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purrsnpurls.bsky.social
@purrsnpurls.bsky.social
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Cats, knitting, books, and subversion. Educator, academic, and environmentalist. Working to create change. Loves gardening and learning.
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purrsnpurls.bsky.social
Wonder what the neighbor is going to think of our new mat @bushsbeans.bsky.social

#Beans #funny #weEatBeans
Doormat that says “in this house we eat beans” under a bean with light emanating from it as if it were holy
December 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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My last fingerless gloves I knit for my family. A subtle penguin mitt for my sister who loves penguins and pink! Was running out of white so used grey for one. Here is link to project www.ravelry.com/projects/Pur...

#showmeyourknits #holidaycrafting #knitting #knit #cozy 🧶
December 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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I’m a relatively new knitter so haven’t tackled a cardigan yet for #ShowMeYourKnits this week so I’ll just continue showing holiday gifts. Finished a camera lens sock for my mom. Super fast knit with DK yarn. 🧶 #knit #photography #knitting Project info here www.ravelry.com/projects/Pur...
December 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Just off the blocking mats, another holiday gift for #ShowMeYourKnits this week. Been making a lot of patterns from this adorable book from the library. Link to project here with all the details www.ravelry.com/projects/Pur... #knitting #knit #nordic 🧶
Pair of hand knit fingerless mitts with red stripes on cuff and green leaves above followed but a red mother squirrel and baby on blocking mats
December 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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I love the holidays and gifting small knit gifts. Made these for my grandma in law this year. Can’t wait to gift them! Pattern is moonlit Magic mittens and yellow is cascade 220 fingering and blue is big twist sock yarn in peacock #showMeYourKnits #KnitSky #knitting #mittens
Hand knit fingerless mitts with moon and eye patterns in yellow and blue. Right and left mitts are inverse colors of each other. On grey blocking mat
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Maybe this counts for some category for #showMeYourKnits this week? I’m just excited to share that I just finished these for a gift. I loved this color combo and making inverse color mitts. Project info here www.ravelry.com/projects/Pur... 🧶great book full of Nordic patterns from the #library
Burnt orange and cream mitts with fish pattern on one side and fish bone on the other. One mitt is inverse color of the other. Burnt orange and cream mitts with fish pattern on one side and fish bone on the other. One mitt is inverse color of the other. This photo shows the back of both with the thumb and bones. Burnt orange and cream mitts with fish pattern on one side and fish bone on the other. One mitt is inverse color of the other. This photo shows the front of both mitts.
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Since everyone loved the shawl for #ShowMeYourKnits gradients, here’s another I knit with the same Knit and Crochet cotton sport yarn in Denali. Pattern is Tip Top tank and has seamed and in the round version. This was a great first #knit garment for beginners! 🧶
Knit cropped tank with purple striped hanging on a wooden hanger
December 2, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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I think this is as close to a gradient knit I have done for #showMeYourKnits. This is the first ever shawl I knit and one of the first bigger projects I ever made. Reyna Shawl on Ravelry and KC (Joann’s brand yarn) cotton sport weight yarn.
White and purple hand knit shawl on hangar
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Just my cat. Thats it. She’s the cutest. #cat #catsky #tuxedo
Black cat with white mustache and toes on couch arm
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Current #wip for #ShowMeYourKnits this week. Pattern is Moonlit Magic Mitts on Ravelry. Yarn is cascade 220 fingering and big twist sock yarn. I think I FINALLY figured out color dominance by mitt two. Only second time using DPNs. Wish I tried them sooner! 🧶
Pair or knit mittens being worked on in blue and yellow with moon pattern. One is the inverse color of the finished one. On DPN knitting needles
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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wutangforchildren.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Early this morning, our city still plunged into darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge.

As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city.

