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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

baby's first navajo churro spin. the grower had their flock milled into delightfully rustic carded sliver w/ just a touch of lanolin: my favorite! I'm copying @just-raeli.bsky.social by making this a spindle project. she may have lapped me on knitting ginsan, but it may finally be my time to shine 🌟

a person sits in a poofy red and tan gingham arm chair. a support spinning bowl carved from a block of wood into the fates sits on the left arm of the chair, and a white arm with a black beetle tattoo holds up a wooden support spindle with a pika carved into it inside the bowl. the person is wearing a white linen shirt and blue jeans, and a full support spindle (carved into a hobbit house) and a ball of grey wool roving sits in the person's lap. the floor is aged hardwood, the scene appears cozy and inviting.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

bev wants you to know that there are still good things

Bev, a German shepherd and golden retriever mix, lays comfortably on a bed covered with a blue comforter. the foot of the bed has a folded up rainbow scrappy crochet blanket, and Bev's face is comfortably laid up on the blanket. she has tan eyebrows adoringly lifted, and she is looking at the camera.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

a friend had some dyed Leicester longwool that she wanted to eventually spin (with the end goal of making gloves for her partner), but she knew it had to be blended and didn't have a drum carder v proud of the results! 50% Leicester longwool 25% Corriedale cross 21% Coopworth 4% tussah silk 🧶🐑

a basket full of charcoal coopworth wool locks, light grey Corriedale cross wool likes, tan tussah silk, and brown, green, and blue dyed leicester longwool roving set against a beige quilted backdrop

a basket of brown, green, and blue dyed Leicester longwool carded sliver and a heathered grey batt of Corriedale cross wool, coopworth wool, and tussah silk

mid process fizzing carded sliver off of a Clemes and Clemes drum carder. the carded sliver is heathered, with the cool tones of the dyed Leicester longwool and the undyed wool locks that were carded into it

a basket of beautifully carded and dizzed blended wool, which will eventually be spun into yarn and then knit into a pair of gloves

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I am furiously trying to catch up to my students in time for session two of my intro to drop spindles class on thursday we're using a kit from @akerworks.bsky.social and it's truly such a joy -- it has everything newbies need to spin & ply (not an ad, just happy customer over here)

a yellow modular top whorl drop spindle from akerworks is FULL of heathered grey single spun yarn. the spindle is held by a white person's left hand, and the background is a blurry and chaotic assortment of spinning accoutrements

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I can't send snail mail if all of my pens are dry AND snail mail is a vital tether between me & my far flung people feelings of isolation and despair therefore lead me to cleaning pens drop me a dm if you want an inky love note

a small glass bowl is filled with water slowly being pigmented by the ink from the fountain pen nibs and cartridges that rest within it

a small glass bowl sits with opaque water and a few visible fountain pen components -- the water is being used to flush the pen parts, and the ink has weasled its way out of the pens and into the water

a white porcelain sink is speckled with green, pink, red, purple, and blue ink drops

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

we are immediately obsessed with the cream cardi by @aliciaplum.bsky.social so we are swatching with reckless abandon this yarn is a traditional 3-ply spun on my Schacht Matchless and is descended from Tara, a CVM/Rambouillet cross from Sister Sheep CO

a mega cake of black fleece yarn sits atop a closed laptop computer ready to be swatched. next to it is a yellow hydroflask coffee thermos with a green frog sticker that reads "stressed by doing my best"

two mega skeins of black fleece wool are held above a carpeted floor with a maple castle style spinning wheel in the background

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Opal's fleece has the prettiest gradient of colors -- CVM/Rambouillet/Wensleydale/BFL magic 🐑

Bev the German shepherd mix oversees her owner as she sorts through locks from a CVM cross fleece. a mitered square scrappy blanket makes a guest appearance draped over the couch

a basket of flicked CVM locks ready to be carded into squishy batts

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

finished a handspun (in mystery wool from deep stash) musselburgh hat by ysolde, Bev would like to cuddle it 🐶🧶 how is everyone's monday? existential dread on the menu for anyone else?

$a person holds up a double layer stockinette hat with a folded brim, which was knitted with red, pink, and brown fractal-spun yarn. a German shepherd mix looks at the hat from the background with desire in her eyes.$

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

places you can knit: in your stylist's chair 🧶

a person takes a mirror selfie in a hair stylist's chair while they hold up a self patterned sock that they are knitting on

a white woman with green eyes wearing a yellow and white striped Henley shirt softly smiles -- her hair is vibrant pink, slate blue, and has streaks of orange coming from behind her ears

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

saturday is for plying -- sampling three different methods + spinning genmaicha #spindle #handspinning 🧵🧶🍵🪿

a series of spinning tools sit upon a wooden step stool. the stop step in frame holds a top whorl drop spindle full of grey wool, a sheep shaped measuring tape, and an in-progress purple and grey plying project on a glow in the dark cross arm spindle. the bottom step hold a small tea cup and a tea pot, a green tea fills the cup. to the right of the clay taa pot is a pair of brass scissors shaped like squirrels. on the carpeted floor sits a wooden lazy Kate holding two small plastic bobbins -- the blue bobbin holds green wool, and the white bobbin holds coral wool. both are attached to a wooden cross arm spindle.

close up of a marled green and coral yarn plied onto a wooden cross arm spindle.

close up of an in-progress two-ply yarn on a glow in the dark 3d printed spindle. the yarn being plied comes from a center pull ball made with a cross arm spindle, and the yarn is a heathered grey-purple

a white arm with a black flying beetle tattoo is connected to a white hand gently holding a wooden drop spindle full of woolen spun California variegated mutant wool blended with silk in heathered grey

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

it's snowing & I have lost my partner for the evening to new WoW content. the time is nigh for support spindles & tea.

a round wooden spindle stand is loaded up with support spindles from various makers. some spindles are full of lime green yarn and others have chubby cops of white wool with snipped yarn ends strewn in. two spindles stand empty, one is carved from walnut in a teacup design, the other is a custom spindle hand carved by Allen Berry depicting a pika climbing a rock surround by alpine wildflowers.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

combo spin update, featuring a hot pink bobbin on my lacewood Hansen miniSpinner Pro, one of the many loves of my life 🧶💗🫶🏻🧵

a hot pink bobbin is setup on a lacewood electric spinning wheel, and the bobbin is about a third full of a pink-dominated combo spin of very fine singles. in the background is a blurry basket of colorful, mostly pink, fluffy wool

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

back on my yarn butt batts bullshit -- support spindle by Kravelli 🫶🏻🧶

a two tone wooden support spindle with a copy messily spun singles lays atop a white woolen batt with sprinkles of color blended in -- the colorful specks are snipped up ends of yarn that would have been thrown away had they not been repurposed

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

this last week has seen me more professionally stressed than I've ever been. trying to find calm with #watercolor blobs and squiggles. 🎨 ps: can you tell that I support a federally agency that maps things??? 🗺️🧭

three colors of watercolor paint (yellow, blue, and green) were placed in blobs on watercolor paper, and a fine line pen was used to draw contour lines around the blobs.

three colors of watercolor paint (yellow, purple, and red) were placed in blobs on watercolor paper, and a fine line pen was used to draw contour lines around the blobs.

two colors of watercolor paint (blue and green) were placed in blobs on watercolor paper, and a fine line pen was used to draw contour lines around the blobs. it looks sort of like a fantasy map of two islands.

a rainbow of watercolor paint was placed in blobs on watercolor paper, and a fine line pen was used to draw contour lines around the blobs.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

preempting a hydration nudge from @tangledstarlight.bsky.social and finding my way back to three beverage chaos mode: (1) hydration; (2) caffeination; and (3) fun. I've got water, an Americano, and warm bread pudding tea (?!).

the corner of a gremlin of a human's work desk, showing a few locks of sheep fleece, a basket of fountain pens, a charging eReader with a red cover, a portion of a mechanical keyboard, a leather journal, and three beverages. the key to chaotic hydration is always three beverages: hydration, which is shown in the photo as a mason jar of water, caffeine, which is shown in the photo as a to go mug of coffee, and fun, which is represented in the photo as an herbal tea in a hand thrown and painted ceramic mug.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

"birds kept singing and frogs kept croaking while I cried. it seemed monstrous that the world carried on while such a terrible thing was happening." @margaret.bsky.social will tear you open & then make you whole again 🫶🏻 #booksky 🪐📚💙

a person sits criss cross apple sauce wearing denim jeans on a beige couch, their white-skinned left hand holding a copy of Margaret Killjoy's novel The Sapling Cage. the book has a bookmark peeping out of the top and multiple sticky tabs along the edges. a sweet black dog lays on the brightly carpeted ground -- she's blurred in the background, but you can still make out her expressive caramel colored eyebrows, and she's clearly eyeing the photographer and their book.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

february feeling a lot like january for y'all? anyway, here's wonderwall* 🧶 *wonderwall is yet another spindle shot

top view of a glow in the dark cross arm spindle very full of singles. the yarn being spun is a mixture of grey, brown, and purple

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

scrappy squares & smites: in which my paladin gains inspiration for licking the blood of her enemy off of a comrade's face after battle. ⚒️🩸🎲🧶

a person in blue jeans sits criss cross apple sauce on a couch. in their lap is a zip pouch of crocheted squared and a notebook with handwritten dungeons and dragons notes. a white skinned hand holds the beginning of a new square with mint green yarn and a skinny crochet hook.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

perf quality control specialist doing spinning inspections this morning 🧶🐾

Beverly, a German shepherd and golden retriever mix, lays on an ottoman with her paws in a human's lap. the human is sitting criss cross applesauce wearing jeans and slippers and petting Bev with one hand. to the left is a lacewood Hansen electric spinning wheel with a pink bobbin and colorful singles being spun onto it. a basket of colorful wool fluff sits in the background

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

cookie, coffee, cribbage 🍪☕🃏📍

a wooden cafe table is covered with cheese themed playing cards, a folding cribbage board, and a salted chocolate chip cookie the size of a small plate. the person playing with the red pegs is in the lead and shows a hand with a 9 of diamonds, a 9 of hearts, a 6 of spades, and a 5 of hearts.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

things you can do while on hold with your elected officials: practice spinning cotton on a tahkli 5calls.org

a small tahkli spindle, designed for spinning very short stapled fibers like cotton, sits in a small ceramic spinning bowl. the support spindle.is being loaded with fine but slubby white cotton singles, a testament to the spinner's novice cotton spinning skills paired with dedicate to practice.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

If you don't know Vivian, you should -- you'll learn a lot about spinning from her, but you'll also pick up a thing or two about how to show up for your friends, neighbors, and community in small but tremendous ways. if you need me, I'll just be over here trying to do Viv justice on myriad fronts

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

public 💌 to @whatvivdoes.bsky.social thank you so much for the work you put into building community, maintaining relationships, & sharing your experiences + knowledge with all of us (& specifically me). Your presence is the biggest gift, & it's one that I treasure, yet you send literal gifts, too!🧶

a tahkli spindle, traditionally used to spin cotton and other short stapled fibers, rests in a small blue and black ceramic spinning dish and is leaning against a warm brown leather journal. the fine, slubby cotton single being spun on the support spindle is connected to a small piece of white cotton fluff. it is nowhere near being full -- this is a project that will occupy a maker for quite some time.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

the universe saw me yesterday in a state of absolute emotional overwhelm & said, "hold my beer" snail mail from beloved humans arrived today from far flung geographies: nova scotia, ny, and california (I'm in utah) don't for one second let them make you feel alone: all we have is each other 📫💌📦

a white hand holds three pieces of mail: a small package from Canada, a letter from NY, and a post card from CA. the postcard sits on top, and depicts San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter, showing a brick paved sidewalk on a city street lined with gas street lights. the recipient is heartened by community connections despite far flung geographies. in the background is the blurry foot of a bed covered with a royal blue duvet and a Mario Kart blue shell squishmallow plushie.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

you don't have to choose anything but chaos 🌪️🧶🫶🏻

white fingers hold a top whorl drop spindle with blue fiber wound neatly as commonly seen on a cone of yarn. atop the neatly ordered layers is some randomly wound green yarn. nothing makes sense.

white fingers hold a wooden cross arm spindle. the turtle of yarn on the spindle is chaotically wound. the spinner obviously abandoned reason, because there is also a very chaotic temporary cop atop the turtle. nothing makes sense.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

y'all ever stop mid-knit to admire the thing that you made in order to make the thing that you're making? handspun yarn is so magical 🧶 in other news, insomnia

a white hand stops mid-knitting to admire the handspun 2-ply yarn. boy howdy is it balanced well! in the background lies The Field Guide to Fleece, an exceptional resource written by Deb Robson and Carol Ekarius. the field guide has various pages marked with sticky notes for the reader to return to.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

just keep spinning, just keep spinning 🌪️🧶

a glow in the dark cross arm spindle is loaded with natural Shetland wool blended with colorful.merino. the spindle is being held by the fingertips of a white skinned hand. the background is blurred, but we can make out a bit of a red side table, a basket of top whorl spindles, and a basket of wool.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

channeling last night's spins on my cute lil pink @battyfibers.bsky.social spindle as I mentally prepare to endure another day of news that directly affects me & a lot of people whom I hold dear

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

perf lil @battyfibers.bsky.social 🦇 spindle reporting for duty it's turtle time, nerds 🐢🧶

a small hot pink 3d printed cross arm spindle with glow in the dark stripes sits atop a self healing cutting mat. the spindle has a little acorn at the bottom of the shaft and has some neatly wound white handspun yarn wound onto it with white fluffy wool in the background

