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Leslie Jūratė
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Poet, Fiber Artist, Jill of All Trades, Data Geek, Romuva Elder
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Here is my version of the Baaaaaahst Knitter pin. He's looking pretty crazed.

#GameofWool
#Knit
#Knitting
Crochet sheep pin in white coat with black head and legs.
December 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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At our year-end knitting group get-together, I put together my play on #GameofWool.

Basically a fiber arts trivia game. I even made a sheep pin for the winner.

Here is the award moment for the winner! (Forgot to get permission to post hence the smiley)

Plus CAKE!

#Knit
#Knitting
Grey haired woman awards a crochet sheep pin to winner of "Game of Dzanc" while in background, Man holds up sign declaring "Game of Dzanc". Colorful sheet cake with "Illegal Arts and Crafts" written on it.
December 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Yes, he's missing a set of legs here.
December 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Welcome to my rabbit hole. It's cozy in here. Wanna see my platypus?

(Platypus and echinda babies are PUGGLES!)
Knitted platypus in brown and black is held up against a backdrop of grass and trees.
December 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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NOW YOU CAN'T UNSEE IT EITHER!!

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A human holds up a male echinda, showing his 4-headed penis.
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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HATE it when you have an expensive skein of yarn and there's a knot that doesn't continue the gradient. Hate it more when I don't think. Frogging back to the abrupt color change, finding the right color from the skein, and then reconnecting so I have the gradual transition as intended.

#knitting
Knitted scarf with cables has abrupt color change from pink to brown.
December 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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TFW you're cleaning house and you've sequestered the kids but they're just too darned cute!
Three dog snouts stick out from under a barn door.
December 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Mine isn't inflatable, but I'm willing to try! Just don't know when I'll be flying next.
Woman in yellow sparkly chicken costume stands next to Debbie Dingell in coordinating track suit on No Kings Day II.
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Just a random connection on a random day recalling another random connection on another random day.

Have a wonderful day! I'll at least search for some beauty-in-nature photos to make this read worth your while.
Canopy of tree in green leaf from the understory - shagbark hickory? I don't know. Rotary Park, Livonia, MI, USA Another canopy of tree in red leaf from the understory - species unknown. Rotary Park, Livonia, MI, USA Random solitary purple flower on the lawn in front of Dzanc House in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Nested in a bed of brown autumn leaves.
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The White Night
1932
Otto Fassbender
Gelatin Silverprint
Minneapolis Institute of Art
(Not currently on display)
Gelatin Print of a Moody Winter Night skyline - cracks in the ice in the foreground like vicious scars. Streetlamps in the distance uplight the trees lining the street like a hidden faerie circle not meant for our eyes. The skyscrapers of the day seem painted on a stage backdrop and survey the scene like proud parents. (How many similes can YOU fit in one ALT text?)
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Is the cow's tongue story true? Please let it be!

In other news, I've been sick for a few days. So in the moments between bouts of delirium, I've been knitting my TACO chicken a piggy costume.

No shade to Miss Piggy.
Knitted orange TACO chicken wears a pig 🐽 snout and ears as well as a pink vest with "Quiet" embroidered in black yarn.
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Forgive the jammies and eczema-ravaged fingers.
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Ever just wanted to shut him the F up???
TACO chicken has black ball gag being placed in his beak.
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Well, I clearly need to start feeling better because I have just been creating all kinds of mischief for TACO chicken.

See comments for more subversive mischief.

#KNIT
#TACO
#KNITTING
#QuietPiggy
#Quiet
#Piggy
Orange knit TACO chicken wears a pink knitted vest with "Quiet" written in black cursive letters. He also wears a pig snout and ears.
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Over the weekend, while under the weather, I transformed TACO chicken into a pig.
Knitted orange chicken wears a tie-on knitted pig snout and pig hears on a metal headband. (Side view) Knitted orange chicken wears a tie-on knitted pig snout and pig hears on a metal headband. (Full frontal view)
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Oh and a ghoulish Nazi Bat whose execution is less than good. 🤣
Knitted puke green zombie bat does "Roman salute". IYKYK
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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He's the second of my Admin series.

I've got MAHA Chicken, ICE Barbie Chicken (formerly MAGA Chicken), and Couch Chick.

I need a good pic of ICE Barbie with her origami AK.
No Kings poster with multiple knitted Chickens dangling from the top. Small knitted chick with sad beard sits on knitted couch. RIP Cricket the dog. Knitted dog with Xs for eyes, a lolling pink tongue, and a handmade leather collar with working brass buckle sits on a woman's hand. Knitted yellow Chicken has green brain worm coming out of the side of his head. The worm has eyes and wears a MAGA hat.
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Hey! My TACO chicken (whose Piggy disguise I just finished) takes umbrage at your representations of chickens!!

(The REAL TACO would not know what the word "umbrage" means though.)
Knitted orange chicken with blonde comb-over wears knitted tie-on pig snout and pig ears on headband. (Side view) Knitted orange chicken with blonde comb-over wears knitted tie-on pig snout and pig ears on headband. Knitted orange chicken wears red sweater with TACO in white. He has a blonde comb-over, beady blue eyes, bushy eyebrows, tiny beak, and smaller-than-average wings.
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Feeling under the weather today. Between naps, I'm amusing myself by knitting a Piggy disguise for Taco Chicken.

Shall I knit him a sweater that says QUIET?
Taco chicken's head with a pig nose and one pig ear. Full frontal view. Taco chicken's head with a pig nose and one pig ear. Side view.
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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While I don't have a large enough windowsill for a candle, I join you in remembrance.
A little candle sits on a small altar with photos of relatives and a glass candleholder with the Ukrainian crest in the background.
November 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Super easy coaster or ornament I made for the quilting class I run.
Quilted star coaster with radiating quilt stitching. Three newly stitched and turned stars awaiting finishing while the fourth shoots off the quilting from the back.
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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This is the easiest to block, so I thought I'd start with this one. Should it be pinned? Probably.

The Long Journey shawl is on Ravelry. I added one or two extra sections. I didnt like the last couple of cable sections, so I changed them up. Last one I tried about 5 different cables.
Multicolored zigzag scarf laid out on blocking mats between two grey wicker chairs.
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Who's kidding who? These were all new projects. The t-shirt I made for an Ypsilanti City Council meeting.

Didn't have being labeled an Illegal Knitter on my 2025 Bingo card.

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Group of people sit in brightly lit room waiting for Ypsilanti City Council meeting to begin. In the crowd you can see several people knitting and crocheting.
November 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Finished two projects (make that four) in the last week. One is drying on the blocking mats. The other is waiting until I can find my blocking pins. Heh.

So now, what to do? I want to continue making headway info my UFOs. . .
Multi-colored knit zigzag scarf is laid over the back of a Grey wicker chair. Set of four quilted star coasters on a white background with five different Christmas-themed fabrics in each. Each coaster has a different quilt pattern. On a circular needle is a light brown knit shawl with lace edging. Smiling woman with grey hair wears a long-sleeved black t-shirt with "Illegal Knitter" printed on the front along with a graphic of a ball of yarn, knitting needles, and rainbow-striped sunglasses.
November 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Darn those typos!!
Knitted shawl, still on needles, held up in its pre-bindoff, pre-block, squishy state.
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM