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Freyalyn 🌳🌳🌳 🐑🐏
@freyalyn.bsky.social
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Folklore, history, textiles ancient and modern, archaeology, nature, spinning and knitting teacher, dyer. Pretty keen on breadmaking too.

Yorkshire, UK.

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching."
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Freyalyn 🌳🌳🌳 🐑🐏 @freyalyn.bsky.social · Nov 15
I have made more than a few of these little bunny hoodie and ganseys; happy to accept commissions, pick your colour and pattern!
Includes squeaky white bunny! And usually handspun yarn.
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lilithepunk.bsky.social
And I'm out! Publicationally speaking. So here's a folklore quiz to celebrate!
The Great Household Lore Publication Day Quiz - The Questions!
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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aidanosullivan.bsky.social
Early medieval archaeologists now want to tell you about dogwhelk shellfish, the production of tiny amounts of the colour purple and the association of that colour with power since late antiquity across the Mediterranean and Europe
ellenmcoyne.bsky.social Ellen Coyne @ellenmcoyne.bsky.social · 6h
President elect Catherine Connolly has arrived at St Patrick's Hall in Dublin Castle for her inauguration as the 10th President of Ireland
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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freyalyn.bsky.social
And Angela Harding's work is lovely, for a basic traditional #AdventCalendar:
angelaharding.co.uk/collections/...
Whippet Wonderland Advent Calendar
A beautiful free standing illustrated, 3D advent calendar, depicting a traditional winter scene based on my Whippet Wonderland artwork. Take great delight opening the numbered advent doors in the coun...
angelaharding.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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freyalyn.bsky.social
And now I've found this #AdventCalendar, and I love St Eval's scents:

www.st-eval.com/products/tea...
Tealight Advent CalendarDefault Title
Drift into the magic of Christmas with St Eval, where each flickering flame carries the whisper of winter tides and festive wonder. Behind every numbered door, discover a selection of 24 scented teali...
www.st-eval.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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freyalyn.bsky.social
And for handspinners, Adelaide Walker have been doing an excellent fibre #AdventCalender for a few years now. I did their #TourdeFleece one in the summer.

www.adelaidewalker.co.uk/british-wool...
British Wool Fibre Advent Calendar - Free UK Delivery
A fibre advent calendar using only British wool, suitable for spinners and felt makers. 600g fibre over 24 days.
www.adelaidewalker.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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freyalyn.bsky.social
We've had the Courtyard Dairy's #Cheese #AdventCalendar for the past two years, and it's been glorious. Complete with tasting notes and enough for two people for each portion (if you can bear to share.)

www.thecourtyarddairy.co.uk/shop/buy-che...
Cheese ‘Advent Calendar’ 2025 - The Courtyard Dairy
24 different cheeses, one to open and taste each day up to Christmas Eve. An exciting festive way to sample such a fantastic range of British Isles farm cheese.
www.thecourtyarddairy.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
freyalyn.bsky.social
Day 11 unlocked here. Can I make it...?
otterdammerung.bsky.social James @otterdammerung.bsky.social · 19h
10 days level unlocked 🔓
This month I’m doing a challenge called November. It’s where I try to make it through everyday of November
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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vstarborn.bsky.social
Happy little design elements 😉 #knitsky
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
freyalyn.bsky.social
This is rather lovely.
flockworkshop.uk Flock - Yarn & Knitting Store @flockworkshop.uk · 12h
Here's 3 mins of escape, which I'm sure many of us could use. This gorgeously made short film from Uist Wool always reminds me of the many, wider reasons I love working with such a wonderful material.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Lk...

www.uistwool.com

#knitsky
Process: The Making of Uist Wool
YouTube video by Measured Lines
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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theorkneynews.bsky.social
Tales of True Crime, Orkney : Theft and Pickery theorkneynews.scot/2025/11/10/t...
Tales of True Crime, Orkney : Theft and Pickery
By Fiona Grahame. This is a true tale of a crime which took place in the parish of Deerness, Orkney, in the winter of 1762. It was a time when people cultivated small strips of land but had large a…
theorkneynews.scot
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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allyjer.bsky.social
He's not wrong! #ECHR
"If Vladimir Putin, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are all against the European Convention on Human Rights, that's probably a good reason to be for it." David Oslund on Twitter
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
freyalyn.bsky.social
Oh ffs, this is just stupid and lazy. Not a trace of real interest in showing how knitting works.

Everyone's being let down by #Gameofwool, even Tom Daley. I'm very disappointed in the judges not insisting on better. Surprised no-one jumped ship when they realised quite how rubbish it really is.
catharinemc.bsky.social Catharine McLaren @catharinemc.bsky.social · 1d
also, WHAT IS THIS AI SLOP DOING ON THE KNITTING SHOW?

it's becoming so obvious that the producers don't actually care about knitting at all and just wanted a quirky game show format #GameofWool
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Happy Sunday! 🦛 💙

Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!

📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows four hippo statuettes made of Egytian blue faience, a ceramic material made of ground quartz. Their bright-blue shiny bodies are decorated in black with depictions of Nile river plants such as water weed and lotus flowers. This decoration depicts their marsh habitat as well as having various layers of symbolism associated with regeneration. For example lotus flowers open in the morning and close at night, symbolising rebirth. Blue faience hippos have been found in Middle Kingdom tombs of high ranking officials. It’s thought they were placed in the tombs to aid the rebirth of the deceased. Hippo top left - Walking hippo shown in profile facing right. Height 11.5 cm, Length 21 cm. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Top right - Roaring hippo (looks like the hippo is smiling), seated, with head at left and turned inwards to front. Height 7.5 cm, length 12.5 cm. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Bottom left - Standing hippo in profile facing right. This hippo is part of the Met Museum’s collections and is popularly known as ‘William’. Height 11.2 cm, Length 20 cm Bottom Right - Reclining hippo with head on the right, facing front, and tilted down. Egyptian Museum, Cairo
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
freyalyn.bsky.social
Really well put here.

#Gameofwool is such a missed opportunity
ariadnereviews.bsky.social Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 4d
I recapped Game of Wool's premier episode: ariadnereviews.com/2025/11/07/g... west country pastoral punk, the second weirdest chair you'll see all week, you aunt goes to Cancun for Christmas and SEND IN THE WHIPPET! #GameOfWool
Game of Wool 2025, Episode 1: Nonconsensual Chunky Knitting
Somehow this show has more tension than anything Tom Daley knits. We have to save Holger.
ariadnereviews.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
freyalyn.bsky.social
One cardigan finished and currently blocking on my woolly board; another dug out of a house-moving box and about to be flogged back. Not inspired by it, I have better use for the yarn.
#MilarrochyTweed
#2plyjumperweight
#knitting
Yoked sweater, unfinished, in greens and orange Cardigan in fair isle/stranded knitting colourwork.
November 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
freyalyn.bsky.social
Have just had a lovely time populating my Knitters and knitting feed, which for some reason I set up and then didn't fill when I discovered Bluesky.

And now my watch has told me I've had my feet up for too long. I'll go and make some tea and get my new cardigan's ends tidied away.

#knitting
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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tourscotland.bsky.social
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of crofters knitting in a cottage on the Shetland Islands. Women ran the croft and knitted at home, often together, whenever time allowed tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2009/06/old-...
Old Photograph Shetland Knitters Scotland
tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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linneansociety.bsky.social
Learn to knit like a Victorian in the gorgeous Linnean Society library - exploring the history of knitting, decoding original patterns, and giving the craft a go with the skilled help of historical archives expert and keen knitter, Sarah Walpole

🗓 11 Nov
🕑 2–5pm
📍In person only

buff.ly/bDFHigl
October 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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mandascott.bsky.social
“Each of us was put on this earth at this time to personally determine the fate of humankind. Do you think you were put here for something less?”
Chief Arvol Looking Horse

accidentalgods.life/building-the...

#Accidentalgods #Podcast
#BeyondProfit
#RegenerativeLeadership
Building the roots of a world that will work - with Victoria Hurth, co-author of Beyond Profit
We exist in a world where the ultra-rich are getting richer, powered by a system we call 'the economy' which is serving to funnel power and value up to an ever-shrinking core of wounded individuals wh...
accidentalgods.life
October 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
freyalyn.bsky.social
Well, this is my life goal now.
askaubry.com AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 3d
Andie MacDowell, mother of the bride dress: chef's kiss!
Andie MacDowell in a witches outfit
November 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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celestineandthehare.com
www.celestineandthehare.com/new-collecti...
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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If you have a Tesla you should get rid of it immediately.
newschambers.bsky.social Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 4d
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The Wolves are in the village square; they have travelled a very long way. They cannot remember the beginning of their journey, they cannot remember where they must travel to. But somewhere across the snow-lands is a bright forest, scarlet with lingonberries, empty of memory, where the light falls quietly through the trees. Illustration: Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth, Wölfe, 1926.
July 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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folklorelibrary.bsky.social
Not long to go until we get to enjoy our next online talk, this coming Saturday at 8pm via Zoom. This one is delivered by Michael Fortune, who will be joining us to discuss Irish Death Customs.

Tickets are just £5 including access to a recording of the talk. Book on EventBrite at bit.ly/flaevents
Irish death customs banner graphic with a candle flame on a dark background, along with details of the talk as in the main body
November 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM