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Riin Gill
@riingill.bsky.social
She/her, knitter, spinner, weaver, crocheter, native plant gardener, Whovian, elder Gen X, vegan, geek, 🏳️‍🌈/🏳️‍⚧️ ally. Fibromyalgia, migraine, depression, anxiety, AuDHD. Friend to wildlife. riingill.substack.com.
Warping my loom and my yarn barfed. #weaving #yarn
August 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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One good way to know you’re in a cult is when your top guy has been credibly accused of raping children and you’re still a fan.
August 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Turns out that everyone who says weaving with linen is a PITA is right. Usually weaving is calming and I keep looking at the cloth I’m making and thinking it’s so beautiful. With linen? Not calming. Annoying AF. And I don’t even like the way it looks. I was planning on weaving 11’. I’ve done 6” 1/n
July 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
If you were my sewing machine oil, where would you be?
July 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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July 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”
July 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
July 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I finished my vest! I won’t be able to wear it till fall because I wove the fabric with worsted weight wool/alpaca/silk/mohair yarn and it’s 94°F but I’m ready! #handmade #sewing #weaving #Saori
June 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
If your insurance has to approve your prescription, and then they approve it but the copay is $641 for a one month supply, did they really approve it?

On the bright side, in about 6 weeks I’ll have paid all my out of pocket costs for the year, and then I pay $0.
June 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Oh, great a depression day. I haz a sad. Not for any specific reason, though there are a ton of reasons to be depressed (I’m looking at you, dystopian hellscape/endstage capitalism). I’m just sad, not for any *particular* reason. It will pass. Maybe in a day. Maybe in a week. Hopefully not longer.
June 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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This is a step-by-step tutorial for beginners about an improved method to carry the strands up the work when knitting in the round

Watch full tutorial
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of4L...

#knitting #knit #knitsky #knittingsky #knitter #handknit #showmeyourknits #knitwear
#handmade #colorwork #cables
Improved Way to Carry Up the Yarn When Knitting in the Round
YouTube video by 10rowsaday
www.youtube.com
June 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Ok, this is weird. A few weeks ago I posted about getting 6 goldfish for my pond and how they were all gone the next morning and I was really sad.

This morning there are at least 4 goldfish in my pond. But as soon as I saw them, they swam into a crevice or something and disappeared.
May 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I’ve been weaving. It’s off the loom, washed, and hanging to dry. #weaving #rigidheddleloom #saori

open.substack.com/pub/riingill...
I’ve been weaving. Honest.
Just not writing about it.
open.substack.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I don’t know if I’ve been weaving too much lately, or knitting or gardening too much, or some combination, but my left wrist is screaming at me. Ok, ok, I won’t use my hands for the rest of the day (do you have any idea how hard that is for me?!) and I took some Tylenol. Why isn’t the pain gone now?
May 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
So, if you brought 6 goldfish home to your pond and the next morning they were all gone, where did they go? What happened to them?
May 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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May 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
#NoteToSelf Don’t hold a mug full of hot #tea when you’re on the verge of falling asleep. Ow!!!

Seriously. This is like the third time this has happened to me! You’d think I would learn! Sigh. I used to be really smart and now my brain is a jerk.
May 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I finally started sampling on my loom. Using my handspun for both warp and weft, well, I think I need something in between 5dpi and 8dpi. Is there such a thing for a 24” Kromski Harp rigid heddle loom? #weaving
April 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Weavers, especially rigid heddle weavers, if you weave samples, do you use your regular loom or some other loom? #weaving
April 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
You know, I’m vegan, but if other people want to eat the rich, I’m ok with that.
April 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Last night we rewatched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the Tim Burton version). This morning it occurred to me that Trump saying he wants to annex Canada, Greenland, etc., is like Veruca Salt saying “Daddy, I want a squirrel!”
April 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Those of you with a Very Large Stash, how do sort it for storage? By size, then color? By size, then fiber content? Or…? 🧶 #knitsky #knitting
March 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM