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jenn martin is trying
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Chicago-adjacent ttrpg designer (Dead After Dinner) & editor (Apocalypse Keys, The Zone & more), SFWA member and AFT/IFT 604 union member, people>profit | she/her
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I knitted a similar hat and it was wild to get such real time feedback about my tension- I pulled out so many rows! For a bit I just let the rainbow travel around so the other side wouldn't all be all white.
December 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I captured @segedy.bsky.social actually sitting down!
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
If you donate food/money/time to a food bank or to help folks who didn't get SNAP benefits, I want to mail you a print copy of my goose game!

DM me your address and what you donated (I don't need receipts) and the goose will be on its way!

International is ok! I have a dozen to send out! HONK
November 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Hand bound copy of Spine by @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social

This game deserves the hardcover in cloth or leather treatment, but I don't have the materials and I wanted to start playing tomorrow, so coil binding it is!

Printed in signatures to feel a little fancy.
October 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I got to see a building I've wanted to see for decades last weekend and it was very good!

(Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in Mill Run, PA)
September 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
All set up to run Zhenya's Wonder Tales at Demo Expo in Chicago!
September 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I've been buying Tom Bihn bags for years, but visiting the factory and seeing the faces of the people who actually make them was powerful in a way I had not anticipated!
July 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Thinking about Octopus Bill (she/her) today 🐙💖
July 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Getting back into hand sewing!

These are thread catchers that collapse (except I made the bottom too big on the first one, so it doesn't stay collapsed).
June 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I've been mostly off doomscrolling apps these days, channeling anxiety about my government into knitting socks.

These 3 were all made with yarn I already had, which definitely means I get to buy more yarn now, right?
May 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I saw Jupiter through the same telescope that Carl Sagan and Nancy Grace Roman (and many others) observed the cosmos with and it was pure magic.
April 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The last time the public voted to increase my library district funding was 1929.

I'm *so stoked* about this!
April 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We had 80 degrees last Friday, a tornado watch yesterday, and today everything is covered in snow again.

Fool's Spring gets me every damn year.
March 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
March 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Zhenya's Wonder Tales is funded! 🎉🔮🧙‍♀️ 🃏

To mark the occasion, Zhenya gave @segedy.bsky.social & @jmstar.bsky.social their most terrifying curse yet.

bpglink.com/zhenyas
March 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I got some prototype boxes for my Regency Desperation game and I really love the small magnetic one that looks like a little book.
March 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I finished my clamshell book box this weekend and I'm pretty proud of it! I wish I knew why it's so much harder to make the thing at home than it is at a class.
February 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I've tried and ripped out multiple attempts since going off-pattern and finally made some progress today!
January 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I went off pattern for the last row, since it had 3x as many extra tall stitches and I just cannot.
January 25, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Just shy of 2 rounds completed today, it's pretty slow going at this point.
January 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Nearly at the last color- I have a second ball of yarn, so I'll have to decide how big I want to make this blanket.
January 23, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Work was remote today because of the cold, so I could crochet in meetings. The bobble round is worked backwards!
January 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Feels like I should have made more progress, given that I worked on it most of the day, but I messed up the popcorn stitch round and had to rip 600 stitches out and redo it.
January 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Staying off insta and back on my crochet bullshit means wip pics! I don't like the feel or plies of the yarn, but the gradual color changes are pretty good.
January 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I had an octopus encounter today and it was a dream come true! Highly recommend making an octo friend if you're near Dubuque, Iowa!
December 27, 2024 at 2:31 AM