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If your kids (or you!) live in Ontario and are learning French, why not check out this book written for 9 to 13 year-olds? Le Kaiju de Mississauga tackles the 1979 Mississauga train derailment - an event that led to the largest peacetime evacuation in North America prior to Hurricane Katrina - through the eyes of a group of local kids who are obsessed with Japanese monster movies. Michèle Laframboise spins a fun yarn while weaving in some local color and history.

I wasn't too happy with the synthetic materials used in my Chinese bedsheets, and I couldn't find anyone making cotton ones, or even selling me their designs.
Now they are made in Germany instead.

Revisiting Scarflette
https://nakatsubyjna.com/2026/02/05/revisiting-scarflette/

Revisiting Scarflette
I started this Scarflette project in 2024(?) in Circulo Anne cotton yarn, and recently picked it up again. It’s pretty complex and has 10(!) charts, and it took me a while to figure out where I’d l…

📒 We built a museum exhibit about a 1990s game hint line, with a physical binder
#games

We Pitched a Museum a 1993 Game Hint Line (And They Actually Said Yes) | Yarn Spinner
We pitched ACMI a 1993 game hint line simulator with a 300-page physical binder. They said yes.

Utopia Hat, free pattern!
https://nakatsubyjna.com/2026/01/24/utopiahat/

Utopia Hat
I knit a Utopia hat (free pattern) and was able to knit it up in a night (I knit pretty fast, and stayed up late!) using Mega Ball acrylic yarn and reusing the furry Pom Pom I had from a store boug…