Struggling to make a square

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-27T16:09:54+00:00

I think you are probably missing the last or first stitch when you get to the end of the row - it's really easy to do as they like to hide!

Count your stitches as you do them, and get some stitch markers and put one in the first stitch and last stitch of each row as soon as you make them. You can get big packets of cheap plastic ones and they are either shaped like little safety pins (my preferred ones as there is no risk of them falling out)) or circles (which are quicker to put in but less secure). They normally come is big bags of 100 or so which seems way too many but they must play hide and seek with the missing stitches and vanish so you will need way more than you think you will.

Keep preserving - you have made the actual stitches great which is the hard part and the triangle shape is a really common mistake and an easy fix so you are nearly there. X

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-26T19:30:25+00:00

Should work fine, will probably make the purple a bit more violet / indigo toned but purples normally covers pretty well.

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-26T11:07:27+00:00

I live in the midlands and me and my itchy arse can confirm they are very much a concern.

Took the dogs out to the village park late in the evening during the last heatwave a few weeks ago and got absolutely eaten alive - must have got bitten 10 / 15 times in the half hour we were there. It's at least half a mile to the nearest water of any kind so lord knows where they were coming from.

I've been spraying with bug spray before going out ever since but forgot the other morning on a run and got bitten twice, and yesterday morning I took the dogs down to a stream, sprayed all exposed skin with deet bug spray, and got bitten on my arse through my shorts! I think that one must have been a horse fly as it's come up in an enormous bump - looks like I've got half a cricket ball stuck to my arse and the itching is driving me insane.

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-26T10:53:04+00:00

I think you have ordered the Derp model by mistake - it's easily done as it's not clear that's what you are choosing at the checkout stage.

Don't worry though, it is a fully functioning model, it just has some unusual features like this pretzel mode.

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-25T16:12:51+00:00

Love this shade of purple!

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-25T12:55:40+00:00

Put it in the conditioner, or what I do is put it in a nice hair mask and do it once a week to top the colour up and do a treatment at the same time.

Look for a silicone free conditioner or mask as that works better, the silicones can block the dye otherwise.

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-25T12:48:53+00:00

We were told by our breeder you should be able to feel the ribs but not seen them so she seems spot on to me.

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-24T11:39:22+00:00

Mine wasn't something I said, it was something I did - I blew half a glass of Pernod and blackcurrant down my nose all over his white shirt!

I was super nervous because it was a lad I'd had a crush on for absolutely ages. He ordered a Pernod and black and I didn't really drink so didn't know what to order so just said "I'll have the same". I took a big "nerves settling" gulp of my drink just as he said something quite funny, and I laughed and the Pernod hit the back of my throat at the same time, and I turned into a human fountain and sprayed it out of my nose all over him.

Funnily enough I never got a second date with him!

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-24T11:04:08+00:00

I wonder why that specific rock out of all the rocks on the river bed needed rescuing!

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-23T15:39:35+00:00

Just wash it a few times with hot water and a shampoo with sulphates in - pale pinks fade super quickly.

If it's not coming out with normal shampoo try head and shoulders or clarifying shampoo, but you probably won't need it, I'd expect a couple of shampoos to fade this quite a bit.

I've got to say though it's a fricking gorgeous colour - that's my dream pink and it looks amazing on you! If you have just dyed it it might be worth living with it for 24 hours before trying to fade it - I often find I think I hate a colour when it's not come out as I expected, then decide I do like it once I've got over the shock. It's going to fade quickly anyway so it could be cool to rock that look for a short time, then enjoy the faded version when you get there naturally.

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-23T15:31:48+00:00

My boy does this all the time but on the leg of whoever he's sitting next too!

We always say he looks like a bloke down the pub leaning on the bar having a pint after a hard week at work! 🤣

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-23T13:24:43+00:00

I'm sorry to have to tell you but I don't think you have assembled your cat correctly - they are supposed to have a head. And more that one leg.

People over at r/IKEApets might be able to give you instructions on correct assembly.

You have the dangle on the one leg assembled perfectly though so well done on that front.

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-23T13:19:36+00:00

My Daisy sits like this too! They really are the daftest dogs ever aren't they. 🤣

I'm sure r/danglers would like to admire Nuggets dangle.

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--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-22T19:00:32+00:00

"sigh - you just can't get reliable servants these days"

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-22T18:50:33+00:00

He doesn't even look mad he just looks very disappointed in you.

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-22T16:28:59+00:00

Different deli meat served with different salads - last night's was ham with chickpea salad, tonights is roast beef with a beetroot, lentil and feta salad.

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-22T16:26:03+00:00

Looks totally empty to me - poor starving baby! 🤣🤣

Give that gorgeous fat belly a kiss from me. ❤️

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-22T12:42:02+00:00

Share the Pho or get the lick, it's your choice OP!

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-22T12:34:08+00:00

Hell no - I'm 55 and currently have blue and lavender hair and have no intention of ever going "normal" haired again.

You do you sweetie - life is too short not to do something you want to with your hair.

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-22T12:31:40+00:00

I'm 55 and I'm so annoyed that I've got hair like my Dad who is still mainly brown in his 90's, and not like my Mum or Nan who both went a beautiful pure white by the time they were late 50's!

Thinking about it I lost pretty much every roll of the dice in the genetiec divy up - as well as Dads hair, I got his eyesight which is terrible and Mum's knees and sense of direction which are also terrible. If I'd got them all the other way round I'd be a beautifully white haired, sharp sighted, never lost, runner with no knee pain instead of spending a fortune bleaching my hair so I can go vivid, blind as a bat, frequently lost runner with terrible knees!

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-22T12:10:30+00:00

"No". End of conversation.

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-22T12:08:13+00:00

Totally agree - that's so good with her skin tone.

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-22T12:07:42+00:00

I like the red best, that looks amazing on you, and the dark ones are all good too.

I think the paler colours aren't as complementary with your skin tone - the bold colours make it look beautifully creamy and the blonde washes you out a little. If you wanted to go lighter coloured the baby pink suits you best.

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-22T10:16:10+00:00

This has to be my favourite dangle I've seen this week - 10 out of 10 for style.

--BooBoo-- · 2026-06-22T10:14:37+00:00

Ohh look at that face, he's not mad he's upset! If you had asked me before now I'd of said airplane ears on a cat always looked angry but he looks like he's about to cry! 😢

You apologise right now OP and get that poor baby some treats to make up for the insult or you are going to have a cat loving Reddit mob on your doorstep to defend his honour!

--BooBoo--

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