heel use bias sections to make a self-striping yarn shift at various angles. Both toe-up and cuff-down instructions are available.

www.periwinkledragon.ca

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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Aug 16

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

Right-side view of grey and blue socks with stripes that are distorted on the sides.

Striped knitted socks crossed over each other on sock blockers with graphic distorted diagonal pattern and matching heel.

Woman holding up a purple and grey knitted shawl with lace sections, irregular stripes, and a textured edge.

Side view of two pairs of feet wearing knitted socks in a variable-width striping pattern.

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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Aug 13

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.

Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Aug 13

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.

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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

Multicoloured knitted socks with spiralling colourwork pattern.

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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Aug 7

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

Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Aug 7

Ravelry link: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/interjection-socks-modern-sock-designs-that-inspire-old-fashioned-exclamations

Website link: https://www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/

#knitting #sockknitting #knittingpattern #knitsky

Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Aug 7

🧶 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!

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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Aug 7

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.

Five pairs of feet wearing colourful hand-knitted socks with a variety of slipped-stitch textures.
Text: “Interjection! Socks Modern Sock Designs That Inspire Old-Fashioned Exclamations by Carolyn Lisle”

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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Mar 13

So glad you enjoyed your project! ❤️

Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Mar 9

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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Forward Canada @forwardcanada.bsky.social · Feb 20

CBC tells our stories. The Conservatives want to erase them. Sign the petition to protect independent journalism in Canada: forwardcanada.ca/protectcbc

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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Feb 18

I opened this one and gasped! So gorgeous in person. Can’t wait for March. 😁

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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Feb 13

Thank you so much! Can’t wait to see your project. 😊

Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Feb 10

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...

Feet wearing red knitted socks with wide lace panel that is shaped like both hearts and llama toes.

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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Feb 4

Attention Canadians, and especially people voting in the Ontario election this month! It’s strategic voting time. Want to dump Doug? Don’t split the vote!

smartvoting.ca

Ending The Vote Split. One Riding At A Time

SmartVoting.ca is a one stop tool voters in Canada can use to see who is the best party to vote for in their riding to prevent a Conservative win.

smartvoting.ca

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knitty® | editor, Amy Sadler @knitty.com · Feb 3

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

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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Feb 3

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.

Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Feb 3

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. 🇨🇦

Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Feb 3

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.

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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Feb 3

#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

Feet wearing knitted socks with blue and grey stripes that bend on the sides.

Feet wearing knitted socks with blue diamond colourwork and yellow, orange, brown, and red stripes.

Knitted socks with lines of slipped stitches and blue, pink, yellow, white, and black stripes that bend towards the centre.

Feet wearing knitted socks with blue, green, pink, and black stripes with columns of slipped-stitch X motifs.

Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social · Feb 2

This independent store in Ottawa (Westboro) stocks embroidery supplies:

fabricationsottawa.com

Fabrications Ottawa

At Fabrications we believe that everyone is creative. At our Ottawa store, you'll find quilting fabric, casual apparel fabric, embroidery supplies, notions, tools and patterns, natural fibre yarns, kn...

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