Tomorrow, we win it together.
Zohran, Tish James and Brad Lander lead a procession of hundreds walking across the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn. Tish James, Brad Lander, Tony Simone and Rita Joseph wait for the march on the bridge. Zohran at a packed press conference outside city hall, Tish James and others raising their hands in the air.
November 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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kendrawrites.com
The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
purrsnpurls.bsky.social
Look at what we made our cat. She has her own bedroom now 🥰 #cat #DiaDeMuertos #offenda #lego #spoiled #CatLady
Black cat with white mustache in an enclosed litter box converted into a kitty bedroom decorated with Dia de Meurtos LEGO offrenda, papel de picadillo, and a cat light.
October 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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#showmeyourknits horror story week, this Haruni shawl had multiple mishaps. the white yarn became a huge tangled mess that left me in tears. At some point near the end, a stitch snapped and started unwinding. I was able to felt and stitch it back together luckily. 🧶#knit
Haruni knit blue and white shawl on blocking mats with tulips in front.
October 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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theguardian.com
Are leaf blowers really necessary? The answer is blowin’ in the wind | Jess Harwood
Are leaf blowers really necessary? The answer is blowin’ in the wind | Jess Harwood
What’s wrong with a rake?
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Since it’s hat week for #showmeyourknits I’ll share my other hats too! I made three of these and entered these two in the county fair. These were my first colorwork project. Learned a lot! 🧶
October 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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I’ve made a lot of hats, they’re usually what i practice a new skill with. This one is my favorite! #showmeyourknits 🧶🧶
Knit white hat
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Just gonna leave this here for anyone in need of sabotage ideas (gestures wildly at the world) www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184 #ww2 #history #nokings #moths #cia #book #greatReads
Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
www.gutenberg.org
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
purrsnpurls.bsky.social
I’ve never knit socks, so can’t do #showmeyourknits this week, but I’ve finally finished my first sweater (even though I had to make short sleeves). Love how it came out! Made for my cat crazy kid. #knitting #cat 🧶
Yellow and black knit sweater with short sleeves and four black cats on the bottom Back of a Yellow and black knit sweater with short sleeves and four black cats on the bottom sitting on a cat pillow
October 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Please for the love of god make this happen! 9 months a year I sleep so poorly
savestandard.bsky.social Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · Oct 2
“The position of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine is to scrap Daylight Saving Time and permanently stick to Standard Time.” Remind your state and federal lawmakers!
Screenshot from article linked below.
October 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Truth bomb‼️

This man should be the one speaking on college campuses…

“They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.”

Watch
September 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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“This one goes out to all the folks in Chicago who are relatively safe, and who want to do something but don’t know where to begin…”

Great advice from Gabe of Protect Rogers Park. Time to flood the zone
Text reads This one goes out to all the folks in Chicago who are relatively safe, and who want to do something but don’t know where to begin. Start today. It’s a beautiful day. It’s also the day we are likely to see a jump in ice activity. So get up, get outdoors, and flood the zone. Walk around. Patronize immigrant run businesses. Visit a neighborhood you’ve always been curious about. Walk slowly. Look around. Look down side streets. Be curious. Flood the zone. If you speak a language other than English do it in public, loudly. Make sure your phone is charged, and the camera on it works. Look people in the eye, especially anyone who seems like a fed. Let them know you see them. Meander. Sit on a bench. Have a snack. Be present. These cowards prefer anonymity, don’t give it to them. Carry a whistle. Three short blasts for “ice is here”. One loooong blast for “heeeeere”. Wear a monarch butterfly! We at ProtectRp and many immmigrant rights groups use the monarch as a symbol of solidarity because those butterflies migrate. And they are beautiful. Text reads Flood the zone. Tomorrow join a group- do rapid response, mutual aid. Meet your neighbors. Host a meeting. Take the next step. But today take the first. Get out there, become one with our great city. Flood the zone
September 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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aljazeera.com
The blood of our martyred journalists in Gaza has not yet dried before the Israeli occupation forces committed another crime against Al Jazeera cameraman Mohammed Salama, together with three other photojournalists.
August 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
purrsnpurls.bsky.social
Finally my time to shine! #showmeyourknits this week is shawls. They are my favorite to knit with all the lace options. Just won a people’s choice award for one of them at my county fair too! #Knit #lace 🧶
Blue and white hand knit shawl hanging Peacock blue hand knit shawl hanging
August 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM