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Nathan Sempels
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Disabled, trans, canadian dad. Trying to make the world a better place on a small scale and to make my home a safe place. I knit when I'm anxious or depressed. I knit a lot.
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#pride #lgbtqia2+ #trans
June 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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2st finished item of 2025
Baby blanket for a flower themed baby shower. The pattern is called Aesclepius, made with Caron Cloud Cakes. Zoom in for details!
A sunburst knit baby blanket in golden, orange and brown colors, with a sunflower in the middle.
May 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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If 2024 was mostly socks, 2025 is shaping up to be blankets!

1st finished item of 2025
Baby blanket for a maritime themed baby shower. I cobbled together a few different patterns to mimic waves. Made with Caron Cloud Cakes
A round blanket knit middle-out, using yarn over increases, short rows, and picot edge. The ombre yarn goes from a deep blue in the center, pales to almost white, then back to deep blue at the perimeter of the circle. A frilly edge was added with the same almost white yarn. The segments between yarn overs mimic the shape of waves, and the frilly edge mimics foam on crashing waves. The color scheme invoques the moon's reflection on still water or a frozen lake. The shape also reminds of a sand dollar.
April 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility. We exist. We are not a threat to cis people's existance. We just want to be ourselves and live freely, without others legislating whats in our pants and what bathroom to use. Its a scary world to be alive in today.
Image displaying the text "You don't have to be gung-ho on trans rights to realize that a world where girls' genitals need to be inspected before they can play any sport is worse for girls than a world where once in a while there's a trans girl on a girls' team.
March 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Huge thanks to my friends for all the donated knitting needles! They are now nicely organized by size and ready to go to the Ottawa CNIB hub, where I am facilitating a visually impaired knitting group for the first time today.
#cnib #knitting #accessibility
A huge pile of knitting neddles of all sizes sits on a wood table. I have not counted, but there must be at least 50 pairs if not closer to 100.
March 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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UTI turned kidney infection suuuuuuck. Thank goodness for modern medicine and antibiotics
February 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Actively avoiding the news to avoid panic attacks. For now I'll be knitting my gayest blanket yet and focusing on making my direct community a bit better instead of looking at the wider world. #knitting #2slgbtqia
Rainbow yarn being knit into a raibow blanket, sitting on a person's lap.
January 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM