iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Trying to recover from losing a sweater WIP (in event exclusive yarn!) so I’m casting on a bunch. Cue Hall & Oats:”…pretty bodies held dissolve the memories, they can never be what she was to me…”

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I just don’t think they could be any cuter.

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

2025 Mood Blanket: January Credit to Toni Lipsy, who inspired this project.

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

On the blocking board! Bayshore Bandana Cowl by Kira K Designs, in Love Fest Fibers pashmina. Hand-spun and hand-dyed. Unbelievably soft and fluffy. This sample will be at Love Fest’s SF shop for you to try on, fall in love, buy the kit, and make one for yourself! 🧶

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Explain this. He has infinite soft upholstered surfaces to nap on, but he chooses the back of my closet, on a pile of shoes.

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Restarting my mood blanket, with more range and nuance. This is a swatch to test out a few ideas. I like where this is going, over my previous concept. Now to re-crochet the past 20 days. NBD! That’s the joy of crochet! It’s quick. 🧶

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Chatting with a friend about how to recreate the communities we lost. I keep coming back to the fact that community organizing predates socials or computers. We don’t need the next platform. We need to relearn how movements organized in the analog age.

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Did I match my new project to my new puffer vest? Obviously yes, but not consciously.

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I’ll say it: bc this is basically twitter, and I never used or needed twitter, it’s extremely difficult to settle now.

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Daily Crochet Journaling is going well, tho not without challenges. Yes, I’m having a hard time boiling each day down to one emotion. Also, since I often journal at night, the most urgent, recurring feeling is, “EXHAUSTED.” Not an emotion, but that’s how I feel.

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I get very little lap time with my boys. They strongly prefer Mike. Here is a rare and precious moment with Paco.

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

My interpretation of Tony Lipsy’s 2025 mood wrap, nee blanket. Each night at 8:pm, an alarm goes off on my phone, and I sit down to journal and crochet about my day.

Row of small crocheted chevrons In different colors, on a tan marled wood background. The first row is green, olive, and sky blue. Above that it changes into multi-colors.

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

While I only have a few followers here, I can share stuff I probably shouldn’t (yet.) Here’s the Bayshore Bandana Cowl, by Kira K Designs, to be released January 30 with cowls from two other designers, in anticipation of the @baycrawl.bsky.social

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Not much of a picture, but this was the very best lentil soup ever, thanks to @ranchogordo.bsky.social and having mirepoix prepped in the freezer. Sadly, all gone now.

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Wise woman @rebeccawilova.bsky.social told me this is a good time to repost the classics. So I present to you: Francis Albert & Antonio Carlos.

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Blocking the first of three “BAYCrawl Cowls” - this one is designed by KiraK, with yarn by SuperGlo.

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Leigh Ann Parente @laparente.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Happy 2025. Hope it’s full of creativity, color, and cookies.

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