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Rosie D

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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fresh harvest! 🎃 #gardening #autumn
A clear tray with five pumpkins on it in varying sizes and colours.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#TourDeFleece after finishing the random fluff spin on my spindle I moved onto this birthday gift to spin, BFL and Tussah Silk blend in the colourway ‘Mulled Wine’ from Crafty Cat Knitty Bits. #🧶 #handspun
Multi coloured yarn being spun onto a wooden spindle.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#TourDeFleece here is some Blue Faced Leicester I’m spinning on my Haldane spinning wheel. This, along with some brown Shetland, will be a jumper spin. #🧶 #handspun
Oatmeal coloured yarn spun onto the bobbin of a dark wood spinning wheel.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Another #TourDeFleece post: here is some yarn I spun from random second hand fluff into a sort of fractal spin, using my spindle and very fancy cardboard-tube-and-box Lazy Kate set up. #🧶 #handspun
A spindle with green yarn being spun onto it.Two kitchen roll tubes with singles of yarn wrapped around them next to a spindle. A spindle with plied green yarn being spun onto it, with a cardboard box in the background with two cardboard tubes of singles inside it.A skein of yarn with mixed green and yellow colours.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I have been doing #TourDeFleece this year, spinning a little each day, but I have been rubbish at posting about it because I’m not using social media very much anymore. I’ll catch up now- here is some Zwartbles that I washed and carded ready for spinning. #🧶 #handspun
A bag for life full of brown fluff, Zwartbles sheep fleece.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I’ve been playing with some solar dyeing! This is ‘Cornish Eco UK’ wool I spun, the white skeins in the centre are their original colour. The skeins on the left are teabag dyed, and the skeins on the right are onion peel dyes. Love how they all look together… what to make?? 🧶 #handspun #handdyed
Two jars of solar dying on a shelf. On the left is a jar with yarn and tea bags. On the right is a jar with yarn and onion peels. 6 skeins of handspun wool yarn. Two are dyed brown/yellow with tea bags. Two are left original white. Two are dyed golden/ pink with onion peels.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Had a lovely time at the Sodbury Yarnover Festival yesterday! Got some nice bits including some new fibre to spin and sock yarn! 🧶 #handspun #knitting #crochet #weaving #sewing
A crochet blanket has a collection of stickers, pin cushion, sock yarn, stickers, business cards, weaving kit, pin badge, crochet trans flag octopus, and braided fibre laid out on it.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Double knit, double rainbow 🌈🧶 #knitting #handspun
A torso photo of a white women wearing a stripey knitted rainbow top and a gradient knitted rainbow scarf together.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I decided to be brave and start knitting with my handspun yarn. I used some of my early spins to make this tapestry. Just need to find something to hand it on now! #knitting 🧶
A knitted panel starting with blue, to light multicoloured, to white, to marled caramel, to dark multicoloured, to blue yarn again.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I made some socks in January by assigning numbers to my scrap yarn then using a number generator to decide which yarn I used and for how many rows. Inspired by Mijn Wolden on YouTube who did this as a ‘roll for socktober’. Really fun! #knitting 🧶
18 small balls of scrap yarn with numbers assigned to each of them.Two pairs of scrap yarn socks in lots of different colours.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
All my #handspun yarn from my first year of spinning 🧶 happy new year 😊
18 twisted hanks of yarn in various colours.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Turns out having a spinning wheel means you can make yarn faster, who knew? 🤷‍♀️🧶 #yarnspinning
A clothes airer with 8 hanks of yarn hanging to dry after being washed.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I’ll have to move him soon 😬🧶 #crochet #catsofbluesky
A ginger cat sits on a blue blanket that is being crocheted.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Target reached and jumper finished 😊 #knitting 🧶
A woman taking a selfie in the mirror wearing a new colourwork jumper. A fundraiser page with £155 reached of the £150 target.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I’m knitting a jumper for Cancer Research in December, it’s getting there! #knitting 🧶
5 balls of wool in blues, greys, greens and yellow with a red ribbed folded collar. A blue, purple and pink pounce holds knitting notions. The yoke of a striped jumper in autumnal colours.The top half of a jumper torso in autumnal stripes and dots. The torso of the jumper is complete and the arms are being worked on.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I got a spinning wheel! Got it second hand but it was never used by its previous owner. It’s a Haldane Hebridean. Learning to spin on it feels like I’m starting from scratch, but getting the hang of it! #handspinning 🧶
A brown wooden spinning wheel with a full bobbin of blue yarn spun onto it.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
A round up of my projects in autumn #crochet #knitting #handspinning 🧶
A pair of grey, black, purple and white fingerless mittens.A spindle with some brown wool spun onto it, next to a twisted skein of autumn coloured handspun yarn. A sparkly silver crochet jumper.A spindle with a single of white wool spun onto it sitting on a weighing scale saying 79 grams.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
From sketch to real thing, finished this a while ago. Really enjoyed crocheting a jumper and have now started another! #crochet #🧶
A phone drawing of a gradient blue jumper with a black silhouetted house with orange window and door. I’m wearing a gradient blue jumper with a black silhouetted house with orange window and door.Front view of me wearing the gradient blue jumper with silhouette house with orange window and door.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Had an amazing time today at Cotswold Wool Festival! I got: first pic ‘I’d rather have some (yarn) cakes’ from @ahappycrow.bsky.social, second pic Zwartbles roving from Chilton Grounds Farm, third pic ‘Evocation’ from @expertlydyed.bsky.social. 🧶 #handspun #yarn #knitting #crochet
A twisted skein of hand dyed merino yarn in black, purple, grey and white, the ace pride flag! Brown Zwartbles wool with a tag attached saying ‘Zwartbles Roving, 50g, £4.00’A rolled up hand carded batt of mixed fibers making a gradient from dark purple, to bright pink, to orange, to yellow, with sparkling threads running through it.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Yay cardigan finished! #knitting 🧶 💛
A white women with long brown hair (me) stands infront of a mirror holding phone awkwardly in hand wearing a lovely mustard yellow cardigan with white and blue colour work on it.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Look at me being a good girl and blocking my knits! 🧶 #knitting
Two cardigans are in a bath of water, one solid brown and the other yellow, blue and white.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
My rainbow fibre is now half done! I still have half left for a other time. I’m really pleased with how this turned out, at times it didn’t look great but the end result is lovely! #handspinning 🧶🌈
A hank of rainbow gradient yarn being held in my hand. A hank of rainbow gradient yarn lying in a messy heap on the floor.A ginger cat rubbing his head against a twisted hank of rainbow gradient yarn.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Beautiful fibre making this lovely gradient 🌈 please ignore the kitchen roll tube ‘bobbin’ 🙈 #handspinning 🧶
A kitchen roll tube with a single of rainbow gradient yarn wound on it.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
#showmeyourknits sweaters from the past, the present, and the future. The first was a crochet sweater I made in 2013 using chunky yarn- the fabric was so stiff! The second is my favourite thing I have ever made- a pink top down raglan. The last is an idea I have for a future jumper 🧶
An old picture of a crochet jumper in shades of blue, the fabric is so stiff and bulky the arms can’t fall properly! A picture of me, a white middle aged woman, wearing a pink knitted raglan jumper in stocking stitch. A drawing on a phone of a jumper with a picture of a black house with orange windows, against a blue gradient background.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Any tips for spinning this roving? I have never spun wool with these thin strands before. I use a drop spindle 😊 #handspinning 🧶
Four balls of Cornish Eco wool roving in thin strands.A hand has some strands of the roving showing how thin it is.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
My submission for #showmeyourknits baby edition! I loved the rainbow cardigan for my daughter but she never wears it lol. She loves the dress which I made with scraps from another project. Her as a baby in a hat and blanket I made, and a lovey called ‘zero’!
A 4 year old girl is wearing a sparkly skirt and a rainbow striped cardigan. A dress made with stripes of random colours, with pink on the skirt.A baby wearing a little orange hat with a pompom, and a green blanket. A white bunny head with a brown blanket attached.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I kept feeling jealous of people knitting on the beach, so I bought mine. I didn’t do much though as there were sand castles to be built and the beautiful sea 🧶🌊
Some bright yellow knitting held up in front of the camera, with a beach in the background.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I just finished this scrappy bag. The yarn was left over from various different projects. The lining was salvaged from a baby blanket I made that my daughter drew out of. Had to improvise the whole time as I kept running out of yarn 😂 #crochet 🧶
A granny square scrap blanket with a blue lining with bird prints. The handles are different styles of crochet and the bag has random patches of different granny stitches.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Evening crochet 🧶 with Cali (and Atlas but he was next to me on the sofa so I couldn’t get him in shot) #CatPics #crochet
A granny square crochet project on my lap, with a black cat on a rainbow mat by double doors to the garden. It’s evening with lights hung in the garden.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
This was the last spin I started during #TourdeFleece but I only just finished today. My first attempt at a fractal spin, which was fun, and does make a lovely yarn! 🧶 #handspinning
A hank of yarn in different coloured blues and grey/ greens. A hank of blue/ grey/ green yarn twisted into a skein on a stone floor.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The way Cali treats me keeps me humble. #catsofbluesky
A black cat sits on a rainbow mat and looks over her shoulder with disdain.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
My first time trying #garmentsewing and it doesn’t fit which is super! It was an experiment with scrap fabric so I’m not mad. I forgot that the fabric isn’t stretchy so made it the same length as the elastic in the waistband, so it doesn’t go over my hips- oops!
A pair of multicoloured shorts on a carpet.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
My last post for #TourDeFleece. Got a bit more done on this spin, and it’s looking really cool, but I think I will need a break from spinning after today! Very pleased with doing some kind of spinning everyday of TDF, and the progress I have made!
A gradient of blue yarns spun onto a spindle against a red floral background.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
This is cool! #TourDeFleece
A spindle with a gradient of different blue yarns spun onto it, next to a rosette of greenish/ silver blue fibre on a white bedsheet.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Started a new spin today where I am taking a few bits of random wool and merino I found in a charity shop and experimenting with what I have learned about fractal spinning… let’s see what happens! #TourDeFleece
5 strips of fibre, in various shades of blue, laid out on a wooden floor. A spindle with some dark blue yarn and some slightly lighter blue yarn spun onto it.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Day 20 of #TourDeFleece and I have plied the single from the tangled yarn I spun, and the Romney sample I got yesterday, to make this lovely little hank. Actually really pleased with this! It worked out in the end 😊 now I’m starting a crochet project.
A small hank of caramel and purple/ green yarn laying on a cream cushion.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I’m not sure what day of #TourDeFleece it is anymore as I have stopped watching and wasn’t sure if I should be counting rest days? I had a lovely time this evening going to a queer pub event to meet some new people, and spinning this beautiful Romney sample!
A spindle with some dark coloured yarn against a pink flowered bag.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
#TourDeFleece I missed a post yesterday as there wasn’t much to show, but I have managed to ply a decent chunk of the tangled single. The rest is a single that I can ply with something else. Next spin is going to be some bits I found at charity shops, mixed with some scrap yarn. Phew!
A hank of caramel yarn hanging to dry on a door handle. A single of caramel yarn wound onto a paper towel roll.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Oh how the mighty have fallen. Having bragged yesterday about finishing a spin earlier than I thought, I have spent hours of today trying to untangle the single after the plying got messed up 😤 Hopefully sorting out this mess can count as my spinning for day 16 of #TourDeFleece!
A mess of tangled singles in a basket with a spindle with some plied caramel coloured yarn on it.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Not to brag, but having said I would take a few days to finish spinning this wool I have now done it in one day 😎 #TourDeFleece Tomorrow I will ply, then I will start some fibre I found at a charity shop 👍
A hand holding caramel wool spun onto a spindle.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Getting near the end of this fibre now on day 14 of #TourDeFleece. Think I should finish spinning this in a few days, despite my skill and time limitations 😂
Some caramel coloured fibre in little roses and some spun onto a spindle on a wicker mat.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Just a tiny bit of spinning today on day 13 as it’s so hot and humid so I’m fighting a headache #TourDeFleece. Picking up some sewing which is another new adventure!
A box of spinning equipment with a pile of fabric for sewing on a grey sofa with yellow cushions.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Checking in for day 12 of #TourDeFleece. Still working with my trusty spindle. Feel like I’m getting faster with all this practice!
A wooden spindle with caramel yarn spun onto it in the foreground. In the background a rainbow doormat leads out to a garden.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Atlas heard that it’s a rest day today and wanted to get in on the action… #tourdefleece
A large ginger cat is laid across a bag of fibre on a sofa.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Really enjoying spinning this wool, much more than I did when I have spun it before. Meanwhile, on day 10 of #TourDeFleece, I have my first finished yarn :)
Caramel coloured yarn spun onto a wooden spindle, laying on the caramel coloured fibre on a green blanket. A finished twisted hank of multicoloured yarn laying on a wooden table.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Plied the scrap yarn spin and started some wool that I bought back in April and have lots left of. Day 9 of #TourDeFleece and I definitely feel like I’m getting into more of a flow with spinning now!
A Hank of multicoloured yarn hanging to dry on a hanger in a sunny garden. A spindle with a little bit of caramel coloured yarn spun onto it resting on a wooden table in a garden.
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Emily Hamilton @emilymcminn-ms.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Sacre Bleu! According to the BBC absolutely nothing happened in Westminster hall today, hundreds of Trans people definitely did not undertake a mass lobby and MPs certainly didn't hear from their constituents about why the EHRC is a liability. Meanwhile in France... www.france24.com/en/live-news...
france24.com
Trans campaigners descend on UK parliament to protest 'bathroom ban'
Hundreds of transgender people and their supporters flocked to the UK parliament on Wednesday to urge lawmakers to oppose new guidelines that would deny them access to certain single-sex spaces.
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Okay folks! We’ve a real opportunity here. This petition is at 78,000 (ends 28 July!). With a good push, we can get it over the line. MPs *don't need to stick to the exact petition topic*. We can brief them to discuss any & ALL issues with trans healthcare. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... 1/🧵
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services
Introduce a law to legally protect the right of those aged 18 and over to transition using NHS services. This should specifically cover physical transition, including hormone treatment and surgery, as...
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Day 8 of #TourDeFleece and in a sudden burst of energy I got it all done! I also went to a local fair where they had the Gloucestershire Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers- was lovely to chat to some experts!
A spindle with a cob of multicoloured yarn spun onto it ready to be plied.
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Rosie D @rosieknits.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
My Day 7 #TourDeFleece progress today is more focused on creating the rolags than spinning. Going to a family event tomorrow so I might take this with me and see how far I can get through it! Looking forward to starting another spin soon 🤞
A spindle with multicoloured yarn spun onto it, and eleven rolags of fibre from green, to yellow, to red next to it.
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