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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 19h

I really do love traveling to teach knitting classes and to spend time with yarn and yarn lovers but after three back-to-back events I am very very happy to be home.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 23h

There is a person on my flight, in my row, watching a video without headphones on. We used to be a society, man.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This was developed in a lab specifically to enrage me. 😂

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Heading to Charlottetown PEI for the Fibre Festival. Plus I get to see the ocean. And maybe eat some ice cream. Looking forward to an excellent weekend.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you encounter a wonderful and helpful thing and get excited to tell people about it but discover there's a JK R*wling quote on the packaging. Ugh ugh ugh.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Very sad to report that @normwilner.bsky.social & I said goodbye to our beloved Winnie yesterday. Although we had more time with her than was expected given her cancer diagnosis, it could never have been enough. She was only 7 years old, and had been living with us for 5. We will miss her terribly.

A sweet brown dog with deep brown eyes wearing an orange collar and harness looks at the camera, smiling an open-mouthed smile.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On the new Knitty mag, an article about working sleeves separately and flat vs. in the round, seamlessly, and picked up vs. sewn in! 🧶https://knitty.com/ISSUEdf26/FEATdf26WK/FEATdf26WK.php

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ISSUEdf26 ** Wiseknit™ : Knitty.com - Deep Fall 2026

Knitty is the longest-running free knitting magazine on the web. Enjoy our huge selection of high-quality, tech-edited free knitting patterns and tutorials!

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The class list has just been posted for Vogue Knitting Live NYC 2027. This event is one of the major highlights of my year - see you there? www.vogueknittinglive.com/home 🧶

A poster advertising the event Knitting Live NYC 2027, location: Marriott Marquis Times Square, January 14-17 2027.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The discussion of which inspired the likely highly-problematic and desperately-regional obsevation that mushy peas are basically dal, right?

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 03/12/2025

okay these actually turned out so sick i'm so sad i can only ship to canada aplante.com/shop

my hand holding a sticker that looks like a brightly-coloured "no parking anytime" sign vandalized to read "NO AI ANYTIME" instead

a pile of stickers (see other photo for description)

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy to announce I have an article about buttonholes in the just-launched Fall 2026 issue of Farm & Fiber Knits. farmfiberknits.com/library/bN-X... 🧶

preview of the first page of a magazine article written by me, titled "Your Best Buttonhole"

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I desperately want to go and see the Bayeux (not-a-) Tapestry. When I was a kid we had a school project about it, and we did a collaborative large scale embroidery.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just a little reminder that I'm teaching at the PEI Fibre Festival October 1-3 this year. Join me? The instructor list is excellent, including the wonderful Carson Demers peifibrefestival.com 🧶

A promotional poster for the PEI Fibre Festival held October 1-3 2026 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is spectacular, on many different levels

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I don't know what or why or how but this is delightful and weird and delightfully weird.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

New personal policy: if you are a business in a creative field and you use AI images on social media, that's an immediate unfollow.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Spotted on Threads recently. So happy this knitter made a swatch! Yay! But prompted by how this is phrased, I want to talk about a misconception I encounter distressingly often... Here's the key fact: THE NEEDLE SIZE YOU USE TO GET GAUGE IS UTTERLY IRRELEVANT. 🧵🧶

A screencap of a post from Threads that says "Clap for me. I gauge swatches and met the gauge with the suggested needles!". The user name is hidden.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A bit of light and friendly crowd-sourcing: collecting ideas for upcoming tutorials and articles for Modern Daily Knitting. Any requests for topics you'd like to see me address? Thank you!

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"There’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry & the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community."

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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Everything is awful, but-“ No, man. Don’t do that. You don’t need to wrap your celebration of joy and beauty in an apology for not being angry or despondent instead. Just share the cool thing and enjoy the good moment.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today on Modern Daily Knitting: a less-fiddly start for top-down hats. www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/ci...

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Circular Starts – Modern Daily Knitting

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have said for some time that Toronto's greatest food quirk is the way we are happy to put butter chicken on/in anything (pizza, fries, burritos, nachos, pasta, you name it... ). I think the "sandwich made with two Jamaican patties instead of bread" is a very close second.

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N.R. Lines⁷ (she/her) @nrlines.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"That friction of something not working is exactly where learning happens." THIS! Which is why I'm never going to be a fan of using genAI in education, in writing, or in learning/improving one's skills in anything. We need that friction to learn.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Truly outstanding words of advice from a student in a recent class... We were talking about the challenges of design, and how undoing and reworking can feel frustrating, even though it's crucial to the design process. "That friction of something not working is exactly where learning happens."

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Genuinely great advice here

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Spent the last two days in the studio doing a shoot for my next book. Number 13. Ridiculous. This one's on a favourite topic, and one on which there aren't nearly enough classes or books (IMHO). Stay tuned, release scheduled for mid 2027!🧶

In a photostudio. A photographer, head and shoulders just out of frame, stands on a footstool, positioning a camera above a table. There's some small pieces of knitting on the table.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Outstanding stickers from Nine Ten Publications shop.ninetenpublications.ca/collections/...

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Bring, and I cannot stress this enough, it.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I think we should institute a little dance or ritual to do every time you get the "your mammogram results are normal" message.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today in "if I had a PA I would fire them"... I managed to book both a dentist appointment and a mammogram for the same day. 🦷🍒😬

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Different gauges of fish tube. (Even *with* context this is a fantastically weird thing and I will be laughing about it for at least a day.)

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I am an enthusiast of multi-pens. I like the Bic one because a) childhood memories & b) relatively inexpensive & easy to find so great for travel, I don't stress if I lose it. They have recently launched my dream version: blue, red & black inks with a mechanical pencil. Of course I had to buy it.

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Nine Ten Publications @ninetenpub.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Art- and craft-supply lovers in the U.S! Super psyched that MATH FOR KNITTERS is now available at Blick Art Materials! Nothing like a craft book to go with your stash enhancement, eh?

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Math for Knitters

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There's a new knitting magazine, Purl! Each issue is a deep dive into a particular element of knitting - the 1st issue, entirely reasonably, is about casting on. I wrote an article about stretchy cast-ons & their stretchinesses. Print & digital available here: plytogether.com/products/pur... 🧶

The cover of a knitting magazine called PURL. The sub title on the cover is "cast on".

A screenshot of a excerpt from an article about stretchy-cast ons for knitting.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A nice review of CIRCULAR KNITTING from a librarian. 😊

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hey, so suddenly it's the end of July and my 11th book is now available! CIRCULAR KNITTING FOR BEGINNERS AND BEYOND, a guide for knitters of all levels on the many ways to work in the round. Lots of tips and troubleshooting guidance, plus patterns! kateatherley.com/circular-kni...

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Circular Knitting: For Beginners & Beyond - KateAtherley.com

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