Jay/Jess

@jmank.bsky.social

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language acquisitionist, grad student, and fiber artist just trying my best (pronouns: any, queer: always)

crack in the sidewalk that looks like an opossum hanging down
a picture of me from the back gesturing at my poster. My matching earring is clearly visible. I have short cropped hair and am wearing a blue sleeveless top.
a picture of me wearing a blue shirt. I’m showing off a pair of earrings that are two shapes stacked on top of each other.
a picture of me in a hand knit neon rainbow tank top
A common canary in a backdrop of green
Yarn in a little bundle. The colors are splashes of pink and green and blue and yellow
Rainbow yarn in the sun. The colors are blue and neon and yellow and pink!
Yarn on a niddy noddy. It’s blue and green with stripes of barber-poles blends
A picture of my couch which sits under a window. There is a beam of light streaming through which is being caught by a light catcher. The light catcher is throwing rainbow specks across the couch.
Roving hanging ti dry outside on a bike storage tent. The roving is blue and pink!
Roving in a braid spun into a spiral. The colors are teal, pink, and slight gradients of purple.
My yarn displayed in a colorful array with a felted gnome sitting atop a basket
Bundles of yarn and wool displayed on a table. There is a gradient set of purples, blues, and pinks. And another gradient set of pinks and yellows. There are two bundles of wool in orange yellow and a set of miscellaneous browns and purples.
The dyed yarn in a bundle with a gradient from yellow to purple
Yarn dying in jars. The colors work out from a bright yellow through green and blue to a dark purple.
A selfie of me with the shaka sign wearing the hand knit sweater
A goldendoodle on her back. Her head is tilted to the side and her mouth is open showing her teeny tiny front teeth
My hand knit horses sweater drying on a table. The yoke is handspun yarn in neon greens, pinks, and yellows
A selfie of me with terrible bed head. My hair is sticking straight up and then falling down like a fountain from every hair follicle on my head. I’m wearing yellow glasses and giving the camera a thumbs up with a look of despair on my face.
A selfie of me. I’m wearing a cabled hat and a cabled neck warmer. The yarn is purple and pink with speckles of green, red, and yellow. I’m wearing aqua classes and earrings.
Me trying on my yoked sweater which has neon handspun yarn and black colorwork details. There are horses galloping across my upper chest and the sweater fits pretty well so far!
The same yoked sweater from before but now with horses that run across a green and yellow stripe
The yoke from before but now with small horse heads dotting the edge. The pink is starting to turn into a yellow and purple.
A row of skeins of handspun yarn. The colors are purple, brown, rainbow, and yellow and pink
The yoke of a sweater in circular needles. The sweater is a colorwork sweater with motifs of black over stripes of green, blue, and bright pink
The yoke of a sweater in progress. Right now it is a circle with a repeating chevron pattern around the edge
A selfie wearing the yoke of a colorwork sweater which has handspun neon yarn. The motif are running horses across my chest and the yoke ends just below my bust - a little too long for most knitters preference.
A castle style upright wheel.
A lake with a sky marled with clouds.
A picture of me trying on the shirt it seems to fit pretty well!
The same hand knit shirt in progress as the one in the quote tweet. It has 5 full stripes of pairs of colors between blue, black, purple, and tan. It is cut off right at the armpit
A single knit sock on a foot. The toe is gold and the foot is gray
Two skeins of yarn, the one on the left is purple, teal, and white with specs of yellow. The one on the left is teal with specks of black.
A raglan shirt on a cable knitting needle. The colors are black, gold, purple, and cyan.
A picture of me in a bright red cord purple jacket. I’m also wearing a hand knit shawl that has shifting bold rainbow waves. It’s held together with a silver shawl pin. I’m also wearing a BART beanie and have forest green glasses.
A selfie of my wearing a black, teal, and brown floral shirt holding a black, teal, and brown knitting project
A picture of some math scribbles on a paper that figures out how many additional stitches I need to cast on to get a sweater body that fits well to my measurements.
The were so back it’s so over plot meme
Me in my circular yoke sweater. It is neon colors and features trotting horses across the chest.
A picture of me wearing a gray button down, jeans, and boots. I’m showing off my knit sweater which is now about 6 inches long and neon colors.
The yolk of my sweater which now features the heads of some horses galloping across my upper chest. My handspun yarn now starts in orange and ends in a green.
Three hanks of handspun yarn. They are dark chocolate brown with some reds and grays mottled in. I added little tags of red mushrooms.
The neck of a sweater which has oranges, pinks, yellows, and greens
The yolk of a sweater. The colors are dark brown and neon rainbow.
A selfie of my in a rain soaked jacket
A picture of a few rows of colorwork with black and orange
People walking and knitting in front of some sheep
A picture of me holding my yarn in my arms
A pile of yarns and roving. From left to right is a sheep and wool festival pamphlet, some dark gray brown alpaca, a ball of mint roving with brown flecks, and a 4oz braid of purple, yellow, and mint roving.
A badly lamb trotting
A picture of crochet flowers hung in a window. The flowers alternate daisies and sunflowers.
A skein of yarn that’s brown, black, with small lengths of deep red and gray.
A picture of a crochet daisy with two layers of curling white petals and a yellow center
A knit chicken with rainbow pride colors, a head comb, and anime eyes.
A knit chicken that has some rainbow stripes. It’s flat and unstuffed for now
Yarn displayed fully on a swift. The colors are splayed out to show the variable stripes of neon yellow, orange, pink, green, and blue
A picture of me with a grown out buzzcut with two side undercuts. I have my tongue out in a smile and have two fingers up in a peace sign.
Purple and blue handspun yarn next to a bottle of soy sauce. One Skein is small and one is gigantic.
9 skeins of yarn in a basket. The colors are as follows: pink and purple and blue, black and green, gray and purple, rainbow stripes, and pink and yellow.
A ball of yarn that is primarily back with specks of bright, rainbow streaks.