Lyndell the Tricoteuse

A chestnut coloured, mohair, hand knitted jumper is shown on a mannequin in a garden. Various green plants, a brick path and a dark grey dress drying on the clothes line are in the background. The jumper is loose fitting and loosely knitted. It has a big cape collar from a wide neckline. This has been worked in a simple lace stitch for lightness and to show off the fuzzy mohair yarn. My own pattern - I forget the brand of yarn - it was about an 8ply or DK

A man is wearing a very fair-isle / stranded knitting jumper - he is standing in front of a statue and some green shrubbery. Set in sleeves and crew neck - with multicoloured ribbing bands and horizontal bands of geometric fair-isle colourwork. There were very few rows that were only one colour. The yarns are all naturally coloured (not dyed) and some was from ‘fancy’ or unusual breeds - there is a little grey Jacob and some dark brown Manx. But the main colours (cream, Lt brown and dark chocolate) were from regular breeds of sheep - but coloured ones. All 8ply (DK) My own pattern

A brown jumper is shown on a mannequin in a garden - lots of plants, some in pots can also be seen - the mannequin has one arm help out to the side so we can see the ‘batwing’ shaping of the sleeve. Scoop neck, batwing sleeve with a long ribbing cuff - the majority of the jumper is Stocking Stitch (Stockinette) My own pattern - yarn from Bendigo Woollen Mills an 8ply (DK) Rustic - I can’t remember the colour name.

#showmeyourknits Theme this week is Sweaters or what we call Jumpers. Here are 3 - all a bit brown - more info in Alt Text #knitsky #handknit

He is having a bad hair day.

The owner probably spent a fortune on that tulip and he wanted its portrait !

😢

She’s not unemployed - she got a new job as the ‘Shield of the Americas’.

Shield of Americas !! Sorry but in Australia ‘shield’ was a marketing word used a lot for ladies’ sanitary products. 🥴

The USA was taken over, more than a year ago, by extreme right wing, project 2025 / Heritage Foundation, ChristoFascists. These people will not leave quietly - there won’t be a peaceful transfer of power - because 1. They like that power a lot! 2. They are scared they’ll end up in jail.

DonOld works for me … a reminder that he is old & not much longer for this world.

They’ve named it Operation Epic Fury but what do you think we should rename it?
Operation EpicStein Distraction or Operation Toxic Masculinity.

Also though - if you get superglue or nail polish on an acetate rayon fabric - don’t use acetone … it’ll dissolve the fabric.

Civil war number 2 ?

Beige coloured hand knitting lies diagonally on a timber table - the knitting needle (a circ) and the yarn can be glimpsed in the top RH corner of the photo. There is a geometric lace panel - twisty diamonds - running up the middle. Flanked on both sides by an old fashioned, continuous lace stitch called ‘Fleurette’ in the Barbara Walker Treasuries - it is dainty and vaguely floral. When (if) this gets finished it’ll be a curtain. It is my own pattern and the yarn is 100% Hemp - lace wt held double. This is a WiP or UfO or PHD of many years standing … (WiP = work in progress - UFO = unfinished object - PHD = project half done)

A large lace shawl is shown on a mannequin in a garden. We see various plants & pot stands and white painted brick wall in the background. The mannequin has its back to us and one arm is held aloft so we can see more of the shawl. The shawl is hand knitted & lacey - it was one of those projects that ‘grew’. It started with the back panel - which is in a soft very pale grey / brown colour - this is a fluffy yarn (angora & mink) and that panel is basically from the pattern ‘Mediterranean Lace’ in the book ‘A Gathering of Lace’ I like the unusual shape of that shawl pattern - it has squares that fall to the front - I adapted the pattern there using a different lace stitch called Mermaid’s Mesh in the Barbara Walker Treasuries. The front squares are a soft mushroom brown colour - Cashmere lace wt from Belisa Cashmere. There is a large fancy lace border around all the shawl - it is leafy and that’s from the pattern. I used another mushroom brown lace wt yarn (sheep wool) from Touch Yarns. Then for the crochet cast-off I used a pink mauve alpaca yarn … This shawl was a stash buster - and it all kinda works … I love wearing this shawl - it’s a great shape that stays put on your shoulders.

A lace knitted shawl / scarf is pegged on a clothes line - some plants, a black bird cage and a timber fence can be seen in the background. I had treated myself to a boxed set of Manos del Uruguay’s ‘Fino’ yarn - 5 mini skeins, golden yellow, bronze orange, raspberry, royal purple, aubergine. (I did have to add more yarn … matched the colours) I adapted a Stephen West pattern ‘Starburst’ which has this wonderful shape and the cabled top edge (which I made in the gold yellow) But Mr West does not like lace … and I do !! So for my shawl I worked the wedge shaped panels & the border in various lace stitches … all sourced from the Barbara Walker ‘Treasuries of Knitting Patterns’ (they are my ‘knitting bibles’). The wedges radiate and create a long skinny end and a blunter star-like end … it results in a very wearable scarf / small shawl. If I throw the skinny end over one shoulder and plonk the starry end on top … it doesn’t slip about or need fussing with.

