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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Someday I will remember to tag this #knitting, or Bluesky with let me edit my posts.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just sitting at the bar, finishing one mitt and ready to cast on the other.

Simple fingerless mitt in pastel variegated baby alpaca with an off-white ribbed cuff. Pattern is a broken rib with no thumb.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Done and ready to block. Buckthorn cowl by Jen Lucas. The yarn is an unlabeled mystery ball from a friend. A favorite to make and wear! #knitsky

Rectangular project pinned for blocking. Top part is a simple lace pattern, lower part is stockinet. Tweedy shapes of red, blue, and green.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ta da! Color is not accurate; the main color is still dark brown.

Fingerless mitts in four colors. Dark brown, sage green, deep maroon, and a smudge of white. All from my leftovers. My own pattern, such as it is.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Aren’t stash busters just the best fun?

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Using up some bits and pieces. Thumbs coming tomorrow. #knitsky #wipwednesday

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I do Maryland flag colors. A lot.

Red, black, yellow and white! 9 hats, a water bottle holder and a pair of stranded mittens which I will never attempt again.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#WIPWednesday The phone camera doesn’t do it justice.

Cherry twist scarf in a delicious milk chocolate-colored cotton and alpaca blend from Miss Babs. (Aptly named “Billow”. It is heaven to the fingers!)

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#knitsky 15 weeks to go until our community craft bazaar. So far, I have made 13 earwarmers, 10 pairs of mitts/mittens, 6 hats and just 3 items of neckwear. This year I focused on things to mix and match.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

15 weeks to go until our community craft bazaar. So far, I have made 13 earwarmers, 10 pairs of mitts/mittens, 6 hats and just 3 items of neckwear. This year I focused on things to mix and match.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I finished this today and am in love with it.

Hand embroidered yellow jacket patch roughly 2 by 3 inches.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I can’t believe I saved this.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#showmeyourknits Shawls! I love to make ‘em, love to wear’em!

Beige triangle shawl in cables and garter stitch.

Sock yarn triangle in shades of blue and purple.

Smiling woman with short white hair and dangling earrings wearing a garter stitch shawl in shades of blue and warm brown.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#knitting #knitsky I love how people are sharing patterns they’ve used more than once. I love this Ann Norling pattern, and have lost count of the hats it’s inspired.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I have two, one for each knitting corner in our flat! (of course, my DH used to work for IKEA, so the whole place is IKEAfied.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My favorite kind of chaos, tho.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Mitt #2 on the needles, taking breaks to switch to a little patch I am embroidering. #Knitting #needlework #embroidery

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I love that description! It is perfect.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Enough left for one last pair of mitts.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I got some Ewetopia variegated yarn to go with a skein of an odd green and decided to do a bunch of mix and match items. Voilà! #showmeyourknitting #knitting

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Just sitting here in a coffee shop eavesdropping on two people talking excitedly about textiles and art. Resisting the urge to chime in. I have such great self-control.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

open.substack.com/pub/sterling... An essential reading list

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Trans History

A reading list

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I have 27 minutes before my drawing class starts. Should I spend it reading about the looming apocalypse or take a walk in the sunshine? Never mind, I think I figured it out.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The sword on the right-hand child makes it likely it’s a boy. The middle figure leans girl to my eyes and the one on the left leans ever so slightly male. At any rate, there’s nothing in the style of the dresses that is clearly gendered for that time. It’s so hard to take our 2026 lenses off!

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

All true, but I took Varley’s reaction as a cheeky commentary on Lady F’s horrible taste. Like my childhood pup who rejected Mom’s meatloaf.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Fashion historian here. It’s visual historical fiction/fantasy, like the music and the non-period dances. And I adore every delicious bit of it.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

open.substack.com/pub/susanstr... An absolutely beautiful read. Knitting knowledge not necessary. But if you knit, you will love it.

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The Knitting Tote Bag

Part three of why knitting mattered in my university teaching life.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Hans Mansson Goes to a Bar Mitzvah open.substack.com/pub/jopaolet... A little fun thing I wrote.

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Hans Mansson Goes to a Bar Mitzvah

A tale with a dash of truth

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I think if I had his job, I would be delirious from the smell for hours after getting off work.

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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

www.nature.com/articles/d41... “A lot of people have long regarded same-sex behaviour as an accident, or rare, or only in zoo animals,” says co-author Vincent Savolainen, an evolutionary biologist at Imperial College London. But “it’s part of the normal social life of primates”.

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Client Challenge

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Had me at Kirby. I love that little guy.

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Maybe it’s time for me to pull together an FAQ about pink and blue on my Substack. Post or DM me your questions and I’ll get started. Can we set a deadline of January 4? #FashionHistory

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Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

So was I. :) And there definitely were regional variations. In Disney’s Peter Pan (1952), Michael wears a pink sleeper. They recolored it for the modern release. And there were small German Catholic communities in Nebraska that still used blue for the girl color in the early 1980s.

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