Piedwarbler
@piedwarbler.bsky.social
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Book posts, knitting, and nature. Most of my posts are boring and some are of hedgehog emergencies 🦔🪴🐛
Book posts, knitting, and nature. Most of my posts are boring and some are of hedgehog emergencies 🦔🪴🐛
This is a slipstitch knitting pattern called Menet on Ravelry. I’ve no clue what I’m doing, I’ve never done slip stitch or colour work before. This is a RS and WS view and frankly I don’t know if it looks right or is right! 🧶🙏🏻
February 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM
This is a slipstitch knitting pattern called Menet on Ravelry. I’ve no clue what I’m doing, I’ve never done slip stitch or colour work before. This is a RS and WS view and frankly I don’t know if it looks right or is right! 🧶🙏🏻
I love a bit of cable knitting 🧶 but I’m not in the same league as @debbietknits.bsky.social - Debbie your cabling is out of this world!
January 31, 2026 at 11:22 AM
I love a bit of cable knitting 🧶 but I’m not in the same league as @debbietknits.bsky.social - Debbie your cabling is out of this world!
I found a knitting pattern - using gauge - for my Einrum E+2 Icelandic wool. It’s Audrey, by Louisa Harding. I’m keeping notes on Ravelry, where I’m Piedknitter. Thank you to all who advised me here, you were so helpful, and led me to this pattern! 🧶
January 31, 2026 at 10:15 AM
I found a knitting pattern - using gauge - for my Einrum E+2 Icelandic wool. It’s Audrey, by Louisa Harding. I’m keeping notes on Ravelry, where I’m Piedknitter. Thank you to all who advised me here, you were so helpful, and led me to this pattern! 🧶
Lovely cold day here but sunny
January 28, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Lovely cold day here but sunny
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These dust jackets designed by Peter Rudland are probably better than the books themselves, I suspect.
Happy to be contradicted by anyone who's actually read one.
Happy to be contradicted by anyone who's actually read one.
January 28, 2026 at 9:00 PM
These dust jackets designed by Peter Rudland are probably better than the books themselves, I suspect.
Happy to be contradicted by anyone who's actually read one.
Happy to be contradicted by anyone who's actually read one.
Fellow knitters, I’ve never knitted for a child apart from bootees and hats. I want to knit something easy for a six year old girl, and was wondering what you would recommend as a first project. I was thinking of a simple sweater? Any ideas please! 🩷🧶🙏🏻thank you!
January 28, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Fellow knitters, I’ve never knitted for a child apart from bootees and hats. I want to knit something easy for a six year old girl, and was wondering what you would recommend as a first project. I was thinking of a simple sweater? Any ideas please! 🩷🧶🙏🏻thank you!
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Niche question, but for people who know France quite well, does anyone ever walk from Vezelay to Autun? As a sort of pilgrimage route, I mean. Or would that be nuts? Advice would be much appreciated, thanks.
January 27, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Niche question, but for people who know France quite well, does anyone ever walk from Vezelay to Autun? As a sort of pilgrimage route, I mean. Or would that be nuts? Advice would be much appreciated, thanks.
Daft really, I know, but I’ve got 3 balls of this yarn, so 600m and it’s fingering type weight, and I want to knit a tank/vest top, but struggling to find a pattern on Ravelry, and I don’t want to do a sleeveless Ranunculus. 🧶
January 24, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Daft really, I know, but I’ve got 3 balls of this yarn, so 600m and it’s fingering type weight, and I want to knit a tank/vest top, but struggling to find a pattern on Ravelry, and I don’t want to do a sleeveless Ranunculus. 🧶
This is a lovely thread 🩷
Was intrigued, rereading the wonderful The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, to find somebody’s house having central heating being noted as remarkable. In 1973!
And indeed, only about 30 percent of UK homes would have had central heating when the book was published.
And indeed, only about 30 percent of UK homes would have had central heating when the book was published.
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 AM
This is a lovely thread 🩷
You can still see where he had his bloods taken from his little shaved patches 🥰 I’ve switched on the heated throw *just for him 🩷
January 23, 2026 at 11:11 PM
You can still see where he had his bloods taken from his little shaved patches 🥰 I’ve switched on the heated throw *just for him 🩷
I finished knitting this scarf that I started last November. It’s in Kidsilk haze by Rowan, and it’s a nice cerise colour. The pattern is one ball scarf by Rowan 🧶 I’m pleased with it
January 23, 2026 at 10:53 PM
I finished knitting this scarf that I started last November. It’s in Kidsilk haze by Rowan, and it’s a nice cerise colour. The pattern is one ball scarf by Rowan 🧶 I’m pleased with it
You know when you sit in a café and people watch? This recreates that feeling of sitting in a café as a regular and getting to know the staff and customers. I found it entrancing, and really cleverly constructed.
It’s enormously sad in places, but there is joy, too. Just like life, really.
It’s enormously sad in places, but there is joy, too. Just like life, really.
January 23, 2026 at 5:14 PM
You know when you sit in a café and people watch? This recreates that feeling of sitting in a café as a regular and getting to know the staff and customers. I found it entrancing, and really cleverly constructed.
It’s enormously sad in places, but there is joy, too. Just like life, really.
It’s enormously sad in places, but there is joy, too. Just like life, really.
I was in Liverpool yesterday. Saw some graffiti which read: ‘I wish I were dead’. Underneath, someone had written: ‘you should try Stevenage’
January 23, 2026 at 3:42 PM
I was in Liverpool yesterday. Saw some graffiti which read: ‘I wish I were dead’. Underneath, someone had written: ‘you should try Stevenage’
@vickymackenzie.bsky.social I went to a Turner exhibition today in Liverpool and saw this and thought of you! A few mentions of Ruskin and Inchbold
January 22, 2026 at 4:23 PM
@vickymackenzie.bsky.social I went to a Turner exhibition today in Liverpool and saw this and thought of you! A few mentions of Ruskin and Inchbold
Smores cookies from Short but Sweet Bakery in Chorley. I have a very happy vegan daughter now ❤️🩷❤️
January 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Smores cookies from Short but Sweet Bakery in Chorley. I have a very happy vegan daughter now ❤️🩷❤️
Loving this gentle story of a café in Vienna and its owner
January 18, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Loving this gentle story of a café in Vienna and its owner
I got sent a lovely proof today by @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social Fig Tree Press, out in March. Looking forward to this!
January 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM
I got sent a lovely proof today by @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social Fig Tree Press, out in March. Looking forward to this!
Hello Blackpool Grand! #TheConstantWife
January 17, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Hello Blackpool Grand! #TheConstantWife
Crime isn’t normally my kind of thing but this was gifted to me and I’m happy because I really enjoyed reading about Lagos and Nigeria, and the crime theme was really kind of incidental.
This is a book about family, culture clashes, belonging, and secrets.
This is a book about family, culture clashes, belonging, and secrets.
January 15, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Crime isn’t normally my kind of thing but this was gifted to me and I’m happy because I really enjoyed reading about Lagos and Nigeria, and the crime theme was really kind of incidental.
This is a book about family, culture clashes, belonging, and secrets.
This is a book about family, culture clashes, belonging, and secrets.
Listened to In Our Time best of, the one about Emily Dickinson, so had to dig out my copy, and have a consoling read last night #emilydickinson
January 14, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Listened to In Our Time best of, the one about Emily Dickinson, so had to dig out my copy, and have a consoling read last night #emilydickinson
What an amazing graphic novel. I saw it at the library, took it home, opened it, couldn’t put it down. Cried at the end. Three intertwined stories of hope and great courage. Refugee, by Alan Gratz, art by Syd Fini
January 10, 2026 at 7:54 PM
What an amazing graphic novel. I saw it at the library, took it home, opened it, couldn’t put it down. Cried at the end. Three intertwined stories of hope and great courage. Refugee, by Alan Gratz, art by Syd Fini
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I thought it might be nice to give away my last 2 signed hardbacks of my novel 1983, with two lovely linocut hares by my mum.
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The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”.
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January 9, 2026 at 12:57 PM
I thought it might be nice to give away my last 2 signed hardbacks of my novel 1983, with two lovely linocut hares by my mum.
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The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”.
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The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”.
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This was a Christmas gift from a lovely friend and I’ve got hooked on the story
January 6, 2026 at 11:16 PM
This was a Christmas gift from a lovely friend and I’ve got hooked on the story