# Rachel Leggett, mayonnaise influencer
> Fiber artist, photographer, and hobby collector writing about all of the above.
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## Pages
- [I'm Rachel!](https://rachelleggett.com/about.md) - Software engineering is my job. Photography (sports and wildlife), fiber and textile arts, pole dance, riding my bike, etc etc etc are my life. Writing about any and all of it here! What the heck is "mayonnaise influencer"? So I once made this Duke's Mayo Bowl Tubby mascot costume for Halloween and…

## Posts
- [Why I love drawing warmups](https://rachelleggett.com/why-i-love-drawing-warmups.md) - My favorite exercise to warm up for drawing and why I love it.
- [The joy of using a digicam, but I'm a millennial](https://rachelleggett.com/the-joy-of-using-a-digicam-but-im-a-millennial.md) - I'm about to sound so old, but I had no idea how trendy digicams actually were until I was getting ready to write this post. I basically knew "kids these days call them digicams." And I think by "kids" I mean 25-year-olds. So anyway, I found my old digicam (point-and-shoot digital camera) a few yea…
- [I just finished my first sketchbook: My favorite sketches](https://rachelleggett.com/i-just-finished-my-first-sketchbook-my-favorite-sketches.md) - For the first time since picking up drawing in earnest in late 2025, I have filled a sketchbook! I brought it along on many adventures and used it from January through July. Here are my favorite pieces from the book. Spring cub at Brooks Falls I sketched this while standing on the Riffles viewing p…
- [Finding Island Scrub-Jays in Channel Islands National Park](https://rachelleggett.com/finding-island-scrub-jays-in-channel-islands-national-park.md) - How to find Island Scrub-Jays, one of the rarest songbirds in the world! Spoiler: it’s easy.
- [Photographing island foxes in Channel Islands National Park](https://rachelleggett.com/photographing-island-foxes-in-channel-islands-national-park.md) - My experience going to Santa Cruz Island to photograph island foxes and some of my favorite images!
- [No Thoughts, Just Socks: free cuff-down sock pattern with a heel flap and simple cable](https://rachelleggett.com/no-thoughts-just-socks-cuff-down-pattern.md) - Free beginner-friendly sock knitting pattern for cuff-down socks with a heel flap and a simple mirrored cabled.
- [Global Big Day 2026](https://rachelleggett.com/global-big-day-2026.md) - Highlights from my day birding Southern Colorado on Global Big Day.
- [My bike brings me closer to my community, my car shuts me out](https://rachelleggett.com/my-bike-brings-me-closer-to-community-my-car-shuts-me-out.md) - I just got home from an absolutely lovely morning on my bike, which I rode to attend a meetup before work instead of driving there. It would have taken half as long to drive: ten minutes in my car versus 20 minutes on my bike, one way. But I got to ride my bike along the river. I saw my first tree…
- [All crafts converge: Making a coptic-bound watercolor sketchbook](https://rachelleggett.com/all-crafts-converge-making-a-coptic-bound-watercolor-sketchbook.md) - I'm taking an introductory watercolor class at a local art center and needed a sketchbook with 100% cotton watercolor paper. This sketchbook wasn't on our original supply list; the instructor told us during our first class that we needed to buy one to bring to our second class in one week. My local…
- [Sketchbook tour: Santa Cruz Island](https://rachelleggett.com/sketchbook-tour-santa-cruz-island.md) - I went on a trip to Santa Cruz Island in Channel Islands National Park in late January and experimented for the first time with bringing along a watercolor sketchbook to do a mix of nature journaling and general outdoor sketching. It was really fun! I sketched with a pen so I wouldn't obsess over p…
- [Drawing really is a skill you can learn](https://rachelleggett.com/drawing-really-is-a-skill-you-can-learn.md) - Everyone says this. I didn't believe them.
- [Why I spin with a spindle instead of a spinning wheel](https://rachelleggett.com/why-i-spin-with-a-spindle.md) - Last year, I spun at least 2500 yards of plied yarn using only spindles. I love spinning yarn without a wheel, I don't own a wheel, and I don't want one. (I do own an Electric Eel Wheel e-spinner that I use exclusively for plying because I don't enjoy plying on spindles.) In my experience, beginnin…
- [Everything I made in 2025](https://rachelleggett.com/everything-i-made-in-2025.md) - Knitting, spinning, sewing, weaving... I never stop making things and I thought it would be fun to compile all the things I made last year! I've only included things I both started and finished in 2025, so nothing that was a holdover from 2024 and nothing that went into 2026 unfinished. Socks! So m…
- [Simple Flock Socks: Free toe-up sock knitting pattern with a short-row heel](https://rachelleggett.com/simple-flock-toe-up-sock-pattern-short-row-heel.md) - Simple Flock Socks is a free toe-up sock knitting pattern featuring a short-row heel and simple, beginner-friendly construction. Originally published on my Ravelry account in July of 2017, it has had more than 900 unique downloads. I hope you enjoy knitting this pattern! This stitch pattern, remini…

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