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Carrie Donahue
@cadonahue.bsky.social
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Books, doggos, crafting, yarn, knitting, Chicago Cubs, Star Wars, Midwestern Californian.
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Apparently California understood the assignment too. #Prop50
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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My library hold on the ebook of @scalzi.com ‘s The Shattering Peace came through last night, and I’m already through 44%. It’s a good Sunday. #booksky
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Watching #TheWestWing so I can imagine what a functional government looks like.
September 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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There is something deeply satisfying about stockinette on size 1 needles. So small! #knitsky
A close up of knitted stockinette stitch in stripes of light green and purple, with one stripe of dark teal along the top.
September 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits is scarves. I have a few to choose from, but I was pretty happy with this one featuring a laurel leaf pattern for my friend Laurel that I made as a surprise gift knit earlier this year.
An off-white knitted scarf with a lace pattern that resembles laurel leaves on a vine. The scarf is pinned to a pale blue checked blocking board, which is readying on light blue sheets patterned with puffy white clouds.
September 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits is WIPs. Working on this sock with a mock cable detail from Summer Lee’s The Sock Project. Enjoying the pattern and the self-striping yarn. #knitsky #TravelKnitting
A partially completed knit sock, in self striping yarn in shades of purple, green, blue, and yellow, with a mock cable detail along either side.
September 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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The best thing about getting laid off in April was that it motivated me to get my library card at the San Diego Public Library, and subsequently at the San Diego County Library as well. I am working again but still loving the libraries! #booksky
August 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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I learned how to knit in late 2010. In these past almost 15 years, I have steadfastly refused to try magic loop. Today, out of necessity (i.e., I didn’t have the correct size DPNs), I gave it a shot. It turned out fine, but I don’t know that I would do it for a full pair of socks. #knitting #knitsky
Close up of a knitted garter stitch sleeve on a baby sweater with a diamond-shaped lace pattern in shades of yellow and white.
August 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Unforeseen benefit of cancelling Paramount+ and sponsoring @pbs.org …Broadchurch is on PBS Passport! Definitely due for a rewatch. #paramount+ #pbs #kpbs
July 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Gradually making my way through @scalzi.com ‘s Old Man’s War series, and very much enjoyed the teeny tiny Chicago Cubs plot point in The Human Division, especially since it was published pre-2016. 😂 #books #booksky
July 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits is WIPs. I’m still working on the same project as I was the last time to prompt was WIPs. 😂 Almost at the halfway mark! #knitting #knitsky
A double knit scarf with a pink background and dark gray outlines showing, from top to bottom, Hello Kitty as a ladybug, Hello Kitty wearing a hood with antlers, Hello Kitty dancing, and a basic Hello Kitty face. The reverse side of a double knit scarf with a dark gray background and dark pink outlines showing, from top to bottom, Hello Kitty as a ladybug, Hello Kitty wearing a hood with antlers, Hello Kitty dancing, and a basic Hello Kitty face.
July 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Hey @americanair.bsky.social , when I fly United or Alaska I can use iMessage for free to stay in communication while I’m in the air. But my only options to even be able to text on this flight were to pay $19 for a one hour wifi pass or $25 for the full flight. Those prices are absolute nonsense.
June 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Nox can be selective about his snuggles, but apparently today he was in favor. Tux didn’t want to be completely left out of the party. #dogs #DogsOfBlueSky #BlackDogs
A sleepy medium sized black dog stretched out facing the camera, wedged between a blanket-covered leg and hip and the back of a brown couch. A medium sized black dog sleeps atop blanket-covered pair of legs on a brown couch, while a larger black dog also sleeps at the far end of the couch.
June 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits is blankets. Most of my crafted blankets are crocheted, because I’m much faster at it. I have knit some, and I love a nice simple garter stitch baby blanket for lovely squashiness. #knitting #knitsky
A hand-knit garter stitch baby blanket in variegated shades of pink, gray, and white, draped over a brown couch. A very cute baby snuggled up under a hand-knit garter stitch baby blanket made of self-striping yarn in pastel multicolored shades. Two folded hand-knit garter stitch baby blankets. At the top, the blanket is in variegated light blue, brown, and cream, with an Eeyore patch in the lower right corner. On the bottom, the blanket is in variegated pink, gray, and white, with a Piglet patch in the lower right corner.
May 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits is WIPs. Cast on this double knit scarf with a Hello Kitty motif this morning, which I may or may not end up regretting. 😂 Not a fast process for me! #knitting #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
The first several inches of a double knit scarf. The background is light pink with a motif of a Hello Kitty head with a bow on the right ear outlined in dark gray. The pattern is duplicated in inverse colors on the opposite side of the scarf.
May 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits is purple. It’s not a super common color for me, but here is half of a pair of my socks I made for my dear godson a couple Thanksgivings ago. Patons Kroy Sock Yarn in amethyst stripes. #knitting #knitsky
A hand knit sock in stripes of shades of purple, pink, and orange-red with a black undertone.
May 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits is gifts. I do a LOT of gift knitting, but one of the most bittersweet is this baby blanket for a precious boy who didn’t get to stay with his parents very long. #knitting #KnitSky #KnittersOfBluesky
A double-knit baby blanket showing a repeated pattern of a train of mama elephant with two babies, mint green elephants on a field of light yellow. A double-knit baby blanket showing a repeated pattern of a train of a mama elephant with two babies, yellow elephants on a field of mint green.
April 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits is gray, which it turns out is not a color I work in terribly frequently. I did manage to dig up this cute bunny ears baby hat that I made a few of (in both the gray shown as well as pink) back when my Etsy shop was active. #knitting #KnittersOfBluesky
A hand-knitted baby hat made to look like bunny ears, made in a pale gray with a rolled brim, and cream-colored interiors on the ears.
April 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Happy to be home from vacation and back with this sweet snuggly baby. #dogs #DogsOfBluesky #BlackDogs
A medium sized black dog asleep on a bed, one ear splayed out to the side.
April 6, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits is color work, of which I don’t do a ton. Two of my favorite pieces are this baby sleep sack made for my cousin as a shower gift when she was expecting her first child. The Wonder Woman hat was made for another cousin that was fighting cancer at the time (she won!)
A hand knit hooded sleep sack for a baby. It is made of cream colored yarn, with Celtic-knot inspired colorwork in shades of green near the bottom. There is a green zipper up the center, and a top clasp featuring two silver and black buttons with a Celtic knot design. A brown haired woman wearing glasses looks at the camera while modeling a Wonder Woman-inspired beanie.
March 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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This old man is SNORING. #dogs #DogsOfBluesky
A close up photo of the head of a black dog. His eyes are closed. His muzzle is mostly white, and there are speckles of white fur around his eyes.
March 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits is green. Had to go back nearly a decade for this one, made for my dear cousin when she was pregnant with her oldest son. Don’t remember the yarn…might be Loops & Threads worsted. ABC Baby Blanket: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
A hand knitted baby blanket in sage green. The pattern is a 3 x 3 grid, with a letter or image in each square. Across the top row is the letter A, a heart, and a 2x2 square design. The middle row is a star, the letter B, and a sailboat. The bottom row is the same 2x2 square design as in the top row, a duck, and the letter C.
March 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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It’s been a crap day in a crap month of a crap year, but this sweet boy turned 10 on Monday. Grateful for every day he and his brother make the world a better, furrier, stinkier, more neurotic place. 😂 Happy double digits, Tux.
A medium-large black dog with a white blaze on his chest sits on a brown couch, his front paws draped over the front edge, as he stares into the camera.
March 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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This week’s #ShowMeYourKnits is WIPs. Currently on the needles is a pair of socks for a dear friend, using the TRANSformative colorway from @getknitfacedinco.com
One completed hand knit sock, its pair completed through the upper and around the heel turn, on a set of five double pointed needles. The partial cake of yarn sits above and to the right, and the colorway is representative of the transgender flag—TRANSformative from Get Knitfaced in CO.
February 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM