Daniel Drennan ElAwar
@ibnsufiknits.bsky.social
NJ/NYC 🌐 LB ❖ Printmaker, educator, coder, knitter ◇ ☭ ☪︎🔻
Knitting [ fibershed ◇ no plastic ] • https://www.elawarart.org/fiber/ 🧶
Printmaking, etc. • https://www.elawarart.org/portfolios/
Writing, adoption • https://www.albikar.org/ 🥚
Knitting [ fibershed ◇ no plastic ] • https://www.elawarart.org/fiber/ 🧶
Printmaking, etc. • https://www.elawarart.org/portfolios/
Writing, adoption • https://www.albikar.org/ 🥚
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BIO • I work in the activist #printmaking tradition. I do a lot of #knitting. I have worked as an archivist, and I data-wrangle and code in Perl and Hugo for web sites. Old-tech advocate. An adoptee, I found my original family in 2016 in Lebanon. I am unwillingly retired from an ageist academia. 🧶🥚🇵🇸
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Here is the Ravelry link for my free #AbolishICE beanie. Extensive notes cover all aspects of #knitting and refer to video tutorials; versions in cotton/wool fingering/sport. I appreciate any favorites there/here to boost the pattern! #knitsky #AbolishICE #NoKings 🧶
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Abolish ICE Beanie pattern by Daniel Drennan ElAwar
My patterns are free. If you like my patterns and wish to further support my work, please visit my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/ddelawar
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October 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Here is the Ravelry link for my free #AbolishICE beanie. Extensive notes cover all aspects of #knitting and refer to video tutorials; versions in cotton/wool fingering/sport. I appreciate any favorites there/here to boost the pattern! #knitsky #AbolishICE #NoKings 🧶
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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In a mad attempt to stave off the AI beast, i introduced my students to letterpress printing this week.
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
In a mad attempt to stave off the AI beast, i introduced my students to letterpress printing this week.
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Washington State farm workers are harvesting Pink Lady apples. This variety is harder to harvest than most because it has to be 90% red when they cut it I must cut the stem off of each apple. They get paid $35 per box and harvest 4 to 6 boxes in 8 hrs. #WeFeedYou
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Washington State farm workers are harvesting Pink Lady apples. This variety is harder to harvest than most because it has to be 90% red when they cut it I must cut the stem off of each apple. They get paid $35 per box and harvest 4 to 6 boxes in 8 hrs. #WeFeedYou
Words as Lifelines: BIPOC Adoptee Voices for Gaza
#adoption #adopteesky 🥚
form.jotform.com/joonae/words...
#adoption #adopteesky 🥚
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November 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Words as Lifelines: BIPOC Adoptee Voices for Gaza
#adoption #adopteesky 🥚
form.jotform.com/joonae/words...
#adoption #adopteesky 🥚
form.jotform.com/joonae/words...
This is what I remember most about the end of the July War in 2006, and the bogus ceasefire: The US selling its outdated stock of Viet Nam–era cluster munitions to the Usurping Entity which littered the entire South with them. #Lebanon
That in addition to the widespread use of mines, white phosphorus etc has been part of Israel’s arsenal for decades. That’s how ecocide is committed on a mass scale, and how large parts of where I’m from - Lebanon/Palestine - is rendered unliveable by the West’s favourite genocidal state
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is what I remember most about the end of the July War in 2006, and the bogus ceasefire: The US selling its outdated stock of Viet Nam–era cluster munitions to the Usurping Entity which littered the entire South with them. #Lebanon
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The pattern testing discourse is popping up again on Threads. Ugh. I wrote about it here... kateatherley.com/testing-knit...
Test Knitting and Why it's Becoming a Problem - KateAtherley.com
kateatherley.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The pattern testing discourse is popping up again on Threads. Ugh. I wrote about it here... kateatherley.com/testing-knit...
My partner has a friend who has been a stockbroker since high school. I asked him what the "inside" sense of the market was given what anyone with eyeballs can see is a huge multi-dimensional bubble about to hyper-explode. He said for the last few… | 1/5 | #Marxism #AI #StockMarket
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
My partner has a friend who has been a stockbroker since high school. I asked him what the "inside" sense of the market was given what anyone with eyeballs can see is a huge multi-dimensional bubble about to hyper-explode. He said for the last few… | 1/5 | #Marxism #AI #StockMarket
I’ve updated all of my patterns which are now up on Ravelry, my web site, and Ko-fi (free; link below). (For the geeks I’m using the XeLaTeX typesetting engine and Stitchmastery to streamline the process and bring some consistency to them all). #Knitting #Knitsky #Beanies 🧶
ko-fi.com/ddelawar/shop
ko-fi.com/ddelawar/shop
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I’ve updated all of my patterns which are now up on Ravelry, my web site, and Ko-fi (free; link below). (For the geeks I’m using the XeLaTeX typesetting engine and Stitchmastery to streamline the process and bring some consistency to them all). #Knitting #Knitsky #Beanies 🧶
ko-fi.com/ddelawar/shop
ko-fi.com/ddelawar/shop
I've been teaching Revolutionary Printmaking @ The People’s Forum in NYC for the past year. To note is that this class, which I taught for 7 years at a university in Canada, was canceled there after I left. Awesome work here!
#Printmaking #PrintSky #LinoleumPrint
www.elawarart.org/praxis/tpf_p...
#Printmaking #PrintSky #LinoleumPrint
www.elawarart.org/praxis/tpf_p...
**Student work** and contact info
**Revolutionary Printmaking** is a relief printmaking course that celebrates the printmaking tradition as fundamental to the art of protest and resistance. Many of the images here skew yellow/beige fo...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I've been teaching Revolutionary Printmaking @ The People’s Forum in NYC for the past year. To note is that this class, which I taught for 7 years at a university in Canada, was canceled there after I left. Awesome work here!
#Printmaking #PrintSky #LinoleumPrint
www.elawarart.org/praxis/tpf_p...
#Printmaking #PrintSky #LinoleumPrint
www.elawarart.org/praxis/tpf_p...
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Hikmah (Wisdom), Sufism and Free Jazz: Pat Thomas Interview
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Hikmah (Wisdom), Sufism and Free Jazz: Pat Thomas Interview
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November 16, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Hikmah (Wisdom), Sufism and Free Jazz: Pat Thomas Interview
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Hikmah (Wisdom), Sufism and Free Jazz: Pat Thomas Interview
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🗓️Monday, Dec. 1 at 4-5:30 PM ET: Join @haymarketbooks.org for this rescheduled virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing, featuring a conversation with our co-founder
@dreanyc123.bsky.social, @movfamilypower.bsky.social's Erin Miles Cloud, and professor Dorothy Roberts. Learn more join:
@dreanyc123.bsky.social, @movfamilypower.bsky.social's Erin Miles Cloud, and professor Dorothy Roberts. Learn more join:
How to End Family Policing
Join us for a virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our communitie...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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it’s been a while since I mentioned that i created a feed for posts by people who are adopted/trafficked/purchased out of their original families. please consider adding it. And if you would like to post to it, please let me know in a reply. 🥚
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
it’s been a while since I mentioned that i created a feed for posts by people who are adopted/trafficked/purchased out of their original families. please consider adding it. And if you would like to post to it, please let me know in a reply. 🥚
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THE LEGEND OF PORT CHATHAM
Buried beneath the relentless rain and towering evergreens of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula lies the remnants of Port Chatham, a mysterious abandoned village where no one dares to go. You can read the whole comic here: www.amoryabbott.com/illustration...
Buried beneath the relentless rain and towering evergreens of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula lies the remnants of Port Chatham, a mysterious abandoned village where no one dares to go. You can read the whole comic here: www.amoryabbott.com/illustration...
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
THE LEGEND OF PORT CHATHAM
Buried beneath the relentless rain and towering evergreens of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula lies the remnants of Port Chatham, a mysterious abandoned village where no one dares to go. You can read the whole comic here: www.amoryabbott.com/illustration...
Buried beneath the relentless rain and towering evergreens of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula lies the remnants of Port Chatham, a mysterious abandoned village where no one dares to go. You can read the whole comic here: www.amoryabbott.com/illustration...
BIO • I work in the activist #printmaking tradition. I do a lot of #knitting. I have worked as an archivist, and I data-wrangle and code in Perl and Hugo for web sites. Old-tech advocate. An adoptee, I found my original family in 2016 in Lebanon. I am unwillingly retired from an ageist academia. 🧶🥚🇵🇸
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
BIO • I work in the activist #printmaking tradition. I do a lot of #knitting. I have worked as an archivist, and I data-wrangle and code in Perl and Hugo for web sites. Old-tech advocate. An adoptee, I found my original family in 2016 in Lebanon. I am unwillingly retired from an ageist academia. 🧶🥚🇵🇸
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The Onion is all over this.
@theonion.com
@theonion.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The Onion is all over this.
@theonion.com
@theonion.com
#Adobe Liberation Day. I lost my use license after resigning from university; I refuse to pay mafia software subscription. Bought 1-time license for Affinity suite; IDMarkz converts my InDesign files. Many open-source options, but Affinity is truly a game-changer. Deleting Adobe apps was cathartic.
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#Adobe Liberation Day. I lost my use license after resigning from university; I refuse to pay mafia software subscription. Bought 1-time license for Affinity suite; IDMarkz converts my InDesign files. Many open-source options, but Affinity is truly a game-changer. Deleting Adobe apps was cathartic.
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
I started knitting up these intarsia Palestinian flags while sitting vigil for a friend who was in Gaza for his sister’s wedding in 2020. Pattern now updated. Yarn used: Sugar ’n’ Cream (aka Loops & Threads) cotton.
www.elawarart.org/fiber/projec...
#knitting #knitsky #streetart #yarnbombing 🧶
www.elawarart.org/fiber/projec...
#knitting #knitsky #streetart #yarnbombing 🧶
Protest Art: Palestinian Flag
**A few summers ago** I started knitting up these intarsia flags while sitting vigil for a friend who was in Gaza for his sister's wedding. He got stuck there when the yearly bombing started up again,...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I started knitting up these intarsia Palestinian flags while sitting vigil for a friend who was in Gaza for his sister’s wedding in 2020. Pattern now updated. Yarn used: Sugar ’n’ Cream (aka Loops & Threads) cotton.
www.elawarart.org/fiber/projec...
#knitting #knitsky #streetart #yarnbombing 🧶
www.elawarart.org/fiber/projec...
#knitting #knitsky #streetart #yarnbombing 🧶
WORK IN PROGRESS: Many years ago I got it into my head that I could knit a kufiyyeh from the center out. This involved designing a transitional pattern along the four spines of the headscarf such that the pattern seems to… | 1/3 | #WIP #knitting #knitsky #showmeyourknits 🧶
November 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
WORK IN PROGRESS: Many years ago I got it into my head that I could knit a kufiyyeh from the center out. This involved designing a transitional pattern along the four spines of the headscarf such that the pattern seems to… | 1/3 | #WIP #knitting #knitsky #showmeyourknits 🧶
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Coming up next month! Don't miss this awesome event: Portland artists, musicians, writers and teachers confront A.I.! December 4th 6-8pm at Mother Foucault books. Featuring me, @lydiakiesling.bsky.social , @jenniferruth.bsky.social , and many more!
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Coming up next month! Don't miss this awesome event: Portland artists, musicians, writers and teachers confront A.I.! December 4th 6-8pm at Mother Foucault books. Featuring me, @lydiakiesling.bsky.social , @jenniferruth.bsky.social , and many more!
Work-in-progress: Testing a non-repeating beanie pattern I submitted to John Arbon Textiles’ Annual competition. Figuring out beanie crown decreases; thinking this might be better as a cowl. Using Blue Sky Fibers Woolstok and two circular needles method. #WIP #showmeyourknits #knitting #knitsky 🧶
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Work-in-progress: Testing a non-repeating beanie pattern I submitted to John Arbon Textiles’ Annual competition. Figuring out beanie crown decreases; thinking this might be better as a cowl. Using Blue Sky Fibers Woolstok and two circular needles method. #WIP #showmeyourknits #knitting #knitsky 🧶
I’ve updated my Palestine Beanie pattern, reworking it for additional sizes as well as wool. Square-kufic Arabic reads “Palestine, Intifada, Steadfast”. Pattern is free! Pictured: Blue Sky Fibers Woolstok Light.
#knitting #knitsky #beanie #Palestine #Intifada 🧶
www.elawarart.org/fiber/projec...
#knitting #knitsky #beanie #Palestine #Intifada 🧶
www.elawarart.org/fiber/projec...
Beanie: Filistiin
**This design** is the follow-up to free beanie patterns I have made available these past years. In these patterns, an emblem or medallion in square-kufic Arabic is tilted at an angle against a strand...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I’ve updated my Palestine Beanie pattern, reworking it for additional sizes as well as wool. Square-kufic Arabic reads “Palestine, Intifada, Steadfast”. Pattern is free! Pictured: Blue Sky Fibers Woolstok Light.
#knitting #knitsky #beanie #Palestine #Intifada 🧶
www.elawarart.org/fiber/projec...
#knitting #knitsky #beanie #Palestine #Intifada 🧶
www.elawarart.org/fiber/projec...
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Talking about labor, history and nuclearity in the New New York City next week!
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Talking about labor, history and nuclearity in the New New York City next week!
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Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," screenprint, 1974 noma.org/election-day...
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," screenprint, 1974 noma.org/election-day...
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Thanks to all of the generous listeners who pledged and helped us reach our Hellraiser stretch goal! If you haven’t pledged yet please help us out with a donation and grab some new swag! pledge.wfmu.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thanks to all of the generous listeners who pledged and helped us reach our Hellraiser stretch goal! If you haven’t pledged yet please help us out with a donation and grab some new swag! pledge.wfmu.org