I'm knitting in the corner at a party
and guys my age stop by to tell me I remind them of their aunt, of their grandmother. This is a compliment and I take it as such. They confess to having tried crochet once, and I smile. They get back in line for the bathroom.
I'm knitting in the corner at a party and a queer woman sits on the floor next to me, arranges her skirt, and smiles up at me. (I try not to blush.) She asks me all the questions on her mind about my craft and I answer them, hands still moving. We swap yarn sources. She doesn't stay, but she knows where to find me.
I'm knitting in the corner at a party and everyone knows where to find me when they need a minute, when socializing is too much and the music is too loud and they need to catch their breath. They pretend to be checking in on me, which is sweet, but I can see the relief in their eyes the moment they stop performing for a house full of people. They sit down and tell me things and all the while they never take their eyes off my hands.
The party has wound down and I'm still knitting and the hosts, two guys in their twenties, thank me for "helping to curate the vibe." I had no idea that's what I was doing. I leave the party having forgotten to drink anything and without that woman's number but with many rows added to my top-down raglan sweater. I call it a night, and a good one.
Friendships as a teenager: we used to talk 5 hours every night now it’s down to 3… are we still friends 🤔? I wonder if they don’t like me anymore
Friendships as an adult: omg I’ve finally cleared up 20 minutes of my schedule to talk to my friend I haven’t spoken to in 4 months #bffs #we will find eachother in every life
u literally cannot have some sort of kneejerk panicked guiltspiral reaction to learning u hurt someone u cannot start playing out ur imaginary canceled callout metoo moment anytime a loved one thinks uve done something wrong 9/10 people are only communicating that to u bc they want 1) their hurt validated 2) a promise to at least try not to hurt them the same way again 3) a hug not some fucking malicious attempt to destroy ur life
One of the gloves colorwork is finally done! Now I've gotta cast on the second one
Solitude Studios
Omg well ikl be using that saying now for suuure
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When I was a kid my aunt gave me my sign name in NGT, and I love how she composed it because it's pretty much a pun on both the way my spoken name sounds and who I am as a person. So it looks a little like the words for "sun" ("zon") and "yes" ("ja") put together, evidently based on the similarity to "Sonja". But instead of just combining those two words, or even simply fingerspelling my name which would have roughly given the same effect, she spliced the two. It starts out with a fingerspelled s, then instead of spelling the o, there is a modified sign for sun (facing the viewer, rather than the signer), followed by a fingerspelled n. The closest way I can describe the vibe for hearing people is it looks like this:
s☀️n
This is already objectively great of course, but it gets better. The second syllable starts with the swoop for the finger j. Instead of simply tacking a finger a to the back of it, it then switches into the sign for "yes", but with an additional wiggle, because well, I hardly ever did sit still.