Pàra - special Bluesky edition
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A jumper for my six year old (mine is purple and wrapped up for Christmas, this is someone else's)
Pattern: storm sweater Jr www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Pattern: storm sweater Jr www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A jumper for my six year old (mine is purple and wrapped up for Christmas, this is someone else's)
Pattern: storm sweater Jr www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Pattern: storm sweater Jr www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Half a dozen pairs of socks, in various patterns with cables, lace and other cool patterns.
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Half a dozen pairs of socks, in various patterns with cables, lace and other cool patterns.
A baby jumper to donate, using the itty bitty pretty I must have knitted nearly 20 by this point.
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A baby jumper to donate, using the itty bitty pretty I must have knitted nearly 20 by this point.
I wanted to learn to crochet, so I designed and made a crochet cardigan (the button band and hems are knit so this is technically a knitting project) it's made of ~100 granny squares, all unique.
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I wanted to learn to crochet, so I designed and made a crochet cardigan (the button band and hems are knit so this is technically a knitting project) it's made of ~100 granny squares, all unique.
A 4ply lace shawl in silk/linen/wool with a bit of sock yarn to make up the difference. Mostly knitted while on a tramp.
Pattern: damask www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Pattern: damask www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A 4ply lace shawl in silk/linen/wool with a bit of sock yarn to make up the difference. Mostly knitted while on a tramp.
Pattern: damask www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Pattern: damask www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
A 4ply all over lace top in possum merino yarn. It's such a nice colour.
Pattern: poet www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Pattern: poet www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A 4ply all over lace top in possum merino yarn. It's such a nice colour.
Pattern: poet www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Pattern: poet www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
A 4ply all over stranded yoked sweater. The pattern doesn't really come through in the photos but in person it's lovely
Pattern: nightbook www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Pattern: nightbook www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A 4ply all over stranded yoked sweater. The pattern doesn't really come through in the photos but in person it's lovely
Pattern: nightbook www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Pattern: nightbook www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
An 8 ply jumper for my 3 year old, made with yarn dyed by my sister in law. Cool colour effect from slipping stitches.
Pattern: xanadu
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Pattern: xanadu
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
An 8 ply jumper for my 3 year old, made with yarn dyed by my sister in law. Cool colour effect from slipping stitches.
Pattern: xanadu
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Pattern: xanadu
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
A chunky bottom up jumper with mystery yarn that turned out not quite to be enough for both sleeves. Boy was I sick of garter rib by the time this one was done.
Pattern: Simon www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Pattern: Simon www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A chunky bottom up jumper with mystery yarn that turned out not quite to be enough for both sleeves. Boy was I sick of garter rib by the time this one was done.
Pattern: Simon www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Pattern: Simon www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
A 4ply singlet made using a massive cone of cotton/merino/possum/nylon. Not fully happy with how untidy the edges are.
Pattern: camisole No. 9 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Pattern: camisole No. 9 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A 4ply singlet made using a massive cone of cotton/merino/possum/nylon. Not fully happy with how untidy the edges are.
Pattern: camisole No. 9 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Pattern: camisole No. 9 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
It's nearly the end of the year, and I clearly won't finish any of my WIPs before then, so here's a thread of my 2025 knitting projects.
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
It's nearly the end of the year, and I clearly won't finish any of my WIPs before then, so here's a thread of my 2025 knitting projects.
also, yanks, get onto the Toyota Sienta (not the sienna) that they won't let you have.
These things are awesome and a total Tardis
global.toyota/en/newsroom/...
These things are awesome and a total Tardis
global.toyota/en/newsroom/...
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
also, yanks, get onto the Toyota Sienta (not the sienna) that they won't let you have.
These things are awesome and a total Tardis
global.toyota/en/newsroom/...
These things are awesome and a total Tardis
global.toyota/en/newsroom/...
Stellantis already makes the fiat 500, which is kei car adjacent
December 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Stellantis already makes the fiat 500, which is kei car adjacent
I'm looking forward to just how terrible a job Ford, GM and Stellantis do when they try to design a US kei car.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I'm looking forward to just how terrible a job Ford, GM and Stellantis do when they try to design a US kei car.
This has to be one of the highest ROIs around... Spending $2.5M per year on cycle trails and getting $1.28B back...
That's a BCR Of like 500:1
That's a BCR Of like 500:1
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This has to be one of the highest ROIs around... Spending $2.5M per year on cycle trails and getting $1.28B back...
That's a BCR Of like 500:1
That's a BCR Of like 500:1
There's even fake modal filters that would fix this if they didn't just deadend into fences or locked gates.
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
There's even fake modal filters that would fix this if they didn't just deadend into fences or locked gates.
Love how they try to sell this as "flanked by two railway stations" when the race track, army base, a secure government biolab and a gated retirement village make it practically impossible to walk to the closet one.
November 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Love how they try to sell this as "flanked by two railway stations" when the race track, army base, a secure government biolab and a gated retirement village make it practically impossible to walk to the closet one.
Still needs finishing and blocking for shape, but that's looking not too bad.
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Still needs finishing and blocking for shape, but that's looking not too bad.
Someone needs to remind Andrew that if Wellington got its "fair share" of transport funding it would get a lot less so that Canterbury could get a lot more...
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Someone needs to remind Andrew that if Wellington got its "fair share" of transport funding it would get a lot less so that Canterbury could get a lot more...
Some of us just like having the object...
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Some of us just like having the object...
It's all just "guidance" for permitted activities but compliance with the guidance makes a difference for whether a discretionary proposal gets approved.
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
It's all just "guidance" for permitted activities but compliance with the guidance makes a difference for whether a discretionary proposal gets approved.
The Wellington district plan includes all this stuff btw:
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The Wellington district plan includes all this stuff btw:
we either achieve fully automated luxury space communism or we all just die (I can't believe this is a real graph)
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
we either achieve fully automated luxury space communism or we all just die (I can't believe this is a real graph)
In NZ we're heading down the massive ute route, but the hardware store will still just lend you a free trailer for your car.
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
In NZ we're heading down the massive ute route, but the hardware store will still just lend you a free trailer for your car.
It says we have to "effectively" implement the Paris agreement.
If we're saying we don't care if our implementation is actually effective, we're not doing that.
If we're saying we don't care if our implementation is actually effective, we're not doing that.
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It says we have to "effectively" implement the Paris agreement.
If we're saying we don't care if our implementation is actually effective, we're not doing that.
If we're saying we don't care if our implementation is actually effective, we're not doing that.