If it’s good enough for the news shows, it’s good enough for QueerJoe. Here’s a look back at another amazing year of knitting, queer issues and personal growth. What were your top moments for the past year?

Top Moments 2018

Mastered Illusion Knitting

QueerJoe let go of his fear of ignorance

Realized I NEVER want to dye yarn for a living

The knitting community lost a beloved member

QueerJoe admitted something that turned out to be incredibly controversial about another knitter…who knew

New Scholarship Fund set up in Millard’s name

11th Annual Men’s Spring Knitting Retreat was a success

I recognize that I’ve acted in a very misogynistic way…huge growth moment

QueerJoe knits his first dog sweater and it’s fantastic!

Three-part series on progress – the benefits and the downfalls

Best September yet! – First ever Northeast Men’s Fall Knitting Retreat, new interchangeable needles that changed my knitting life and more

QueerJoe moved to a WordPress platform (still migrating parts of the old blog!)

Historic election

Did I miss any of your favorite/most controversial/helpful/educational/etc. blog posts this past year?

Current Knitting

On my current Project, the Briyoke Sweater by Stephen West, I had almost finished the raglan shaping when I realized I should probably count stitches to make sure I was on-track for setting up for the body and I realized I had made a mistake early on in the raglan increases.

The increases should have looked like this:

But they looked like this:

<sigh> – But fortunately, I love knitting brioche, so I ripped back to the lighter section of knitting and re-started the raglan shaping.

At the same time, I decided to make the dark stripe at the bottom of the yoke a single color and switched the green yarn to be the fore-ground color on the raglan and body of the sweater and I’ve moved to one needle and it’s moving much faster.  I’m liking it all much better, so everything turned out well.