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Chase Harpole
@chaseharpole.bsky.social
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I love knitting and designing my own knitting patterns! You can see what I've released here: linktr.ee/chaseharpole
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Motorcoach, the green eggs and ham of knitting patterns, is out now on Ravelry and Payhip! You can knit it pretty much anywhere, using any yarn, and any needles. Even with a fox in a box!

Use link in bio to take you to Ravelry, Payhip, or the free Details and Gallery doc!

#knitsky #knitting 🧶
A man stands wearing a multi-colored cowl that drapes like a shawl. The cowl is made using the drunken garter variation of the Motorcoach knitting pattern Three people stand wearing Motorcoach cowls. All three are wearing ones made using the Regular Garter directions. From left to right, a man is wearing a marled cowl. A woman is wearing a striped cowl, and another woman is wearing a cowl made in a variegated yarn. A woman wears a two-color fade Motorcoach cowl. The cowl is purple on the top and fades to a variegated yellow. A man and woman stand wearing a cowl. They are both wearing three-color Motorcoach cowls. Nathan wears one that is faded and Cara wears one made of color blocks with a center color stripe.
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jamespurvis.bsky.social
Not as much knitting time as I wanted this week but I’m making up for it this morning adding my last colour stripe to this cowl. This is all my own handspun and I can’t wait to wear it!

Pattern is @chaseharpole.bsky.social ‘Motorcoach’

#KnitSky #knitting #HandSpinning #HandSpunYarn 🧶
This picture shows garter stitch knitted cowl in progress on the needles. It’s knitted in approximately DK weight handspun yarn and has three colours visible: a deep red, a rich teal and a mustard yellow. The needles are being held in the knitters left hand while the photo is taken and the knitting rests on the knitters jean clothed legs. In the background we can see a bit of a rug and beanbag
November 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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maxread.info
genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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robinbombus.bsky.social
I tried to play a game about a cute mouse knitting sweaters but ended up fighting Godzilla-sized spiders, freezing to death because I couldn't find my way home, and forming a mutual aid network with a menagerie of aging woodland creatures
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
chaseharpole.bsky.social
Next up in the Motorcoach sample parade is the one I made for myself!

This pattern draws its name from this sample because I think it looks like charter bus upholstery

It is knit using the "Drunken Garter" instructions to create a unique fabric that breaks up variegation!

#knitsky 🧶
A man smiles into the camera wearing the Motorcoach cowl. This one is a size Large knitted using the Drunken Garter instructions. A man looks off to the side in a white t shirt with their hands on the Motorcoach cowl. The man holds up the Motorcoach cowl A view of the Motorcoach cowl from the back
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
chaseharpole.bsky.social
Motorcoach allows you to truly play with your yarn. Unbound from needing to work with a certain needle size or yarn weight you can focus on creating some really wild fabrics and yarn combinations!

This is a lace-weight boucle and sock yarn made in simple garter stripes

#knitsky #knitting 🧶
Natalie is wearing a Motorcoach cowl. She is smiling off to the side. Her cowl is knit in two colors and appears to glow. She is wearing a gray cardigan with the cowl over top. A close up of Natalie's Motorcoach cowl. It is easier to see the striping effect. One yarn is a fingering-weight sock yarn and the other is a lace-weight alpaca boucle Another view of Natalie's Motorcoach drape. Natalie smiles into the camera with her hands behind her back. Her Motorcoach cowl drapes over her cardigan.
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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jamespurvis.bsky.social
Places you can knit: at the best coffee shop in your hometown, or possibly the world - Darkroom Espresso.
It’s so great to be back here and have a little time to relax, knit and drink great coffee

Pattern is @chaseharpole.bsky.social ‘s ‘Motorcoach’ cowl

#HandSpunYarn #HandSpinning #Knitting 🧶
This picture shows some deep reds garter stitch knitting which has just had some teal contrast rows work in at the edges. The stitches are still live on the needle and the knitter has paused mid row, holding the needles up in one hand. The yarn is hand spun. In the background we can see a white tabletop, a flat white coffee and a some cake with a fork on a small plate
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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dyemadyarns.bsky.social
We’re hosting @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social with Craft Raccoon & Queer Craft Society next Tuesday at @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social! Come craft with us and talk about what crafting, activism, and resisting the current regime looks like. 8pm!
Advert for Crafting Resistance with Shannon Downey organized by Dye Mad Yarns, Craft Raccoon, and Queer Craft Society at Two Dollar Radio (1124 Parsons Avenue, Columbus, Ohio). Event is November 11th, 2025 at 8pm. Her book, Let’s Move the Needle: An Activism Handbook for Artists, Crafters, Creatives and Makers, is pictured.
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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jamespurvis.bsky.social
Places you can knit: on the train home. This is is @chaseharpole.bsky.social’s
‘Motorcoach’ cowl using up some of my handspun that was in search of a project. Something gaugeless like this is perfect for those one offs I spin, and I’ll get to wear them too 😊🧶
#knitting #HandSpinning #HandSpunYarn
This picture shows a red triangle of knitting that has been worked in a handspun yarn made with different shards of red blended together. The needles are yellow metal knit pro circulars. You can see that ball of yarn is resting on a train tray table and the back of the seat in front is visible
November 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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jessefarrar.com
rip Dink Chunky
November 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
chaseharpole.bsky.social
Phil's Motorcoach cowl was my proof of concept that this pattern is truly gaugeless

Knit with two worsted weight yarns held together for a super bulky gauge, it worked to the same dimensions as a fingering weight gauge sample

Check out Motorcoach now using the link in my bio

#knitsky #knitting 🧶
A man stands with his thumbs in his pockets. He is wearing dark pans and a blue t-shirt. He is wearing a Motorcoach cowl that is knit on a super bulky weight gauge A close up of the Motorcoach cowl. This is a size Medium. It is made holding two worsted weight yarns marled together A view of how Motorcoach drapes from the back.
November 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
chaseharpole.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! Here's a scary sweater carcass showing off the difference between the original Tomnooki design and the new redesigned version!

You can find out more details about the redesigned pattern using the links in my bio!

#knitsky #knitting 🧶
A man wearing a Tomnooki sweater hold up part of another one. The one they are holding up is the original version of Tomnooki. There are differences in the yoke and neckline of the original versus the redesigned version. Another shot of the original Tomnooki compared to the new version that the person is wearing
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
chaseharpole.bsky.social
A quick video tour of Motorcoach, my gaugeless cowl knitting pattern

Want more information? Check out the Ravlery page here: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Or the Payhip page here: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#knitsky #knitting 🧶
October 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
chaseharpole.bsky.social
Last day to pick up the gaugeless cowl pattern Motorcoach for a discounted $5 USD using code BUSRIDER

Its an amazing way to showcase variegated yarn! I love the way garter stitch breaks up color pooling

#knitsky #knitting 🧶
A woman stands in front of a tree with her arms raised and to the side. She wears a midriff shirt a jeans a cowl called Motorcoach knit in a variegated yarn A close up of the Motorcoach cowl on the model. This is knit on a fingering-weight yarn on US 5 needles in the medium size of the pattern. A woman hold up the Motorcoach cowl pattern so that the viewed can see how the object is constructed on the bias. This version is made using the regular garter directions.
October 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
chaseharpole.bsky.social
Sometimes I need the knitting equivalent of a palette cleanser. A pattern that you can go to your stash pick up some yarn and cast on all in the span of a couple of minutes

Enter Motorcoach, a gaugeless cowl pattern

Use code BUSRIDER on Ravelry or my Payhip store to pick it up for $5 USD

🧶 #knit
A group of people stand on a grassy lawn in front of a group of hedges and yellowish school building. The group is all looking towards the camera. Each of them are wearing Motorcoach, a gaugeless cowl knitting pattern. Knitted cowls lie on grass and intersect with one another like a jigsaw. These are the seven samples for a knitting pattern called Motorcoach
October 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
chaseharpole.bsky.social
Motorcoach, the green eggs and ham of knitting patterns, is out now on Ravelry and Payhip! You can knit it pretty much anywhere, using any yarn, and any needles. Even with a fox in a box!

Use link in bio to take you to Ravelry, Payhip, or the free Details and Gallery doc!

#knitsky #knitting 🧶
A man stands wearing a multi-colored cowl that drapes like a shawl. The cowl is made using the drunken garter variation of the Motorcoach knitting pattern Three people stand wearing Motorcoach cowls. All three are wearing ones made using the Regular Garter directions. From left to right, a man is wearing a marled cowl. A woman is wearing a striped cowl, and another woman is wearing a cowl made in a variegated yarn. A woman wears a two-color fade Motorcoach cowl. The cowl is purple on the top and fades to a variegated yellow. A man and woman stand wearing a cowl. They are both wearing three-color Motorcoach cowls. Nathan wears one that is faded and Cara wears one made of color blocks with a center color stripe.
October 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
chaseharpole.bsky.social
Gotta do some virtual screaming into the void about how much I hate Instagram. It's truly unbelievable how bad it is.

I have less than 100 followers on Tiktok and I get TWICE the engagement on my stuff on Tiktok than I do IG.

Its wild how much IG WANTS me to not use it to promote my work
October 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
chaseharpole.bsky.social
My beautiful boyfriend finished his first ever garment, The Modern Knit Polo!

I'm so impressed that he took on a fingering-weight garment as his first garment AND that it turned out as beautifully as it did

Check out his project page here: www.ravelry.com/projects/Nat...

#knitsky #knitting
A man wears a rust colored polo with a light purple finish at the tip of the polo collar. He stands with arms crossed in front looking over his shoulder. He is standing in front of a yellow bush. A man leans against some railing. He is wearing The Modern Knit Polo. He is smiling with arms crossed in front. A close up shot of the details of The Modern Knit Polo. It shows the sleeve cap and the polo collar A close up of the back view of The Modern Knit Polo.
October 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
chaseharpole.bsky.social
Taylor, wearing the sample for Tomnooki Lite, taught me to knit and also inspired me to start designing knitwear!

It was my absolute pleasure to design this version for her using this palette inspired by the vest Isabelle wore in AC: New Leaf

#knitsky #knitting 🧶
A woman wears the knitting design Tomnooki Lite. She has one hand on her hip. The sweater is a dark green. The sweater also features a light green and a tan as an accent color. She stands in front of a bush and street lamp. A woman sits on a step. She wears Tomnooki Lite. Her hands are in her lap. The back view of Tomnooki Lite.
October 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
chaseharpole.bsky.social
Geoff is talking about the test knit for my upcoming pattern The Elkhorn! Go check it out!
October 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
chaseharpole.bsky.social
October is here so time to revisit my 2021 pattern the Elm Street Hoodie!

The test knits for this pattern were so cool and Bluesky is apparently very limited in what types of files you can upload so here are the acceptable ones lol

#knitting #knitsky 🧶
A woman wears a gray Elm Street Hoodie with red and green accents. She has a Freddie Kreuger claw hand and the the hood is over her head. A man wears a gray Elm Street Hoodie with green and red accents. A woman wears a brown Elm Stret hoodie with cream, yellow, and orange stripes.
October 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
chaseharpole.bsky.social
I appreciate everyone's support on the launch of the Tomnooki redesign and Tomnooki Lite!

Revisiting this design felt like a celebration. I could feel myself pour into it the joy, knowledge, and wisdom I've gained since I first released it.

#knitsky #knitting 🧶
A person wears the Tomnooki sweater pattern, a circular yoke sweater made from the top down using stranded colorwork with ladderback jacquard.
September 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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crushbort.bsky.social
reporter: donald trump has announced that americans must evolve into a race of hardy metal men via mandated injections of liquid mercury. your response?

klobuchar: *visibly straining to remember line consultants came up with* donkey kong donald’s economic policies are “bananas” for small business
April 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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hereandloathing.bsky.social
Change of pace for my most recent project— test #knitting @chaseharpole.bsky.social ‘s Elkhorn Sweater! It’s delightful.

Here’s part of the back panel. Knitting it up in the very soft and squishy Plymouth Yarn’s hearty homestead tweed. 🧶
Brown tweed knitted panel laid on the couch and held down with a remote (lol) and my hand
September 28, 2025 at 4:07 AM
chaseharpole.bsky.social
The Forty Love test knitter showcase concludes with Claire!

I love the versatility she is showing in how Forty Love can be styled! It looks just as good as a layering piece as it does on its own.

Check out all of the pattern details using my link in bio!
Claire wears the Forty Love knitting pattern, the cabled sweater vest, over a button up shirt with slacks. Claire wears Forty Love on its own A close up view of the sweater vest with simple cabled details and contrasting stripes A view of the back of Forty Love
September 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM