Anne Blayney
@anniebeeknits.bsky.social
Textiles, social justice, neurospices, a cozy life, and my dog.
I just spotted this on Kickstarter and sat up at attention: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ply... especially once I saw this line in the summary: "celebrate and elevate knitters across the entire spectrum of color, ability, gender, and queerness". Heck yeah!
PURL Magazine: The magazine for knitters
Because knitters deserve a great print magazine!
www.kickstarter.com
September 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I just spotted this on Kickstarter and sat up at attention: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ply... especially once I saw this line in the summary: "celebrate and elevate knitters across the entire spectrum of color, ability, gender, and queerness". Heck yeah!
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The countdown is on: the #KWKnittersFair2025 is less than 4 weeks away now! Join us at the Kitchener Aud (that's Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) for two arenas full of yarny goodness. Visit kwkg.ca/fair for more information, including the list of vendors!
August 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The countdown is on: the #KWKnittersFair2025 is less than 4 weeks away now! Join us at the Kitchener Aud (that's Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) for two arenas full of yarny goodness. Visit kwkg.ca/fair for more information, including the list of vendors!
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This post is being shared over on Mastodon, too; let's see which social network can get there first!
Today the Trevor Project has a donor providing a 4x match to our contributions: www.thetrevorproject.org
My employer also provides a 2x match.
Today the Trevor Project has a donor providing a 4x match to our contributions: www.thetrevorproject.org
My employer also provides a 2x match.
Support Homepage
The Trevor Project is a non-profit suicide prevention organization that provides 24/7 crisis support services, research, and advocacy for LGBTQ+ young people.
www.thetrevorproject.org
June 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This post is being shared over on Mastodon, too; let's see which social network can get there first!
Today the Trevor Project has a donor providing a 4x match to our contributions: www.thetrevorproject.org
My employer also provides a 2x match.
Today the Trevor Project has a donor providing a 4x match to our contributions: www.thetrevorproject.org
My employer also provides a 2x match.
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It's official, friends! The #kwknittersfair2025 is happening on September 13, 9:30 AM-3:30 PM, at the Kitchener Aud. Vendor applications are now open, with a deadline of June 30. Visit linktr.ee/KWKNITTERSGU... to find out more, whether you're a prospective vendor, volunteer, or attendee!
May 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It's official, friends! The #kwknittersfair2025 is happening on September 13, 9:30 AM-3:30 PM, at the Kitchener Aud. Vendor applications are now open, with a deadline of June 30. Visit linktr.ee/KWKNITTERSGU... to find out more, whether you're a prospective vendor, volunteer, or attendee!
The first flowers of spring! Purple crocus (crocuses? crocusses? croci?) peeking up in our front yard, and snowdrops suddenly filling our neighbour's yard. Isn't it incredible how much hope those little petals hold?
March 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The first flowers of spring! Purple crocus (crocuses? crocusses? croci?) peeking up in our front yard, and snowdrops suddenly filling our neighbour's yard. Isn't it incredible how much hope those little petals hold?
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"Nothing stops them from deciding that dissent is a crime. Nothing stops them from sending journalists, activists, and political opponents to disappear behind bars." from the @godpod.bsky.social newsletter. Dissent, I say. (Pattern available from my ravelry store, www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...) 🧶
March 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"Nothing stops them from deciding that dissent is a crime. Nothing stops them from sending journalists, activists, and political opponents to disappear behind bars." from the @godpod.bsky.social newsletter. Dissent, I say. (Pattern available from my ravelry store, www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...) 🧶
File under: reasons not to store your scrap yarn 🧶 on the wall directly above the laundry hamper. 🤦♀️ Glad this was a load of mostly towels and none have been dyed pink!
March 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
File under: reasons not to store your scrap yarn 🧶 on the wall directly above the laundry hamper. 🤦♀️ Glad this was a load of mostly towels and none have been dyed pink!
Kitchener-Waterloo folks, please go check out Palmyra Grill and Desserts on Lancaster (nr Ammar Halal). Hard to open a Syrian restaurant during Ramadan, but wow, their food is phenomenal and they are so kind. Details of dishes in the alt text.
March 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Kitchener-Waterloo folks, please go check out Palmyra Grill and Desserts on Lancaster (nr Ammar Halal). Hard to open a Syrian restaurant during Ramadan, but wow, their food is phenomenal and they are so kind. Details of dishes in the alt text.
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Happy International Women's Day, and cast-on day for the #UnfreeMAL! The next several weeks I will post case studies on how we can leave behind subsets of women if we aren't intersectional in our activism.
www.unravelingprivilege.com/unfree-mal-k...
#journalism #writing #blog
www.unravelingprivilege.com/unfree-mal-k...
#journalism #writing #blog
Unfree MAL Kickoff: What is White Feminism?
Welcome to Unraveling Privilege, a blog about activism, craftivism, and intersectionality! Today is International Women’s Day, and the cast on day of the Unfree MAL! To celebrate, let’s discuss and de...
www.unravelingprivilege.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Happy International Women's Day, and cast-on day for the #UnfreeMAL! The next several weeks I will post case studies on how we can leave behind subsets of women if we aren't intersectional in our activism.
www.unravelingprivilege.com/unfree-mal-k...
#journalism #writing #blog
www.unravelingprivilege.com/unfree-mal-k...
#journalism #writing #blog
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Our March speaker is the amazingly creative Megan Lapp. She began publishing her own digital crochet patterns in 2017 with one small octopus under her business name of Crafty Intentions, and now has over 200 patterns available digitally. Not a member yet? Check out www.kwkg.ca/join-us/ #crochet
March 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Our March speaker is the amazingly creative Megan Lapp. She began publishing her own digital crochet patterns in 2017 with one small octopus under her business name of Crafty Intentions, and now has over 200 patterns available digitally. Not a member yet? Check out www.kwkg.ca/join-us/ #crochet
I really love protest folk music. Amazing how songs written decades or centuries ago can ring so clear now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRWZ...
Artists For Action - Which Side Are You On
YouTube video by Bob Jensen
www.youtube.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I really love protest folk music. Amazing how songs written decades or centuries ago can ring so clear now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRWZ...
Lost all ability to cope today, and put myself back to bed at 10 AM. So profoundly discouraged and overwhelmed by so many things right now, my body/the provincial election/geopolitics. Clinging to points of connection: friends doing things for each other, family supporting family, pets snuggling.
March 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Lost all ability to cope today, and put myself back to bed at 10 AM. So profoundly discouraged and overwhelmed by so many things right now, my body/the provincial election/geopolitics. Clinging to points of connection: friends doing things for each other, family supporting family, pets snuggling.
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Library Card Vest knitting pattern
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
Long overdue. Thanks @ronmcquade.bsky.social
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
Long overdue. Thanks @ronmcquade.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Library Card Vest knitting pattern
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
Long overdue. Thanks @ronmcquade.bsky.social
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
Long overdue. Thanks @ronmcquade.bsky.social
It's my mom's 75th birthday today, and she took part in the "Coldest Night of the Year" walkathon for the Food Bank. She and her team raised over $4K, their highest level yet! They were a few of over 500 walkers in our small town. So proud and so glad to see people showing up for each other.
February 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
It's my mom's 75th birthday today, and she took part in the "Coldest Night of the Year" walkathon for the Food Bank. She and her team raised over $4K, their highest level yet! They were a few of over 500 walkers in our small town. So proud and so glad to see people showing up for each other.
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BTW for people worried about getting a voter card - if you download the Elections Ontario app (and you’re registered to vote) you can get an electronic copy of your VIC.
But you don’t need the card to vote. You can go to any advance poll in your riding tomorrow - take ID with current address.
But you don’t need the card to vote. You can go to any advance poll in your riding tomorrow - take ID with current address.
February 22, 2025 at 4:12 AM
BTW for people worried about getting a voter card - if you download the Elections Ontario app (and you’re registered to vote) you can get an electronic copy of your VIC.
But you don’t need the card to vote. You can go to any advance poll in your riding tomorrow - take ID with current address.
