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

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This Käänteinen cap - a public project I can post while knitting a gift I can’t - 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

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.

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! 😜 All so I have knitting to post that’s not the gift I’m making. #KaanteinenCap #MenWhoKnit #GuysWhoKnit #GayKnitter #RealMenKnit #DoublePointedNeedles

New Year’s Eve. My friend’s health was worse. I was determined that he wouldn’t 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.

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

Hello… I decided at the last minute to knit a gift for someone who is very special to me. Of course I didn’t have the yarn I wanted, so I placed an order and crossed my fingers because it wasn’t scheduled to arrive until Wednesday. It got here yesterday (!) and I’m going to cast on this afternoon.

Today, this Santa is a happy man.

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

Island Artisans Holiday Market I look forward to this market all year. Somehow I spent a couple hours admiring artisans’ 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? 😋 I bought another potions bottle from

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 “reverse” or “reversible.” I’m 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

Yesterday was a good day, so I took advantage of a break in the clouds to walk to Jackson Beach for sunset. I wouldn’t say sunset was spectacular, but the sky and beach were lovely. #IslandLife #MyIslandLife #IGetToLiveHere

Yesterday was a good day, so I took advantage of a break in the clouds to walk to Jackson Beach for sunset. I wouldn’t say sunset was spectacular, but the sky and beach were lovely. #IslandLife #MyIslandLife #IGetToLiveHere

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

I’ve been reading posts about people’s “customer service voice” and other professional voices. Now I wonder whether I have knitter voice. I think I used to have tech writer voice.

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.

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

It’s 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

A quick shot looking up at these blooms just to post something while I edit knitting photos. I didn’t expect it to catch my attention - profusion of color, lit from above, reaching toward my phone. This year it’s remarkable that any beauty remains in the world. #Houseplants #Schlumbergera #Flowers

Calm water, misty sky, and Washington state ferry M/V Yakima arrives at the Friday Harbor landing on San Juan Island. #IslandLife #MyIslandLife #IGetToLiveHere

Where my elves at?!

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

When I moved to San Juan Island, I didn’t know about black tail deer. They are EVERYWHERE and they (seem to) eat EVERYTHING. I call it “deer-mageddon.” 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,

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 Käänteinen Rib Cap (@philtfi on IG) #Halloween #ToySkeleton #KaanteinenCap #DollHat #MenWhoKnit #GuysWhoKnit #GayKnitter #RealMenKnit

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.

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

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.

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

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 won’t guess who I am. Trick or treat. 🎃

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 won’t guess who I am. Trick or treat. 🎃

I find odd satisfaction in knitting small versions of things. 😬 Sat in the afternoon sun today and carefully blocked the brim for my skeleton’s tricorn hat. #Halloween #ToySkeleton #TricornHat #PirateHat #DollHat #MenWhoKnit #GuysWhoKnit #HairyKnitter #GayKnitter #RealMenKnit #BeardedKnitter

We say: "Hey! NO KINGS" 💀 says: "Dead kings rule. Put me on money!" #Halloween #ToySkeleton #Crown #CrownHat #Magic #DollHat #MenWhoKnit #GuysWhoKnit #HairyKnitter #GayKnitter #RealMenKnit #BeardedKnitter

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. “Fantastic hat!” I said in passing. I think she was startled but pleased.

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

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.

the plainest, least even knitting is still *magic* #MenWhoKnit #GuysWhoKnit #HairyKnitter #GayKnitter #RealMenKnit #BeardedKnitter

Who will write this scene? A horde of “law enforcement” brutes discovers that the crowd of spooky season undead converging on them isn’t pretending.

This was inevitable. 💀 The posable plastic skeleton is about 15 1/2 inches long - perfect for a little knitted Santa hat. I didn’t have enough of any one leftover red sock yarn, so I used helical knitting. I envision an entire series of skeleton knitwear.

Here’s me thinking, “If ICE is smart, it will dial itself down on Indigenous Peoples Day” and then, “Oh wait” 🤨 Wishing you more strength and peace than ever today.

It’s 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

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, “Yes. I am.” We are all part of future history. Happy National Coming Out Day. #NationalComingOutDay #NCOD #LGBTQ #2SLGBTQIA+

On my mother’s 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

I sat on my front porch just now, drinking coffee, watching the sky, and texting friends until my phone’s timer sounded and I stepped back into a house full of the smell of baking muffins.

Black men do not hang themselves

even Death has grown weary of us

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

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

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

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.