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Karcher Makes 🧶
@karchermakes.bsky.social
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Trying to keep sane by making all the things!

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Today’s project: Setting up my making journal for the new year 🧶
#knitting #weaving #spinning #crochet #yarn
A closed Yarn journal with a pen and other markers
January 4, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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Heddle threading is exactly what my brain needed today. To everything there is a rhythm… light, medium, dark, light, medium, light…1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1
Keeping sane one project at a time!
#weaving #yarn
Floor loom being thread with three different colors of green yarn
January 3, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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2025 was not my year. Started off strong and then got completely sidelined with one disaster after another. Knitting kept me sane though! The Jethro Cardigan was my favorite make from the year.
There’s something magical about knitting and crochet in the same project! 🧶 #showmeyourknits
January 1, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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The spoils of my Tour de Fleece efforts - opposing ply yarns for socks.
Fiber is @hipstrings.bsky.social Targhee/bamboo/tussah silk in Lemon, Clementine, & Slate. Can’t wait to get the socks cast on! 🧶
#handspinning #tdf2025 #tdff2025 #knitting #handspunyarn
Handspun yarns in yellow, orange, blue, and a blend of all three
August 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I’m totally into garment knitting now 🧶
Pattern: Haiku by Knitting for Breakfast
Yarn: Suncatcher on Smoothie Fingering by @knitterkim.bsky.social
#knitting #slowfashion
July 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Finishing up some languishing spinning WIPs to kick off the start of Tour de Fleece
#tourdefleece #tdf2025 #handspinning
July 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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#showmeyourknits WIP edition. Socks. There are always socks!
A work in progress handknit sock. The yarn is bright yellow, pinks, and purples
July 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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This yarn + this pattern is perfection! I love the garter stitch details down the sleeves.
Flax DK by Tin Can Knits in Entropy DK Mill Ends by Feederbrook Farms
🧶 #showmeyourknits #knitting
Woman wearing a handknit sweater with garter stitch details on the sleeves. Various gradient colors.
June 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Split the sleeves on this beauty! I’ll be drowning in stockinette for the next 9-11 inches 🫠
#knitting
Work in progress handknit top from pink multicolored yarn
June 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Lots of WIPs in this episode, including the Paisley Purl Yarn/ @frogityarns.bsky.social socks that somehow escaped my memory and made me a liar! 🫠
#knitting #spinning #crochet #weaving #quilting #craftcast
June 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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#showmeyourknits WIP -
Haiku top by Knitting for Breakfast featuring @knitterkim.bsky.social Smoothie Fingering Silk/linen in the colorway Suncatcher 🌞
#knitting
Knitting work in progress. A lacy neckline and yoke of a top.
May 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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#showmeyourknits Purple edition 💜 Working on sleeve two of the Flax DK out of mill ends from Feederbrook Farms
Multi- colored handknit sweater in progress
May 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Lots of folks stopped me to talk about my sweater today at Maryland Sheep & Wool… this masterpiece is the End Time Cardigan by Amy Young Gunderson. I chose to use 553 different yarns, but far less would be equally beautiful 😍
#knitting #mdsw #marylandsheepandwool 🐑🧶
Woman wearing a hand knit open style cardigan made of colorful half square triangles
May 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Ready for Yarncentrick & MD Sheep & Wool 🐑🧶
#mdsw #marylandsheepandwool #yarncentrick
May 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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#showmeyourknits LYS Day edition - future socks! 🧶
Rainbow skein of yarn
April 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Future yarn 🧶

#knitting #crochet
Three adult sheep grazing in a small pasture Three young sheep
April 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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My finished Petal Party Crop is ready for Spring!

I share some tips and minor modifications in episode no. 26 here: youtu.be/4JFp0syMRhE?...

Yarn: @knitterkim.bsky.social
Pattern: @samanthaguerin.bsky.social

#knitting #springknits 🧶
Woman wearing a hand knit short sleeve top with columns of eyelet lace down the right and left sides. The color is pink with multi colored speckles.
April 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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I had no socks on the needles, and now I have two different pairs going 🧶🧦
#knitting #castonitis
Yarn from FrogIt Yarns - five caked half skeins ranging in tone from pale pink to dark berry Yarn skein from Teeny Button Studio - colors are dark grays, browns, with a hint of white and green
April 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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#showmeyourknits Gray edition!
This Weekender sweater isn’t my favorite in terms of fit, but I learned so much in the process of making it that I still consider it a win. #knitting
Woman wearing a gray handknit sweater
April 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I’m the only one around here who likes yarn 🧶
#crochet #magicknotball
Yorkie laying on a multicolored scrappy crochet blanket in progress
April 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Hemstitching this alpaca wrap 🪡
#weaving
Weaving on the loom- tan and cream alpaca blend yarn with blue waste yarn. Hem stitching in progress.
April 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Five hours in for @knitforfood.bsky.social and goals are being smashed! I’m also almost ready to split for sleeves 🧶
#knitting #knitforfood
Screenshot showing $464,791 total raised for far for knit for food Raglan sweater increases on handknit sweater
April 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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So this happened over on IG. People are wild.
#knitforfood #knitting
Text in picture reads: DMing me to say you’re unfollowing me here and on YouTube because I’m supporting Knit For Food and “bringing politics into knitting” is wild AF. If growing up poor and relying on government subsidized programs in order to eat makes this political, then ok I guess?
April 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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I don’t have any baby knits for #showmeyourknits this week, but I did cast on the child size of the Shiftalong hat for myself… does that count? 😂
#knitting #scrappyknitting #handspunyarn
A work in progress handknit hat using various colors of handspun yarn scraps
March 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Learning English paper piecing!
#sewing #quilting #epp
The start of an x shaped English paper piecing quilt block. Fabrics are red and pink.
March 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM