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Milo
@milo-malachite.bsky.social
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Librarian 📚, queer 🌈, knitter 🧶, quilter 🪡, amateur artist 🎨, allergic to my four cats 🐈.
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I don’t tend to enjoy making scarves much, but here’s one I did out of spite that ended up being a really lovely gift for a friend. One of the first things I designed entirely myself, it’s fairly simple but the striped yarn kept my brain just interested enough to finish.
#showmeyourknits #knitsky
A rainbow striped handmade scarf made with a double seed stitch border and a cable in the middle. A person wearing a rainbow striped handmade scarf they just finished making.
September 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Making a scrap quilt and playing with triangles for the first time. The rest of my seams so far are pretty rough but LOOK AT THIS PERFECT CONVERGENCE POINT AAAAAAAHHH
#quiltsky #upcycle #sewing #scrappy #handmade #satisfying
A close up photo of a scrappy quilt made of small 60 degree triangles. Some of the seams are slightly off, but the central one pictured features six triangles coming together to perfect points in the center. Fabrics pictured are all in shades of red, and feature gingham, bunnies, rings of white dots, red dandelions, large poppies, and black and red buffalo check.
September 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Finished a scarf for my sister and added it to a display advertising the employee crafting group at work. Hoping to start a knitting club for students this year as well 🧶
#library #knitsky #handmade #literacy #community #academiclibrary #makerspace
August 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Spent the weekend designing, patterning, and stumbling through practicing my own citrus quilt block from scratch. First attempt was pretty slapdash but I took my time with the second one and I’d say that’s a recognizable lime. Only 98 more to go and I’ll have myself a quilt.
#quiltsky #handmade
A hand drawn quilt block pattern in pencil with notes in the left hand margin. The block depicts a citrus slice composed of eight wedges, plus narrow strips for pith and the peel. A quilt block depicting a slice of lemon on a light blue background. The lemon is oblong and the eight wedges are smushed together in the middle due to the block’s mediocre construction. A quilt block depicting a slice of lime on a periwinkle background. The block is imperfect with some mismatched seams, but it shows a vast improvement over the lemon.
August 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Finally finished my second quilt! It’s tough to get a nice picture of something this size, but I’m super proud of how it came out. Top is my own wave design, back is a disappearing nine patch in duck cloth at my beloved’s insistence. Vast skill improvement already!
#quiltsky #handmade #queercraft
A person spreading a handmade quilt over a queen size bed. The quilt has a horizontal pixelated wave pattern which transitions from pinks to blues to light and dark grays. The back of the quilt spread out over the bed. The back is a disappearing nine patch pattern with pink and light blue floral large squares, beige floral horizontal rectangles, abstract lines suggesting faces in the vertical rectangles, and small dark green squares with red, white, and yellow flowers. The same quilt as before with the back side facing up. One corner has been flipped to show both faces at once.
August 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Truly obsessed with how this yarn my sister spun worked up into a cute little pumpkin! Pattern is by Nimble Needles.

#knitsky #handmade #plush #pumpkin
A partially used cake of hand spun yarn that gradually transitions between yellow and bold orange tones A hand knitted pumpkin about the size of a grapefruit. The pumpkin has ombré chevron bands of yellow, orange, and red. There is a curly green stem ending in a large leaf of mottled green handspun yarn.
June 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Finished my first ever quilt just in time to use it as a photo backdrop for lavender graduation! I definitely learned as I want so don’t look too closely, but it’s a great blanket and it makes me happy.
#quilt #pride #handmade #firsttry #textileart #progresspride
May 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Locked in for 9 hours today and got half of my first quilt top assembled. Absolutely humbled by math throughout this process but I’m not giving up.

#quilting #handmade #pride #rainbow #transrights #DIY
One half of a handmade quilt held vertically. The quilt is a progress pride flag, and the portion pictured features the red, orange, and yellow stripes as well as half of the black, brown, light blue, pink, and white diagonal portions of the flag. Distinguishable prints in the quilt include large and small florals, orange fruits, strawberries, dandelions, gingham, bunnies, pine cones, and geometric motifs.
April 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Update: I started the quilt. Also holy smokes fabric is expensive

#quilt #sewing #handmade #pride
Unsewn quilt blocks laid out messily in stripes of red, orange, yellow, and green. The stripes alternate between 12 inch and 6 inch blocks, and the fabric prints include gingham, florals, circles, fruit, bunnies, and swans. A tall stack of fat quarters in rainbow order tier together with ribbon made to look like tailor’s measuring tape.
April 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Remember that yarn my sister spun for me? Looks like I figured out what to do with it. No pattern, just worked off a photo and experimented. I’m obsessed with the subtle color bands in the yarn- it worked up more beautifully than I could have imagined.

#knitsky #handmade #yarn #knit
A person in a white shirt with blue flowers wearing a dusty pink cowl knit from handspun yarn. Subtle bands of blue and orange appear naturally in the yarn. The cowl is slouchy, with occasional purl stripes throughout. It comes to a sharp point in front, with a tassel of the same yarn attached to the tip. The same person and cowl, with slightly more of their face showing.
April 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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I was going to stop with the book posts because I found them boring, but HOLY SMOKES I need to yell about this book! Absolutely brutal, richly researched, and devastatingly timely. I love media that hurts me.

#booksky #linguistics #revolution #historicalfiction #bipoc #🌎📚💙
March 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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I’ve got four knitting projects on the needles. Someone convince me I shouldn’t start a quilting project just because I saw a progress pride quilt that looks super doable…

#knitsky #quiltsky #crafting #queermaker #multitask
March 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Alright knitters, I need some help. My sister is a spinner and has sent me these two ENORMOUS skeins of handmade yarn to play with. What do you think I should knit with 445yd of worsted muted pink “unicorn farts”, or 515yd of bulky autumnal variegated “hot mess”?
#knitsky #handmade #spinning #yarn
A large skein of hand spun yarn hung on a light green wall. The yarn is worsted weight, mostly a muted pink color with flecks of blue and purple and some strands of sparkle throughout. The handwritten card reads “sheep wool, firestar, maybe bamboo? 445 yards of Sparkle Unicorn Farts. Couldn’t decide on a project” A close up view of Sparkle Unicorn Farts from photo 1 A huge skein of hand spun yarn hung in front of a light green wall. The yarn is a bulky weight, primarily orange with bits of green, brown, and red plied in throughout in very autumnal tones. The handwritten details cars accompanying it reads “100% sheep wool. 517 yards Hot Mess. Fiber by: The Bird’s Nest Knits and More” A close up view of Hot Mess handspun yarn described in the third picture.
March 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Playing a dangerous game of yarn chicken with this glove for a friend. Maybe they’ll just have one thumb poking out so they can use their phone…

#knitsky #yarnchicken #mitten #handmade
A hand knitted mitten is pictured with the thumb not yet complete. In place of the thumb is a small ball of yarn about the diameter of a U.S. quarter. The mitten is a hand dyed green with three rows of white in a horizontal stripe near the second knuckle. It’s in mainly stockinette stitch, with a long k1p1 ribbed cuff.
March 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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🌎📚💙 Book 25 of the year is Modern Poetry of Pakistan, an anthology of translated works from several of Pakistan’s languages. While I didn’t connect with the style as much as I do with my old favorites, I did feel a kinship with the authors as America faces struggles.
#booksky #pakistan #poetry
Book cover for Modern Poetry of Pakistan. An abstract mosaic features small brown tiles that gradually grow lighter in one area to give the illusion of a rough sphere, or a light shining down a hole from far above.
February 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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💙📚 Book 24 in 2025 was Taproot, a collection of poetry by Kathy Mangan. It was less nature focused than I had hoped based on the title. On the one hand it didn’t blow me away, on the other it was a nice experience of an older woman’s reminiscence on life.
#booksky #poetry
February 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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💙📚 Book 23 in 2025 was The God of the Woods by Liz Moore. I’m not normally one for thrillers, but this is based in upstate NY and I adore the Adirondacks. A little formulaic but with a nice twist at the end. Great character development all around

#booksky #bestseller #thriller
February 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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In honor of a good friend and new parent, book 22 for this year is Go To Sleep (I Miss You) by Lucy Knisley. It’s a cute collection of comics reflecting on the first few months of parenthood and all the blowouts along the way.
#booksky #comics #parenting #baby
Book cover for Go to Sleep (I Miss You) by Lucy Knisley. Two side by side illustrations of a mother and baby next to a crib. In the first, the frazzled mother holds a crying baby. A spiky speech bubble containing a picture of a lightning storm erupts from the baby’s mouth. In the second, the baby is asleep in the crib while his wistful mother looks on, a thought balloon containing a heart floating above them both.
February 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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💙📚 Book 21 of the year is a tidy little LitFic novel called The Hearing Test, in which a sound designer for short films suddenly begins to go deaf. Extremely introspective, it’s as much poetry on the page as it is plot driven, which I always love.
#booksky #disability
Book cover for The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan. A rectangle of cloud is set amidst an off white background above a darker gray rectangle of the same proportions. Three red-orange circles the size of nickels are scattered across the image.
February 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Finally took pictures of the entrelac shawl I finished this week! I added trim and a button to secure it in the back and I’m obsessed. So far I’ve had five different people try to buy it off me- too bad it took nearly 60 hours and is deeply impractical to sell.
#knitsky #handmade #entrelac
Someone wearing a shawl with a colorful checkerboard pattern. The shawl is crossed in the front across the chest and secured behind the waist to prevent it slipping off. Someone wearing a multicolored checkerboard shawl, seen from behind. The point of the shawl is tucked behind the button closure to show how it’s secured. Someone holding a multicolored checkerboard shawl stretched out to show off its length and shape. They are standing in deep snow, facing away from the camera. The shawl measures roughly 85 inches long, and has a button at one tip and a loop at the other.
February 23, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Oh look, another comic! Book 20 for this year was This is how I Disappear by Marion Malle. This graphic novel shows a young writer’s long term struggle with depression after sexual assault. While the circumstances are different, it reminds me so much of college.
#booksky #graphicmedicine #comic
Book cover for This Is How I Disappear by Mirion Malle. The title is made to look like sky writing over a close up illustration of a faceless woman laying back in a field of large red flowers.
February 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Tried to get a picture of my current #WIP for #showmeyourknits this week, but Martin decided it was time for me to knit in hard mode. Hopefully the trim on this shawl will be done soon anyway
#knitsky #cat #handmade
February 17, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Continuing a time honored snow day tradition

#baking #snowday #fromscratch
A fresh homemade pan of cinnamon rolls
February 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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🌎📚💙Number 19 is in the books! You Brought Me the Ocean is a queer coming of age story set against the backdrop of DC comics. Excellent representation in this one, and beautiful illustration. The ending felt unfinished, but that’s a testament to the messiness of adolescence.
#booksky #queer #comic
Book cover for You Brought Me the Ocean, by Alex Sanchez and Julie Maroh. Cropped just above the nose, two boys nearly kiss. On the left, an Asian American boy with blue-green hair is holding his hands out palm up. On the right, a Black boy holds his hands palm up inside the other’s- strange blue strips of light encircle his wrists.
February 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Finished book 18 for the year! Song of a Blackbird by Maria Van Lieshout is a graphic novel about art as resistance in Amsterdam during WWII. While I didn’t love the blackbird framing device, I liked the narrative threads and the central theme of art and community support.

#booksky #graphicnovel
Book cover for Song of a Blackbird by Maria Van Lieshout. The title text appears in white over the printed silhouette of a blackbird’s head and torso which stands against a red sun.
February 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM