mebcoll.bsky.social
@mebcoll.bsky.social
Leftist in Chicago. Knitting. Sewing. Amateur birding. Travel. Play guitar and mandolin poorly.
I love that @aoc.bsky.social is in on the #WIPWednesday trend. As for me, I'm chugging along on miles of ribbing on the DRK Everyday Cardi using Mountain Meadow Tweed Sport, which I am loving. 🧶
April 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I went to the protest in Chicago last Saturday and a couple people near me were griping about the pro Palestine speakers. That says to me we need more young people and more leftists to show up who loudly & proudly support a #FreePalestine #MayDay #50501

May 1- Union Park- 11am
April 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Huge turnout in Chicago. #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
It's been a day. Managing Alzheimers grants, the gutting of the CDC broke me. I watched some Booker & had a bit of hope. Wisconsin showing up gave me more hope. Now here I am with my snoozy pup working out a tricky part of this Ginsan & thinking we got this. Shit sucks now, but we'll do it.
April 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Saturday morning knitting with a snoozy pup, window open, and a podcast is one of my favorite things. I'm working on a Ginsan cardigan using one of my fave yarns- Lucky Tweed. #knitting 🧶
March 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
On vacation in Spain enjoying gorgeous architecture, delicious food and drink, & lovely people. It boggles my mind that people like Elon with more money than I can fathom spend their days making lives worse & husks like Schumer enable it. Just eat some tapas and stare at an old castle, you maniacs.
March 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A friend sent me this and I thought it was a joke. Nope- @schumer.senate.gov posting to the Nazi hell site this important commentary from the front lines.
February 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
February 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Rosie modeling the beginnings of the Ginsan sweater. Cast on this week as part of the #SkyKAL where we knit anything blue. I'm using one of my fave yarns- Lucky Tweed from Kelbourne Woolens. #KnitSky #knitting 🧶
January 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I recommend r/fednews on reddit. Federal employees holding the line.
January 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
There's nothing quite like the big bag of bullshit on #RHOSLC to make me feel some joy while the world is imploding. On one hand I'm so sick of Meredith and want her gone but on the other the greatest thing ever said was "It was a dig on my marriage and it was a dig on my bathtub!"
January 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Good morning! Just came across this pic of my dog wearing Bernie mittens. 🧶
January 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
January 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Mostly off IG so I guess this is where I post my dog and my crafts. Nearly finished the body of this sweater I designed using Lopi yarn I got in Iceland last summer. Middle looks weird cause I'm gonna steek it and add an zipper. But first ribbing the bottom and a trip to sleeve island. #knitting 🧶
January 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A Tale of Two Tweets
January 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I did a yarn advent calendar through Playful Day Yarns. It was fun & I love the yarn but am usually not much of a mini skein person. I'm planning to do the Find Your Fade shawl by Andrea Mowry combining some yarn I dyed this year. Any favorite patterns that use lots of mini skeins? 🧶 #knitting
December 30, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Finished the body of the Paul Klee sweater (pattern by Midori Hirose). Now onto sleeve knitting which will be perfect mindless knitting for travel and hanging out with family this week. #knitting 🧶
December 21, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Marjorie is worried that were gonna get socialized medicine out of this. Oh no! What if us wacky leftists convince more people that healthcare is a right and insurance companies are useless and criminal?!
December 12, 2024 at 3:31 AM
Finished the Winter Sweater (pattern by Kate Gagnon Osborn) just in time for really cold weather. Yarn is Vidde which I liked a lot. I'll get a ton of wear out of this one. #knitting 🧶
December 6, 2024 at 1:37 PM
My cozy dog to balance my political rants.
December 5, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Cutting out some lovely dry cotton oilskin fabric to make the Landgate jacket by Merchant and Mills. #sewing 🪡
November 27, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Finished the yoke of my Paul Klee sweater and Rosie tried it on for size. Fits like a glove. 🧶 #knitting
November 22, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Early morning knitting and podcast listening is one of the highlights of my life. Working on the Winter Sweater and loving this pattern. #knitting #showmeyourknits 🧶
November 15, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Coming to Hallmark this Holiday- "Don Me Now Our Brains Unravel."

Love how we were expected to ignore the funding of a genocide cause of the impending existential threat to democracy and now it looks like we're gearing up to pardon some turkeys together! We love the enemies to friends trope!
November 14, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Greetings to my 4 followers! This place seems better than Threads and obviously better than that other one. Hoping we can maybe plan the class revolution here, but for now here's something I'm knitting.
November 13, 2024 at 10:03 AM