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oldtrout.bsky.social
Windy McHindenburg
@oldtrout.bsky.social
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Old. Gassy. Community Knitter. Pro-democracy.
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cstuarthardwick.com
This, I say as a long-time student of history and economics who holds an MBA, is correct:
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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introvertproblems.bsky.social
I'm sorry I didn't answer my phone when you called. I don't use it for that
October 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
oldtrout.bsky.social
These baby sweaters and vests will be going to Jordan an Lebanon for Syrian refugees, through Salaam Cultural Museum:
#knitting
#communityknitting
#knitsky
Four handknitted baby-sized items spread out on a flat surface: one seamless yoke Icelandic sweater, a striped scrappy red-green-white sweater, a yellow and black vest with a bee and honeycomb motif, and a purple vest with orange highlights in the Fair Isle style.
October 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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mekka.mekka-tech.com
"No Kings" illustrates the uncomfortable truth about US politics: That the > 50% of white US people that want to turn the US into a white ethnostate (their words) is a lot of people. But the > 40% of white US people that don't want this, plus > 50% of brown people and > 90% of Black people, is more.
October 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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weboptimist.bsky.social
YES!
October 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
oldtrout.bsky.social
Spooky socks for this week's #showmeyourknits! I made this pair for my son 12 years ago, using motifs from the "Deathflake Mittens" pattern: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
#knitting
#strandedcolorwork
A pair of hand-knitted, stranded socks lying flat on a towel. Rainbow skulls on the legs and skull-snowflakes on the foot against a black background, with striped soles and a solid black heel.
October 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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invisiblelad7.bsky.social
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
- Plato
October 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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johnathanperk.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
oldtrout.bsky.social
I don't know what these are. The edges are more gold in real life than in the photos.
#fungi
#pnw
#HarstineIsland
A collage photo of dark brown mushrooms with gold/white edges.
October 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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cornellwriter.bsky.social
Wishing everyone a great Fall.
Cartoon strip that says: “Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.” Pictures show Humpty taking a nice fall walk with leaves falling around him, Humpty carving a jack-o-lantern, Humpty reading by a fireplace with a cat sleeping next to him, and Humpty picking apples.
September 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
oldtrout.bsky.social
I just finished this brown, orange, and gold sweater for a little kid, and it's in Fall colors!
#ShowMeYourKnits
#knitting
#knitsky
#strandedcolorwork
A hand knitted, child-sized, seamless yoke sweater in the Icelandic style, with a geometric pattern at hem, cuffs, and yoke. Knit in dark brown, orange, brass, gold, and yellow yarns.
September 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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diedrichbader.bsky.social
My sister sent me this
September 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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luckytran.com
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
oldtrout.bsky.social
Something blue for this week's #showmeyourknits - Starnkeeker by @katedaviesdesigns.com, modified to fit a child:
#knitting
#knitsky
#strandedcolorwork
A hand knitted child's vest with a large allover stranded colorwork motif of geometric stars and diagonal lines, and corrugated ribbing at the bottom edge. In three different blues as background colors and light grey for the pattern color.
July 14, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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bibiblossoms.bsky.social
Happy Disability Pride Month! It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

I sell pins, knee braces, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more!

Store details below!
5 Oval shaped pins with gold outlines with an oval cutout in the middle with a yellow slideable star: Spoons: Lavender background Hunger Scale: Red background Migraine Scale: Blue background Speaking vs Non Speaking: Green background The first one has SHE, THEY, HE on top. At the bottom there's HER, THEM, HIM. White background. Galaxy, Strawberry and Bat Knee Braces Galaxy and Moon Bunny Compression Gloves Fairy and Bat Convertible Bags
July 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
oldtrout.bsky.social
A toddler vest using garter stitch intarsia:
#showmeyourknits
#knitting
#knitsky
#communityknitting
Hanging on a deck railing, this is a toddler-sized hand knit red vest, with a wide vertical panel of grey, inset with three red hearts on the front.
June 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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shaneclaiborne.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
oldtrout.bsky.social
I knitted up three teddy bears and dressed them in flag scarves; they will be donated to organizations that help refugees from Ukraine and Palestine:
#knitting
#knitsky
#HappyPrideMonth
#communityknitting
Hand knitted little bears in different bear colors lying next to each other. They each have a tasseled scarf in the colors of flags: blue and yellow for Ukraine; black, green, white, and red for Palestine, and Rainbow Pride.
June 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
oldtrout.bsky.social
A rainbow of proud little bears for charity:
#knitting
#HappyPrideMonth
#Pride
Seven little hand knit stuffed teddy bears lying side-by-side in an arc, each with a sweater in one of the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
June 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
oldtrout.bsky.social
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TRYGG - Oslo Pride 2025
YouTube video by Oslo Pride
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June 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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glaad.bsky.social
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
June 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
oldtrout.bsky.social
For a 3-year-old, this will be sent to Lifting Hands Int'l. The transition motif is from Winter's Morning Hat, www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
The sweater is a Nalgar, by Elizabeth Zimmermann, and the mittens are Panda Man's Paw Warmers,
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
#knitting #knitsky
A toddler-sized hand knitted sweater, hat, and mittens in stranded colorwork, using a large geometric motif that transitions from dark blue to light blue on the sweater and hat. Mittens have dark blue cuffs and light blue hands.
May 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
oldtrout.bsky.social
An elephant in purple boxer shorts that I made a few years ago:
#showmeyourknits
#knitting
A knitted, grey elephant stuffed toy wearing purple boxer shorts
May 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
oldtrout.bsky.social
Here's a hat and mitt set that's headed for Lifting Hands International, made in DROPS Alaska and DROPS Nepal yarns:
#knitting
#strandedcolorwork
#FairIsle
#communityknitting
A handknitted, stranded colorwork hat and matching fingerless mitts, with a traditional star pattern and integrated diamond borders, colorized in the Fair Isle style in blues and orange/yellows.
May 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
oldtrout.bsky.social
My third version of this pattern, the 2025 Shetland Wool Week hat, www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib.... This one is done in Faux Isle, using Knit Picks Chroma fingering in a solid (black) and a self-striping colorway.
#knitting
#ShetlandWoolWeekHat2025
#ShetlandWoolWeek
#strandedcolorwork
A knitted, stranded cjild-sized hat lying flat, with an allover traditional fair isle motif in only two yarns: one a solid black, the other a self-striping yarn in red, orange, neon yellow, neon green, and purple.
April 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM