The Knitting Fiend

 

Wearing my Ray-bans
I like to stroll by sailboats,
pretend I own one.

 

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My friends and I got together and looked at old knitting magazines. We all laughed as we passed around this picture!

Then magazine fell into the hands of the woman who brought it to the party. She said, “Hey, I knit that sweater for my husband!” We laughed more.

Oh, we weren’t laughing at the sweater, which is beautiful. Mixing simple 1×1 rib, a few rows of garter stitch, what’s to laugh at?

No, we were laughing at the cool late 70s sunglasses, the hand on hip pose, the carefully groomed hair kept in place with plenty of hair spray, and the natty cuffs on the trousers. Yes, this is how Crockett and Tubbs would have dressed if Miami Vice¹ had been filmed in the Chicago.
 

From Bucilla Men Vol 21 1978

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On the home front

I’ve finally gotten around to updating my forum software for The Knitting Fiend Forum.

The forum had been running pretty well, with a nice list of participants. But then… It was overrun by spammers! Well, when it was first over run by spammers, SMF (who writes the software) was just starting to write new versions of the software but the release date was scheduled several months in the future. So, I had to wait. Well, the future arrived, but I’m afraid I was diverted and didn’t notice the new release was available.

Meanwhile, I had about 30 “subscribers” a day but it was 99% spam. It was way to difficult to check each one and identify the 1 real subscriber out of 100, so, I let the whole thing slide. (Ok… I’m a bad forum hostess.)

Yesterday, I discovered the newest version of the forum software has quite a few spam control features was available. And by quite a few, I mean, there are now 5 levels of spam control in series! I installed it.

So, if anyone wants to start posting at The Knitting Fiend Forum, feel free to do so. And let your friends know it’s back so people can start answering each other’s questions. I’ll be checking daily and answering what I can, so there will be at least one person answering!

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1. Yes, I know Miami Vice ran during the 80s.