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Shanna

@shannaknits.bsky.social
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Hello! I'm Shanna. I knit stuff, mostly socks and sweaters right now. I spin on a Kromski Sonata and I have a beautiful collection of drop spindles that don't get used enough. I have a dog and cats and a very unruly garden for the pollinators. 😃

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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I have just acquired a vintage Saxony Spinning Wheel. There was a little panic when it took 48 hours of wd40, dawn dish soap, a copper scrubbie, and a straw cleaner brush to get the whorl off and the gunk inside the bobbin shaft removed so the bobbin could spin.
A vintage wooden Saxony style spinning wheel sits on a white tile floor
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
New guests have joined me in the garden. 🌱
Two monarch caterpillars on milkweed plants.
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
In my garden today and I found morels growing in the leaves I dumped on my raised bed last fall. 🌱 🍄
Five morel mushrooms sitting on a counter top
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Bijou being adorable and a little "Draw me like your French girls." #cats 🐱 #titanic
A black and white tuxedo cat lays with her belly up and arm outstretched in a pastel rainbow pet bed.
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Hazel exploring the outside. 🐕 🐶
A small chocolate brown miniature schnauzer puppy stares up at the camera from the grass.
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Finished the handknit baby blanket for new puppy Hazel. 🧶 🐶
A small chocolate brown miniature schnauzer puppy lays on a handknitted purple blanket
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I was watching Ludwig and saw this sweater and I totally want to knit my own. UK TV uses the best sweaters on their characters. 🧶 😍
A screenshot of a woman's torso in a long sleeve lilac colored sweater from the television show Ludwig.
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
2025 reading goal: Working in one book a month where the main character is a mid-life female. This month is Magical Midlife Madness. It has a supernatural element. 💙📚 #booksky
Audiobook cover for Magical Midlife Madness by K.F. Breene
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Started a knit blanket for a new arrival that is expected near Easter. Holding the yarn triple. It's so squishy!🧶
An in progress marled yellow, white, purple and blue hand knit baby blanket.
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
She's begging for tacos. #dogsky #dogs 🐶
A blonde scruffy terrier sits on an animal print footstool begging for food.
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Enjoying this fun read. "A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon." #libraries #booksky 📚🌶️
Audiobook cover showing a witch and a demon standing back to back.
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Thought I killed this wintergreen over Christmas vacation. But it's growing a new baby leaf. So there's still hope. Come spring he's going outside. #gardening 🌱
Wintergreen plant in a small pot with dead leaves and a new leaf growing in the center.
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Started the La Belle Amour socks mkal in Lite Brite from Must Stash Yarn on this chilly afternoon. #handknit 🧶
The start of a toe of a handknit sock on double pointed needles in neon colored striped yarn in front of a fireplace.
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I hear we need more dog pics. Penelope in a handknit sweater. #dogsky 🧶
A white mixed breed terrier wearing a red handknit sweater.
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Working on the Gather Round sweater. Holding a gray knitpicks mcn with handspun coral angora/merino.🧶 #Handknits #handspun
Top half of work in progress handknit sweater that is a gray and coral marled color
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I attempted some visible mending on a handknit sweater. It's supposed to be poppies. It's messy,but functional. 🧶🪡🧵
Sleeve of a teal handknit sweater with an embroidered orange flower covering a hole in the style of visible mending.
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Shanna @shannaknits.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Spinning some rolags on lunch.
Blue fiber spun into yarn on the flyer of a spinning wheel.
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