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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Y’all, I finished blocking my swatch for my first ever sweater yesterday and am now ready to cast on. I’m nervous and wildly intimidated, but we press on! 🧶

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Y’all, I am 8 rows from the end of a cowl I’ve been working on for 2 months and I’m out of my main color 😭😭 my gauge must is too loose and now I need to frog a significant amount of it to fix it. I’m genuinely so upset and disappointed. I want to shove it in a corner but then I’ll never finish. 🧶

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This is the vibe tonight 😍

Hands holding a knitting project in progress with a glass of wine

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

It’s finally time to build this 😍😍💀😍😍

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Rapture update: I’m still here, and apparently that means I’m still “expected to go to work” 🙄🙄😭 Hopefully traffic is lighter

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Y’all I’m so excited for this!!! I have been waiting so long! 😍

The title screen of the tv show The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Y’all, all I want is to knit some fall/spooky season socks. I just need to find the right yarn! Weirdly I feel like there’s not a ton of dyers with fall colors yet. I may need to broaden my horizons and find new yarn dyers

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Gotta love the capitalistic enshitification of every product that’s ever existed in the name of eternal profit growth. 🙃

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Forgot to post, but I finished my first socks about a month ago!! I’m literally in love with them and so excited that they are done! I’ve moved on to a mosaic knitting project and am already missing the mindlessness of the socks. 🧶🧦

Multicolored hand knit striped socks being worn looking down on them from above

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Y’all I am so burned out, and I have no idea how I am supposed to recover and improve my mental health with all of *gestures around broadly* this going on 😭

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Hey, y’all! Looking for good recommendations for yarns to to use for afghans! I’ve used Red Heart Super Saver in the past but don’t love how scratchy it feels. Any recommendations are welcome! 🧶

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Y’all I just learned that Utah Yarn Crawl starts next week and I couldn’t be more excited. 😍

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Update on the 9” circulars, I am slowly getting more used to them. Still fussing with how I hold my hands trying to stop the cramping. The workflow however is 😍. I love that I can just go round and round without having to readjust my needles every 30ish stitches like I do on magic loop. 🧶

A work in progress hand knit sock on 9 inch circular needles

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Finished my test swatch for the @sweetpaprikadesigns.com skill builder box that I just got! I’m pretty sure my gauge is going to be off so now I’m debating if I have enough yarn to do another swatch. 🧶

A knit test swatch for a mosaic knitting pattern

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Y’all, Irene out of drag is 🥵

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Trying to knit a sock ATM on 9” circulars and I have very mixed feelings. I love that I don’t have to interrupt my flow to switch needles, but damn do my hands hurt ☠️ 🧶

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

It’s finally getting warm enough to read and knit on the deck and it’s currently giving me life ngl.

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Y’all, there was no world in my head where Suzie Toot wasn’t in the finale. I genuinely can’t process it. But at the same time I’m so happy that Lexi is going to the finale! So many mixed emotions

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Starting this one today and I’m very excited! 💙📚

The book Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova standing face out on a bookshelf

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I’m at a conference this weekend and there’s no one else I know here. Which makes it way less fun. I need someone to hang out with and go get drinks!

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Sunday morning read! 💙📚

A hand holding up a copy of “The Creative Act: A Way of Being” by Rick Rubin

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

How can it already be Sunday night? I haven’t live, laugh, loved enough to have to go back to work in the morning 😭

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Sock knitting question for those more experienced than me: Is it a bad idea to change needles when I switch to the second sock? I’ve been doing magic loop so far on this sock but the constant moving the loop/resetting is driving me nuts. I’m considering trying some 9” circulars on the next sock. 🧶

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I’ve slept on it and I still feel the same: Why the hell was Crystal sent home over Lana?! I’m so annoyed! Also what was that lip sync? Ugh

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Y’all today is rough, the last month has been rough, I just feel like I’m slowly descending further and further into my depression and anxiety. I feel like I’m rapidly losing any power I had to even control my own life. I want to thrive but atm I’m not even sure how to survive.

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Also say hello to my new knitting bud Cleo! She’s only been here for a couple of weeks but I’m already pretty fucking attached.

A grey tabby cat sleeping on a tan pillow

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Sunday Morning Chai Latte and some knitting. Needing to make some progress on these socks!

A chai tea latte in a blue and black mug with mushrooms on it.

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Finally watching this week’s Drag Race and I’m currently very scared for Joella ☠️😭

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

It’s Saturday night of a three day weekend, why do I already have the Sunday scaries!? I need my brain to stop thinking about work.

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Listening to Iron Flame and y’all I can’t with this narrator. I’m half way through and I’m still not used to it. 💙📚

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Very excited to build this while listening to an audiobook! It’s so pretty! 😍

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

New Years Eve is here! I’m not usually one for setting goals and resolutions but this year I’m feeling weirdly motivated to do so. I’d love to better several aspects of my life this coming year. Hoping that I can keep this motivation up!

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Realizing that I think the way I tension my knitting is wrong/bad. I’ve realized I tug the working yarn a lot and I don’t know where I picked that up but watching videos of others knitting I’m noticing no tugs (other than for ribbing). Now to try to slowly work that out of my system. 🧶

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Got my first sock cast on! These needles are tiny 😂🧶

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Thinking I might cast on my first pair of socks today, but also feeling very nervous and unprepared so we’ll see if I actually get them cast on. 😬🧶

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Finished a second cowl today (same pattern and yarn as before) but used a German twisted cast on and Jenys surprisingly stretchy bind off. Love the German twisted cast on! No in love with the look of JSSBO at least for this project but it was very easy and stretchy! 🧶

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

No work today! Hoping to relax, get some knitting 🧶 in, maybe play a game, just enjoy the time off.

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

It’s finally the weekend and we’re into the holidays and I could literally cry. I don’t even want to think about work for several weeks. 😩

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Y’all I need to be better about not letting work wind me up so much and finding joy in other spaces to offset the frustration. 😩

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Despite me wishing otherwise, I have woken up to find that it is in fact Monday. Good luck to all and may the odds be ever in your favor

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Does it really have to be Monday tomorrow?

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Next up to read is this one! I’ve had a couple of recommendations for it and I’m excited to read it! 💙📚

The cover of the book “I might be in trouble” by Daniel Aleman. The cover is pink with the title in big white text with an open book at the bottom with miniature people dragging what appears to be an unconscious or dead person by the shoulders.

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Is anyone else hyper critical of themselves even when learning new skills and is super discouraged when you don’t get something perfect even though you are new to the hobby/skill or is it just me?

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Y’all it’s Saturday afternoon and I’m still not relaxed. I feel so anxious and wound up. 😩 I’m thinking it may be some time for some 🍃 and knitting 🧶. And maybe an audiobook.

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I can’t get over how much I love the new Dune movies, I can watch them over and over again. The cinematography is amazing and stunning! It also doesn’t hurt that Timothee Chalamet as Paul Muad’dib Atreides has me 🥵🥵

A picture of Timothee Chalamet as Paul Atreides in the movie Dune

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

This jet lag is killing me. I’m on day 3 of waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to go back to sleep ☠️

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I have two speeds: 1) having an insane amount of anxiety about everything and stressing about everything going on in life 2) total apathy And honestly it’s pretty much always option 1. I would love to find more balance and stop being wound so tight, but it feels impossible and unattainable.

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Brayden @bwinterton.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

When were y’all gonna tell me about amaretto sours?! Ordered one on the recommendation of the server tonight and it was delicious!

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