Posable plastic skeleton - 15.5 inches long fully extended - wearing a little tricorn hat I knit in medium gray with a metallic silver border and white cockade.

Posable plastic skeleton - 15.5 inches long fully extended - wearing a little tricorn hat I knit in medium gray with a metallic silver border and white cockade.

Top view of a little tricorn hat in medium gray yarn with a metallic silver border and white cockade, knit for my posable plastic skeleton.

Views of a little tricorn hat in medium gray yarn with a metallic silver border and white cockade, knit for my posable plastic skeleton.

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!"

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Blocking the brim in a thicket of t-pins for my skeleton's tricorn hat

Blocking the brim in a thicket of t-pins for my skeleton's tricorn hat

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.

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Posable plastic skeleton - 15.5 inches long fully extended - wearing a little crown I knit for it in yellow gold yarn around a plum-purple cap.

Posable plastic skeleton - 15.5 inches long fully extended - holds out a little crown I knit for it in yellow gold yarn around a plum-purple cap.

Views of a posable plastic skeleton - 15.5 inches long fully extended - wearing a little crown I knit for it in yellow gold yarn around a plum-purple cap.

Distant view of a little crown I knit in yellow gold yarn around a plum-purple cap for my posable plastic skeleton.

We say: "Hey! NO KINGS"

💀 says: "Dead kings rule. Put me on money!"

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Posable plastic skeleton - 15.5 inches long fully extended - wearing a little peaked wizard's hat I knit for it in mottled tan yarn.

Posable plastic skeleton - 15.5 inches long fully extended - wearing a little peaked wizard's hat I knit for it in mottled tan yarn.

Posable plastic skeleton - 15.5 inches long fully extended - wearing a little peaked wizard's hat I knit for it in mottled tan yarn.

Posable plastic skeleton - 15.5 inches long fully extended - wearing a little peaked wizard's hat I knit for it in mottled tan yarn.

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.

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Posable plastic skeleton - 15.5 inches long fully extended - wearing a little 1898 Hat I knit for it. The skeleton is holding the smaller scale 1898 Hat that I knit a few years ago.

Years ago I knit an even smaller version, held here by the skeleton. This 1898 Hat is altered to fit the skeleton, whose head isn't proportionally the same as a human skull.

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The text “the plainest least even knitting is still magic” is superimposed over a closeup of brioche knitting in purples, pinks, and golden yellows

the plainest, least even knitting is still *magic*

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I’m reminded of the civilian clothes my mother sewed for my G.I. Joe. 😀

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Working on my Dignity Cap design size L in sport weight yarn, also known as knitting in the afternoon sun on the porch, giving intention to each stitch.

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Comparing knitted decrease stitches looks like I’m making small purple peaked hats

Comparing knitted decrease stitches looks like I’m making small purple peaked hats

Comparing decrease stitches or knitting little purple peaked hats?

• Lang Yarns Jawoll Superwash 83.0190

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My latest tiny sock ornament, displayed on the longest photo of my right hand. Giving scuttling Thing vibes

My latest tiny sock ornament knit from short lengths of leftover yarn knotted together.

My latest tiny sock ornament, displayed on the longest photo of my right hand. Definitely a middle finger mood.

My latest tiny sock ornament, displayed on the longest photo of my right hand, palm up, fingers spread wide.

Middle finger mood, because of course this new tiny sock ornament is best displayed on my longest finger. 😀

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Some Sunday short sock knitting.

• Universal Yarn Filly, 106 Robin (46/33/12/9 Cotton/Superwash Merino/Polymide/PBT

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Close up of the ribbing for a short/sport top-down, heel flap, and gusset sock. Knitting on size US1 2.25 millimeter double-pointed needles.

Perspective

8 rounds of k2 p2 ribbing on US1 2.25mm #DPNs

• Universal Yarn Filly, 106 Robin (46/33/12/9 Cotton/Superwash Merino/Polymide/PBT

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A stack of the sixteen stress-knit socks I’ve knit so far in 2025 (eight pair).

A closeup of the stack of the sixteen stress-knit socks I’ve knit so far in 2025 (eight pair).

A stack of the sixteen stress-knit socks I’ve knit so far in 2025 (eight pair).

A stack of the sixteen stress-knit socks I’ve knit so far in 2025 (eight pair).

Stressed? Me? Why do you ask? 😬

It’s true. In times of stress, I knit more socks. 🤪

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Yarn left from my latest scrappy pirate socks was enough for a couple of cute, one-of-a-kind tiny sock ornaments. The top tiny sock is red yarn helically-knit with a black/white/red colorway. The bottom one is an antique yellow with a deep multicolor jewel tone yarn.

Yarn left from my latest scrappy pirate socks was enough for a couple of cute, one-of-a-kind tiny sock ornaments. The top tiny sock is red yarn helically-knit with a black/white/red colorway. The bottom one is an antique yellow with a deep multicolor jewel tone yarn.

Yarn left from my latest scrappy pirate socks was enough for a couple of cute, one-of-a-kind tiny sock ornaments. The left tiny sock is red yarn helically-knit with a black/white/red colorway. The right one is an antique yellow with a deep multicolor jewel tone yarn.

Yarn left from my latest scrappy pirate socks, themselves knit from leftover yarn, made a couple of cute helically-knit tiny sock ornaments. Like all of my tiny socks, each is one of a kind. 😀

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These scrappy pirate socks use helical knitting to transform leftover yarn. The ankle, foot, and toe use combinations of two yarns that follow each around and around the sock. In this pair, the ankle is mostly red with black and white. The foot is blues and greens, and the toe is multicolor and an antique yellow.

These scrappy pirate socks use helical knitting to transform leftover yarn. The ankle, foot, and toe use combinations of two yarns that follow each around and around the sock. In this pair, the ankle is mostly red with black and white. The foot is blues and greens, and the toe is multicolor and an antique yellow.

These scrappy pirate socks use helical knitting to transform leftover yarn. In this pair, the first half of the foot is greens, black, and white yarn left from the pair shown at the top of the photo and dark blue tonal and marled Trekking XXL. The result has an underwater feel.

These scrappy pirate socks use helical knitting to transform leftover yarn. In this pair, the second half of the foot and its toe use colorful but somewhat dark Regia yarn in jewel tones and an antique yellow yarn from Sugarplum Circus. All of the colors spring to life and make me think of 19th century carnivals.

Completing WIPs like these scrappy pirate socks. Helical knitting in the ankle, foot, and toe transforms leftover yarn as if by magic!
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My latest pair of top-down, heel flap, and gusset knitted short/sport socks. The colors shade from one sunrise shade to another - orange, yellow, green, blue - and they’re marled so the fabric is never just one flat color.

My latest pair of top-down, heel flap, and gusset knitted short/sport socks, what remains of the cheery ball of yarn, and the next sock-in-progress of the same yarn. I love the way these sunrise colors shade from one to the next… orange, yellow, green, blue.

I’m pleased by this cheery pair of sport/short knitted socks. It doesn’t matter that they’ll be hidden in my shoes. I’ve started a second pair.

• Universal Yarn Filly, 103 Butterfly (46/33/12/9 Cotton/Superwash Merino/Nylon/Polyester

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Scrappy pirate sock ankles. All ten stripes are different yarn -no repeats. 😋

Scrappy pirate sock ankle. All ten stripes in both ankles are different yarn -no repeats. 😋

Scrappy pirate sock ankle. All ten stripes in both ankles are different yarn -no repeats. 😋

Scrappy pirate sock ankles. All ten stripes are different yarn -no repeats. 😋

Pirate sock ankles are finished, so I’m ready to walk the plank (knit heel flaps). I’m privately pleased that all 10 ankle stripes are different yarn - no repeats. Can I keep that up? We’ll see.

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Wearing the Musselburgh hat I finished knitting last night to Jackson Beach for the blustery vernal equinox. In this photo the purple end with trans pride stripes is showing.

Wearing the Musselburgh hat I finished knitting last night to Jackson Beach for the blustery vernal equinox. In this photo the purple end with trans pride stripes is showing.

Wearing the Musselburgh hat I finished knitting last night to Jackson Beach for the blustery vernal equinox. In this photo the green end is showing.

Wearing the Musselburgh hat I finished knitting last night to Jackson Beach for the blustery vernal equinox. In this photo the green end is showing.

Finished my scrappy #MusselburghHat last night and wore it to Jackson Beach on this blustery vernal equinox. That’s a really warm hat!

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• @MalabrigoYarn Sock

Back to my scrappy project! 3/3

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All of the 2SLGBTQIA+ letters, the colors, the genders, the love, the ages. All of the yarn.

Be scrappy.

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Okay TikTok, I see what you’re doing. In my December 30 post and every post since, the tag #GayKnitter has been deactivated. Now, at 63, I’m no stranger to heterosexual attempts to erase me. I’m not impressed by your pandering.

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Newly completed toes of my newest scrappy pirate socks

A closeup view between my newest scrappy pirate socks

Completed sock of my newest scrappy pirate pair

Completed sock of my newest scrappy pirate pair

A last few photos of my completed top-down, heel flap and gusset, scrappy pirate socks

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a blood red stripe at one end.

Here's hoping that in 2025 I’ll rise from the ashes of 2024. 5/5

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Nothing cheerful to say. It’s just a heel flap kind of day.

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A pair of pirate (scrappy) socks in progress for the beginning of 2025. Seen here flat from above, the cuff and roughly half of the ankle have been knit so far.

A pair of pirate (scrappy) socks in progress for the beginning of 2025. Seen here standing side by side, the cuff and roughly half of the ankle have been knit so far.

A pair of pirate (scrappy) socks in progress for the beginning of 2025. Seen here standing side by side, the cuff and roughly half of the ankle have been knit so far.

A pirate (scrappy) sock in progress for the beginning of 2025. Seen here from above looking down into the sock, the cuff and roughly half of the ankle have been knit so far.

My first new knitting project for 2025 is a pair of pirate (scrappy) socks. Piecing together the best of past socks seems an appropriate choice.

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here and there. I wouldn’t say it contains dark magic, but my notation for socks is a bit cryptic. Feeling more than a little nostalgic. It’s a chronicle of my life, you see. 2/2

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Glittens (mittens with a forefinger) knit in black yarn. The one on the right is finished, while the other still needs its digits.

A finished glitten (mittens with a forefinger) knit in black yarn.

A glitten (mittens with a forefinger) being knit in black yarn. Only the thumb and finger remain to be knit.

Glittens (mittens with a forefinger) knit in black yarn. The one on the right is finished, while the other still needs its digits.

Cloudy skies and black yarn make these glittens look like shadow puppets, but I did finish the thumb and finger on the first one and reach the same point on the second. Productivity!

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