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Windy McHindenburg
@oldtrout.bsky.social
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Old. Gassy. Community Knitter. Pro-democracy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Another Shetland Wool Week hat, the Aal Ower Toorie www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib..., this one is in @katedaviesdesigns.bsky.social's Milarrochy Tweed:
#shetlandwoolweek
#shetlandwoolweekhat
#knitting
#strandedcolorwork
A knitted, stranded adult-sized hat lying flat, with an allover traditional fair isle motif in yellow, natural, red, green, orange, blue, and brown.
April 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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It's Spring, so that means it's time for the 2025 Shetland Wool Week hat pattern! It's called Aal Ower Toorie, and is available at www.shetlandwoolweek.com/knitting-pat...
#SWW2025
#knitting
#fairisleknitting

Here's my version:
A knitted, stranded adult-sized hat lying flat, with an allover traditional fair isle motif in yellows, greens, red, and brown.
April 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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#showmeyourknits A toddler-sized stranded colorwork vest with a little matching doll to go with:
#knitting
A knitted stranded colorwork vest, toddler sized, displayed flat with a little knitted doll with a matching sweater. The vest is made up of a geometric border that alternates with a larger star motif, in gold, light blue, dark blue, and white.
March 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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#showmeyourknits Here's a little vest in shades of green (plus an orange highlight here and there)
A knitted colorwork vest in the Fair Isle style, hanging up, with solid dark green hem, collar, and armholes. The motif is an allover star and diamond pattern, the colors are shades of green with an orange duplicate stitch highlight in the center of the stars
March 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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A couple of projects to keep a couple of necks (and faces) warm:
A collage photo of two neckwarmers/cowls modeled on a styrofoam head; each is a knitted, stranded, circular yoke with a ribbed neck that can be folded down or pulled up over the mouth and nose. One is in brown, yellow, and greens, the other in red, orange, and greens. The stranded motif is geometric.
March 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Here's a stranded, steeked dickey with a seamed edge and knitted, sewn-down facing. The pattern is Bringeduk Cowl, www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#knitting
#strandedcolorwork
A knitted dickey with a ribbed collar and a stranded front flap in a Scandinavian star motif; the main color is dark purple, contrasting pattern color is light orange.
March 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I just finished a hat, to be donated to an org that distributes to Ukraine, but honestly, I made it from shame, not pride. But I AM proud of my current project, which is challenging me to knit facings for a steek. Me, knitting facings. Then, sewing them down. I'll be so chuffed if I can do it!
A knitted, stranded hat in the Fair Isle style, with corrugated ribbing and a large repeating sunflower motif in three shades of blue and four shades of yellow.
March 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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This hat will be donated to the organization, Lifting Hands International, for distribution to Ukrainian refugees (pattern can be found here):
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
#knitting
#strandedcolorwork
#FairIsleKnitting
#LiftingHandsInternational
A knitted, stranded hat in the Fair Isle style, with corrugated ribbing and a large repeating sunflower motif in three shades of blue and four shades of yellow.
March 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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This textured hat is another pattern from @katedaviesdesigns.bsky.social's new collection, Making Light. I've used mirrored lifted increases instead of the original yarnovers, for a denser fabric suitable for donation. Wool and Alpaca.
#knitting
#Dirken
#MakingLight
A knitted, textured hat in green, modeled on a styrofoam head
March 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Three vests for babies, in bulky weight yarn, much of it handspun; these will most likely go to Gaza, Ukraine, or Jordan through organizations that don't rely on federal funding:
#knitting
#communityknitting
Three baby-sized handknitted vests - two of them with hoods - in various colors/stripes, including blues, oranges, greens, and purple, displayed laying flat
February 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Another couple of fabulous patterns from @katedaviesdesigns.bsky.social's current club, Making Light. I've made them into a toddler vest and a hat (the patterns are for an adult sweater and mittens).
#katedavies
#makinglight
#knitting
#strandedcolorwork
#BlueMonk
#Monk'sDream
A toddler-sized, stranded, knitted vest and matching hat lying flat, using an allover geometric motif with irregular corrugated ribbing; colors are light purple and dark purple.
February 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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This toddler vest was inspired by another pattern from the @katedaviesdesigns.bsky.social's "Making Light" collection. I had hoped to include a hood, as in the published pattern, but I couldn't work out the numbers!
#knitting
#strandedcolorwork
#makingligh#katedavies
#Clanframjie
A knitted, stranded colorwork vest, toddler-sized, with braid borders at hem and collar, with striped motifs in brown, yellow, light blue, blue, and red.
February 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Another pattern (modified) from @katedaviesdesigns.bsky.social's new collection, this one is called Sun Pillars and is a seamless yoke riff on the Ciar motif. This is my riff on it for a child's size, and appropriate for donation:
#knitting
#strandedcolorwork
#sunpillars
#katedavies
A child's size seamless yoke sweater in light brown, with dark blue stranded borders at cuffs and hem, and a bold geometric design on the yoke in red.
February 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM