Leslie

@lancetchick.bsky.social

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Democrat, Voter, Kitty Mom, Type 1 Diabetic, Cancer Survivor, Gardener, Knitter.

Yellow and blue marled yarn garter stitch cowl shown on a dress form using a strand of each color together, and then knitting the patterns on each side of the cowl with one strand of the marl, depending on which color is needed. The hat is in the background showing the same zig zag pattern that is predominantly shown on the cowl.
Undyed Sea of Dreams baby blanket and undyed Karen's Bonnet baby bonnet by PetiteKnit. KnitPicks "Swish" fingering weight yarn.
Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner swinging on a vine in the Colombian jungle.
Marl garter stitch background on overview of hat with surface stitches forming spider-like two-color design stitches emanating from the crown. Yellow and bluish teal, ribbing in bluish teal.
Darkish green knitted rectangle, folded at the top edge, with a turtleneck at the top right corner. Multi-textured, including some cabling.
Eating pizza on the bed, pair of jeans laid across in front, cat just on the other side of the jeans, LASER focused on pizza, head cocked, which means he's about to go for the pizza and I need to lift the jeans to shoo him away.
White kitty hind legs and black tail sticking out of wooden window blinds.
Martian from the movie Mars Attacks! Featuring gigantic top of the head with bulging, lidless eyes below, and no lips.
Boa constrictor head with variegated yellow and black coloring.
Red cast on row of a hat whose diameter is barely larger than the width of my hand, shown next to it.
Hat knitted in blue and gold yarns held together to form a blended garter stitch background with slip stitch design worked in one color from one of the two strands of yarn.
Aimee Alexander's "Whispering Wolf" baby blanket, undyed natural yarn by Knit Picks, Stroll sport weight, folded and put into a plastic grocery bag with the yarn label on top.
Beautiful sandy ground interspersed with green shrubs, and a background of a pink lake (named Pink Lake) caused by algae creating the color. There is a sharp border in the back where the water is blue because the algae are harvested sustainably for various products.
Barbie doll wearing dress knitted in white top and high waisted dark gray bottom.
Stephen West work in progress using one of his favorite yarn combinations: Qing Fibres Yak Singles (looks gray) and Melted Baby Suri (looks coral). The Yak Singles give the shawl a sheen which looks to me almost metallic, and the Melted Baby Suri is thick and soft.
Black Toyota "Super Jeans" sewing machine, all mechanical, non-computerized.
Stephen Miller looking an awful lot like the vampire Nosferatu, but wearing a blue business suit instead.
9 rows of 6-stitch I-cord in dark gray yarn with a provisional cast on.