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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can we please go back to the ban of micro stripes on camera? It only looks 15% better than the nausea inducing effect of yesteryear.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dear YouTube: stop changing the size, font size, or language of the closed captions.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#knittinghottake It should be illegal, punishable with a heavy fine and community service, to use a big coat covering every design feature of the pattern in any of the photos meant to convince someone to get that pattern.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey, everyone, another size adjustment pickle came to me. When you see the intended ease in a pattern, that isn't usually for the whole garment. Very few patterns with 6 inches of ease. It's usually just for the chest measurement or maybe hips if you are doing more than tops.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#plussizedknitting tips for sleeves. I'm not knitting a whole piece for this one, but thought I would still help. Not every plus sized pattern is the same quality. I hear very good things about a lot of designers, but I learned to knit before most of them.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Final #knitting plus size socks segment. The biggest problem with adjusting the toe is decreasing more stitches in roughly the same 2 inches most socks give. You really can't begin the toe further back, without discomfort. The easiest way is to decrease each row instead of every other row.

Close image of the toe of the sock. The background is pale wood. The lowest stripe color is light blue, then a thin stripe of yellow, next is blue-black, next orange, then a thinner stripe of variegated, and light blue. The variegated stripe is made with the other colors except yellow. The toe is knit with a different color from the rest of the sock. It is a black color with spots of grey, blue, and reddish brown.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Another #knitting thread on adjusting a sock for plus size feet. First, I have to say, there's gotta be a flaw in the pattern. I previously knit a similar sock, and had the same thing happen, and chose this sock to see where the problem was. Basically, there's no gusset in the pattern.

The heel and gusset of a striped sock. The heel is a ribbed triangle shaped. The bottom of the picture is the keg of the sock, with variegated yarn. The variegated yarn is made with the other stripe colors in the sock. The next stripe is light blue, followed by yellow, blue-black, and orange. The stripe sequence repeats after that. Near the top, a much thinner stripe of yellow is there, with just the beginning of the blue -black stripe.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm so damn angry at this heel. The only reason I am doing this pattern is I did a similar heel, and the same thing happened. Different designers, same instructions. Over 25 years knitting experience.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I really wish my keyboard would let me type "sock" without an argument that changes it several times.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A #knitting thread about adjusting a sick pattern to plus size.

A sock leg on cable needles. The cuff is at the bottom of the picture, and there's 5 colors in 10 rows of stripes. The bottom is yellow, next blue-black, 3rd is orange, 4th is a variegated yarn with all the stripe colors except yellow, 5th is light blue. After the 5th stripe the sequence repeats. The sock gets narrower as it progresses towards the needle. There's a pale wood background.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Continuing the example of #knitting plus size socks. Here we can see the decreases at the back of the calf. While I am decreasing 2 stitches every 3rd round, this isn't the only option. You can decrease 4 stitches in a round by having the decreases at the sides of the leg.

A sock cuff and legs on a red cable for magic loop knitting. 7 stripes have been completed. From the bottom of the photo, yellow, blue-black, orange, a variegated stripe with all the other colors, except yellow, light blue, and the sequence starts again, yellow, blue-black.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As a follow up to the #knitting thread on making plus sized adjustments to sock patterns, I recommended adding 2 inches to the cast on, and immediately decreasing. I do a full purl round, then decrease the extra stitches in the first rubbing round. There is no ruffling or pointing from this.

A short section of ribbed knitting on a cable. The lowest color is yellow, the next is a very dark blue, almost black, and just one row of orange at the top. The knitting is on a pale wood surface

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Adjusting sock #knitting patterns for plus size. I figured I would give some tips for adjusting sock patterns, since so many people don't knit socks because the patterns don't accommodate them. Here's the thing, like most fit issues, it's not just a plus size problem.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I got angry at the bamboo coaster under my teapot and knit 10 coasters today to solve this problem.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Even though it's still hot, I have started knitting again. Doing a cocoknits Toni, with lion brand fisherman's wool. I'm going to try to move back where the weather is normal, and want a few cozy things. Going through my stash and thinning things down is motivating me, a bit.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#knittinghottake I saw an interesting thing on YouTube. A video on people using AI to make knitting patterns. The creator wasn't defending ai, but pointed out some people think if they come up with an idea, or even actually knit something, but ask ai to help with pattern it's okay. thread.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#xstitch #crossstitch fail. Two days of trying to get the hoop grime out has failed. I have to say, while I have not focused on xstitch long, I did decades ago as a teenager, and never been plagued with hoop grime before. Because it's not ironed it's hard to see, but it is noticeable in person.

A partially completed cross stitch piece showing a stylized tree using winter motifs. The emerging shape is like a topiary, made out of 2 dimensional representations of both trees and holiday images. The natural parts of the tree are disconnected leafs and branches, in bluish colors. Some leaves seem rounded, and some feather out from branches. A couple of the leaf shapes are in red or light peach to add interest to the color palette. Included as winter motifs are some holly leaves with a red berry. There's a brown roundish shape that might represent a pinecone, and two small branches with red berries separate from the holly leaves. A cartoonish robin with a Santa hat is the main feature of the top of the tree. At the left side of the trunk of the tree is a cartoonish fawn, with a red scarf. On the right there are three stacked presents. The fawn and the presents have the same out of scale nature as the bird. The base of the tree has a smallish ground of grass, and 3 ferns. Barely visible in the photo is the ghost of hoop grime that couldn't be washed away, rendering days of work useless.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Why's this crazy person have so many projects? Look, I make poor choices. I had to work on something else while I try to get the hoop grime stain out of the other, similar project I was working on. This is Hello Holly, part of the same hello trees line from caterpillar cross stitch.

An embroidery hoop with a barely started project. There's a poinsettia in the top of the frame just off center. Across the canvas there are several floss strands held by a plain magnet. The floss strands are coming out of a partially finished Christmas ornament. The Aida canvas is a light sage green color, the Christmas ornament is vertical stripes starting with orange on the right, a blue that looks silver in the contrast, then teal, and in the center pink. From the pink, the colors repeat opposite starting with the teal, next blue, and finally orange, with the left most orange barely started. The top of the hoop stand, clamped to the hoop is visible above the poinsettia.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Well, the hello deer pattern I showed last time, is on hold. I changed hoops and discovered a terrible hoop grim and am doing my best to get it out. It would be impossible to cover. #crossstitch

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I've been cross stitching. This will be "hello deer" by caterpillar cross stitch. I have other projects going as well, but I'm not sure when I will post anything.

In progress cross stitch project. To the left of a tree trunk is a cutesy fawn with a large round head, and white spots. There is a fern at the base of the tree trunk, and a stack of presents to the tight. There's a red bow and a white and blue box on top, a striped red and blue grey striped box beneath the first, and the last box is a beige, peachy color with a large blue heart. The tree isn't a Christmas tree, though the theme is the winter holiday. At the top of the trunk there is a peach flower with a red and white center partially covered by the hoop. Some unattached leaves and berries in individual motifs begin the base of a circular top of the tree, which is only beginning to take shape.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

To everyone pretending to be on the Left who is supporting Platner because his victim didn't say anything when you would have found it convenient: We aren't in the same fight. Saying you have to choose between a r@pist and a person who willfully empowered r@pists isn't the fight.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If we could just skip the part when we let the right pretend to be better people when they walk through fire for their predators, and we force them to step down, that'd be great.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This isn't really a #knitting hot take, so much as a highly opinionated piece of advice. Stop telling fat people that demanding size inclusive patterns is a bad thing.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I just realized that my quiet to the point of capitulation democrat representative has been so quiet I have not heard anything from the campaign. I received my primary ballot, and the silence is so stupid.

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Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Let's see if the fucking morons can understand this: You can choose to live in either society. A: 10% of people live below the poverty line, 8% have no Healthcare, one person gets to be a trillionaire OR B: 0% of people live below the poverty line, 100% have free Healthcare, 0 trillionaires

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

#knittinghottake If you care about someone buying from a LYS instead of Amazon, but not price fixing rental spaces, you are being willfully ignorant. If you care about natural fibers, but not forcing harsh environmental and business regulations, you are willfully ignorant. If you care

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Podcaster: I think AI will not destroy human creativity, but make those human created things more precious. Human who isn't desperate to be blindly optimistic about every aspect of this dystopia: The word you are looking for is "scarce."

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Internet would be a better place if people applied the reading comprehension skills learned in 7th grade before replying to a comment. If you were robbed from that experience because republicans convinced half the country that critical thinking was bad, you can look up examples.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I looked up the Mary Maxim pattern everyone is excited about and I have thoughts. Not about the pattern, I have not convinced myself I need it yet. I have thoughts about the reviews. One person complained that the pattern leaves a lot to the knitter.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

#knittinghottake While I don't think pattern designers are necessary anymore in most cases, if you give a bad rating because of a skill issue, we have a problem. Patterns are not educational. If the pattern calls for a twisted German cast on, it doesn't have to explain how to do it.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Dear Trump trolls, your lies would work better if you weren't talking to us like we are you. Saying no one complains about mainstream Democrats taking corporate donations thinks we have piles of Harris merch, and spent 4 years alienating our families to follow boring rambling rallies.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

#knittinghottake If you have the time and staff to harass people cleaning out their closet of items they make with their own hands, you have the time and staff to check out the profile page of a podcast that once targeted you. You have the time and staff to Google as well.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Republicans: well, well, well, look who had a predator on their side. Democrats: yeah, we booted his ass. Republicans: *blinks stupidly* Democrats: Stop blocking us from taking out your trash. Republicans: *blinks stupidly*

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I've been playing around with a fingering weight version of Margaret Holzmann's "Safe at Home" blanket pattern. I also like how the books have some examples of other projects with the squares.

Two partial knit squares in the style of quilt blocks. Each square has 5 colors, house, windows, door, roof, and sky. The roof colors are striped, one color repeats the door color. The complete square is burgundy, yellow, brown, rose pink, and light teal. The partial square is blue, gold, silver, purple, and hot pink.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Democrats want to attack me for pointing out the parties flaws that led us here. I voted in every election since I was old enough. I remember a stand up comedian in the 90s saying Bill Clinton was the first Republican she ever voted for. I'm not settling for a party who would rather piss on the

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Reminder that it's the politicians job to convince people they are worth voting for. Bouncy CNN Statistician is still saying the Democrats aren't doing it. How can they? People have been screaming about it for years now, and you just have to pretend the voters are more important than donors.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Okay, so politicians: follow Mike Johnson home and scream until opens Congress again. Make sure you are seen with signs like Maga Mike protects Monsters. And xtrian phrases about war not being pro life, and of course, mention obstructing Congress is his only move. Politicians need to organize

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Stop getting mad at people for not wanting to spend $50 on an ugly crocheted stuffed toy made out of bulky chenille yarn. That particular market sector is oversaturated. Find a different side hustle.

Threads post from "officially_just_yarn"

"What's your most controversial fiber arts opinion - the hill you'd defend no matter what? I'll go first:"

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

After my post about having to decode my notebook, I thought I would show you all that I did relearn how I survived the gusset while maintaining my short rows. I know I am always "if you can dream it, you can be it" about knitting, but sometimes I think I over do it.

An unfinished sock on long circular needles with a red cable over a notebook with very messy writing. The sock has uneven stripes throughout. The dominant color is bright blue variegated with darker and lighter blue, as well as darker and lighter magenta. The other stripe is a white base speckled with black, blue, green, red, yellow and pink. The speckled parts of the white yarn are very similar to the original highlighter colors from the 80s.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I'm never going to be like Anne Lister, with loads of decoders spending lifetimes discovering my sapphic sexcapades. But I do have a notebook, terrible handwriting, shorthand that changed several times, and the need to knit a second short-row sock.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Every single time you say "he can't do that it's unconditional" or "he can't appropriate taxes by either" or "but that's illegal" like that does anything, I really want to see you use the same argument in any crime situation. Say " but that's illegal" when you see someone grab a purse.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Uh-oh, someone is going to run out of token women in the cabinet to blame.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Stop the one day general strikes, it's embarrassing. People are going to lose their jobs, get assaulted, get hit by cars just like the last one, for the corporate owners of Congress to feel no loss. The least you can do when considering resistance is if the sacrifice of supporters will be

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

If I could make the rules, all 8 of the child-hating supreme court assholes would never get to stop going to the funerals of the LGBTQ+ victims of conversion therapy and have to make a public statement at the service on why "free speech" of the therapist is more important than ethical practices.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

YouTube can't remember the color, font size, opacity, language, of the captions, or even that it's still marked in the settings on all devices. But they will be "you watched this channel once 10 years ago, and clearly have unfollowed and lost interest. This is all the recommendations for 3 days.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

#knittinghottake If the only action you are willing to take on synthetics and partially synthetic yarns is to brag about shopping more morally than other people, you don't care about the environment. You care about what people think about your values.

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I'm going to need everyone in the TSA to listen up. Start networking now for the next shut down. It's time for essential workers to prove if they are essential. Next time you're pay stops, quit. All of you. There is no way being unemployed and free to find other work is worse

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Kitchener Witch @kitchenerwitch.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This is the most "I mean it's one banana, Micheal" story

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Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It's absolutely wild that the same paper that breathlessly speculated on Biden having dementia despite providing zero proof beyond he's old would publish a definitive proof of Trump's cognitive decline using the frame "imagines"

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