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K. M. Pekar
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Professional indexer of scholarly, trade, and children’s books. Wordsmith Indexing Services.

Reader, writer, singer, spinner, knitter, aspiring birder. She/her.
Happy Halloween!🎃
November 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Another #hat for #ShowMeYourKnits! This is a baby hat I made about 15 years ago. I sent it off to our niece today for their new baby, along with a #babyblanket I started 6 years ago and finally finished.
October 24, 2025 at 4:41 AM
It’s hat week for #ShowMeYourKnits! The collection of five hats were knit for the local women’s shelter. (I knit a lot more, but I can only upload four photos, and the other ones were all the same except for the color of the yarn.) The three single hats were gifts. #hats #handknit #knitting
October 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This week’s #showmeyourknits prompt is “what’s on your needles?” My current projects are the “May I Borrow This Please” shawlette and the “Homestead Tweed Cardigan Vest.” (Photos are not up to date because I am recovering from yesterday’s Covid shot.) #knitting #handknit
September 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
More stripes for #showmeyourknits . This time, 2 scarves I knit a few years ago from my own handspun. L: multicolor scarf in moss stitch (fiber dyer unknown.) R: green scarf; fiber from Quillin Fiber Arts, pattern is One Row Handspun Scarf by S. Pearl-McPhee. #handspun #handknit #knitting
August 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This week’s #showmeyourknits theme is stripes.
August 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Fiber crafts tend to proliferate. I started as a knitter, then took up spinning. Then I bought a blending board and started blending my own batts for spinning. Here’s the latest! (Loom is a 15” Cricket from Schacht, bought used. Yarn is acrylic.)

#weaving #rigidheddle
August 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Finished up these socks today. They will be lovely and warm for the fall! #handknit #knitting #knitsky #socks
August 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Tour de Fleece, Day 20: Continuing the 2nd bobbin of the Malabrigo Nube in their “Boreal” colorway. I’m past the halfway point for this bobbin, and beginning to worry that this singles will be considerably longer than the first one.

#TourDeFleece #tourdefleece #handspun #handspinning #spinsky
July 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I haven’t only been spinning recently; I’m also doing a KAL with my local spinners and weavers guild. The pattern is “May I Borrow This Please“ (you can find it on Ravelry.)

#knitting #knitsky #handknit #shawl
July 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Tour de Fleece update, as of 7/21/2025: I finished the first bobbin of a planned three-ply and started on the second. The fiber is Malabrigo Nube in “Boreal,” and I am spinning it on my Louet Victoria travel wheel.

#tourdefleece #handspun #handspunyarn #handspinning #spinsky #teamfswg2025
July 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Tour de Fleece 2025, Day 11 (7/15.) The Rusty Truck yarn is finished as of today; I washed it yesterday and skeined it today. It came out really well. Tonight I finished the first bobbin of the Malabrigo Nube in Boreal (about 1.33 oz, if I divided the fiber evenly. 🤞)
July 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Tour de Fleece, Day7. Almost done spinning the Flame batts as a thick-and-thin art yarn. I didn’t remember how much yellow there is in the second and third batts. I think I will ply it with red thread to emphasize the red. #tourdefleece #handspun #handspinning #teamfswg2025
July 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Tour de Fleece 2025, Day 6: I decided to spin up some art batts I created. I have three of the batts (about 2 oz. each, I think?), and I am spinning them as a thick-and-thin yarn. I have more of the base fibers, so I can spin up a plain yarn to ply it with. #tourdefleece #teamfswg2025 #handspun
July 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Yesterday—Day 5 of Tour de Fleece—I finished chain-plying the second bobbin of my “Rusty Truck” yarn. I hope to skein at least one of the bobbins tonight—and spin something for at least 15 minutes, as well. #handspun #tourdefleece #teamfswg2025 #handspinning
July 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Oops, I forgot to post my Tour de Fleece progress for the last few days! I have spun at least 20-30 minutes each day. Here’s the progress on the “Rusty Truck” that I have been chain-plying, as of Day 4. #tourdefleece #teamfswg2025
July 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Tour de Fleece, Day 2. I only managed about 20 minutes today, chain-plying the Rusty Truck singles that I still have not finished. Still, even 20 minutes of spinning is soothing. #tourdefleece
July 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Tour de Fleece, Day 1: Malabrigo Nube “Boreal” spun on Alanna (my Louet Victoria wheel.) (Full disclosure; I only spun about half of this yesterday; the beginning was spun before #TdF started.) I’ll be alternating between spinning projects during this #tourdefleece .
July 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Trying to hold on to some joy amid all the everything… I’ve been chain-plying this yarn to free up my spinning wheel for Tour de Fleece, and I’m pretty pleased with it. It’s not quite done; I will need another evening or two to finish it. #handspun
July 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
We saw this beautiful barred owl twice on our walk yesterday! Apparently that dead tree trunk made a great place to nap; the owl was there for at least 20. This is the closest I have ever been to a wild owl; it felt like a gift in the midst of a tumultuous week. #birds #owl #birdsky
April 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Finally chain-plying the Rusty Truck singles I began spinning last summer. #spinning #handspinning #handspun
March 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The #showmeyourknits theme this week is green. The ones on the left and right on the left were knit using my own handspun, and were both gifts to my dad (in different years.) The one in the center is Malabrigo, knit for myself. Details in alt text. #knitting #handspun
March 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM
My crocuses are blooming! Can spring be far away?

In these fraught times, I try to take joy in the small things, in moments of beauty, in the inevitable return of spring.

#spring #crocus
March 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM
My favorite pattern (that isn’t plain 2x2 or 3x1 rib)! I’m working on a pair now.
March 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It’s sock week for #showmeyourknitting, so here is the current pair of socks I am working on. #knitting #knitsky #handknit
March 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM