Kate 🦇
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Kate 🦇
@iulka.bsky.social
After joining the circus in 1935, Kate found true happiness in spelunking and is most often to be found surveying bat populations of islands not on maps. Cat-lover, SCAdian, incorrigible crafter. Life is better with every pet or wild animal post I see.
Thank you so much!!! I have my handout but didn’t diagram the stitches — you’re a lifesaver. ❤️❤️❤️
February 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
@nittanyknits.bsky.social Was the stitch we learned at Penn Lite last year just tent stitch? I forgot how to do it and was looking it up and tent stitch isn’t crossed, but what I have is crossed. I never finished my practice piece and want to pick it up, but I can’t remember the steps!
February 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I know there are mixed feelings on app ordering, but I appreciate the fact that I was running late and able to sprint out of the happy hour and close my tab (with a healthy tip) from the train.
January 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
POV: sunset from urgent care waiting room on Christmas Eve Eve. (Just sick, nothing exciting.)
December 23, 2024 at 10:21 PM
“Pepsi” is short for “is Pepsi ok?”
December 15, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Everyone has an “it’s not the holidays until” list. One of mine is seeing the Brookside Gardens Christmas Dragons. Ho ho raar, y’all.
December 14, 2024 at 2:03 AM
My holiday cards are out! A couple of observations:

1) I’m 90% positive a few are dated “December 2025.” Happy holidays from the future?

2) I started writing them on Nov 1. There was a vibe shift on November 5 and you can probably tell which side of it yours was written on.

But they’re mailed!
December 8, 2024 at 1:15 AM
There are three Thanksgiving movies I watch every year. We both like Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, and watch it together, but the other two are my own private little rituals. (Honorable mention to Knives Out which isn’t a Thanksgiving movie but somehow totally is.) Are there any you watch?
November 28, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Do you use the focus modes on your phone? If so, how do you find them most useful? I’m considering them as a way to enforce the divide between work and home and to reduce the noise of *gestures at world on fire* at times, but haven’t really used them yet.
November 27, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Mm. Cranberry sauce. It’s also stupid easy. Add cranberries, sugar, orange zest to a stand mixer. Turn in mixer and walk away for an hour. Turn off mixer. Done.
November 26, 2024 at 1:36 AM
Sugar pumpkins roasted, puréed, and frozen weeks ago. ✅ Pie crust dough made last week and refrigerated. ✅ All ingredients bought last week to avoid Thanksgiving weekend grocery store. ✅ All ready to make pies today!

All pie plates still at mom’s from last year.

LMAO. Best laid plans. 😄
November 24, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Ah, that moment when you go to block your knitting and the only way to make it match dimensions would be to cut it. I don’t know what I did. I gauge swatched and sized down my needles. The length was all knit to inches, not rows. But the closest I can get it is 5” longer than expected. 🤨
November 23, 2024 at 5:02 PM
If you have a federal job, no one should be allowed to throw a meeting on your calendar for “an announcement.” All surprises are terrifying right now. All of them.
November 20, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Hats off to anyone who makes their Christmas presents. I have been working on one baby gift for 2 months and I’m still not sure I’ll be done in time. It’s not even that complicated!
November 19, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Spirit of the law vs. letter of the law: she is not allowed on the counters.
November 19, 2024 at 3:12 AM
The cold I rudely woke up with Sunday is mainly characterized by an incredibly sore throat that makes speaking difficult/unreliable. Which is probably good because the second most notable symptom is the unrelenting urge to whine about it. Fortunately I’ve found a work around — typing. 😄
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 PM
I finally got one, @nittanyknits.bsky.social! I also discovered her other two are available as v inexpensive downloads on the Arelate Studio website — I might round out my collection.
November 16, 2024 at 4:06 PM
90% of my feed is just cats. I’m enjoying, Leeloo is judging.
November 16, 2024 at 5:29 AM