A colleague showed me great TikTok where someone called Elf On the Shelf the modern panopticon for children. (Of course I’m not on TikTok. I’m 103.)

Definitely don’t get a cordless stick. Lugging the weight of the battery around and holding the on button down all the time is knackering.

That’s how they trap you.

Albeit. Gave it a German pronunciation of all-bite.

Yay! She posted about it. It’s this pattern. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

I know that Lydia is on Instagram. She might post about it!

I’ve had one for two years and no quinces yet!

Hmm, I think it might be a ribbed pattern- using alternate knit and purl stitches to create the zigzag. I wish we had a round up of the patterns of what the knitters are wearing each week.

I must have been lucky in my choices but I seem to have found a lovely corner of YouTube full of all types of crafters who are also decidedly anti-fash and definitely pro diversity of all types.

That is absolutely gorgeous! Beautiful colours. This was my (not hand spun) accidental Pride/funfetti Seaglass. #SeaGlassSwester #ShowUsYourKnits

Ooh it involves beating wet linen with big hammers. Good for stress relief?

Sign me up for linen beetling. (Goes off to find out what THAT is….)