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

for @aliciaplum.bsky.social + other social media refugees 💛 🫡 when you reach a word limit, click the lil plus sign! it'll add another box so that you can have a linked / threaded post. start typing your overflow text where it reads "add another post".

screen capture of adding a post on bluesky. the post reads, "when you reach a word limit, click the lil plus sign! it'll add another box so that you can have a linked / threaded post." the add another post button is circled in the screenshot.

screenshot of the bluesky interface when you click the plus sign. star typing your overflow text where it reads "add another post"

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

avoiding the sunday scaries by swatching a couple of new #watercolor palettes under the watchful eye of supervisor Bev we are fueling ourselves creatively for fighting fascism during the work week ahead 🎨🖌️

a hand-bound watercolor notebook sits atop a wooden lap desk with two wooden watercolor paint palettes. the wooden paint palettes contain soil-based paints. on the pages are water color gradients, some cute mushrooms, and a geometric design. a German shepherd golden retriever cross sits supervising in the background.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

knitting my rage and love simultaneously into every stitch of the two-color brioche Old Port hat by @dreareneeknits.bsky.social taking a class from my pal Paul at Handwork SLC. do I need a class? no. do we all need community rn? YEP WE DO community, handspun, farm yarn 💛🧶

two skeins of yarn, one is heathered charcoal handspun by Brenna -- it's from a sheep named Tara (a California variegated mutant and Rambouillet cross) -- and the other is a minty green hand dyed by Andrea at Earth Garden Farms. Andrea's yarn is in her MSA DK base, custom milled with her Shetland wool and a neighbor's merino and angora.

Brenna's progress at the end of her first brioche class with instructor Paul at Handwork SLC. she has knit through the brim and the first couple of rounds of brioche on Andrea Mowry's Old Port hat. Her project lays on a warm brown wooden table with Girl Scout cookies in the background.

squishy knit two color brioche fabric of Andrea Mowry's Old Port hat. the two yarns are almost black charcoal and pistachio green.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

the 2025 vibe is chaotic temporary cops* on top of perfectly wound turtles *as always, acab except for spindle cops

a plastic basket with small balls of single ply pink tweed merino yarn, which is being plied and wound onto a cross arm spindle. the spindle has a neat and tidy turtle topped with a chaotic temporary cop. in the background there are blurred.shoes and a Christmas cactus with small pink blooms

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

things that help when your week ends with an absolute shitstorm of .gov work emails: (1) radicalizing the privileged people in your life into acquiring abortion pills and (2) immediately digging into your cookies purchased from the list of trans Girl Scouts provided by @erininthemorning.com

a white hand holding a partially eaten girl scout cookie that reads "I'm bold". in the background is a large box of girl scout cookies proudly purchased from a trans girl scout.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

partner: how do I make my hands stop bleeding? brenny: have you heard about the magical properties of SHEEP???? lanolin for the win, forever and always I wish Andrea / earth garden farms were on bluesky, but she's probably too busy wrangling her shetlands

a white hand holding a black 4 ounce tin of hand salve from Earth Garden Farms (California). the salve is made with avocado oil, cocoa butter, beeswax, rice bran oil, and magical lanolin from the farm's sheep.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

if you don't have a furry friend to comfort you (or even if you do), please accept loving parallel play / quality time from bev don't mind the dried coffee drops on the treadle of my spinning wheel, we can clean later 🧶

Beverly, the goodest dog, lays ladylike with her paws stretched out in front of her on a grey carpeted floor. she is next to a maple castle style spinning wheel, and her tan eyebrows show that she's a little worried about your well being.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"you can trust individual PEOPLE who have adherences to larger power structures, but you can't necessarily trust those power structures" -- @margaret.bsky.social ☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻

podcast "Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff" by Margaret Killjoy at Cool Zone Media

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

break every rule, knit straight from the bobbin, sow chaos 🧶

Brenna's latest work in progress, a hat knit with the Musselburgh pattern, sits atop a closed laptop. the project is connected to a bobbin of yarn, in reddish/pinkish and brown hues, which Brenna was clearly too lazy to wind into a center pull ball. She will unwind from the bobbin as she knits.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

*evil cackle* brenny: ...u okay? partner: i tried to make you a smiley face, but it looks demonic

Brenny holds up a latte mug with failed latte art. the maker attempted a smiley face, but the result is either demonic or a smiley face made from melting wax dribbles

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

the saga has ended -- partner noticed giant bug on my arm about 30 min ago. thanks for following along at home, now back to the studio for your regularly scheduled fiber art content