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Daniel Drennan ElAwar
@ibnsufiknits.bsky.social
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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/ 🥚
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Words as Lifelines: BIPOC Adoptee Voices for Gaza

#adoption #adopteesky 🥚

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Poster of a grid of adoptee writers scheduled to speak about Gaza for a fundraiser.
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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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 🧶

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Contact sheet of nine images showing the front pages of my knitting patterns.
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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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. 🧶🥚🇵🇸
Linoleum-cut print showing a white box against a background of barbed wire on the right transitioning to roses on the left. The square-kufic Arabic in the box reads: “He who sows thistle will not reap grapes”.
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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…trapping strands in a pattern of their own such that the reverse side is not a mess of floats. Pictured here: Holst Garn Coast 55% Merino Lambswool and 45% Cotton. | 3/3 | #WIP #knitting #knitsky #showmeyourknits 🧶
Pattern for knitting a Palestinian kufiyyeh from the center out.
November 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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…evolve organically at these turning points. Have a few inches to go on the main portion; will add an applied border later based on the “olive leaf” motif of the kufiyyeh, with German short-row corners. Also elaborated was a means of… | 2/3 | #WIP #knitting #knitsky #showmeyourknits 🧶
Large square knitted headscarf in progress spread out on a wooden floor.
November 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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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 🧶
Me on a couch knitting a large headscarf.
November 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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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 🧶
Knitted beanie in progress on two circular needles.
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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These socks were a bit of an experiment, using up some leftover Holst yarns (Coast (wool/cotton) + Tides (wool/silk)). Not sure 100% successful, but an instructive knit. Still playing around with no-plastic sock yarns, at least I have my recipe down for sock knitting! #Soctober #Knitting #Knitsky 🧶
A pair of knitted socks modeled by the knitter against a wooden floor.
October 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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#AbolishICE Beanies are queued up, in progress, and finished! Current projects on Ravelry (link below). Some knitters have dropped a section repeat and gone up in yarn weight and needle size. Happy to see the variations and exploration! #KnitSky #Knitting 🧶

LINK: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Knitted beanies that read: “Abolish ICE"
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Knitting 4x2 rib based on some sock recipes, marling two strands of Holst Garn Coast (half cotton/half wool) and one strand swapped out for Holst Garn Tides (30% silk) for the toes and heels. Knit two at a time on a pair of circular needles. Almost done!
#Socktober #KnitSky #Knitting 🧶
A pair of socks being knit on two circular needles featuring different yarn/color in the toes and heels.
October 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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I do this thing while testing where I get to the crown decreases and then cast on another. Reworking my Nakba 75 Beanie for wool, revising a bit the cotton pattern. Stony Hill Fiber Arts fingering cotton + Blue Sky Fibers Woolstok Light wool.
#WIPWednesday #WIP #knitting #knitsky #nakba #Palestine 🧶
Two knitted beanies in process featuring a pattern that commemorates Palestinian resistance.
October 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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A "more visceral" statement motif was requested and added. Truth is, I had designed it but didn’t include it in favor of the preferred slogan of immigration activists. Given the great tester feedback, the option of 2 motifs in one beanie is perhaps the way to go! #AbolishICE #knitting #knitsky 🧶
Knitting pattern chart that reads: “Fuck ICE”.
October 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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#Beanie knits, I got ‘em! All free patterns; some still in the works. Most feature corrugated rib brim; purled decrease line. Web site link reflects my Ravelry. Contact sheet made using free software from XnView MP. #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitting #Knitsky 🧶

PROJECTS: www.elawarart.org/fiber/projec...
3x3 grid showing a variety of knit beanies.
October 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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It’s black and purple (and green) but not meant to be spooky! My sister saw this shawl on a contestant on Jeopardy and asked me to knit it up; definitely a labor of love. The Willow Shawl by Natalia Moreva. Yarn: Fiber Optic Yarns Unified Kashmir Gradient. #knitting #showmeyourknits #knitsky 🧶
Large knit shawl with stripes that end in elongated lozenges.
October 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Abolish ICE beanie finished. Suggested yarn for this beanie is fingering or sport weight; free pattern link below. I used some stash Camper 100% Highlands wool from Kelbourne Woolens. Will work up a version in cotton as well. #AbolishICE #knitting #knitsky 🧶

LINK: www.elawarart.org/fiber/projec...
Knitted striped beanie that reads “Abolish ICE”.
October 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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A request from @annekosseffjones.bsky.social for a beanie pattern led me to modify a “stock” beanie pattern of mine to fit the bill. It is designed for fingering/sport-weight yarn; cotton and wool have both been tested. Interested in test knitting? DM me an email! #knitsky #knitting #abolishICE 🧶
First page of a knitting pattern that reads: “Abolish ICE”.
October 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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I’m going with the call of immigration groups going back to 2003 “ABOLISH ICE”.
October 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Currently revising my Nakba 75 Beanie for different sizes as well as wool. Letterforms are in square-kufic Arabic. Here using domestically grown and plied organic cotton in fingering from Stony Hill Fiber Arts. Illustrated table (artist unknown) in Tompkins Square Park, NYC. #knitsky #knitting 🧶
Knitted beanie on the needles posed on a picnic table with illustrations of famous people painted on it in small portraits.
October 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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I have revised as well for size options and cotton my #MalcolmX Beanie, here in Scheepjes unmercerized Cotton 8 yarn. The letterforms are in square-kufic Arabic and spell out Malcolm X. I was dogsitting in Hoboken, NJ with my partner and the skyline made a perfect backdrop. #knitsky #knitting 🧶
Me at the Hudson River on the Hoboken side with NYC skyline in the background wearing a striped beanie that includes Arabic lettering that spells out “Malcolm X”.
October 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Starting fresh with a new fiber arts/knitting account. If you followed me before, give me a follow back! Pictured: My Al-Remal Beanie in Blue Sky Fibers Woolstok Light and a broken rib scarf in Germantown from Kelbourne Woolens. #knitsky #knitting #fiberarts 🧶
Winter street scene in NYC, man wearing a patterned knitted beanie and a knitted scarf.
October 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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All the socks. #showmeyourknits #knitsky #knitting 🧶
Einrum, Lettlopi, Mondim.
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October 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM