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y Karen Z Goodbye 2023 The holidays quickly speed by, and I did or didn’t finish mittens before the first snow and gifts before Christmas gatherings and find myself madly blocking just in the nick of time. Then suddenly the holidays are over, my project bag is empty, but new skeins have arrived. The year turns and I take a deep breath with the opening of a fresh calendar. Do many people still make New Year resolutions? I like to take this time to make some goals, including knitting goals. When I was a newer knitter and had begun to acquire some truly lovely yarns, I found that I just did not have time to knit them all! But I did have time to knit something, and I wanted that to be something fantastic. So, I made a list of designers whose work I kept finding myself admiring, and a list of my most fabulous yarns, and matched up a couple of projects. I had a lot of fun that year referring to my list and finally tackling some of those projects that challenged me. The next year, I refined my list and added some techniques I’d been wanting to try. I also submitted a pattern to a magazine. My first submission was rejected, but I learned a lot about organizing my notes, and I had done all the work needed to self-publish! Over the years, I have refined my list each January and found fresh inspiration. Some of those original ideas are still patiently sitting on the page, waiting to be accomplished. Others have been finished and become well-worn favorites. What should I add for 2024? • I know, I know, it’s long overdue: I’m thinking about finally trying that brioche thing. • That one skein of luscious, red, squishy cashmere and wool. It was my first “luxury yarn” purchase and was discontinued before I realized exactly how wonderful it was. It’s time to cast on. • My ever-knit-worthy son asked for a new sweater last year. The first one I made for him lasted from age 10 to waaayy too small, and I finally told him I would put it in his memory box instead of handing it down to his little cousins. I should definitely put him on my list. If I start planning in January, I could have one for him before next Christmas. • A beaded bag. I’ve sampled a very small beading project, but a beaded bag is what I really want to make. I have yarn for that, time to find the right beads. There’s a quick view of my knitting goals for 2024. If I showed you all of it, you might expect me to get to it; I have to leave room for some new discoveries! I’ll double down though, and use a hashtag #bmagknitgoals2024, so that if (I mean when!) I post something, you can find it. And if you use it, I’ll find yours, too and then we can all encourage each other! Hello 2024 40
By Uknitted Kingdom Willful Ignorance and Degeneracy. In part 2 of Emma Usifusa’s, “A Deep Dive into the Internet's most controversial knitting site: Ravelry”, at the 47:45 point; Emma introduces the subject of “a good old-fashioned case of homophobia”. https://youtu.be/BuIbiMS31zk?si=2QvxV8nZKdxCpTaS&t=2865 In this section of the video, Emma shows an image by Archie Bongiovanni (@grease_bat on X and @babywrist on Instagram). Ravelry commissioned the image “Pride” to use on the landing page of their knitting and crochet site during Pride month. As Emma states, some Ravelry users did not think anything of it; others loved it; and some hated it. Emma made it quite clear that those who did not approve of the image were homophobic. Emma is being naïve, unintelligent, willfully ignorant, or deliberately deceptive. I would argue it is the latter. To find out why Emma is being deceptive, why she, and Ravelry, are actually being homophobic, and why the Pride illustration by Archie Bongiovanni is far, far, worse than you initially thought; click on the link to read the article in full. Warning: contains drawings and concepts involving extreme sexual acts. The following article is not safe for work, children, or anyone who doesn't want a crash course in deviant sexual behavior and symbols! https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/68583327/willful-ignorance Crossword Answers: 41
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By Uknitted Kingdom<br />
Willful Ignorance<br />
and Degeneracy.<br />
In part 2 of Emma Usifusa’s, “A Deep Dive into the Internet's most controversial knitting site: Ravelry”, at the 47:45<br />
point; Emma introduces the subject of “a good old-fashioned case of homophobia”.<br />
https://youtu.be/BuIbiMS31zk?si=2QvxV8nZKdxCpTaS&t=2865<br />
In this section of the video, Emma shows an image by Archie Bongiovanni (@grease_bat on X and @babywrist on<br />
Instagram). Ravelry commissioned the image “Pride” to use on the landing page of their knitting and crochet site<br />
during Pride month.<br />
As Emma states, some Ravelry users did not think anything of it; others loved it; and some hated it. Emma made<br />
it quite clear that those who did not approve of the image were homophobic.<br />
Emma is being naïve, unintelligent, willfully ignorant, or deliberately deceptive. I would argue it is the latter.<br />
To find out why Emma is being deceptive, why she, and Ravelry, are actually being homophobic, and why the<br />
Pride illustration by Archie Bongiovanni is far, far, worse than you initially thought; click on the link to read the article<br />
in full.<br />
Warning: contains drawings and concepts involving extreme sexual acts. The following article is not safe<br />
for work, children, or anyone who doesn't want a crash course in deviant sexual behavior and symbols!<br />
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/68583327/willful-ignorance<br />
Crossword Answers:<br />
41
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