Erica 🐈💨 @erica@octodon.social

Hear ye, knitters of Mastodon! I'm curious about what kind of knitters we all are, so...

English style (right handed) or Continental style (left handed)?

I'm a Continental knitter myself, though I haven't met many of us in the wild.

#knitting

Excellent Sunday to you, Mastodon! I hope yours has been good. Mine included some knitting, some CivIII, and a lot of paying attention to the cat. She's pushy.

Cat blessings be upon you during the week ahead! 🐈💨

Waiting on you to get this stretching class started.

#mastocats #cats

#catposes #caturday #mastocats #cats

#caturday #mastocats #cats

The jacket is coming along well. Hood & sleeves are done, and I found some tribbles to trim the hood. I experimented with pockets & I'll have a go at them again, after I put in the zipper.

#fiberarts #knitting #tribbles

Reaching out.

I haven't caught up on anything since I got to my brother's place yesterday & connected my N64. It still works! 😃

Good progress on the knitting yesterday. It's no longer destined to be a sweater so much as a jacket, because this yarn is so bulky & I'm using relatively small needles (size 9). The final product will be thick but flexible. I wish I'd thought to plan for pockets, though I think patch pockets will be nice anyway. Today I'll work on the hood & pick up some size 9 circular needles to make the sleeves.

Happy knitting everyone!

#fiberarts #knitting

More about the hoya: it's called Atty Twinklebutt, named after one of my heroes, David Attenborough, and Twinklebutt the fish, who was laid to rest in the pot when the plant was just a small newly rooted cutting. It's the prodigy of a decades-old plant that my friend inherited from his grandfather. Its flowers smell like something rotting.

The hoya has buds!! I'm nearly dancing with excitement, because it hasn't bloomed since sometime in 2016. It's been stretching out a few new shoots over the past several weeks, but these buds are a whole 'nother level of greatness 🌺

You humans are nice & everything, but @foxpicsbot has been one of my favorite accounts to follow here. #foxes

When I was there, I'd block hundreds of accounts every week. By the time I left, I'd blocked many 1000s. I mention this because after a couple weeks here, I just blocked my 4th account. Four. The dearth of garbage people & bots here is enough to bring a tear to my eye.