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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Chronic health issues + some extra health issues in the past few months + disability benefits worries + the general dystopian crap going on in the UK and the rest of the world. Rest is rebellion right?! I need a break and to focus on self care, kindness and compassion.

Text on a background of a faded photo of colourful yarns. Text reads "social media break: I'm exhausted and need to reset my central nervous system. So I'm going to take at least a week off. Hopefully see you all soon" there's a sparkly love heart at the end of the text.

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Slipknot and stitch 🤟🏻🧶 It's a heavy metal #crochet session today! I've not picked up this Tunisian crochet project for a bit - it's such a relaxing project to work on 😊 #crochetsky

Close up of a Tunisian crochet work in progress using an extended knit stitch. Colourful yarn cakes can be seen in the background.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Get it signed

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Liv | NeuroStitches @neurostitches.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Before you watch or support #knitstars please research Shelley Brander and her extremely problematic spread of misinformation of Autism. To be clear: Autism is not something that needs to be cured, nor can it be by just changing your diet. #knit #crochet 🧶

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I promise I will post some finished #crochet soon! But in the meantime here's another #wip I started 😂 I'm remaking the Shark Tank top as I wasn't happy with it the first time - I'll be altering it to hopefully fit my body better 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 I just love this yarn and stitch combo so I have to try! 🧶

Photo of crochet work in progress - an open, lacy stitch in multicoloured fine yarn (fingering weight). The yarn cake is in the background.

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I was struggling with overwhelm & lost my motivation to crochet for a good couple of months. But in the last couple of weeks since doing a test for a 'wonky spiral' that Lisa Doherty (Freeform crocheter) designed I've got my crojo back! Here's the spiral & others I've been inspired to create.

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Crochetmelovely @crochetmelovely.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

😊🧶🌈

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Exhausted. But not as much as yesterday when after 12 hours in bed I went back to sleep for 2 hours... Got up & had breakfast, crocheted a little and listened to a podcast and then went for a 2 hour nap... And had an early night!! Felt like someone gave me a sleeping potion!!! #mecfs #chronicillness

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Needs blocking and a better photo but I finished my Citadel Shawl! #crochet #crochetsky 🧶 Yarn: Woollyccino cotton yarn cake

Anna is in her garden with shrubs in the background. She's facing away and holding a triangular crochet shawl up. The colours fade from lilac to purple, dark blue and black.

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Katie Abey @katieabey.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Because the world needs more people who are GLOWING

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Government plans to cut disability benefits could drive more costs on to cash-strapped councils, according to campaigners and local government officials The Disability Policy Centre estimates the cuts would add £1.2bn of costs for the NHS and social care By me: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

theguardian.com

Councils and NHS could face millions in extra costs due to disability benefit cuts

Government plans for Pip cuts will drive up costs for local authority social care services and NHS, campaigners warn

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

If any UK peeps have the energy to email your MP about the disability benefits cuts please do. We don't all have the energy to do so and I'm scared. If the changes go ahead I won't even be able to afford my rent nevermind the things that help keep my health as stable as possible...

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 21/03/2025

Today is a good day to divest from Amazon and instead support small businesses.* By using Libro.fm instead of Audible, your audiobook purchases support independent bookshops 😍 *Every day is a good day to support small businesses!

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Katie Abey @katieabey.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Does anyone else relate to feeling like you can either do it all or do nothing?🥲Learning how my brain is wired has come with accepting some days I can be an absolute boss whirlwind and others I am a puddle when I need to recharge 🐌

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍🩷🩵

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Has anyone tried using Tunisian crochet with a knitting pattern? I was told when I learned that this is possible but I've never tried it! As a non knitter I don't know how complicated it would be... #crochet #crochetsky #tunisiancrochet 🧶

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I keep adding to this as I find more #crochet accounts 🧶 #crochetsky

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Pearled Wing @pearledwing.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

My crochet patterns, Mermaid’s Purse Top and Mermaid’s Purse Bag, are featured in the March issue of Crochet Foundry Magazine 🤩 #crochet #crochetsky 🧶

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Check out the Mermaids Purse Top designed by @pearledwing.bsky.social on the front cover!!

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I eventually pinned out my #crochet mesh shrug yesterday! I think I need to steam it as last time I tried just spraying it with water it shrunk back. I always feel like I'm blocking mesh things wrong as they look wonky at the edges where I've pinned it! #crochetsky 🧶

Black crochet mesh piece pinned out on blocking mats. The blocking mats are square and fit together like jigsaw pieces - they are blue, green, yellow and orange

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Throwback to the Starburst Galaxy Snood which I loved so much that I made two of!! Pattern by Tortie Treblemaker Designs Yarn: vegan sock minis from www.veganyarn.co.uk

Image split into two to show two different sides of a crocheted snood. The snood is made up of coloured pentagrams and has a purple border. There's a patterned tile of the table it's laid out on.

Anna is wearing a crocheted snood which is multicoloured

Image split into two to show two different sides of a crocheted snood. The snood is made up of coloured pentagrams and has a dark blue border.

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Idiocracy was meant to be a movie. That’s all.

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I mainly use @listeningbooks.bsky.social for reading as my ME/CFS & other issues mean it's mainly easier to listen to audiobooks. It's only £20 a year and the catalog is amazing - plus you can request any book that isn't there and they'll look into getting it. #booksky #audiobooks

Screenshot of the Listening Books bluesky page. Bio says "UK Charity providing an audiobook service to people who find their illness, disability, learning or mental health condition affect their ability to read. We have a huge selection of audiobooks available to borrow from the app or our website."

