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Windy McHindenburg

@oldtrout.bsky.social
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Old. Gassy. Community Knitter. Pro-democracy.

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ᴅᴏɴ’ᴛ ᴘɪss ᴍᴇ ᴏғғ @chaclo.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
I hope something good happens to you today.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wear the special outfit. Eat dessert. Live while you're living. #QOTD
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world." --James Baldwin
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you've seen Live The Beach Boys The Rolling Stones Taj Mahal Eddie Money Huey Lewis and The News Santana Tom Jones Elton John Sha Na Na Jimmy Buffet
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Poor man with three daughters likes his home, but has to move.
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I don't do many shawls, but here is a Meet Me at Midnight, www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... and a shawl for my Aunt Norma in BFL hand spun, and a tiny shawl for a teddy bear: #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitsky
A large triangular shawl in shades of green with mosaic motifs, hanging from a tree branch against a background of fernsA triangular, striped shawl in blues, green, yellow, and gold, with a wide feather and fan edging. It's hanging against a massive tree trunk against a wooded background.A little fuzzy stuffed bear, viewed from behind, wearing a colorful striped mini-shawl in blues, red, and yellow. He's leaning up against a vase of flowers.
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
100 weeks of #ShowMeYourKnits! Congrats! Here is a Bluebird of Happiness to commemorate the day: The pattern is Bluebird of Happiness www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... #Knitting #Knitsky
A small, bright blue, hand-knitted bird resting in the sunshine amongst fern fronds
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Thee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 @urbanmodernism.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We are all guests in this world. One day we’ll leave for a place none of us truly know. Until then, be a good guest: be kind, help when you can, leave things a little better than you found them, and appreciate the beauty around you. Happy Monday. 🌱
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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE
 Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
#GoodTrouble
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
It seems I only use yellow as an accent color, but this project has four different yellow yarns in it - it's a pocket scarf, sized for a child: #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitsky This one is for Ukrainian orphans living in Romania. Link to the motif pattern in ALT Text.
A child's scarf in dark blue, with large pockets in stranded colorwork with yellow sunflowers and corrugated ribbing, displayed flat, lying on a blue box.
The motif is from the Delicious Autumn hat pattern:  
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/delicious-autumnA child's scarf in dark blue, with large pockets in stranded colorwork with yellow sunflowers and corrugated ribbing, displayed wrapped around the neck of a styrofoam head model.
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I don't use much purple, but I must've acquired some on sale at some point: #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitsky #strandedcolorwork
A hand knitted, stranded colorwork, shawl collared vest for a toddler, shown hanging outdoors in a wooded setting. The colorwork motifs are alternating bands of large stars and smaller diamonds, in mostly purple, with lilac contrasts and a turquoise "pop" color.
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Here's a lined cowl that I made a long while ago: #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitsky #strandedcolorwork
A handknitted, tight-fitting, stranded colorwork cowl with an allover geometric and somewhat floral motif, in bright blue and black.
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Here's a little Izzy Bear with a cabled sweater: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitsky #Knitting
A small knitted brown teddy bear standing against a stack of stranded colorwork sweaters, and wearing a yellow sweater with a simple cable running up the center of it.
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This month's stranded colorwork projects for donation: #showmeyourknits #Knitsky #strandedcolorwork
Three baby vests lying flat, each a different allover or repeated border motif in stranded colorwork. Shawl collars and ribbing in solid colors.Three stranded colorwork sweaters in browns, purple, and grey. Each a different style and motifs.A stranded colorwork hat with alternating vertical motifs and corrugated ribbing, lying flat. The colors are turquoise and black. Pattern is Hjalti Hat.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22/03/2026
I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
A (mostly) green Katie's Kep, which was the 2020 Shetland Wool Week pattern: #showmeyourknits #Knitsky #strandedcolorwork #ShetlandWoolWeek
A collage of three views of the same stranded colorwork beanie, which includes corrugated ribbing, geometric stars, and contrasting peerie border motifs, all in greens and yellows. The hat is shown flat on an indoor surface and also modeled on a styrofoam head in a wooded setting.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.
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Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
In America, we can't eradicate racism with law or policy. But we can make racism shameful again. Doing so is ultimately a political and cultural act, and it must be a conscious one. And it is an important part to restore some semblance of our liberal democracy. /fin
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Animals? Here's a bear in a seamless yoke sweater: #showmeyourknits #knitsky #strandedcolorwork
A handknitted, light-colored small teddy bear in a stranded colorwork, dark green sweater with an orange, yellow, and light green motif on the yoke. They're standing, propped up against a stack of other handknitted projects.
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I'm not normally a pink person... #showmeyourknits #knitsky #strandedcolorwork The pattern is Vairisle (A Hat) by Dan Lee www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
A hand knitted, stranded colorwork, earflap beanie in pink and purple, with a large purple pompom, modeled on a styrofoam head in a wooded setting.
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Stat wars", "Star Trek", "Dr. Who" or "Transformers".
Cartoon female robot dressed as a housemaid
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But did you Skeet about Bluesky thinking my ass is AI? 🇱🇨🇺🇸 @thepassionittwists.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
That's better.
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Here's a top-down garter stitch hat I designed that is made up of mitered squares. No seaming, contiguous construction (provisional cast on and picking up stitches, and mitered square w/short rows for the triangle portions). #showmeyourknits #knitsky
A hand-knitted beanie-style hat made of multiple, multi-colored (red, blue, yellow, and green) squares, laying flat on a wooden surface.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Always Listen To Learn @acridocarpus.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
James Baldwin: "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
My first two Gnomes: Pattern is Gnoodles by Sarah Schira www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... #showmeyourknits #knitsky #knitting
A collage of two photos, each of a small knitted gnome with tiny arms, a big hat, and a loopy beard. One has a red body and a green hat; the other has a brown hat and a green body with a stranded colorwork border showing a tree motif, photographed in an outdoor woodsy setting.
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Malcolm P. Johnson @admiralmpj.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Your to-do list for 2026 1) Pick a Campaign in your corner of the country. Pick a Democrat you like no matter what the level. 2) Staff or Volunteer for that Campaign. 3) Vote in that Primary and General for your Democrat or another Democrat. 4) Get that Democrat and other Democrats elected.
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Stace RN Resists 📎💙 OR @stacernresists.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Cardigans, you say? I just finished this child's cardigan last week - it was inspired by the Denys Martin pattern in the latest Kate Davies club: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitsky #Knitting
A child's hand-knitted cardigan sweater laying flat on a table. Dark green sleeves and trim and a stranded colorwork body with a large geometric/traditional allover motif in dark green and grey-ish tan.
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
A holiday knit from a long time ago - I knit this Tiny Window Cat for my son to take on a train trip at Christmas. You can also see, if you look closely, that there are knitted Christmas lights on the miniature tree. That's the entirety of my holiday knitting! #showmeyourknits #Knitsky #knitting
A very tiny hand knitted black cat looking up at a table-top miniature lighted Christmas tree
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Just finished this hat for donation. The pattern is Love in a Mist Hat: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... #Knitsky #knitting #strandedcolorwork
A collage of three photos of different angles of a handknitted beanie-style hat with an allover stranded motif, colored (greens, blues, and purples) in traditional Fair Isle style.
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I made this hat years ago, using yarn I spun from a fiber advent calendar: #Showmeyourknits #Knitsky #Knitting #StrandedColorwork
A hand knitted, beanie-style, wool hat modeled on a styrofoam head in a wooded setting. The hat is made with stranded colorwork in geometric motifs, and uses tonal green, deep red, and dark grey against a natural wool background.
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icookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 13/11/2025
This, I say as a long-time student of history and economics who holds an MBA, is correct:
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
These baby sweaters and vests will be going to Jordan an Lebanon for Syrian refugees, through Salaam Cultural Museum: #knitting #communityknitting #knitsky
Four handknitted baby-sized items spread out on a flat surface: one seamless yoke Icelandic sweater, a striped scrappy red-green-white sweater, a yellow and black vest with a bee and honeycomb motif, and a purple vest with orange highlights in the Fair Isle style.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 19/10/2025
"No Kings" illustrates the uncomfortable truth about US politics: That the > 50% of white US people that want to turn the US into a white ethnostate (their words) is a lot of people. But the > 40% of white US people that don't want this, plus > 50% of brown people and > 90% of Black people, is more.
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The Web Optimist @weboptimist.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
YES!
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Spooky socks for this week's #showmeyourknits! I made this pair for my son 12 years ago, using motifs from the "Deathflake Mittens" pattern: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... #knitting #strandedcolorwork
A pair of hand-knitted, stranded socks lying flat on a towel. Rainbow skulls on the legs and skull-snowflakes on the foot against a black background, with striped soles and a solid black heel.
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I don't know what these are. The edges are more gold in real life than in the photos. #fungi #pnw #HarstineIsland
A collage photo of dark brown mushrooms with gold/white edges.
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Wishing everyone a great Fall.
Cartoon strip that says: “Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.” Pictures show Humpty taking a nice fall walk with leaves falling around him, Humpty carving a jack-o-lantern, Humpty reading by a fireplace with a cat sleeping next to him, and Humpty picking apples.
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I just finished this brown, orange, and gold sweater for a little kid, and it's in Fall colors! #ShowMeYourKnits #knitting #knitsky #strandedcolorwork
A hand knitted, child-sized, seamless yoke sweater in the Icelandic style, with a geometric pattern at hem, cuffs, and yoke. Knit in dark brown, orange, brass, gold, and yellow yarns.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
My sister sent me this
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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Windy McHindenburg @oldtrout.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Something blue for this week's #showmeyourknits - Starnkeeker by @katedaviesdesigns.com, modified to fit a child: #knitting #knitsky #strandedcolorwork
A hand knitted child's vest with a large allover stranded colorwork motif of geometric stars and diagonal lines, and corrugated ribbing at the bottom edge. In three different blues as background colors and light grey for the pattern color.
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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Happy Disability Pride Month! It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, knee braces, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more! Store details below!
5 Oval shaped pins with gold outlines with an oval cutout in the middle with a yellow slideable star:

Spoons: Lavender background
Hunger Scale: Red background
Migraine Scale: Blue background
Speaking vs Non Speaking: Green background

The first one has SHE, THEY, HE on top. At the bottom there's HER, THEM, HIM. White background.Galaxy, Strawberry and Bat Knee Braces Galaxy and Moon Bunny Compression Gloves Fairy and Bat Convertible Bags
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