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Leslie

@lancetchick.bsky.social
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Democrat, Voter, Kitty Mom, Type 1 Diabetic, Cancer Survivor, Gardener, Knitter.

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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 16h
Animals are good at pillows.
White cat with blotchy black ears on a red chair with his head face down on his curled paw pillow.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Finished my Mary W Martin Confluence Cowl today, to be worn with my MWM Flowing River hat. Both are reversible, but the cowl has different patterns on each side, both sides knitted at the same time. And... tomorrow I'm taking a beginning crochet class because why not? #knitting #knitsky 🧶
Yellow and blue marled yarn garter stitch cowl shown on a dress form using a strand of each color together, and then knitting the patterns on each side of the cowl with one strand of the marl, depending on which color is needed. The hat is in the background showing the same zig zag pattern that is predominantly shown on the cowl.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
More baby things finished. Now onto something for me! #knitsky #knitting 🧶
Undyed Sea of Dreams baby blanket and undyed Karen's Bonnet baby bonnet by PetiteKnit. KnitPicks "Swish" fingering weight yarn.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Romancing the Stone
Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner swinging on a vine in the Colombian jungle.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I've learned so much from Mary W Martin!
Marl garter stitch background on overview of hat with surface stitches forming spider-like two-color design stitches emanating from the crown. Yellow and bluish teal, ribbing in bluish teal.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Latest FO, which sat forever while I was cranking out baby blankets. I had kind of forgotten about it, but I'm glad I remembered! A big rectangle folded over and a turtleneck added to the partially seamed side. 🧶 #knitting #poncho www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Darkish green knitted rectangle, folded at the top edge, with a turtleneck at the top right corner. Multi-textured, including some cabling.The same rectangle on a dress form, only now it is a diagonal poncho, going from the left side of the picture to an elongated point on the lower right of the picture.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The jeans are there as a barrier.
Eating pizza on the bed, pair of jeans laid across in front, cat just on the other side of the jeans, LASER focused on pizza, head cocked, which means he's about to go for the pizza and I need to lift the jeans to shoo him away.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
White kitty hind legs and black tail sticking out of wooden window blinds.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
A nice warm hat for Tim Burton's Martians?
Martian from the movie Mars Attacks! Featuring gigantic top of the head with bulging, lidless eyes below, and no lips.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I dunno, without ears it looks a teeny tiny little bit like a boa constrictor.
Boa constrictor head with variegated yellow and black coloring.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
It's really hard to judge perspective from a photo, but that cast on looks rather large for a hat. If you tested gauge with a swatch, then consider me corrected. It's just that I once thought my cast on looked ridiculously small, and then noticed over & over that it magically grows as you knit.
Red cast on row of a hat whose diameter is barely larger than the width of my hand, shown next to it.Finished hat, looking like a normal sized hat, and it did indeed fit my mother's head.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Nice! Is that a Mary W Martin pattern? This is what I'm working on:
Hat knitted in blue and gold yarns held together to form a blended garter stitch background with slip stitch design worked in one color from one of the two strands of yarn.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I gave away my 2nd baby blanket, Aimee Alexander's "Whispering Wolf", and this was the FIFTH blanket given to her recently! Fortunately, there's no such thing as too many baby blankies. Now I can start on my Flowing River hat and learn what fission knitting is. #KnitSky #Knitting 🧶
Aimee Alexander's "Whispering Wolf" baby blanket, undyed natural yarn by Knit Picks, Stroll sport weight, folded and put into a plastic grocery bag with the yarn label on top.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I spent the last 2 weeks in Australia road-tripping up the coast of Western Australia, which seems to be fairly unknown to outsiders, but wow. SO much beauty, and zero partisan bickering or suspicion. Here's a naturally pink lake that was stunning:
Beautiful sandy ground interspersed with green shrubs, and a background of a pink lake (named Pink Lake) caused by algae creating the color. There is a sharp border in the back where the water is blue because the algae are harvested sustainably for various products.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Love it!
Barbie doll wearing dress knitted in white top and high waisted dark gray bottom.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I suppose it depends on what you want to make, but I was struck by something I saw in a Stephen West thing I got the other day where he showed the fuzzy yarn + sleek yarn brioche shawl he was knitting, and it just looked so cool.
Stephen West work in progress using one of his favorite yarn combinations: Qing Fibres Yak Singles (looks gray) and Melted Baby Suri (looks coral). The Yak Singles give the shawl a sheen which looks to me almost metallic, and the Melted Baby Suri is thick and soft.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I love mine.
Black Toyota "Super Jeans" sewing machine, all mechanical, non-computerized.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I may be face blind, but there seems to be a fairly strong resemblance between Stephen Miller and Nosferatu. In both face and character.
Stephen Miller looking an awful lot like the vampire Nosferatu, but wearing a blue business suit instead.Nosferatu the vampire, played by Klaus Kinski, getting ready to bite his victim.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
How funny. That looks exactly like the way my pedicure socks started out, with a 6 stitch I-cord forming the part that goes between the first toes. One end forms the top of the sock, the other end forms the sole, eventually joined in the round. I had no idea I could have turned it into a snail!
9 rows of 6-stitch I-cord in dark gray yarn with a provisional cast on.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Sea of Dreams knitted baby blanket pre-blocking. 🧶 Draped over the cat shredded chair. Took me long enough to finish the dang thing.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ooh, that reminded me that I have that book, and I had forgotten that I also have this companion:
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Turkey, pepper Jack, pickled jalapenos, mashed avocado on sourdough with cracked wheat. 🍽️
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Goodnight Rex, from a feline cousin.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Why settle for unfollowing them? Why not deprive them of income?
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
#HappyCaturday!
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Fava beans.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Herb butter with a lemon rind and juice and Worcestershire sauce bit of tang. So that's what I'm doing. And will be for for nearly the rest of the week.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I've never had pecan pralines before, so I made them for the Big Day, and they are fabulous.
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We know him by Alfalfa... 🤔
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Leslie @lancetchick.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Knitting Pima cotton baby blanket, which looks oddly pinkish here, but isn’t. Baby will be born in Australia, when it’s really hot, hence cotton, not wool.
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