It's moving day for the cats! They are still suspicious but they like hanging out with us on the bed.
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Can't believe we already found somewhere we should have added an outlet. So instead I drilled through the cabinets to run an extension cord from the one outlet we *did* put inside the cabinets, and now there's power for the shredder.
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Got the new litter boxes all ready for the cats to move in!
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ok, got the TV box mounted behind the TV, it only sticks out like 3 inches and still looks pretty good on the wall with no cables visible
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did you know you can just buy cup rinsers for your house??
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we also moved the couch in today!
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It's kitchen organizing day!
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I got the Frame TV hung on the wall, next up is to hide the box behind the TV.
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Lily insisted on getting a fancy doorknob for her office, but couldn't pick one out on her own, so I finally found this and put it in today!
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I had to swap the outlet for a recessed outlet because the printer is almost exactly the full depth of the cabinet 😅 I don't know how we cut it that close after building the cabinet specifically for this printer! Either that or the outlet could have been 3 inches higher and it would have been fine. Works fine now tho.
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I mounted this tiny Yololiv webcam on the back wall of Lily's office so she has a way to show off her wallpaper and desk on her livestreams!
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Best dish rack ever! I finished mounting the tray and built the rack above it. I think I'm still going to add a peg board to the left of the rack in order to be able to hang things from hooks.
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My Year in Sport, using data from my Strava, Swarm, and personal notes & recollections, assembled into a simpler summary on my personal site.
2025 activities according to Strava:
🏃🏻♂️1354mi + 160,077' hiking+running
👟 823mi + 119,453' running
⛰ 485mi trail running
🛣 337mi road running
🥾 526mi + 40,624' hiking
🧘🏻♂️ 8h27m yoga
💪🏻 some number of weight-lifting sessions (less than one a week)
🚲 4.6mi + 413' bicycling — only one ride all year somehow(?)
🪨 1 bouldering session (at Movement)
Races:
🏁 3 races, finished 2
🌳 12k Bay to Breakers 1:55:31 https://tantek.com/t5c61
⛰ 50k Skyline: 9:34:51 https://tantek.com/t5dQ1
2025 was a more difficult year than expected, in many ways, and it cut both the hours and frequencies of many physical activities.
My hours and frequency of yoga, weight-lifting, bicycling, and bouldering all dropped from 2024 to 2025. My goals for 2026 are to find sustainable regular rhythms for each of those, either by myself or with friends.
Despite that, I made several improvements in 2025 over 2024:
* Overall: 160,077' climbed, +9.4k' over 150,676' in 2024
* Running: 823mi + 119,453', +20mi +8.3k' over 803mi + 111,155' in 2024
* Hiking: 526mi just barely (+6mi) over 520mi in 2024
* Finished a 50k! First since mid-2023.
I have a few running goals for 2026:
* incrementally faster Bay to Breakers over 2025
* Broken Arrow 23k Skyrace, finish and ideally beat my 2024 time (6h52m)
* finish a 50k trail race, my fifth 50k
I don't have specific metrics goals, like total distance, or feet climbed, or any specific race times (other than beating last year’s times). Those are all secondary to my goals.
Based on how the past few years have gone, I believe these are reasonable goals, yet will take focus and hard work to achieve them.
Lastly, this personalized, #indieweb “year in sport”, reflects much more of what matters to me than any summary from an online service. It’s not perfect and doesn’t need to be. It’s a start and I expect to iterate and improve it next year.
This is post 4 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #yearInSport
← https://tantek.com/2026/003/t1/seek-2025-year-in-review
→ 🔮
Glossary:
Year in Review:
https://indieweb.org/year_in_review
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"html": "My Year in Sport, using data from my Strava, Swarm, and personal notes & recollections, assembled into a simpler summary on my personal site.<br /><br />2025 activities according to Strava:<br />\ud83c\udfc3\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f1354mi + 160,077' hiking+running<br />\u00a0\ud83d\udc5f 823mi + 119,453' running <br />\u00a0 \u26f0 485mi trail running<br />\u00a0 \ud83d\udee3 337mi road running<br />\u00a0\ud83e\udd7e 526mi + 40,624' hiking<br />\ud83e\uddd8\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f 8h27m yoga<br />\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffb some number of weight-lifting sessions (less than one a week)<br />\ud83d\udeb2 4.6mi + 413' bicycling \u2014 only one ride all year somehow(?)<br />\ud83e\udea8 1 bouldering session (at Movement)<br /><br />Races:<br />\ud83c\udfc1 3 races, finished 2<br />\ud83c\udf33 12k Bay to Breakers 1:55:31 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/t5c61\">https://tantek.com/t5c61</a><br />\u26f0 50k Skyline: 9:34:51 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/t5dQ1\">https://tantek.com/t5dQ1</a><br /><br />2025 was a more difficult year than expected, in many ways, and it cut both the hours and frequencies of many physical activities.<br /><br />My hours and frequency of yoga, weight-lifting, bicycling, and bouldering all dropped from 2024 to 2025. My goals for 2026 are to find sustainable regular rhythms for each of those, either by myself or with friends.<br /><br />Despite that, I made several improvements in 2025 over 2024:<br />* Overall: 160,077' climbed, +9.4k' over 150,676' in 2024<br />* Running: 823mi + 119,453', +20mi +8.3k' over 803mi + 111,155' in 2024<br />* Hiking: 526mi just barely (+6mi) over 520mi in 2024<br />* Finished a 50k! First since mid-2023.<br /><br />I have a few running goals for 2026:<br />* incrementally faster Bay to Breakers over 2025<br />* Broken Arrow 23k Skyrace, finish and ideally beat my 2024 time (6h52m)<br />* finish a 50k trail race, my fifth 50k<br /><br />I don't have specific metrics goals, like total distance, or feet climbed, or any specific race times (other than beating last year\u2019s times). Those are all secondary to my goals.<br /><br />Based on how the past few years have gone, I believe these are reasonable goals, yet will take focus and hard work to achieve them.<br /><br />Lastly, this personalized, #<span class=\"p-category\">indieweb</span> \u201cyear in sport\u201d, reflects much more of what matters to me than any summary from an online service. It\u2019s not perfect and doesn\u2019t need to be. It\u2019s a start and I expect to iterate and improve it next year.<br /><br />This is post 4 of #<span class=\"p-category\">100PostsOfIndieWeb</span>. #<span class=\"p-category\">100Posts</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">yearInReview</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">yearInSport</span><br /><br />\u2190 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2026/003/t1/seek-2025-year-in-review\">https://tantek.com/2026/003/t1/seek-2025-year-in-review</a><br />\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e<br /><br /><br />Glossary:<br /><br />Year in Review:<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/year_in_review\">https://indieweb.org/year_in_review</a>"
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"html": "<p>I officially retired on Friday, January 2, 2026. I finished the last tasks of my \u201ctermination\u201d that morning. I took the last load of stuff out of my office. I left my laptop at the tech help center. And I returned my keys to the Facilities office. The woman who took my keys thanked me for all I have done for the university over the years. And she congratulated me for getting out of \u201cthis hellhole.\u201d Her kind words about my many years at PSU made me cry.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i0.wp.com/cathieleblanc.com/wp-content/uploads/20260102_1154007E22198868089142040074.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"Comic of one woman handing keys to another woman. Text: The woman at Facilities who took my keys as I retire today made me cry with just a few kind words\" /></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, there have been several gatherings for the many people who were leaving PSU on January 2. At each of these gatherings, any kind words have made me cry. It was annoying. Although I am retiring several years earlier than I expected to, I am happy to be leaving. I am excited about the future. I have lots of projects I want to work on. And traveling I want to do. And people I want to see and hang out with. Retirement is going to be great. And yet, the tears haven\u2019t felt like tears of joy. I know part of that is the anger I feel that many of my colleagues who left \u201cvoluntarily\u201d on January 2 did so because they were lied to about the alternatives. I worry for my colleagues who are not as close to their desired retirement age as I am. I am sad that so many of PSU\u2019s best teachers and scholars no longer work at the University. These mixed feelings\u2013joy and excitement mixed with anger, worry, and sadness\u2013are partially responsible for my tears. But I began to notice that the tears spring up (present tense because they haven\u2019t stopped with my official retirement date) when people say kind things about my time at PSU.</p>\n<p>I had breakfast with Scott earlier this week and he recommended a podcast that he\u2019s been listening to. <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/all-there-is-anderson-cooper\">Anderson Cooper\u2019s <em>All There Is</em></a> is an exploration of grief. Scott particularly recommended the second episode \u201cGrateful for Grief\u201d with guest Stephen Colbert. I listened to it yesterday. Colbert is brilliantly insightful as he talks about how his life changed at 10 years old when his father and two older brothers died in a plane crash. A couple of his insights helped me to better understand my own mixed feelings about leaving PSU. Clearly, despite my happiness about leaving PSU, I am grieving. I think I am grieving the loss of an ending to my PSU career that coincides with the warm feelings that I have had about the university for most of my time there. I never imagined this is the way my time at PSU would end. This insight alone was helpful. But Colbert went on to talk about how people often don\u2019t know what to say to someone who is grieving. He said that when he was a kid, he felt alone in his grief because no one would talk to him about it. All he wanted was for someone to acknowledge his experience. That would have made him feel less alone. Humans just want connection to other humans, especially about events that are important to them. I think this is the main thing that makes me cry when someone says something kind about my retirement from PSU. They are acknowledging my long years of experience at the university, which makes me feel \u2026 seen? Less alone? Appreciated? I\u2019m not sure yet but the idea that the very act of acknowledging my experience is what makes me cry resonates. Colbert went on to say that our modern society has lost a lot of its rituals around grief. We no longer expect a surviving spouse to wear public displays of their grief for some set period of time, for example. Those rituals are mechanisms for public acknowledgement of the experiences of those who are grieving. <a href=\"https://lizahl.com/2025/12/24/resigned-no-relief/\">Liz wrote movingly</a> about the challenges of leaving the university at a time when the administration has ditched our traditions of acknowledging the contributions of those who are \u201cretiring.\u201d The lack of those rituals does make the leaving more difficult. Colbert then said that talking about grief, bringing it out into the open so that it isn\u2019t \u201csecret and weird,\u201d is so important in transforming that grief into something we can live with, or even be grateful for. Cooper gave the example of his mother telling the story over and over and over of how his brother died, almost like a litany. This resonates with me as well. For example, at a New Year\u2019s Eve party, my former colleagues and I talked about and dissected and analyzed situations and conversations from the last three years yet again. I remember thinking, even as I participated, that we were wallowing in the misery of what has happened. But Cooper and Colbert have reframed our discussions for me. We were working through our grief. We were connecting. We were acknowledging our shared experience. This will make us all feel less alone and allow us to perhaps get to the point where we are grateful for our grief.</p>\n<p>I have been thinking about this podcast a lot since hearing it yesterday, I am grateful for my experiences at PSU. I\u2019m working on being grateful for even the worst of them. For example, without the worst of them, I would probably not be retiring yet. And I am happy to be retired, looking forward to doing more of the things I love.</p>",
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And yet, the tears haven\u2019t felt like tears of joy. I know part of that is the anger I feel that many of my colleagues who left \u201cvoluntarily\u201d on January 2 did so because they were lied to about the alternatives. I worry for my colleagues who are not as close to their desired retirement age as I am. I am sad that so many of PSU\u2019s best teachers and scholars no longer work at the University. These mixed feelings\u2013joy and excitement mixed with anger, worry, and sadness\u2013are partially responsible for my tears. But I began to notice that the tears spring up (present tense because they haven\u2019t stopped with my official retirement date) when people say kind things about my time at PSU.\nI had breakfast with Scott earlier this week and he recommended a podcast that he\u2019s been listening to. Anderson Cooper\u2019s All There Is is an exploration of grief. Scott particularly recommended the second episode \u201cGrateful for Grief\u201d with guest Stephen Colbert. I listened to it yesterday. Colbert is brilliantly insightful as he talks about how his life changed at 10 years old when his father and two older brothers died in a plane crash. A couple of his insights helped me to better understand my own mixed feelings about leaving PSU. Clearly, despite my happiness about leaving PSU, I am grieving. I think I am grieving the loss of an ending to my PSU career that coincides with the warm feelings that I have had about the university for most of my time there. I never imagined this is the way my time at PSU would end. This insight alone was helpful. But Colbert went on to talk about how people often don\u2019t know what to say to someone who is grieving. He said that when he was a kid, he felt alone in his grief because no one would talk to him about it. All he wanted was for someone to acknowledge his experience. That would have made him feel less alone. Humans just want connection to other humans, especially about events that are important to them. I think this is the main thing that makes me cry when someone says something kind about my retirement from PSU. They are acknowledging my long years of experience at the university, which makes me feel \u2026 seen? Less alone? Appreciated? I\u2019m not sure yet but the idea that the very act of acknowledging my experience is what makes me cry resonates. Colbert went on to say that our modern society has lost a lot of its rituals around grief. We no longer expect a surviving spouse to wear public displays of their grief for some set period of time, for example. Those rituals are mechanisms for public acknowledgement of the experiences of those who are grieving. Liz wrote movingly about the challenges of leaving the university at a time when the administration has ditched our traditions of acknowledging the contributions of those who are \u201cretiring.\u201d The lack of those rituals does make the leaving more difficult. Colbert then said that talking about grief, bringing it out into the open so that it isn\u2019t \u201csecret and weird,\u201d is so important in transforming that grief into something we can live with, or even be grateful for. Cooper gave the example of his mother telling the story over and over and over of how his brother died, almost like a litany. This resonates with me as well. For example, at a New Year\u2019s Eve party, my former colleagues and I talked about and dissected and analyzed situations and conversations from the last three years yet again. I remember thinking, even as I participated, that we were wallowing in the misery of what has happened. But Cooper and Colbert have reframed our discussions for me. We were working through our grief. We were connecting. We were acknowledging our shared experience. This will make us all feel less alone and allow us to perhaps get to the point where we are grateful for our grief.\nI have been thinking about this podcast a lot since hearing it yesterday, I am grateful for my experiences at PSU. I\u2019m working on being grateful for even the worst of them. For example, without the worst of them, I would probably not be retiring yet. And I am happy to be retired, looking forward to doing more of the things I love."
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My Seek 2025 Year in Review:
* 101 new species observed (down from 141 last year)
Top three kinds:
* 64 new plants (down from 79)
* 14 new insects (down from 20)
* 8 new fungi
* 4 new challenge badges earned (down from 56)
July, June, February were the months I observed the most new species.
Last year: June, March, July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
As noted last year: https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works:
1. works without creating an account
2. works completely offline to identify species
3. adds new species to your local collection on your device
Those first two capabilities (no login wall, offline first) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 3 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
← https://tantek.com/2026/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport
→ 🔮
Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first
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"text": "My Seek 2025 Year in Review:\n\n* 101 new species observed (down from 141 last year)\n\nTop three kinds:\n\u00a0 * 64 new plants (down from 79)\n\u00a0 * 14 new insects (down from 20)\n\u00a0 * 8 new fungi\n* 4 new challenge badges earned (down from 56)\n\nJuly, June, February were the months I observed the most new species.\nLast year: June, March, July.\n\nSeek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.\n\nAs noted last year: https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review\n\nSeek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.\n\nMade by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works:\n1. works without creating an account\n2. works completely offline to identify species\n3. adds new species to your local collection on your device\n\nThose first two capabilities (no login wall, offline first) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.\n\nThis is post 3 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp\n\n\u2190 https://tantek.com/2026/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport\n\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e\n\n\nGlossary:\n\nlogin wall\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/login_wall\noffline first\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/offline_first",
"html": "My Seek 2025 Year in Review:<br /><br />* 101 new species observed (down from 141 last year)<br /><br />Top three kinds:<br />\u00a0 * 64 new plants (down from 79)<br />\u00a0 * 14 new insects (down from 20)<br />\u00a0 * 8 new fungi<br />* 4 new challenge badges earned (down from 56)<br /><br />July, June, February were the months I observed the most new species.<br />Last year: June, March, July.<br /><br />Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.<br /><br />As noted last year: <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review\">https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review</a><br /><br />Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.<br /><br />Made by the iNaturalist folks (<a href=\"https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app\">https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app</a>), Seek works:<br />1. works without creating an account<br />2. works completely offline to identify species<br />3. adds new species to your local collection on your device<br /><br />Those first two capabilities (no login wall, offline first) are what we should aspire to when we build #<span class=\"p-category\">indieweb</span> apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.<br /><br />This is post 3 of #<span class=\"p-category\">100PostsOfIndieWeb</span>. #<span class=\"p-category\">100Posts</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">yearInReview</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">iNaturalist</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">SeekApp</span><br /><br />\u2190 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2026/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport\">https://tantek.com/2026/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport</a><br />\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e<br /><br /><br />Glossary:<br /><br />login wall<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/login_wall\">https://indieweb.org/login_wall</a><br />offline first<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/offline_first\">https://indieweb.org/offline_first</a>"
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"published": "2025-12-31T23:49:59-0400",
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"text": "This is a retro-post. Jump scare!\nI sure have read a lot of 2025-in-review posts recently! I am impressed by all that you have accomplished.\nHere's my 2025 wrapped (in yarn), in 20 photos about my machine knitting this year!\nDescriptions and links below.1, 2, and 3: my machine and samples from my first workshop at the Brooklyn Textile Arts Center (TAC). Workshop day 1. Workshop day 2.\n 4 and 5: my first hats.\n 6: a Fair Isle patterned hat, made after disassembling and cleaning my machine carriage.\n 7: socks with hems too tight to wear\n\n 8, 9, and 10: three little guys! First little guy, second little guy, third little guy.\n 11: A bag for a power brick I made for a friend.\n 12: (Not-so-) secret first sweater.\n 13: A scarf from my workshop day in Berlin.\n 14 and 15: little green bow, little red bow.\n 16 and 17: my ribbed hand warmers, producer Amy's ribbed hand warmers.\n 18: A swatch for the knitalong sweater.\n 19: Finished knitalong sweater.\n 20: My current machine setup, with added ribber, 3D printed parts for the ribber cover and to cover the new AYAB electronics. Photo from this WIP sweater knitalong post.\nI feel like I should be knitting more and, sure, I should. But this is also a lovely set of accomplishments from August to the end of the year.\nThis is reflected, a bit, in the growth of my knitting setup.\n\nI got a knitting machine stand, so Amy and I don't have to fight over counter space for our fiber arts projects.\n At long last, I replaced the electronics with an AYAB interface board\u00a0and spent an incredible\u00a0 undocumented-on-my-blog amount of time making some badly designed 3D parts to replace the cover. These hold the row counter and AYAB board as well as keeping stuff and cats out of the machine.\n I found a new-ish-in-box KR-850 ribbing attachment on the electronic bay. The box was damaged in shipping, and it was missing its plastic cover, but I was able to 3D print a replacement ribber cover just fine. And now I can do ribbing!\nI'm looking forward to a lot more in 2026! Here are some ideas so far:\nI have acquired, but not yet used, a KRC-830 color changer. I'm excited to tinker with multicolor designs!\n I love Saga's sweater in Alan Wake 2, and there's a pattern for making it. I don't know about making the whole sweater, but I think it'd be fun to make something like a hat using the fair Isle design bits.\n I want to make a cardigan for myself of some kind. I don't yet know what kind! That's hard.\n I want to keep up with the folks in the machineknit.community, who are planning a whole 12-month set of online classes and meetups to skill-up and level-up.\nSee you in 2026. Happy knitting!!",
"html": "<p><i>This is a retro-post. Jump scare!</i></p>\n<p>I sure have read a lot of 2025-in-review posts recently! I am impressed by all that you have accomplished.</p>\n<p>Here's my 2025 wrapped (in yarn), in 20 photos about my machine knitting this year!</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/b8/05/05/16/d3fd3f51a8e5150590135518482f471cb43c862303eedf50c4ea4ace.\" alt=\"\" />Descriptions and links below.<ul><li>1, 2, and 3: my machine and samples from my first workshop at the Brooklyn Textile Arts Center (TAC). <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/08/02/182236/\">Workshop day 1</a>. <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/08/03/201439/\">Workshop day 2</a>.</li>\n <li>4 and 5: <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/09/08/machine-knitting-whats-up-with-that/\">my first hats</a>.</li>\n <li>6: a Fair Isle patterned hat, made after <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/09/22/machine-knitting-carriage-return-to-work/\">disassembling and cleaning my machine carriage</a>.</li>\n <li>7: <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/09/18/machine-knitting-forbidden-socks/\">socks with hems too tight to wear</a>\n</li>\n <li>8, 9, and 10: three little guys! <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/09/20/134528/\">First little guy</a>, <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/10/12/212748/\">second little guy</a>, <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/11/11/082149/\">third little guy</a>.</li>\n <li>11: <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/10/19/machine-knitting-a-bag-for-bricks/\">A bag for a power brick I made for a friend</a>.</li>\n <li>12: <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/10/20/machine-knitting-the-secret-sweater/\">(Not-so-) secret first sweater</a>.</li>\n <li>13: <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/11/09/143450/\">A scarf from my workshop day in Berlin</a>.</li>\n <li>14 and 15: <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/11/27/113507/\">little green bow</a>, <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/12/13/112707/\">little red bow</a>.</li>\n <li>16 and 17: <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/12/13/machine-knittin-moar-mittens/\">my ribbed hand warmers</a>, <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/12/02/machine-knittin-some-mittens/\">producer Amy's ribbed hand warmers</a>.</li>\n <li>18: <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/10/26/machine-knitting-sleeves/\">A swatch for the knitalong sweater</a>.</li>\n <li>19: <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/12/25/machine-knitting-sweater-knitalong-complete/\">Finished knitalong sweater</a>.</li>\n <li>20: My current machine setup, with added ribber, 3D printed parts for the ribber cover and to cover the new AYAB electronics. Photo from <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/11/22/machine-knitting-front-panel--looking-forward/\">this WIP sweater knitalong post</a>.</li>\n</ul><p>I feel like I should be knitting more and, sure, I should. But this is also a lovely set of accomplishments from August to the end of the year.</p>\n<p>This is reflected, a bit, in the growth of my knitting setup.</p>\n<ul><li>\n<a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/09/12/machine-knitting-taking-a-stand/\">I got a knitting machine stand</a>, so Amy and I don't have to fight over counter space for our fiber arts projects.</li>\n <li>At long last, I replaced the electronics with an <a href=\"https://www.ayab-knitting.com/ayab-interface/\">AYAB interface board</a>\u00a0and spent an incredible\u00a0 undocumented-on-my-blog amount of time making some badly designed 3D parts to replace the cover. These hold the row counter and AYAB board as well as keeping stuff and cats out of the machine.</li>\n <li>I found a new-ish-in-box KR-850 ribbing attachment on the electronic bay. The box was damaged in shipping, and it was missing its plastic cover, but I was able to <a href=\"https://www.printables.com/model/860667-brother-kr830kr850-ribber-cover\">3D print a replacement ribber cover</a> just fine. And now I can do ribbing!</li>\n</ul><p>I'm looking forward to a lot more in 2026! Here are some ideas so far:</p>\n<ul><li>I have acquired, but not yet used, a KRC-830 color changer. I'm excited to tinker with <a href=\"https://manual.ayab-knitting.com/1.0/how_to_knit/dbj_middle-color-twice/\">multicolor designs</a>!</li>\n <li>I love <a href=\"https://www.alanwake.com/story/sagas-sweater-pattern-knitting-guide/\">Saga's sweater in Alan Wake 2, and there's a pattern for making it</a>. I don't know about making the whole sweater, but I think it'd be fun to make something like a hat using the fair Isle design bits.</li>\n <li>I want to make a cardigan for myself of some kind. I don't yet know what kind! That's hard.</li>\n <li>I want to keep up with the folks in the <a href=\"https://www.machineknit.community/spaces/17045915/content\">machineknit.community</a>, who are planning a whole 12-month set of online classes and meetups to skill-up and level-up.</li>\n</ul><p>See you in 2026. Happy knitting!!</p>"
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"text": "Yeah, I'm retro-posting. Hello from the future, ding-dongs!\nThis 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.\nIn the previous installment, I wrote about failing to get a good neckline for this sweater.\nWell, I decided to try sewing it up as-is, rescuing dropped stitches as I went. After my hand-warmer adventures, I was a little more confident about how to sew up a ribbed edge.\nYes, that's a dropped stitch in the back of the collar. No, I haven't fixed it, yet!The process was slightly harrowing, but resulted in dropping only one stitch! What! Incredible!\nSo, of course, at this point I put in a box because I was afraid to finish it. I had intended this to be a gift for producer Amy upon her return from Berlin in early December. When she came home, we had other stuff going on, I got distracted, and I definitely wasn't constantly thinking about this unfinished sweater every day.\nJust finish the sweater, Marty!\nNo! Well, okay! I mean: sort of!\nWhat I\u00a0did\u00a0do was finish seaming the neck and shoulders before Amy left in mid-December to visit family. I packed it with a length of yarn and a tapestry needle, as well as links to the videos on how to finish the sweater.\nI gifted producer Amy a sew-it-yourself sweater kit. \ud83d\ude05\nIn truth, this was actually her idea. Several times she brought it up and I declined, insisting I would finish it, but eventually I relented.\nSo, the rest of this story is hers!\nOkay, uh, finish the sweater, Amy!\nShe did! After watching Carson's video, and finding another video explainer or two on mattress stitching, this was Amy's on-the-road project for December.\nBeginning to attach a sleeve.A sleeve half-attached.One sleeve fully attached.One sleeve fully attached, one half-done.Two sleeves attached!One sleeve fully seamed.It's done! -ish!She got it finished on December 24th and popped it in the wash.\nFinished and washed.A happy sweater model.On Christmas morning, she found Santa had delivered a perfectly decent sweater! A bit short in the sleeves, and there's that dropped stitch in the back of the collar, but it's recognizably a sweater! And, according to producer Amy, it is quite cozy and I have seen her wear it several times. Amazing!\nThanks for reading\nWhile I'm still somewhat embarrassed that I didn't finish the sewing-up on the sweater, I am really proud of how it turned out. I'm grateful that Amy graciously took it on as a DIY project. I certainly learned a lot, and Amy learned some new techniques, and we have finished a successful collab together.\nAnd it looks like a thing!\nThis feels like a pretty great project to have accomplished at the end of 2025. A year that has been panned by critics, and most everyone, alike.\nUntil next time!",
"html": "<p><i>Yeah, I'm retro-posting. Hello from the future, ding-dongs!</i></p>\n<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>In the previous installment, <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/11/24/machine-knitting-neckline--show-and-tell/\">I wrote about failing to get a good neckline for this sweater</a>.</p>\n<p>Well, I decided to try sewing it up as-is, rescuing dropped stitches as I went. After my <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2025/12/13/machine-knittin-moar-mittens/\">hand-warmer adventures</a>, I was a little more confident about how to sew up a ribbed edge.</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/31/f2/f3/f6/0485b8c75adaf235df59041276e6e06917dd26d789b8fb2298babf98.\" alt=\"\" />Yes, that's a dropped stitch in the back of the collar. No, I haven't fixed it, yet!<p>The process was slightly harrowing, but resulted in dropping only one stitch! What! Incredible!</p>\n<p>So, of course, at this point I put in a box because I was afraid to finish it. I had intended this to be a gift for producer Amy upon her return from Berlin in early December. When she came home, we had other stuff going on, I got distracted, and I definitely wasn't constantly thinking about this unfinished sweater every day.</p>\n<h2>Just finish the sweater, Marty!</h2>\n<p>No! Well, okay! I mean: sort of!</p>\n<p>What I\u00a0<i>did</i>\u00a0do was finish seaming the neck and shoulders before Amy left in mid-December to visit family. I packed it with a length of yarn and a tapestry needle, as well as links to the videos on how to finish the sweater.</p>\n<p>I gifted producer Amy a sew-it-yourself sweater kit. \ud83d\ude05</p>\n<p>In truth, this was actually her idea. Several times she brought it up and I declined, insisting I would finish it, but eventually I relented.</p>\n<p>So, the rest of this story is hers!</p>\n<h2>Okay, uh, finish the sweater, Amy!</h2>\n<p>She did! After watching Carson's video, and finding another video explainer or two on mattress stitching, this was Amy's on-the-road project for December.</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/e5/37/6c/e5/b592a041e029515f82d387bcae9fefbee69180b6e3de863f72f29802.\" alt=\"\" />Beginning to attach a sleeve.<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/dc/03/66/48/844e6302d8e7da4fe17149d9182997071fe46c648aefe3f990261036.\" alt=\"\" />A sleeve half-attached.<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/1d/f2/f1/3e/46392ed81fd8f9dcd250a23c4cc8ebb74bb8fa92739898ce3c9135b7.\" alt=\"\" />One sleeve fully attached.<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/3c/8f/d4/e4/3141c88eca6c3b948660a0d449e36dd9c41984a1aaf5353b69d7c7ec.\" alt=\"\" />One sleeve fully attached, one half-done.<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/80/99/64/24/53e2d0bcdd2559f6bb96a02817a6dd4345856ea2ba7d5461b8b00a58.\" alt=\"\" />Two sleeves attached!<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/22/61/e7/f3/9833a72aa10bf8f5b748ef206e8a5b1bac6d42ec273485f36323f148.\" alt=\"\" />One sleeve fully seamed.<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/3c/11/d0/d9/5be6559c997dcfbf46e56d7395656d0540cc9f6cb6228724d67ce42f.\" alt=\"\" />It's done! -ish!<p>She got it finished on December 24th and popped it in the wash.</p>\n<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/e9/d6/55/39/358cde1f2849916039c19239e24d63382a504edf9809de1f648d9623.\" alt=\"\" />Finished and washed.<img src=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/46/45/5a/9b/06c321c1efe060f7da55eed6540c0c0993abfaa67367c0bb1ae0fb35.\" alt=\"\" />A happy sweater model.<p>On Christmas morning, she found Santa had delivered a perfectly decent sweater! A bit short in the sleeves, and there's that dropped stitch in the back of the collar, but it's recognizably a sweater! And, according to producer Amy, it is quite cozy and I have seen her wear it several times. Amazing!</p>\n<h2>Thanks for reading</h2>\n<p>While I'm still somewhat embarrassed that I didn't finish the sewing-up on the sweater, I am really proud of how it turned out. I'm grateful that Amy graciously took it on as a DIY project. I certainly learned a lot, and Amy learned some new techniques, and we have finished a successful collab together.</p>\n<p>And it looks like a thing!</p>\n<p>This feels like a pretty great project to have accomplished at the end of 2025. A year that has been panned by critics, <i>and most everyone</i>, alike.</p>\n<p>Until next time!</p>"
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Want to read: The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin (ISBN 9781668034903)
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