Beth Skwarecki

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Red and white straight whipcord (made with 2 strands of red and 2 of white #10 crochet cotton)
25x25 inch squares for the gores, 45x15 inch rectangles for the sides. Hard to explain the whole thing here but search up skjoldehamn hood, all the nerds are making them. Mine is extra large compared to the original.
My face in a big floppy green hood
The finished (Dutch) heel, ready to knit the rest of the sock.
So many pokey little needles
A lovely green sock on the needles. Heel flap is done. Heel has not been turned. Stitches are picked up around the flap anyway. Let’s go!
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A Woman’s Book of Strength by Karen Andes
Jerry Baker’s Solve It With Vinegar!
Iphone 15 User Guide by Daniel Dean (it is large)
The Essential Hand and Foot by Harry Wastrack. Hand is illustrated by a hand holding cards. Foot is illustrated by the bare foot from Monty Python
Small booklet called Rude Balloon Modeling (Adults Only)
Black fingerless mitts on a child’s hands
A Blythe doll (Barbie sized body, giant head) wearing a lavishly ruffled dress that is covered in yellow gold flowers. She also has a matching purse.
Partially knitted: a white panel for the top with a deep orange square worked into it. The ball of yarn includes orange and blue shades, softly, like a sunset.
French knitting pattern labeled “golf ‘tres jeune’”. It’s a sleeveless top with a square neckline, and a colored yoke that has a kind of square inset where it joins the main color. There is a grid showing the color pattern, and a schematic with some measurements.
Purple sweater, on me. I am headless and have my hands on my hips, standing in front of a big green tree. The sweater has vertical fancy ribbed panels. It fits snuggly but not too tight. Long sleeves that go to the base of the hands. Crew neck.
I’m wearing a purple sweater with an intricate rib pattern. I am holding my arm up so you can see that the body and one sleeve are completed. I’ve also knitted the collar onto the neck since last time.
Product photo from Amazon of a walking pad. A lady is jogging on it. It is treadmill-sized, maybe a little bigger than a normal treadmill. (This photo is fake.)
Page of text with image of a sweater in the center. It is cinched in at the waist, and has enormous leg o mutton sleeves. The shoulders would each be bigger than your head. By a lot. It has a turtleneck too, with many tiny buttons each side.
2 color women’s sweater with an angular design roughly in the shape of a sailor scarf. The woman wearing it has a bob haircut and is lounging in the grass with some kind of sports implement.
Line drawing of a man in a turtleneck sweater. It has four vertical columns of different heights in different colors.
Diagonal stair stepped stripes on a man’s sweater (he is smoking a cigarette because he is French)
b&w photo of a man wearing a knitted ear warmer headband. He has it going from the back of his head down under his chin.
Low res b&w photo from an Australian newspaper of a lady wearing a fancy sweater. (The rest of the image has some text from the sweater pattern.)
Dante wojack saying “nice argument. Unfortunately i wrote a book in which I’m the chad and you burn in heaven.”
The painting “Dante and Virgil in Hell” by William Adolphe Bouguereau. Two naked dudes are fighting. Takes you a second to realize Dante and Virgil are the guys watching from the shadows.
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Two dolls sitting next to each other on a thrift store shelf. The one on the right is human with blond curly fair. The one on the left has a human body but the face of a poodle. Pink lipstick and blush are painted on. It’s wearing a black velvet dress with white satin sleeves and is holding a pink umbrella.
Back view of a man standing outdoors in the snow on a sunny day near a Victorian greenhouse. He’s wearing a dark green knitted, cabled sweater covered in Celtic knots and braids.
Sweaters piled on a couch. They are: baby pink, salmon pink, millennial pink, Barbie hot pink.
A walkway, beginning to be shoveled. Maybe 6 inches so far.
Comment from 2024: "Looks like AI wrote it, right?" My reply: "I've literally been writing articles like this, at this website, since 2015. I am investigating the possibility that I am a time traveling AI but so far results are inconclusive."
Knowing a truth whose face appears a lie, a man should always keep his lips shut tight as long as he can, lest he be tagged with shame Though he has told the truth; but I cannot keep silent here; and, Reader, by the notes of this my Comedy,° I swear-and may… (End of page) • Comedy: Dante names his poem here. For writers of the Middle Ages, a comedy is a song written in the humble style (Dante is writing in the vernacular), wherein the main character begins in grief and trouble and ends in happiness.
Drop Loop Top by Other Loops with dropped stitches forming ladders down the front of the top
Riley’s dropped stitch with the horizontal bar above it highlighted in pink
Knitting on needles with one column of stitches highlighted in pink lines to hopefully show how they are all loops pulled through each other
Zoom in on an aerial photo of a summer ice rink (just concrete). Zoom out super wide. A dot then moves in tiny circles in the center of the screen, because this is clearly made for skiing or whatever. It zooms back in at the end to show that I’ve made a lot of little circles around the rink.
From the Wikipedia page for Charlotte’s Web: “Dear Vladimir: There is a large grey spider that commonly inhabits out-buildings and sheds, and I turn to you on the chance that you know her and can enlighten me as to certain of her more intimate habits and functions—this because she figures in a book l am writing and I find myself, at this point, stuck.... -E. B. White, October 8, 1950 White encountered the spider at his farm in Hancock County, Maine in October 1950. Unable to identify it himself, he asked his friend Vladimir Nabokov, the novelist and lepidopterist, for advice. Nabokov replied that he knew "nothing at all" about spiders, but suggested that White contact Willis J. Gertsch at the American Museum of Natural History, 1231 Gertsch's book American Spiders was one of the sources for the arachnid anatomical terms (mentioned in the beginning of chanter ninal alnna with The Cnidar Rank…”
Ramp leading into a giant LED wall that says UPMC (our local mega hospital system)
In a child’s handwriting: “resilousions:” followed by “stop saying 6 7”
Raw buttered turkey placed in oven. (It has a wire leading to a thermometer probe)
A large, nearly finished panel of a cabled sweater, laid on the back of a couch. It’s dark green and the cables look like Celtic knots.
Tank top with swishy diagonal stripes and a diagonal neckline
Sweater with tiny horizontal stripes and a T shaped plain colored yoke (modeled by a stylish flapper)
14 hats (15th not pictured) arranged on a pink, white, and black blanket on a living room floor. From closest to farthest they include: a white cabled hat, a colorwork hat in shades of brown, three black hats with a colorful pattern across the middle, a rainbow hat with gray trim, two hats made with sparkly galaxy colored yarn, a blue and white speckled hat, two squishy thick hats (one olive green, one white and gray), two white hats with a subtle texture pattern, and a light gray one with rows of assorted colors in the middle.
So do you want your starter to be a possible answer? If the answer is yes, you'll also want to skip the obscure words. You'll also want to skip any words that have been used in recent memory. To my knowledge, Wordle has never repeated a solution, but that's surely a streak that can't continue forever. You can look up lists of past Wordle solutions, but so far—as of fall 2025—the following strong starters haven't yet been used as solutions, but totally could be (in my opinion). Take your pick: ARISE (someday my word will come!) STEAL STEAK CARET ADIEU (maybe??)
Skittles around the edge of a dish. There is water in the middle of the dish. The dye from each skittle has diffused into the water making a stripey rainbow.
Gear tracking screenshot in the Garmin app. My old Nike Downshifters have 1,029.7 miles on them. My new ones have 4.19 with a goal of 1000.
Screenshot of AI conversation. I ask: “What is the newest pixel watch and when was it released?” The bot says: “The newest Pixel Watch model currently available is the Pixel Watch 2. It was released in October 2023.” Suggested questions: What's new in the Pixel Watch 2? Will there be a Pixel Watch 3 this year? How does the Pixel Watch 2 compare to Fitbit devices?
I’m holding a Pixel Watch 4, which is displaying the About screen confirming that it is a Pixel Watch 4. The phone next to it shows a conversation with the AI bot in which it says: “My knowledge base contains information about currently released products and their features. While there isn't a Pixel Watch 4 that has been publicly announced or released, the Pixel Watch 1 and Pixel Watch 2 are indeed existing models that I have information about. My aim was to clarify the capabilities of the Pixel Watch line in general, but 1 clearly created a confusing statement by directly referencing the nonexistent "Pixel Watch 4" and then correctly identifying existing models. Thank you for catching that; it helps me be more precise in my responses.”
Knitting on the needle, 2 purl stitches (left) and 2 knit stitches (right) are highlighted.
Checkerboard coaster with squares of knit and purl stitches
Riley’s garter stitch with the v’s and bumps highlighted
Close up of 2x2 ribbing
Garter stitch. Some of the v’s and bumps are drawn over with pink digital marker.
A little purple swatch showing the knit side of stockinette stitch. All V’s.
Loop over my finger. Makes a V shape.