Kathryn DeZur

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A book cover in blue of a woman’s shoulder with a teacup balanced on it. The title is Objects of Affection.

First full book proof in hand. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeee

A black and white photo of a round park building with the label “Speakers’ Corner”

#BlueSkyArtShow has a theme of #round today. Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park, London

#photography #blackandwhite #HydePark

Feel this, especially this morning. Sent off revisions yesterday and now realize the five other things I could have done to make the piece stronger. Sigh.

An image of a cream colored patch decorated with a blue and dark red flower covered in green embroidery stitches

#FiberuaryChallenge Day 20, Finished It: First attempt at sashiko embroidery. #sashiko #embroidery #sewingsky

I love this book so much. Seriously.

A white woman wears a shawl, half of which is brown while the other half has red, pink, green, and blue stripes.

#FiberuaryChallenge Day 18, Wear It Wednesday: A colleague gave me this shawl done in basketweave stitch when I admired her progress on it during a faculty meeting.

A white and brown striped cat on a scratching pad in a living room

Best mustache award goes too… (friend’s cat, not mine unfortunately)

#FiberuaryChallenge Day 17, Project Bag: Bold to assume there would be only one! Bag with double-knit kraken shawl, basket of visible mending (6 items), and bag of future projects including Melt the Ice hat and an Emotional Support Chicken. #mending #knitting #crochet

*office

An image of two hands wearing fingerless gloves made of felted wool sewn together in stripes

#FiberuaryChallenge Day 15: Cozy
For when the heating at the iffice was on the fritz—again. #gloves #warmth #cozy

Those are gorgeous! Lucky sister!

A photograph of bright blue variegated yarn and a box of four wooden knitting needles

#FiberuaryChallenge Day 14, Love: handmade socks-to-be #knitting #knittingsky #yarn

A good one!

Crocheted cryptids: Nosferatu, Kinsugi, and Bg Foot

#FiberuaryChallenge Day 13, Fiber Friends: Made cryptid lovies for Christmas 2024.

The emotional support part helps too especially in the face of [gestures to America].

I bought a pattern to make a crocheted emotional support chicken today because I need to be making something FUN.

A black and white photo of a woman sitting on the ground with 3 kittens.

#FiberuaryChallenge, Day 12, Favorite Place: Susquehanna SPCA. Although I don’t bring fiber arts into the kitty rooms, I often find wonderful supplies and second-hand clothes in their thrift shop. But really it’s all about the cats. #cats #thriftstore #crafts

I tend to write on the short side, around 2k, so my job is usually expanding during revision.

Sh*t

A black sock darned with red, orange, and yellow threads on a foot balanced on a jeans-clad thigh.

#FiberuaryChallenge Day 11, Wear It Wednesday: Scotch darning is quickly becoming my favorite mend. I get a little jolt of joy when I discover a hole in my freshly laundered socks. #VisibleMending #Darning

That is so lovely!

#FibruaryChallenge Day 10, Texture: I love the airy texture if this shawl I crocheted for my daughter for Christmas. #CrochetSky

A Magnificent Exhibition: Cloth, Text, and the Afterlife of Mantel’s Words Some responses to Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy are analytical. Others are devotional. Dr Lucie Bea Dutton’s work belongs to a rarer category: it answers Mantel in another medium entirely.

#FiberuaryChallenge Day 8, Reading or Watching. I love this work by Lucie Bea Dutton, inspired by Hilary Mantel’s novels about Thomas Cromwell. I would love to see this exhibit in person. open.substack.com/pub/wolfhall...

#FiberuaryChallenge Day 7, Self-Care: Fibert Arts keep me sane. Unfortunately, I have arthritis in my thumbs that gets activated when I knit or crochet. OTC meds help, which then allow me to inject some joy in my days.

A photograph of a black woman, Ashlee Elle, holding a bright yellow crocheted blanket with an outline of a black woman in black yarn and with red lips.

#FiberuaryChallenge Day 6: Tag a Black Maker: I LOVE the joy of Ashlee Elle’s crochet! IG @thedreamcrochet. #knittingsky #crochetsky #crochet #BlackWomenMakers

Image of a striped multicolor blanket on the back of a dray couch.

#FiberuaryChallenge, Day 5, Outside: 2025 Crochet Temperature Blanket. Each color represents a 10 degree difference in the 24-hour average of each day. #crochet #temperatureblanket

A gray sock pulled over a red ball with the beginning of a patch in red and orange thread. A ball of pins, a skein of dark yellow embroidery floss, and the second sock appear out of focus in the background

The Fiberuary Challenge Chart for 2026

#FiberuaryChallenge Day 4, Work in Progress: Scotch Darning a sock heel.

A skein of multicolored yarn

A list of challenges for #FiberuraryChallenge

#FiberuaryChallenge Day 3, Mood: I’m not sure what I want to be. Maybe a hat. Maybe a scarf. Or maybe DRAGON SCALE GLOVES.

A photo of a knitting pattern, a note sheet with rows marked off in green highlighter, and the beginning of a black shawl on circular needles.

I think I’ll take the #FiberuaryChallenge. I’m already a day behind, which honestly is just like me. Day 1: Hello, it’s me. I do a little of this and a little of that, most of which I learned from my mother in the 1970s. Day 2: beginning a double-knit kraken shawl.