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MelBrightKnits 🇨🇦
@melbrightknits.bsky.social
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Knitter and knitwear designer, academic, researcher in children's literature, working with Indigenous communities to create children's books, baseball fan, living in Winnipeg, a cold place with long but beautiful winters.
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MelBrightKnits 🇨🇦 @melbrightknits.bsky.social · Nov 16
Hey everyone, I'm hoping to connect with other knitters and yarn enthusiasts! I'm in Winnipeg, Canada 😊 Winters here are long and cold and beautiful. Picture of me and my latest cardigan (when it was still summer). Can't wait to meet everyone! 🧶
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Sorry, I have been off the grid. All threats from the US to destroy Canada are really tiresome and exhausting. Here are the latest socks I've been knitting 🧶
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#canada
##knittersofbluesky
Red and silver/white striped socks on a wooden floor.
March 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Thank you all for following g my Crocus-in-the-Snow mittens journey. They are done 😍🧶 From the book Knit Like A Latvian. I'm especially proud of the thumbs.
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White mittens with pink flowers and green stems on a white background. White mittens with pink flowers and green stems on a white background. Thumbs are visible here. White mittens with pink flowers and green stems on a white background. Mittens are turned inside out to show neat floats.
February 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Floats 😍😍😍 trying to knit colourwork inside out for the first time. So far it doesn't make much of a difference 🤔🧶
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White mitten inside out with pink and green floats.
February 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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First crocus mitten is done! The thumb is not completely invisible but I'm happy with it. Still have to take care of all the ends. Pattern from Knit Like a Latvian. 🧶
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White mitten with pink flowers and green leafs.
February 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Sent a message to one of my favourite yarn companies this morning 😢 just felt like I needed to do and say something. 🧶🇨🇦
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Dear Knitpicks team, it is with a very heavy heart that I'm writing this email. Given the Trump tariffs on Canada, I won't be able to support you as an American business at this time.
February 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Update on my Latvian mittens, pattern is from the book Knit Like a Latvian. Keep calm and knit on, everyone! 🧶
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White mitten with pink flowers with green stems. Only missing the top and the thumb.
February 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Has anybody started a thread on #Canadian yarn?
Thought it might be good to have as a knitter in Canada, impacted by the disgusting unnecessary trade war started by the fascist down south 🙁🇨🇦 ❤️🧶
#knitting
#yarn
#Canada
February 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Ambitious Saturday morning #knitting 🧶😊 it's going to be a mitten.
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Mitten with pink and green flowers on white background. Also seen is are balls of yarn in each colour. The mitten is only a quarter done.
February 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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My contribution to this week's #showmeyourknits cable prompt. Made this cardigan in 2018 and still wear it regularly. It was my first cabled cardi 🧶😃
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Woman with brown hair and glasses standing in front of a brick wall wearing a green cardigan with cables. Closeup of the green cardigan and the cables running down the length of the arm.
January 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Waking up to see my feed full of AOC's cast-on purple cardigan, and I love it!!
Very grateful for this community.
Happy knitting and crocheting, everyone!
It's almost Friday 😃🧶❤️
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January 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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One sock down, second one to follow soon, I hope. No pattern, yarn is Lana Grossa Meilenweit. Recipient's birthday is today 😅🧶
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Image of a blue and white and magenta stripes vanilla sock.
January 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Received this book as a gift and plan to use up a lot of yarn leftovers with it 😃🧶
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Balls of yarn in blue, yellow, black, red, green, and white on a couch. In the background is the book Knit Like a Latvian by Ieva Ozolina.
January 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Lunchbreak sock is growing. Will be a birthday present for an old friend 😃 no pattern, yarn is Lana Grossa Meilenweit. 🧶
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Blue white and magenta yarn, self-striping. Sock has upper part done, now working on heel.
January 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Scrunchie success!! Pattern is free from Purl Soho on Ravelry 😃🧶
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A hand holding a yellow and greenish knit scrunchie.
January 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Light Sunday #knitting: trying to make a schrunchie for the first time with leftover yarn 🧶😃
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Yellow yarn and project on circular needles. Blue yarn for provisional cast-on.
January 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The fisherman's sweater is finally done 😍😍 🧶 Very happy with how it turned out.
Yarn is Knit Picks Chroma.
Pattern is "Hug Yourself" by Michelle Jones
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Woman standing in a snow residential street wearing a yellow and greenish sweater in fisherman's rib. It has drop-down shoulders and is short with wide sleeves. Woman standing in a snow residential street wearing a yellow and greenish sweater in fisherman's rib. It has drop-down shoulders and is short with wide sleeves. The view is from behind.
January 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Should I wake him so I can finally grab my knitting? 😅🧶
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Orange tabby stretched out with paws on yellow fisherman's rib pullover.
January 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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A sea of fisherman's rib! I will finish this sweater this weekend, come what may. Only one sleeve and the neck left! 🧶
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#yarn
#Knitsky
Fisherman's rib in yellow and greenish colours, looking warm and squishy.
January 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Are there any #knitters and #crocheters from #Winnipeg interested in getting together for a knitting group? Maybe in a cozy cafe? 😀🧶
January 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Cast on a new lunchtime WIP. Can't wait to see how this one knits up. Happy almost-Friday, everyone 😊🧶
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Cuff of a blue, white, and magenta sock.
January 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Socks for hubby are done 🧶😍 knitted in superba tweed 6-ply #yarn. Facing the cold climate with all the resistance we can find!
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Black socks with white cuffs and colourful speckles.
January 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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This summer, I knit myself a baseball jacket and matching socks 🧶😍 inspired by our local team, the #Winnipeg #Goldeyes ⚾️ can't wait for summer to come back!
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Woman in red and white baseball uniform. Socks are kneehigh red socks with white stripes, jacket is white with red sleeves. Pants are not knitted.
January 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Morning mood. 🐈 says no yarn, only me on your lap 🧶
Hope you have a great day, it's freezing cold here 🥶 in #Winnipeg.
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Cat paws on a ball of black yarn. The picture is in black and white.
January 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I'm definitely more of a knitter and struggle with sewing together body parts 😁 But I had to #crochet this little dinosaur 😍🧶
It's a free #amigurumi pattern I found online.
A crocheted light blue dinosaur with a white breast plate made in chenille yarn.
January 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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#showmeyourknits sweater week 🧶😍 this is one of my favourite sweaters! Pattern is Community Tunic by Joji Locatelli on Ravelry. Yarn is Lana Grossa Landlust.
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Blue sweater with white geometric pattern around the yoke worn by a brown-haired woman with black glasses. Blue sweater with white geometric pattern around the yoke worn by a brown-haired woman with black glasses. This time seen from behind standing on a bridge in a forest.
January 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM