I saw @jmgknits’ XY scarf (by @mijocrochet) at #StitchesWest and it was love at first sight. 🗳 I found the perfect yarn for it while searching for The Missing Skein of Fuschia Ribbon; the 19th Amendment Kit from @LadyDyeYarns! 🗳 It’s absolutely potato chip crocheting; and I’m loving the speckles and stripes. 🗳 #BIPOCKnitters #Crocheting #Crochet #CrochetersOfInstagram #HanddyedYarn #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #LadyDyeYarns #IndieDyersOfInstagram #IndieDyedYarn #BIPOCMaker #Couture #Bespoke #Woolens #BlackDyersOfInstagram 🗳 [Image Description: A triangular bit of crochet in purples, golden oranges, and white lays on a cream colored canvas bag that reads, “Rebel with a cause”.]

via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/Cc8YuoipNjQ/ I saw @jmgknits’ XY scarf (by @mijocrochet) at #StitchesWest and it was love at first sight. 🗳 I found the perfect yarn for it while searching for The Missing Skein of Fuschia Ribbon; the 19th Amendment Kit from @LadyDyeYarns! 🗳 It’s absolutely potato chip crocheting; and I’m loving the speckles and stripes. 🗳 #BIPOCKnitters #Crocheting #Crochet #CrochetersOfInstagram #HanddyedYarn #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #LadyDyeYarns #IndieDyersOfInstagram #IndieDyedYarn #BIPOCMaker #Couture #Bespoke #Woolens #BlackDyersOfInstagram 🗳 [Image Description: A triangular bit of crochet in purples, golden oranges, and white lays on a cream colored canvas bag that reads, “Rebel with a cause”.]

Back at the theatre, with my favorite daughter, enjoying #KinkyBoots in a fully-masked theatre. 👠 #LiveTheatre #SJCMT #SupportTheArts 👠 [Image Description: A striking, freckled and fair-skinned Iranian American woman with pink, curly hair slicked back and puffed up, smiles behind her N95 mask next to a stunning little girl with an olive complexion, glasses, long dark brown hair and a black KN94 mask is holding a Kinky Boots #Playbill.] to line break

via Instagram Back at the theatre, with my favorite daughter, enjoying #KinkyBoots in a fully-masked theatre. 👠 #LiveTheatre #SJCMT #SupportTheArts 👠 [Image Description: A striking, freckled and fair-skinned Iranian American woman with pink, curly hair slicked back and puffed up, smiles behind her N95 mask next to a stunning little girl with an olive complexion, glasses, long dark brown hair and a black KN94 mask is holding a Kinky Boots #Playbill.] https://instagr.am/p/CcwlWLWFCEA/

A boat neck on a cheerful, cozy pullover, and my usual, subtle makeup. 🍭 [Pattern: Amber Pullover by @rachbrocknits, Yarn: @TheWanderingFlock “Cosmic Tye Dye” worsted] 🍭 #knitting #KnittersOfInstagram #HanddyedYarn #Knit #ProjectSweaterChest #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #HandKnit #IndieDyersOfInstagram #IndieDyedYarn #BIPOCIndieDyers #BIPOCInFiber #BIPOCMaker #ColourPop #Bespoke #Interweave #InterweaveKnits #FinishedObject #TodaysKnitOutfit 🍭 [Image description: A striking, freckled and fair-skinned Iranian American woman with pink, curly hair slicked back and puffed up poses dramatically in a newly finished garter rib pullover in neon pastels. Her makeup is dramatic, and coordinates with the colors of the pullover. The photo is taken at an artistically 45°.]

via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/Cci9QcsJshz/ A boat neck on a cheerful, cozy pullover, and my usual, subtle makeup. 🍭 [Pattern: Amber Pullover by @rachbrocknits, Yarn: @TheWanderingFlock “Cosmic Tye Dye” worsted] 🍭 #knitting #KnittersOfInstagram #HanddyedYarn #Knit #ProjectSweaterChest #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #HandKnit #IndieDyersOfInstagram #IndieDyedYarn #BIPOCIndieDyers #BIPOCInFiber #BIPOCMaker #ColourPop #Bespoke #Interweave #InterweaveKnits #FinishedObject #TodaysKnitOutfit 🍭 [Image description: A striking, freckled and fair-skinned Iranian American woman with pink, curly hair slicked back and puffed up poses dramatically in a newly finished garter rib pullover in neon pastels. Her makeup is dramatic, and coordinates with the colors of the pullover. The photo is taken at an artistically 45°.]

I have solved the “what can I knit and wear in hot weather?” quandary. Sweaty Betty tested and approved. 🐚 🧜🏼‍♀️ (Pattern: Pyramis #TestKnit for @mamasteddybear, Yarn: deeeeeeeep stash silk ribbon, earrings: large size @birdieparkerdesigns large Adella hoops) 🐚🧜🏼‍♀️ You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🐚 🧜🏼‍♀️ #BIPOCKnitters #knitting #BIPOCDesigners #KnittersOfInstagram #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #Knit #ProjectSweaterChest #HandKnit #BIPOCMaker #TestKnit #SizeInclusive #Bespoke #TodaysKnitOutfit #FO 🐚🧜🏼‍♀️ [Image description: A striking, freckled and fair-skinned Iranian American woman with overgrown pink, curly hair grins toothily up to the camera. She is wearing a Tiffany blue and orange silk top with dolman sleeves, coordinating makeup, and large copper-colored hoops.]

via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CcgkPUgvFPQ/ I have solved the “what can I knit and wear in hot weather?” quandary. Sweaty Betty tested and approved. 🐚 🧜🏼‍♀️ (Pattern: Pyramis #TestKnit for @mamasteddybear, Yarn: deeeeeeeep stash silk ribbon, earrings: large size @birdieparkerdesigns large Adella hoops) 🐚🧜🏼‍♀️ You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🐚 🧜🏼‍♀️ #BIPOCKnitters #knitting #BIPOCDesigners #KnittersOfInstagram #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #Knit #ProjectSweaterChest #HandKnit #BIPOCMaker #TestKnit #SizeInclusive #Bespoke #TodaysKnitOutfit #FO 🐚🧜🏼‍♀️ [Image description: A striking, freckled and fair-skinned Iranian American woman with overgrown pink, curly hair grins toothily up to the camera. She is wearing a Tiffany blue and orange silk top with dolman sleeves, coordinating makeup, and large copper-colored hoops.]

Squealing and Delight- Episode 669 IS LIVE! In this week’s episode, we ask: what gives you swagger? (Feel free to answer in the comments!)

via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CcefCuOLD_u/ Squealing and Delight- Episode 669 IS LIVE! In this week’s episode, we ask: what gives you swagger? (Feel free to answer in the comments!)

Ever vigilant, even asleep he keeps one ear open. A Very Good Boy. 🐾 #BIPOCKnitters #knitting #KnittersOfInstagram #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #ProjectSweaterChest #HandKnit #LittleSkeinInTheBigWool #BIPOCMaker #RescueDogsOfInstagram #PitbullMix #GEPDARescue #AdoptDontShop #PitBull #chihuahua #dachshund #MixedBreed #RescueDog 🐾 [Image Description: a predominately white dog with brown and black brindled spots snoozles in a bed with blue and green flannel sheets with one large ear standing straight up at attention.] to line break

via Instagram Ever vigilant, even asleep he keeps one ear open. A Very Good Boy. 🐾 #BIPOCKnitters #knitting #KnittersOfInstagram #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #ProjectSweaterChest #HandKnit #LittleSkeinInTheBigWool #BIPOCMaker #RescueDogsOfInstagram #PitbullMix #GEPDARescue #AdoptDontShop #PitBull #chihuahua #dachshund #MixedBreed #RescueDog 🐾 [Image Description: a predominately white dog with brown and black brindled spots snoozles in a bed with blue and green flannel sheets with one large ear standing straight up at attention.] https://instagr.am/p/CcAHGdurn7W/

A little hat knitting while Rex works on his comic book. (It’s #CaptainUnderpants #Fanfiction, for any curious parties.) 🌈🖍 [Pattern: Wychavon by @woollywormhead, Yarn: 2016 vintage @WhiteBirchFiberArts, label missing ] 🌈🖍 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🌈🖍 #BIPOCKnitters #knitting #KidsKnits #KnittersofInstagram #HandDyedYarn #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #ProjectSweaterChest #IndieDyers #IndieDyersofInstagram #Bespoke #Knit #Libsyn #KnittingPodcast #podcast 🌈🖍 [Image Description: a cheerful, self-striping pink and rainbow garter stitch hat in progress. In the background, the cutest boy in the world’s hand, and crayons spread out on the table.]

via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/Cb-ZyWQF1ng/ A little hat knitting while Rex works on his comic book. (It’s #CaptainUnderpants #Fanfiction, for any curious parties.) 🌈🖍 [Pattern: Wychavon by @woollywormhead, Yarn: 2016 vintage @WhiteBirchFiberArts, label missing ] 🌈🖍 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🌈🖍 #BIPOCKnitters #knitting #KidsKnits #KnittersofInstagram #HandDyedYarn #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #ProjectSweaterChest #IndieDyers #IndieDyersofInstagram #Bespoke #Knit #Libsyn #KnittingPodcast #podcast 🌈🖍 [Image Description: a cheerful, self-striping pink and rainbow garter stitch hat in progress. In the background, the cutest boy in the world’s hand, and crayons spread out on the table.]

Neon, sequins, speckles, and rainbows. I hope your Friday started at brightly as ours. 🌈 🦄 (You may have seen it on display in @FrostYarns’ booth at @StitchesEvents) 🌈 🦄 [Pattern: Reignbeaux by @YelleyKnits, Yarn: @FrostYarn] 🌈🦄 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🌈 🦄 #BIPOCKnitters #knitting #KidsKnits #KnittersofInstagram #HandDyedYarn #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #BIPOCDesigners #ProjectSweaterChest #ReignBeauxSweater #IndieDyers #IndieDyersofInstagram #Bespoke #knit #FrostYarns #Libsyn #KnittingPodcast #podcast 🌈🦄 [Image Description: A stunning little girl with an olive complexion, glasses, and long dark brown hair wearing neon pink sequined jacket over a pullover featuring a day-glo rainbow, knit in a semicircle on a white background with ALL THE NEON SPECKLES.]

via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/Cb0E_uLLRUy/ Neon, sequins, speckles, and rainbows. I hope your Friday started at brightly as ours. 🌈 🦄 (You may have seen it on display in @FrostYarns’ booth at @StitchesEvents) 🌈 🦄 [Pattern: Reignbeaux by @YelleyKnits, Yarn: @FrostYarn] 🌈🦄 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🌈 🦄 #BIPOCKnitters #knitting #KidsKnits #KnittersofInstagram #HandDyedYarn #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #BIPOCDesigners #ProjectSweaterChest #ReignBeauxSweater #IndieDyers #IndieDyersofInstagram #Bespoke #knit #FrostYarns #Libsyn #KnittingPodcast #podcast 🌈🦄 [Image Description: A stunning little girl with an olive complexion, glasses, and long dark brown hair wearing neon pink sequined jacket over a pullover featuring a day-glo rainbow, knit in a semicircle on a white background with ALL THE NEON SPECKLES.]

Here’s our #Haftsin, with a brief description of what everything symbolizes. (“Haft” means seven, “sin” pronounced “seen” means the s sound. So, seven S’s.) 🇮🇷 - hyacinth: a harbinger of spring 🧄 : for good health 🐠 goldfish (or in case, goldfish crackers and goldfish stitch markers): they pause their swimming when the bull who carries the world on its horn switches horns -sumac: so you live a flavorful life - noodles: so your undertakings run with smooth continuity - Sabzeh: grains that have been used to foretell a successful harvest for the coming year 🪙: coins to keep you solvent 🍎: an apple so you appear as healthy as a red-cheeked apple 🕯: to bring light to your life 🪞: to reflect on your past, show your present, and peek into your future. (The mirror and candlesticks were wedding gifts from my maternal grandfather.) 📖: my household is secular, but the book we follow is Positive Discipline. (My mom has the family Quaran, which is the traditional book.) 🇮🇷 non-traditional things that are there that also start with “s”: skeletons, ‘sauruses, sloth, spindles, stitch markers, skull 🇮🇷 #Nowruz #PersianNewYear #BIPOCMaker #Multigenerational #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #SpringEquinox to line break

via Instagram Here’s our #Haftsin, with a brief description of what everything symbolizes. (“Haft” means seven, “sin” pronounced “seen” means the s sound. So, seven S’s.) 🇮🇷 - hyacinth: a harbinger of spring 🧄 : for good health 🐠 goldfish (or in case, goldfish crackers and goldfish stitch markers): they pause their swimming when the bull who carries the world on its horn switches horns -sumac: so you live a flavorful life - noodles: so your undertakings run with smooth continuity - Sabzeh: grains that have been used to foretell a successful harvest for the coming year 🪙: coins to keep you solvent 🍎: an apple so you appear as healthy as a red-cheeked apple 🕯: to bring light to your life 🪞: to reflect on your past, show your present, and peek into your future. (The mirror and candlesticks were wedding gifts from my maternal grandfather.) 📖: my household is secular, but the book we follow is Positive Discipline. (My mom has the family Quaran, which is the traditional book.) 🇮🇷 non-traditional things that are there that also start with “s”: skeletons, ‘sauruses, sloth, spindles, stitch markers, skull 🇮🇷 #Nowruz #PersianNewYear #BIPOCMaker #Multigenerational #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #SpringEquinox https://instagr.am/p/CbWVfwKrKQZ/

Nowruz pirooz, from our family to yours. ❤️ 🇮🇷 Persian New Year starts on spring equinox and goes for two weeks. In non-Covid times it would be two glorious weeks of enjoying food and family, celebrating culture and company. But, we will celebrate as much as we can in the best way we can. 🇮🇷 #Nowruz #PersianNewYear #BIPOCMaker #Multigenerational #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #SpringEquinox 🇮🇷 [Image Description: left to right: A striking, freckled and fair-skinned Persian American woman with a short, sea-pink haircut grins toothily next to an elegant, mature, Iranian-American woman with salt and pepper hair and a polka dot dress. A stunning little girl with an olive complexion, glasses, and long dark brown hair is smiling with dimples next to the cutest boy in the world with bangs and the sparkliest brown eyes smiles gap-toothedly. Next to him is a beautiful, bespectacled Chinese-American woman who is smiling from ear-to-ear. Behind her is a fair skinned Iranian, American man with an impressive copper colored beard peeks out, smiling. In the back row, where we put all the Talls, a tall, bald, white man with a greying Van Dyke beard smiles, leaning forward in his seat. is in the foreground, taking the photo. A haftsin is on the piano, obscured by this ridiculously attractive family.]

via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CbWTW4cLI5r/ Nowruz pirooz, from our family to yours. ❤️ 🇮🇷 Persian New Year starts on spring equinox and goes for two weeks. In non-Covid times it would be two glorious weeks of enjoying food and family, celebrating culture and company. But, we will celebrate as much as we can in the best way we can. 🇮🇷 #Nowruz #PersianNewYear #BIPOCMaker #Multigenerational #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #SpringEquinox 🇮🇷 [Image Description: left to right: A striking, freckled and fair-skinned Persian American woman with a short, sea-pink haircut grins toothily next to an elegant, mature, Iranian-American woman with salt and pepper hair and a polka dot dress. A stunning little girl with an olive complexion, glasses, and long dark brown hair is smiling with dimples next to the cutest boy in the world with bangs and the sparkliest brown eyes smiles gap-toothedly. Next to him is a beautiful, bespectacled Chinese-American woman who is smiling from ear-to-ear. Behind her is a fair skinned Iranian, American man with an impressive copper colored beard peeks out, smiling. In the back row, where we put all the Talls, a tall, bald, white man with a greying Van Dyke beard smiles, leaning forward in his seat. is in the foreground, taking the photo. A haftsin is on the piano, obscured by this ridiculously attractive family.]