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Here are just some alternatives to Amazon for book lovers! My faves. Also obviously your local library - which often have apps to read ebooks and audiobooks. Mine uses Borrowbox but many use Libby/Overdrive. Hive.co.uk is a good UK book source too. #booksky #books #ethicalreading #ditchAmazon

Text says: Book Lovers Alternatives to Amazon
Kindle: Kobo ereader
ebooks: eBooks.com
Audible: Libro.fm
Books: bookshop.org/worldofbooks.com
Goodreads: Storygraph

Text is overlaid onto a slightly transparent image of open books.

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 07/03/2025

When Amazon launched in 1995, there were 5,500 indie bookshops in the U.S., with 7,000 locations. By May of 2023, that number had decreased to 2,185 indies & 2,599 locations. When you purchase audiobooks via Libro.fm vs. Audible, you directly support indie bookshops. Let's make that number grow ❤️

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Check out this awesome #crochet mushroom witch hat designed by @mythicphoenix.bsky.social 🍄🧶

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Throwback to when I tested this gorgeous Celtic Sun Bag pattern by Tortie Treblemaker Designs on IG I didn't have any Aran yarn so I held DK yarn double and I love the effect this has! (pattern available on Ravelry, link in comments)

Hand made crochet bag in purple, pinks & blues with teal & grey edging to the bag flap and on the strap. There's a ceramic owl button. The bag is resting on a pale grey, wooden bench.

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

When you buy graphic novels/manga on offer just because the titles are weird and it intrigues you... Thanks World of Books! #booksky #graphicnovels #manga

Photo showing two manga book covers, the one on the left is called I Want To Eat Your Pancreas and the one on the right is Called Toilet-bound Hanako-Kun. There's crochet projects in the background.

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It was the 10 year anniversary of the yarnie group I'm in - Yarn Addicts of Manchester this Saturday just gone. I realised I've actually been going since 2015 too - when it was called Crochet, Chat, Coffee & Cake! I made the purple mesh shrug I'm wearing for the occasion 🧶 🥳 #crochet #crochetsky

Photo of three women, the one in the centre is wearing dark colours and a big number 10 badge, she has dark hair and glasses. The woman on the left has blonde curly hair and is wearing a teal t-shirt and grey and brown hoody. Anna is on the right, she's wearing a green dress and purple crochet mesh shrug. She has faded purple hair and glasses.

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Since I'm ill (again) have another throwback picture! 😂 A rainbow one to brighten up the day 🌈 Pattern: Granny Stitch Daisies cardigan by @by.daisy.dots on IG Yarn: Premier yarns Home Cotton in Rainbow & Paintbox Yarns Cotton Aran in Pansy Purple #crochet #crochetsky 🧶

Anna is wearing a rainbow coloured crochet cardigan with purple ribbing around the edges and sleeves over a black top. She's got purple hair and is wearing sunglasses and a purple necklace.

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

And I've got another virus/sinus infection (not sure which but I feel grim!) It feels like my health issues are relentless at the moment 😞

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

How about maybe not buying from problematic companies all the time instead of just boycotting them for a day tomorrow?... Just an idea... Support local or independent businesses where you can...

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Has 6 projects on the go, decides on two more as going to sleep last night... Starts one immediately today... Good job I'm enjoying having multiple projects going as it gives me more choice 😂 #crochet #crochetsky 🧶

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Did you know if you use two yarn colours for Tunisian crochet you get a lovely stripe on one side and an interesting pattern on the other?... This is a ruana I made using just the simple stitch (with a standard crochet top underneath) #crochet #crochetsky #tunisiancrochet 🧶

Anna is wearing a red crocheted top with a black and red Tunisian crochet ruana, the stitch makes one side of the ruana look like stripes and the other an interesting cross hatch style.

Anna is wearing a Tunisian crochet ruana in black and red - worn this way out it looks striped. It's held with a black metal shawl pin. She has purple hair and is wearing red rimmed sunglasses.

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Create the Ripple @createtheripple.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” A gentle reminder that kindness doesn’t just help others - it nurtures us too. It’s essential. 🧡 #kindness #compassion #humanity Picture by Harmony Willow

Love and compassion on necessities is not luxuries without them humanity cannot survive. Dalai Lama picture of black writing with hands different colours on holding each other picture by harmony Willow.

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Progress on my Tunisian crochet cardigan - though not much as I keep just starting new projects 😂 Pattern: Intemporel cardigan Yarn: Fyberspates Vivacious DK #crochet #crochetsky #tunisiancrochet 🧶

Photo of the start of a crochet cardigan in Tunisian modified knit stitch with the ball of yarn in the centre - colours are earthy reds, blues, browns, purples etc

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Throwback to when I tested the Laura Cowl for my lovely friend Jessica Boddis (@rainbowjesscrafts on IG) Pattern link in comments #crochet #crochetsky 🧶

Anna is wearing a multicoloured cowl with various crochet stitches - some more solid, and some more lacy. She has purple hair with an undercut and black eye makeup on.

Anna is wearing a light grey & rainbow coloured cowl with various crochet stitches - some more solid, and some more lacy. She has purple hair with an undercut and black eye makeup on.

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Knotty Knights Creates @knottyknights.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

So apparently I started designing a #crochet gothic handbag during my sleep meditation last night 😂 🧶🖤

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