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Caran, the Stitchy Frood
@stitchyfrood.com
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Disabled, literal cyborg, queer fiber artist who 💜s crochet 🧶 parasols.

✨1312✨ All power to the people 🍉
Fix your hearts or die. -David Lynch
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I haven’t forgotten you, Bsky. 💜

I also haven’t finished stringing the beads for my latest gay pride parasol. My apologies.

I was distracted by a beautiful new 8-pointed star pattern to which I added picots. 4000+ picots. I do love to crochet picots, but maybe not THIS much. Oops.
A crochet mandala art doily lies on a black desktop. The doily is pink at the center, which is the middle left of the picture, and fades into teal, and then light blue at the edge. An 8-pointed star is the basic motif repeated throughout this pattern.
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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stonerprincesss.edm.blue
don’t ever let anyone make u feel like u are the outer layer of the cinnamon roll

u are the clit of the cinnamon roll
November 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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zzbenz.bsky.social
hot people get STI/HIV tested.

even when they’re not concerned they’ve been exposed. even when they’re having safe sex.
October 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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I think it’s gong to work! Super hopeful gay pride crochet!!

This is the last blocking before I finish & put it on the frame. I’m thinking I’ll add 2 more rounds and likely bead the edge so it drops down over the frame arms like a 70s lamp.

Then I should write down what I did so I can do it again.
A crochet mandala art doily is spread flat and pinned for blocking on a navy blue comforter. The doily is a gay pride flag rainbow with purple at the center fading thru all the ROYGBIV colors to red at the edge.
October 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Everybody crazy ‘bout a sharp dressed man.
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Well, this pattern ended 8 rounds ago, so I’m making it up to accommodate a 48” parasol frame. Hope it works out bc I hate frogging whole mandala art doilies!!

Call this hopeful gay pride crochet 🧶
A work-in-progress crochet mandala art doily lies on a black desktop. At the top of the image the yarn is purple and fades one strand at a time through blue, green, yellow, and orange at the edge. This will be a 48” Gay Pride parasol if the pattern works out.
October 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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October 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Still working this new pattern for tonight’s NLCS game. Hope it’s half as good as last night’s game. ⚾️

The blue color is sneaking in to my work now.

An LGBTQIA2S+ group in SLC may have a Winter Bazaar, so hopefully I’ll get to be involved!

#wip #crochet 🧶 #FiberArt #NLCS #QueerCrochet
A work-in-progress mandala art doily lies on a black desktop. To the left of the doily is my 2.75mm crochet hook which has. Wolf handle and silver metal tip. Slightly visible above the doily is the cake of yarn showing the gay pride rainbow the finished parasol will possess.
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Brand new patten for the NLCS game tonight. I don’t have a favorite of the Dodgers-Brewers, both teams play great baseball.

This pattern isn’t self-drafted. It’s printed in Cyrillic, so if you want the title and author, msg me. I’m quite excited about making something new-new.

#crochet 🧶 #yarn
A work-in-progress crochet doily masala lies on black desktop. The worked yarn is purple and it is attached to a gay pride rainbow cake skein to the left of the image. At the top my working stitch has the crochet hook still attached. That hook is 2.75mm, a metal hook, and wooden handle. To the right are the guitar-shaped scissors I tossed carelessly - oops!
October 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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hobbydrifter.bsky.social
White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.
October 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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greenery.bsky.social
happy international lesbian day FUCKERS
October 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Look, when a thing is right, it’s right.

What is your horror movie role this Halloween?
A horror movie-esque black background with red splotches. White text reads “The girl with big titties”
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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How sweet it is to dream
nfornihilism.net radical lisa loebotomy @nfornihilism.net · Oct 8
imagine just how many moons i could have if i was a jovian gas giant. 75, maybe. 80. 120! imagine.
October 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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I’m still catching up on orders from my sale. This is one I always love to make.

It’s okay, you can say it: Isn’t it just… beige?

Yes, but not for long. I promise teals and blues are coming. 🤞

Should I do a giveaway after I’m caught up?

#crochet 🧶 #wip #WorkInProgress #FiberArt #Giveaway
A work-in-progress crochet mandala lies on a black desktop. A crochet hook with a wood handle and silver metal hook lies next to the mandala’s right side. The working yarn exits the picture at the top right.
October 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Vaxxed up for autumn
Flu, Covid, & my 2nd HPV ✅

Thanks CVS
October 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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effinbirds.com
A painting of a bird beside the text "it's never too late to stop being a piece of shit"
October 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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A completed lampion that is a continuation of one section pattern from Studio156Delft.

It has really fantastic shadows!

I’m still new to #crochet 🧶 lampions, #lanterns, and #chandeliers so taking great pics of them isn’t in part of my skill set… yet. I appreciate your forgiveness, #crochetsky.
A dark pic of a crochet lantern with purple LEDs inside it and a complex shadow cast in the background.
October 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Reminder: Tonight’s the last night for 25% off all the parasols on my website.

I’m working on a chandelier tonight, pattern by Studio156Delft.

Hope I’ll get to see some of you this Saturday 10/4 at the first Fallapalooza at Tracy Aviary’s Nature Center at Pia Okwai.

#crochet #chandelier #wip
A 4” circle of crocheted yarn lies on a black desktop with a wood-handled 2.75mm crochet 🧶 hook on top. The yarn is bright blue at the edge and fades to purple at the center. An orange poster shows several Halloween-y things like a spider and long-nailed fingers. The text is both white and black and announces the inaugural Fallapalooza market.
October 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Wearing a mask is an act of resistance.

It helps protect your health and the health of those around you.

It tells the government you don’t believe anyone is expendable.

It says you value community care.

It shows solidarity with the disability community.

Covid is not over.
September 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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September 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Here’s an example of right side/wrong side differences as I’m making a parasol.

I work wrong side up, so every time I turn over a completed doily I’m surprised by the smooth, even look of the right side. If I get used to it, that may be a sign to stop. 👍

#crochet 🧶 #wip #doily #FiberArt
A work-in-progress crochet doily mandala is displayed on a black desktop. The doily had been folded over on itself to show two of the same section. The top section is right side up and the lower section is wrong side up. This doily is black at the center fading to lavender at the edge. I plan to add orange at the edge.
September 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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transrights.moe
GET COMPLIMENTED NERD

(You look nice today)
September 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Have you ever used a work-in-progress to display another WiP?

I 💜 my black desk top, but it makes black work very difficult to photograph, so I usually don’t try. This one will be 100% cotton black-lavender-orange yarn for Halloween 🎃.

And my site has 25% off

#crochet 🧶 #wip #sale #parasol
One work-in-progress in black 100% cotton yarn is displayed atop another work-in-progress in pale pink, teal, blue, and purple. These are crochet pieces. The black pattern has a daisy st the center.
September 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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On Wednesdays we post WiPs, right?

Yay! I remembered! 👏

I’m putting a custom pale purple edge on this colorway and using my highest-coverage, shadiest, latest pattern.

#wipwednesday #crochet 🧶 #parasol
A work-in-progress crochet doily lies on a Mack desktop. This doily is pink in the center fading to teal, slate blue, and I’m adding pale purple at the edge.
September 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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cosmoslionheart.bsky.social
[the most millenial voice you've ever heard]
there are too many pokémon now
August 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM