Marty McGuire martymcgui.re

Machine knitting: neckli(n)e / show-and-tell!

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        "text": "This post is part of a series, as I play catch-up on KnitFactoryImpl's knitalong of a set in sleeve crew neck sweater for channel members.\nAfter completing the front panel, only one major on-the-machine task remains for this sweater, and that's the neckline.\nThis is easy to explain conceptually: connect the front and the back by seaming them together at one shoulder, rehang all the stitches on the knitting machine, knit some rows for the collar, then cast off on waste yarn.\nStill, I was dreading this for some reason, so I procrastinated on it all day and then hemmed-and-hawed as I did it.\nOne shoulder: seamed! The view from the inside.The seam viewed from the outside.Technically, the last bits of shoulder seams should include some purple stitches, but I found it too mind-bending to think about how to change colors while so many needles were going into hold and being wrapped. It's really just a few stitches so I don't think anyone will notice in the final sweater.\nI then took a long break for food, exercise, and a shower, and only actually started hanging the neckline on the machine about 15 minutes before the live show-and-tell. \ud83e\udee3\nCan I knit and participate in a livestream event at the same time? Not really!I really enjoyed the show-and-tell. It was encouraging to hear KnitFactoryImpl's own challenges and inspiring to see the final (extremely fluffy!) cardigan. I was delighted and honored that she shared my posts from\u00a0this very website\u00a0with some kind comments on my knitting setup and progress photos. I loved seeing photos from other participants, too! It was nice to have enough context to understand and appreciate some of the choices made in terms of stitch variety, yarn types, and (of course) colors and patterns!\nI ended up waiting until after the livestream to finish hanging the stitches.\nOnce it was all back on the bed, following KnitFactoryImpl's advice, I:\nhung a bunch of weights.\n  knit one row of normal knitting (at a slightly looser tension than the main body).\n  transferred half of the stitches to the ribber for 1x1 rib.\n  added more weights.\n  set up the carriages to knit the rib the same as I had done the cuffs and body panel hems.\nI even got to use these cool weight hangers on the edges!\nThese made no sense to me until I saw a photo in the KR-850 manual.After all the effort to hang the stitches, set the weights, set up the carriage, knit the one row of stockinette, remove the carriage, transfer half the stitches, set more weights, and set up the carriages again, I was feeling pretty nervous about this going awry.\nSo I knit 12 rows of 1x1 rib\u00a0very slowly, checking each stitch after every row. This was made more challenging by the fact that my main yarn is pitch black. \ud83d\ude05\nTo my relief, those 12 rows went great! It was time to cast off onto waste yarn with circular knitting. So, I switched yarns, set the carriages for circular knitting, knit a few rows back and forth-\n- and realize something was going very wrong! The tension from the weights just seemed to be not\u00a0working. A bunch of stitches piled up loosely and then started dropping.\nI didn't panic, but I did remove all the weights and start painstakingly removing the tangled knitting from the bed.\nYikes. Only one or two loops of the pink waste yarn are protecting the live stitches at the end of the collar.Most of the actual rib came off the machine fine. A few stitches have dropped but, in theory, I can fix those while sewing up to finish the seam.\u00a0HOWEVER: sewing up seams is definitely one of my weaker skills, so I am not sure I trust myself to do it without making a huge mess of things.\nFor the sake of my future as a machine knitter, I think I will probably pull all this ribbing off and try again. It will be a time-consuming process, but it's safe to do. Importantly, it will give me a chance to figure out what bits of the knitting machine / stand / cast-on comb / hanging weights are interfering with one another, causing the stitches to bunch up after that dozen-or-so rows.\nI could also stand to practice seaming and mending, a good reason to try and \"rescue\" this delicate collar situation.\nWhich will I choose? Will I let this project languish now that the knitalong is over?\u00a0Stay tuned to find out!\nMeanwhile, many thanks to KnitFactoryImpl\u00a0for running this knitalong, for providing a super versatile free pattern generator, making extra videos to detail each piece, and pulling together and sharing photos and more from the community! Also, you know, for the tons of great instructional and inspirational machine knitting content! Go subscribe and support her channel, already!",
        "html": "<p>This post is part of a series, as I play catch-up on <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kntNWiaZVM\">KnitFactoryImpl's knitalong of a set in sleeve crew neck sweater for channel members</a>.</p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/11/22/machine-knitting-front-panel--looking-forward/\">completing the front panel</a>, only one major on-the-machine task remains for this sweater, and that's the neckline.</p>\n<p>This is easy to explain conceptually: connect the front and the back by seaming them together at one shoulder, rehang all the stitches on the knitting machine, knit some rows for the collar, then cast off on waste yarn.</p>\n<p>Still, I was dreading this for some reason, so I procrastinated on it all day and then hemmed-and-hawed as I did it.</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/84/50/dd/49/f1ad6e79cf31d0df06cbbdbe2a927a3677ab7d1d7637c0408691c310.\" alt=\"\" />One shoulder: seamed! The view from the inside.<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/5b/50/33/19/ff9d893cab91913967254f673da123e088318eeee138b4835cda9130.\" alt=\"\" />The seam viewed from the outside.<p>Technically, the last bits of shoulder seams should include some purple stitches, but I found it too mind-bending to think about how to change colors while so many needles were going into hold and being wrapped. It's really just a few stitches so I don't think anyone will notice in the final sweater.</p>\n<p>I then took a long break for food, exercise, and a shower, and only actually started hanging the neckline on the machine about 15 minutes before the live show-and-tell. \ud83e\udee3</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/6d/a8/73/0f/99046d53a0daf4a8b3360f49099a408642d95ce4898ad7306d11c1f3.\" alt=\"\" />Can I knit and participate in a livestream event at the same time? Not really!<p>I really enjoyed the show-and-tell. It was encouraging to hear KnitFactoryImpl's own challenges and inspiring to see the final (extremely fluffy!) cardigan. I was delighted and honored that she shared my posts from\u00a0<i>this very website</i>\u00a0with some kind comments on my knitting setup and progress photos. I <i>loved</i> seeing photos from other participants, too! It was nice to have enough context to understand and appreciate some of the choices made in terms of stitch variety, yarn types, and (of course) colors and patterns!</p>\n<p>I ended up waiting until after the livestream to finish hanging the stitches.</p>\n<p>Once it was all back on the bed, following KnitFactoryImpl's advice, I:</p>\n<ul><li>hung a bunch of weights.</li>\n  <li>knit one row of normal knitting (at a slightly looser tension than the main body).</li>\n  <li>transferred half of the stitches to the ribber for 1x1 rib.</li>\n  <li>added more weights.</li>\n  <li>set up the carriages to knit the rib the same as I had done the cuffs and body panel hems.</li>\n</ul><p>I even got to use these cool weight hangers on the edges!</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/ba/98/49/93/84d767e97a8849cb522533e66d5766280e723fbfb68a7eb2d287769a.\" alt=\"\" />These made no sense to me until I saw a photo in <a href=\"https://mkmanuals.com/brother-kr850-ribber-user-guide.html\">the KR-850 manual</a>.<p>After all the effort to hang the stitches, set the weights, set up the carriage, knit the one row of stockinette, remove the carriage, transfer half the stitches, set more weights, and set up the carriages again, I was feeling pretty nervous about this going awry.</p>\n<p>So I knit 12 rows of 1x1 rib\u00a0<i>very slowly</i>, checking each stitch after every row. This was made more challenging by the fact that my main yarn is pitch black. \ud83d\ude05</p>\n<p>To my relief, those 12 rows went great! It was time to cast off onto waste yarn with circular knitting. So, I switched yarns, set the carriages for circular knitting, knit a few rows back and forth-</p>\n<p>- and realize something was going very wrong! The tension from the weights just seemed to be <i>not\u00a0working</i>. A bunch of stitches piled up loosely and then started dropping.</p>\n<p>I didn't panic, but I did remove all the weights and start painstakingly removing the tangled knitting from the bed.</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/0c/07/11/19/a4dcbc260b98e6dafb2e7bb89e227058e23bd35f268b17302f124f6b.\" alt=\"\" />Yikes. Only one or two loops of the pink waste yarn are protecting the live stitches at the end of the collar.<p>Most of the actual rib came off the machine fine. A few stitches have dropped but, in theory, I can fix those while sewing up to finish the seam.\u00a0<b>HOWEVER</b>: sewing up seams is definitely one of my weaker skills, so I am not sure I trust myself to do it without making a huge mess of things.</p>\n<p>For the sake of my future as a machine knitter, I think I will probably pull all this ribbing off and try again. It will be a time-consuming process, but it's safe to do. Importantly, it will give me a chance to figure out what bits of the knitting machine / stand / cast-on comb / hanging weights are interfering with one another, causing the stitches to bunch up after that dozen-or-so rows.</p>\n<p>I could also stand to practice seaming and mending, a good reason to try and \"rescue\" this delicate collar situation.</p>\n<p>Which will I choose? Will I let this project languish now that the knitalong is over?\u00a0<i>Stay tuned to find out!</i></p>\n<p>Meanwhile, many thanks to <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@KnitFactoryImpl\">KnitFactoryImpl</a>\u00a0for running this knitalong, for providing a super versatile free pattern generator, making extra videos to detail each piece, and pulling together and sharing photos and more from the community! Also, you know, for the tons of great instructional and inspirational machine knitting content! Go subscribe and support her channel, already!</p>"
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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

