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October 2nd, 2005

NY Knit Out

Sun, 2005-10-02 20:19 — DorsetMartin

Hi guys

I was at the Knit Out from 1 PM to 5:15. Phew. The was never ending of folk wanting to learn how to knit and across the way was an equally long line waiting to learn how to crochet.
Oh and as I was leaving one of the organizers told me that I was the first male teacher!!!!!!!! 
 Then I went to Boys Night at The Point as usual on a Sunday evening. A fun long day knitting for me.
Tomorrow I start my first Knitting afterschool class!
 I love knitting

September 15th

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Free Patterns

Thu, 2005-09-15 12:39 — Bill

The Victoria and Albert Museum has a Kitting page...with free patterns...
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/knitting/index.html
most from the 40's... and many from the second world war...
Gloves...socks...sweaters...
pay attention to the "old" neeedle sizes...

September 11th

I want to be certified

Sun, 2005-09-11 14:47 — DorsetMartin

As a knitting instructor after having completed a w/e course @ F.I.T. I have to do 30 hours voluntary teaching to be fully certified

I'll clock in a few hours at the Knit Out in Union Square next month.
The instructor was great, Arnetta Kenney. Yes, I was the only guy!
I'm going to sign up for a 6 week course with Arnetta to knit that sweater I've put off making for lack of confidence.

September 4th

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Web Links Are Back

Sun, 2005-09-04 19:44 — Darrel

I got the web link section working again, but unfortunately had to trash all of the links.  It's pretty sparse now, but I know all you internet-enabled knitters have amazing bookmark collections and I encourage you to post your favorites on the site for everyone's benefit.  I'll be adding more, as well!

September 2nd

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New book in the works!

Sat, 2005-09-03 00:44 — JPaul

Here's a great opportunity to be involved in a new book!

Annie Modesitt (the knitting heretic) and Drew Emborsky (the crochet dude) are writing a book called Men Who Knit (and the Dogs Who Love Them).

They are looking for stories about men who knit!  THAT'S YOU!!!

They are also looking for knitters to help knit the sample sweaters and other projects for the book.

All the information you need is here:

http://www.knittingheretic.com/menwhoknit/

September 1st

Knitting for Katrina survivors

Thu, 2005-09-01 20:31 — DorsetMartin

 Hi guys

I have a couple of baby blankets that I knitted earlier this year & some cute Ann Norling hats. I want to donate them to the folks in need down south. I'm waiting to hear back from Americares as to where to send them. I can't be the only one among us who has finished and/or near finished projects that ould be of use.
If any of you want to support this please let me know and I will pass on the information as and when I get it.
best,
Martin 

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Mentioned in article

Thu, 2005-09-01 14:45 — Darrel

I'm sure this is old news for most, but Men Who Knit was mentioned in an article in the recent manly issue of Knitty.

 
The good word comes from David Demchuk's article Knit Like a Man.
 
If you haven't yet read David's article, be sure to check it out!

August 30th

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WYSIWYG Editor

Tue, 2005-08-30 14:56 — Darrel

WYSISYG is back!  I've installed TinyMCE and it's available for all to use. Safari and Opera compatibility is limited, so if you are a Mac or Opera user, your best best is to use Firefox or disable the Rich Text Editor in your user profile. Underneath each textarea, you can also disable rich text editing on the fly.

 
One of the nice things is that you can easily insert images in to your entries, not just as attachments.  Here's my suggestion on how best to do this:
 
1. Open a free Flickr account at http://www.flickr.com
2. Upload the image you want to insert to Flickr
3.

August 26th

Misconceptions Of The New Male Knitter

Fri, 2005-08-26 11:55 — keifer76

This will be my first posting, and I am so excited to begin classes to learn how to knit. Doing a bit of research on the subject within my circle of friend's here in the bay area, I found out people are under many misconceptions on the hobby itself.

1.) "Hey I'm not 60 years old drinking ice tea in
a retirement home somewhere!"

- I have found a huge sub-category of youth and
adults that are serious knitting freaks. I own at least
3 homemade scarves, 2 wool caps and a pair of mittens
made from some good friends in there 20's. Actually
it has become quite the fad in Burning Man circles here

August 23rd

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Men Who Knit Upgrade

Tue, 2005-08-23 21:21 — Darrel

Greetings!

It is with great pleasure and a sigh of relief that I annouce that the software which powers Men Who Knit, Drupal, has been upgraded to its latest revision.

The only thing which is currently lacking from the previous site are the weblinks. That section of Drupal was completely rewritten and will take a bit of work to restore, but it should be done soon.

Some new features are the ability to syndicate parts of the site, such as your blog or message forums. We can also bring in content from other sites via RSS, so if you know of some good content available via this method, let me know!