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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Completely a personal note but - my love beat cancer today. 🔔🙌🏻

Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

When may we be done with this annual insanity of pretending we’re in different time zones for a portion of the year? If I sign up for jet lag, it should at least come with the fun of travel. 😵‍💫

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Amy Vervoort🇨🇦 @amyvervoort.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“Daffodils, like whispered promises, bring the fragrance of new opportunities on the breeze.” – Anne Frank

Pretty daffodils blooming outside The Old School House Arts Centre in Qualicum Beach, on Vancouver Island this morning. The school house in the background is a soft yellow with white trim. There are green shrubs behind the daffodils. The morning sun is low and warm.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Spent time doing preliminary research on banned books today, for work. Already want to share what I’ve been finding, so here’s some info from the first 8 months of 2024: 414 censorship attempts 1128 unique titles challenged (These are only what are reported to the ALA) www.ala.org/bbooks/book-...

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Book Ban Data

The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has released new data documenting book challenges throughout the United States, finding that challenges were nearly double that...

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MadStash @madstash.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Skylight, Bluesky's promising version of TikTok, is available to beta test. Remember to download TestFlight from the App Store first. Looks pretty good so far.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Right now seems like an excellent time to be reading a book. 📖 On a ban list or a good fantasy, both are great options.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🧶 BYOY! 🧶 I’ve had so much fun the last few weeks using up yarn scraps from one of my favorite projects to embroider yarn balls. Needs less that 10 yards of light fingering to DK weight! luckyjonquil.com/products/yar...

A worked up wooden embroidery disk with a yarn ball pattern worked up using Light Fingering weight Malabrigo Sock in Aguas is displayed on a clear stand. Yarn balls, cakes, and scraps are stacked in the background.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

A little tangible reminder to breathe & release stress, we can’t affect change when we’re burned out. Lavender Mini Kits, perfect for embroidery beginners, are officially released and start shipping next week! luckyjonquil.com/products/lav...

Hand embroidered lavender sprig on a wood surface hanging from a stickers water bottle.

Hand embroidered lavender sprig on a wood surface attached to a keychain, splayed on a white background

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I designed something really fun today and am really excited to share it… next week. 😆🧶

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

When your girlfriends really get you - you get Happy Galentine’d with a pic of their first of the year jonquils. 🥰 I hope you feel loved by those around you today too. 💛

Among a soggy patch of yard along a wooden fence stands a single bright yellow and orange multi head daffodil - a jonquil.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Cutting out mini lavender tag kits for the #hhamerica trade show’s Sample Box. We’re going to be debuting our embroidery kits for the first time there! Perfect for yarn shops and other crafty stores, not just embroidery shops. ☺️

Laser bed with wood being cut into keychains sizes for stitching! Smoke fills part of the closed area, smells like a campfire.

Lavender sprig stitched in embroidery floss onto a keychain sized piece of wood, held by a pale hand by the lower left edge. Yellow and white keyboard on a white desk is in the background, along with some of the raw kit components of floss, unstitched wooden piece, and business cards for sizing and packaging layout.

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Blustery Morning @blusterymorning.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Rainbow Disco This 15 in hand embroidery piece took over a year to complete. Mostly satin stitch and just over 160 individual colors. She’s my pride and joy 🪩 #Januarty #embroidery #satinstitch #skytok

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Also, I find it hilarious that if I’m around my partner refuses to speak to Siri. If he thinks I’m out of earshot, he’ll chat Siri up! 😂

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Surgery kiddo decided he’d try school today, went great for an hour… and then he came home sick. 🤒 Poor guy can’t catch a break.

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Karie Ghoulish 👻 @kariebookish.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Knitters, this one is for us. 🧶

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

⭐️Next market update for #CharlotteNC friends!⭐️ Many of you have met Dory at our other vends - they’re my booth buddy, my eldest child, and my stylist! Their salon is hosting a pop-up this weekend & we will be there with all of our embroidery kits Free drinks & local shopping for Galentine’s Day!

Local Pop-up Shop at Poza Salon

Get ready for an exciting evening at Poza's Pop Up Shop! We're bringing together an amazing lineup of local vendors,creative experiences, and best of all--FREE drinks for all guests!
FEBRUARY 8th, 2025 from 5-8pm
2314 CRESCENT AVE. Charlotte, NC

Reads an announcement flier with square photos of vendor goods, a fixed to a large mirror. In the background reflection is the top of my head, with smiling eyes!

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I didn’t get very far knitting on my Clapotis today, just one more drop row completed. Got too excited about a tweak on the new embroidery disks and spent the afternoon in Adobe making edits to several.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Happy Caterday! What are you doing to refresh yourself? I’m working on my first Clapotis, I remember when it was originally released and never made one then. I love that @knitty.com re-released it for the 20th anniversary. 🧶 I may work more on the embroidery stitch disk patterns later. 🪡🧵

Grey long hair cat, named Grits, stretched out on his back, belly up, on a white bedspread. It’s a trap, he doesn’t want belly pets. A black cat, Patrick, is behind him to the right, curled up tight. Two crocheted blankets are folded over a bed rail. The top one is a puff stitch motif with maroon, plum, pink, and lavender blue colors. The other one is a chevron pattern in tan and beige colors.

Clapotis knitting pattern from Knitty.com being knit in Malabrigo Ultimate Sock in 363 Pascal. Laid out on a crumpled white bedsheet, and stretched by a white lady’s hand to the left, highlighting the 4 dropped stitches stripes. A navy blue knitting bag with a leather handle is visible to the top left. 🧶

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Spent all day (that I wasn’t feeding the laid up boy food or meds) working up the new cut files for embroidery kits. 🔵 Also ordered supplies for cutting later this week… I’m excited about it! Can I say glow in the dark thread?! 🌟🧵

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The Savage Stitcher @savagestitcher.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I know that the playbook is to make us feel defeated, and overwhelmed, and too tired to act, but I’m NOT playing their game. I will NOT go back.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Surgery kiddo is doing well, but I’m up every few hours through the night to make sure he gets his pain meds. This means a ton of ideas that I’m hoping to remember as I go back to sleep each time AND way too many crazy dreams. 💭💡💤 I’m excited to say that I remembered it all this morning! 🧶🧵

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

🧵 Are you doing a temperature cross stitch this year? Our Long Floss Keeps fit in your floss box and keep the loose working threads tidy! luckyjonquil.com/products/lon...

Close up of an embroidery floss box: On the left, a muted rainbow of embroidery floss wound on clear acrylic bobbins are lined up in a standard bobbin box. To the right, a longer acrylic piece, in the long box space, holds cut threads from the bobbins in a similar order to keep them from tangling before use.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

My 13yr old had an outpatient surgery yesterday and is home recovering. After I put a stop to endless YouTube shorts (his allowed version of TicTok)… he’s in his room singing. 🎶 I’m so very here for this small moment of time. ❤️ This is one of the reasons I do what I do, to be here for him.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Goodness. I knew this was going to be a long week with a ton of medical stuff for me & family. Most of it is behind me, but with the stress came a flood of creativity! I’m excited to get some things from sketches to reality & start testing the ideas. 😆 I hope to have new kits soon! 🧶🐑🧵

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

My Sunday is full of 🧶 knitting goodness. Hope your is restful and full of creativity. 💛 More embroidery comes tomorrow, I’m giving myself a break from working on new wood kits.

Malabrigo Ultimate Sock in Pascal (a ‘dirty’ teal) being knit into a Clapotis on a white bedsheet background with an edge of Ruby Star Society’s floral cat fabric in the top left.

Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Complete campground photo with multiple cute animal characters all around as if in a knitting group, with a knitting cabin in the background and a knitting tent to the right.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

My blue sky went all sorts of beautiful evening shades of glowing reds, pinks, and purples before I could check in today. Guess that means it’s been a beautifully productive day working on embroidery kits!

Embroidery kit of an outline of North Carolina laid out on a darker wooden surface. Kit array has 7 full skeins of Cosmo floss, two needles, wooden disk with predrilled holes, adhesive backing, and two pages of pattern instructions

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

So many new crafters making the jump and struggling to find people, so I made a tiny video to help you out! 👉🏻 Things work on feeds & keywords here. Fill out your profile, use some keywords and emoji, and don’t forget your website! 🧶🧵🪡💛

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

If you went to college: 1. Career goal at start 2. Your first major 3. Did you change majors 4. What you do now 1- artist, unsure what type 2- studio art, so everything… except fiberarts, that department was weird 3- Jr year changed to world religion & philosophy 4- designer in the fiberarts 🧶🧵 🙃

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

We’re into Wednesday, & Insta is imploding with forced followings. I wish I knew of a way to reconnect easily with my follows & followers. If you’ve found me here, I’m so glad! This is what happens when someone else controls access & platform - go sign up for emails of businesses you follow!

True alt: A well organized floss box with color series wound on thick clear acrylics bobbins that fill the box spaces well. In the long slot are pieces holding leftover working strands in an orderly fashion, the pieces are long, rectangular, and neatly hold 11 stands each.

2nd alt: Your favorite small businesses are struggling with how to find you as their social media platforms implode. Conversations are being had in the background about how to find you as you leave and go elsewhere, not just because our livelihoods depend on it but also because for many of us, you are our community too. We miss the genuine connections. The number one tried and true way to stay connected is by email. Support your favorites by making sure you’re signed up.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Finally found my logo for socials, so exchanged the headshot back out. 💛 So that my account isn't faceless, here's my face and some of the things I make.

A knolled spread of clear acrylic floss bobbins and drops, some with swatches of stitching on them, in shades of blues and greens. These are products from Lucky Jonquil.

Pale skinned woman with blue eyes and a short blonde pixie, me. I'm wearing a blue dress shirt, blue beaded stick earrings, and a half-moon wood burl necklace. The background is a plain beige.

A rainbow of different stitches form a sampler embroidered on a wooden surface. Included are the back stitch, stem stitch, chain stitch, lazy daisy, colonial knot, and the woven wheel. The Rainbow Sampler is held over a darker wooden surface by two hands, with a sprig of greenery in the top left corner. Lucky Jonquil produces this as a full beginner friendly embroidery kit. Photo is slightly blurry because it is a still from an instructional video.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Happy Tuesday evening everyone. I hope you have something creative or relaxing planned for yourself. I may just watch the snow fall. TBH crafting almost sounds too productive for this evening, it’s been a long day and I’m tired.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

What does your self care look like today? I think we can all use fresh list of ideas. 🧶🧣🧵🪡📚📖 Tonight I’m going to finish reading a book since I waiting on new crochet hooks to start my next project. (Do I have the needed hooks? Yes. Did I want new Furls? Also, yes. Investing in me, no shame.)

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

There is something deeply wonderful and fulfilling in taking your time to create a new thing you can hold in your hand. We are missing this as a consuming culture. Fiber arts gives us health benefits - knitting, crochet, embroidery, weaving, spinning, or any other aspect of thread and yarn. 🧶🧵🪡

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Bright spot for this morning: my granny stitch sweater is completed, blocked, and ready for snuggly wearing! 🧶 (Pattern and yarn info in alt text.) What is your bright spot today?

Granny stitch crochet pullover in a Blush (soft red), Maple (yellow), Slate (blue), and Mercury (light grey) stripes. Yoke style neck, belt line length, and elbow length sleeves with a slightly positive ease. Pattern is Stories Top by Iron Lamb.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I found a great space for teaching private lessons and workshops earlier this week. Today I found my old materials for a workshop I taught on swatching and yarn substitutions. I’m SO EXCITED to rework the material and BRING THIS BACK! 🤩 🧶

4 printed pages lays splayed across a wood grain table with a hand resting on the top page. It is titled “Fibers Illustrated” and subtitled “Substitutions & Swatches” with a black and white photo of a variegated stockinet gauge swatch with needles and a ruler laid across the top. Author is Jenny Raymond, which was my married name.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Good morning! What creative pursuit are you going to do today? I got a new camera and am going to work on product photography today. 🧵🧶📸

Perle cotton is wound on clear acrylic pegs that are reminiscent of clothespins and lined up in a rainbow of vivid colors stuck into a birch plywood base. Seven colors of thread in a row - the foreground color is a deep violet, moving through a variegated teal, sea green, lime green, buttery yellow, variegated tangerine, and the last in the background is a vibrant salmon. Bobbin pegs made by Lucky Jonquil, plywood base is made by Modern Hoopla

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BzyPeach - Ms. Peach 🍑 @bzypeach.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Does this make sense to you? I am looking for a crocheter or two who is proficient in reading CROCHET STITCH SYMBOLS and CHARTS to review/edit a pattern or two. Please comment below with your editing or testing terms. Thanks! 😊

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Patrick is being a big help at the office today, stylishly guarding the floss with his orchid scarf. 🧣🧶🧵🪡🐱

Black and white cat lounges with a pink and purple knit scarf wrapped around his neck. The background has white bookshelves, some with glass doors, filled with embroidery threads and embroidery tools, as well as a random bottle brush Christmas tree prop.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I’m in Mycena! Cute tiny cluster mushrooms that come in a whole range of vibrant and neutral colors. Kinda’ love the rainbow that shows up on Google images. Blues, pinks, purple, orange, white, brown, and even a glow in the dark. Seems like it fits my color collecting ways. 🌈🧶🧵

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

What do we call posting here? Is it a Flutter?

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Melissa’s embroidery kits are fantastically detailed! Taking a class at the expo would be so much fun.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I am really enjoying Bluesky, it feels refreshing after all the other socials went off the rails years ago. Also, I plan to be more “me” here. I really hate making content and it’s the least fun part of my job. I just want to make fun and useful things for other stitchers.

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Jenny @ Lucky Jonquil @luckyjonquil.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Sweater update: it had a weird lump in the back of the yoke and was too wide in the neck. Ripped the entire thing back (that was hard) and re-worked it in under 24 hours (amazing, tbh). Much improved! Now to finish it!

Reworked granny stitch sweater in bands of grey, blue, yellow, and red worsted weight wool. Laid out on grey and white crumpled bed linens with original swatch top center and a kitty leg top right.

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