Vehicle updates

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

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        "text": "wet concrete"
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Jonathan LaCour cleverdevil.io/profile/cleverdevil

🎲 🏎️ What a weekend in Vegas!

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

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Marty McGuire martymcgui.re

Machine knitting: front panel / looking forward

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        "text": "This post is part of a series, as I play catch-up on KnitFactoryImpl's knitalong of a set in sleeve crew neck sweater for channel members.\nAt the dawn of the final day of the knitalong, I was determined to finish the machine-knit portions of the build. That means making the front panel, seaming the front and back along one shoulder, rehanging the neckline, and knitting the collar.\nThe front panel is constructed about the same as the back panel, but with differences in the neck and shoulder shaping. Compared with my rough go of it on the back panel, the front panel went much easier. I found myself tripping over the combination of working the pattern and switching yarns for the colored stripes. And I'm afraid that no one on Earth knows exactly how the stitch and row counts on the arm hole and neck actually shaping turned out. Future me will, unfortunately, become the one to solve this puzzle.\nGreat success up to the arm hole bind off!I played gravity chicken with the cast-on comb and weights and, unfortunately, they were near touching the ground just as the pattern called for the long series of decreases for arm hole shaping. I was able to hang the regular cast-on comb, but it added some complication with moving those stitches. If I had to do it again, I'd make sure to re-hang all the weights 10 or so rows before that.\nYarn (and my stress levels) under tension as I work the left neck and shoulder.I also regret being precious and/or clever with managing the out-of-work yarn. To keep down the number of ends to work in, I let the out-of-work yarn float from one section to the next. For straight sections, I should be able to hide the floats in a seam. For areas with decreases and bind-offs, I should have just snipped yarn and worked in the ends as I went. I think I'll be cutting and adding extra yarn to several floats that ended up being pulled shorter than the stitches they are meant to hide among. \ud83d\ude29\nLooks like a body panel of a sweater!Hanging it on my body has me worried about the arm hole depth, but we march onward!With breaks for food and stretching, it took me about 4 hours to get through this body panel. With my other obligations for the day, I don't think I'll be able to finish the neckline tonight. But, hey, there's always tomorrow!\nI'm not super confident in how this is gonna turn out, but I'm proud that I've pushed through so far!\u00a0Plus I got to try draping all the major pieces on!\n\ud83d\udc4d\ud83c\udffb",
        "html": "<p>This post is part of a series, as I play catch-up on <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kntNWiaZVM\">KnitFactoryImpl's knitalong of a set in sleeve crew neck sweater for channel members</a>.</p>\n<p>At the dawn of the final day of the knitalong, I was determined to finish the machine-knit portions of the build. That means making the front panel, seaming the front and back along one shoulder, rehanging the neckline, and knitting the collar.</p>\n<p>The front panel is constructed about the same as the back panel, but with differences in the neck and shoulder shaping. Compared with my <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/11/21/machine-knitting-back-panel--backlog/\">rough go of it on the back panel</a>, the front panel went much easier. I found myself tripping over the combination of working the pattern and switching yarns for the colored stripes. And I'm afraid that no one on Earth knows exactly how the stitch and row counts on the arm hole and neck actually shaping turned out. Future me will, unfortunately, become the one to solve this puzzle.</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/5c/b0/e8/d4/ce14a4da8f472065f6dad910ab7e61b61a5bc04cfcc0e5056a343376.\" alt=\"\" />Great success up to the arm hole bind off!<p>I played gravity chicken with the cast-on comb and weights and, unfortunately, they were near touching the ground just as the pattern called for the long series of decreases for arm hole shaping. I was able to hang the regular cast-on comb, but it added some complication with moving those stitches. If I had to do it again, I'd make sure to re-hang all the weights 10 or so rows before that.</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/93/7e/91/22/e3ce37482b738a99019c46fb87a8515d527fd2370670358d74575957.\" alt=\"\" />Yarn (and my stress levels) under tension as I work the left neck and shoulder.<p>I also regret being precious and/or clever with managing the out-of-work yarn. To keep down the number of ends to work in, I let the out-of-work yarn float from one section to the next. For straight sections, I should be able to hide the floats in a seam. For areas with decreases and bind-offs, I should have just snipped yarn and worked in the ends as I went. I think I'll be cutting and adding extra yarn to several floats that ended up being pulled shorter than the stitches they are meant to hide among. \ud83d\ude29</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/14/8a/ed/c4/29f4b762bd2f6c14724bb4c78d44098bf2cacf498b5921ab2cdcbc2c.\" alt=\"\" />Looks like a body panel of a sweater!<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/f6/37/d0/d2/0a0a601a327270791d3e66df3421d1ae940c3d95067452e2d2d8382d.\" alt=\"\" />Hanging it on my body has me worried about the arm hole depth, but we march onward!<p>With breaks for food and stretching, it took me about 4 hours to get through this body panel. With my other obligations for the day, I don't think I'll be able to finish the neckline tonight. But, hey, there's always tomorrow!</p>\n<p>I'm not super confident in how this is gonna turn out, but I'm proud that I've pushed through so far!\u00a0Plus I got to try draping all the major pieces on!</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/c3/f4/66/0b/44b05b09cd35bf278b0bd5a3ee72e39e32ae24aafd276d00f343d77c.\" alt=\"\" /><p>\ud83d\udc4d\ud83c\udffb</p>"
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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

Some more car thoughts and calculations

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Marty McGuire martymcgui.re

Machine knitting: back panel / backlog

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        "text": "This post is part of a series, as I play catch-up on\u00a0KnitFactoryImpl's knitalong of a set in sleeve crew neck sweater for channel members.\nIn the first installment of this series, I made some sleeves, putting me well on time for the knitalong. Since then, however, I spent two weeks in Berlin, a few days sick, and some days catching up on work. All that adds up to: the knitalong is already practically over! \ud83d\ude31\nHowever, I can't let that get me down. It's not homework, there's no grade. I just want to practice some skills, learn some new ones, and make producer Amy a nice sweater. So, let's cast on and get back to it.\nThe second video in the knitalong series is on body panels. I started with the back. A process that was meant to look something like:\nCast on 1x1 rib and knit the bottom hem.\n  Transfer stitches to the main bed and knit the body (a long rectangle of plain knitting).\n  Shape the arm holes by binding off some stitches, then decreasing for a bunch of rows.\n  Shape the shoulder and neck by working one side at a time.\nBecause I'm working this sweater with a pattern of stripes, I peppered the printed instructions with the row count and color for each color change. This would become important when switching \"sections\" of pattern that restart the row counter to 000, and doubly important for the shoulder shaping, which has to be worked twice.\nTough to see in black yarn, but here's a ribbed hem for a body panel!This was my first time casting on a 1x1 rib across almost the entire bed. I found it challenging to get the ribber's full-bed cast-on comb. In my first failed attempt the comb was one needle too far to the right and got caught on a piece of the machine. For the second attempt, one of the weights got stuck on a piece of my knitting machine stand, causing stitches on that side to bunch up and drop. Seen above: I finally got it right!\nAfter transferring the stitches from the ribber to the main bed, it should have been smooth sailing for the main body. Unfortunately, working the striped pattern proved challenging with so many stitches on the bed. The area for \"parking\" the non-active yarn ends up under the carriage, making it easy to tangle and create long loops. And, oh no-\nDropped about half the stitches off the bed during a color change. \ud83d\ude2d\n  Just over halfway through the main body, after switching colors and,\u00a0I SWEAR, checking that the new yarn was properly in the carriage feeder, I dropped off a ton of stitches.\nThankfully, this was recoverable, if tedious.\nRemove all weights from the work.\n  Carefully remove the work from the machine.\n  Go back to the last row of the previous color stripe and re-hang the live stitches. At 185 stitches this was quite tedious!\n  Reset the row counter to match.\n  Hang a cast-on comb and some weights.\n  Resume knitting, redoing the stripe that was dropped. It will be removed after taking the piece off the machine.\nThe new, somewhat ridiculous, weight configuration. Photo taken after several successful stripes.The more recent rows of stripes. The ribber sure gets in the way of photos!That was, thankfully, the only major disaster.\nWhen I made it to shoulder bind-off, I pulled up the knitalong video to start double-checking steps. The bind-off went fine. The reductions for the shoulder holes was made more complicated by needing to switch colors in the middle, but went pretty okay!\nReady for neck and shoulders. Lolly cat is staring because I'm wearing a neck light and moving lights cannot be trusted.At this point, it was time to work the shoulders one at a time. I referred to the video multiple times. I goofed up and dropped some stitches that I was thankfully able to recover. I took it slow and sweat the details. I nodded along at the concept of short rowing on two sides as I watched the video a 5th and 6th time. I ver-ry care-ful-ly bound off stitches. I counted and recounted and still somehow ended up off-by-one stitch somewhere along the way.\nBut I finished! And I think it will be okay!\nTest fitting by laying it on my back. Sure! Seems like a thing!I'm expecting this to relax and shrink up\u00a0 after washing!I worked on this piece on and off all day, in between work and meetings and phone calls. I definitely putting in at least a few solid hours of work, mostly in recovering from mistakes. I wrapped around 10pm to write this post!\nI'll be back at it tomorrow! My hope is to at least finish the front panel and the neckline and get a post online in time for the knitalong's Sunday show and tell. I'll still need to seam the final shoulder, sleeves, and sides, but I'll have finished the\u00a0machine knitting\u00a0part of it, and that should feel pretty good.\nOK, see you tomorrow!",
        "html": "<p>This post is part of a series, as I play catch-up on\u00a0<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kntNWiaZVM\">KnitFactoryImpl's knitalong of a set in sleeve crew neck sweater for channel members</a>.</p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/10/26/machine-knitting-sleeves/\">first installment of this series, I made some sleeves</a>, putting me well on time for the knitalong. Since then, however, I spent two weeks in Berlin, a few days sick, and some days catching up on work. All that adds up to: the knitalong is already practically over! \ud83d\ude31</p>\n<p>However, I can't let that get me down. It's not homework, there's no grade. I just want to practice some skills, learn some new ones, and make producer Amy a nice sweater. So, let's cast on and get back to it.</p>\n<p>The second video in the knitalong series is on body panels. I started with the back. A process that was meant to look something like:</p>\n<ul><li>Cast on 1x1 rib and knit the bottom hem.</li>\n  <li>Transfer stitches to the main bed and knit the body (a long rectangle of plain knitting).</li>\n  <li>Shape the arm holes by binding off some stitches, then decreasing for a bunch of rows.</li>\n  <li>Shape the shoulder and neck by working one side at a time.</li>\n</ul><p>Because I'm working this sweater with a pattern of stripes, I peppered the printed instructions with the row count and color for each color change. This would become important when switching \"sections\" of pattern that restart the row counter to 000, and doubly important for the shoulder shaping, which has to be worked twice.</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/e1/ab/8e/cb/0626e210a7e10d240820e36b3ccc8ddfb98c5230318a51c91ddd12ee.\" alt=\"\" />Tough to see in black yarn, but here's a ribbed hem for a body panel!<p>This was my first time casting on a 1x1 rib across almost the entire bed. I found it challenging to get the ribber's full-bed cast-on comb. In my first failed attempt the comb was one needle too far to the right and got caught on a piece of the machine. For the second attempt, one of the weights got stuck on a piece of my knitting machine stand, causing stitches on that side to bunch up and drop. Seen above: I finally got it right!</p>\n<p>After transferring the stitches from the ribber to the main bed, it should have been smooth sailing for the main body. Unfortunately, working the striped pattern proved challenging with so many stitches on the bed. The area for \"parking\" the non-active yarn ends up under the carriage, making it easy to tangle and create long loops. And, oh no-</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/41/bb/25/9d/1083d6ad3eea87d8d16b8b640ea72ecd98838f35bc39b411ba82f8a1.\" alt=\"\" /><p>Dropped about half the stitches off the bed during a color change. \ud83d\ude2d</p>\n  <p>Just over halfway through the main body, after switching colors and,\u00a0<i>I SWEAR</i>, checking that the new yarn was properly in the carriage feeder, I dropped off a ton of stitches.</p>\n<p>Thankfully, this was recoverable, if tedious.</p>\n<ul><li>Remove all weights from the work.</li>\n  <li>Carefully remove the work from the machine.</li>\n  <li>Go back to the last row of the previous color stripe and re-hang the live stitches. At 185 stitches this was quite tedious!</li>\n  <li>Reset the row counter to match.</li>\n  <li>Hang a cast-on comb and some weights.</li>\n  <li>Resume knitting, redoing the stripe that was dropped. It will be removed after taking the piece off the machine.</li>\n</ul><img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/a2/1f/5e/36/b4608ca84e211811b4e76caa2826a0903934ce4434aea6b3b3c50077.\" alt=\"\" />The new, somewhat ridiculous, weight configuration. Photo taken after several successful stripes.<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/a0/97/11/bb/41be81c6d531a8bc80f6c458c6f1591e0c74d57b386d49cedcd47cf6.\" alt=\"\" />The more recent rows of stripes. The ribber sure gets in the way of photos!<p>That was, thankfully, the only major disaster.</p>\n<p>When I made it to shoulder bind-off, I pulled up the knitalong video to start double-checking steps. The bind-off went fine. The reductions for the shoulder holes was made more complicated by needing to switch colors in the middle, but went pretty okay!</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/81/c3/71/0c/360c2cc53aceaf86b8b6de9ee9461fb47fcee464782e80c13f9ad408.\" alt=\"\" />Ready for neck and shoulders. Lolly cat is staring because I'm wearing a neck light and moving lights cannot be trusted.<p>At this point, it was time to work the shoulders one at a time. I referred to the video multiple times. I goofed up and <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpjXiRZ_rLc\">dropped some stitches that I was thankfully able to recover</a>. I took it slow and sweat the details. I nodded along at the concept of short rowing on two sides as I watched the video a 5th and 6th time. I ver-ry care-ful-ly bound off stitches. I counted and recounted and still somehow ended up off-by-one stitch somewhere along the way.</p>\n<p>But I finished! And I think it will be okay!</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/41/18/6e/6e/17bfd76dbc11342b6083ec2c2373bbd88322d0b908b42196a267744d.\" alt=\"\" />Test fitting by laying it on my back. Sure! Seems like a thing!<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/d3/ce/21/1d/26878b23161d36ac57a616d0b4d440161fa917a358c66d971efc7937.\" alt=\"\" />I'm expecting this to relax and shrink up\u00a0 after washing!<p>I worked on this piece on and off all day, in between work and meetings and phone calls. I definitely putting in at least a few solid hours of work, mostly in recovering from mistakes. I wrapped around 10pm to write this post!</p>\n<p>I'll be back at it tomorrow! My hope is to at least finish the front panel and the neckline and get a post online in time for the knitalong's Sunday show and tell. I'll still need to seam the final shoulder, sleeves, and sides, but I'll have finished the\u00a0<i>machine knitting</i>\u00a0part of it, and that should feel pretty good.</p>\n<p>OK, see you tomorrow!</p>"
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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

Principles have limits

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    "published": "2025-11-21T20:05:15-08:00",
    "url": "https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/7032-Principles-have-limits",
    "category": [
        "EV",
        "electric vehicles",
        "venting",
        "cars"
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    "name": "Principles have limits",
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gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2025-11-20 16:56-0800",
    "url": "https://gregorlove.com/2025/11/go-google/",
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        "memes"
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        "text": "Go Google, give us nothing!\nReference: Know Your Meme",
        "html": "<p>Go Google, give us nothing!</p>\n<p>Reference: <a href=\"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/go-girl-give-us-nothing\">Know Your Meme</a></p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "gRegor Morrill",
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Link: “The Beast in Me” Could Have Dazzled

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        "name": "Jared White",
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    "url": "https://jaredwhite.com/links/20251118/the-beast-in-me-could-have-dazzled",
    "published": "2025-11-18T23:14:11-08:00",
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        "html": "<blockquote>\n  <h2><a href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/203139/beast-epitomizes-trough-tv\"></a></h2>\n\n  <p>Two damaged, possibly damaging people on a collision course with each other. The first two episodes of the show, which dwell at length on Jarvis and Wiggs as they feel each other out and take turns manipulating each other in a series of extended intimate chats, are gripping TV. Matthew Rhys imbues his cartoonish villain character with a kind of twitchy impulsiveness that makes him feel one degree less predictable than he might initially appear.</p>\n\n<p>Claire Danes, for her part, returns fitfully to the Homeland well. Her chin near-constantly aquiver, Wiggs is always on the verge of tears, a woman deep, deep in the midst of a nervous breakdown. But, in her scenes with Jarvis, she comes alive, activating the lethal attentiveness and brazen disregard for danger that made her the prize-winning journalist we\u2019re told she was.</p>\n\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>This year has been a real mixed bag for me in terms of both <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/tvshows\">#tvshows</a> and films. Some gems, some thuds, and a few real stinkers.</p>\n\n<p><em>The Beast in Me</em> thankfully was not a stinker, nor even a thud. Alas, I wish I could call it a gem. It was merely good, which as Phillip Maciak points out for The New Republic might lead one to believe is just another sign of an industry-wide fall from grace; the beginning of the end of prestige television and its Golden Age of Streaming.</p>\n\n<p>I\u2019m not sure we need to stoop to such dramatic prognostication. Can\u2019t we simply enjoy the undeniably <strong>fantastic</strong> performances by the lead actors, appreciate the arc of the story for what it is, admire the craft of the filmmaking (it was well-lit and beautifully shot) and leave it at that?</p>\n\n<p>I think so. And yet\u2026I still can\u2019t help but wish this show had been <em>more</em>. More thrilling. More clever. More surprising. More thought-provoking once the TV has been switched off.</p>\n\n<p>At least it impressed me more than some other shows in this sort of genre I\u2019ve seen over the past couple of years. It definitely rises above the usual pablum you must wade through on today\u2019s streamers. <strong>And for that, I am grateful.</strong></p>",
        "text": "Two damaged, possibly damaging people on a collision course with each other. The first two episodes of the show, which dwell at length on Jarvis and Wiggs as they feel each other out and take turns manipulating each other in a series of extended intimate chats, are gripping TV. Matthew Rhys imbues his cartoonish villain character with a kind of twitchy impulsiveness that makes him feel one degree less predictable than he might initially appear.\n\nClaire Danes, for her part, returns fitfully to the Homeland well. Her chin near-constantly aquiver, Wiggs is always on the verge of tears, a woman deep, deep in the midst of a nervous breakdown. But, in her scenes with Jarvis, she comes alive, activating the lethal attentiveness and brazen disregard for danger that made her the prize-winning journalist we\u2019re told she was.\n\n\n\nThis year has been a real mixed bag for me in terms of both #tvshows and films. Some gems, some thuds, and a few real stinkers.\n\nThe Beast in Me thankfully was not a stinker, nor even a thud. Alas, I wish I could call it a gem. It was merely good, which as Phillip Maciak points out for The New Republic might lead one to believe is just another sign of an industry-wide fall from grace; the beginning of the end of prestige television and its Golden Age of Streaming.\n\nI\u2019m not sure we need to stoop to such dramatic prognostication. Can\u2019t we simply enjoy the undeniably fantastic performances by the lead actors, appreciate the arc of the story for what it is, admire the craft of the filmmaking (it was well-lit and beautifully shot) and leave it at that?\n\nI think so. And yet\u2026I still can\u2019t help but wish this show had been more. More thrilling. More clever. More surprising. More thought-provoking once the TV has been switched off.\n\nAt least it impressed me more than some other shows in this sort of genre I\u2019ve seen over the past couple of years. It definitely rises above the usual pablum you must wade through on today\u2019s streamers. And for that, I am grateful."
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Marty McGuire martymcgui.re

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2025-11-18T12:02:43-0500",
    "summary": "\ud83d\udcd5 Finished reading Art & Fear by David Bayles, Ted Orland ISBN: 9780961454739",
    "url": "https://martymcgui.re/2025/11/18/120243/",
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gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

{
    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2025-11-18 09:23-0800",
    "url": "https://gregorlove.com/2025/11/to-read-year-of-the-tiger/",
    "content": {
        "text": "Want to read: Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong (ISBN 9780593315392)",
        "html": "<p>Want to read: <span class=\"p-read-of h-cite\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://gregorlove.com/isbn/9780593315392\">Year of the Tiger</a> by <span class=\"p-author\">Alice Wong</span> (ISBN <span class=\"p-uid\">9780593315392</span>)</span></p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "gRegor Morrill",
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2025-11-18 06:51-0800",
    "url": "https://tantek.com/2025/322/t1/modular-website-dns-cdn-webhost",
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        "text": "Important #indieweb lesson in #modular website setup this morning:\n\nKeep your DNS provider separate from your CDN separate from your webhost, so you can swap out any one of them as necessary, whether for economic or as it were today, reliability reasons. And make sure those services themselves don\u2019t depend on each other.\n\nThis is of course regarding the #Cloudflare #outage: \n* https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7\n* https://theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/18/cloudflare-outage-causes-error-messages-across-the-internet\n* https://the-independent.com/tech/cloudflare-down-twitter-not-working-outage-b2867367.html\n* https://bbc.com/news/articles/c629pny4gl7o\n* https://independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/nj-transit-down-app-cloudfare-outage-b2867457.html\n\n#CloudflareOutage #NJTransit #ChatGPT #Shopify #Dropbox #Coinbase #Twitter/X #modularity #devops\n\nThis is post 17 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts\n\n\u2190 https://tantek.com/2025/311/t2/indieweb-sessions-btconf-berlin\n\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e",
        "html": "Important #<span class=\"p-category\">indieweb</span> lesson in #<span class=\"p-category\">modular</span> website setup this morning:<br /><br />Keep your DNS provider separate from your CDN separate from your webhost, so you can swap out any one of them as necessary, whether for economic or as it were today, reliability reasons. And make sure those services themselves don\u2019t depend on each other.<br /><br />This is of course regarding the #<span class=\"p-category\">Cloudflare</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">outage:</span> <br />* <a href=\"https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7\">https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7</a><br />* <a href=\"https://theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/18/cloudflare-outage-causes-error-messages-across-the-internet\">https://theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/18/cloudflare-outage-causes-error-messages-across-the-internet</a><br />* <a href=\"https://the-independent.com/tech/cloudflare-down-twitter-not-working-outage-b2867367.html\">https://the-independent.com/tech/cloudflare-down-twitter-not-working-outage-b2867367.html</a><br />* <a href=\"https://bbc.com/news/articles/c629pny4gl7o\">https://bbc.com/news/articles/c629pny4gl7o</a><br />* <a href=\"https://independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/nj-transit-down-app-cloudfare-outage-b2867457.html\">https://independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/nj-transit-down-app-cloudfare-outage-b2867457.html</a><br /><br />#<span class=\"p-category\">CloudflareOutage</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">NJTransit</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">ChatGPT</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">Shopify</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">Dropbox</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">Coinbase</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">Twitter/X</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">modularity</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">devops</span><br /><br />This is post 17 of #<span class=\"p-category\">100PostsOfIndieWeb</span>. #<span class=\"p-category\">100Posts</span><br /><br />\u2190 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2025/311/t2/indieweb-sessions-btconf-berlin\">https://tantek.com/2025/311/t2/indieweb-sessions-btconf-berlin</a><br />\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e"
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Chris Aldrich boffosocko.com/author/chrisaldrich/

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2025-11-18T08:57:10-08:00",
    "url": "https://boffosocko.com/2025/11/18/rsvp-to-indiewebcamp-san-diego-2025/",
    "category": [
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        "text": "RSVPed Attending IndieWebCamp San Diego 2025The third ever IndieWebCamp San Diego with two days of independent open distributed web talks, breakouts, and hack sessions. Bring your website or setup a new domain on the spot.This has been one of my favorite events for the past two years, and after a rough 2025, this is a great way to cap off the year.\u00a0\nEven better, Tantek has already suggested a session on card catalogs that\u2019s right up my alley: https://indieweb.org/2025/SD#Session_ideas.\u00a0",
        "html": "<span>RSVPed</span> Attending <a href=\"https://events.indieweb.org/2025/12/indiewebcamp-san-diego-2025-jhCO6w8CyVHg\" class=\"u-in-reply-to\">IndieWebCamp San Diego 2025</a><blockquote class=\"e-summary\">The third ever IndieWebCamp San Diego with two days of independent open distributed web talks, breakouts, and hack sessions. Bring your website or setup a new domain on the spot.</blockquote>This has been one of my favorite events for the past two years, and after a rough 2025, this is a great way to cap off the year.\u00a0\n<p>Even better, Tantek has already suggested a session on card catalogs that\u2019s right up my alley: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2025/SD#Session_ideas\">https://indieweb.org/2025/SD#Session_ideas</a>.\u00a0</p>"
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    "author": {
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Become the Best, Self-Actualized Version of Your Trillionaire Self

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        "name": "Jared White",
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    "url": "https://jaredwhite.com/20251117/become-the-best-self-actualized-version-of-your-trillionaire-self",
    "published": "2025-11-17T22:58:08-08:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>What happens to a man when he wakes up in the morning, listens to a meditation app, does a quick workout, takes a shower, and looks in the mirror\u2026<em>and also he\u2019s a trillionaire?!</em></p>\n\n<p><strong>Way to go, my dude! Attaboy! You\u2019re crushing it today!</strong> \ud83d\udcaa</p>\n\n<p>Seems completely ridiculous. \ud83d\ude02</p>\n\n<p>My sense is that money, fame, power, success, art, family\u2026<em>none of it means a damn thing anymore.</em> It\u2019s like approaching the event horizon of a black hole. The forces of gravity will turn nature as you know it inside out. Nothing will make sense, because how could it; after all, if light cannot escape, how can your sanity?</p>\n\n<p>Now it\u2019s true nobody on earth is a trillionaire\u2026<a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/musk-could-become-worlds-first-trillionaire-as-tesla-shareholders-approve-giant-pay-package\">yet</a>. But it\u2019s starting to feel like that day is coming soon. And to <del>whet your appetite</del> melt your brain, here are some crazy stats about crazy money:</p>\n\n<ul><li>\u201cIf you had saved $10,000 every day since the first pyramids were built in Ancient Egypt, you would still only have a fifth of the average fortune of the world\u2019s five richest billionaires.\u201d (<a href=\"https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/facts-about-billionaires/\">Global Citizen</a>)</li>\n  <li>\u201c$1 trillion is roughly the same as the gross domestic product (GDP) of the Netherlands or T\u00fcrkiye. It is enough money to buy up all the shares of ExxonMobil (XOM), McDonald\u2019s (MCD), and Coca-Cola (KO)\u2014and still have millions left over.\u201d (<a href=\"https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0211/the-first-trillionaire.aspx\">Investopedia</a>)</li>\n  <li>\u201cTwelve people under the age of 30 made Forbes\u2019 2022 list of the World\u2019s Billionaires, including four Stanford dropouts, two food delivery magnates and a cryptocurrency whiz. Together, this rarefied group is worth $25.8 billion.\u201d (<a href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/colehorton/2022/04/05/the-worlds-youngest-billionaires-2022-12-under-age-30/?sh=7586d9ffe63b\">Forbes</a>)</li>\n  <li>\u201cIn 2022, around 13.05 percent of all billionaires in the United States were female. In total, there were 735 billionaires in the United States in that year.\u201d (<a href=\"https://archive.is/9OUKH\">Statista</a>)</li>\n  <li>\u201cThe odds of becoming a millionaire for middle-aged, college-educated Black Americans is 6.4%. For White Americans, it\u2019s 21.5%.\u201d (<a href=\"https://www.financialsamurai.com/chances-becoming-millionaire-by-race-age-education/\">Financial Samurai</a>)</li>\n</ul><p>I can\u2019t claim to know much about the world of high <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/finance\">#finance</a>, but I\u2019ll come right out and say it: I agree with people who believe <em>it should literally be illegal</em> to become a billionaire (let alone a trillionaire!). For that to have happened, many immoral and unethical things had to have happened to get you to where you are. Is it your fault or the system at large? A bit of both perhaps. All I know is that <a href=\"https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distribute/chart/#range:1990.1,2025.2;quarter:143;series:Net%20worth;demographic:networth;population:1,3,5,7,9;units:shares\">a world in which the middle-class is disappearing</a> while the mega-rich get richer at a staggering rate is a world primed for societal collapse.</p>\n\n<p><strong>But don\u2019t worry, Mr. Trillionaire.</strong> Your meditation app says with a few deep breathes and a purposeful, calm demeanor, you are ready to face the day and tackles any challenges which many lie ahead. <em>Attaboy!</em></p>",
        "text": "What happens to a man when he wakes up in the morning, listens to a meditation app, does a quick workout, takes a shower, and looks in the mirror\u2026and also he\u2019s a trillionaire?!\n\nWay to go, my dude! Attaboy! You\u2019re crushing it today! \ud83d\udcaa\n\nSeems completely ridiculous. \ud83d\ude02\n\nMy sense is that money, fame, power, success, art, family\u2026none of it means a damn thing anymore. It\u2019s like approaching the event horizon of a black hole. The forces of gravity will turn nature as you know it inside out. Nothing will make sense, because how could it; after all, if light cannot escape, how can your sanity?\n\nNow it\u2019s true nobody on earth is a trillionaire\u2026yet. But it\u2019s starting to feel like that day is coming soon. And to whet your appetite melt your brain, here are some crazy stats about crazy money:\n\n\u201cIf you had saved $10,000 every day since the first pyramids were built in Ancient Egypt, you would still only have a fifth of the average fortune of the world\u2019s five richest billionaires.\u201d (Global Citizen)\n  \u201c$1 trillion is roughly the same as the gross domestic product (GDP) of the Netherlands or T\u00fcrkiye. It is enough money to buy up all the shares of ExxonMobil (XOM), McDonald\u2019s (MCD), and Coca-Cola (KO)\u2014and still have millions left over.\u201d (Investopedia)\n  \u201cTwelve people under the age of 30 made Forbes\u2019 2022 list of the World\u2019s Billionaires, including four Stanford dropouts, two food delivery magnates and a cryptocurrency whiz. Together, this rarefied group is worth $25.8 billion.\u201d (Forbes)\n  \u201cIn 2022, around 13.05 percent of all billionaires in the United States were female. In total, there were 735 billionaires in the United States in that year.\u201d (Statista)\n  \u201cThe odds of becoming a millionaire for middle-aged, college-educated Black Americans is 6.4%. For White Americans, it\u2019s 21.5%.\u201d (Financial Samurai)\nI can\u2019t claim to know much about the world of high #finance, but I\u2019ll come right out and say it: I agree with people who believe it should literally be illegal to become a billionaire (let alone a trillionaire!). For that to have happened, many immoral and unethical things had to have happened to get you to where you are. Is it your fault or the system at large? A bit of both perhaps. All I know is that a world in which the middle-class is disappearing while the mega-rich get richer at a staggering rate is a world primed for societal collapse.\n\nBut don\u2019t worry, Mr. Trillionaire. Your meditation app says with a few deep breathes and a purposeful, calm demeanor, you are ready to face the day and tackles any challenges which many lie ahead. Attaboy!"
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    "name": "Become the Best, Self-Actualized Version of Your Trillionaire Self",
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