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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

However these are not the appropriate scissors! I need my regular shears, not pinking shears!

Photo shows 2 pairs of pinking shears, open to demonstrate the wavy cutting edge.

Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's my first Sewing Saturday for about 18 months! Tracing off a nice easy t shirt, this pencil seems appropriate to use!

Photo shows an orange pencil with the words "is it Halloween yet?" printed in black. The pencil is on sewing tracing paper on top of the t shirt pattern I am about to take off.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Very much trying to finish this sock, because the next one is colourwork and also I'm going to try using magic loop as that's how it's written. This sock however is a very nice sock even if I'm over it now! Details are in the Alt Text. #SockKnitting #Knitting

Photo shows my current sock knittong in progress, which is knitted on 5 double pointed needles, in Stylecraft Head Over Heels in shade Great Barrier Reef. I'm using Dreaming In Fiber's Hermione's Everyday Socks.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today's #ShowMeYourKnits is Amber and gold, a nice autumnal combination. I think I can just about squeeze my current WIP into that theme as it is my Dr Who which has yellows and oranges!

Photo shows my Dr Who scarf with the goldish colour and gingerbread ish colour as well as the other stripes. Weirdly the current colour is a khaki green but kind of looks more blue than it is in real life!

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Finally got round to blocking my shawl. Details in the alt text.

Photo shows my St Bees Shawl designed by Louise Tilbrook in Scheepjes yarn colourway 783, Brambleberry

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Postman bought me a nice book. All other reading has been abandoned until I'm done.

Photo shows a paperback copy of T Kingfisher's book Daggerbound.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Now it's cooler, I'm knitting again. While reading on my kindle I can work on my plain socks:) I forgot how lovely the gradient stripes are on this yarn, and I may need to get some more!

Photo shows a three quarter finished sock, which is knitted on striped gradient yarn, which is Paintbox sock yarn on the Fairisle - Meadows Walk colourway.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Today's #ShowMeYourKnits theme is stripes. My Dr Who scarf wip definitely counts, even if I'm only on my second stripe!

Photobshows he start of a long striped scarf knitted in garter stitch. The first colour, at the bottom, is purple, and the second colour is camel.

Photo shows the same striped garter stitch scarf but vertical rather than horizontal. The starting purple stripe is to the left.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Just about to cast on an iconic scarf. 10 Internet points if you guess it!

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Ordered a 3d printed Turkish spindle. This teeny tiny delight came wrapped in fibre which matched, and a paper bag which also matched. #SpindleSpinning

Photo shows a 3d printed spindle, much more turquoise than the photo shows, with matching fibre and paper bag.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I've mostly been knitting today but have spent maybe an hour in total playing with my new Turkish spindle. It came with a chunk of fibre, partly as packing material I think, and that mystery fibre is what I'm spinning. It's quite amazing watching the centre pull ball grow :) #SpindleSpinning

Photo shows my purple Turkish spindle with the spun fibre creating a ball over the cross arms to the left, and the puff of fibre to be spun to the right.

Photo shows the underside of the cross arms and the neat way the ball is forming as I wind on the spun yarn.

Photo shows the spindle, sadly badly lit, against a white sheet.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Today's "Social Media influenced me to do it" is a Turkish spindle. The fibre event that is Tour de Fleece on Social Media this year is full of teeny tiny crosswise spindles looking cute, and I caved. Look at my tiny purple spindle! With tiny fine yarn spun :) #spinning #SpindleSpinning #Fibre

Photo shows the purple spindle with a small amount of spinning on it, the spun fibre is a washed out grey and came with the spindle.

Photo shows the purple spindle with a small amount of spinning on it, the spun fibre is a washed out grey and came with the spindle. I was trying to show how tiny is was so my red and white tape measure is at the bottom of the shot.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I had to get a new battery for my watch, and they said, come back in 30 mins... there is a bookstore in that shopping centre so it was only reasonable I spend those 30 mins there, right?

Photo shows a new edition of Anne McCaffrey's Deagonflight and also the British Library Strange Stories latest which is Strange Stories from France

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Today I'm wearing a me made test dress. The fit is slightly off but a safety pin helps, and it's wearable so long as I'm not going out in it. It's a wrap dress, and I sewed a double line down the edges and really like this detail. It's also a former duvet cover so it really is secret pyjamas!

Photo shows brightly printed fabric, with one edge overlapping the other and a double line of sewing over the hem. The fabric is white with pink, blue, yellow, and green flowers and leaves printed onto it.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I went for a walk earlier round the gardens nearby. The roses are blooming.

Photo shows various pink roses flowering against a glass house backdrop.

Photo shows bright pink roses flowering. They're growing up a trellis walkway and beginning to reach overhead.

Photo shows pink roses growing up and over a trellis walkway, and are flowering both horizontally and vertically.

Photo shows some peach coloured rose flowers close up.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Am determinedly knitting. Listening to the Lovecraft Investigations backlog. It's good, and I have backed their current crowdfunding :)

Photo shows my gradient yarn, which is cotton, and it is really slightly too hot.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

It is indeed, and I started this when it was too hot to knit last year! It's about palm sized, or will be when done. It should fit inside a medium size coaster.

Photo shows the top half of my flamingo, with measuring tape for sale.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

No embroidery, too hot for yarn. Time to figure out where I was with this tiny flamingo.

Photo shows a tiny cross stitch project which has only barely been started.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

And this is what I was walking in.... maybe not the best day to re start my lunchtime walking regime!

Photo shows a screenshot of my phone showing that the temperature is 30°c at 13.53. The background is a shawl I knit a while ago.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Today's lunchtime walk. Which was quite warm.

Photo shows the trees lining the roadway in the park

Photo shows nearly Grownup goslings dozing in the sunshine.

Photo shows a duck and duckling in the sunshine.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This week's #ShowMeYourKnits theme is WIPs so here is my St Bees Shawl, very much still in progress, but really starting to show off the gradient colouring of the yarn.

Photo shows my St Bees Shawl which I am still knitting. The colour goes from dark blue at the start of it, through lighter blues to what looks white and is now starting to go pink. The remaining yarn is visible at the top showing that the colour goes from pinks to purples before finishing.

Photo shows my St Bees Shawl without the ball of yarn just showing off the knitting done so far.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Early birthday treat with my parents, we went to Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park for the azaleas.

Photo shows flowering azaleas in shades of pink and red reflecting into a pond.

Photo shows flowering azaleas in shades of pink and red reflecting into a pond. Also ducks.

Photo shows flowering azaleas in shades of pink and red reflecting into a pond. Also a duck.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Today's lunchtime walk included this majestic looking heron. Fun fact, the other side of that wall in the background? Is a busy main road!

Photo shows a heron at the waters edge of a large but narrow pond. There are trees and a brick wall in the background.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Today's lunchtime walk attractions included fluffy baby geese!

Photo shows a patent goose on a bench, and 5 baby geese clustered around the foot of the bench.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Time to graft my sock toe together. Then start the second of this pair, made from yarn which was a gift to me :) #SockKnitting #Knitting

Photo shows the toe opening on this sock, all ready to graft closed. There is a large sewing needle which is headed with the tail end of the yarn, and the live stitches are on two shiny metal knitting needles.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Finished spinning this unknown amount of slightly felted fibre, wound it onto a cardboard tube in preparation for chain plying it. Tube has buckled slightly, woops!

Photo shows my spindle, with all the spun yarn wound under the whorl. There us an empty cardboard tube in shot.

Photo shows the spun fibre half way through the process of being wound onto the cardboard tube.

Photo shows the buckling of the cardboard tube under the pressure of the spun fibre.

Photo shows all the spun fibre wound around the cardboard tube, with buckling to the left of the bulk of the would fibre.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Today's lunchtime walk was along the river.

Photo shows the footpath and grassy verge with the river on the left and a hedge and some trees on the right. The footpath goes off into the distance. The sky is very blue and the sun is very bright (although not in shot)

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Today's #ShowMeYourKnits is cables. I have no cable knitting on the needles right now, but I am prepared for my next cable project, I have a cable needle case and therefore can find my cable needles!

Photo shows my cable needle case, closed. It is made of star decorated purple vinyl with a navy blue ribbon hiding it closed.

Photo shows my cable needle case open, with all the multicoloured cable needles on display. Most of them have a triangle shaped bend in the middle, but there are a few traditional straight ones, and also there are two plastic needles for sewing up chunky yarns.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Postman bought me the best post today:) kickstarter sticker reward, so glittery :)

Photo shows a very rainbow glittery sticker which reads "Never too old for fairy tales"

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Gift blanket knitted, washed, now drying as the vintage instructions describe as "dressing" but is more recently known as blocking.

A white lace blanket stretched over colourful foam blocks so that it dries with the shape pinned out

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Found my needle threader so the next hand sewing project will go faster!

Photo shows my needle threader on a white blanket. The needle threader is a flower shaped piece of black plastic with a metal wore diamond shape coming out of one of the "petals".

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Omg I am so close to finishing this! Which is great because due to various reasons my soft deadline is next Saturday. I think I'll make it! #Knitting

Photo shows an almost finished lace blanket, with only a few stitches left on the needle. My right hand is holding the needle and keeping the yarn under tension.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

This is my pattern setup for keeping track of where I am: the original pattern is hard to read, so I wrote it out line by line, and use a bookmark under the row I'm currently on. I use tally marks to count how many pattern repeats I've done. I also have a row counter #Knitting

Photo shows my hand written pattern notes, a translucent sparkly bookmark, and the original pattern below with tally marks showing how many pattern repeats I've done.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Still working on the lacy blanket for my colleague. Each tiny triangle takes 20 mins to knit. There are 56 triangles. I've done 20. The end is in sight, but still quite a way off! #Knitting

Photo shows a white lace blanket still being knitted. It is quite crumpled and the knitted on edge is visible as lace triangles. It is sitting on my blue jeans for a good contrast.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

In the progress on the blanket I am knitting for Colleague T, I have reached the stage of the knitted on lace edge. This is the last stage, other than sewing in ends and giving it a gentle wash and block. Omg the end is in sight!

Photo shows a lot of lace knitting with one tiny peak no longer connected to any live stitches. Only 55 more peaks to go.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

So, my lovely colleague T is going to become a parent in April. So I keep to finish this in March. March is next week. I am 10 of 17 lace repeats in, and also there is a lace edging to do. And it will need blocking, or what the elderly pattern calls, dressing. Sooo it's all knit all the time rn.

Photo shows a jumble of white knitting, with a lace section stretched out over my dark jeans for contrast.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

And the fifth and final post of photos. 5/

Photo shows a closeup of pink and white orchid flowers

Photo shows a closeup of cream, yellow, and pink flowers with darker lines radiating from the centre

Photo shows a closeup of a pink orchid flower.

Photo tries to show one of the orchid covered archways, which are red and pink flowering.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Second post of photos. It's a large building and there're a lot of gorgeous things to show 2/

Photo shows a flowering plant with pink flowers. There are a lot of big green leaves.

Photo shows pink and red orchids on a pillar. The glass that makes up the roof is visible in the background.

Photo shows a chinese style dragon made of (maybe) straw with many orchids on top and all around it.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I went to the Orchids at Kew, here are some flowers. Everything is miserable but these are bright and made me smile. Cc @juliethecranky.bsky.social you still like orchids, right? 1/

Photo shows an orchid, with white flowers hanging down.

Photo shows a flowering orchid, with pinky red flowers.

Photo shows a pot with flowering pma ts in. Pink and red flowers.

Photo shows a flowering pink orchid with a lot of dark green leaves.

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Went to TJ Jones at lunch looking for something that was out of stock. However they had this shelved in their Tiktok Trending area! Cc @stephanieburgis.bsky.social

Photo shows a selection of books in TJ Jones's Tiktok Trending shelves, including Stephanie Burgis's Wooing the Witch Queen

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

For some random reason audio books don't work for me, so I listen to podcasts instead. No, I can't explain why one works when the other doesn't. So catching up on some of my subscribed podcasts while working on this, a lace blanket for a colleague. This is not knitting you can read while doing.

Photo shows a crumpled bundle of white lace knitting with light coming from different directions. It looks very confusing and not at all like a nice lace blanket, but it will be!

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I have been outside and am delighted to report it is actually Not Raining!

Photo shows a gloriously blue sky, paling slightly towards the horizon where there are trees, leading to grass in the foreground

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Random Yarning @randomyarning.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I've done about half of this, and maybe if I'd spun it straight away it would be less sticky and slightly felty. #SpindleSpinning #FiberArts

Photo shows my 3d printed spindle with the spun yarn below. It's actually very difficult to balance it for photography! The spindle has a red shaft and a gold coloured whorl, and the yarn is pale blue/grey.

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