Emma

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Editor, knitter, quilter, reader. Do your fellow humans often disappoint you? Making things helps. In Canberra, Australia, mostly.

Knitting for small people is so rewarding. Whole garments in a few days!

Finished except for buttons. Should be on the grandson by the weekend. A week’s solid work. Now I go back to the other projects…

The view from my knitting spot right now. I think I have too many projects going. #knitting

This Australasian darter was not interested in the view. But that Canberra winter sky! 🪶

It’s lucky this sweater will be finished today, because that blue yarn is calling me. #knitting

Reskeet with a hobby that helps your mental health

Reskeet with a hobby that helps your mental health.

Some recent knitting. Just the best way to unwind.

Latest off the needles, a new cardigan for the littlest grandchild. Watching the stripes change was fun #Knitting

I have just moved from a 1000 sq m garden to an apartment. But six weeks in, here’s the harvest from my garden bed.

Single line (well, couplet) from a poem that sticks in your head: Regret, by definition, comes too late; Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.

Single line from a poem that sticks in your head? it is alternately stone in you and star.

Some recent finished projects #knitting.

Lucky beetroot and mint go together 🌱

This guy appreciates our new fence. The lizards he was scanning for, probably not so much. Kookaburra, mid-north coast NSW Australia 🪶

The flowering gum in my inner city garden brings all the rainbow lorikeets to the yard. Sydney, Australia, 2024. 🌱🪶

Christmas Eve, New South Wales, Australia

Bees in the guava blossoms 🌱

December sunset, mid north coast New South Wales, Australia. Merry Christmas everyone.

Here is an interesting and very thoughtful book by a very brilliant writer I know. You should order it. unsw.press/books/kin/

A glorious peony in Devonport Tasmania. Can’t grow them at all where I live, so it was a pleasure to see 🌱

Finished these and gave them away the same day. Learnt a new stretchy cast off as well #knitting

Tasmanian waratahs in the bush at Lake St Clair National Park. The most beautiful plant in the forest 🌱

He scorns camouflage

Not everything round here at the moment is jacaranda coloured 🌱

Sydney in November, it’s jacaranda time

I really shouldn’t have started a third big project, but I really couldn’t help it.

Must be mulberry season

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Such a very low bar we comprehensively failed to clear.

At least this week wasn’t a total loss

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