That thumbnail image is a 600 year old mural depicting the Virgin Mary using double pointed knitting needles to make a sweater.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
what do you Mean, knitting in the round came before knitting flat. what do you Mean the purl stitch appeared in Europe only like 50 years before industrial knitting machines. What Do You Mean they were knitting colorwork socks with short row heels in 1000s Egypt

I am sorry I made you read a story about people being mean to a bug just to avoid being a poser about a t shirt

I think my coworkers might think I'm a strange hermit. I think I might be a strange hermit.

I have the vague embarassing feeling he may have also gone to the same college as I did, over the same years as I did, and I may have not noticed this the entire time/forgotten this

People in the notes have tried to add Max Biyalistock and Johnny LaRue, whose style oddly resembles *each other* but not JF/MH. Crushed velvet, cravats, and ruffles on these guys; versus pastel pinstripes and plaids with statement glasses. Moustache, even.

Ok, more accurately I was speculating about the existence of a more general now-vanished type of guy that both might be playing off. Like those orchids evolved to mimic now-extinct wasps...

Right!

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I plan to use the leftover Christmas yarn to try a pair of mittens at some point... but my next goal is an actually viable cable sock.