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Lachesis
@lalalachesis.bsky.social
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writer, knitter, long covid, long hair, long story. she-her, vengeance paladin. recovering primary physician. preferential option for the queers.

i actually follow a lot more ppl; they are in my list called "news."

protecting the guys & dolls since 1979
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Saturday vibe 🧶
small desk on my bed holds a paper towel with a naked apple, green peel spiraled off in one piece, old fashioned steel peeler set aside; a pint glass pitcher of pale yellow lemon water with a carven apple floating in it; a finished apple head with a big nose & empty eyes, perched on a paper towel, ready to hang by its stem to dry. sure-'nough Barlow jack-knife, open & waiting.
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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adorable oak tree slippers for a 94 yr old. they fit *perfectly*
4-montage of pine-green slippers. they are crocheted from cheap acrylic yarn that is very soft to the touch - important for thinning aging skin. i agonized over the size bc he is a tall man with cankles. tried 3 different patterns, my tall son trying them on over thick socks. but ultimately they fit like a, well, like a glove. embellished with 2 oak leaves appliqued to the tops (crocheted from the same green), and each has a 3-d acorn (crocheted with tan shell & dark brown cap & stem, stuffed with yarn) dangling between the leaves, hanging from a braided stem, easily untied if annoying. he showed me the slippers i made him 2 years ago, same basic pattern, thank goodness. he wore holes right through, under ball and heel. and here i thought nobody ever wore the slippers i made that year, 5 pairs in all! personally i like slippers, and get a kick out of these retro-looking nana ones.
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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learning curve of the day
2 crocheted oak leaves of dark green, 1 acorn of dark green with dark brown cap. acorn is a bit large but I can't make it any smaller! these are mere prototypes of embellishments for some slippers for a certain 93 yr old we know...
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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frog life
on my bed (where all the magic happens), green yarn coming out of a half-skein, going to a small round (technically, 3 rounds) of double crochet on a blue hook. in between, it's just a big big mess of unwound yarn. not really tangled (thank goodness), just a mess. i'm working on a pattern, & experimentally crocheted a ways on it before deciding to backtrack: thus i unraveled, back to almost the beginning. we call such unraveling "frogging," because you rip it, rip it, rip it, rip it...
November 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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notorious.
November 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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2 photos of the same, hmm, personality, one from front & other from side. lil teadragon stuffie, made from "royal gold" colored bamboo socks, very soft. it's an "alpine chamomile*" teadragon, so it also has a white furry coat & felt antlers. bouquet of chamomile on crown of head (felt leaves & flowers with thickly french-knotted centers). stuffed with springy wool. for a six year old. *prompting me to sing "edelweiss, edelweiss" all over the place see prev photo text, eh
October 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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battle of the teadragons. who will win?
3-montage of a game of "sequence for kids" played on my bed (where All Things are played, made, or slayed). 1: a golden teadeagon perches on a heap of furry white fabric, soon to be their alpine winter coat. they peruse their cards, beside a heap of red game-chips. 2: across the board, a smaller amber-colored teadragon with a crown of chamomile flowers peruses their own cards. 3: the aforementioned board. pretty tight. the dragons have blocked each other's moves so consistently, it's hard to tell who has advantage. Little Chamomile is playing a yellow chip next to a free space. smart! photo does not show, but we are listening to various versions of Edelweiss, as i prepare to make Big Chamomile into Alpine Chamomile which I've determined to be another name for Edelweiss. yeah i know, same fam, different gens. but i predict flowers will look much the same when all is sewn and done. and a six-year-old learned a new song, so that's cool.
October 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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"A hole grows inside of me. I felt the Crystal crack in my very heart. Where once was great knowledge. Like smoke. It slips away."

- Aughra (The Dark Crystal), living with autoimmune-complex long covid
screenshot of a little Aughra statue once for sale in aukland, marked down from $400 to $360, "unavailable" but still floating around in the cloud, a very apt metaphor for someone withcomplex long covid, in my humble opinion. oh right, it's a stone outcrop she is squatting barefoot on, in her red gown & gunmetal-blue mantle. beads & tassels. silver-bronze pendant. shock of wild grey hair & tight-curled ramshorns. she raises a golden filigree triangle, leaning forward to peer through it with pursed lips, ever the eager, skeptical idealist.
October 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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caught me!
aforementioned cuttlefish, grasping my finger with its tiny hands.
October 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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i made a cuttlefish.
it can't be seen thru cellphone & lamplight, but this nubbly soft yarn is saturated indigo-royal-blue-deep-purple.
the ruffles (fins) are fine blue fingering wool with an edge of fuzzy powder-blue mohair.
stuffed with springy wool, mouth inside is a bit of purple velour.
description in body of text. i will say though that i have watched a lot of videos of cuttlefish now & i think they are super extra cool.
October 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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photo from philly voice 10/30/24. a dull golden-ish tr*mp statue, suited, with strikingly big belly & broad leer, looming behind a petite, classical-looking bronze nude who stands with unselfconscious dignity in a philadelphia city park.
October 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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i gotta tell you. i f'n love these things. so elegant.

for years i used loops of thread or stripped wire twisties to thread difficult needles. they were okay but the wide thumb-grip of this ultra cheap little guy makes life infinitesimally easier.

imagining ancient versions, bone & whisker...
a needle threader lying on a cardboard box. it's a small red plastic disc with a fine golden wire sticking out one side of it. the wire is bent in a fishy diamond shape, so that when you poke the nose through the needle's eye, it collapses, then springs open again once fully inserted. (you stick the thread through the diamond & pull, drawing the thread through the needle's eye.)
October 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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also made my tardigrade today. so cute! 🧶
tardigrade made from a pair of stretch gloves. beige in daylight just like the microscope photos & films, but looks golden here because of nighttime lamplight. it's plumpish, yet a bit floppy: loosely filled with lavender-scented lentils. eight stumpy legs (shortened glove-fingers). tiny felt claws. its little nose is a 5mm flat spacer bead, vaguely flower-like. from nose to tail it's just shy of 10 cm. in real life it would be about 1/2 mm, but you could watch it under your everyday low-power home microscope ❤️
October 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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made a lobster.
housemate celebrating 3rd birthday tomorrow. he loves lobsters because of watching everybody in this place play eldenring. 🧶
green lobster artsy looking doll. green felt upper, sequin eyes. tummy is green velour bc he loves soft things. body is filled with lentils, lightly lavender-scented. all kind of weird stuffing really, just like a real crustacean. about 8" long from tip of claw to flip of tail.
October 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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venezuela is about the size of texas. its neighbor to the west is colombia, & west of there is panama.
map of venezuelan fossil-fuel territories. colored blobs labeled "heavy," "medium & light," "gas," etc., cover roughly half of the country.
October 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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there are about 1200 different species of tardigrade, & they live everywhere. here is my favorite one: Tardigrade Out Of Carolina.

link in comments
microscope pic of translucent tardigrade seen, i guess, from below. plump lozenge-like body, with 8 plump little limbs all akimbo, each terminating in six tiny paddle-shaped fingers. got some little eyebrow whiskers sticking out in front. really looks like a stop-action shot, a snapshot of a lively energetic moment, forever frozen in time. overall beige with some amber blobs where i suppose the "large, irregularly lobate" stomach lies. so stinkin' cute!
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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woke up wondering by dawn's early light whether i could make a tardigrade out of a pair of gloves.
wee montage, 2 pics, left image is a hand-drawn picture of a cute tardigrade swimming along, with caption, "Live tiny, Die never - 5-time apocalypse champion" right image is my little faux-wood lap-table in dim red (lamp) & green (window) light: a cup of coffee & a pair of cheap beige stretch gloves lying palm to palm, folded to look like a kind of 8-legged, uhh, pony.
October 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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my favorite sign today was a plain handwritten one reading, "He doesn't even have a dog."
our yam-hued potus standing behind lectern with microphone, making his special gloryhole mouth with his eyes closed. caption reads "trump goes on bizarre rant about signs he claims are made by wealthy anarchists"
October 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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once upon a time there was a badass named saint clare.
painting of st clare of assisi. she is wearing voluminous grey robes with black stripes & a black headcovering. she stands on a high stone walkway; we stand on the same level & can see the mountainous landscape drop away behind her. she's barefoot. she holds a long stemmed white lily in the crook of one arm, and raises a monstrance - a golden vessel holding a communion wafer behind glass - with her other hand. this commemorates the time an invading army came to her abbey & she drove them away by standing on the parapet brandishing the monstrance at them. her nuns had to come & get her from her sickbed - she had some kind of awful debilitating chronic illness & was a wreck, but they were all desperate. in the painting she glances toward us, hunching slightly with the weight of the vessel outstretched. she looks unwell: a bit haggard, a little puffy, flushed, kind of hollow-eyed. somehow though the initial impression is that she is valiant, certainly unafraid. st clare was real & you can still see, in a museum, the letter she wrote to the pope of her day, demanding that he prohibit the giving of donations or patronage to her order of nuns, now known as "the poor clares." she would not allow any interference with their solidarity with people living in poverty. i do think they probably wear shoes now though
October 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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dang i wish cellphone cam could show the cuteness of this krishna dolly.
lil guy made from a blue stretch glove. he has black embroidery-floss hair in a godbun tied up with red thread; rather elaborate bindi & earrings of copper metallic thread. he's wearing a paisley challis dhoti and a sash thing. stuffed with springy lambswool. you can easily see why everybody loves him. unfortunately, my glove-doll novice skills yielded arms too stubby to get his flute to his face. i elected to give him opposable thumbs which foreshortened them... but golly it only took *one* glove; I'm reluctant to hack into its mate just to make better arms. i like having another full glove to make, like, a Blue Meanie or something. but then i think, is it fair to block him from playing his flute? he loves it so much -- seldom seen without it. hmmm.
October 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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here's the first magic bindle i made, to work for my heart health. it has secret pouches containing a st. peregrine/ mater dolorosa chaplet & a small litany. it lives under my bedpillow. deets in alt text.
4-photo montage of magic bindle lying on bed. i do everything in bed bc im a long covid autoimmune cardiomyopathic mess. anyway it's 5 panels in a plus-sign shape. center: holy card of o.l.o. fatima, stitched into grey felt with a flame-shaped cutout. left: black felt pocket embroidered with licorice a.k.a. glycyrrhiza (contains short handwritten heart-related litany). right: black felt pocket embroidered with hawthorn a.k.a. crataegus (contains handmade peregrine-dolorosa chaplet). top: black felt panel with red felt heart applique & silver dove milagro, flying down. base: black felt panel with white wings applique & red-silver anatomical heart milagro. all are stitched to white sacking, with a red outer layer, roughly blanket stitched together with silver thread (dmc: accept no substitutes!). the whole thing folds up & is tied with a thin black ribbon, slips under my pillow so it can do the praying for me, without ceasing. so see what i mean? bindle! magic! magic bindle!
October 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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esteemed housemate inquired wtf is a bindle. i thought everyone knew.

a bedroll is kind of a bindle. if you wrap your lunch in a cloth, that's kind of a bindle too. forensic ppl & street clockers might keep evidence & wares in folded papers, also called bindles.

nice lil word 4 handy lil thing/s.
montage of 3 depression era photos and 1 wiki paragraph. photos are men in hats & coats walking down a road & railroad tracks. the first has a bedroll sized bindle slung over his shoulder, bound with ropes & a strap, seen from behind. second has a wrinkled, lunchsack-sized bindle, tied with cord, dangling from across his back, possibly wrapped with newspaper. third walking toward camera, along boxcars, in a nice fedora, long coat, vest, pinstriped trou, john-muir beard. he holds a paper-wrapped bindle under one arm. wiki say: The term bindle may be an alteration of the term "bundle" or similarly descend from the German word Bündel, meaning something wrapped up in a blanket and bound by cord for carrying (cf. originally Middle Dutch bundel), or have arisen as a portmanteau of bind and spindle. It may also be from the Scottish dialectal bindle "cord or rope to bind things".
October 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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i make magic bindles. I'm a magic bindle maker.
here's a photo of a hipster bindle from a u2b vid. I'm unenthused but to each their own.
when i was a street urchin i carried a bindle made of my flannel shirt, containing 2 extra blouses, toothbrush, hairbrush, mascara, stolen bible, sci fi anthology.
pretentious bindle using too-small too-thin too-high-vis red bandanna: sox, knife in sheath, spoon, small hand tools, harmonica, tin cup, toothbrush, string, smoke stuff & so on. bandanna? really? plus where are your condoms & hand sanitizer. #StreetSnob
October 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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i made a little robot.
montage showing cartoon robot from children's phone game. it has an orange square body with stuck-on red heart, yellow head w/ smiling minimalist face, curved yellow arms with orange pinstripes & red pincer hands, straight yellow legs with orange pinstripes & orange block feet. reproduced in felt & embroidery floss, stuffed with wool. a pinned-together wip photo with orange thread & silver shears, + the finished product photo (puffy). the blanket stitching makes the robot's head look a little like a ravioli. they're supposed to have a red t-shaped antenna but i couldn't figure out how to reproduce that so i skipped it. in the game notes, this character is called Hugbot. but our household 3yo calls them Robot Friend & is the one doing the hugging.
October 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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i made a tea dragon. six yr old housemate is pleased as punch.
montage: chamomile tea dragon resting, blank-looking one in progress, final form. so they're a plump young creature, tawny ochre in color, with plump tiny horns & softly scalloped little wings. in the art book pic, they're snoozing, muzzle between paws, while someone is nipping off a flower from the several stalks growing on their head. they're undisturbed. the other 2 photos show how i made chamomile from a pair of soft (& really rather smaller than expected) bamboo sox, stuffed with soft springy wool, ornamented with felt (wings, horns, tail), embroidered with dmc floss (accept no substitutes!). i was going to add real chamomile flowers to the stuffing (mmm, fragrant) & add some tiny earrings, but our 6yo pal didn't want to wait!
September 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM