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The people of DC are joyful and powerful, and we deserve the right to KNIT. (Also to crochet.) (Also to govern ourselves.)
Seeing a 📝pattern here? #FreeDC
🧶 To stitch your own, just start or click the link. Put them up yourself or mail to address provided. Post pics here!
bit.ly/FDCyarnbomb
Seeing a 📝pattern here? #FreeDC
🧶 To stitch your own, just start or click the link. Put them up yourself or mail to address provided. Post pics here!
bit.ly/FDCyarnbomb
Imagine, as a well respected architect like Shalom Baranes, having to say, I BUILT THAT.
wow
(This footprint is for the ballroom that Trump thought was too small, and led him to hire a new architect)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
(This footprint is for the ballroom that Trump thought was too small, and led him to hire a new architect)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
December 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Imagine, as a well respected architect like Shalom Baranes, having to say, I BUILT THAT.
It's the weekend, meaning we might have time to "waste" pondering what Diane Arbus' quirky lens would have alighted on in our present-day landscape...
National Guard slouching through a DC park? Tradwives leaning into a tête-à-tête? A haunted-looking teen hugging her humongous Stanley cup?
National Guard slouching through a DC park? Tradwives leaning into a tête-à-tête? A haunted-looking teen hugging her humongous Stanley cup?
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's the weekend, meaning we might have time to "waste" pondering what Diane Arbus' quirky lens would have alighted on in our present-day landscape...
National Guard slouching through a DC park? Tradwives leaning into a tête-à-tête? A haunted-looking teen hugging her humongous Stanley cup?
National Guard slouching through a DC park? Tradwives leaning into a tête-à-tête? A haunted-looking teen hugging her humongous Stanley cup?
oh-em-gee
December 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
oh-em-gee
Yarnbombing’s nice, sure—you decorate a town. But what about when the yarnbomb knitting IS the town?
Multiple stitchers worked on this for 6️⃣ full years, and it is just FABULOUS.
Multiple stitchers worked on this for 6️⃣ full years, and it is just FABULOUS.
World-record setting knitted map of Ireland to go on display across the country
Nineteen Wicklow women spent six years creating the woolly work of art.
jrnl.ie
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Yarnbombing’s nice, sure—you decorate a town. But what about when the yarnbomb knitting IS the town?
Multiple stitchers worked on this for 6️⃣ full years, and it is just FABULOUS.
Multiple stitchers worked on this for 6️⃣ full years, and it is just FABULOUS.
Words for today and every day. ❤️🩹🇺🇸💪🏽
December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Words for today and every day. ❤️🩹🇺🇸💪🏽
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The refusal to consider DC Statehood is largely a reluctance to give DC two Senators, which itself is a tacit admission that the United States Senate is an anti-democratic institution.
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The refusal to consider DC Statehood is largely a reluctance to give DC two Senators, which itself is a tacit admission that the United States Senate is an anti-democratic institution.
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"the 400,000 residents of Washington pay national taxes and obey national laws without having a voice in the levying of the taxes or the framing of the laws... the disfranchised condition of the people of Washington [is] an un-American form of gov't"
---Washington Star, Apr 11, 👉👉👉1920
---Washington Star, Apr 11, 👉👉👉1920
December 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"the 400,000 residents of Washington pay national taxes and obey national laws without having a voice in the levying of the taxes or the framing of the laws... the disfranchised condition of the people of Washington [is] an un-American form of gov't"
---Washington Star, Apr 11, 👉👉👉1920
---Washington Star, Apr 11, 👉👉👉1920
💭Looking up from my knitting to think about how much I also love libraries.
A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.
December 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
💭Looking up from my knitting to think about how much I also love libraries.
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This dog was spotted politely waiting by a pizza truck. He doesn’t have to say what he wants. They already know his order. It is pizza. 13/10 (IG: lauren.bardini)
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This dog was spotted politely waiting by a pizza truck. He doesn’t have to say what he wants. They already know his order. It is pizza. 13/10 (IG: lauren.bardini)
Amazing people digitized the world's largest community arts project, the AIDS Memorial Quilt! Searchable, or browse for beauty, memory, resonance. Zoom out for a pointilistic magnitude. (I chose a few squares, h/t @marisakabas.bsky.social.)
Silence = Death. #AIDSquilt #quilting
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Silence = Death. #AIDSquilt #quilting
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December 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Amazing people digitized the world's largest community arts project, the AIDS Memorial Quilt! Searchable, or browse for beauty, memory, resonance. Zoom out for a pointilistic magnitude. (I chose a few squares, h/t @marisakabas.bsky.social.)
Silence = Death. #AIDSquilt #quilting
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Silence = Death. #AIDSquilt #quilting
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My uncle, Douglas Colesworthy, on the AIDS Memorial Quilt. He died in 1987. Silence = death.
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
My uncle, Douglas Colesworthy, on the AIDS Memorial Quilt. He died in 1987. Silence = death.
Knitters know. Historians, too.
PLAY THE LONG GAME Flexible redistribution of energy + effort is how you prevent burnout. It's OK to scale up or down the time you invest in activist efforts as circumstances + capacity change --@badasscrossstitch.bsky.social "Let's Move the Needle" activism handbook
PLAY THE LONG GAME Flexible redistribution of energy + effort is how you prevent burnout. It's OK to scale up or down the time you invest in activist efforts as circumstances + capacity change --@badasscrossstitch.bsky.social "Let's Move the Needle" activism handbook
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Knitters know. Historians, too.
PLAY THE LONG GAME Flexible redistribution of energy + effort is how you prevent burnout. It's OK to scale up or down the time you invest in activist efforts as circumstances + capacity change --@badasscrossstitch.bsky.social "Let's Move the Needle" activism handbook
PLAY THE LONG GAME Flexible redistribution of energy + effort is how you prevent burnout. It's OK to scale up or down the time you invest in activist efforts as circumstances + capacity change --@badasscrossstitch.bsky.social "Let's Move the Needle" activism handbook
Happy Yarn-a-Days? We Stitch You a Merry Christmas?
Is the blue-and-white one for Yarn-ukah?
Love this.
Is the blue-and-white one for Yarn-ukah?
Love this.
Seasonal #yarnbombing in St Leonards, Victoria, Australia
December 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Happy Yarn-a-Days? We Stitch You a Merry Christmas?
Is the blue-and-white one for Yarn-ukah?
Love this.
Is the blue-and-white one for Yarn-ukah?
Love this.
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Here we go day 1 of #ArtAdventCalendar
"Robin on lilac and white"
Hand embroidery thread painting artwork
#Birds #WildlifeArt #embroidery
"Robin on lilac and white"
Hand embroidery thread painting artwork
#Birds #WildlifeArt #embroidery
December 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Here we go day 1 of #ArtAdventCalendar
"Robin on lilac and white"
Hand embroidery thread painting artwork
#Birds #WildlifeArt #embroidery
"Robin on lilac and white"
Hand embroidery thread painting artwork
#Birds #WildlifeArt #embroidery
"We are noisy sentinels whose consistent presence signals the risk to our democracy. Our daily vigil ... affirms a commitment to American ideals...
Our outrage is our strength." #cacerolazo @hillragdc.bsky.social
Our outrage is our strength." #cacerolazo @hillragdc.bsky.social
Making Noise in the Cold | HillRag
www.hillrag.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"We are noisy sentinels whose consistent presence signals the risk to our democracy. Our daily vigil ... affirms a commitment to American ideals...
Our outrage is our strength." #cacerolazo @hillragdc.bsky.social
Our outrage is our strength." #cacerolazo @hillragdc.bsky.social
This incredible indigenous #WomensArt reminds us we must get up the street to the National Gallery of Art's unprecedented show of treasures from Down Under, "The Stars We Do Not See." (Also remind us NGA needs to get over here on Bluesky STAT.)
December 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This incredible indigenous #WomensArt reminds us we must get up the street to the National Gallery of Art's unprecedented show of treasures from Down Under, "The Stars We Do Not See." (Also remind us NGA needs to get over here on Bluesky STAT.)
Well, okay -- might try this!
The last stitch usually turns out a bit loose. If you seam your knitted piece to another, that won’t be a problem. But for “free-standing” pieces there is a fix:
Knit to last stitch, lift the stitch below the last stitch onto your left needle and knit the two stitches together 🧶 #knitting
Knit to last stitch, lift the stitch below the last stitch onto your left needle and knit the two stitches together 🧶 #knitting
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Well, okay -- might try this!
AIDS
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art
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memory
We will not let culture be erased.
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art
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memory
We will not let culture be erased.
A mentor-to-be of mine (Philip Yenawine) created A Day Without Art as part of the Visual AIDS collective in 1989. A day to honor the loss of brilliance as a result of the epidemic. 1/x
This year, Trump cancelled recognition of World AIDS Day, today, & cuts to funding worldwide have consequences.
This year, Trump cancelled recognition of World AIDS Day, today, & cuts to funding worldwide have consequences.
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
AIDS
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art
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memory
We will not let culture be erased.
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art
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memory
We will not let culture be erased.
Cacerolazo protests have been done since the 19th century. Most famously in Argentina and Chile. We’re doing them in DC, and you can too. They’re simple, legal. Best of all you get to meet your neighbors. #freedcproject
November 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Our hearts are broken and our deepest sympathies and thoughts are with the family of Sarah Beckstrom. Her murder is unconscionable.
November 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Our hearts are broken and our deepest sympathies and thoughts are with the family of Sarah Beckstrom. Her murder is unconscionable.
Thankful for…
🍂 the comforts of soft craft
🍂 socially conscious posters, memes + yarnbombs
🍂 @freedcproject.bsky.social, a caring community active for our rights, and
🍂 daily sightings of this nearby yb sent us by an anon. Encinitas stitcher (up for 3 days + counting!).
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
🍂 the comforts of soft craft
🍂 socially conscious posters, memes + yarnbombs
🍂 @freedcproject.bsky.social, a caring community active for our rights, and
🍂 daily sightings of this nearby yb sent us by an anon. Encinitas stitcher (up for 3 days + counting!).
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Thankful for…
🍂 the comforts of soft craft
🍂 socially conscious posters, memes + yarnbombs
🍂 @freedcproject.bsky.social, a caring community active for our rights, and
🍂 daily sightings of this nearby yb sent us by an anon. Encinitas stitcher (up for 3 days + counting!).
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
🍂 the comforts of soft craft
🍂 socially conscious posters, memes + yarnbombs
🍂 @freedcproject.bsky.social, a caring community active for our rights, and
🍂 daily sightings of this nearby yb sent us by an anon. Encinitas stitcher (up for 3 days + counting!).
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Props to stitchers and all at this Connecticut book place for loving their town enough to create #yarnbombing cheer for the winter — #libraries are the BEST❣️
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🧶 The yarn bombing is complete! The trees in front of the library have all been wrapped in yarn tiles created by talented Wallingford crocheters as part of a colorful art installation that will be up through the gray days of winter. #YarnBombing #YarnBomb
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Props to stitchers and all at this Connecticut book place for loving their town enough to create #yarnbombing cheer for the winter — #libraries are the BEST❣️
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Two National Guard were senselessly killed today.
Love and condolences to West Virginia.
NO ONE IS SAFE UNDER OCCUPATION.
Love and condolences to West Virginia.
NO ONE IS SAFE UNDER OCCUPATION.
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Two National Guard were senselessly killed today.
Love and condolences to West Virginia.
NO ONE IS SAFE UNDER OCCUPATION.
Love and condolences to West Virginia.
NO ONE IS SAFE UNDER OCCUPATION.
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Volunteers created blankets for elephants during a cold spell in Myanmar, Winga Baw Elephant camp #WomensArt
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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