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Fasten Off Yarnalong @fastenoffyal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🧶CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS! Our volunteer signup period has begun! Ends Sunday, October 18. This directly impacts the activities, games, and platforms we can have. Sign up at www.fastenoffyal.com/volunteer-si... #FastenOffYAL #yarnalong #stitchalong #knitting #crochet

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🧶 TFW you discover your actual project gauge is inexplicably 20% bigger than you got on your swatch, and you realize the smartest move is to frog alllll your work from the last two days and start again with fewer stitches. #knitting #woe

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've officially put a shingle out! My genealogy research business is up and running, and I'm taking clients. Please do share if you're so inclined, and cross your fingers for my success. :)

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I think I might have pulled something laughing so hard at this, so now I have to share it with all of you.

Text: "You wanna take a nap? Sure, let me get you a pillow." The pillow in question is a very skillfully embroidered creation showing a goat in a severe and highly amusing state of shock.

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🧶 Behold, the amount of sock #knitting it took for Belgium to dispatch the US.

Top down sock, about 4.5 inches long, I self-patterning yarn

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Magnificent showing by Cabo Verde! That was terrific.

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

🧶NEW #KNITTING PATTERN! (Ending a four-year drought of pattern releases for me. 🙄) Meet the Hazel Tam. This is a #fairIsle beret pattern which uses seven different colours, so it's an awesome stashbuster for leftover sock yarn. Find out more: wipinfinity.blogspot.com/p/pattern-ha...

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Pattern: Hazel Tam

Chronicles of a knitting pattern designer who doesn't believe in limiting yourself. Knit something fabulous!

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Am I the only one feeling like the ominous vibes are similar between America 250 and the Romanov Dynasty 300th anniversary? Just me or nah?

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Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Wishing all the homophobes a super transformative, educational month. A chance to put down their prejudice, listen and develop empathy and allyship

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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Artemis II has been a deeply needed reminder that the news doesn't have to be all horrible. I was beginning to believe that was the case!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

After such a heinous weekend, here is some visual gorgeousness, in an attempt to lift your day in a very tiny way.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹 This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨ Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌 youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...

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No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko

YouTube video by Kidzuko

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The Fasten Off Yarnalong is an online stitchalong that takes place over about six weeks at the end of each year. We aim to promote indie #knitting and #crochet designers, and give the community a fun time! 🧶 And right now we're in our volunteer signup period - details below: #FastenOffYAL

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

@mark-carney.bsky.social Mr. Carney, I entreat you to learn the lessons of history, and to be Churchill, not Chamberlain: Any agreement we enter into with Trump is not worth the paper it's printed on. Lying, cheating, and breaking agreements is what he DOES; has done for decades.

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

What gets me is that after COUNTLESS shower/rinse/repeat cycles of Trump 1) saying someone's awesome, 2) giving them a job, 3) falling out with them (or they fail out), and finally 4) complaining about their incompetence...that he and his followers CONTINUE TO THINK that he's amazing at staff picks.

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

🧶Yarn fans ( #knitsky, #crochetsky): I'm plotting a knitted gift for a twins-expecting co-worker and am looking for sport/DK weight, machine washable, cotton content, not US-made ( #elbowsUp) with good colour options. Sandnes Garn Duo seems good, but, is it BABY soft? Other suggestions welcome. TIA!

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Happy June, everybody. Up with rainbows. Pride is a protest.

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🧶 Finished knitting project! These are the "Lingerie" socks from @knitty.com by Maria Näslund. They will be a birthday present later this month for my eldest, shhh. :) Yarn is Bamboo Socks from Pro Lana.

Handknitted socks in a baby pink bamboo-based yarn. Socks have an intricate lacy cuff and panels going down the leg and foot with a small repeating lace pattern, culminating in another intricate leafy lace pattern at the toe.

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I've seen misinformation about this three times in just the last few days, so am reposting this to spread accuracy. If you see anything on your socials related to how a Canadian mental health/suicide support hotline has opened its arms to serve the US, be immediately suspicious and read this first!

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

🧶What a stroke of luck that this week's #showMeYourKnits theme is grey, because that's exactly what I'm knitting! This is a little vest which will be a first birthday present for my cousin's baby. 50/50 acrylic/bamboo blend. Here it is before blocking and finishing. So cute. #WIPwednesday

Handknitted vest lying flat, looking like just the kind of vest one would wear with a three-piece suit - collar, pockets, and the bottom edge coming to two points in the front. It's grey, missing buttons, and the ends still need to be woven in.

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

#ElbowsUp (The Gaetz tweet is real, timestamp April 11 11:18am; I checked.)

Picture of Pierre Poilievre with the "no" sign on top, a Canadian maple leaf, and the words "Boycott American products"

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

🧶 A total of about 120 ends woven in later, and here we are. #sheIsTotallyWorthIt (She thinks her knitted birthday gift from me is gonna be socks. Hyuk.)

Legwarmers lying flat. They've been handknitted, with medium-to-light blue 2x2 ribbing at tops and bottoms, and a variety of bands of classic fair isle patterns in between, worked in various colour combinations.

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Is it just me, or has AC/DC always sounded like Elmo singing heavy metal and I didn't notice until today?

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

🧶 Kill me now. I've been weaving in ends for about two hours already. Fair isle knitting is a cruel mistress. #sheIsTotallyWorthIt

Reverse side of fair isle legwarmers with only about a quarter of the ends woven in yet (ends in question are in a pile being held by a hand which is also in the photo). The amount of ends left to weave in is pretty horrifying.

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🧶 Now blocking: legwarmers which are to be my 18th birthday gift to my darling middlest. If I can tough out getting all the ends woven in, that is. #knitsky #showMeYourKnits

Legwarmers blocking on foam mats - they have 2x2 ribbing at their top and bottom in a medium-to-light blue, and the "body" of each legwarmer is made up of a variety of bands of traditional fair isle motifs in a multitude of colours

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 03/04/2025

The Prime Minister of the Heard / McDonald Islands Speaks on Trump’s Tariffs

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Today is National Indigenous Languages Day! Did you know: we are currently in the International Decade of Indigenous Languages? The UN declared it to preserve and promote these languages for future generations. I donated to Karihwanoron, a Mohawk immersion school program. www.karihwanoron.ca

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Mohawk immersion elementary school kahnawake

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🧶 Knitting content! I've been on a sock jag for a couple of weeks, and this is the result. But I do need to press the pause button on socks to get some super-important birthday gift knitting done in time. (And no, none of the ends have been woven in yet. Do you not know me at all? ;) #knitsky

Three pairs of handknit socks and one additional sock in progress. One pair has rainbow-ish striping of two different thicknesses, with a thin white stripe in between colour stripes. One pair has blue, green, and turquoise stripes with a thin white and blue self-patterning stripe between solid colour stripes. One is various randomly-variegating navy shades and tints with sparkly bits. And the in-progress sock has the same colour patterning as the first rainbow-ish socks but the colours are greys, coral, and a yellowy beige.

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Oh, but WE'RE the ones abusing tariffs and treating our trading partner badly. Sure. (Every accusation is a confession.) #elbowsUp

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🧶This looks fascinating! Mosaic knitting is very cool but it indeed has a lot of restraints for what is achievable, motif-wise.

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

🧶For anyone wondering how my brain is coping with aging, I just left my bedroom and went downstairs to get a knitting project which I 100% knew was already sitting right next to my bed. 🙄

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

My middle-schooler was searching for photos of Freddie Mercury for a school presentation, and reports to me that there are exactly four types of Freddie Mercury photographs. Thus, I present, to break up your doomscrolling: The four types of Freddie Mercury photographs, a thread:

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 27/02/2025

JUST VOTE

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Kathleen Sperling 🇨🇦 (she/her) @kathleensperling.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Ontario election PSA: Just because you haven't received your voter card does NOT mean you can't vote. Get all the real info you need at www.elections.on.ca, accept no substitutes.

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ID to vote in provincial elections

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