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yrhtek.bsky.social
“Mx” pronounced like “Mix”
@yrhtek.bsky.social
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We are on Native land. They/Them. Cat lover. Crafter. Folk and courtly dancer. Navigating ADHD. Disabled. Pursuing a Bachelor’s of Social Work. House witch. Mostly an indoor cat.
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After trying and failing to do a regular google search for this markings, this is what an image search turned up. I don’t know if it will help at all, but maybe it will give you an idea of where to look for more information in the pattern instructions. Good luck!
Image search results of just the upper right corner of the pattern with the confusing markings. AI Overview: The image appears to be a diagram illustrating different types of pocket closures or designs, likely for a sewing pattern or design specification. -The diagram shows two variations of a back pocket design. -The left pocket features a circular symbol, which may indicate a snap closure or a simple button. -The right pocket, labeled with the number 2, shows a square symbol, possibly representing a patch pocket or a specific type of flap and button closure. -These symbols are typically used in technical drawings or sewing patterns to denote specific construction details or materials.
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The capelet, modeled by its new owner. A green variegated wool worked with a 4.0 mm hook in pineapple stitches, single and double crochets, cells, triangles, and a leaf panel. The fasteners are also crocheted, and there is only one start and end for the piece.
Front of the capelet, draped over a small floral print dress. Both front panels are visible, with the ruffle of the pineapple stitches falling over the model’s elbows. The fasteners sit perfectly at their neck, with the collar and triangles just falling short of their chin. The model’s smile is visible, and they’ve popped a knee forward for a sassy pose. Back side of capelet. This view shows the lovely drape of the cell panels and the ruffles of the pineapple stitches. It falls perfectly around the model’s elbows, and to their waist. Their curls fall over the collar, hiding it from view.
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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A fortune cookie fortune almost anyone would welcome:
A paper from a fortune cookie that says: “Your income will increase.” Begs the questions: when, and by how much?
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Progress photos on my draft-as-I-go shawl-turned-capelet! I’ve been crocheting it with a 4.0 mm, or F hook in Araucania nature wool, a hand-dyed wool in variegated greens. The theme is leaves & plant cells. New details include an entirely crocheted loop & button closure, & front panels.
The whole capelet is laid out on a cream sheet, folded to emphasize the in progress front panel (front and center, the closures (the button and loop directly above the in progress section), and the completed front panel (extended to the left. I can’t wait to block this and make everything lay nicely. The folds also display the pineapple section along the bottom and the cell-like structure in the middle section. Detail shot: the in progress front panel, and the button and loop closure. Between the lighting and not having blocked it yet, it’s kind of hard to see the developing leaf pattern. It’s a pair of leaves formed from the same bud, forming over three rows of stitches, with the next pair of leaves’ bud forming in the middle of the second row. It’s framed by double stitches that have a lace like quality (or would, in more delicate yarn). The button was made with a chain of stitches joined into a circle and single stitched around twice, first in the prior row, and in the next round, through the center. The loop was also a chain made into a loop, then single stitched around. The completed front panel. Leaves branching off from center buds, gradually getting smaller at the top of the panel.
October 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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One of my moms is glazing a yarn bowl for me, but in the meantime, I have a spooky season alternative! 🧶💀🌹
A bowl in the shape of a skull rimmed in flowers on an ornate stand rests on a dark wood coffee table. In it rests a ball of variegated green wool yarn wound onto an old Harry Potter wand. The yarn trails towards the viewer, bisecting the face of the skull and ending in a barely visible white person’s hand surrounded by a crocheted project. In the background are other Halloween decorations, a couple small project bags, and a stone facade fireplace. Another person’s denim clad legs can be seen off to the left.
October 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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This… is not turning out how I wanted it to. Debating frogging the whole experiment. This is a crocheted draft as I go shawl, and as you can probably see, it’s created a distinct curve as I’ve decreased the rows substantially. I started with a straight line of 300 stitches, fingertip to fingertip.
An in progress crocheted fan shaped garment in a variegated green wool is laid out on a grey and white striped duvet. There are three different textured patterns worked into it. From the outer edge in: there is a decreasing pineapple shape creating a rippling effect, then a series of nine blocks of square cells with the outer two blocks decreasing to form a right triangle, and finally row of triangles. Each section is divided from the other with a few rows of single and double crochets, with little decorative ridges. Close up one: of the pineapple shape. This shape is created by chaining and single or double crocheting into the center of the prior row’s loops. Close up two: the rows of square-ish cells. Tension and speed have created opposing direction slants in each row, forming arrows of the rows, a bit like herringbone. The shape was created by chaining two and double crocheting. Some of the cells are varied near the “panel” joins, with anywhere from zero to three chains forming the length of the cell. Close up three: the final section thus far is of opposing point triangles formed by chaining two, double crochet into the next loop, skip two, double crochet again, repeat. Starting and ending was a little different, of course. Above and below the ridges were formed by doing single crochets into the back loops rather than the front or both loops.
October 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Just pulled all the pins from my French twist, so my waist-length hair is currently holding in place by friction and hair spray (The gold Pantene hair spray, if you’re wondering) - I don’t expect this to last long, so I had to get evidence.
The back of a white person’s head, with their super fine blonde, sun-streaked hair in a French twist that’s starting to settle into a curve as the twist releases under gravity. With no pins to hold the shape, there’s a bit of a top knot uncurling at the top of the twist and ends are starting to poke out in delicate sprays around the knot - it looks a bit like a baby’s head poking out from a back sling.
October 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Only had to redo one row (so far)! Drafting as I go is fun, and I’m so glad I had Mom’s help to start this shawl ❤️
A white curvy person has the beginnings of a green shawl draped loosely around their shoulders, while still on their crochet hook, held in the same hand they’re holding up in a thumb’s up position. The shawl is currently three rows single crochet, one row double crochet, and three to four rows of “pineapple” loops, depending on if the routes are before or after the crochet hook’s current position. The moment I realized I wouldn’t need to fix something in this row - 4 loops to the end, after working to decrease 144 loops in 16 groups of 9 loops. The errors were from while we were figuring out this row’s structure, in the first group of 9. 😭 Math is hard! Especially when tired!
September 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Drafting a shawl as I go, with help from my mom.
A coil of variegated green wool crocheted into a 3-4 inch band of single- and double-crochets, and pineapple loops.
September 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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I’m listening to Heat Wave by TJ Klune. I’ve picked up spinning and weaving and am super proud of my entirely hand sewn, reed boned pair of bodies, pictured here.
A curvy white person stands “tall” (they are only 5’2”) and proud in a white v-neck smock with ruffles at the wrists and neck, a Spanish farthingale (Queen Elizabeth’s favorite hoop skirt) in cream, and a green pair of bodies (precursor to stays and corsets) with boned tabs (partially hidden under the farthingale) and an oak busk (invisible, as it is inside the front panel of the pair of bodies), smiling at the camera. Their very straight, fine blond hair frizzes and curls away from their face into a bun behind their head. The background is green grass and trees, a beautiful summer afternoon with golden light dappling the scene. And several bags scattered around on the ground.
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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I forgot to do the thing last week, so I started (& finished) early this week. Behold: buttonhole loops have been sewn to my hat so I can pin it to my hair! #handsewing 🪡🧶🧵
A dark yellow, almost golden, textured flat cap in the style of Renaissance Festivals across the US (can’t speak to elsewhere) lays belly up, revealing a black tape bound inner rim, adorned with 5 fairly evenly spaced black loops. The loops were stitched with black linen thread, and worked with a buttonhole stitch all the way around the loop for added strength. The texture features alternating parallel lines of tiny boxes and hatch marks, appearing at an angle in the image.
September 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Okay, time lapses are fun. I did another for a denim patch using an adapted sashiko method. Not quite as meditative as my usual sashiko-esque style, which is slower and about making the stitches and spaces even and offset.
September 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Slowly but surely repairing this lovely but moth eaten Pendleton blanket, one hole at a time.
September 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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This gem was deposited in my TikTok inbox by what appears to be a classic cis het white man. I am speechless. Where to even start?
A chat screen with an incoming message stating: “Sorry I didn’t mean to bother you…..have you ever been a suga baby ?…… just asking respectfully” and a blank showing no response has been sent.
September 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Love is: curling up near your person just to be close. He parks himself near me wherever I am at home, on the arm of the couch, on the bathroom rug, and next to me on the pillow. If I can’t handle his weight on my chest, he’s still close by. ❤️ #sirgilesiii #cats #catsky #catsofbluesky
A large fluffy orange cat is semi-sprawled on a blue silk pillowcase with his back to the wall, facing his human, a small white person with hair pinned into a bun with curly wisps, nose pierced twice on their right side, wearing a grey shirt and smiling a closed mouth smile at the camera, right eyebrow cocked. The lighting is low and reddish. There’s a power strip on the wall above their heads.
September 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Mending this week was mostly with the Speedweve as I tried to figure out how to do it for the camera on the request of my professor. I repaired a tear at the neck gusset of my smock with a speedweve repair inside & out, sandwiching the damaged material. Then I darned the wool blanket a couple ways.
The neck gusset speedweve repair from the outside, showing a neat square of a thicker white linen thread woven as a patch directly onto the finer white linen fabric of the smock. The tail end was woven in on the diagonal, clearly seen crossing from one corner to the other. The neck gusset repair from the inside with light shining through, showing the eye-shaped hole the patch covered. Tail ends woven in on the diagonal crisscross in an “x” near the edge of the hole that’s now sandwiched between the newly woven patch. It’s clear from this image that the darning overlaps the gusset seam, hopefully relieving some of the tension placed on this spot in the garment, which led to the initial tear. A more traditional darning method is up close here, though hard to see (which means I chose my yarn well!). The darning yarn is a bit darker, but the right gauge and color family to blend in well with the plaid twill. This was a smaller hole/weak point, and was reinforced with running stitches along the warp and weft of the fabric, mimicking the motion of the initial weave, though not perfectly. It’s a little easier to blend in with this method, though it’s less neat than when using the speedweve. I’m not sure if it is more or less stable than the speedweve method, since the actual “weaving” is less structured but there are more points of contact between the fabric and the repair yarn. With the speedweve the only points of contact between the fabric and the repair yarn are along the edges of the repair, but the repair itself is a sturdy plain weave. Both darning methods are centered in this image! The fabric being repaired is a plaid twill in cream, tan, orange, and navy wool. The repair yarn is a brown alpaca and silk blend. The speedweve method is the easiest to spot, as it is bubbled up from being on the darning mushroom and is a tidy square of brown plain weave in the middle of a plaid twill intersection. Structurally, that’s 1:1 over, under on top of a 2:2 over, under offset by one. In the upper right hand corner, there’s a dark colored disruption of the twill, showing the subtler darning method reinforcing a weak spot or small hole found while repairing the larger hole with the speedweve. So far, I’ve been primarily using the speedweve darning loom for true holes, and the loom less darning method for very small holes and weak spots. I like to sandwich the damage with speedweve patches on double sided items like this especially.
August 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Did some more spinning this evening, in merino wool color-way “whirled peas.”
A white person’s hand presents a two-tone high whorl drop spindle wound with a clockwise twist of merino wool in greens, the end of which is a fluffy bit wound round the hook of the spindle. The background is of a grey and white striped duvet, and the rest of the combed top roving I was spinning. This was probably 2-3 hours of spinning, and I have no idea how many ounces or feet.
August 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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I also spun some very artsy yarn (read: it’s thick and thin, but not consistently) on my new drop spindle!
A blue wool single of various gauges is wound around the shaft of a beautiful two tone wooden high whorl drop spindle by Revolution Fibres (imprinted on the shaft, partially covered by the yarn). In the background is a blue rug on a bright hardwood floor, matching the lighter tone of wood in the spindle. Not seen is the hook at the top of the spindle. It spins beautifully and has some heft to it (not too light or heavy). This was spun from combed top roving I pre drafted, and used a combination of park and draft and continuous drafting, getting a feel for each. I prefer continuous, but I’m still working on keeping up with the spindle!
August 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Some of my textile adventures from this week: Backpack strap repair, 3 twill weaving sample sections, and darning holes in a plaid Pendleton blanket. 🧶🪡🧵
Back back repair: a white person’s hand with long unpainted nails pinches the top edge of a grey and black back pack displaying a line of stitches in black polyester thread along the join of the left shoulder strap to the main body of the bag. It’s a simple whip stitch from the inner corner of the strap to a seam on the main body of the bag where the handle was secured (about 2/3 across the strap) and back past the corner of the strap. This is the second time I’ve stitched up this corner, which is a stress point because of how I tend to lift my bag, which I tend to carry a lot of heavy things in. The first time was in thick, green, hand waxed linen thread that lasted somewhere between 6 months and a year. I used a curved upholstery needle and a hemostat as needed. The stitches are relatively small, and may not be very noticeable at a quick glance. A bright green weft displays a reversible cord twill pattern and a hopsack twill pattern, with a section of plain weave in the primary warp color to break up the samples. The selvages are blue. This sampler is under tension in the picture, on the 4-shaft table loom (a Cricket by Schacht). The background is a black tabletop. A bright green weft displays the same hopsack twill pattern, advanced along the loom’s working space, with a section of plain weave in the primary warp color to break up the samples, followed by 5 stripes of twill in alternating green wefts, bright and dark, slanting to the left and to the right (or it would be if the picture were oriented as an active weaver would view the sampler on the loom. The selvages are blue. This sampler is not under tension in the picture, though it is still on the 4-shaft table loom (a Cricket by Schacht). The background is a black tabletop. A white person’s thumb and forefinger define the edge of a darned navy, tan, orange, and cream Pendleton wool plaid blanket. The darning was done in a grey wool darning yarn of a similar hue to the navy, though it still stands out a bit, with the grey plain weave from a speedweve style darning loom on top of the plaid twill. Both sides of the blanket were darned, unlike when darning socks, completely enclosing the damaged section. This blanket has many little holes to mend, and I look forward to experimenting with other gauges of yarn, and perhaps even darning in a twill pattern, rather than the usual plain weave! Though my darning loom isn’t designed for twill weaves, it will certainly make it easier than just using a darning mushroom without the loom.
August 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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My to-do list today includes the following:
✅ -clean chainsaw
-weed? (crossed out)
-make chicken to take home
(1 package)
✅ -fold towels

Receipts below 😜 cleaning the chainsaw was surprisingly fun!
A partially cut up sheet of copy paper rests on a granite countertop with the above list hand written in a curvy mess of cursive and print, as happens when the writer has their dominant hand in a brace.
August 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Home with the sweet boi and his very dilated eyes, sans two teeth his gums were trying to reabsorb. He’s such a good, sweet boi, they made a note of it in his chart and gave him extra snuggles 🥰 #sirgilesiii #catsky #catsofbluesky #cats
A fluffy orange cat sits pretty, staring blankly up at something off screen. His eyes are dilated, glassy, and wet underneath. His mouth is slightly open with post-oral surgery swelling. Kind of like a person post wisdom tooth removal. He is sporting a navy blue tracker and night light on his collar like some kitties wear bow ties. The background is a blue rug on wooden floors, with a bag of cat toys next to a cat bed, and anti-fatigue mats decorated with cartoon cats.
August 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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It is done! My essential foundation garments are assembled BEFORE the 2025 MNRF performing season has begun!
A smiling curvy white person is facing the camera in a white smock/chemise with pleated cuffs and collar, an undyed muslin Spanish Farthingale/hoop skirt, and a green pair of bodies/stays/corset. Their hair is pinned in a bun on top of their head. In the background are grass and trees and a lovely summer day. A smiling curvy white person is oriented away from the camera, looking over their shoulder toward the camera in a white smock/chemise with pleated cuffs and collar, an undyed muslin Spanish Farthingale/hoop skirt, and a green spiral-laced pair of bodies/stays/corset. Their hair is pinned in a bun on top of their head. In the background are grass and trees and a lovely summer day.
August 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Weaving happened today! I did some herringbone twill and small offset flowers in twill (hard to see in person under tension, easier to see in the thumbnail for some reason), and learned how to read drafts and translate them from treadling with tie-ins into lift plans for my 4-shaft table loom!
Herringbone twill with slightly weird shape from having to advance partway through the pattern. Small offset flowers in a 2/2 twill, much easier to see here than in person. Fabrics and optics are weird! Whoo!
August 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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After this one, I have 2 more tabs left and I can be done with the bane of my existence that are these stupid corners.
A close-up of a pair of bodies (precursor to stays and corsets) in green cotton twill with white bias tape binding off the edges. One tab is in progress, with the center piece and four previous tabs blurring off behind the current one. The bias tape is wedged into the corner where the tab splits from its neighbor with white linen thread and a needle trailing away from the tight bend.
August 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Time for a relaxing candlelit bath with a cup of extra nighty-night tea ~<3
A deep tub of water, surrounded by floating and pillar candles, and a “Deadly nightshade” bottle of blue string lights reflects blue light and warm yellow candlelight.
July 30, 2025 at 1:46 AM