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rlstar.bsky.social
Aster Hesperus
@rlstar.bsky.social
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Hyper-local journalist. Unbutterable. May behave in a weedy manner.
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I love a chance to revisit the pinkest things I ever made! #ShowMeYourKnits.
A person standing under a cherry blossom tree wearing a sweater that is the same colour as the blossom A pink knitted chicken in a cherry blossom tree. The chciken has a hot pink comb and wattle, and some purple stripes on its body
February 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Oh, how serendipitous, my latest finished object is this garter stitch scarf with some icord details. #ShowMeYourKnits. I love the colour - Figue by De Rerum Natura. Pattern is Askell.
A dark indigo scarf shaped in to a circle to show both ends. The scarf is made of garter stitch, but it has some diagonal cabled lines running across it to add texture.
January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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Swatch, as foretold! Just casting on for the sweater. #ShowMeYourKnits
A small square of cream/white knitting. It has some short black lines in it which look a bit like writing, or striations on a glacier.
January 12, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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On my needles - so very close to the end of my Askell shawl, and it is on top of the nearly finished blanket. I am hoping there will be a new swatch by the end of the weekend. #ShowMeYourKnits
A long tapering end of a garter stitch scarf with icord edges. It is a dark indigo in a colourway called “ figue” and it does indeed have a very dark purple bloom
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Please to enjoy this picture of Petal when she fell asleep but forgot to lie down
A black cat with a little white bit under her chin. She is fast asleep but sitting up and leaning on a wooden box. She has her feet stretched out in front of her on a knitted blanket, and you can see the toe feathers on her back feet. She is fluffy in an "I don't brush my hair" kind of way.
January 8, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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It was just cold enough again to put on this sweater I made myself last year as my New Year cast on, and I had forgotten how much I love it. So perfect for like 5 weeks of the year. Yarn is Sandnes garn Poppy. #ShowMeYourKnits
A cream-coloured sweater with a lot of flecks, streaks and dots of autumnal colours - navy, dark green and a couple of browns. It is very simply constructed, which allows the yarn to shine.
January 2, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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I just finished this hot water bottle, where I was leaning in to the "pink is the coziest colour". Very seasonal for solstice I think. It's fuzzier in person because of the strand of bubblegum mohair. #ShowMeYourKnits
A hot water bottle with a knitted cover. The pattern is Kintra and it's 1x1 colourwork through the body of the bottle, in a variety of pink, white and purple. The top and bottom are a pinkish mauve.
December 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Perfect timing! I just finished this snow sweater. I think it's giving seasonal, or low-key holiday. #ShowMeYourKnits
A sweater in very dark grey lying flat on a mat for blocking. It has a simple round collar shape. The sleeves are very long and wide. At the bottom they have a colourwork detail that looks like sage-green pine trees sitting on snow, and there are additional small speckles of white up the arm that look a bit like falling snow. The colourwork ends just above the elbow.
December 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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I'm a bitch I'm an orca Sinking yachts Just off Majorca I'm a sinner I'm a whale Imma hit you with my tail
December 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Well, this is embarrassing, NATURE. "28 November 2025 Editor’s Note: Readers are alerted that the contents of this paper are subject to criticisms that are being considered by editors." No shit. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
An AI infographic titled "Austims Spectrum Disorder" with a figure in the centre "seated" on a table, except the table has no legs and the figure's legs are going through the table. There is a child on the figure's lap and their arms intersect in a strange way. Around the table are some nonsense diagrams including a bicycle that says "Autism", and text that says "Factor Fexcectorn" and "Environental features". It's clearly AI.
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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My favourite fluffy knits right now are the Garden Cardigan I made this spring and the Sophie Hood. The cardigan gets daily wear in the current weather; I love the granny vibe the colour gives it, and it feels super fluffy, even if the fluff doesn't show so much in the pic. #ShowMeYourKnits
A pinky-purple cardigan with a simple vertical motif of lace eyelets all over. The yarn is a combination of pale purple Biche et Buch lambswool and a bubblegum pink mohair but it doesn't look stripey. The arms of the cardigan are holding a folded hood which is garter stitch in a greyish purple Isager Soft. You can see a bit of a fluffy halo on both garments.
November 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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This is Max, not the smartest of cats, but definitely the sweetest. He was the most loveable doofus. He loved butter, and was not very good at judging his jumps, which led to a number of "maxidents" often involving knocking breakable objects off surfaces.
A close up of a grey cat's face. His pink tongue is sticking out, but he doesn't seem to be aware. He has green eyes and a bit of a vacant expression
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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This is just inexcusable. No one on the production team looked at this graphic illustrating "Knitting uses 2 needles" and had a momentary thought "maybe we could use a better graphic and not use AI"? #GameofWool
A graphic showing Knit vs Crochet. The line drawing on Knit shows 4 needles, 2 o which are attached to some knitting and 2 of which are attached to some string that has a very odd shadow. The Crochet picture depicts some kind of mattock with a series of non-connected loops hanging down from it, and a string at the back, which does not appear to be connected either.
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Yay, WIP week! I am creeping along with the colourwork sleeve for my Snow Sweater. #ShowMeYourKnits
A section of a knit sleeve of a sweater showing a repeating colourwork pattern of fir trees in sage green, and scattered single white stitches that look like snow on a dark blue/black background. The yarns include some mohair so the pattern is not vey crisp, but the fuzziness is satisfying.
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Current horror story: 3 colour colourwork on sleeves on a knit using 2 strands of yarn for every colour. That's 6 balls! What was I thinking?
Previous horror story: left my fave mitts in the pockets of a coat I donated.
#ShowMeYourKnits
2 balls of seafoam yarn, 2 balls of charcoal yarn and 2 balls of white yarn attached to a small circumference circular needle which has just enough knitting on it to look like a hot mess. The inside of the sleeve cuff is visible with a lot of floats.
October 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I don't wear socks, so the only ones I ever knit are gifts. These ones are in a really nice mohair sock yarn from Whistlebare, and they were for my lovely sister-in-law who had very kindly received my inkle loom and shipped it to me from the US. #ShowMeYourKnits
A dusty pink knitted sock with a loop motif running up the side from the toe and in the middle. The sock is being blocked on a wooden blocker so it is very flat and there's a mysterious black paw touching the cuff.
October 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The project top of mind for me this week for care in knitting is the Emotional Support Chicken I knit for work. I had a couple students last week who were super nervous before a big event and trying to hold it together, and they both took advantage of the offer to hug the chicken. #ShowMeYourKnits
A knitted chicken in primarily pale brown and white marled yarns. She has purple stripes on her neck and tail, and she is sitting in a window box with some red and orange flowers. She looks super kind and friendly, and her name is Eglantine Beckett.
September 28, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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I just finished my blanket yesterday, so my WIP is just a tiny wee starting triangle of a Sophie hood in the new colour of Isager Soft. it's really hard to get the actual colour to photograph - it's lavender, but it does tone quite grey, which I actually love. #ShowMeYourKnits
A thin triangle of garter stitch knitting with i-cord edges. It is next to a ball of yarn. The yarn is fuzzy, with glimpses of the cotton core showing. The colour is a very soft grey-purple. The knitting is on a desk covered with other bits of knitting in the background, some random balls of yarn, a cushion and a cat toy that looks like a wee sausage roll. No cat in evidence.
September 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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For Sweater week I picked Mayu by Espace Tricot because it's the most successful and loved sweater I made for my kid. I first made one in 2017, and he loved and wore it so much I had to make a new one a couple years ago after it wore out. This is version 2. #ShowMeYourKnits
A person standing outside on a patio holding a branch of cherry blossom. The image is cropped to feature their torso and they are wearing an oversized sweater with very wide sleeves and a rolled neck. The sweater is dark grey and it has a fuzzy mohair halo.
August 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Okay, look. If I am honest, this is my favourite striped sweater, but there's a reason it's called "Unphotogenic Boxy" in my projects. #ShowMeYourKnits
A rectangular, boxy sweater, shown sideways lying flat. It has stripes of varying thickness in 2 shades of black. One of them is mohair, not that you can tell by looking.
August 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Perfect pool afternoon.
Kits pool in the foreground looking across English Bay to Stanley park, and the mountains in the background. The pool is a bright turquoise, the water in the bay is greenish blue and it's very clear so the mountains look particularly pointy.
August 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Scrap projects, you say? This one is on my needles right now! Sweet Shop Blanket by Laura Penrose, and perfect for making a dent in the massive pile of minis and leftovers. #showmeyourknits
A knitted blanket made up of squares. Each square is made of 2 triangles, one in off-white, one in either green or purple. The greens and purples range from lime to forest and lilac to grape.
August 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Happy Birthday #ShowMeYourKnits! Love the inspiration and the vibe here so much. This is absolutely the moment to post one of my faves from the last year which is Human Expression of Fairy Bread. Pattern is Calliope from Espace Tricot, and the yarn is Bubble Wand from Sweet Georgia.
A person's torso showing a knit sweater in a cream yarn with flecks of colour and a lot of multi-coloured glass beads sprinkled on it like the sprinkles on the Aussie party fave fairy bread.
July 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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The Merry Maidens in Cornwall earlier this month. Gorgeous day, no one there but me and my 2 friends, and we just sat with them and enjoyed feeling their place in the landscape. #StandingStoneSunday
5 standing stones curving away from the first stone, which is seen close up. They are all about the same height and roughly rectangular, but different shapes and widths.
July 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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I don't do a lot of summer knits, but I have been getting a lot of wear out of this Lillesol I finished on holiday. #ShowMeYourKnits
Close-up of a matcha green sweater a person is wearing, showing a faux cable detail down the middle of the sweater. It has a shallow v-nect and 9 rows of faux cables that look like chains of little circles.
July 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM