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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦

@amyvervoort.bsky.social
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Mom x 3 -1 💙 🧶🐑 #knitting #fibrearts Artist in Residence The Old School House Arts Centre Qualicum Beach Vancouver Island🌲🌊🇨🇦 😷 #CleanAir Gardenerd🌱 Ally🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ TikTok: amyreadsherknitting

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Pixie and Norma Jean. Yes they're beautiful but they're also both adjunct professors at the University of Vermont offering courses in escape artistry, treat snatching, and Advanced Trouble-Making. 🎓
Photo of a petite white goat and petite black and brown goat with their noses almost touching, peeking their heads through the metal gates of their pen.
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
My heart will never be the same. I’ve loved orcas for as long as I can remember. Yesterday I spent the day on a boat with two orca naturalists, on a special tour in the Salish Sea. We met up with the T123s (Stanley watched us watching him😍) and T100s together- it was breathtaking. ❤️ #orcawhale #orca
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Five bunnies sit in a row facing a wall, observing a banana taped to it. The middle three bunnies wear small colored berets.
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
It’s been a minute, sky friends. I’ve been busy living in the moment, making art, spring gardening-being distracted by all things gardening & beach + friends time. Sometimes it’s nice to not spend as much time on social media. Filtering. It creates peace. Calliope, mid ear flap, head wubble:
Photo of the profile of a basset hound’s face looking out a window toward the left of the photo, shaking her head creating a blur of her ears and jowls. She is a red and white basset. She may have spotted a bunny in the yard. 😱
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Laurie0546 @trueblue111.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Writer Roald Dahl's daughter dies of measles before the vaccine was available. In 1988, he wrote this essay. time.com/3692439/roal...
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Read Roald Dahl's Tear-Jerking Letter Explaining Why People Should Vaccinate Their Children
Dahl's daughter died from the measles as a child.
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tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm
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Sabina Vohra-Miller @sabivm.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Anyone associated in the medical and health sectors under this administration will be forever remembered as being unethical, immoral, dishonourable, horrific and vile practitioners. You’ve written your legacy. This is how you will go down in history.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
There's lots to unpack from this EKOS slide but the one thing I want to highlight is the purple 25% of Conservative voters who would pick the fringe PPC as their second choice. This lines up with other information suggesting that one in four Conservatives are far right and/or MAGA fans. #cdnpoli
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 08/05/2025
This is Nugget. She only met these new friends today, but they have already made her their leader. 13/10
a light gold cockapoo pup walks toward the camera in a field of grass. behind her is a herd of similarly colored alpacas. it appears as if they are both curious and in awe as they follow the curly pup.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
It can often be difficult to tell Sheep (right) and Goats (left) apart, but to the trained eye there's an obvious difference: While both commit Crimes, only Goats are aware that their actions are wrong, and are thus capable of Sin.
A wooly goat, its eyes invisible, two simple horns curling back from its headA ram in need of sheering, its eyes invisible, its horns curling beside its head.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
(condescendingly) Maybe learn something. Maybe read the wikipedia summary of a book sometime
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Community Bikeways - TCBC @bikewaysto.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
"Ford is showing his Trumpian instincts - Once upon a time principled politicians would shrink from criticizing the judiciary + promoting their partisan views, but Premier Ford can’t help revealing his instincts aren’t that removed from the autocrat to the south." www.thestar.com/opinion/lett...
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This pink rhododendron in our yard is _noisy_ right now, full of busy buzzing pollinators doing their thing. 🐝❤️ #amysgardenqb #gardensky #beesofbluesky
Photo of an orange belted bumblebee covered in pollen, flying between pink rhododendron blooms.
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KnitHacker @knithacker.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
New Exhibition Explores the 60 Artists At the Forefront of Contemporary Fiber Art: 👉 mymodernmet.com/the-golden-t... via @mymodernmet - I went to the inaugural edition of "The Golden Thread" last year and it was great. Go if you can, ends May 16th ... #NYC #art #fiberart
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New Exhibition Explores the 60 Artists at the Forefront of Contemporary Fiber Art
Fiber art is finally getting the recognition it deserves.
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
There was a “Maker Faire” at my 10yo’s school this morning. Kids made things to sell for anywhere from 25cents to $2. Our purchases: *Sparkle Pom Pom Earrings!* 🤩 yes I will wear these to the studio tomorrow. Also, some cute bee things. It was all really well done. The kids are impressive makers.
Photo of my hand holding my new *sparkle pom pom earrings* made by a young girl for a school faire.Photo of my hand holding a small bees wax candle in the shape of a beehive. My garden through the window behind is bright spring green.Photo of my hand holding a beaded bracelet made by a child for a school faire. The letter bees spell “bumblebee” with the rest being black and yellow beads.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Fascism is on the move. Trump boasts of "liberation" by trying to destroy the global economy. Today Canada and the Netherlands ponder what true liberation means. We need to remember the huge cost paid to free people from gangster regimes. Here is my latest: charlieangus.substack.com/p/a-true-lib...
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A True "Liberation Day"
"Those who cannot remember their past are condemned to repeat it."
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
A quick garden update before I head to the studio for another day of felting making. The gorgeous coral rhododendron is blooming in the front yard and is blowing my mind🤩! Calliope has taken to laying beneath the pear tree like the land seal she is. 🥰 #amysgardenqb #gardensky #bloomscrolling
Photo of a beautiful orange/coral/yellow rhododendron blooming.Close up photo of a lilac bloomPhoto of our pear tree in bloom with our cute wubbly-fubbly land seal basset hound laying beneath it.Photo of bluebells blooming in our garden
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“Give me odorous at sunrise[sunset ;)] a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.” ~Walt Whitman Found: 💚 #amysgardenqb #gardensky
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A walk through the east side garden. Yes, I now refer to east and west garden sides because there is just so much to this thoughtfully planned property we bought last September. The spring bloom has made every moving pain lighter. We found paradise. #GardenSky #Gardening #VancouverIsland
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
There are many people, including children, that have been excluded from society because they are in a group that is known to be more at risk of serious outcomes from COVID-19. Instead of providing safer places and people to interact with, they are mocked and excluded further.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 01/05/2025
You asked, I listened As an act of civic journalism, I contacted the Privy Council Office and the Speaker of the House of Commons to clarify if Pierre Poilievre can still serve as Leader of the Opposition and if he can continue living in his public mansion The official answers: No and no
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
In response to the election map of #Canada showing large areas voting Conservative blue, here's a graphic from reddit entitled "Land doesn't Vote, People Do". #Liberals are red. #canpoli #cdnpoli #CanadaStrong Source: www.reddit.com/r/onguardfor... h/t @ianbremmer.com
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Jack Todd @jacktodd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
All kidding aside, the biggest reason to keep Poilievre out of Parliament is to change the tone. We can't operate as a civil nation when one party leader exists only to attack the other. Civil debates and factual discussions, not personal attacks and three-word slogans, please.
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Resistance Knitters 🧶💙🌊📎🕊️🗽📚🫖☕️📖🐈💍 @resistanceknitters.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Resistance Knitters during T1 knit 🧶 hats for Ukrainians & got them there through Lifting Hands International. They accept knitted items. From experience they stop hats & cold weather stuff around May but you could start knitting for the Fall & their website lists lots of things needed! www.lhi.org
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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Ramona has a VIB* for you. * Very Important Blep
Photo of a lovely white sheep standing outside, looking at the camera with her pink tongue sticking out slightly.
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Does this make us yarn enthusiasts the Jessica Fletchers of the fibre arts?
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Back in line at LifeLabs
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a black and white drawing of a woman sitting in a rocking chair with the words " waiting " below her
ALT: a black and white drawing of a woman sitting in a rocking chair with the words " waiting " below her
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
My daughter Hannah @vhannah.bsky.social lives in Seoul, South Korea, and recently found this cute Korean copy of Anne Of Green Gables. The title translates to “Red Hair Anne” :) Narrator: Hannah also has beautiful red hair, (never dyed green by a peddler’s potion). #BookSky
Photo of my daughter’s hand holding a book. The book is a Korean version of Anne Of Green Gables.
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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TopKat_GlassDragon @topkatglassdragon.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Don’t want to appear sore winner BUT Time PP expenditures & donations investigated And a law that - Any candidate running for party leadership passes Top Level #SecurityClearance We dodged a bullet #Canada, let’s make sure to disarm the corruption prior to it being national/international risk
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
It’s a day to celebrate 🇨🇦! Back to TOSH Arts Centre today to felt flowers, orcas, and ..shawls? I scored an extra long sturdy table to use for felting larger items, and I’m excited to give it a test run in the new studio. Which painting should I turn into wearable art next? #FibreArts 🧶 #art
Photo of wet felted wool morning glory flowers with leaves and vines, pink mallow blooms all surrounding a needle felted monarch butterfly. They’re laying on a wood plank table. 
Photo of a wet felted shawl wrapped around a mannequin. The shawl is inspired by Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting. Behind it is a wall of white shelving that has large balls of merino wool roving in each cube shelf.
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 29/04/2025
Poilievre losing his seat is almost Shakespearean: Pretender to the throne riles countrymen with anger, gets defeated by guy with Joy in his name. It’s basically Macbeth.
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molly mary o'brien @missmollymary.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
me listening to music: 🙂 me listening to music that has a saxophone in it: 😀
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This pretty rambling azalea is blooming under some other larger rhododendrons. Pale yellow in the shade is perfect. :) #amysgardenqb #gardenysky
Photo of a pale yellow azalea bloom and the green leaves around it. Photo of a pale yellow azalea beginning to bloom. Evening sunlight filters through the leaves.
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
We have 8 different rhododendrons in our garden, and the blooms are spectacular right now.The cherry is beginning to sprinkle petals like confetti, and little treasures are filling shady spots with colour. Currents, raspberries, apples, and pears to come. #amysgardenqb #bloomscrolling #gardensky
Photo of a royal purple azalea in bloom.Photo of a pink/coral pulmonaria in bloom under a cedar bush. There is another small cedar in the front left.Photo of a pink rhododendron in full bloom.Photo of our cherry tree in full bloom with huge puff ball white flower bunches.
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Carmen Wiigwaas Craig @carmunist.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” —Vincent van Gogh
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This and the replies made me smile:
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LaurenSJ @laurenshirleyj.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
And above all...he has called us "stupid." "It is not the Americans' fault. It is our fault. We are stupid" We deserve a Prime Minister who believes in Canadians - our potential, our people. Someone who will defend and protect our interests. Canadians deserve better. #cdnpoli
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Canada as you vote, here is a reminder of who the Trump, Musk, Netanyahu and Modi ally Pierre Poilievre really is. #cdnpoli
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✠ 𝐃𝐨𝐜 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 - 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🖇️ 𝟾𝟼𝟺𝟽 @unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Wool blooms coming to life in the studio. Love these :) The flowers are part of a bigger sculpture underway. I have many more vines and tendrils to add, plus more and other blooms - which I love making. It’s been a busy week. Now for some weekend knitting. 🧶 #FibreArts #wetfelting #feltedwool
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The garden we adopted with our house has huge, mature hostas living safe from island bunnies in large pots around the garden. Some are in the ground, but the ones in pots are massive jungle-like hostas that make my heart explode. I wish I could go back and tell 20something gardener Amy about them.
Photo of four shades of green embroidery floss laying between some rich green hosts leaves.
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A weaver in my garden 😍 #amysgardenqb #gardensky
Photo of a spiderweb above some fresh green boxwood in the evening sun. There is a fence in the background offering a darker backdrop to the web.
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Bill Comiskey @thereal-ub.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This will be the most important election in our lifetime! #MarkCarney is the only leader equipped 2 protect #CanadianSovereignty and lead Canada into the future while dealing with #Trump. Carney needs a strong Mandate get out and #VOTE! #VoteCarney #VoteLiberal #Never51 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Trump reinserts himself into Canadian politics, saying 'as a state, it works great' | CBC News
Days before the federal election and after more than a week without commenting on Canada, U.S. President Donald Trump resurfaced his 51st state rhetoric Wednesday afternoon and suggested he could furt...
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
..and a bumble bee in my pear tree.. #amysgardenqb #gardensky
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/04/2025
When I was growing up autistic kids were "hyper" or "had water on the brain" and there was always a raft of "weird kids" who were socially ostracized because they had a hard time people-ing. If you don't think autism existed before it was commonly called "autism," it's because you chose not to see.
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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
It’s time to break out a fresh new olive oil soap for wet felting. 🙌 I’ve been busy making morning glories for a bigger project underway. These are the beginning of many more blooms. My hands feel great after a day of smooshing wool in oily soap. :) #FibreArts 🧶 #WetFelting #BloomScrolling
Photo of some wet felted wool morning glories on a wood table. There are green wool felted vines and leaves connecting the blue blooms. In the upper left are two piles of wool roving pulled and ready to make more blooms and leaves. In the middle of it all is a cube of olive oil soap from France. Photo of some wet felted wool morning glories on a wood table. There are green wool felted vines and leaves connecting the blue blooms. In the upper left are two piles of wool roving pulled and ready to make more blooms and leaves. 
#flowers
#bloomscrolling
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
tired: Kraven the Hunter wired:
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