Naomi P

Former reference librarian, current knitting designer of both stitch patterns and patterns for accessories.

White bi cis woman, possibly autistic.

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2024-10-19 23:57:33

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 Now I need to reread all the John McPhee we’ve got in the house.

2024-09-01 17:36:38

I came home from craft group and stopped to admire the sedum, which was full of bees: carpenter bees, bumblebees, a honey bee or two, and this little friend, which iNaturalist says is a leaf cutter bee! I had been wondering if we had leaf cutter bees around, because there’s leaves with little circles cut out in the back yard.
#bees
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2024-08-31 10:10:47

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@npub1zdz…tl8u I had no idea anyone thought about it that way. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.

2024-08-15 20:39:32

Yesterday’s and today’s walk had insects in great spots for photographs.
iNaturalist says the dragonfly is probably one of the King Skimmers. I know nothing about dragonflies, so take that for what it’s worth.
I recognize the butterfly as a monarch, so that pleases me immensely.
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2024-08-10 14:57:05

Having just had a puzzle game refuse to accept “milliard” as a word while accepting “billiard”* (which had me playing with pronunciation and stress patterns), I then had to go look up if “billiard” and “trilliard” exist in any integer naming systems. It turns out to be more complicated than I’d thought.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
* yes, of course the game dictionary had the word for the pool ball, not the number.

2024-07-27 23:06:06

On this evening’s walk, we passed by a field full of random plants where there were dozens of dragonflies alternating between buzzing around over the plants and basking on the greenway where we were walking. It was a delight!

2024-07-21 15:35:06

I liked seeing these vultures sunbathing yesterday. They were just sitting there with their wings outstretched.
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2024-07-11 22:19:24

The brain’s desire to find patterns is fascinating.
While I’ve been reading, I keep thinking I hear rock music in the distance. But when I pay actual attention to the sounds around me, I realize it’s just the sounds of multiple fans pulsing against each other plus some other equipment in the vicinity. There is not actual rock music in earshot: no synthesizer, no guitars, no incomprehensible people with harsh vocal styles (I don’t know the technical term). My brain is filling in the gaps.

2024-07-10 01:19:10

went out for an evening walk and this tiny toad was kind enough to turn up for #TinyToadTuesday
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2024-07-06 00:19:56

“Weaver House bought a weaving department and we need your help! If you’re local to Philadelphia, you’ve probably heard that the University of the Arts suddenly closed its operations in early June...”
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“… if there is a silver lining for the textile community, it’s that now this equipment can be used for weaving education once again. We were able to rescue 16 Macomber looms, a small textile library, and an assortment of weaving tools from the school. “
#weaving
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-weaver-houses-weaving-revival

2024-07-02 18:13:13

Here’s a toadlet I saw last Thursday, but now I’m glad I forgot to share them then.
#TinyToadTuesday
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2024-06-25 01:29:42

We were finishing a walk in the park at dusk (so hot today) and we saw a hawk —unless it was an owl, but something about the shape looked like hawk — make two tries at something on the ground. (Squirrel, probably)
It looked as if the hawk missed. (They do most of the time, as I understand it, and anyway there’s a good chance this was one of the juvenile red-shouldered hawks.)

2024-06-23 13:22:59

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@npub1lv4…ru5g That sounds pretty great! I too remember the pre-internet. I spent a lot of time at the library.

2024-06-23 13:00:14

Good morning!
I’m sitting around in a set of former warehouses and tobacco processing facilities that have been converted to mixed use. On the plus side, there’s shade and a good breeze, and white noise from the fake stream. On the minus side, it’s private property, not a real public space, and there’s patriotic buntings all over the place. They must have gone up for flag day and are staying because it’s almost July 4.
Also, I have no tea, and would have to walk in the heat to get some. Woe.

2024-06-18 14:55:57

So there I was, driving through downtown Durham, focusing on avoiding cyclists, pedestrians, delivery vehicles parked where they ought not, and construction detours, when my brain noticed I didn’t have music playing.
Clearly this was a terrible omission and I needed an internal soundtrack.
This was what it pulled out of memory:
Feed your babies onions,
So you can find them in the garden after dark.
Feed your babies onions,
So you can find them in the dark!
Thanks, brain.

2024-06-15 12:37:57

Storing our cat in the new color-coordinated storage shelves was a good plan.
#caturday
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2024-06-14 19:35:20

I was explaining to spouse that I’ve switched over to using grams for weighing my yarn, and am about to buy myself a scale with tenth of a gram measurements for more precision.
He pointed out that I could measure my yarn in scruples if I wanted. (A scruple is about 1.296g). It would certainly be amusing! But I don’t think I could easily get a digital scale that uses them, and I think people buying my knitting patterns would be annoyed.
(Not really serious. Just an amusing thought.)

2024-06-08 11:45:39

We’re going through a bunch of old family media and came across this recording tape, and that’s certainly an aesthetic choice. Were they trying to hypnotize people into buying it?
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2024-06-01 00:37:00

Two dragonflies at once! And bonus tadpoles. This is a puddle that comes and goes depending how much rain there’s been. Or maybe a tiny pond? Anyway, when it’s there, we check it for tadpoles because this isn’t the first time we’ve seen some there.
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2024-05-26 20:46:33

The tiniest bee I have ever seen was pollinating a tomato plant in our garden. It was about half a centimeter long! (I must confess I eyeballed it at 3/16 of an inch and then converted.)
Those pollen pants!
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2024-05-24 09:48:47

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@npub1uzr…k9aj That’s lovely!

2024-05-17 20:14:57

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@npub1typ…c8hh I managed to avoid it by reminding myself that it’s not likely there would have been an actual answer when I clicked through.

2024-05-17 16:18:54

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@npub1typ…c8hh I also struggled with that one

2024-05-13 12:45:44

Just needed to figure out what glue I should use to attach leather to something else, and amazingly I remembered this useful website someone told me about ages ago:
https://thistothat.com

2024-05-07 16:00:16

This week’s blog post is a motif that I’ve seen in at least two of my procedurally generated charted designs.
https://www.gannetdesigns.com/2024/05/07/constellations-a-charted-design-for-any-craft/
#knitting #ChartedDesigns #SurfacePatterns
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2024-05-03 00:44:12

Walked down to the park at dusk to see if we could see the barred owl chick, and wow, we didn’t have to peer through vines on the dead tree near the path where the nest is, because it had flown to the top of the neighboring dead tree and was craning its neck around to look at things. It’s still pretty fluffy!
This explains why we had seen the silhouette of an adult owl in a nearby tree over the path with its neck stretched up and peering in that direction.

2024-05-01 20:55:49

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@npub1kxp…lt8h Part of me is wistful that you’re not, but it does seem like a massive complication

2024-04-25 19:42:38

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@npub1kxp…lt8h Field of view, academic field, field you plant things in, field in a form?
Yeah.

2024-04-17 12:03:12

This morning, spouse and I are wearing shorts because it was hot last night. The cat hopped up on the footrest we were both using and stared disapprovingly at our bare legs until I put a blanket on my lap.
Then she stood on my lap and performed the standard routine: glaring at me until I obeyed and gave her a small number of head pats, after which she curled up and went to sleep.
Inspector Kitty is on the job and won’t be satisfied until things are proper.

2024-04-17 11:59:06

Spiderwort, spiderwort
Doing the things a spider ort
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2024-04-13 14:12:23

Not a turtle bean, but a kitty bean!
#Caturday
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2024-03-30 19:28:14

It was a good day for turtles. Weird camera phone zoom combined with staying far enough away to not scare the turtles, but look, at least four turtles! Including a snapping turtle.
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2024-03-27 12:10:50

I just read this line from the Edge of Worlds, by Martha Wells:
> Fairly reasonable people often expected everyone they knew to be fairly reasonable too, and were shocked when this proved not to be the case.
I suddenly had a thought and went and checked the copyright date: 2016. Hm, yeah, makes sense.

2024-03-23 22:48:32

Went to Duke Gardens on Thursday, and the cherry trees are just ridiculously beautiful right now.
#BloomScrolling
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2024-03-19 23:54:11

Onionize your workplace

2024-03-17 17:49:47

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@npub1asa…n9sr It’s size 3, but I am a tight knitter and also if I were to knit socks with this yarn, I’d be knitting them on size 0s, probably.

2024-03-17 13:48:08

This is my slowest current project — it’s a handspun laceweight garter stitch shawl, and I usually only get it out when I can’t concentrate on anything else.
I took it with me to a doctor’s office recently, and someone in the waiting room was boggling at the tiny stitches. I shrugged and said, “it’ll be finished when it’s finished; right now I’m enjoying the knitting.” For a change, the person actually got the idea; random people don’t always understand this.
#knitting #FiberArts
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2024-03-08 17:11:23

Last year I wrote up a mega thread with lots of links about mending textiles. I’ve compressed and reorganized it as a very old school webpage on neocities in hopes of making it a bit easier to use:
When Textiles Go Bad:
https://gannet.neocities.org/MendingTextiles
#FiberArts #mending

2024-03-05 23:12:21

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@npub1typ…c8hh Yikes, feel better soon!

2024-02-14 23:40:11

one of my favorite tiny flowers, Veronica persica (birdseye speedwell).
#SomethingCheerful
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2024-02-12 18:56:28

This week’s regular blog post is one of my stitch structure posts, this time about the yarnover:
https://www.gannetdesigns.com/2024/02/12/yarnover-stitch-structure/
#knitting #FiberArts

2024-02-09 21:31:07

To counter the February doldrums, here is some butterfly milkweed from last May’s garden.
#SomethingCheerful
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2024-02-05 23:31:07

The beaver marsh is one of the places round here that makes me happy. I haven’t ever seen the beavers (though I’ve met people who have), but there’s lots of amazing wildlife here because of their work.
#SomethingCheerful
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2024-02-02 21:14:17

pansies in the sun
#SomethingCheerful
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2024-01-26 22:44:25

Went for a walk with spouse today, and stopped on a bridge to look down into the stream. There were two crayfish slowly walking along the bottom!

2024-01-06 18:28:03

#Caturday
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2024-01-04 11:09:07

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@npub1lv4…ru5g Well, that could be fine, but I expect it would be interesting dealing with everyone else’s belief that it’s Thursday

2024-01-04 10:58:38

Good morning!
It’s Thursday. Thursday thursday thursday. Not Friday.
*makes more tea* 🫖

2024-01-02 17:57:40

This month’s word selected by the random number picker from the words suggested on my Patreon is Happen!
I really like both the lace and the charted designs I came up with from encoding the word as numbers:
Lace: https://www.gannetdesigns.com/2024/01/02/happen-a-lace-knitting-stitch-pattern/
Charted design: https://www.gannetdesigns.com/2024/01/02/happen-a-charted-design-for-any-craft/
#knitting
#FiberArts
#ChartedDesigns
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2023-12-31 01:44:16

Cats: helping make beds for reasons known only to them.
It’s all fun and games until it’s time to put the weighted blanket on, though. I don’t want to smush the cat!

2023-12-24 11:27:24

#SilentSunday
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2023-11-24 15:22:53

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@npub1xed…yg9w the brands I’ve been getting from them don’t?

2023-10-24 13:50:04

I knit an insert to make the sweater neck smaller in front, sewed and grafted it in place, and reknit the ribbing. Success! The insert just looks vaguely decorative, especially after I did a tiny bit of duplicate stitch at the bottom point to cover up some weirdness related to grafting and increases. Now my clavicles are sufficiently warm.
I won’t really be sure how it’ll come out until it’s been washed, but I’m too busy wearing it.
#NecessarySweater #knitting
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2023-10-13 17:46:39

A couple of recentish photos of Shadow for #BlackCatFriday in honor of Friday the 13th.
#cats
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2023-09-25 23:15:02

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@npub1qjr…kgt0 I like using the bulb shaped safety pins. I bought them from a yarn shop before I learned one can buy them much more cheaply for attaching hang tags.

2023-09-20 21:48:37

This is the shawl that never ends…
I am never knitting another garter stitch shawl in laceweight yarn, no matter how nice the yarn. (It turns out that I’m only mostly a process knitter.)
I probably won’t finish it this month, but I’ve at least been working on it more, which is sufficient for my purposes.
Next time I have yarn like this, I’ll weave it instead.
#FallFinishAlong #knitting #FiberArts
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2023-09-12 16:08:16

Dear cat, if you want me to get up and give you treats, you need to stop lying on my foot.

2023-09-02 18:30:41

In the long run, I’m looking for some heavier linen fabric, but I’d like to buy some lightweight 100% linen to replace part of a blouse. Does anyone have a good suggestion for an online shop in the US that carries such?
#Sewing

2023-08-26 00:57:30

The cat, as ever, has impeccable timing. Which is to say that she hopped on my lap just when I was about to do do something else.

2023-08-21 18:14:12

I’m going to be posting a series of written tutorials with drawings and photos about alternate ways of doing 1/1 cable crosses in knitting. This post will have links to all of my tutorials for these when they’re finished :
https://www.gannetdesigns.com/2023/08/21/alternate-1-1-cable-crosses/
#knitting #FiberArts

2023-08-16 20:21:57

New flat pack furniture has arrived and the first required step is finished.
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2023-08-13 20:55:32

Went out in the yard and there are swallowtail caterpillars on the fennel! Repeat: swallowtail caterpillars on the fennel!
They were pretending to be leaves or stems or suchlike.
(This is most of the reason we have fennel, so it’s a huge relief to see them. )
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2023-08-10 17:49:31

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@npub1zeg…p4ug @npub18yl…pegw well, I think some of them are more cheerful, but people have boosted ones that say something like
“Good morning! Today’s going to be a difficult day, but maybe tea will help?”
And that doesn’t seem so boostworthy?

2023-08-10 17:16:44

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@npub18yl…pegw does this kind of mentality maybe explain why people boost some of my posts that don’t seem likely to be interesting to random people? They think I want to be visible to more people or something and faves are “useless”?
I mean, I make daily good morning posts, and I don’t have them followers-only because I want people to see what they might get on a regular basis if they follow me. But occasionally people boost them, and whyyy

2023-08-09 17:35:34

This week’s blog post is some random thoughts about designing last week’s stitch pattern. There’s no overarching thread to the whole thing; each section is its own thought.
What I didn’t think to say there is that I learned to do that kind of interlacing when I was obsessed with George Bain’s Celtic knotwork method in my teens. It’s interesting to me what random things have influenced me over the years.
#knitting #FiberArts #PatternDesign
https://www.gannetdesigns.com/2023/08/09/random-thoughts-about-the-meta-cable-lace-cable-design/

2023-08-01 15:41:38

This month’s word suggested by my Patreon is Cable. I called the resulting stitch patterns “meta Cable” to make them easier to search for.
I’m always amused by this category of word.
This time I broke out of my usual habits and used the encoding to make a cable stitch pattern, to which I added some lace.
meta Cable knitting stitch pattern:
https://www.gannetdesigns.com/2023/08/01/meta-cable-a-cable-and-lace-knitting-stitch-pattern/
Meta Cable charted design:
https://www.gannetdesigns.com/2023/08/01/meta-cable-a-charted-design-for-any-craft/
#knitting #FiberArts #ChartedDesign #SurfacePattern
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2023-07-20 23:05:17

Saw this lacy-looking leaf on today’s walk.
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2023-07-18 19:38:55

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@npub1qjr…kgt0 whew! And congrats

2023-07-07 00:45:17

Went for a walk, met a friend
#turtles
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2023-07-01 12:59:19

This month’s word suggested by my Patreon is Ease. I suppose it was inevitable that it would be a difficult word to work with! I almost went with a cable pattern instead of lace, but it looked pretty boring to me, so I worked my way through more possible lace charts.
Lace knitting stitch pattern:
https://www.gannetdesigns.com/2023/07/01/ease-a-lace-knitting-stitch-pattern/
Charted design:
https://www.gannetdesigns.com/2023/07/01/ease-a-charted-design-for-any-craft/
#knitting #FiberArts #ChartedDesign #SurfacePattern
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2023-06-27 22:47:31

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@npub1fwl…6a65 before I read the text, at first I thought this was a knitted hat!

2023-04-03 17:20:28

A small lunchtime mend for #[0]: small hole in a jersey shirt.
1. I found some thread that was fairly close in color. It didn’t have to be perfect for this. I cut a length of floss and pulled out two strands of thread. I could have used regular sewing thread instead, if I’d had the color.
2. I made a small chain stitch and drew the edges together, without trying to match the gauge of the fabric.
3. I tied the ends together in a square knot at the back of the fabric.
4. Tadah!
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