Leigh Ann Parente
@laparente.bsky.social
Yarn, cats, and vegetarian cooking, from my San Francisco home.
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Wise woman @rebeccawilova.bsky.social told me this is a good time to repost the classics. So I present to you: Francis Albert & Antonio Carlos.
Trying to recover from losing a sweater WIP (in event exclusive yarn!) so I’m casting on a bunch. Cue Hall & Oats:”…pretty bodies held dissolve the memories, they can never be what she was to me…”
February 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Trying to recover from losing a sweater WIP (in event exclusive yarn!) so I’m casting on a bunch. Cue Hall & Oats:”…pretty bodies held dissolve the memories, they can never be what she was to me…”
First time in my life, my phone updated its iOS, and I’m thrilled. Loving the new iCloud setup. Obsessed. I’ll be at inbox zero soon!!! 🍏
February 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
First time in my life, my phone updated its iOS, and I’m thrilled. Loving the new iCloud setup. Obsessed. I’ll be at inbox zero soon!!! 🍏
I just don’t think they could be any cuter.
February 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I just don’t think they could be any cuter.
Trying my hand at crochet assigned pooling with @frog2tog.bsky.social and @sisterananseyarn.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Trying my hand at crochet assigned pooling with @frog2tog.bsky.social and @sisterananseyarn.bsky.social
2025 Mood Blanket: January
Credit to Toni Lipsy, who inspired this project.
Credit to Toni Lipsy, who inspired this project.
February 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
2025 Mood Blanket: January
Credit to Toni Lipsy, who inspired this project.
Credit to Toni Lipsy, who inspired this project.
On the blocking board! Bayshore Bandana Cowl by Kira K Designs, in Love Fest Fibers pashmina. Hand-spun and hand-dyed. Unbelievably soft and fluffy. This sample will be at Love Fest’s SF shop for you to try on, fall in love, buy the kit, and make one for yourself! 🧶
January 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
On the blocking board! Bayshore Bandana Cowl by Kira K Designs, in Love Fest Fibers pashmina. Hand-spun and hand-dyed. Unbelievably soft and fluffy. This sample will be at Love Fest’s SF shop for you to try on, fall in love, buy the kit, and make one for yourself! 🧶
Explain this.
He has infinite soft upholstered surfaces to nap on, but he chooses the back of my closet, on a pile of shoes.
He has infinite soft upholstered surfaces to nap on, but he chooses the back of my closet, on a pile of shoes.
January 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Explain this.
He has infinite soft upholstered surfaces to nap on, but he chooses the back of my closet, on a pile of shoes.
He has infinite soft upholstered surfaces to nap on, but he chooses the back of my closet, on a pile of shoes.
Aw hell.
Is it going to be an Eagles - Chiefs rematch?
Unrelated, do you think my Dr will give me something for anxiety?
Is it going to be an Eagles - Chiefs rematch?
Unrelated, do you think my Dr will give me something for anxiety?
January 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Aw hell.
Is it going to be an Eagles - Chiefs rematch?
Unrelated, do you think my Dr will give me something for anxiety?
Is it going to be an Eagles - Chiefs rematch?
Unrelated, do you think my Dr will give me something for anxiety?
Reposted by Leigh Ann Parente
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Restarting my mood blanket, with more range and nuance. This is a swatch to test out a few ideas. I like where this is going, over my previous concept. Now to re-crochet the past 20 days. NBD! That’s the joy of crochet! It’s quick. 🧶
January 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Restarting my mood blanket, with more range and nuance. This is a swatch to test out a few ideas. I like where this is going, over my previous concept. Now to re-crochet the past 20 days. NBD! That’s the joy of crochet! It’s quick. 🧶
Reposted by Leigh Ann Parente
I've heard and seen a lot today about how to get through this. Here's my hot take:
1. every day is a gift.
2. joy is resistance.
3. community care is key.
We'll get through it because we have to. And because we have each other. Keep making your art and flaunting your humanity. ❤️
1. every day is a gift.
2. joy is resistance.
3. community care is key.
We'll get through it because we have to. And because we have each other. Keep making your art and flaunting your humanity. ❤️
![[four slides each with the same design layout of a short saying in the middle of the page, surrounded by abstract color bars or images of yarn and scissors and thread.
The first slide says: Three things to get through another four years; second slide says: every day is a gift; third slide: joy is resistance; fourth slide: community care is key. ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s6zaa6fmy3twlzrq3u4sppca/bafkreigmow23yrbytimkciejm2nsyxuv74varlrehlwmcpouyo2ywlegcm@jpeg)
![[four slides each with the same design layout of a short saying in the middle of the page, surrounded by abstract color bars or images of yarn and scissors and thread.
The first slide says: Three things to get through another four years; second slide says: every day is a gift; third slide: joy is resistance; fourth slide: community care is key. ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s6zaa6fmy3twlzrq3u4sppca/bafkreifg25l3yq342qgnkcduoeotl35uh7r7frsefdydc5f7bqyytmp5xm@jpeg)
![[four slides each with the same design layout of a short saying in the middle of the page, surrounded by abstract color bars or images of yarn and scissors and thread.
The first slide says: Three things to get through another four years; second slide says: every day is a gift; third slide: joy is resistance; fourth slide: community care is key. ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s6zaa6fmy3twlzrq3u4sppca/bafkreih7w3o2ptbdy2d7qrih3m777y45h2fgghs5aezdt65xketwloavdi@jpeg)
![[four slides each with the same design layout of a short saying in the middle of the page, surrounded by abstract color bars or images of yarn and scissors and thread.
The first slide says: Three things to get through another four years; second slide says: every day is a gift; third slide: joy is resistance; fourth slide: community care is key. ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s6zaa6fmy3twlzrq3u4sppca/bafkreifefmvk533sg52cjns73peik7vsjb22ytwmxw5q7v2yoxligv6vni@jpeg)
January 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I've heard and seen a lot today about how to get through this. Here's my hot take:
1. every day is a gift.
2. joy is resistance.
3. community care is key.
We'll get through it because we have to. And because we have each other. Keep making your art and flaunting your humanity. ❤️
1. every day is a gift.
2. joy is resistance.
3. community care is key.
We'll get through it because we have to. And because we have each other. Keep making your art and flaunting your humanity. ❤️
Chatting with a friend about how to recreate the communities we lost. I keep coming back to the fact that community organizing predates socials or computers. We don’t need the next platform. We need to relearn how movements organized in the analog age.
January 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Chatting with a friend about how to recreate the communities we lost. I keep coming back to the fact that community organizing predates socials or computers. We don’t need the next platform. We need to relearn how movements organized in the analog age.
Did I match my new project to my new puffer vest? Obviously yes, but not consciously.
January 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Did I match my new project to my new puffer vest? Obviously yes, but not consciously.
I’ll say it: bc this is basically twitter, and I never used or needed twitter, it’s extremely difficult to settle now.
January 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I’ll say it: bc this is basically twitter, and I never used or needed twitter, it’s extremely difficult to settle now.
Daily Crochet Journaling is going well, tho not without challenges. Yes, I’m having a hard time boiling each day down to one emotion. Also, since I often journal at night, the most urgent, recurring feeling is, “EXHAUSTED.” Not an emotion, but that’s how I feel.
January 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Daily Crochet Journaling is going well, tho not without challenges. Yes, I’m having a hard time boiling each day down to one emotion. Also, since I often journal at night, the most urgent, recurring feeling is, “EXHAUSTED.” Not an emotion, but that’s how I feel.
I get very little lap time with my boys. They strongly prefer Mike. Here is a rare and precious moment with Paco.
January 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I get very little lap time with my boys. They strongly prefer Mike. Here is a rare and precious moment with Paco.
My interpretation of Tony Lipsy’s 2025 mood wrap, nee blanket. Each night at 8:pm, an alarm goes off on my phone, and I sit down to journal and crochet about my day.
January 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My interpretation of Tony Lipsy’s 2025 mood wrap, nee blanket. Each night at 8:pm, an alarm goes off on my phone, and I sit down to journal and crochet about my day.
While I only have a few followers here, I can share stuff I probably shouldn’t (yet.)
Here’s the Bayshore Bandana Cowl, by Kira K Designs, to be released January 30 with cowls from two other designers, in anticipation of the @baycrawl.bsky.social
Here’s the Bayshore Bandana Cowl, by Kira K Designs, to be released January 30 with cowls from two other designers, in anticipation of the @baycrawl.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
While I only have a few followers here, I can share stuff I probably shouldn’t (yet.)
Here’s the Bayshore Bandana Cowl, by Kira K Designs, to be released January 30 with cowls from two other designers, in anticipation of the @baycrawl.bsky.social
Here’s the Bayshore Bandana Cowl, by Kira K Designs, to be released January 30 with cowls from two other designers, in anticipation of the @baycrawl.bsky.social
Not much of a picture, but this was the very best lentil soup ever, thanks to @ranchogordo.bsky.social and having mirepoix prepped in the freezer. Sadly, all gone now.
January 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Not much of a picture, but this was the very best lentil soup ever, thanks to @ranchogordo.bsky.social and having mirepoix prepped in the freezer. Sadly, all gone now.
I didn’t know about the 🧶 or really, any of this. Such useful information!
New Bluesky fiber peeps, welcome! Here are some get-started tips so you can feel more at home here:
1. Add the yarn ball emoji to your posts to get picked up in the "Crochet and Knitting" and "Craftiverse" feeds
1. Add the yarn ball emoji to your posts to get picked up in the "Crochet and Knitting" and "Craftiverse" feeds
January 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I didn’t know about the 🧶 or really, any of this. Such useful information!
Wise woman @rebeccawilova.bsky.social told me this is a good time to repost the classics. So I present to you: Francis Albert & Antonio Carlos.
January 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Wise woman @rebeccawilova.bsky.social told me this is a good time to repost the classics. So I present to you: Francis Albert & Antonio Carlos.
Blocking the first of three “BAYCrawl Cowls” - this one is designed by KiraK, with yarn by SuperGlo.
January 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Blocking the first of three “BAYCrawl Cowls” - this one is designed by KiraK, with yarn by SuperGlo.
Happy 2025. Hope it’s full of creativity, color, and cookies.
January 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Happy 2025. Hope it’s full of creativity, color, and cookies.