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Jared Flood explains the difference between "worsted" spun wool (the method, not the weight of the yarn) and "woolen" spun wool. Interesting to know the difference – and it makes a difference how the garment comes out when you knit, too.

OMFG YARN! This yarn makes me dead of awesome. Sadly, it is out of my price range. This yarn I cannot has.

Yes, I'm going to "literally" crush you with my gay (double) rainbow steamroller. Here I come.

Edith Wharton, from Beatrice Palmato, a prose fragment.

I love it when my favorite stuff gets all mixed up together. Fonts! Knitting! Knitting fonts!! Yay!

Funny how these same 5 GOP candidates are also on my shit list.

THAT is the cutest picture of a knitted ewok – I'm not kidding, you want to see this little guy. ADORABLE!

More yarn covered bridge news – this time in Providence, RI. Apparently, bridges really like yarn blankets. I'll have to take a pole on this here in Indianapolis.

VW Bug in a yarn cozy. Excellent

"La Barbe takes its name from the cheeky assertion that in order to wield any power in France, it seems, you have to be man. Taking this message to heart, the women of La Barbe protest by showing up to events – meetings, conferences, and so on – wearing fake beards." – Funny feminism. I like it.

They're concerned that the museum would discuss Roe V. Wade.

Very funny maps based on our stereo-typical understanding of other countries.

Aw, crap. David E. Kelley is going to fuck up Wonder Woman. That really blows.

A bridge covered entirely in knitted textiles in Cambridge, Ontario – to commemorate that city's textile history and heritage. WOW is all I can say.

This is what happens when you privatize what should be public services – mercenary tactics and corporate greed.

Who is determining whether these unmarried women are sexually active? Is DeMint going to be doing a vagina check every now and then?

Put some decorative gourds out, jerkface.

By latching on to O’Donnell’s growing presence, the Rove-Boehner-McConnell establishment can claim it represents struggling middle-class Tea Partiers rather than Wall Street potentates and corporate titans. O’Donnell’s value is the same as that other useful idiot, Michael Steele, who remains at the Republican National Committee only because he can wave the banner of “diversity” over a virtually all-white party that alternately demonizes African-Americans, Latinos, gays and Muslims.