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Wiredferret!
@wiredferret.bsky.social
Explaininator, Sticker Thoughtleader, Marketing nerd. Not straight, she/her. Parent of adults, catbox scooper, wife of @silmaria.bsky.social, Kermit-coded.

Find me at heidiwaterhouse.com

#quilting
#sewing
#knitting
#therbligs
Fluffernutter has learned another great lesson of Catness: lying on the sewing project to delay progress.
December 1, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The two things I claim full responsibility for today: molded cranberry sauce (delicious), and linen pants (so swooshy, hemmed for boots I was not wearing). The sweater I knit 10+ years ago.

All the rest of our delicious thanksgiving feast was @silmaria.bsky.social , from turkey to pies.
November 29, 2025 at 5:43 AM
It is! It's a replacement quilt for the one I made my brother as a high school graduation present, which got loved to bits. Also we have better pictures now.

Also I'm embroidering the rovers on.
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
My thread-catching dumpster continues to amuse me.
November 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I co-wrote a book on how to make software teams that consider users a key part of the product!
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
WOULD YOU LIKE TWO KITTENS I HAVE TWO REFUGEE KITTENS IN MY BEDROOM RIGHT NOW.
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is honestly a huge part of why I taught myself to sew. Which I'm thousands of hours into, and it took a long time to get up to "acceptable for professional wear".

And I'm only small fat.
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
How I come to you this evening:

with the feeling that at any moment, one green eye will open and judge my writing harshly.
November 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
That's lovely. Lettlopi?

This is my lettlopi sweater.
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I got this yarn in Dublin, and I love everything about it. So crunchy and springy.
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Contrast this with this Elizabeth Zimmerman book, which has luxuriant, enormous margins, uncoated paper, and good contrast. It begs for note-taking.
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Dear book designers:

Please consider the probable demographics of your readers, or, indeed, basic humanity, before you create a page with tiny grey on grey text printed on glossy paper.

The author worked hard on those words!
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I am at the research stage of an aran sweater for myself.

I should have started sooner if I wanted to be able to work on it from the waiting room tomorrow.
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Also also, these are not the breasts of any ordinary chicken. I think they may be trying to breed back to t rexes. Look at the size of these monsters.
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
OK, knitterati, how do we think this worked?

1) This is The Aran Store in Dublin. I expect everything is flat knit and seamed. I will not be doing that.
2) My first instinct is to knit the body round, steek it, and add the inner flap and folded-over collar at the same time as the zipper.
November 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Aurora! In the front yard!
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Look what they did to my boy!
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
By the third one, I managed to get it to only brush the cherry tree.

The fourth and fifth were both going the correct direction, but then BOUNCED OFF ANOTHER TREE AND INTO THE CHERRY TREE.

LOOK AT THESE BASTARDS.
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Excuse me, I need to update my personal style guide to use this citation method:
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I'm currently reading Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions (1990). I need to share this with you:
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It’s our book birthday! You can now buy the Progressive Delivery book and join the conversation about adding the user to the software development lifecycle!

progressivedelivery.com/pre-order-pr...
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I finished knitting my #MandelbrotSweater! I'm pleased with how it turned out.

(Also our book launches tomorrow!)
November 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
TOMORROW IS THE DAY! You'll be able to read/listen to Progressive Delivery at long last.

Want to hear from someone who has already read it? What about our own @kentbeck.com ?

Preorder page: progressivedelivery.com/pre-order-pr...
November 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Update: a pettin has been permitted.
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
And now @silmaria.bsky.social is playing cat TV for Fluffernutter.
November 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM