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Elizabeth Nee
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Life-long Midwesterner who's a knitting, fiber arts, science, and sci-fi geek.
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And done. We didn’t have contests for delegates (we were a bit short for both state senate district and city delegates) and only had 5 or 6 resolutions.
The amount of knitting I did during my precinct caucus. 2.5 inches (about 6.5 cm) of leg on a sock knit in 2x2 ribbing on blue DPNs. The yarn is DK weight in variegated grey and red.
February 4, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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Measuring my time at the caucus tonight using a sock. The starting line:
The start of a DK-weight sock. The yarn is variegated in shades of grey and red. It’s in blue metallic DPNs. I’ve cast on and knit one round in 2x2 ribbing.
February 4, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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It’s near the end of the month and people need help with rent (it’s hard to work if you’re scared to leave your home, or if your hours are cut because foot traffic is down). Please contribute to a mutual aid fund.

And it is still #WIPWednesday . Details in the alt text. #Knitting #KnitSky 🧶
Flat lay of 3 knitting projects in progress. The top left is the lacy Hitofude Cardigan by Hiroko Fukatsu. It’s being knit in Rohrspatz & Wollmeise Lace Garn in an emerald green color. The colorway name, Versuchkaninchen, translates to guinea pig, which makes me think it’s a one-off. On the top right is the Melt the ICE Hat by YarnCultMN. The yarn is Woolstok Worsted by Blue Sky Fibers in colorway “Red Rock.” On the bottom is a ribbed sock using DK weight yarn. The pattern is Slow Morning DK by Camille Heng and the yarn is West Yorkshire Spinners ColourLab Sock DK in colorway “Rock.”
January 29, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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I haven’t posted for #WIPWednesday in a while because of the terror campaign ICE has been running in my city and state and it seemed frivolous.

Read Naomi’s blog post below for ways you can help and prepare yourselves.

If you want details on the #Knitting , they’re in the alt text. #KnitSky 🧶
Flat lay of 3 knitting projects in progress. The top is the lacy Hitofude Cardigan by Hiroko Fukatsu. It’s being knit in Rohrspatz & Wollmeise Lace Garn in an emerald green color. The colorway name, Versuchkaninchen, translates to guinea pig, which makes me think it’s a one-off. On the left is a tonal green yarn, the start of the Crater Lake Beanie by Nancy Bates. On the right is a ribbed sock using DK weight yarn. The pattern is Slow Morning DK by Camille Heng and the yarn is West Yorkshire Spinners ColourLab Sock DK in colorway “Rock.”
January 22, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
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January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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The way folks in Minnesota have formed networks to support their neighbors is awe inspiring. If a politician or political party asks for your $ to help “the people of Minnesota,” instead, send a few bucks to an org here: www.standwithminnesota.com . And still #SundaysAreForSpinning #Handspinning 🧶
An espinner with a spinning project in progress. The fiber is ebony Haunui top, which is a very dark brown (not quite a true black)
January 18, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Can someone explain to me the nuanced difference between a consultant and a strategist?
January 18, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Fellow Russian bots, repost with an obscure proof of life in MN.

My knitting at the State Fair, and a 100-mile hiking club patch.
A display case of award-winning handknit items at the 2025 Minnesota State Fair. At the center is my entry, a cardigan with a wide garter band that forms the collar and fronts. There are no fastenings, and it’s a warm grey. It got 2nd place in the category “adult sweater, cardigan, plain.” But it got to be displayed in the winner’s case because it also got the award for best use of handspun. Pattern is Maeve by Carrie Bostick Hoge. The yarn is a blend I carded myself, using 50% grey Romeldale/CVM that I scoured myself and two commercially processed fibers: 30% grey baby alpaca top, and 20% peduncle silk top. The 100 mile patch for the Minnesota Hiking Club. It’s blue, the shape of the state, outlined in yellow with yellow text reading “100 miles”, with the logo for MN state parks and trails.
January 18, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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I’ve had some weird USPS package movements the past couple days. One of as initially tracking for delivery yesterday, made it as far as St. Paul, and now is in Philly. The other, initially tracking for delivery today, made it to MPLS before diverting to Sioux Falls.
Screenshot of USPS tracking for a package to be delivered to Minneapolis. January 12: in Gastonia, NC January 13: arrived in St. Louis, MO January 15: arrived in St. Paul, MN January 16: arrived in Philadelphia, PA? Screenshot of USPS tracking on a package destined for Minneapolis: January 16: departed St. Paul, MN January 16: arrived Minneapolis, MN January 17: arrived at Sioux Falls, SD?
January 17, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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@slotkin.senate.gov How about you don’t send generic fundraising requests to residents of Minnesota right now, and pass the word along to your colleagues. Instead, do something to stop this invasion!
Part one of a fundraising text I (a resident of Minnesota) received today (January 16, 2026) from Senator Elissa Slotkin, from Michigan: My Decision - Elissa Slotkin Several weeks ago, myself and five other Members of Congress with service and veteran backgrounds made a video directly quoting the Uniform Code of Military Justice about the military's responsibility to reject illegal orders. In response, President Trump called for my arrest, trial and death by hanging. Last week, former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, asked to interview me. This is on top of the FBI asking for the same. Friends - I served three tours in Iraq as a CIA analyst alongside the U.S. military and went on to serve under presidents of both parties in the White House and Pentagon. I've studied political authoritarianism in other countries where you can't criticize the guys in charge without getting a knock at the door in the middle of the Part 2 of Senator Slotkin’s fundraising request: at the door in the middle of the night. It's hard to believe the knock is now at my door. But l'm not going to go quietly into the night in this. I have decided to fight back -- legally and politically. Unfortunately, that takes resources. So while everyone who knows me knows I wish | didn't have to ask ... that's what I have to do. With that in mind, can you make a donation to help us raise the resources we're going to need to stand against Trump and the threats coming our way from the Trump Administration? https://slotkinformi.org/ actblue_secure_2026-01_V-A2_S-A3?t=yiHTrF Thank you. Your support means so very much. - Elissa Slotkin End2End
January 17, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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For no particular reason, this bit from Blue Mars (by Kim Stanley Robinson) comes to mind: “People in the streets, that’s the only thing governments are afraid of. Well, or term limits. Or free elections! Or assassination. Or being laughed at, ah, ha-ha-ha!”
January 15, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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What a badass!
January 15, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Oh man, I just realized the seed art at the State Fair this year is going to be *something*.
January 14, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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The source is unverified, but if it’s true, maybe this is why there’s a desire to do a big push tonight to “wrap things up.”
Extended forecast for Minneapolis: Today: windy, low 26 F, high 43 f Wednesday: sunny, low 12 F, high 26 F Thursday: 65% chance of snow, low 10 F, high 33 F Friday: 35% chance of snow, low 7 F, high 33 F Saturday: cloudy, low -1 F, high 7 F Sunday: cloudy, low -2 F, high 13 F Monday: cloudy, low -8 F, high 8 F Tuesday: partly sunny, low -10 F, high 7 F Wednesday: partly sunny, low -1 F, high 21 F Thursday: cloudy, low 14 F, high 25 F
January 13, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Time for my annual review of my yarn and fiber stash. It’s a good time to take stock of what I have, make sure I don’t see any signs of pests, make plans for the coming year, and set aside anything I no longer want to trade, sell, or donate. #Knitsky
January 4, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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#FOFriday : I finally finished my Biscuit Slipover (by Bridget Zhou), which I started for a makealong with a 31 Oct deadline. Yarn is from a brown Cormo named Hershey who I met a few months ago. #Knitting #KnitSky🧶
A white woman standing outside in the snow, wearing a plaid shirt and a brown knit slipover. The patten is called Biscuit Slipover and is by Bridget Zhou. It has a crew neck and short sleeves. It uses brioche stitch and the columns of knits and purls switch every eight rows. It’s knit using a naturally brown Cormo. A white woman in overalls and a hat standing next to a brown Cormo sheep named Hershey. He’s wearing a jacket and lives on Holly Ridge farm in Wisconsin.
January 2, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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#WIPWednesday : I finished the stockinette body of the sweater (still need to do ribbing), started a DK weight sock that was supposed to be a gift for my husband last year (I gave him the yarn), and after calculations started a project for me. Details in the alt text. #Knitting #Knitsky 🧶
Flat lay of 3 knitting projects in progress. The most complete is a child sweater (Compass by Tin Can Knits) with a color work yoke being knit with a dark red (super old Louet Gems Sportweight) and white (undyed KnitPicks High Desert Sport). The stockinette body is complete and one of the sleeves has just started. There’s also the start of a DK weight ribbed sock (Slow Morning DK by Camille Heng) knit out of a variegated yarn in shades of grey and dark red (West Yorkshire Spinners ColourLab Sock DK). Lastly is a rolled up bit of green. It is the very start of the Hitofude cardigan by Hiroko Fukatsu knit with Rohrspatz & Wolmeise Lace in colorway Versuchkaninchen.
January 1, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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#SundaysAreForSpinning : yesterday I washed all the plied skeins from the @mellyknits.bsky.social Delightful fiber advent, and I’ve been spinning a project dyeing #DashelThroughTheSnow . #Handspinning 🧶
6 skeins of handspun yarn, all from the Melly Knits Delightful advent. All are 2-ply fingering, with skein weights around 50g and yardages ranging from 208-261 yards. The format of the advent was one day with a fine wool, and the second the fine wool blended with 20% of a specialty fiber. From left to right: 1: a cool brown Cormo, specialty fiber of bison down 2: champagne colored Corriedale, specialty fiber angora (as in rabbit) 3: dark almost black Haunui, specialty fiber Nubora goat (a cross-breed of a Nubian goat and an angora goat) 4: caramel colored Merino, specialty fiber golden muga silk 5: light cool grey Jacob, specialty fiber fox fur (shed fur from a sanctuary) 6: reddish brown Bond, specialty fiber paco-vicuña An electronic spinning wheel with some spun singles. The fiber is dude very dark, almost black, with some bits of dark burgundy and dark blue recognizable An electric spinning wheel with spun singles. These were Sticklebatts from Inglenook Fibers. The fiber was black wool with streaks of dyed wool and dyed silk carded in.
December 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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The dog has learned I’m the clumsy cook. I used leftover Christmas ham to make šunkofleky. It’s a baked Czech dish with noodles, egg, and ham that my grandmother made. I grew up just calling it fleky (and pronouncing it “fleech-kee”), but I’ve learned that’s just the name of the noodles.
December 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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#FOFriday : i finished the knitting a while ago but dragged my feet on weaving in ends, washing, and blocking. I didn’t feel like doing a photoshoot, being firmly in goblin mode on Boxing Day. Yarn and pattern details in the alt text. #Knitting #Knitsky 🧶
A flat lay of an asymmetric shawl. It’s knit in two different yarns (a smooth sock yarn and a fuzzy suri silk) dyed in the same soft green colorway with speckles of darker green. It has stripes of garter stitch and a simple la e pattern. Pattern: Birds of a Feather by Andrea Mowry Yarn: both dyed by Clockwork Fiber Co (back when they had the former Beachy Breeze Fibers branding) in the same colorway, “April Showers.” One skein of BoardwalkSock and one skein of Suri Silk lace. Modifications: I had less yarn than specified by the pattern, so I followed some other modifications from project notes on Ravelry for a smaller size.
December 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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I took the photo yesterday, but didn’t get around to posting it g for #WIPWednesday . The dark brown slipover was drying after being washed, so I brought the other projects to it. The stocking was finished in time to be used last night (though I intend to add a lining). #Knitting #Knitsky 🧶
Three hand knitting projects in progress, but the lighting is bad and the brown background isn’t really identifiable as a slipover drying after blocking (and before sewing the side seams). There’s also a dark red child sweater with a white colorwork yoke (Compass by TinCan Knits) and a huge colorwork stocking. It is knit in two shade of blue and a light grey heather. It features some geometric motifs, a giant snowflake, some pine trees, and some snowflakes with diamonds.
December 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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#SundaysAreForSpinning . I have days 7/8 and 9/10 of the @mellyknits.bsky.social Delightful Advent plied, and yesterday I combed and blended the @fossilfibers.bsky.social Quiet Sip blending club from October. #Handspinng #FiberPrep 🧶
Two 3D printed spinning wheel bobbins with 2-ply yarn. On the left is a caramel colored yarn. One ply is from 100% merino, and the other ply is the same merino blended with 20% muga silk. On the right is a pale grey yarn. One ply is 100% Jacob, and the other ply is the same Jacob blended with 20% shed fox fur. The Fossil Fibers October 2025 fibers blending club. The inspiration picture was vintage painted teacups. At the top are locks of undyed Texel wool and a bit of silky looking white rose fiber. On the bottom are dyed locks of Shetland wool in pale blue, pink, and green. There’s also a bit of orangey gold eri silk. The same fiber after combing and being lashed onto a hackle. The white Texel provides fluffiness, and the silk fiber and eri silk have just been layered on top. Three nests of hand-combed fiber. The rose fiber and eri silk stand out the most against the background of the white Texel, but bits of the dyed Shetland are noticeable, too.
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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#FOFriday : I bound this off in August, wove in ends in September, blocked in October, and dragged my feet on taking photos, so these crappy ones are what you get. Pattern is The Crown Wools by Casapinka. Yarn is Tanis Fiber Arts Purewash Sock from last year’s 12 days of minis. #Knitting #Knitsky 🧶
A rectangular shawl knit on the bias and folded into fourths. The design is wide stripes, each in a different stitch pattern and color. Shown from bottom to top are a hot pink stripe with a “cluster stitch pattern,” a stripe of variegated pink and orange with panels of cables and lace, another variegated stipe with pink, orange, and a beige in a waffle pattern, and then a bit of beige with lace panels. A rectangular shawl knit on the bias and folded into fourths. The design is wide stripes, each in a different stitch pattern and color. Shown from bottom to top are a bit of variegated pink/orange beige in. Waffle pattern, beige stripe with lace panels, a mostly yellow (with bits of white and green) stripe in mostly stockinette with some repeating textured stitches, a speckled green stripe with columns of slipped stitches, and a bit of a more peacock speckled green with a textured stitches pattern. A rectangular shawl knit on the bias and folded into fourths. The design is wide stripes, each in a different stitch pattern and color. Shown from bottom to top are a bit of a light green speckled stripe with columns of slipped stitches, a more peacock colored speckled green stripe that’s mostly stockinette with textured stitches, a more solid green-blue with alternating bands of garter and texture, a blue-green with alternating bands of stockinette and lace, and a bit of a darker blue green with staggered columns of stockinette and garter. A rectangular shawl knit on the bias and folded into fourths. The design is wide stripes, each in a different stitch pattern and color. Shown from bottom to top are a bit of a light blue-green stripe with alternating bands of stockinette and lace, a darker blue-green stripe with staggered columns of garter and stockinette, a more tonal greenish blue stripe with bits of lace, and a very dark green (almost black) tonal stripe in mostly stockinette with a bit of texture.
December 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
mcopelov.bsky.social Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Dec 16
Name this band. Wrong answers only.
December 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM