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thread and circuses
@thread-n-circuses.bsky.social
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i make things 🇺🇦🍉|queer|knitting designer|leatherworker|costume maker|dancer|hula hooper|fire-eating circus freak|wannabe comic artist|zebra|🍉🇺🇦
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are you an ex-mennonite witch? are you part of the missing witches coven? do you WANT to be? i've recently discovered that most 'ethnically mennonite' people in germany/russia/canada/south america were actively nazis.
clippings from manitoban newspapers pre-WWII, showing speakers at nazi rallies in winnipeg with nazi flags and hitler portraits behind them, and a crowd giving the nazi salute while the mennonite young people's choir sings. a screenshot of a video of nazis visiting a mennonite colonial village in russia in 1942; on the right, citizens performing the nazi salute and on the left, nazi soldiers touring the village.
May 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
thread-n-circuses.bsky.social
i cannot decide between black ribbon laces or matchy leather laces for my unicorn disco fringed moccasins. halp? #leatherwork #HandmadeShoes #HandmadeMoccasins #FringedLeatherMoccasins #DiscoBoots
the front view of a white person's right foot wearing iridescent fringed high-top leather moccasins with black ribbon laces. the front view of a white person's right foot wearing iridescent fringed high-top leather moccasins with matching leather laces. the side view of a white person's right foot wearing iridescent fringed high-top leather moccasins with black ribbon laces. the side view of a white person's right foot wearing iridescent fringed high-top leather moccasins with matching leather laces.
April 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
thread-n-circuses.bsky.social
made myself a red leather band for my apple watch! #leatherwork #DIYAppleWatchBand #HandmadeWatchBand #CustomLeatherWatchBand
a white person's wrist and hand wearing an apple watch and a handmade, deep red leather band. there is a black bee tattoo on the dorsum of the hand. a white person's wrist and hand wearing an a handmade, deep red leather watch band with a black buckle. a black apple watch and a handmade, deep red leather watch band with a black buckle, on a blue striped blanket.
April 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Y'ALL. i just got half a cow of shiny iridescent fairy leather and i intend to make disco boots and fetish harnesses and everything i can imagine with this bovine. #leatherwork #FairyLeather
four rolls of iridescent italian pebble-grain leather. one roll of iridescent italian pebble-grain leather leaned up against legs clothed in pink, purple, and orange galaxy leggings and black boots and standing on a sidewalk. also pictured, the ends of a brioche-knit scarf ('a wrinkle in time travel'). a half-hide of iridescent italian pebble-grain leather unfurled on a messy bed with grey sheets, blue-striped blankets, and jurassic park themed pillows.
April 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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got a nerd watch with a nerdy background. LCARS ftw! #LCARS #StarTrek #AppleWatchSE #NerdWatch
a white person's wrist with a black bee tattoo. she is wearing a black apple watch SE with a custom LCARS star trek background she altered in photoshop. a white person's wrist with a black bee tattoo. she is wearing a black apple watch SE with a custom LCARS star trek background she altered in photoshop.
April 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
thread-n-circuses.bsky.social
flowers are starting to show themselves on the east coast of 'canada'. it feels springy at last!
#snowdrops #fleurs #PlantFrands
snowdrops growing out of dirt and dead leaves and covered in fog droplets.
March 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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does this count as leatherwork or bookbinding? or both? i made a sleep cover for my kobo with leather and handmade paper. and magnets (to put the kobo to sleep). #leatherwork #BookBinding #KoboSleepCover
the front of a black leather, handmade kobo sleepcover on a bamboo background. a white person's hand holding a black leather, handmade kobo sleepcover to show the spine. there's a bamboo background. an open black leather, handmade kobo sleepcover on a bamboo background. it has an orange, teal, red, and gold handmade paper on the inside of the cover, and contains a kobo clara 2e.
March 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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little bit late to the #ShowMeYourKnits sock party, but here's two mismatched socks! one from a pattern i have lost and one that was just a mish-mash recipe of toe-up sock components i liked. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky
a pair of feet wearing mismatched handknit socks; on the right foot is a variegated green and red sock, and on the left foot is a purple sock with a thin lace strip up one side.
March 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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March 3, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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sip and stitch not going very quickly, here's that same partly-finished brioche hat from weeks ago with an oat milk mocha and! a dilly dally lemon meringue poptart! 🧶 #FiberuaryChallenge #CoffeeIsLife #knitting #KnitSky #EatLocal #PoptartThursday
a yellow-lidded takeout coffee cup with an obscured picture of a local café on the sleeve, a partly finished brioche knit hat in teal, chartreuse, black, and speckled rainbow yarn, and a paper takeout box containing a homemade lemon meringue poptart.
February 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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okay, so... these neon green and black fingerless mitts were a handmade gift for @jcvideohfx.bsky.social and i took slightly racy photos to show him. nothing is showing besides my scandalous shoulders, but... i'm labeling it anyway. sorry (not-sorry?) #FiberuaryChallenge 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky
a waist-up photo of a white woman with short brownish hair, bluegreen glasses, a neon green knit handkerchief cowl, neon green and black fingerless mitts, and... nothing else. the mitts are strategically placed enough that no nudity is present.
February 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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i've missed a few days, but i'm back to #FiberuaryChallenge ! today's prompt is 'memories'. this is me rediscovering how cute knit hats are with my short hair, with my 'konami code' reversible hat. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky

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a white woman with a dark grey shirt and knit hat and blue-green rectangular glasses is smiling and leaning her head back on a velvety blue couch.
February 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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my fibre friends! also my witchy friends, but since fibre arts are basically magic, same thing. here is überwench plus mini-wenches yelling up the sun on a beach. #FiberuaryChallenge
a bunch of bundled up femmes and thems sitting in a row on blankets and tarps on the beach in winter. it is almost sunrise.
February 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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#FiberuaryChallenge twos day calls for fingerless mitts! the green 'dukes up' are reversible, grey 'velvet grip' are lace.
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🧶 #knitting #KnitSky
a pair of hands wearing dark green cabled fingerless mitts on a white sheepskin background. a white woman with short, greying hair and blue-green glasses wearing a pink graphic t-shirt, lacey charcoal fingerless mitts, and black chandelier earrings. she is gleefully sticking out her tongue and signing 'i love you' with both hands as if she's 'throwing up the horns', metal style.
February 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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forgot my #FiberuaryChallenge yesterday! i'm reading 'hand of light', 'finding the fool', 'the only astrology book you'll ever need', and i'm watching 'elementary' (woo lucy liu!!) #OnMyKobo #KoboBooks
the cover of 'hands of light: a guide to healing through the human energy field' by barbara ann brennan. it is blue, with a pair of blue, partially cupped raised hands full of white light painted on it. the text is all in white. the cover of 'finding the fool: a tarot journey to radical transformation' by meg jones wall (3am tarot). it has a dark blue and purple galaxy-swirl background with the phases of the moon painted across the cover. the initial text is black, with the tagline and author's name in white. the cover of 'the only astrology book you'll ever need' by joanna martine woolfolk. it has a yellow background with a stylized circular map of the zodiac split in half and oriented to the top and bottom of the page. each zodiac creature is painted semi-realistically on the map halves. the text starts in dark rust, transitions to lighter rust and back to dark, with the author's name in olive green. a poster for the tv show 'elementary' with lucy liu in a dark red, short sleeve dress and jonny lee miller in a patterned white and grey shirt and grey blazer standing in front of a backlit, filligree stone 'window'.
February 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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my #FiberuaryChallenge cozy corner: a grey sheepskin pillow and a book. i'm sure there's yarn somewhere close, because at my place, yarn is like spiders; never more than a few feet away. 🧶 #YarnIsLikeSpiders #HandmadeKoboCover #LeatherWork
a white woman with grey hair and glasses peeks out from behind a handmade leather kobo cover meant to look like a vintage book. she is wearing a black tshirt and silver moon phases cylindrical pendant and lying on a grey sheepskin pillow.
February 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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#FiberuaryChallenge love, you say? love is finding a knitworthy soup-making human to spend time with. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky #KnitworthyPartner @jcvideohfx.bsky.social
profile photo of a white man with a red-brown beard, long hair, and glasses wearing a white and grey striped knit hat. a star trek TNG themed knit hat; it is red and black with a silver and gold communicator design. top-down view of two black bowls filled with meatball and pasta soup on a bamboo tray.
February 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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a very happy 'james cook is dead' day to those who celebrate. #LandBack #DismantleWhiteSupremacy
a painting of a white colonizer cowering before a hawaiian person with a spear. text at the bottom reads 'Valentine's day is boring. Instead, let's celebrate the anniversary of Native Hawaiians killing the f k outta douchebag English explorer Captain James Cook, on February 14, 1779.'
February 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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favourite could be a lot of things, #FiberuaryChallenge ... coffee is my favourite 'thing', i suppose, but! knitting related? chiaogoo needles (especially interchangeable shorties) are my favourite tools. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky
a red zip pouch for chiaogoo needles, the black organizer the tips (from 2 mm to 3.25 mm) are stored in, and a fixed chiaogoo circular needle on a red cord on a blue striped cloth background.
February 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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my unfinished business is vast, but today, the 12th day of the #FiberuaryChallenge i am thinking about this 'invisible' ballerina flat toe-up sock i'm developing. all the ones i've found have been top-down and i'm not a fan. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky
a very tiny 'invisible' ballerina-flat sock on a right foot. It is unfinished, still on dark double-pointed needles. the toe and heels are chartreuse, and the 'body' is rainbow speckled.
February 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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ohai #FiberuaryChallenge ... texture, you say? @woollywormhead.bsky.social north lyme has TEXTURE. especially when you use not-superwash wool to knit it. mmm. toothy. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky
the beginning 3.5 inches of the north lyme knit hat. i've modified it for fingering yarn, and i'm using deep red jamieson & smith yarn and chiaogoo twist shorties.
February 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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alas, #FiberuaryChallenge i was too busy having a #SundayFunday to document it, and i don't really keep a mood board, so please accept instead my recent ravelry wishlist. it's nerdy af. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky
my ravelry wishlist, populated with octopus-shaped bags, nerdy sweaters, and fancy shawls. this is as close as it gets to a mood board for me.
February 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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i'm not finished designing these socks because i cannot find the project bag that they're in, BUT! they're red, which is one of the themes for this week's #ShowMeYourKnits behold the boston sock in progress! 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky
a partially finished lacey red sock on a right foot, with red and orange striped cloth in the background. the sock is still on a circular needle. a partially finished lacey red sock on a right foot, with red and orange striped cloth and an ipad in the background. the sock is still on a circular needle.
February 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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i don't take a lot of flat lay photos, so i'm recycling this one from a #FiberuaryChallenge from the past. here is a pile of hats designed by me, the weekender sweater, knit-n-slide shawl, and no-pattern socks that i just threw together. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky
a flat lay of 'the weekender' sweater in rainbow and grey with a neon green collar, rainbow speckled 'knit-n-slide shawl', green variegated 'bubblegum crisis' knit hat, mossy green 'demogorgon' knit hat, chartreuse 'hickory' knit hat, pink and green 'arnold sideways' brioche knit hat, and feet in green variegated knit socks, no specific pattern.
February 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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dear #FiberuaryChallenge
my most obvious mood booster is coffee! though noro silk garden doesn't hurt either (that's what this hat is made of. probably a discontinued colourway). 🧶 #knitting #Knitsky
a white woman wearing glasses, a multicoloured knit hat, a cylindrical vessel necklace with moon phases depicted on it, and a black puff-shoulder shirt is smiling and raising a takeout cup of coffee. the hat is 'konami code'. a white woman wearing glasses, a multicoloured knit hat, a cylindrical vessel necklace with moon phases depicted on it, and a black puff-shoulder shirt is making a silly open-mouth bitey/face and raising a takeout cup of coffee. the hat is 'konami code'.
February 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM