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Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓

@handknitbyhannah.bsky.social

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My name is Hannah (they/them) and I am currently on a quest to knit in every public library in Vermont. I write a brief post about each visit. My hand-knitted emotional support chicken, Hen Solo, comes along. linktr.ee/handknitbyhannah

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Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

knittinginlibraries.substack.com/p/library-20... I have knit in 200 libraries in Vermont! 12 more to go. Wish me luck. #knittinginlibraries #publiclibraries #knitsky #vermont

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Library 200: Dummerston Community Center and Library

It’s just Dummerston kids.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

knittinginlibraries.substack.com/p/library-19... Library 198 I was reminded why librarians are magic. #knittinginlibraries #knitsky #booksky #knitting #publiclibrary

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Library 198: Dover Free Library

We should have stuffed Tootise.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Library 196. A bright and inviting room. With all the Archer Mayor books and air Jordan coloring pages on the wall and a long window seat for reading in the sun. One of the last remaining school + public combos. #knittinginlibraries #publiclibraries #knitsky #booksky

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Library 196: Stamford Community Library

A bright an inviting room

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

At stop 195 on my quest to knit in every public library in Vermont, I went on an outdoor story walk while a man in a riding mower followed me very slowly. I did not hurry. He did not turn the motor off. #knittinginlibraries #winhallvt #knitsky #booksky #publiclibraries #Vermont

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Library 195: Winhall Memorial Library

A nice little building.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

At library 194 I learned that the people who work in the state dept of libraries are just as awesome and weird as the people who work in our tiny town libraries. I also learned that feminist brass bands are a thing, and that if you find one, it likely contains a librarian. #knitsky #publiclibraries

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Library 194: Vermont Department of Libraries (Barre)

Pippi Longstocking to french horn pipeline

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I named library 193 “the sound of victory” because for the duration of the library visit, the library director was battling with a new printer. On our way out, we heard a 4-second whir, and a singular glorious page came out of the new machine. The sound of victory. #knitsky #booksky #libraries

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Library 193: Solomon Wright Public Library (Pownal)

The sound of victory

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

At library 192 I learned that Shirley Jackson, author of "The Lottery," lived here and may have based the fictional town in her most famous short story on North Bennington. It made me think about how small tows can be both terrifying and welcoming. #knitsky #vermont #booksky #publiclibraries

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Library 192: John G. McCullough Free Library (Bennington)

Cosplay public stoning?

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My 190th library in Vermont looks like it froze 1927 in time, and I felt vulnerable looking so queer in such an old space. I was welcomed, like I’ve come to expect in libraries, and was happy to see so much taxidermy. #knitsky #booksky #publiclibraries #vermont #knittinginlibraries #taxidermy

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Library 190: East Burke Community Library

Old things. Creepy things. New things.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Please meet my new gay emotional support chicken Alison Peckdel. Hen Solo needed a break. At this library I read Emily Austin’s “Is this a cry for help?” on the front porch and talked with the librarian about quilting. #booksky #knitsky #knittinginlibraries #publiclibraries #vermont

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Library 189: South Ryegate Public Library

Role play, ren faire, gender confirmation care.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

At my 187th stop on my quest to knit in every library in Vermont, the librarian George told me that when kids walk into the library and see the bust of Benjamin Franklin, they sometimes say: “Is that grandma?” I cannot explain why this is so funny to me. #knitsky #knittinginlibraries #booksky

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Library 187: Wilder Club & Library (Hartford)

Is that grandma?

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This one is titled “Richard Nixon’s illegitimate son” because one never knows what one will learn when visiting small town libraries in Vermont. At my 60th library, I learned about the famous Warren Parade. Vermont at its best. #knitsky #booksky #publiclibrary #knitting #vermont

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Library 60: Warren Public Library

Richard Nixon's illegitimate son

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

At my 7th stop on my quest to knit in every library in Vermont, I did not yet understand what the project was about. Therefore, I did not write if the library had taxidermy and/or a Christmas cactus. I called the library. They told me the answers. I will eventually make a chart. #knittinginlibraries

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Library 7: Richmond Free Library

You can, so you will.

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Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Rapid fire inventory of my 186th library in Vermont: Taxidermy: no Christmas cactus: yes Waldo: yes Library dog: yes Queer feminist librarian: yes What more can I say. It was perfect. #knittinginlibraries #knitting #vermont #knitsky #booksky #publiclibrary #londonderry #queerfeminism

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Library 186: South Londonderry Free Library

Go to this library. It's small.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

At Library 185 on my quest to knit in every library in Vermont nothing strange or out of the ordinary happened, so I sat and knit and thought about b-list princess bride quotes. #knittinginlibraries #knitting #theprincessbride #vermont #publiclibraries #knitsky #booksky

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Library 185: Wilder Memorial Library (Weston)

Oh you mean this gate key.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

At Library 184 on my quest to knit in every public and academic library in Vermont I thought about the fate of higher ed, gender and crafts, planting trees, and beavers. 28 left to go! #knitsky #booksky #publiclibraries #vermont #academiclibraries #lakechamplain

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Library 184: Champlain College Library

Do something with your life that would make a 1950’s straight white man angry.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

This library started with a story of a bay’s first steps in the library and ended with a spontaneous trip to Dog Mountain. There was crying. It was great. #knittinginlibraries #knitting #knitsky #booksky #publiclibraries #vermont #stephenhuneck #dogmountain #dogchapel

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Library 183: Concord Public Library

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

At stop 182 on my quest to knit in every library in Vermont I met a poet, so that’s what the post is about. #booksky #knitsky #publiclibraries #academiclibraries

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Library 182: Hartness Library at Vermont State University Williston

The most subversive thing you can do is write poetry.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Where I cried in an apse. #knittinginlibraries #knitting #booksky #queerpride #gaypride #mooncrushtank #publiclibraries #academiclibraries

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Library 54: The Billings Library (University of Vermont)

On organizing queer pride festivals

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Library 179 on my quest to knit in every library in Vermont, I read “A Library” by Nikki Giovanni. She prompts: “A library is…” Post 179 is an ode to libraries and queer joy. May they get us through. #knittinginlibraries #knitting #heatedrivalry #publiclibraries #vermont

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Library 179: Charles B Danforth Library (Barnard)

A library is...

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Library 178 in my quest to knit in all of Vermont’s public libraries included a round of “The Vermont Game” where Vermonters exchange local knowledge to figure out how they are connected. Spoiler alert: we found Heidi. #vermont #knittinginlibraries #bensonvt #publib #knitting #booksky #knitsky

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Library 178: Benson Public Library

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

In stop 177 on my quest to knit in very public library in Vermont (37 left!) I spontaneously gave the librarian a hug on the way out. Not sure what came over me. Oh, it was that the library was awesome. #artteachers #knitting #knittinginlibraries #publiclibraries #booksky #knitsky #vermont

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Library 177: Pawlet Public Library

Here's to art teachers.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Library 174! This library has a mascot, Booker T. Bat, which you can spot around the library reminding you to do things like wash your hands. I also learned about the best and worst ways to make a sock heel here. Spoiler: afterthought is the worst. #knittinginlibraries #knitsky #publiclibrary

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Library 174: Springfield Town Library

Booker T. Bat would like you to wash your hands.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

173 down, 42 to go! If you’ve ever wondered what the back of an original Faith Ringgold looks like, this is a good library to find out. #publiclibraries #knittinginlibraries #knitting #vermont #brattleboro

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Library 173: Brooks Memorial Library (Brattleboro)

Art makes a community.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

My wife kindly made a 4-minute video showing the *quantity* of libraries I have visited in my quest to knit in every public and academic library in the state so far: 174 down, 40 to go. I have a year left. Wish me luck! #publib #libraries #vermont #knitting #knittinginlibraries #knitsky #booksky

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Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Library 171: the book sale was intense. #knitsky #booksky #knittinginlibraries #vermont #publiclibraries #booksale #newfanevt

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Library 171: Moore Free Library (Newfane)

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Library 168: Guildford Free Library. In this library I saw my first library puffer fish, drank tea, and ate raspberries. #knittinginlibraries #knitting #knitsky #publiclibrary #vermont #guilfordvt #voevest

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Library 168: Guildford Free Library

Root hog or die.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Library 167 on my question to knit in every library in Vermont: Pettee Memorial Library (Wilmington) Where I heard a tragic story of yarn floating down a river. #publib #publiclibraries #knitting #knittinginlibraries #wilmingtonvt #vermont #vermontlibraries #bannedbookweek #shetlandwool

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Library 167: Pettee Memorial Library (Wilmington)

A library is a thing of hope.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

In library 165, I asked librarians Gail & Kale for a juicy story about the library I could put on the internet. They did not disappoint! You'll never look at your board the same way again. #knittinginlibraries #knitsky #knitting #publiclibraries #booksky #chestervt #vermont #gentlemanburglar

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Library 165: The Whiting Library (Chester)

A tale of a gentleman burglar

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

In library 160 there was a “shushbooth” where patrons can go to release muffled primal screams. It’s also handy for conversations about taxes and other private things, or quiet reading on a day when the library has a party. #booksky #libraries #publiclibraries #knittinginlibraries #knitsky

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Library 160! Fairlee Public Library.

The most colorful library.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Library 157 has an incinerating toilet! We nearly didn’t make it inside, but Joanie saved the day by abandoning a battle with hornets in her kitchen to come down and open it for us. One of the quaintest so far. And hornet free. #publiclibraries #knittinginlibraries #vermont #knitsky

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Library 157: The Tyson Library (Plymouth)

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

This library has an incinerating toilet! My first. Library director Holly said they don’t usually incinerate when patrons are there on account of not everyone enjoying the smell of burning shit. Librarians: they know their community. #knittinginlibraries #vermont #publiclibraries #knitsky #booksky

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Library 155: Peabody Library (Thetford)

Featuring an incinerating toilet.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

In this library (in Noah Kahan’s hometown) I forgot about privacy laws and asked the librarian if Noah Kahan had a library card and she was like “nice try lol wtf privacy matters” and I was like “my bad not my business lol.” #booksky #knitsky #library #knitting #noahkahan #vermont #straffordvt

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Library 153: Morrill Memorial and Harris Library (Strafford)

Does Noah Kahan have a library card?

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

In this library I learned why the mourning cloak should be the official butterfly of Vermont instead of the monarch. Please spread the word. #vermont #booksky #knitsky #monarch #mourningcloak #knittinginlibraries

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Library 151: Townshend Public Library

Mourning Cloak for state butterfly!

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

While knitting at this library I mostly stared at a Jaws poster and thought about the end of the world. Carnegie libraries are a nice place to do that. Also I made friends with two crocheters! Score. #knittinginlibraries #knitsky #booksky #publiclibraries #carnegielibraries #vermont #knitting

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Library 150: Rockingham Free Public Library

I think we're going to need a bigger boat.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

In the darkest of times, a chipper librarian is a great remedy. #publiclibraries #knittinginlibraries #knitting #booksky #knitsky #vermont #shoreham🧶🐑

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Library 148: Platt Memorial Library (Shoreham)

Thanks for cheering me up, Robin!

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

This library is in a town that was once famous for Merino sheep. A phenomenon— the Cornwall Dip— emerged whereby neighboring farmers dipped their sub-par fleeces into a vat of oils to try to replicate the lanolin of the Cornwall fleece. This couldn’t have smelled good. #publiclibrary #knitsky 🐑🧶

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Library 147: Cornwall Free Public LIbrary

The Cornwall Dip

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This was my first conference for librarians, which is different from conferences for academics, which I usually attend. The difference: librarians are nice. #academia #knittinginlibraries #knitting #booksky #libraries #publiclibraries #vermont #librarians

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Library 145: Sherburne Memorial Library (Killington)

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Library #144 on my quest to knit in every public library in Vermont uses the Cutter classification system! This is rare! Also rare: a stuffed woodchuck. People don’t always chose groundhogs for the mantle. It’s usually a bird or moose. A taxidermized woodchuck is a special choice. #booksky #knitsky

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Library 144: S.L. Griffith Memorial Library (Danby)

A taxidermized woodchuck.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE 🥹 Presenting the book cover of “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy,” written by myself and illustrated by my friend Lorraine Nam. Published by Random House Children’s Books 🐧💚 Preorder at bit.ly/ISHYH-Reveal 📖✨

Mychal Threets and Lorraine Nam picture book, “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy”

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Library 142 is home to two internet-famous pugs named Anouk and Toby. There was a giant Falkor head in the loft. It was queer. There was a bus of enthusiastic retirees. Also a yoyo. It was hard to leave. #knittinginlibraries #knitsky #booksky #vermont #falkor open.substack.com/pub/knitting...

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Library 142: The Dorset Village Library

This one is about pugs, yoyos, Falkor, origami, yarn, gender, and neoliberalism.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

In this library (140th on my quest to knit in every library in Vermont) I learned that time capsules are not always buried underground, and that the fries from the fundraiser were just ok. A celebration of daily ephemera. #knittinginlibraries #knitsky #knitting #publiclibraries #timecapsules

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Library 140: Chittenden Public Library

Omniscient bobcat time capsule

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

In the 139th stop on my quest to knit in every library in Vermont, I read a list of old rules for libraries & offer unsolicited assessment of their relevance today. I like: libraries are for everyone. I dislike: only necessary conversation. #knittinginlibraries #knitting #publiclibraries #knitsky

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Library 139: The Reading Public Library

On account of our liberties

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

In the 138th library on my quest to knit in every library in Vermont, I read a box of letters from librarians after the 1927 flood, which ruined the collections from Waterbury, Montpelier, Johnson, & West Hartford (which was entirely swept away). #publiclibraries #knittinginlibraries #knitting

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Library 138: The Howard & Alba Leahy Library (Vermont Historical Society, Barre)

Good Flood Bad Flood

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Library 137! Vermont has four Carnegie libraries in operation and this is one of them. The librarian, Mary, used to stand under the the dome as a child and tap dance. Libraries last a lifetime. Let’s keep it that way. #knittinginlibraries #teachereducation #carnegielibraries #knitting 🧶

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Library 137: Fair Haven Free Library

Have faith in those who struggle.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

open.substack.com/pub/knitting... Library 136! May Jeff always have a library. #publiclibraries #knittingiibraries #knitting🧶

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Library 136: West Rutland Free Library

I hope Jeff always has a library.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

From midnight on Friday 4/25/25 to 6am Saturday 4/26/26, rt15 in Johnson, Vermont will be closed so that the Johnson Public Library can be carried on a system of smart dollies from the flood zone where it currently sits to higher ground. This is going to be epic! #publiclibraries #vermont #booksky

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Happy national library week! Go check something out and say hello to your local librarians. ❤️📚 #nationallibraryweek #publiclibraries #booksky

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Here is the story of my day at the @sterlingcollegevt.bsky.social library. I read a lot of zines, mostly queer. open.substack.com/pub/knitting... Free knowledge: how punk. #knittinginlibraries #knitting 🧶 #knitdemocracy #zines #academiclibraries #knitsky #booksky #publiclibraries

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LIbrary 135: The Brown Library (Sterling College)

Free knowledge: how punk.

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

At library 134 I met Noni. She held my emotional support chicken and told me fragments of true stories of a life in Hancock, Vermont while I knit a sweater and listened. #knittinginlibraries #knitsky #booksky #publiclibraries #vermont #knitting #libraries open.substack.com/pub/knitting...

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Library 134: The Hancock Free Public Library

Knitting in Libraries 🏳️‍🌈🧶📚🐓 @handknitbyhannah.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Hello library my old friend. I’ve come to knit with you again. Finally, a new library. 133 down. 77 to go. #knitting #knitsky #booksky #knittinginlibraries #vermont #brandonvt #publiclibraries #forourlibraries open.substack.com/pub/knitting...

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Library 133: Brandon Free Public Library

No pole dancing. Yes baby pineapple.