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This week’s pattern is courtesy of Modern Knitting. It’s a bit late for a Halloween costume but with some killer boots and a raygun this would be a perfect top for a Space Hostess, possibly some sort of Space Waitress or Space Stewardess. Here is a poorly done mockup showing how appropriate it is for visiting the distant future of 1986:

Remember when Space was this awesome place humanity was going to fill with boomerang-shaped floating diners and entire forests encased in glass instead of the howling void of endless nothing punctuated by massive amounts of energy nearly beyond our comprehension we keep futilely attempting to venture into? Aw well.

It’s a different sort of Space Madnes.s

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Aw, nuts. I was going to do a salute to the Men of Knitting, but didn’t have time to dig through my archives. Instead, I briefly proffer this snappy cardigan (the fellow on the left) for those who like their retro a tad more on the camp side. It’s less ‘sitting by the fire smoking a pipe’ and more ‘preparing to look cool in my glass boomerang-shaped house on the moon’.

Beehive Handknits for Men 01

True, it’s a little late to start knitting it up for this Sunday, but you can always surprise Dad in time Christmas!

Pipe Guy
‘Gee, that sounds swell!’

On a completely random note, here’s a group of people who dressed up like Ned Flanders, certainly a man who knows how to sport some knitwear:

We assumed the future would have more jet packs.

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