pTash
@oko-balon
Born in San Francisco, lives in the East Bay with dogs and a hognose snake named Sinister Udon
Things that make knitting and crocheting easier & enjoyable for me. My needles + needle case, Tom Bihn Swift, stitch markers, thread/yarn snips, WIPs in stuff sacks, crochet hooks, all the crap I've collected over the decades. Not seen: tailor measuring tape. #showmeyourknits #GearHag
A squishy cozy yellowish hat I made for myself from malabrigo chunky "oro". #knitting #showmeyourknits
Best $50 I've ever spent. The sweetest with kids and fellow dogs. Kills rats.
I have two ride or die "things": This beat up old Susan Bates Knit-Chek, and the Tom Bihn Swift bag I saved for and bought myself for my birthday last year.
🧶 "Indigo Dandy" by Hannah Mason. Can't remember the yarn (I misplaced the skein band), it was a merino - cashmere - silk blend. I was good and tired of the picot edging by the time I did it, and the placement is off kilter. #knitsky #showmeyourknits #cowl
I am a small, petty, insignificant speck. And I can't express how deeply satisfying it feels to pick up dogshit with these poop bags. A minor component of my self care-therapeutic protocol.
Rage knit Paul Neary's Melt The Ice hat. Malabrigo arroyo cereza 🧶, #5 - 16", CO med size. Ribbing for 7", 1" stockinette before decreasing every row. Photo is pre-blocking. Considering shadow knit of "chinga la migra" inside brim. I haven't decided whether to add tassel, maybe some sprigs instead
What the rains bring Gastropods: mucin trails, love darts (gypsobelum), courtship, orgiastic revelry.
My mom is 88, a naturalized citizen, born in China. She's a long time activist. My grandma was born in 1913 in Norfolk VA, died when she was 105. Larger photo: my grandparents and the son they bought to appease my grandfather's mother. Small photo: my mom's immigration photo.