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lolarusa.bsky.social
@lolarusa.bsky.social
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literary translator, budding knitting designer, longtime sometime blogger, film buff, raconteuse

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Here's my FLUFF piece. A barely-begun raglan made with repurposed angora/silk blend. At least, I think it's an angora/silk blend. I lost the tag from the sweater.
#knitsky #showmeyourknits #showusyourknits #knitting
A ball of pale-green, fluffy yarn and the first few rows of a raglan sweater knit from the neck down circular needles.
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I hear tell it's cable week for #showmeyourknits.
My Spare Rib socks have a touch of cabling to make your ankles look fancy.
#knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Photo of feet wearing deep turquoise socks with cables along the sides of the ankles. Photo of three garter rib socks with cables at the sides of the ankles in grey and pale green wool. Photo of feet wearing fuzzy gray garter rib socks with cables along the sides of the ankles.
November 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Just published my new Spare Rib sock pattern on Ravelry. Check it out!
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#knitsky #sockknitting #knitting
A photo of two feet crossed at the ankle, wearing cozy gray wool socks with cables at the ankle.
November 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Sample sock number 2 underway for my new sock pattern.
(Spare Rib Socks--coming out in just a couple of weeks!)

#sockknitting #knitsky #knitting
A photo of a half-finished cable-knit sock cuff in a deep blue-green yarn held on four wooden double-pointed needles.
October 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Hi Knitters! I'm looking for test knitters for my new Spare Rib sock pattern.

They're in dk with a garter rib leg, so they're a quick knit.

Deadline: Halloween (October 31st)

More information on Ravelry: www.ravelry.com/discuss/the-...

#testknit #sockknitting #knitsky #knitting #blueskyknitting
An image of two feet crossed at the ankle, wearing cozy gray cable knit socks.
September 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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From the New York Times archives. www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
#nokings #kimmel #latenight
An image of and article in the print edition of the February 3rd, 1939 issue of the New York Times, that reads "BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany. Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence." As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today. What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of National Socialist …
September 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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A colored pencil drawing of a single blackberry on the vine, purple berry with a yellow and white halo behind it.
September 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Workers Over Billionaires Labor Day of action. Find an event near you at maydaystrong.org

#workersoverbillionaires #maydaystrong #laborday
A black and white image of a crowd of people holding signs that read "People Over Billionairs" Save Public Servants", and "Dump Trump". Text over the photo reads "Labor Day 2025, Workers over Billionaires."
August 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Breakfast of Hermiston watermelon, plums from a friend's tree, garden cucumbers, gift of fancy meats and cheeses. Summer is delicious.
A cluttered table setting of blue and white plates in various sizes and patterns seen from above. One plate of preserved meats and cheeses, one of sliced watermelon, plums, and cucumbers, one of butter, and one small white bowl with a dollop of mayonnaise. Beside it is a glass dish of rye crisp and croccantini crackers and rye crisp, an empty plate, and a napkin.
August 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Rick said, "I sent you a picture of a liverwort reproduction structure that I saw while waiting for the G Line".

We looked it up. It's called a gametophyte, and it's very cool.

#naturephotos #liverwort #photos #seattle
A photo of a bed of pale green, coral-like liverwort growing on a slope among moss-covered sticks, leaves, and grass, taken in close up.
August 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Summer weeds and summer foods.
#food #flowers #photos #summer
A very small blue and white porcelain vase with a handful of a variety of yellow-blossomed weeds and flowers sitting on a wooden tabletop. Includes strawflowers, calendula, hawksbeard, linden blossoms, marjoram, and unidentified other flowers. A blue and white porcelain plate with a sauteed fliet of sockeye salmon, cubes of fried red potatoes, and stalks of steamed asparagus. The plate is on a wooden table with glasses, silverware, a salt shaker, and another plate of the same dinner in the background.
June 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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A black and white photo. A person crouches on the dark pavement, their body almost completely obscured by clouds of pepper spray or tear gas, but the two picket signs they're holding are clearly visible. One reads "PROTEST IN PEACE. WE GOT THIS" and the other reads "NO BLOCK TRAFFIC DESTRUCTION GRAFFITI".
June 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I'm new to designing knitting patterns, and I still get tickled every time someone posts a photo of a project made with my pattern. Is this something that wears off with time? I hope not.
#knitsky #knitting #sockknitting
Photo of half-finished sock in green and blue made with my Moncot Socks pattern.
June 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I went to visit friends and family in my old hometown of Spokane this weekend. Had a lovely time.
#nokings #spokane
Photo of a large crowd of protesters in and around the red wagon sculpture at Riverfront Park in Spokane, WA. A warm sunny day, people holding American flags and homemade signs and banners that read "No Kings", "Defend Democracy", "Elect a clown, expect a circus" and other slogans.
June 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Through Finland in Carts, by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie, is a very fun book in the intrepid woman traveler tradition, published in 1897. This woman has a gusto for new experiences.
#booksky #womenwriters #travelwriting #finland
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27743
Cover of travel book Through Finland in Carts, by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie, red with an art-deco embossed flower motif in gold.
May 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Hemingway did it, anyway.
Ernest Hemingway photographed relaxing outdoors with a book in an ad for Ballantine Ale.
May 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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A purple-ish hat I made for my niece a couple of years ago. I wasn't satisfied with the brim seam, but I like the button.
#showmeyourknits #knitsky #knittedhats
A child's hat with a color fade from mottled pink at the brim through pale blue to purple at the top. Knit in Mexican Wave recycled acrylic yarn with a garter stitch brim and cruciform flower motif under a large blue button on one side.
May 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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An enormous fir tree trunk wearing a skirt of green moss.
May 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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A peaceful afternoon in the old growth along the White River.
Old lichen-encrusted fir trunks stretching into the distance on a forest floor thick with moss. A pebbly brook with a thick old fallen tree forming a bridge above it. A close-up of a hand holding a sprig of tiny, five-petaled flowers in shades of yellow, purple, and orange. A sun dappled path through green grass and slim, white alder trees with the river glimpsed ahead.
May 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Knitpicks is having a sale on sock yarn, and it seems to include all the yarns I used in the Monocot socks, so if anybody's hoping to make a pair just like the ones in the pictures, now's your chance.
#knitsky #sockknitting #knitting
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Three pairs of folded, colorful wool socks in shades of blue, red, green, and gray, on top of a small green table.
May 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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This week's #showmeyourknits is gifts, you say? Here's a little pouch full of tiny gifts that I made a couple of weeks ago.
#knitsky #knitting
A knitted pouch about 4 inches square with blue, green and brown stripes and a folded flap and large wooden button.
April 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Hands Off protest participants confronted by gun-toting maga dude in Idaho Falls. Proud of southern Idaho. #handsoff
A woman protestor in a floppy, blue, smurf-like hat and wire-rim eyeglasses raises her hands in front of her as a larger armed man wearing camo, sunglasses, and a red, billed hat with a rifle slung across his back stands facing her at the “Hands Off!” rally on the Broadway Bridge in Idaho Falls on April 5. Photo by Kaitlyn Hart, EastIdahoNews.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Image of U.S. map with text: April 5, 2025, the day we take it back. We march at noon. The National Mall & every state capitol.
March 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I hear it's green week for #showmeyourknits. Here are my most recent green things. Yes, it's more socks.
#knitsky #knitting #sockknitting
A photo of crossed legs resting on a green and purple chair with a bookshelf and red wall behind. The feet are in green socks with blue-green toes, heels, and cuffs.
March 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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POSTCARDS OF PROTEST. March 15th, we will mail Donald Trump a postcard that publicly expresses our opposition to him. In vast numbers, from all corners of the world, we will overwhelm the man with his unpopularity and failure. MARCH 15, 2025, MAIL TO: Donald J. Trump 1600 Pennsylvia Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500
March 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM