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Lyndell the Tricoteuse

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Professional craftsperson & teacher of crafts. Knitting, crochet, spinning, tatting, embroidery, bobbin lace, sewing, millinery … No DMs. Living on unceded Gadigal land & a proudly ‘Woke’ ‘radical left lunatic’. Also on Flashes @lyndell-tricoteuse

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Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 16h

He has been promising not to and then destroying heritage buildings since 1980 - the Bonwit Teller Building. He promised to keep the lovely Art Deco sculptures from the facade … but nope, they were destroyed.

Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 2d

Just looked up the collective noun for Frogs - there are a few choices but I think the most appropriate is:
An Army of Frogs
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Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 2d

#showusyourknits this week is Hats. I’ve knitted so many!!! But here’s a quick selection from the last few years. A quick beanie in school uniform navy for grandson, a vintage style chemo hat for a friend, a fair isle beret and a be-spangled jockey cap for me. More in Alt Txt #handknit

Against a white painted brick wall a navy blue beanie hat is shown on an antique Papier-mâché ‘wig head’.

The hat is baggy and loose on the wig head which is smaller than my grandson’s noggin’.

Stocking stitch with a wide 1x1 ribbing band that’s folded back.

8 ply wool from Bendigo Woollen Mills - my own pattern

Against a white painted brick wall and some fancy wire-work - a swirly, close fitting, hand knitted hat is shown on an antique Papier-mâché ‘wig head’.

Stripes of dark teal Stocking Stitch - alternating with light blue and beige variegated in reverse Stocking Stitch - swirl up to the top of the hat. This one was based on a 1960s vintage pattern.

It is close fitting and sits low - a brimless cloche.

As this was a ‘chemo hat’ and my friend had super sensitive skin - I lined this one with silk fabric. You had see a slight indent about 1.5 cm from the lower edge where it is hemmed and the silk lining is stitched in place.

12ply merino wools from Morris & Sons - their ‘Empire’ if I remember correctly.

Against a white painted brick wall and some fancy wire-work - a swirly, close fitting, hand knitted beret is shown on an antique Papier-mâché ‘wig head’.

It is a generous beret with lots of colour work / fair isle. The base colour is a golden mustard then there are bands of designs in blue, purple, green and a little raspberry.
The fair isle designs are mostly curves and swirls - whereas most fair isle designs are geometric. I was avoiding the pointy stars and blocky designs - deliberately choosing foliage, plump birdies, love hearts 💕… and this beret is to ‘go with’ a similarly colour worked jacket that I’ve yet to finish.

I should mention that the beret has a small pom pom on top.

4ply ‘Tweed’ wool from Ixchel fibres - my own pattern

Not the best photo as it was in low light !

A tan (light brown - the Aussie version of tan) jockey cap style, knitted hat is shown on an antique Papier-mâché ‘wig head’. It is on a wooden table against a window and we see some of my garden through the window - a creeper growing on a white painted brick wall.

This hat was based on a late 1960’s vintage pattern. It has a close fitting crown and a peak at the front.

The yarn is hand dyed with a mottled effect and I put gold sequins in swirling rows up the crown. The sequins are slightly convex and about 1.5cm - 5/8th an inch in diameter. I knitted them in but they would not sit straight - so I had to stitch them down - I also stiffened the peak with some sheet acetate cut to shape and put inside it.

8ply wool ‘Gaia’ from Ixchel fibres - it’s hand dyed. Pattern adapted from a vintage Patons one in a booklet titled ‘Mad Caps’ 😁

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Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful imo

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Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 2d

Would be good to be a Republic - but one less Duke is an improvement.

Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 3d

Well - to begin with -
women made the men …

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 5d

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 4d

Also - that guy is wearing leggings so I really can’t take him seriously ! (Yes, judgement by how a person looks can work both ways ?! 😀 )

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Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 4d

The rule of ‘put the book on the other foot’ applies. An American in Paris - a tourist, working visa or illegally there - gets arrested for no reason other than the way he looks … they would want a lawyer, they’d object to being man-handled, they’d expect Due Process …

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 5d

Australia: "Deaths due to acute respiratory infections"

Published: 30/09/2025

Deaths registered by 31 August 2025:

🔹1,703 - COVID deaths
🔹898 - Influenza deaths
🔹345 - RSV deaths

COVID remains the top cause of acute respiratory infection deaths in 2025 — nearly 2× influenza and almost 5× RSV.

The image is a table titled “Deaths involving acute respiratory infections by month 2025.”

It shows monthly death counts in Australia for three major respiratory illnesses — COVID-19, Influenza, and RSV — from January to August 2025, with totals for each across the year so far.

Breakdown:

COVID-19:
Deaths range from 129 (April) to 350 (July), with the highest counts in June (348) and July (350).
Total: 1,703 deaths by August 2025.

Influenza:
Gradually rises through winter, peaking in July (309) before dropping in August (121).
Total: 898 deaths.

RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus):
Also peaks mid-winter with 116 deaths in July, down to 38 in August.
Total: 345 deaths.

Columns for September to December are marked “na,” indicating data not yet available.

Overall, the table highlights that COVID-19 remains the leading cause of acute respiratory infection deaths in 2025, more than double influenza and nearly five times RSV.

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Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 6d

He hates that they’ve ’disappeared ‘ his ‘beautiful hair’. It needs no help - it’s disappearing all by itself. 😀 He has ‘air hair’ - a little fluff and a few wisps held together with a lot of hairspray !

Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 6d

Far more efficient, effective, cheaper than all the incredibly disruptive and expensive roadworks with tunnels etc. Billions is spent on roads that, at best, shorten a commute time by a few minutes for a few months. Working from home is better for lots of people.

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Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 8d

Were the ravens Quothing?

Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 8d

Gaslighting on an epic scale - and it’s driving everyone nuts!

Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks - we are going with the topmost stitch because it looks like drops of water … and the colour is an aqua … seems appropriate 😁

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 9d

"Abnormal Brain Scans In Children With COVID-19 Revealed In Data From 96 Studies"

"The research underscores how much more we have to learn about what the virus can do to the brain."

Published: February 28, 2024

Source: archive.md/yWzIs

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 9d

📌 in other words . . .

Canks is TRASH ‼️‼️‼️⬅️🐥

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Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 9d

Those toes must be like the wing flaps on today’s planes 😁

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 10d

Anti-vax onstage, Pfizer backstage.

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Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 11d

#finishFriday a catch up of 2 weeks finishes. All #handknitting - a vest for Hubby, the hat and bag to complete my peacock outfit and a pair of socks that have been a WiP for ages. 🧶 more in Alt Txt

Shown on a clothes hanger in the garden - so leaves, lattice etc in the background - is a dark teal, hand knitted vest (sleeveless sweater) for a man.
The colour is looking more blue in the photo than it is IRL
It is a classic V-necked vest but with a nice textured stitch pattern that forms diamonds or lattice. The stitch is in Barbara Walker’s ‘Treasury of Knitting Patterns’ - she called it ‘Imitation Lattice’ and it just a knit/purl combination.

The yarn is from Bendigo Woollen Mills - 8ply
‘Whisper’ in ‘Baltic’.

A hat and handbag are shown next to a timber garden fence which is in the background - there are objects on the fence, tree branches, a metal pole etc.

The hat is in the foreground on a grey styrofoam ‘display head’ - it is a small hat, hand knitted - a ‘modular’ knit so round the head are diamond shapes, then triangles - the top of the hat is a circle of modular knitting like the bottom of the bag (see next photo)
The ‘diamonds ‘ make soft points along the edge of the hat.

The bag is hanging by its handle behind the hat - it is also modular knitting - diamond shapes. It is quite long. The handle is crochet (backed with gros-grain ribbon.

Both hat & bag are in a variety of yarns - with edges handle etc in a dark teal 8ply - the rest are greens, blues, a touch of orange & brown … peacock colours.

Both are to my own patterns but the base of the bag (see next photo) and top of the hat are based on ‘Felted Stained Glass Fan Bag’ by Madeline Langan - it’s on Ravelry

In this photo we see the base of the handbag -
With some of the rest of the bag and it is lying on top of the knitted vest shown in the 1st photo .

Modular knitting - fan shapes - decreasing into the centre. A variety of yarns is used with a dark teal coloured 8ply yarn used to edge / seperate the fans. The rest are greens, blues, a touch of orange & brown … peacock colours.

This base of the bag and the top of the little hat in the previous photo are based on ‘Felted Stained Glass Fan Bag’ by Madeline Langan - it’s on Ravelry

A pair of hand knitted socks shown on some yellow sandstone.
The socks are lying ‘pigeon toed’ - toes together, heels out.
I use a vintage Patons pattern - top down, heel flap style heel …
The yarn is a self-patterning sock yarn from Regia - a 4ply - ‘Urban Jungle colour 2592’
It makes irregular bands in greys and light turquoise.

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Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 11d

I wonder if there is something in the Epstein Files that documents how much was paid, when and by whom.

Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 11d

Doggy is happier than his person who seems about to nod off. Guessing that the Chancellor commissioned the painting, but you’d expect the artist to be more flattering?

Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 11d

Well - hard to know the truth in matters like these because there are usually non-disclosure agreements. Also it is very difficult for survivors to talk publicly about what happened. As a survivor of childhood S…. abuse myself - I totally get that & I am convinced that he is a perpetrator.

Lyndell the Tricoteuse @lyndelltricoteuse.bsky.social · 11d

Lovely green robes for the Archangel and … looks a lot like Greta Thunberg 😊