The Hairy Knitter
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Knitting designer. Yarn craft. It keeps us from screaming.
https://linktr.ee/jamiemccanless
The Old-Fashioned Holiday Market, tucked into and around the Brickworks is a festive collection of artists' beautiful treasures. ⢠Alpaca/wool yarn ⢠Flavored chocolate bars ⢠Bjorn Ironside the Viking Gnome cards ⢠Glass ornament
#HolidayMarket
#OldFashionedHolidayMarket
#MyIslandLife
#IslandLife
2 days ago
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I've sold 1,234 Hallgrim Scarf patterns! In appreciation, all of my *other* Ravelry patterns are 20% off NOW to noon PST 17 Dec 25 (Wed). Patterns:
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No code needed. Discount applied at checkout.
#KnittingDesigner
#PatternSale
#MenWhoKnit
#GayKnitter
#RealMenKnit
4 days ago
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This KƤƤnteinen cap - a public project I can post while knitting a gift I canāt - is coming along nicely. These are the first 1.5 of 9 inches in k3p2 ribbing. So far the variegated yarn has no color repeats or pooling.
#KaanteinenCap
#MenWhoKnit
#GayKnitter
#RealMenKnit
#DoublePointedNeedles
#DPNs
9 days ago
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Thursday was cool, overcast, and drizzling, a perfect day for knitting cozy aboard the interisland ferry. Shades of green and gray. Water, land, and sky. Photos through rain-streaked windows, reflections like invading spacecraft.
11 days ago
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Here I go again. 180 stitches of Island Fibers fingering weight yarn on 2.25 mm DPNs in k3p2 ribbing. Nine inches to go before crown decreases! š All so I have knitting to post thatās not the gift Iām making.
#KaanteinenCap
#MenWhoKnit
#GuysWhoKnit
#GayKnitter
#RealMenKnit
#DoublePointedNeedles
15 days ago
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New Yearās Eve. My friendās health was worse. I was determined that he wouldnāt be alone. Two friends and I gathered hats and horns and went to his apartment. I brought sparkling apple juice. We shared a toast, wore the hats, and blew the horns. I gave my friend a careful hug. It was the last one.
16 days ago
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World AIDS Day 1 December 2025 For those who died For those who lived For those who survived and thrived For the young, still terrified of that first virus test We fight for life
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16 days ago
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Hello⦠I decided at the last minute to knit a gift for someone who is very special to me. Of course I didnāt have the yarn I wanted, so I placed an order and crossed my fingers because it wasnāt scheduled to arrive until Wednesday. It got here yesterday (!) and Iām going to cast on this afternoon.
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17 days ago
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Today, this Santa is a happy man.
18 days ago
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Admiring this pottery Orcas vase by Devon Morris (IG: @DevonMorris). He displayed it in his booth at the Island Artisans Holiday Market, and I succumbed to its charm. The hash marks sold it. Beautiful work, Devon!
#HolidayMarket
#IslandArtisansHolidayMarket
#MyIslandLife
#IslandLife
#IGetToLiveHere
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18 days ago
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Island Artisans Holiday Market I look forward to this market all year. Somehow I spent a couple hours admiring artisansā work, asking what they love about it, and chatting with more people than I realized I know here. Where did this friendly person come from? š I bought another potions bottle from
19 days ago
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Hello⦠Four years ago, I knit a reversible ribbed cap. The pattern is free on Ravelry, and the designer named it with the Finnish word for āreverseā or āreversible.ā Iām not going to butcher it here, but she said it reminded her of the ribbed cap that Sylvester Stallone wore as Rocky Balboa in the
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21 days ago
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Yesterday was a good day, so I took advantage of a break in the clouds to walk to Jackson Beach for sunset. I wouldnāt say sunset was spectacular, but the sky and beach were lovely.
#IslandLife
#MyIslandLife
#IGetToLiveHere
22 days ago
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Yesterday was a good day, so I took advantage of a break in the clouds to walk to Jackson Beach for sunset. I wouldnāt say sunset was spectacular, but the sky and beach were lovely.
#IslandLife
#MyIslandLife
#IGetToLiveHere
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22 days ago
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My white Christmas cactus have begun blooming. I hope to find a yellow one some day. How many more colors are there? In any case, flowers make me happy.
#Houseplants
#Schlumbergera
#Flowers
24 days ago
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Iāve been reading posts about peopleās ācustomer service voiceā and other professional voices. Now I wonder whether I have knitter voice. I think I used to have tech writer voice.
26 days ago
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Time travel. My list is short. As a boy, I delivered morning newspapers. Go back to one of those days before dawn, walk with myself, and have a talk.
27 days ago
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In 2009 I created LGBT graphic designs around Morse code. (Sometimes you have to spell things out for people.) Today I animated the trans version for Transgender Day of Remembrance. Now to post it everywhere. We must not forget.
#TransgenderDayOfRemembrance
#TransLivesMatter
#TransRights
#TransCare
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27 days ago
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Itās fun that Musselburgh hats are two in one. Obviously I had to knit one for my bony partner in crime. The resulting folded brim is four layers thick, though, which was challenging at this size.
#Skeleton
#MusselburghHat
#MenWhoKnit
#GuysWhoKnit
#GayKnitter
#RealMenKnit
28 days ago
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A quick shot looking up at these blooms just to post something while I edit knitting photos. I didnāt expect it to catch my attention - profusion of color, lit from above, reaching toward my phone. This year itās remarkable that any beauty remains in the world.
#Houseplants
#Schlumbergera
#Flowers
29 days ago
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Calm water, misty sky, and Washington state ferry M/V Yakima arrives at the Friday Harbor landing on San Juan Island.
#IslandLife
#MyIslandLife
#IGetToLiveHere
about 1 month ago
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Where my elves at?!
about 1 month ago
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The light is gone for today, but I got one photo. This is the Musselburgh Hat that I knit for my posable skeleton. It (the hat) is roughly 4.25 inches long (10.8 cm) and looks really cute. The middle section becomes the folded brim.
#ToySkeleton
#MusselburghHat
#MenWhoKnit
#GayKnitter
#RealMenKnit
about 1 month ago
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When I moved to San Juan Island, I didnāt know about black tail deer. They are EVERYWHERE and they (seem to) eat EVERYTHING. I call it ādeer-mageddon.ā Still, a lilac on my property seems not to be to their liking, so last spring I transplanted a healthy-looking runner. By late summer,
about 1 month ago
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Not finished knitting beanies for the bony one. Nope, not by a long shot. Gotta keep that skull cozy. This is my little skeleton-sized version of Pirita Hiltunen's KƤƤnteinen Rib Cap (@philtfi on IG)
#Halloween
#ToySkeleton
#KaanteinenCap
#DollHat
#MenWhoKnit
#GuysWhoKnit
#GayKnitter
#RealMenKnit
about 1 month ago
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November is Transgender Awareness Month. Another trip around the sun, another onslaught of challenges to your very right to exist. Respect to each of you for finding the courage to navigate every day in this world.
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about 1 month ago
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Today my bony boonfellow is sporting a tricorn hat and cockade, most befitting a former pirate. I think I heard someone say "bring me that horizon!"
#Halloween
#ToySkeleton
#TricornHat
#PirateHat
#DollHat
#MenWhoKnit
#GuysWhoKnit
#HairyKnitter
#GayKnitter
#RealMenKnit
#BeardedKnitter
about 1 month ago
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Kindness is its own magic. Not diminished by use, not diluted by volume, kindness spills from the heart into small fractures and great chasms alike. Kindness heals.
about 1 month ago
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When I slide my ballot into the Official Ballot Dropbox at the San Juan County Courthouse, I often post yet another photo of it. Predictable? Yes. Any better thing to be predictable about? No.
#BallotBox
#ElectionDay
#SanJuanCountyCourthouse
#SanJuanIsland
#IslandLife
#MyIslandLife
#IGetToLiveHere
about 1 month ago
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Halloween memory. Mid 1960s. Me, a boy, choosing a dime store witch costume. Why a witch, my father asks, that edge to his voice. So they wonāt guess who I am. Trick or treat. š
about 2 months ago
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Halloween memory. Mid 1960s. Me, a boy, choosing a dime store witch costume. Why a witch, my father asked, that edge to his voice. So they wonāt guess who I am. Trick or treat. š
about 2 months ago
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I find odd satisfaction in knitting small versions of things. š¬ Sat in the afternoon sun today and carefully blocked the brim for my skeletonās tricorn hat.
#Halloween
#ToySkeleton
#TricornHat
#PirateHat
#DollHat
#MenWhoKnit
#GuysWhoKnit
#HairyKnitter
#GayKnitter
#RealMenKnit
#BeardedKnitter
about 2 months ago
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We say: "Hey! NO KINGS" š says: "Dead kings rule. Put me on money!"
#Halloween
#ToySkeleton
#Crown
#CrownHat
#Magic
#DollHat
#MenWhoKnit
#GuysWhoKnit
#HairyKnitter
#GayKnitter
#RealMenKnit
#BeardedKnitter
about 2 months ago
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At the grocery store this morning, I saw an older woman in the produce section. In contrast to her snow white hair, she wore an artfully crumpled intensely purple velvet peaked hat. āFantastic hat!ā I said in passing. I think she was startled but pleased.
about 2 months ago
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It's a day for autumn magic in the Pacific Northwest. My bony companion looks positively dashing in this little peaked wizard's hat. Maybe a bit eerie as well.
#Halloween
#ToySkeleton
#WizardsHat
#Magic
#DollHat
#MenWhoKnit
#GuysWhoKnit
#HairyKnitter
#GayKnitter
#RealMenKnit
#BeardedKnitter
about 2 months ago
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Down the rabbit hole I go. Today my skeleton is wearing a little 1898 Hat, my go-to winter pattern when I lived in Wisconsin.
about 2 months ago
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the plainest, least even knitting is still *magic*
#MenWhoKnit
#GuysWhoKnit
#HairyKnitter
#GayKnitter
#RealMenKnit
#BeardedKnitter
about 2 months ago
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Who will write this scene? A horde of ālaw enforcementā brutes discovers that the crowd of spooky season undead converging on them isnāt pretending.
2 months ago
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This was inevitable. š The posable plastic skeleton is about 15 1/2 inches long - perfect for a little knitted Santa hat. I didnāt have enough of any one leftover red sock yarn, so I used helical knitting. I envision an entire series of skeleton knitwear.
2 months ago
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Hereās me thinking, āIf ICE is smart, it will dial itself down on Indigenous Peoples Dayā and then, āOh waitā š¤Ø Wishing you more strength and peace than ever today.
2 months ago
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Itās a damp, cloudy 49° here. Without thought, I put on a windbreaker, brought my coffee to the porch, and immediately felt myself relax. Today, change was just a few steps away.
#PNW
#AutumnMood
#Autumn
#IslandLife
#MyIslandLife
#IGetToLiveHere
2 months ago
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There have always been Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual people. There always will be. Celebrate, even to say only to yourself, āYes. I am.ā We are all part of future history. Happy National Coming Out Day.
#NationalComingOutDay
#NCOD
#LGBTQ
#2SLGBTQIA+
2 months ago
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On my motherās birthday I do things she'd have enjoyed. It was a golden autumn day perfect for interisland ferry knitting. The sky was magnificent, and my Dignity Cap design sample is ready for crown decreases. Happy birthday, Mama.
#FerryKnitting
#IslandLife
#DignityCap
#GayKnitter
#RealMenKnit
2 months ago
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I sat on my front porch just now, drinking coffee, watching the sky, and texting friends until my phoneās timer sounded and I stepped back into a house full of the smell of baking muffins.
2 months ago
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Black men do not hang themselves
2 months ago
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even Death has grown weary of us
3 months ago
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Sadly, the nursery I like is having a retirement sale. Most plants have new homes, but I found these
#Succulents
. The first is a fascinating
#BlackRoseAeonium
, perfect for the season and mood. I think the second is
#HenAndChicks
. Perfectly pointy. Must. Not. Overwater.
#AeoniumArboreum
#HousePlants
3 months ago
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Brightening a rainy day by knitting ribbing of my latest
#DignityCap
sample (size L in DK) from this cheerful colorway of Fidalgo Artisan Yarn's Merino DK (0222 Coral). My bony little buddy is certainly earning his keep.
#DoublePointedNeedles
#DPNs
#MenWhoKnit
#GuysWhoKnit
#GayKnitter
#RealMenKnit
3 months ago
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Swatchy swatchy colors to set gauge for my next
#DignityCap
. DK from my mother's stash (bottom) is heavier than more recent yarn like Highland and Marmalade colorways of Jody Long's Alba DK. Curious. Because the older yarn is from Norway and made >15 years ago?
#MenWhoKnit
#GayKnitter
#RealMenKnit
3 months ago
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A last few photos of Devon in my
#AmmoJockstrap
. I genuinely enjoyed seeing him this comfortable wearing something I designed. Once I publish a third jockstrap pattern I'll offer a discount for all three purchased together. Fear not, past jockstrap pattern purchases will count toward the discount.
3 months ago
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