As a reminder to vote today in Virginia, NJ, Calif. and elsewhere, here are the embroidered names of women who starved themselves for that privilege.

If I’d stolen those jewels I’d just sit at home wearing them.

Yarn-bombing is thought to have originated in Texas USA, instigated by clothes-shop owner Magda Sayeg and a group known as Knitta Please, who began the "knit graffiti" movement to brighten up public spaces as a form of street art #Womensart

Emillie Ferris, contemporary English embroidery artist #womensart

Local cooperation with immigration enforcement has become a flashpoint since the federal surge in D.C.

At a recent Council hearing, speakers recognized D.C.'s options are limited — but called local leaders' lack of effort and urgency shameful: "Fight with us, y’all, or get to the side," one said.

bikes + yarn

Things get no better than 🚲 and 🧶.

In DC, we take care of our own (even when feds try to foil us). #FreeDC

Hey, DC — ready for your makeover? 💅💇🏾‍♀️🪞

The new look is very #FreeDC yarnbomb. Trying it for size here near Kingman Park: Doesn’t it make us look more JOYFUL and POWERFUL?

#yarnbomb philly

The yarn bombings continue in war ravaged Portland…take cover! Go to your safe rooms! Find a buddy if you have to walk the streets! Do not attempt to deactivate a yarn bomb unless you are a professional.

#portland #yarnbomb #nokings #protest

Washington Teachers’ Union has entered the chat www.newsweek.com/ice-suffers-...

Happy Halloween!
#FreeDC

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Assata Shakur

“DC should absolutely pass a policy like Chicago just did, creating ICE-free zones. We should not be allowing ICE agents to use establishments in our communities, even for restrooms or breaks.” — Dante O’Hara

🙉 Guess which streaming platform we will NOT be listening to as we knit our #FreeDC yarn bomb masterpieces (using this pattern: bit.ly/FDCyarnbomb).

#FreeDC #cancelSpotify

"Roost trips"? Like hen parties on the go.

How quaint is it that somebody here obviously said, not so long ago, OK *now* for real I'm gonna get organized, and went out + bought that adorable array of storage bins, which proved, in no time at all, completely inadequate to the task of Ever. Keeping. One's Yarn. Under. Control.

"Loombombing"? Another means of messaging-by-stitching in this newly registered Scottish tartan that memorializes victims of witchcraft persecution.

(Fun fact: "Plaid" in old Scots Gaelic meant "blanket.")

#knitsky

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Out now, in the leafy wilds of Northwest DC, another new yarnbomb, and WE LOVE THIS SO MUCH 💝💝💝.

#FreeDC #yarnbomb #knitsky

Want to knit one and send to us? Mailing address in pattern: bit.ly/FDCyarnbomb

ngl -- We like it. And the wall color, too.

We remember wondering in the early 2000s if we could still bring knitting needles on airplanes. (These were the old-fashioned stick kind, not circulars, and tbh, you really could use them as weapons in a pinch.) The answer was 'yes,' but the scissors? They were confiscated.

To #FreeDC, we need and rely on independent, authentic — and highly readable 🤓 — local news, like @51st.news.