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sparrowlet.bsky.social
Sparrow
@sparrowlet.bsky.social
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Formerly @weebirb on Twitter. Knitter, birder, gamer, and purveyor of unhinged punnery. Swears too much. I art sometimes.

30-Something Millennial Fool
Grey-Ace/Demisexual, She/They
ADHD
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I've been motivated by the cold weather and rain in my corner of the world these last few days to try to pick up the pace on my Sote sweater. 🧶

#wipwednesday #knitsky
A half completed panel of Sote by Alicia Plummer. It is being worked up in Plötulopi held double. It rests on a desk with an owl and flower print project bag in the background.
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Instructions unclear, I think my box is the wrong size.

Still worked! Thanks, >Question!
A black and tan dog is forcing it's way into a very tiny box. Only their head and front paws appear to fit, the rest of them is bowed out on the carpet.
October 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Animals are on the move as the seasons shift. I've been feeling Some Kind of Way coming back home after 10+ years and seeing places that were once fields. Forests. Now highways and houses and trying to reconcile it with the animals that still live (and die) here with us. Idk man.
An image clipped from Nathan Pyle's Strange Planet. A blue alien against a pink background with the text 'I am not trained for this'
October 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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A coyote ran across the highway tonight.
White text on a black background, the OPs somewhat prose, somewhat poem thoughts about animals and highways. I don't know if there are greater powers But always pray luck for the creatures I see Be cunning, be wise Be swift and fleet Who teaches you to walk these oil black rivers? Where before it the grass was carved into red clay wounds now long scabbed over Night made sun bright They leave shadows of others like you in hollows of its surface as they pass This was not the nature that made you
October 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Someone is much more like himself today but still finds drinking water to be beneath him. So I'm being dastardly and soaking his kibble for meals.
A black and tan dog laying with their head on their paws on a pile of grey bedding and a multicolored quilt. The dog's face is greying with age. They are looking at the camera pitifully.
October 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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One down. My dog is at the vet for a routine dental procedure and I'm a wreck about it (he's old. I have anxiety.) So we knit instead. 🧶

#knitsky #socktober
A completed colorwork sock done up in undyed white for the toes, background color, heel, and cuff, and a variegated blue. The colorwork is in a familiar gingham-esque diamond pattern. The pattern is Rhubarb and Custard by ZaneteKnits
October 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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My first pair of colorwork socks with a little ambition. ZaneteKnit's Rhubarb and Custard for socktober. I'm really enjoying them so far. (Ignore the fact that this set of colors has been waiting to become this pattern for a year now 😅)

Next is...honeycomb brioche???
A toe up sock, showing the toe, instep, and part of the gusset complete in a diamond two-color pattern of white and variegated blue. The gusset is vertical stripes, interrupting the repeat pattern. The toe is white.
October 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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My body: Slowly losing the fight to post vaccination crumminess.

My brain: ....just one more row 👀

Colorwork is addictive, even when not feeling one's best.
A photo of a work in progress knitted sock in the pattern Rhubarb and Custard by ZaneteKnits. The sock currently has a white toe section complete and is beginning to work into the instep colorwork section, featuring a variegated blue contrast color.
October 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Also, here is said finished object: the Sparkling Cider Hat, knit up in Knitting for Olive merino, and mohair in navy blue with some beads dug up from my stash. The recipient was very pleased! 💛 🧶

#knitting #knitsky #finishedobject
A dark blue hat with a slightly floral/tree like cable motif repeated throughout once past the brim. At the apex of each cabled repeat is a clear, iridescent bead. The hat has a pleasant, fibery halo from the mohair.
September 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Wet Beast Wednesday 🧶✨️💛🌈
Andrea Mowry's Night Lights pattern comprised of a teal and neon rainbow striated yarn. It is submerged in a stainless steel basin of water with a light foam of bubbles A Night Lights Shawl stretched out to dry on blocking mats. It is a long, narrow, triangular shawl meant to be worn like a scarf
September 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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A quick close up of the Night Lights shawl by @dreareneeknits.bsky.social that I'm working on. My color choices looks like a funky arcade and bowling alley carpet threw up.

Y'all, I love it so much. It makes me happy. I'm gonna have a rainbow scarf! 🧶❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

#knitsky
A close-up of a striped motif in two colors with a slip stitch carried up each row to offset the color. The scarf is being worked up in two DK weight yarns. The semi-solid teal is Twilight in Dresden DK by Into the Whirled, and the neon rainbow variegated yarn is a zebra striped yarn called Technotwist dyed at my LYS.
September 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Didn't expect TCG Pocket to be canonizing the answer to the metaphysical question of the existence of souls in the game universe, but here we are:
A screenshot of a card from Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket featuring the psychic type card male version of Jellicent. It has an attack called 'Devour Soul'
August 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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I am full of chili, the dog is snuggling with me, and the fight for consciousness is my true greatest battle now
A doodle of a person face down in a pillow, a small array of 'z's' drift away from their face.
August 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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It's all dry! I finally managed to drag myself from burying my face in wonderfully scented finished object for some final pics! Illusion knitting is so cool.

Pattern is Monstera Illusion Shawl by Ola Chester! 🧶🌿

#knitsky #knitting #finishedobject
A black and green illusion knit shawl draped on a beige wall. The shawl is viewed from the side in the photo and shows a hidden motif of green monstera leaves scattered across the work. The shawl was worked up in Malabrigo Rios in the colorway Ivy and Juniper Moon's BFL in the colorway Iron A black and green illusion knit shawl draped on a beige wall. The shawl is viewed from the front in this photo, and the motif is barely if at all visible amidst the striping. The shawl was worked up in Malabrigo Rios in the colorway Ivy and Juniper Moon's BFL in the colorway Iron
August 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Me before blocking: Man, this thing is huge, but at least it won't get too much bigger.
Me after soaking it: Uh-oh.

#knitsky #knitting
A black and green illusion knit shawl laid out on the floor and some blocking squares. There is a motif of monstera leaves. The shawl is quite sizeable and takes up the majority of the length of a wall. The same shawl, now finished soaking and stretched out. The monstera motif is no longer as visible, but the whole shawl is now even bigger, expanding past the towel it was laid on like some hungry amoeba
August 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Went yarn crawling today to celebrate the end of a long week and a good interview. 🧶💛
A collection of bright skeins, and other fiber-y goodness. Listed from left to right: Two skeins of DK SW Merino in the color Technotwist from Sooieet Skeins (the OP has plans to use this in a Night Lights by Andrea Mowry), a skein of sock/fingering in the color Unicorn Shapoopsies (yes really) from Get Knitfaced in CO with a matching pink pompom with black edges. A large book from Laine Publishing called Embroidery on Knits by Judit Gummlich. A pin featuring a chicken, and a cheese stitch marker the OP gathered for her partner. Two skeins of Knitting for Olive Soft Silk Mohair in Marzipan, and two skeins from Twisted Ambitions Yarn, with a smaller fingering hank in Highlighter, and a larger fingering hank in Light Beam.
July 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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My therapist: "So you have a large system of people that are clearly indicating they think you can be successful and have what it takes to do so...so why won't you believe them and let yourself try?"
Me:
A black and white drawing of a little person sitting on the ground. Their eyes are huge and slightly haunted.
July 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Went out to Pride today, rocking my silly asexuality shirt. Got some pins, stickers, and a little peopled out, but I was happy to have gotten out to celebrate with the others who make my city special.

Happy Pride, y'all! 💛
A person is wearing a black tank top with a red and black flannel. The black tank top has a vapor-wave style scene with a funky teal and orange sunset against palm trees. A white pin-striped car is parked in the center od the scene. In looping font above the car is 'Sex drive?' And below the cad continues in blue 'I don't have a license.'
June 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Found a Clearwing Moth outside my work (I have never seen one before???) and it made my whole week. Look at them! They're SO SMALL!!
A clearwing moth resting on a flowering arm of a plant carpeted in tiny purple blossoms. Their proboscis is extended as they delicately sip at the blooms.
June 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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I think my crispy tofu experiment turned out okay! I still need to figure out portion sizes (i.e. buy more of things, tofu didn't go as far as I thought, oops) but I'm glad to have made myself good meals for my work week. Even if it did fill my dishwasher right back up after emptying it...
Four glass containers of meal prepped food. Each container has white sushi rice, sautéed purple baby broccoli, a half a salmon filet seasoned with salt, pepper, and chili flake, and crispy tofu with a sauce of ketchup, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, sugar, and chili flake (OP is allergic to garlic so none in the sauce :( )
June 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Update on the prank war: I took the stolen middles out of the pens and taped them to faux flower stems, and made a very nice bouquet.

Bonus: If my manager kills me, we can put these on my grave!
The picture shows an office desk in chaos. Large pieces of confetti and glitter litter the desk in front of a keyboard. There are two computer monitors that have been completely covered in a rainbow of sticky notes. In the center of the chaos is a cheerful bouquet of fake flowers in yellows and white, sitting in a squat, beige vase.
June 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Finally, I got something off the needles! I've been working on this Seaglass Hat by @woolandpine.bsky.social on the weekends at the local yarn store. Needs maybe a cute little pompom, but I'm really satisfied with it! Pictures don't do it justice. Yarn info in the first pic :) 🧶
#knitting #knitsky
A Seaglass hat with a dark brim and a rotation of cool toned yarns every two rows. The dark yarn is held throughout, and the hat is done in fingering weight. Behind it is a pyramid of yarn. The dark Grey yarn and purple yarn are by Casual Fashion Queen, and are Phillip and The Wind Rises respectively. The blue marbled yarn is Manos del Uruguay in Dragon. The pale white and light green skeins are Miss Babs, in Morning Dream and Peace Lily respectively, and the dark green marbled yarn is Frabjous Fibers in End of the Wood. A Seaglass hat folded in half so that the colors and rows can be seen. The hat has a dark grey brim with the same color worked throughout and alternating with different colors every two rows. The Seaglass Hat in different lighting on a desk surrounded by various accouterments. The hat is spread out to see the shape of it.
June 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Truly this man is simply An Ooze.
A black dog with a heavily grey-touched face denoting his age. He is laying prone on a bed, half covered by a blanket. One eye is closed and the other is half open and unfocused as he fights sleep.
May 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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One of my great joys in life is naming my Pokémon TCGP decks silly things.
A screenshot of five different decks from Pokémon TCG Pocket. There are two fire decks, one named Pepto Abysmal and the other named Where There's Smoke. There is a fighting type deck named Dusty Bois, a Metal type deck named Throw Nickels At Them, and a Water type deck named Wormy Bois
May 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Horrifying news, thank you.
Darth Vader standing in a misty lab. His head is thrown back in agony and despair. Across the bottom in large font is 'NOOOOOOO'
April 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM