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37°/3°C at sunrise means wool socks, Port Jacket by Ozetta, hot coffee. Happy Thursday!
Angle looking down at Stephanie’s feet. She’s sitting on a hardwood floor. She’s wearing cuffed jeans, a beige-light gray wool jacket with pewter buttons. In hand is an insulated tumbler of hot coffee. On her feet are saturated striped wool socks morning sunshine.
May 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Finished! Less than a gram of yarn remaining! Whoohoo!

🗒️ : #MiniMockNeckTank by Jessie Maed Designs; Adult Small with mods (notes on Ravelry project page and will discuss on a future YouTube episode)

🧶 : used 102.37g “Luna Moth” 2025 February Sock Squad, The Farmer’s Daughter Fibers Bighorn Sock
[Semi-solid deep olive green tank top with a mock neck next to a small amount of yarn remaining and the open page of a spiral-bound notebook to artwork of a luna moth.]
March 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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A go-to baby/toddler gift knit for me is the Beloved by Tin Can Knits! Have you tried this pattern??

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Bonnet-in-progress knit with a saturated bright peachy yarn. Garter texture and I-cord edging and tie. Floral drawstring project bag in brown, peach, cream. A go-to baby/toddler gift knit for me is the Beloved by Tin Can Knits! Have you tried this pattern?? There are over 7,000 projects on Ravelry! This bonnet pattern was published in 2018 and comes in five sizes (newborn - adult). Knit up with DK weight yarn (or fingering held double or whatever you want to achieve a gauge of 22 sts x 30r), it is the perfect little accessory that’s both functional and adorable. An engaging seamless knit with thoughtful details and clever shaping! Highly recommend. Pattern: #BelovedBonnet @TinCanKnits, toddler size Needles: US6/4mm Yarn: “Golden Pink” Daily Wool (100% superwash wool, 164yds/100g) @PurlSoho (yarn provided from new product launch Fall 2024) Project Bag: by me (no pattern/tutorial)
February 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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What??? Two weeks back to back?? Yup. Hi. It’s me again 💁🏻‍♀️😂.

Episode 139 | Edible Thoughts Makes
youtu.be/9RU4mAMD8LA

As always, closed captioning is provided and links to makers mentioned and Ravelry project pages are in the description box below the YouTube video.
Vertical orientation of YouTube cover image for episode 139. Colorful assortment of project bags, knit items, house plants, and a fuzzy sheep figurine.
February 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Finished my tween’s socks!!! Love an evenly distributed speckle.

Discussed as a work in progress on YouTube Episode 138 | Edible Thoughts Makes
youtu.be/idm06dBkiM4
Completed handknit socks on bird-themed wooden sock blockers. Pink-lavender socks with multi-colored defined speckles and a purple slipper stitch heel flap and heel turn. Finished my tween’s socks!!! Love an evenly distributed speckle. Pattern: I’m So Basic Socks (free pattern) @summer.lee.knits (minor mods noted on Ravelry project page) Size: 64sts; approximate length to a US Women’s 6.5 shoe Yarn: “Just Desserts” Darjeeling sock set (463yds/100g, 75/25 superwash merino/nylon) @earlgreyfibercompany 59g main color, 6g contrast color Needles: US0/2mm Gauge: 9sts/inch or 9.5sts/inch?? Will see after first wash and wear over time. Sock Blockers: @knittingleft
February 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Love it! Hat for my tween 💕

Pattern: #MusselburghHat by Ysolda Teague
Size: Adult Small
Needles: US3/3.25mm

Yarns: The Yarn Collective Fleurville 4-ply (100% superwash merino, 382yds/100g)
33g Delphinium
19g Hibiscus
33g Rose

Discussed on YouTube Episode 137 (youtu.be/QWdPspK0suk) in Dec 2024.
A handknit tri-color wool hat shown in a four photo collage. Blue side out with mauve edging folded and unfolded. Pale pink lavender side out with mauve edging folded and unfolded. Fabric has a little darker color pooling in each section giving it a subtle swirly movement.
February 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Book: Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee, published April 2023, 150 pages

Project: Farnham Sweater by The Knit Purl Girl

Yarn: @purlsoho.bsky.social Good Wool in Winter Grass and Wild Mustard

Progress Keeper: @hellolavender.com
Drop-shoulder sweater in progress that’s a light gray-beige with heathered mustard yellow stripes throughout. It has a mock neck and live stitches on the body and the sleeves. Hardcover book features a young woman with dark hair standing on a chariot with an enormous bird flying above her. Close-up of hardcover book. Hardcover book features a young woman with dark hair standing on a chariot with an enormous bird flying above her. Side of hardcover book held slightly open by tan skin hands. “Some say ruhking is a calling. For me it was an answer to a question that had bored clear through my soul. I had a hole worn through my center, like one of Arnan’s interesting blue river stones. People have admired rocs for centuries. Artists paint them, sculpt them, tell stories about them. I wanted to be one. I wanted to be the monster that kills other monsters.” ~Excerpt from Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee, page 23 Sometimes when I read a lot of books that are part of longer incomplete series, or just longer 300-500 page books, I seek an anthology or a novella. I recently finished an adult science fiction high fantasy novella. We’re immersed in a kingdom where manticores (deadly human-eating monsters) are a problem. The relationship between humans and animals (specifically rocs or mythical birds of prey that resemble a gigantic falcon) is explored. I was invested in characters that I got to know but wanted to get to know more than the 150 pages gave me. Themes of grief, responsibility, internal struggles, loyalty, family. My heart strings were definitely pulled. For my project, I’ve re-knit the collar since that last time I shared a work-in-progress photo. Used a smaller needle and picked up less stitches and it fits better on me now. I’ve picked up for the sleeves and will finish those before going back to finish the body!
February 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Bag interior
Inside of small zippered project bag with a coral-peach gingham interior fabric that matches the zipper tab, interior pockets that match the exterior mauve daisy fabric. Small zippered project bag features a coral-peach gingham zipper interior fabric, interior pockets that match the exterior fabric that’s a mauve daisy print.
February 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Webinar knitting
Stephanie, a tan skin woman, from smile through torso, sitting at a table, wearing a colorwork wool vest over a heathered dark purple-gray thin long-sleeve shirt and a blue and brown cowl covering her neck and upper chest. In hand is a speckled pink and purple sock in progress. Close-up of sock project in hand - it’s knit cuff-down using a speckled pink and purple main yarn and a purple yarn for the heel. Live stitches on the foot. Focus on the small sock project bag featuring a mauve daisy print with a zipper top, coral-peach gingham zipper tab and a repurposed teal-gray side strap cotton loop handle. Behind Stephanie, out of focus, is a wall with a pair of wooden sock blockers and many drawings by her children. Webinar knitting. Pattern: I’m So Basic Socks @summer.lee.knits, free pattern (modified the cuff rib) 🧶 @earlgreyfibercompany Darjeeling Sock in “Just Desserts” What I’m Wearing: #TheCoolerSideOfWarm by Melissa Clulow @sonderyarnco, free pattern, completed January 2025 🧶 Note @PurlSoho in Raw Sienna and Vintage Celadon #TheAcademic by Eli @Skeindeer, completed February 2023 🧶 Good Wool @PurlSoho in five colors (details on Ravelry project page and on YouTube Ep. 98-101) Project Bag: by me “open wide zippered pouch” @noodlehead531, free tutorial (https://blog.noodle-head.com/2012/06/open-wide-zippered-pouch-diy-tutorial.html), added interior pockets and cut out slightly different dimensions (fits two 50g snuggly side-by-side and two sock wips sit on top of the cakes)
February 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Here’s how I wear it:
Fold in half. Loop around neck like a bandana. Secure with cuff. The cuff is a sewn a tube from scrap fabric with a snap button (no pattern/tutorial followed).
Deep triangular shawl folded in half to be a smaller triangle. Stephanie’s hand holds up one tip of the triangle. Stephanie holds the shawl near the fabric cuff to show how the shawl is secured by the snap button cuff.
February 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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-6°F / -21°C windchill February morning.

🗒️A Break in Tide Shawl @tifneilanhandknits.bsky.social
🧶Brioche DK @knitterkim.bsky.social
Completed April 2021
From lips through upper torso, Stephanie, a tan skin woman, wears a textured shawl folded in half and looped around her neck like a bandana. It’s secured with a fabric snap button cuff on the side. The shawl has an assortment of red, brown, pink, orange gold colors and a contrasting deep purple-navy that’s nearly black. She’s wearing the shawl over a red and orange plaid flannel button-down shirt.
February 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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This hint-of-peach pale pink #MetropolitanPullover @toriknitsnyc.bsky.social I’m knitting for our tween is coming along nicely! I knit one for myself when I tested the pattern in July/August 2024 and really enjoyed the process and the fit.
Top-down fluffy peachy pink pullover in progress on a hanger against a beige wall next to houseplants accompanied by a drawstring tote bag of similar colors and flowers. Close-up of fluffy peachy pink pullover in progress on a hanger against a beige wall next to houseplants. Sleeve stitches held on hot pink silicone tubing. Close-up of drawstring floral peachy pink and floral tote bag. This hint-of-peach pale pink pullover I’m knitting for our tween is coming along nicely! I knit one for myself when I tested the pattern in July/August 2024 and enjoyed the process and fit so much that I cast on another. I have a third version in mind but no hurry, it’ll happen when it happens! Pattern: #MetropolitanPullover @toriknitsnyc ; size 1, but knit top yoke section on US9/5.5mm and rest of body on US10/6mm Yarns (held together): 🧶Knit Picks Alpaca Bloom “Champagne Peach” (discontinued) 🧶 The Yarn Collective Fleurville 4 Ply “Carnation” Project Bag: by me (no specific pattern/tutorial)
February 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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📖 The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec, pub 2021, 359 pages

P.S. - Fiber art related stuff comes up throughout the book!
Start of a split hem ribbed cowl knit up in a warm honey yarn. Floral peachy, cream, and honey yellow matching tote drawstring project bag. Navy, cream, and gold hardcover book featuring the profile of a woman with a snake, wolf, and child woven into her hair. If you’re seeking a stand-alone book that’s adult fantasy fiction, historical fiction, a reimagining of Norse mythology with themes of family and the complication of love in different ways, this book might be one for you to look into. I enjoyed the emphasis on the fierce nature of love behind motherhood, the dichotomy of destiny versus choice, and the banter. There were a couple “whys” I didn’t catch an explanation for but they weren’t enough to affect my reading enjoyment (like why amnesia?? I won’t say more). Maybe I would’ve liked a little more personality development in the side characters that played out big actions in the plot but that would make the book a lot longer I suppose. And now I feel the need to maybe read the original Norse story of Angrboda and Loki. P.S. - Fiber art related stuff comes up throughout the book! Book: The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec, pub 2021, 359 pages Project: The Cooler Side of Warm by Melissa Clulow Yarn: “Warm Honey” Cashmere Merino Bloom @PurlSoho Bag: by me (no pattern/tutorial)
January 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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There are so many ways to show up for others and for ourselves - keeping in mind what is feasible/needed/wanted for one person may not be the same for another person.

Here are some of the ways I am choosing to show up today:

(Listed in image with alt text because character limits 🤦🏻‍♀️)
From shoulders through bended knees, Stephanie is crouching on tile surrounded by library books and with library books in hand. She’s wearing a subtly marled blue tank top underneath a rainbow tweed fuchsia v-neck cardigan with wooden buttons and navy corduroys. On hands are striped ribbed fingerless mitts. Stephanie putting on hiking boots and wearing striped wool handknit socks that have different width stripes. Navy, chartreuse, mauve, purpley-brown, cream. Winter sunlight. Here are some of the ways I am choosing to show up today: - shelving books at the school library - listening to Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite - wearing colorful handknits - baking bread - getting materials ready for a new cast on - giving my children and husband hugs and telling them “I love you” How about you? How are you showing up for yourself and/or for others today (zero obligation to share)? P.S. - Last night at dinner, the kids said something funny (or maybe I did something silly, I can’t remember exactly) and we all burst into giggles to the point where we could hardly talk. It has been awhile since I laughed that hard and it was much much needed. What I’m Wearing: Building Blocks Cardi @AimeeSherMakes @PurlSoho Hedgerow “Fuchsia Rose” Completed April 2024 Tolsta Tank @the.creabea (DK vest view) @TheFarmersDaughterFibers Sock Squad Big Horn Sock base (held double) Completed October 2024 Everything November Mitts @every.thing.shapes.us @PurlSoho Quartz Completed October 2024 Socks (no specific pattern) @WoolensAndNosh Targhee Sock “Meadow Sprite” Completed December 2023
January 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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📚The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

🗒️ Musselburgh Hat by Ysolda Teague

🧶 The Farmer’s Daughter Fibers Bighorn Sock base plus miscellaneous light fingering weight purple minis

🪡 Project Bag by me (no pattern/tutorial)
Beautiful floral and black hardcover book accompanied by a “tube hat in progress knit with shades of peach and warm brown and purple. White snack container holds yarn not arranged to the protect to keep them from tangling up in the project bag. Patchwork project bag in shades of purple, navy, brown that match the project. Close-up of beautiful floral and black hardcover book, “The Ten Thousand Doors of January” by Alix E. Harrow Side view of uneven pages of hardcover book ‘If we address stories as archaeological sites, and dust through their layers with meticulous care, we find at some level there is always a doorway. A dividing point between here and there, us and them, mundane and magical. It is at the moments when the doors open, when things flow between the worlds, that stories happen.’ ~Excerpt from page 2 of The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow Very much enjoyed this read! Published September 2019, 374 pages, stand-alone. Adult fantasy fiction, historical fiction, magic realism. Set in the early 1900’s, New England area of America. Liked the character development, pacing was mostly fine (medium paced?), sometimes it felt a little choppy between chapters and in the timeline of events, loved the theme of power in words. Accompanied by a Musselburgh Hat in progress that has the first half knit with Bighorn Sock base (75% 19.5 Micron Superwash Merino and 25% Nylon, 3ply. 463 yards/100g) yarns remaining from Sock Squad projects @TheFarmersDaughterFibers. The purple yarns are random minis of light fingering weight yarn (don’t know the dyer). Project bag by me (no pattern/tutorial).
January 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Trying to keep my 2025 📚 in a “folder” but couldn’t figure out the “feed” feature without having to download a third-party app?? I’ll just use the hashtag #EdibleThoughtsReads2025.

Sharing this post from IG January 2, 2025. I’m going to need to work on this 300 character limit situation here 😅.
Beautiful paperback book featuring a yellow building nestled in between hardcover books and green leafy vines. Sweater-in-progress with a bright colorwork yoke, folded neckband with a neon pink inside, and dark heathered teal main color; sleeve stitches on silicone tubing. “...Conformity is a death sentence. No, my dear, you must embrace what makes you stand out. That’s what they despise. It’s the circle of hell in this life - blaming children for being who they are, because we were blamed and our parents before us. If you’re not harming anyone, why try to change who you are?” ~Excerpt from page 294 of The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods. Though there are some loose ends, I overall enjoyed the book “The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods (published 2023). Historical fiction, magical realism, stand-alone, romance (but not spicy), book about books, lost work from a Brontë sister, based in present-day and 1920’s/40’s, Ireland/France/England. Written from three perspectives. Definitely look up trigger warnings for sensitive content. Also, I’m loving this sweater so much. It has been living in my brain since summer 2022 and I cast it on November 2024. Took awhile to figure out how I wanted the colorwork yoke to look, what vibe I wanted to go for. This is it! I love how colorwork offers the opportunity for self-expression. A mood to feel. A story to tell. Pattern: Paul Klee Sweater @midori_hirose_knit (yoke has been blocked prior to sleeve and body split); modified the neckband and needle sizes (discussed in episode 136 on YouTube) Yarns: “Vice” Less Traveled Yarn 757 Sock in the lining of the neckband, multiple colors of @PurlSoho Good Wool for the rest (100% Andean Highland wool, 383yds/100g)
January 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Though there are some loose ends, I overall enjoyed the book “The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods (published 2023). Historical fiction, magical realism, stand-alone, romance (but not spicy), book about books, lost work from a Brontë sister, based in present-day and 1920’s/40’s, Ireland/France/England. Written from three perspectives. Definitely look up trigger warnings for sensitive content. Also, I’m loving this sweater so much. It has been living in my brain since summer 2022 and I cast it on November 2024. Took awhile to figure out how I wanted the colorwork yoke to look, what vibe I wanted to go for. This is it! I love how colorwork offers the opportunity for self-expression. A mood to feel. A story to tell. Pattern: Paul Klee Sweater @midori_hirose_knit (yoke has been blocked prior to sleeve and body split); modified the neckband and needle sizes (discussed in episode 136 on YouTube) Yarns: “Vice” Less Traveled Yarn 757 Sock in the lining of the neckband, multiple colors of @PurlSoho Good Wool for the rest (100% Andean Highland wool, 383yds/100g)
January 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Soft Pretzels 🥨
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(Skipped the baking soda bath this time)

Oatmeal Date Shortbread
Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files (page 223) by Deb Perelman

Family Sock Laundry
Handknit by yours truly ❤️🧦
Soft pretzels cooling on wire racks Shortbread cookies in a glass container Drying rack full of colorful handknit socks
January 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Hello! I’m Stephanie (she/her/hers) and you may “know” me as Edible.Thoughts.Makes (handle one character too long for here) on Instagram and/or EdibleThoughts on Ravelry (handle taken here). Look forward to trying out this platform with you!

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Stephanie, a tan skin bespectacled Asian woman with shoulder length dark brown hair, smiling and wearing a bright red knit hat and bright knit shawl over a fuzzy lavender sweater.
January 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM