Emily the knitter

@emilyknits

Knitter, immigrant, race traitor. Late-diagnosed AuDHDer navigating autistic burnout. Married GenX parent of a GenZ. Cat person. Queer. #sts133 NASATweetup alum. Confront whiteness. Support trans people. Ka8enesgo (Amherst Island).

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Emily the knitter@emilyknits· 26d

After my ADHD assessment I sat down on the couch to sob from relief and grief and who knows what all else, and Leo came running. Bless this chaos monster of a cat.

A brown tabby sleeping on his side on a pink couch with a white person’s hand resting on him.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Jul 4

So this is happening

Billy Bragg performing alone to a large crowd at the Mariposa Folk Festival.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Jun 30

Did not expect to have to clear the back deck and shelter with the cats in the basement today

Screencap from the Canada weather app:

Red Warning - Tornado
Now
• 2:10 PM EDT
Tuesday 30 Jun 2026
Issued at: 1:10 PM EDT Tuesday 30 Jun 2026
Impact level: Extreme
Forecast confidence: Very High
At 1:10 p.m. EDT, Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a severe thunderstorm that is possibly producing a tornado. Damaging winds, large hail and locally intense rainfall are also possible.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Jun 27

About 40 people have stopped by so far. Great to talk shop with the knitters, who understand without explanation why nothing on display is for sale. Steve the River Otter and Ernest Bunningway are a hit.

A handknit stuffed tweedy river otter holds a green fish in his mouth. He is on a wooden table next to a small handknit brown rabbit in a chunky blue turtleneck.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Jun 25

Finally blocked the Rose of the North shawl, five years after finishing it. #knitting

A large round lace shawl in an off-white is pinned to grey foam mats as it dries into shape.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Jun 19

MizC’s great passion is gardening with native pollinators. She has been carving out a plot full of flowers from the two native plants nurseries between here and the city for several years now. Today was my first time at one. She and I may have egged each other on. Four new trees! A vine! Ferns!!!

More than two dozen black plastic pots full of green plants of different shapes and sizes. They are outside on steps up to a wooden deck and next to the deck itself.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Jun 13

Harvesting spinach and cabbage leaves already!

A closeup of a handful of leafy greens in bright sunshine.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Jun 4

Sweet baby needed food and snuggles. I was happy to oblige.

A white woman with long brown hair and red glasses is smiling while sitting in a red chair inside a wooden barn with straw on the floor. She is wearing a red sweatshirt with light blue denim overalls. On her lap is a lamb drinking from the bottle in her hand.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Jun 2

So many lilacs

A closeup of very pale purple lilac blooms

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Jun 2

The entire north shore looks like this. The mind boggles at the sheer volume of lilac bushes on this island. The scent wafts into your car as you drive past.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Jun 2

The first proper vegetable garden that I’ve ever had in my life. Scallions, beets, cabbage, cauliflower, snow peas, carrots, garlic, lettuce, spin, cucumbers, pole beans, broccoli, rhubarb, jalapeño, and tomatoes.

A raised garden bed with young plants of many sizes and shapes growing in it. Some are bigger and leafy, while others are small green shoots peeking out from the soil. There are also some more plants in the ground next to the bed.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Jun 2

I finally got to bottle feed the lambs at Topsy Farms. Here’s one of the mamas.

A head-on picture of a white sheep with a brownish face and yellow tags on her ears. She is outside on the grass in a pen with other sheep of various sizes and colours. Some very, very small sheep are in the background.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· May 1

My one purchase from Knit City (which I didn’t even attend) is finally dyed and on its way to me. Thank you to Julie at Genna Yarn in Quebec! She even gave it a second bath because she wasn’t happy with the results of the first. LOOK AT THIS YARN

Five skeins of rich red hand-dyed yarn with tweedy flecks, lying on a dark grey background

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Apr 26

I made a Dutch baby in the 6” skillet in the toaster oven last night. I feel like I have discovered a new plane of existence.

A small cast iron skillet in a hot toaster oven. It is holding a beautifully puffed up fluffy Dutch baby (like a Yorkshire pudding but with butter, not beef drippings).

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Apr 20

Yes, I know, French, but going through this door makes me feel like a broad in a 1930s gangster movie

A dark wooden door with a grey push panel and green trim around it. The sign on the door says “Dames”

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Apr 19

We went to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts today and I spent a long time staring at this painting. Something in the younger girl’s eyes brought tears to mine. William Bouguereau, Crown of Flowers, 1884.

A painting in a gold frame. It depicts two girls, a taller one with dark hair behind another whose hair is more blonde. They are outdoors near a field. The taller girl is placing flowers in the hair of the other one, who is holding more flowers in her blue skirt as she stares at a point that is not quite the painter. Something in her eyes is terribly weary and sad.

A closeup of the two girls in the painting.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Apr 13

This is the best time of year. Everything is coming back to life, full of hope and possibilities

A closeup of mostly brown vegetation but there are small green buds at the tips of the branches

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Apr 11

A local red-bellied woodpecker wasted no time figuring out that the backyard bird feeder is full again. (Yes, its belly is white and its head is hot pink. I don’t name them.)

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Apr 1

We were lucky enough to watch the last space shuttle launch from the headquarters of the Canadian Space Agency near Montreal in 2011. MizC got to meet Jeremy Hansen, who is headed toward the moon today. THE MOON #artemisII

A closeup of Astronaut Jeremy Hansen in his blue flight suit and a small white girl with glasses, straight light brown hair with bangs, in her orange flight suit.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Apr 1

37 years ago today. Happy birthday, Mike. I was so thrilled to give you Oinking Piggy. You made me feel safe and took me in for a week when I had nowhere else to go. I miss you.

A smiling white man with dark hair is looking at the camera. He is wearing a white shirt and a black bow tie. He is squeezing a stuffed pink pig that has just come out of a gift box. Behind him is a large white sign with black letters that would say “Happy 21st Mike” if he weren’t standing in front of it.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Mar 16

The amount of help I get from this cat when I’m trying to cut fabric for a quilt.

A large brown tabby cat lies on a green cutting mat on a wood table in front of a white sewing machine.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Mar 16

I bought books for the first time in ages. The delivery showed up just now and I cried because it’s so validating to have physical proof that other people take what I’ve been going through seriously, and to see my next career becoming more real.

Five books.

Dr Rachel Moseley and
Prof Julie Gambie-Turner, Autistic
Menopause: A Guide to the Menopausal Transition for Autistic People and those Supporting Them

NARRATIVE THERAPY CLASSICS
BY MICHAEL WHITE

INNOVATIONS IN Narrative
Therapy: CONNECTING
PRACTICE, TRAINING, AND RESEARCH
JIM DUVALL & LAURA BÉRES

Megan Griffith, Welcome to AuDHD: How to Survive (and Thrive) as an Adult with Autism and ADHD

SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
IN AUTISM AND INTELLECTUAL AND
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES,
KEVIN P. STODDART AND
ANN FUDGE SCHORMANS, EDITORS

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Mar 12

Harriet says “Paint me like one of your French girls” #CatsOfBlueSky

A large brown tabby cat lies on her side in a shallow white bowl on an antique wooden sewing machine table. She has one front paw tucked behind herself and a rear paw extended toward the camera, which she is looking at. She is posed like a sultry reclining model in a painting.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Mar 11

Made some quilt yesterday. Making more today. This is a kit I’ve had lying around for years but now a (great!) thing has happened for someone I care about that let my quilting muse burst out of hibernation and get to work.

Large triangles of bright orange batik fabric lie on top of a green cutting mat marked with a yellow grid. A yellow rotary cutter is on the right. A completed block is farther right and back. One half is blue and the other is a patterned dark pink. It is on top of a light brown patterned pouch.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Mar 4

Harriet. She is a lot of cat.

A large brown tabby cat lies on her side in a shallow white bowl. The bowl is sitting on top of an antique wooden table. The cat is staring blankly at the camera. Her left hind foot is sticking out of the bowl.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Mar 2

God help me and my sister. This is the urn we chose for our father (he appreciated tacky)

A black urn with an image of three wolves howling at a full moon

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Feb 25

Looking for tile for the little bathroom I'm trying to renovate. Found this (cheap!) but D vetoed it because he would stay in there way too long staring at the floor looking for patterns. I might as well just hang a sign on the door that says "AUTISTIC PEOPLE LIVE HERE."

A sample piece of small black, white, and grey hexagonal tiles assembled together randomly with no discernible patterns.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Feb 24

I went out to buy cat food for Leonard, aka Mr. Guy, aka Himself, aka That Little Asshole. Prescription food @ $120/bag or he gets stick thin and leaves bloody feces everywhere. He’s why we can’t have indoor plants. Gets attention by knocking glass bottles onto the floor. Jerk. I love him so much.

A closeup of an extremely handsome brown tabby cat with giant ears, in loaf position on top of the sleeve of a cream-coloured Irish sweater. He is staring into your soul.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Feb 24

Keeping the goals very modest these days as I recover from being rolled repeatedly through one of these.

A hand-cranked laundry wringer branded “WringMaster.” The frame of the wringer is red, the rollers are white, and the crank is silver with a white handle. There are two metal clamps with black handles at the bottom.

Emily the knitter@emilyknits· Feb 23

The vanity that we have bought for me to refinish. I have never refinished furniture before and I don’t know where I’m going to sand and stain it, because we live in a condo and my current mental state precludes going onto the balcony. But a new look in the bathroom is something to look forward to.