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Beautiful summary
https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/

Why We Don't Use AI | Yarn Spinner
We get asked about AI a lot. Whether we’re going to add it to Yarn Spinner, whether we use it ourselves, what we think about it. Fair questions. Time to write it all down. Yarn Spinner doesn’t use the technology that’s currently being called AI. We don’t have generative AI features in the product, and we don’t use code generation tools to build it, and we don’t accept contributions we know contain generated material. Let’s talk about why.

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…

Sometimes people leave art in the Free Little Art Gallery, which is awesome! And I don’t care if it’s a crayon drawing on paper or yarn tied to sticks, if it’s art, it stays.
But… we do have to curate, and we do have *some* standards, and any offensive items are swiftly removed.

Feels like all I've done is knit baubles for the last fortnight but this is all I have to show for it. To be fair one's with Mum and one's on the 🎄 as I wasn't happy with it. I've ordered the wrong size bauble and played yarn chicken with the white so it hasn't been plain sailing. @… has ordered two more for a relative so that's m…

📒 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.

New crochet products from my wife. She did one bag for herself, now her family asked for two more. They start to look bettter and better
#crochet #häkeln

Stay warm out there 🧣

What Wine Are We Having Today Ray?
Two old schoolmates share a mystery bottle of wine and have a yarn about old and new topics...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/what-wine-are-we-having-today-ray/

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…