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Laura Dell
@lauredhel.bsky.social
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Boorloo. Crochet, cats, chickens, the occasional rant. Yarn dragon. Disabled. Soapmaking, cheesemaking, gin, coffee, books. Medicine, linguistics, lefty as f*&k. She/her.
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People! I'm crocheting a table centre and need colour advice.

Natural, Terracotta, and Avocado are locked in. What to use for a fourth? Bark, Bottle, Grape, or Rose?

#crochet
Four balls of Flinders Cotton - Natural, Terracotta, Avocado, and Bark Four balls of Flinders Cotton - Natural, Terracotta, Avocado, and Bottle Four balls of Flinders Cotton - Natural, Terracotta, Avocado, and Grape Four balls of Flinders Cotton - Natural, Terracotta, Avocado, and Rose
October 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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If you like rectangular shawl patterns, and don't mind puff stitches, you should check out the GenmaichaTea shawl pattern. #crochet
The start of a rectangular shawl made from an aqua gradient yarn. The design has post stitches and puff arches to resemble a Moroccan tile type pattern.
August 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Wintry Sunday night cookery: oat milk rice pudding with rhubarb & blood orange compote
August 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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work in progress: Malduguns Fen Fire top

#crochet
round top yoke made with light silver cotton yarn. The top has a motif of stacked puff stitches to look like waving stalks of grain. In the centre of the yoke is a crochet hook and two cakes of yarn - one silver, one a gradient of different greys.
July 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Not all of them even agree with that. Check out this reply.
Facebook comment reading "fdemkids. Maga schmucks have kids at a higher rate and then raise them to be full of hate and ignorance too. Fuck em."
July 6, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Closeup
Closeup of the man lounging in bed. His jeans are rumpled like the sheets are. His pecs and abs are similarly rumpled. He has six fingers on his left hand.
July 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Oh, Bookfunnel. No. No.
Webpage header reading Five Romances: The second-best thing to take to bed! July Rom Coms + On the right is a shirtless man lounging in bed. His jeans are rumpled like the sheets are. His pecs and abs are similarly rumpled. He has six fingers on his left hand.
July 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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This week's WA data for the "COVID Is Over" crowd. 1st graph is wastewater, 2nd is notifications (blue bar graph is %positivity), and last graph is hospitalisations.

It all adds up to an escalating COVID surge greater than Xmas 24, similar to winter 24, but not yet the height of the Xmas 23 spike.
First graph is wastewater, second is notifications (blue bar graph is %positivity), and last graph is hospitalisations. It all adds up to an escalating COVID surge greater than Xmas 2024, similar to winter 2024, but not yet the height of the Xmas 2023 spike. First graph is wastewater, second is notifications (blue bar graph is %positivity), and last graph is hospitalisations. It all adds up to an escalating COVID surge greater than Xmas 2024, similar to winter 2024, but not yet the height of the Xmas 2023 spike. First graph is wastewater, second is notifications (blue bar graph is %positivity), and last graph is hospitalisations. It all adds up to an escalating COVID surge greater than Xmas 2024, similar to winter 2024, but not yet the height of the Xmas 2023 spike.
June 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Ours is probably Bon Scott, though I could make a case for Tim Minchin.
Statue of a musician singing into a microphone, located in a fishing harbour. A sign in the background, in front of the ocean, reads "Fremantle..."
June 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Progress on my #crochet Marinus baby blanket (designer Helen Shrimpton).
The start of a baby blanket. It's made of fine weight pink gradient cotton, centre-out, first a circle, then a star, then a circle, then a square. There are a variety of textured stitches. The yarn cake in the background is labelled Twirls Pastello.
June 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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five chickens of various colours, approaching the camera curiously but also somewhat menacingly
May 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Today in WTF.... a crochet vlogger doing a month-long Pride-flag-themed series of videos.

Using Hobby Lobby yarn.
Screenshot of a Youtube vido. A woman with long hair and glasses sits in front of a bookshelf full of yarn. She is holding a huge skein of light green "Crafter's Secret Big Idea" acrylic yarn from Hobby Lobby. The caption reads "Making Everything Rainbow! PassiKnit Vlog"
May 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Creative product of the day: I finished my Rain Boheme blanket! And discovered a new worsted weight blanket-yarn love: Hobbii Daily Stitch Wool Blend Tweed.
#crochet
Hexagonal throw blanket in colours of oatmeal, blue, red, and yellow. The centre is a sort of stained-glass-look mandala, surrounded by rounds of different patterns, one of which looks like flocks of flying birds.
May 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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#auspol #ausvotes
Champagne and Dutton's concession
May 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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I haven't posted a #crochet FO for a while... because I was working on a queen size fingering weight blanket! This is Conglomeration by Shelley Husband (from the Granny Square Patchwork book). 65 squares + borders.

I haven't entered the Perth Royal show before, but am thinking of putting this in.
Enormous bright yellow blanket made up of squares of different patterns and sizes all cobbled together.
April 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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The Fyre Festival logo, with a stylised flame and zigzag, but with "ICE" instead of "FYRE".
April 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Mr Darcy and the late Mr Bingley.
two British shorthair cats, one tuxie and one cream bicolour, snuggled up facing each other on a rainbow coloured crocheted blanket. Their eyes are closed, their foreheads are touching, and their forepaws are tangled up together.
March 31, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Measles outbreak is up to 10 cases now in WA, making it the worst outbreak for many years. Exposure sites are currently being updated and include Bunbury/Busselton, Darlington, Maida Vale, Cannington (Carousel shopping centre). #perth #westernaustralia #measles

www.health.wa.gov.au/News/2025/Me...
Exposure site list from Health Dept - follow link in post for full details in text
March 31, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Lentil & veggie lasagne.
A well browned cheese covered lasagne in a glass dish in the oven
March 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Herenstraat 10
Poster (or VHS cover?) which reads at the top "HANS KEULS" "HERENSTRAAT 10" there is a photo of six white adults in a garden, some sitting on lawn chairs. They look rich and have 1980s hairstyles. Next to them is a cart with a bouquet and a silver champagne chilling jug. A two story villa is in the background among trees.
March 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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My thoughts go out to those in the path of Cyclone Alfred, currently bearing down on Brisbane/Gold Coast after a little bit of farnarkling around in the ocean. Please take "go home and stay home" (or an evac centre) seriously. And check on your disabled/elderly neighbours.
March 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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of course, this involves my constant interaction with a diagram that looks a bit like this, but there's more of it.
February 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Sharing progress on my Conglomeration #crochet bedspread. It's in 4ply (fingering wt) cotton, and will be king size by the time I'm finished.

Designer is Shelley Husband, from the Granny Square Patchwork book. This bedspread uses every single square in the book (and several more than once).
Sunflower yellow crochet blanket (well, half a blanket) made up of a variety of squares of different designs, textures, and sizes.
February 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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You just did what exactly? The last review was a month ago and google has turned off posting. Same on browser and iPhone for me.
Screenshot of Google maps pages showing "posting is currently turned off" on the gulf of Mexico page
February 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Here she is watching the cricket with the late Mr Bingley.
two recliner chairs with crochet blankets. On the nearest is a cream and white British Shorthair who is gazing attentively, if grumpily, at something behind the photographer. On the other is a brindle and white dog lounging with abandon and resting her chin on the arm of the chair.
February 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM