#StephenWest

2025-10-22
2025-10-15
2025-09-24

🧶🧶 UPCOMING! 🧶🧶

Next week, #StephenWest's #WestKnitsMystery MusiKAL kicks off. This one has vibes of being an especially good one.

Shawl, 4 colors, mohair dare. US4, 24sts/4", fingering weight. Options to end soon, or go into schlanket territory. #YouTube support videos.

Greatly excited about this one! Anyone care to join?

ravelry.com/patterns/library/m

#KAL #WestknitsMKAL2025 #Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator @Crafters #Crafts #HandMade #SurfFeeds

2025-09-09

🧶🧶🧶 This year's #StephenWest shawl #MKAL is a good one:

🧶 4 high contrast colors
🧶 Solid or speckles work, as long as high contrast - great for stash-busting
🧶 Fingering weight, w optional "mohair dare"
🧶 Built-in "early exit" if running low
🧶 Has extender options, if you want a large "shlanket"
🧶 Starts in October, so syncs up perfectly w #FinishOrFrogAlong 😊

youtu.be/UUoZwty9DYA?si=N_260D

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West in colorful shirt holding dog and a bright green skein of yarn, the theme Mystery MusiKal in upper right
2025-09-06

🎶🎤🎶 Look who can sing! The multi-talented #StephenWest. This series, dubbed Shawl Songs, is to kick off the 2025 shawl MKAL. Cast on in early October, kits available now. I'm probably going to do this one. Anyone want to join me?

youtube.com/watch?v=i6Su_FE2yi

#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade #SurfFeeds

Stephen West standing behind music stand and mic, next to pianist at piano, his shawls draped everywhere
2024-10-17

Day 10. Finished the second clue. Two clues to go. 🧶 #knitting #mkal #stephenwest #stricken

Langes Strickstück in türkis und weiß
2024-04-14

Loving how this Mingling Daisies Shawl is coming out! And have seriously fallen in love with this 30% yak 40% merino 30% silk blend from Anzula Lana.

Just one or two more repeats of the three stripe sequence to cast off with an i-cord finish.

A very mentally stabilizing and clarifying knit - did a lot of good thinking during this one. Recommend!

#MinglingDaisiesShawl
#WestKnits
#StephenWest
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Close up of pink Mingling Daisies Shawl, with a three band repeat of broken rib, lattice and daisy stitches, four repeats doneLong shot of shawl laid out on the hospital bedAnother long shot of shawl on bed
2024-04-04

Fertig, fertig, fertig: riesig groß 280cm, schön leicht 257g, viel rosa- pink. Wird gleich ausgeführt.
#knitting #stephenwest

2024-03-17

Endlich auf einer langen Nadel: das hibernating-Tuch von #stephenwest mal schaun wie's weitergeht #knitting

Autoerotic DefenestrationdanielaKay@mastodon.cloud
2024-03-08

In a world full of pigeons, be the peacock :-)

#stephenWest #slipstravaganza

A knitting project, so far consisting out of a honeycomb pattern with black lines and the cells filled in neon rainbow colors.
Autoerotic DefenestrationdanielaKay@mastodon.cloud
2024-03-05

The 80s are back, baby 🤩

#StephenWest #slipstravaganza

A plastic bag full of yarn balls black ones and six different neon rainbow colors.
2024-03-05

@madgeface I do! I grabbed my just started #StephenWest #MinglingDaisiesShawl in a gray-pink Anzula Lana, and an extra (tangled) skein of it on the way out on the gurney. It's been so soothing and restorative to work on!

Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​dredmorbius@toot.cat
2024-02-28

@NoGods1936 Peter Adamson's "History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps", both primary and secondary (Indian and Africana) channels. Comprehensive...

Stephen West's "Philosophize This". Less comprehensive, more formal, and unfortunately of late, with advertising. But some solid material including coverage of topics / people I'd been unfamiliar with of late. Ethics of Care was a particularly impressive as a topic I'd been utterly unfamiliar with (July 2022): yewtu.be/watch?v=sxfbWdShtSo&l

Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds put out "Philosophy Bites" and a number of related podcasts ("Philosophy Sites").

David Runciman has a number of podcasts he's done with the London Review of Books, present is "Past Present Future", also a few on the History of Ideas, and a couple of standalone lectures. Uniformly excellent. Much of it concerns political thought, but it's very rarely enmeshed in current events. I find the latter tiresome generally. The context Runciman provides is both captivating and useful.

Wes Cecil has a series based on his community college course in Washington State. Informal, some bloopers that I've caught, but entertaining. yewtu.be/channel/UC9ff15w4ufvi (also as podcast subscription).

Carneades is another YT channel I've found good in the past: yewtu.be/channel/UC1VzCyqpmCaR

You can also find audiobooks of various philosophical texts, including of course Plato, also the histories by Bertrand Russel and Will Durant. Not podcasts per se but available on YouTube last I'd checked.

Hope this gives you a good start at recreating your library. And back up your subscriptions as an OPML list!!!

#podcasts #philosophy #PeterAdamson #DavidRunciman #StephenWest #NigelWarburton #WesCecil #DavidEdmonds

2024-02-23

Here we go, several bands of overall shawl pattern down, 3 or more to go! Yak is magic yarn - so strong I can't break it with my hands, so soft it feels much like cashmere. And that color over a gray base. Loving it!

#MinglingDaisiesShawl #StephenWest #WestKnits #Knitting @Knitting #KnittingPirate #Knitstodon #Knitterati #FiberArts #FibreArts #Maker

Overhead shot of patterned shawl in process on a circular needle, dusty pink color, eyelet, broken rib and daisy stitches
2024-02-17

Look at this... 👀👀👀!!!!

A sweater version based on the hugely popular #AuroraCabinShawl of the #StephenWest #WestKnits school of design.

As some of you might recall, I started knitting again and joined Mastodon, both at about the same time. The shawl was a marvelous knit -- lots of variation, 5 colors but always one at a time,tricks and techniques.

#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts

pin.it/hczmz9qRe

2024-02-14

Hello #Knitterati ~ FINALLY coming out of a months-long funk involving COVID, RSV, long hospital stays, and ginormous sleep, eg 15 hours a night... Yikes!

Back at this #MinglingDaisies shawl, #StephenWest #WestKnits.

So far, easy-ish with 3 pattern bands - mingling daisies, open lattice, broken rib. Will probably add extra band of all 3, for more length in back.

In Anzula Lana, a dreamy merino-silk-yak blend.

#Knitting @Knitting #KnittingPirate #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #Maker

The Mingling Daisies Shawl on needles, with yarn ball in a clear plastic bowl, a star-shaped clay (?) stitch marker, and one end of circular needle visible with lavender rubber hand as a point protector. Yarn is Anzula Yarns Lana, a fingering weight, in color Madam. Hand-dyed over a natural gray base, and incredibly soft to touch and yet shockingly strong - I cannot break the yarn with my hands.
2024-02-13

Ooh-la-la Fiber Folks, this yarn is a revelation! Anzula's hand-dyed Lana - merino, silk and yak. Yak!

It's like butter. And the strength! I cannot break the yarn with my bare hands, even though it's just fingering weight.

Re color - it looks to be dyed on a distinctly gray base. Don't know about other shades in Lana line.

WIP is #ChasingDaisies from #StephenWest #WestKnits.

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Anzula Yarns skein label frontAnzula Yarns skein label backClose up of two Anzula skeins - shawl will require threeChasing Daisies Shawl in progress - bands of broken rib, daisy stitch and a lattice with large holes
2024-02-01

I haven’t updated the #knittersofmastodon on my winter projects: churned out 3 #alaskahat s for myself and my niblings (not pictured) and a scrap yarn #StephenWest #gartermarler sweater.

I also drafted an essay about knitting, bc…it was time.

Two matching knit hats with pompoms and a tree patternSelfie of white femme person with glasses (me) wearing hat with tree pattern, looking pleasedMulti colored knit sweater laying on concrete in the sun
2024-01-25

En kestä kuin söpöjä nuo Vertices Unite swatchit ovat :meow_cry: :blobcataww:

#StephenWest #Westknits #VerticesUnite #knit #knitting #neulonta #shawl

2024-01-12

When the socks you've been knitting look so cozy you don't wait to block them but just put them straight on your feet... #knitting #knitsocks #stephenwest

photo of a pair of socks in orange and blue, handknit with a brick pattern

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