A mauve / lavender, loose lady’s top is shown on a mannequin standing in front of an aluminium fence and roller-door. I am holding one sleeve out - so you can see that it is slightly flared - wide at the wrist. This (like many of my selfish knitting projects) was WiP for a long time … 9yrs in this case) It is based on a Jaeger pattern ‘Cavendish’ in JM08. But I used a different lace stitch pattern. Mine is ‘Day Flower’ in Barbara Walker’s Treasury No: 2. It is a loose, hip length top, flared sleeves and the neckline has a stitched-on scarf effect that you knot loosely over the V neckline … quite elegant and easy to wear. I used Bendigo Woollen Mills 4pky cotton yarn the colour was called ‘Orchid’. The colour is slightly less pink than the photo shows

#Showmeyourknits the theme this week is Lace. I love lace is all its many forms. Don’t get to knit enough lace shawls. Here are 4 recent(ish) lace knits with more info in the Alt Texts #knitsky #handknit #knitlace

Remember - he did not put his tiny hand on the bible when he was sworn in the second time. It was all planned - by the extreme right - Project 2025 …

Screenshot of a NSW Respiratory Surveillance Report for the week ending 21 February 2026. It states influenza, COVID-19, and RSV are all at low activity levels. The page includes a summary and a section explaining data sources and methods used by NSW Health.

Screenshot of a NSW Health table titled “Notifications of COVID-19, influenza and RSV, NSW, tested in the week ending 21 February 2026.” It shows total weekly cases: COVID-19 (890), influenza (576), and RSV (721), along with year-to-date totals. The interpretation above notes COVID-19 and RSV increased, while influenza decreased compared to the previous week.

Bar chart showing weekly COVID-19 notifications in NSW from August 2024 to February 2026. Cases peak around mid-2025 at over 4,000 per week, then decline through late 2025, remaining lower with slight fluctuations into early 2026.

NSW Health chart showing COVID-19 test positivity and number of positive tests from August 2024 to February 2026. Positivity trends fluctuate, rising to 3.8% in the latest week. A table below shows weekly PCR tests, positive cases, and reporting labs, with 254 positives and 3.8% positivity for the week ending 22 February 2026.

🧵(1/3) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: 26 Feb 2026

Week ending 21 February 2025:

🔸COVID positivity rate: 3.8% (+0.2%)

🔸Number of laboratories reporting COVID: 2 out of 4

🔹COVID: 890 (+26.8%)
🔹Influenza: 576 (-11.5%)
🔹RSV: 721 (+14.8%)

Source: health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/c...

Most flu deaths this century were recorded in 2025, ABS finds There were more deaths associated with influenza last year than any other year this century, according to the Australia Bureau of Statistics.

Australia: "Most flu deaths this century were recorded in 2025, ABS finds"

Last Year (2025):

🔹COVID-19: ~2,161 deaths
🔹Influenza: ~1,701 deaths
🔹RSV: ~582 deaths

Doesn’t it also mean many women won’t be able to vote because they changed their Family Name / Surname when they married? Their Birth Cert will show a different name.

Love how the handler is holding that turtle almost at arms length - I’ve rescued a few from roads and can attest that a frighted long-neck /snake-neck turtle can ‘pee’ an amazing amount & it’s very stinky (cabbage soup gone off). Should be a scientific study into how they can hold so much pee!

Get rid of the women (apart from a few Barbie Doll types) and you are left with a bunch of men wasting their time and tax payers’ dollars in Roster Fights. Who is the most Macho - who is the biggest most manly man …
Pass the bucket 🤢

If it is it would be the only female thing in the room. It’s all men - totally Bro Business - testosterone zone 😏

A hand knitted toy monkey sits on the leathery leaves of an Australian native orchid - other plants and some wooden lattice are in the background. The monkey is long limbed - about 12” tall (not counting the tail. Knitted from self patterning sock yarn - the face & muzzle, ears, paws and tail are bright light blue, the rest of the monkey is a soft jade green. Inner ears & smile are bright pink and monkey has black embroidered eyes. This was the 7th monkey I’ve made to the very clever “Jacobus” pattern by Annita Wilschut (on Ravelry). The yarn - Pairfect Design Line By Arne & Carlos - number 6820 Schachenmayr Regia

ColourWork knitting of 2 bunny rabbits - the one on the left is standing up on its back feet - the other is down on all 4. This is part of an elaborate jacket I was knitting myself - it has remained as a 95% finished WiP for several years … perhaps I’ll finish it this year !! The bunnies are brown with dark brown details - they are on a light grass green background - bands of fair-isle / stranded colourwork are under and above the bunnies. The bunnies themselves were worked in a mix of Stranded & Intarsia methods. Yarn 4ply ‘Tweed’ from Ixchel Fibres Design & pattern my own

A tiny knitted lamb sits on some fluffy knitted ‘grass’ - all on some sky blue paper that’s printed with a pattern of silvery feathers. I’ve included this knitted toy because it’s getting close to Easter. It’s meant to be a tiny Lamb Cake. Knitted to the “Lambie Cake” pattern by Anna Hrachovec - Mochimochi Land Website or on Ravelry. The lamb is tiny at about 2” head to tail, white woollen yarn for the lamb, fancy Faux Fur acrylic for the ‘grass’ - there are some purple embroidered flowers and lamb wears a blue satin ribbon.

When my grandchildren were little I tried to knit them a whole alphabet of toys … A was an Apple and an Ant 🐜 B was a bat 🦇 C were some Aussie cockatoos … I was trying to make Australian native critters whenever possible … M was Mouse - a ‘normal’ mouse and a Marsupial Mouse (more properly known as a Dunnart) I used the pattern “Marisol the Knitted Mouse” by Rachel Borello Carroll on Ravelry. The pale grey mouse on the left of this picture is to the pattern The brown with pale grey undersides toy on the right is my adapted Dunnart - shorter tapered tail, longer more pronounced nose, bigger ears And a pouch … I even made pink ‘bumps’ inside the pouch as the ‘babies’ & my grandkids loved putting their fingers in the pouch to feel the ‘babies’ 😀 Yarn was scraps of 8ply wools in undyed natural colours. Plus some pink for ears etc and black for their embroidered eyes.

#showmeyourknits this week the theme is ANIMALS. I’ve knitted a lot of toys over the years and some animals in colourwork too - here’s a random selection. More info in the Alt Text
#knitsky #handknit

Danish military evacuates U.S. submariner who needed urgent medical care off Greenland Denmark's military says its arctic command forces evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine off the coast of Greenland for urgent medical treatment.

the Danes helped with a medical emergency on a US sub

....but Trump CANNOT just say "THANK YOU" to the Danes

instead he makes up a BS story where the Danes need US help

www.npr.org/2026/02/22/n...

Thank you USA - an ‘Allied Nation’ that we had Trade Agreements & Treaties with - an increase in the tariffs! What did we do to deserve that? We’ve paid you billion$ for submarines that we will never get, we sent our troops to die in your wars - including that one with the imaginary WMDs …Thanks! 🤬

Should never give power to a narcissist. Psychometric Testing is part of candidate selection for many jobs … yet it is not done for the most important position in the country?!

The USA broke trade agreements when they imposed those illegal tariffs. Agreements with allies, such as my country, were trashed & in the bin. Causing great disruption to our economy and enormous confusion to our farmers & businesses. Then the US turns round & talks of ‘honouring agreements’! 😤

Not welcome here !

A large hand knitted shawl shown wrapped about a dressmaker’s mannequin - in a garden. Assorted plants - some in pots - a brick garden path and a white painted brick wall in the background. The shawl is mostly a light sage green and in garter stitch - it is in panels - the panels separated by rows of evenly spaced holes. Along the somewhat jagged lower edge there is a narrow border. It is a darker green with a thin stripe of fawn - the corners have mitered increasing and decreasing to keep them well delineated … The sage green yarn is 8ply merino from Arcane FibreWorks

A large hand knitted shawl shown pegged on a clothes line - in a garden. Assorted plants - a brick garden path and a timber fence are in the background. The shawl is mostly a light sage green and in garter stitch - it is in panels - the panels separated by rows of evenly spaced holes. There is a thin top border. Along the somewhat jagged lower edge there is another narrow border. It is a darker green with a thin stripe of fawn - the corners have mitered increasing and decreasing to keep them well delineated … The sage green yarn is 8ply merino from Arcane FibreWorks

#finishedFriday this commission - a large garter stitch shawl for a new opera. The costume designer was inspired by gum leaves. Not my design but my pattern & knitting #knitsky #handknit More in alt text

Screenshot of a news article from the Elizabethton Star. The headline reads, “Vaccination cuts risk of COVID-19 respiratory failure or death by 80%.” The article is labeled as contributed content and was published at 12:44 pm on Wednesday, February 18, 2026. Below the headline is a portrait photo of a middle-aged man wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and blue tie, standing indoors with his hands clasped. The caption identifies him as Wesley Self, MD, MPH. Social sharing icons appear above the photo.

"Vaccination cuts risk of COVID-19 respiratory failure or death by 80%"

Adults who received the 2024–25 COVID-19 vaccine were 40% less likely to be hospitalised and 79% less likely to need invasive ventilation or die from COVID-19, according to a new case-control study.

Source: archive.md/wRES7

Wow.

Thank you 😊