Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓🐸

@bridgetknits.bsky.social

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Left-handed mirror knitter, spinner, antique wheel aficionado. Reads voraciously. Proud coffee snob. Likes cats more than most people. Not a Kiwi, just married to one. LSG. Tübingen. Vilnius. Москва. Reykjavik. Johannesburg.

A purple baby bootie, nearly complete, photographed sitting on a paper copy of the 1880 knitting pattern used to produce it.
A handknit cowl in progress (WIP) using Sanquhar patterns in navy and white.
A picture-postcard view of a driveway winding between blooming trees, under a deep blue spring sky.
A patternless cabled poncho in sage green wool, that I made up as I went along.
4 oz of Masham fiber, dyed in shades of blue, yellow, and red.
A pair of handknit socks in bright blue with yellow-green, pink, and grey stripes. They sit on a wooden desk top next to a skein of the yarn used to knit them.
A tortie-point snowshoe cat at about 12 months. Her points are seal and her body is a splotchy cafe-au-lait.
An upright maple spinning wheel with combed top in reds and oranges on a natural base.
Palm-facing view of a green Arched Gusset mitten in progress
Close-up of an aggressively blocked sage green lace shawl on a white background.
Close-up of an aggressively blocked rust-colored Estonian lace shawl knit in a Merino/Silk blend on a white background.
An aggressively blocked lace shawl, drying on a red mat.
A snowshoe siamese cat supervises the knitting of a red hat.
On a backyard deck, two snow-covered dark blue Adirondack chairs with a small table, all buried in about a foot of snow.
Two dark blue Adirondack chairs with a small table between them, sitting on a grey backyard deck, looking out over snowy undeveloped forest. A few snowflakes are starting to fall.
Lighted freeway advisory sign: Lizzard warning 4am Saturday to (sic) on Sunday
A lazy Kate with 3 bobbins. Twp have leaders only; the third has a few feet of orphaned singles, left after plying a skein of yarn.
This is how we are showing our love ... As of February 13th, we have raised a total of $692,463 for community distribution
As of February 5th we have reached a total of $650,000 in donations. Funds last week were donated to STEP St. Louis Park emergency assistance for rent and other aid and the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. We are working on donations to other local organizations. Stay tuned for more info. We are speechless. We are overwhelmed with the generosity of the fiber community and beyond. This outpouring of love and support is felt around the state. Because of you, we can help so many people who need it. Thank you thank you thank you. Keep knitting. Keep resisting. Keep showing up for your neighbors. Melt. The. Ice.
In the foreground, a foot wearing an oversized #handknit tweedy grey sock with a blue toe; in the background, two round paisley footstools.
Side view of a ring-necked pheasant at the edge of a snow-covered lawn.
A skein of chain-plied handspun cheviot wool (yarn) in shades of blue and gold, on a purple background.
A geriatric lynx point Siamese cat lies half in, half out of a squishy blue cat bed, on top of a neatly made bed with blue coverlet and quilted pillow shams.
Small white dog, wearing a black sweater, has set up housekeeping on my olive green coat on the chair next to me.
WIP in the foreground is a Musselburgh hat in grey-brown and tan. The background is a typical car dealer waiting room with black faux leather chairs and a grey tile floor.
Rosalie Craig (as Kitty) fronts the Riot Women.
Front cover photo of the "Reversible Knitting" stitch dictionary. Shows several knitted swatches in greys and blues on a black background.
Monty, a Snowshoe Siamese cat lounges on a blue pillow, facing the camera.
In the foreground, a knitted hat in progress using two colors of yarn - a grey-brown and a tan. In the background, a large pink thermal coffee cup sitting on a coffee table covered in assorted magazines.
Meme: For anyone questioning the legality of attacking Venezuela and abducting their leader: Remember we're talking about a highly corrupt leader, a known criminal who used his high office to make billions for himself, and has manipulated elections to stay in power, has used his military against his own citizens, has protected corrupt friends and punished his political enemies. And the President of Venezuela did some bad things too.
Photo of Barbara Walker, wearing a handknit cardigan in blues and greens, worked in assorted mosaic patterns.
Photo of a small crab on sand with water in the blurred background. Said crab is holding a captured minnow aloft using both front pincers. The photo is captioned: "In your eyes, the light the heat." (Credit @thisone0verhere.bsky.social )
Sunset over the Atlantic Ocean in reds and oranges.
A note that reads: On Christmas morning ... A pair of hand knit socks contains about 35,000 stitches. That's 35,000 times someone did something while thinking about you. So, if you get hand knit socks this Christmas, remember someone loves you a great deal.
The beginnings of a circular lace shawl, in white merino/alpaca, on wooden double pointed knitting needles.
A nearly-finished pair of blue socks and the beginning (cuff) of a striped pair in pink, orange, and blue.
A sage green, heavily cabled poncho worn outdoors.
A bearded man wearing a safety yellow t-shirt and a striped handknit hat which is pulled down over his eyes.
A lynx point Siamese cat sleeps on an olive green sofa with his front legs stretched out and his face in between them.
Photo shows a copy of Volume 11 of the Shetland Wool Week Annual.
Portrait of a tortie-point siamese cat with startlingly blue eyes.
3 Siamese cats enjoying the sunshine at an open screen door. All 3 look over their shoulders at the camera.
A white band-aid with a red (CVS) heart in the middle, stuck on an arm.
A somewhat chunky 15 year-old Siamese mix cat, peacefully sleeping with his head in the only sunny spot he could find on the rug.