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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️

@gilafied.bsky.social
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Fan, quilter, knitter, sportsball watcher. In need of a nap. Living in Oregon, yay rain. Mid 50s, married queer, liberal socialist hippie. No kids or pets. Yay sharks.

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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Love when a movie trailer says "Would you like to see a movie that will make you cry, but not in a cathartic way because the sad things it depicts are real and still ongoing thanks pay $21 for popcorn."
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My accidental yarn store walk resulted in this sparkly purple yarn. So no, I did not learn a lesson about not walking to the yarn store. Alas.
A skein of dark purple DK weight yarn with sparkles in. Wrapper is Always Be Kind indie dyer, with a picture of a rainbow.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When I knit, my hands automatically adjust for yarn and needle size mismatch. I can knit bulky weight on 2.75mm needles because my hands just knit looser. If I go down a needle size to knit a dense fabric, my hands go "oh we must have lost the size 6s again and are forced to use 2s, this is fine."
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It was nice and sunny so I went for a stupid walk for my stupid health and needed to make it a long-ish one and I started by heading south and somehow ended up at the yarn store??? Which is northeast??? Clearly magic and thus I am innocent of wrong-doing.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Someday there will be NO new knitting patterns ever again and I will be fine because my hoard of knitting patterns will sustain me for at least nineteen hundred years.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Everyone will be glad to know I crawled back into bed with the heated blankie on low, and slept very soundly for almost two hours. Now, though, I somehow have to wake up enough to put on clothes and go to work????
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every time I have to crawl out of a warm bed into a cold room I wonder how in the heck I claim to prefer cold weather. Also, my joints hurt. And yet! So much nicer than hot and sunny. Mmmm, clouds. Mmmmmm rain. But also, I want to stay in bed.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New glasses! FL-41 tinted to help with light sensitivity.
My head with rose tinted eyeglasses on. There is a dead tree branch reaching towards me, but I am sure it's fine.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finished a child-sized hat! Pattern is Diamonde by @woollywormhead.bsky.social #knitting
Colorwork hat in hot pink and light grey. Motif is diamonds alternating solid and centered.Top view of the hat showing a five point star with a pink center that makes it look like a flower.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Companies need to stop using Halloween prints to sell me their wares. Do I need new undies? No. Do I need new undies with ghosties or rainbow coloured bats on them? Yes.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I unexpectedly got taiyaki this morning and so that was lunch sorted. (Red bean paste inside a fish-shaped pancake. Mmmm yummy.)
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Because I am setting aside my knitting in favor of focusing on quilting - I am thinking about volunteering to test knit a pattern. Brain why are you like this?????
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Eine rosa Rose @einerosarose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Es wird herbstlich 🍂 It’s starting to feel like autumn. #PalacesAndGardens #MellowYellow #ColorADay #YellowThu #Bloomscrolling
Im Vordergrund steht eine gelbe Blume mit dunkler Mitte und leicht verwelkten Blütenblättern. Die Blütenblätter zeigen braune und rote Verfärbungen. Im Hintergrund sind weitere ähnliche Blumen und grüne Blätter zu erkennen, die unscharf und dunkel gehalten sind.
A yellow flower with a dark center and slightly wilted petals is prominent in the foreground. The petals show brown and reddish discoloration. In the background, there are more similar flowers and green leaves, which appear blurred and dark.
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#WIPWednesday and because I decided to focus on quilting and only 2 knitting projects, I cast on a third knitting project.
Corrugated ribbing in pink and light grey yarns.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you are seeking an organisation to support, I can suggest Minorities in Shark Sciences. Because a) gender minorites of color and b) sharks. www.misselasmo.org
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MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES
MISS provides a community and funded opportunities for gender minorities of color who wish to enter the field of marine and shark sciences. We fundraise and apply for grants to create paid...
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knitty® | editor, Amy Sadler @knitty.com · 15/06/2026
Brand new First Fall 2026 Knitty is live for the whole world!⁠ A fully online magazine full of tech-edited FREE PATTERNS for you to enjoy! Go to knitty.com, and find your next knit! 🧶 #ShareAndEnjoy #GladToBeOfService
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/09/2026
VERY IMPORTANT NEWS: It’s Fat Bear Week! I do love a fat bear 🐻 explore.org/fat-bear-week
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Fat Bear Week 2026 - Explore.org
Explore.org is the world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. Our mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the soul of humanity...
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Finished a small quilt, headed for the NICU. #quilting
Pinwheel quilt, 26" x 26". Winnie the Pooh fabrics in tan, cream, yellow, green. Border is dark brown.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everyone who has just discovered me bc my post went viral, you should know I usually post about knitting. Also, my brain doesn't always work right so lots of typos because my fingers don't hit keys in the order I think I'm hitting them in.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I love every single person who has ever put up a "how to fix this thing you own" video on youtube. You have saved us with car repairs, saved us from buying a new phone and now from buying a new tv. Generousity and kindness can be found, galore.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Apparently Danny Elfman music is "nostalgic." Just bury me behind the shed, I guess.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Is it even possible to buy a tv that is not "smart" anymore.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have so much yarn, so many projects planned, and my elbow hurts so I'm reducing to two WIPs to work on (both gifts) and will pivot to quilts, as it is cooling off enough for that now. Which means cleaning the sewing room and putting yarn away. Still did not find the needles I lost, tho.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can't find the circs I need for a project. I either clean my whole sewing room or I buy a new set of circs.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Y'all I apparently own 799 knitting and crochet patterns. Some of that is because of adding books to my Rav library, but still. I am gonna need a few extra years to knit through these. Someone tell my employer I will be back in 2032.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Finished! Pattern is Squarina by @woollywormhead.bsky.social #knitting
Top view of a colorwork hat in light and dark green. Lines form a star on the crown.Side view of the hat. Lines look like nested mountains.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sitting here browsing knitting patterns online and wishing I had more time to knit. Because. If I got offline and grabbed my knitting....
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Eye appt went okay, online eyeglasses place insists "that's not a real prescription" when I put my numbers in. (My sph is only -10.50 wtf.) Decided to take a nap about it to sleep off the pupil dilation. Now I am groggy and don't know what year it is or why I exist.
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Žana Arnautović @sylleth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hey artists, share something! 💛
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Fuck Yeah Izzy Hands (Con O'Neill gives the best hugs! ❤😊) @fuckyeahizzyhands.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
:))) <3
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why do I suddenly have to turnoff auto play everywhere again.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Have you ever had an eye appt and worried about somehow answering the questions wrong and getting the wrong prescription and if you try to take the glasses back they will say "But that is what you said looked clearest." I have worn eyeglasses for about 50 years. And yet I worry every time.
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Sweet Vireo Designs @sweetvireodesigns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
CALVERA is live on Ravelry! The pattern includes the hat and the cowl and features yarn from Good Karma Farm in Maine. #knitsky #knittingpattern #knitting
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Finished the hat and felted it a bit (on purpose.) Pattern is Chainoir by @woollywormhead.bsky.social #knitting
Dark green and light green colorwork. Motif is boxy lines kinda.
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Working on our last pin unlock now: Loon! As Minnesotans, this one means a lot to us. A symbol of home, resilience, & neighbors (human & wild) we care for and protect. A little love letter to everyone who keeps showing up for each other, thank you. 👉 Check Our Progress: tinyurl.com/v5sry3m8
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I have just received my first marketing email for Christmas (not counting crafting, you gotta start Christmas gifts in June.) But this was just a regular "buy a present for someone for Christmas" and I am not okay with this. We are still celebrating Halloween Season for three more months.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Made the executive decision to order pizza when I got home from work and I do not regret it. Got the "6 types of cheese on" sort. Also got brownies, because brownies need no reason to live.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hat finished! It is currently drying/blocking. Misread the chart decreases so my points are not sharp. Otherwise, love how it turned out! #knitting
Chainoir pattern by Woolly Wormhead. Dark green and light green colorwork.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Knitting a hat! Pattern is Chainoir by @woollywormhead.bsky.social Yarn is heath dk by Hubris Hearthcraft, Witches Brew and Old Growth colorways.
Colorwork hat in dark green and light yellow-green. Motif is like tiled chains. Kinda.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oh my gods y'all I finished the second sleeve!!! Need to weave in ends, and give it a wash. But!! It is done!! Imma cast on a hat next! #knitting
A nighttime photo of a grey and blue striped raglan sweater with two complete sleeves.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Seems like once a year about this time I decide I am going to start playing Witcher 3 again. So, I have played the last couple of days and I have a) successfully been killed by a griffin (in Velen, the Boss Fight. I am level 6 btw,) b) avoided the griffin twice trying to head north, and
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Someone needs to start a service where they knit the second sleeve for you, so you can move on to other things.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Me: I have all afternoon free I am going to get so much knitting done. Also me: *has nap* *browses knitting patterns* *does no knitting*
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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 02/09/2025
Flat illustration of an American Bittern through reeds at nighttime. The bittern is broken up through the reeds in a spooky, surreal snake-like manner.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#ShowMeYourKnits Turns out I only have 3 wips, what the heck. There are 3 others with yarn pulled but not cast on.
A shawl started last November. I really will finish it sometime. Basic top down raglan in grey and dark blue stripes. Everything done except the second sleeve.Shark cowl.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Shark cowl progress!
Blue cowl with white motif depicting a shark centered inside Megalodon jaws. Also some tiny fish.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Finished hat! #knitting #wulfwynnhat
Pea soup green hat with a variety of cables.
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gilafied 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @gilafied.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Looking at cardigan patterns and WHY do so many of them have a trillion buttons. There are so many they are right next to one another. Especially toddler cardigans! Whose kid is standing still long enough to do up all those buttons? Is there a structural reason for needing so many buttons?
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