Amanda

It’s a vast and satisfying rabbit hole to fall into.

I cleaned and organized my craft room/office and now I just want to spend all my time puttering about in there.

I have that exact one waiting for me to get a day to spend on it.

I love that pen. 🥰

A handknit gray sweater with natural beige stranded colorwork flowers along the bottom hem and stranded colorwork along the sleeves on a blocking mat.

She is finished, Suolaulu Sweater. #knitsky #showmeyourknits

One was a WW2 vet (machine gunner on the Western front) then machinist when he returned home. The other was a sharecropper who grew tobacco as a cash crop + subsistence farming for the family of 11 kids. They were pretty badass. Also a decent fiddle player.

😂 good description! Poor Toto lost his nemesis!

I've reached the obsessively organizing all of my spaces part of the endless doom loop. I have an astonishing array of craft adhesives.

I worked on finishing this warp I’m working on and playing LoTRO all evening.

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

Seriously one of my favorite people.

I thought I couldn't love you more, Flav. I was wrong! <3

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

His grandfather is John Irving! 🤯

I’m about 90% sure we will hear about the military shooting down an alien ship with a space laser soon. It will be a kite.

There may have been some squealing in our household.

Seconded

I was driving around out where my Dad was raised and he pointed out a little abandoned house where the whole family got the Spanish flu and died except the oldest daughter who was institutionalized for the rest of her life after having everyone around her pass away. My great grandparents lived near.

I would survive any number of downhill events by just falling over almost immediately.

I had this conversation with my Dad (75) today. He is also so confused by this. No one is irreplaceable.

Gray and oatmeal Suolaulu sweater WIP with one sleeve complete.

One sleeve down. One to go. Just finished picking up stitches for the final sleeve on my Suolaulu sweater, pattern by Jenna Kostet from Knitted Kalevala. I am determined to get this done in time for sales conference in two weeks. #knitsky #showmeyourknits

Help my friend Erik do some really great work in Nepal. 🥰

I was about to say, it's not like it hard to get one or anything.

Um. There's cheating on your taxes or embezzlement and such, and then there's raping little girls. I think there's a difference. What the fuck is wrong with these people?

I knew immediately. Who else?

I get my news from a reliable source.

The reaction shots from the Duluth Curling Club are just the best.

I am way too invested in this curling match.

I don’t thinks she’s making anything on her “books”. Her grift is selling her class or whatever those outlines are. It’s hard AF to sell actual books on Amazon with marketing cash and a history. AI slop is not making it through the hoops there, sorry.

People keep complaining about the red hats because they’re not “real” protest but that lady has raised and donated over $600,000 to her neighbors in MN *and* is the the daughter of a refugee from Egypt. Y’all gotta sit with those impulses and then calm tf down and think about WHY you feel dismissive