Monochrome Monday #MonochromeMonday #Karma

I’ve stress knit a dozen ribbed caps this year, settling into shaping and decreases that work for me. Knitters have asked for my tweaks, but they amount to an entire pattern. So, my idea is this. Publish the hat as my Furrow Cap for some price with notes about using leftover yarn, but make it free

Swatchy swatchy. For a new pair of slipper socks. I've always knit them in acrylic to use yarn I don't otherwise knit, but they wear in ways that my wool socks never do. I hope that a pair made of wool will last longer.

I am loath to discard pieces of plants that could take root. I thought this bit of Dieffenbachia had died, but last night I found a small, pale leaf at its tip. This morning I spied a second, teeny tiny leaf on the side.

Spring Knitting: Short socks Time for toes! I'm glad this first pair of 2026 will be finished soon. I have two more 50g balls of the DK cotton yarn, but I think I'll use them for wash/dish cloths. Yarn: Scheepjes Granada Colori 7481 #ShortSocks #MenWhoKnit #GuysWhoKnit #GayKnitter #RealMenKnit

Here, have a snail. Found this one on one of my iris. #IslandLife #MyIslandLife #IGetToLiveHere

Maybe I procrastinated today, but I've been wanting to paint the wall of my stairway for years. It's as drab as this graphic. First step: a scale diagram. Lately I've been inspired by the murals of @katdieuxart.

Here we are, barely four days before May Day, and my Christmas cactus are flowering all over the house. This bloom on the most venerable of them all somehow seems more lovely and elaborate than its winter mates. #Houseplants #Schlumbergera #Flowers

Snooker the Balloon Dog 😀 —————————— Get @reshare_app • @jdquinnster Meet Snookers. House of Poly-Fil. First of his name. Pattern: @jamiemccanless 🧶: @thefarmersdaughterfibers (Spinster’s Daughter Worsted; Colorway: Lulu) #Knit #GayKnitter #MenWhoKnit #KnitBalloonDog #FarmersDaughterFibers

A knitting friend recently visited Tucson and stopped at @birdhouseyarns. While there, she held up the tag of a shop sample she liked and took this photo. Unbeknownst to her, it's my Hallgrim Scarf! It even looks like one of the KAL projects at Birdhouse Yarns that I reposted in March 2021.

Knitters adapt. I weighed, I measured, I ran out of yarn. I ripped back to knit a band that'll be hidden and leave more yarn for the cap's crown. I like the steely blue band, though, so I'll knit enough to show beyond the brim. Onward. #RibbedCap #MenWhoKnit #GuysWhoKnit #GayKnitter #RealMenKnit

Posted with @reshare_app • @johannaknits [translated fr Finnish] I gave a knitting gift card as a Christmas present, and the recipient chose a black scarf 🌚 I stretched the boundaries a little and bleached the yarn to a charcoal gray melange, so that knitting would be a little more pleasant and the

Spring knittng, a week later. I have 3.5 inches of ribbing of the "plain" ribbed cap so far. The colors can be a little dark, but they remind me of eggplant - their skin, flesh, and stems. The second ribbed cap is about 6 inches long now. I like the k3p2 side of helical knitting much more than

Spring knittng. Two more ribbed caps on my DPNs. Something to knit when the mood strikes. Short socks always come in handy. I finished the heel flap and turned the heel of this one, seen here from both right and wrong sides. It's DK weight cotton, so the socks will be particularly sturdy.

This year’s “official” Scrap Along ends today. Thanks to everyone who participated! Do continue using your leftover yarn (or make more) and stay scrappy! #ScrapAlong2026 #ScrapYarn #LeftoverYarn #Yarn #Craftivism

I’m old enough to know that it’s easy to forget what trying/doing something for the first time is like. We settle into the pursuits we enjoy for the results we’ve come to expect. Do something new. Something you’ve been thinking about. The results won’t be all that you want. Do it anyway. Do it again

Meh. I do say that when you make things from your favorite colors of yarn, that combining the leftovers makes projects gorgeous. There are exceptions. This ribbed cap I'm making for #ScrapAlong2026 just doesn't bring me joy.

I started the crown but thought "nope" and frogged back to the first stripe. Reknit in narrower, neater stripes, I'm much happier with the result. It's my latest ribbed cap for #ScrapAlong2026, knit from four colorways of leftover fingering weight yarn. #RibbedCap #YarnCraft #Craftivism #MenWhoKnit

Ferry knitting. Chilly outside, warm sitting in the sun. No passengers near. Beautiful weather, peaceful knitting. #FerryKnitting #IslandLife #IGetToLiveHere

Progress photos today. Another ribbed cap for #ScrapAlong2026 in helical knitting. The third band I'm working on now will always be hidden by the brim, so it doesn't *have* to be as splashy as the first band. I still want it to look decent. 😋

It's an inside day today, but an opportunity to capture this combination of leftover yarn, helical knitting, and colorway pooling in a swirling #RibbedCap for #ScrapAlong2026 I look forward to seeing other yarn crafter's work soon! #YarnCraft #LeftoverYarn #Craftivism

Beach break. I finished this #RibbedCap of leftover yarn a day before the "official" start of #ScrapAlong2026. This one is sentimental…

My first project for #ScrapAlong2026 is another ribbed cap in helical knitting on double pointed needles. I can practically make these in my sleep now! The yarn is leftover Lang Yarns Jawoll Superwash and Froehlich Wolle Special Blauband from my mother's stash and a mini skein from Woolen Boon.

Hello! Scrap Along 2026 begins today, February 14, and runs 30 days through the Ides of March (March 15). Just make something from leftover yarn and post it on social media with the tag #ScrapAlong2026

Sigh. I got my Ancestry DNA results back last night. I am sooooooo white 😑 Before I got them, I told a knitting friend that there is no ethnicity that would be unwelcome in my results. I didn’t consider the opposite.

The first ribbed cap that I knit from a dark gradient dyed blank reached its new owner this weekend. "It feels so nice. I'm excited to wear it. And I like the colors even more in person."

"It's almost sunset here on San Juan Island, somewhere beyond the clouds, and I walked down to the beach to work on yet another ribbed cap. I've been watching the same news you have. It really isn't new. It's not.

Four stitches to go. Again. Nearly finished with the second ribbed cap from a gradient dyed blank, featuring helical knitting beyond the lengths for brims. #RibbedCap #MenWhoKnit #GuysWhoKnit #GayKnitter #RealMenKnit #DoublePointedNeedles #DPNs

1) Of course I knit the final 4 stitches of the ribbed cap. I like the result so well that a small part of me wished I hadn't knit it for someone else. 2) I rarely block hats, but yarn from the blank was more kinked than I like. Clean pizza boxes are my favorite material for making blocking tubes.

Four stitches to go 😬 #RibbedCap #MenWhoKnit #GuysWhoKnit #GayKnitter #RealMenKnit #DoublePointedNeedles #DPNs

"I've really been enjoying knitting these ribbed caps, so as soon as I finished this (orange) one I cast on another from a dyed blank that I'd been given. It's a pretty dark gradient, so once I got the 2 strands separated I decided that after I knit the first 4 inches just from one end of one strand

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. Jeri Taylor Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4 episode 21 The Drumhead

If the past year has shown us nothing else, it's the imperative of community, purpose, focus, and resources. Scrap Along 2026 can contribute to all of those. The event begins on Valentines Day and ends on the Ides of March (15 March). Start earlier or finish later, but make something with leftover

I purposely live without a car on San Juan Island, so the Island Airporter (islandairporter.com) is a convenient way to get to SeaTac. (From there I take the light rail into Seattle.)

Spare time in Seattle was the perfect opportunity to visit both locations of Yarn Dragon at Pike Place (first 2 photos) and the Factory Store (last 4 photos). I didn't get to meet Jonathan, but colorful walls of yarn are irresistible, and I left with skeins of Cottage DK in Dancing Cartman (greens)

I like having something mindless to knit while waiting anywhere or riding around or watching movies, so I cast on another ribbed cap like the orange one I finished last week. I'm using a dyed blank I was given, a dark gradient labeled Rockem Sockems from Pik Ka Handbag in Great Falls MT.

I save posts that ring true to a collection named, simply, “words.” Sometimes they are words I would send in romance, so I save them just in case. More often I’d send them to a friend, except that I think they were written for romance or they could be read as a bid for something

New year, new hat, and a sheared beard. #KäänteinenCap #KaanteinenCap #MenWhoKnit #GuysWhoKnit #GayKnitter #RealMenKnit

A length of nicely knitted fabric has a certain allure, but eight inches of ribbing is enough for a cap. Nine is just too much. Now to work the crown decreases. #KäänteinenCap #KaanteinenCap #MenWhoKnit #GuysWhoKnit #GayKnitter #RealMenKnit #DoublePointedNeedles #DPNs

I bound off stitch 28,290 of the yet-to-be-given knitted gift. I did divulge that it’s a scarf because people have strong preferences in length. (We’re both partial to long, dramatic scarves. 😋)

I succumbed to a sale. This could be interesting, although the DNA results will probably be unremarkable. Isn’t that what most people think beforehand? 😋

 #DNATest #Ancestry

Happy solstice! Christmas is a lot of fun, but I like winter solstice for a little reflection, a little solitude, and looking forward to more daylight bit by bit. Today the beach is cloudy and sloshy but pretty peaceful, and I walked down to reflect. It’s been a hard, bleak year, no doubt, but…

In a week of dark, blustery weather in the San Juans, Wednesday was perfect for ferry knitting, conversation, and sightseeing. I brought tiny socks for knitters to choose a gift, and I’m just a round short of 3-1/2 inches of hat ribbing. #FerryKnitting #PlacesYouCanKnit #IslandLife #IGetToLiveHere

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

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: www.ravelry.com/stores/jamie... No code needed. Discount applied at checkout. #KnittingDesigner #PatternSale #MenWhoKnit #GayKnitter #RealMenKnit

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