i don't know

[ID: a pair of purple knitted socks. there is red text stitched on the ankle areas: "i love you" on one pair, and "i'm glad i exist" on the other.]

i made socks!! they take a long time. but it feels very rewarding to carefully make things with my hands that bring warmth and protection. the words are from "the orange" by wendy cope.

the problem with being bad at mental math and also having my job is that today I saw that a machine would take 360min to equilibrate before I could use it and I was like "oh cool that's only 3 hours, idk why I felt like I had to start this at 9am, I better work on getting my samples ready" and then I went to check on it at 11am when the samples were ready and it wasn't even halfway done so I kind of shrugged and went to a meeting, still not done post meeting, OH WAIT 360min is actually six hours.

fuck.

In your defense, time-math is stupid.

time math IS stupid, thank you ❤️

being a writer leads to a genuinely helpful but also very stupid kind of mindfulness where you'll be having a sobbing breakdown or the worst anxiety attack of your life and think "okay, I really need to pay attention to how this feels. so I can incorporate it into my fanfiction."

There is nothing funnier than Ed making grossed out faces at Anne and Mary with the stabbing thing. We saw you do it too!!! We saw you giggling with a man’s sword rearranging your guts!!!! Honks on my horn. We saw you whore!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thinking about how ‘our flag means death’ is lowkey pirate fanfiction literally keeps me up at night

do you ever want to gently float up to someone and whisper “this isn’t a debate; i am actually educated on the subject and i’m telling you you’re wrong”

Yes and I would also like to gently float in general.

this is the most positive addition that has ever been made on my post

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imagine how much more fucked up the history of the world would be if eating someone's brains reliably conferred on you their memory and knowledge

just like breathing

starting a collection. please add on

Oh im so happy drawing them again 🥹🩵 💃🏻🕺🏼

Hmmm, I’m in the mood for something fun… perhaps a… poll? A fun little poll?

Disclaimer that none of these are that serious, they are just my personal opinions and if you like any of these things I hold no ill will towards you and hope you the same to me. If you think your crochet sweater looks rad as hell, that’s awesome! I’m glad you like it! If you think DPNs are the one true method for knitting in the round, godspeed to you.

I would love to hear your own crafting hot takes!

I do think that merino (while great) has hogged the spotlight too long! Especially as a spinner and knitter, I've really loved getting to use other wools that have different characteristics. Well worth exploring, if you have the resources.

(I also have a personal distate of most crochet garments. For me, it's a texture thing- I just don't like how a crochet fabric feel against me or drapes compared to knit fabric. I absolutely support other people making and wearing whatever they want. But I'm definitely going to leave crochet to non-garment use for myself.)

I think my biggest hot take is that many novelty yarns are over rated and honestly kinda useless. They're often a pain to knit with and the finished result just looks strange.

Fuck DPNs.

Crochet is definitely less… versatile when it comes to clothing. Great for hats, scarves, and gloves. And some fish-netty stuff, too. But yeah. It just doesn’t drape right most of the time. Of all the clothes patterns I have in my pattern stash, only a very small minority are crochet stuff.

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run me through 🫶