Men Who Knit Promoting and inspiring the art of knitting amongst men.

No worries! rturko has not disappeared. He hasn't hung up his needles (is that what one does when they give up the craft?)

We're in the process of moving to a new ISP and I've gotten carried away with registering domain names. Rain City (Seattle) Rick (my first name) is the latest.

Anyway, I'm still around knitting (and knitting in the round.)

From 'Gathering of Lace' with a few changes (of course!)

I started the edge a couple days ago and should get a picture tonight. (Posting this should motivate me)

Oh but I thought they were joking about snow before Halloween. Must knit mittens!

~Jason

Well, I decided that the "big" sweater I'm working on isn't moving fast enough - so I put it down for a few days and attempted a baby sweater pattern I got in palm springs - remember, I'm the one who doesn't know how to read patterns, right? well, I did it! I'm very proud of the fact that the sleeves are the same size, and although I still "interpreted" lots of the pattern, it actually looks pretty much like it should! I haven't put buttons on it yet, and on the button side of the jacket there's a hole where I didn't pick up a stitch in the right place or something when I made the collar... but all in all, not bad if I say so myself! I had to rip out a sleeve twice because the first time I picked up stitches wrong, but went online and watched a video on how to do it - which helped - and although I don't know how to really join pieces together, it all seems to have worked itself out. Anyway, I was very excited and wanted to share the excitement with my boys! I'm trying to get the photo on here but it's not working - I'll keep trying but if it doesn't work, check out my myspace page and I'll put it there :)

Kyle

For all of you that have been asking, and you know who you are, yes, I am still a living, breathing human being.

I've been busy trying to buy the condo that I have been living in but the owners don't want to sell. Well, I wanna buy so I've been looking for suitible property all over the city. I figure that if I don't eat, sit in the dark and hitch-hike to work I can swing this.

But that means more of that damn packing and unpacking that I've been doing since July! Crap.

My best to you all and hope things are going well in your necks of the woods.