But you don’t need the card to vote. You can go to any advance poll in your riding tomorrow - take ID with current address.
This is AMAZING. My dachshund mix definitely didn't get the memo, though, she's only interested in racing to bed.
If you could use a little brightness in your day, I recommend spending some time with sled dog MUPPY. I’m genuinely obsessed with her. She is an icon. She is a legend. Her legs are 4 inches long.
Meet Muppy, the World’s Smallest Sled Dog
Most sled dogs are huskies and pointers, but Muppy didn’t get the memo. With sheer determination and a whole lot of heart, this little dog is rewriting the rules of racing.
www.outsideonline.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is AMAZING. My dachshund mix definitely didn't get the memo, though, she's only interested in racing to bed.
A gang of friends descended on a church basement and ironed an entire car-full of donated quilting fabric tonight, sorting it into piles for different charities. Absolutely the most mundane task ever, made fun and actually really uplifting by doing it together. There's a metaphor here somewhere...
February 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
A gang of friends descended on a church basement and ironed an entire car-full of donated quilting fabric tonight, sorting it into piles for different charities. Absolutely the most mundane task ever, made fun and actually really uplifting by doing it together. There's a metaphor here somewhere...
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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
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The stunning Indigenous Canada flag created by Kwakwaka'wakw artist Curtis Wilson. His design for the flag is meant to represent First Nations in Canada to the public.
In reflection, with gratitude and humility 🙏.
In reflection, with gratitude and humility 🙏.
February 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The stunning Indigenous Canada flag created by Kwakwaka'wakw artist Curtis Wilson. His design for the flag is meant to represent First Nations in Canada to the public.
In reflection, with gratitude and humility 🙏.
In reflection, with gratitude and humility 🙏.
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I don’t want to hear about your support of the “LGB community.” That’s not my community. My community includes transgender people, and intersex people, and asexual people, and all the other people you pretend don’t exist. If you don’t support them, you don’t support me.
February 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I don’t want to hear about your support of the “LGB community.” That’s not my community. My community includes transgender people, and intersex people, and asexual people, and all the other people you pretend don’t exist. If you don’t support them, you don’t support me.
This whole thread is just so brilliantly nerdy and hilarious. (Much like Gretchen's book!)
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Ideas are green
And colourless too
Violets are blue
Ideas are green
And colourless too
February 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
This whole thread is just so brilliantly nerdy and hilarious. (Much like Gretchen's book!)
The soundtrack for this morning's commute, for sure! (I am the only staff person in the office today, but we have a 3rd party rental group in and someone had to be here... Osti de cris de tabarnak indeed!)
A charming little song made up entirely of Québécois swearwords (which, for those unfamiliar, are based on liturgical appurtenances)
We hadn't had a day that justified busting this out again yet.
We have now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvR6...
We have now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvR6...
February 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The soundtrack for this morning's commute, for sure! (I am the only staff person in the office today, but we have a 3rd party rental group in and someone had to be here... Osti de cris de tabarnak indeed!)
I've already signed up 🤩
This is exciting! Mary W Martin will be teaching a free virtual workshop for our members on 2-Pass Woven Knitting (www.ravelry.com/bundles/two-...), her VERY clever technique. Members only, but anyone can join us at www.kwkg.ca/join-us/! $40 CAD for membership, cheaper than a lot of workshops 😉
February 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I've already signed up 🤩
Here's the finished #SkyKAL hat, blocking on my taped-up balloon head. This is the Gro Hat by Fiber Tales, knit in WoolDreamers Manchelopis 🧶. It's a bluer shade of teal than it looks here, I swear! (Pro tip: weaving in ends with unspun yarn? Use a crochet hook rather than a darning needle.)
February 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Here's the finished #SkyKAL hat, blocking on my taped-up balloon head. This is the Gro Hat by Fiber Tales, knit in WoolDreamers Manchelopis 🧶. It's a bluer shade of teal than it looks here, I swear! (Pro tip: weaving in ends with unspun yarn? Use a crochet hook rather than a darning needle.)