Themme Fatale

It’s nice to meet you. You can call me Themme, and as you might expect, my pronouns are they/them. I am currently in my final year of law school, and I am attempting to get a job as a public defender for when I graduate. I started knitting and crocheting in earnest about 15 years ago, while I was in undergrad in rural Missouri, and have been crafting (and collecting crafting paraphernalia) ever since. However, about seven years ago, I picked up playing roller derby, which happened to overlap with my usual knitting group, and I kind of lost my passion for crafting.

That’s not to say I didn’t knit in the past seven years, but the knitting (and other crafting) I did was always in service of having a finished object, usually as a gift to a loved one. However, this past summer, my desire to craft for the sake of crafting came roaring back, and now I am back in the deep end.

I dreamed up this blog after realizing that the ways I have been sharing finished objects (usually on Instagram or Bluesky) doesn’t really allow for me to write as much as I’d like about my process, and given some of the other issues I have with social media platforms, I thought a blog that I curate and control would be a much better platform for me to share my crafts.

I will likely have some bleed over from other aspects of my life, like writing about social justice issues in the news, food that I’m cooking up, and my ongoing health and fitness journey, but the main focus of the blog will be on crafting of all kinds (though the crafts I mostly do are knitting, crochet, and sewing).

I’ll be back in a couple days with “state of the wardrobe” and “state of the crafting queue” posts when I can get them drafted, as well as some smaller posts about things I’m thinking about, but for now, I’ll share my most recent projects, three potholders from Purl Soho, in their Sunshower Cotton (colors Cherry Tomato, Sea Spray, Upper Atmosphere). The modifications I made:

1. Cast on using a long tail cast on.
2. Begin the first round with purl, not knitting.
3. Removed the hang loop.