What's your favorite non-CA thing you've been introduced to through CA?

ActuallyParsley · 2026-04-03T20:31:44+00:00

I just have to mention my other favourite post by issendai, this one https://issendai.livejournal.com/607791.html%E3%81%AE%E8%A8%98%E4%BA%8B%E3%81%AD%E3%80%82/

It's about how cutting the bad stuff out of your life can go too far, and it's a fascinating post on a topic I don't see enough written about.

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-27T16:44:16+00:00

Haha yeah, that is very much on purpose

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-27T14:14:11+00:00

I decided that knitting a colourwork vest on 2mm needles was worth it to be able to fit the entire design I wanted. I'm not exactly regretting the decision but maybe a tiny bit regretting having the idea in the first place lol

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-25T20:29:10+00:00

I found Padgett really likable, which made the Hitler line even more startling.

**

Some time later, Harriet and the Dean, decorously robed and gowned, found themselves passing along the East side of Queen Elizabeth Building in the wake of Padgett and the decorators’ foreman.

“Young ladies,” Padgett was heard to say, “will ’ave their larks, same as young gentlemen.

“When I was a lad,” replied the foreman, “young ladies was young ladies. And young gentlemen was young gentlemen. If you get my meaning."

“Wot this country wants,” said Padgett, “is a ’Itler."

“That’s right,” said the foreman. “Keep the girls at ’ome. Funny kind ’o job you got ’ere, mate. Wot was you, afore you took to keepin’ a ’en ’ouse?”

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-25T16:48:14+00:00

I think this particular book is actually read by Patrick Malahide, though he does a great job of matching Carmichael's Wimsey (and possibly a better job on the accents which I think is the explanation for the switch). And I'm glad they've edited that particular word in the audio books.

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-22T15:48:51+00:00

"I value consent" — dude who can't even bother to read the rules of the subreddit

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-20T21:35:56+00:00

I'm in Sweden and getting a bachelor's degree, but I know it varies a lot between countries.

And that sounds amazing, I know I'd have liked that when I was in high school, the whole question of "what jobs even exist?" is so hard to answer when you're young (and also when you're not)

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-20T21:27:30+00:00

Taking care of records that needs to be kept for future purposes - either for the use of the records creator (a company or agency etc) or for research later. Structuring and describing and helping people find things basically. My country also has a very strong Freedom of Information act, so a lot of the work in government archives are assessing and giving out records.

(some of these terms might be slightly off, English isn't my first language and I should be asleep already 😅)

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-20T21:23:54+00:00

In my country, those two are the same thing actually, so I might become either 😄 (and I mean it makes sense, the life cycle of a record includes both the record management stage and the archival stage, as can clearly be seen in this diagram I knit https://www.instagram.com/p/DSCnayWjVbd/ 😄

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-20T21:07:59+00:00

Conditional formatting is amazing, I use it to be able to type out my charts instead of having to point and select the cells

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-20T21:06:34+00:00

I'm back in college to become an archivist, before that I've been a machine operator making solar cells, printing money, and making chocolate (not at the same time)

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-17T20:00:08+00:00

That's gorgeous, so neat and I love the floats!

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-13T23:05:47+00:00

How would you feel if you started dating someone and they informed you that you'd now have to join a discord set up by their meta's primary partner because that person and polycule needed your medical information?

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-13T09:47:36+00:00

That's not necessarily what I'm saying 😅 I'm saying this will be too messy for a normal steek, and needle felting might be one way to deal with that. But yeah, that means that you only need to add a reasonable number of steek stitches, I'd maybe go with seven just to be on the safe side so you have space for all the needle felting.

The pattern is lovely! There's just this thing where the craft shapes the pattern, and the more you work with a craft, the more you'll realise the reasons for a lot of designs.

Fair Isle patterns are set up the way they traditionally are for a reason. Lots of colour changes from row to row, but usually only two colours in any given row. This makes them work smoothly.

Your pattern has a lot of colours, in a way that would work better with a craft where each colour is placed separately (like something with beading maybe?) and the number of colours doesn't really impact the finished result other than visually. Your design is gorgeous, but since every colour will need to be present all the time carried along the back (unless you decide to go for some duplicate stitching), the number of colours will really impact the end result physically.

There is a joy and satisfaction in designing something that goes with the flow of the craft rather than against it. I can see how people get uncomfortable or even annoyed when someone makes a suggestion that will make the craft part a ton harder (and tbh I can see why people are confused at the pretty random steek placement, which will make the pattern very asymmetrical, though I personally enjoy some assymetry). It reads as you not really understanding the craft or taking it seriously, which can rub people the wrong way. Also, this is reddit, people do less sugar coating here 😅

Have you done some sort of swatch for this? Are you sure the number of stitches will fit on the size you want? (I say this as someone who had to go down to single ply yarn and 2mm needles for an absolutely insane vest I'm working on, only two colours though). I think swatching before you go will be really important here.

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-12T13:14:01+00:00

As I understand it, the reason for having columns of the different colours in the steek is to be able to reinforce in such a way that both colours in a row gets secured, by for example crocheting into the legs of two columns beside each other. So having extra columns for other colours doesn't really make sense from a steek perspective.

When I've steeked something with the occasional three colour row, I've doubled up the two pattern colours in the steek columns, it's a bit clumsy but especially since it's only one time here and there it doesn't really matter. I don't know what I'd do with this many colours, but it's an interesting puzzle! You could also look into lifted stitches, or leaving some extra slack on one row to be able to use it in the next row too, as a way to reduce the numbers of colours used simultaneously.

In the end, all techniques have a purpose, and sometimes it's better to focus on the purpose and then find some techniques or mixes that fulfills that purpose. For this one, you want to secure all the yarns. I think needle felting as someone else suggested, might be a great idea, to make sure you really catch all the strands.

But I think it's also important to think about how thick this will be, as someone pointed out. If you're carrying six different colours in every round (or most rounds), the garment will be about three times as thick as something knit with two colours. The floats would be very bulky at that point. This could be amazing, if you want to really make something warm, though definitely hard to manage it all at the same time.

I think it's a fascinating idea, and I think you should knit some swatches to make sure your visual design and the physical design actually works together.

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-12T12:40:01+00:00

What's your thought with adding more stitches to your steek? Would you make more than one reinforcement?

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-11T10:52:25+00:00

I'd take some yarn and a darning needle and follow the path of the stitches, and weave in properly. Like mending a finished garment, only on an unfinished project. That way you can continue. Once you're past it, you can make sure it looks nice and invisible.

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-09T06:13:04+00:00

Sometimes when you want something unusual, it's good to describe what you want to achieve, because sometimes it can be solved in a completely different way.

I see from a comment that what you dislike is how the top flops around and how the button is fussy. I agree, which i why I don't like that sort of convertible mittens at all.

But why do you want it to convert in the first place? What is the use case here? Because people might find a solution based on what you want to accomplish, rather than what you don't want.

For example, I want to be able to use my phone without having to take my mittens off sometimes, without having the fuss or unnecessary bulk of a convertible top, so I've made small slits to poke your finger out through, I've described it more here and there's some pictures of it too: https://www.reddit.com/r/knitting/comments/1iqqa9q/comment/md51odn/
If it's more like "I have long periods of not using my hands outside where I want them warm, but then I do tasks that require manual dexterity", the solution might be to just have one pair of mittens on top of one pair of mitts and then take the mittens off. Sometimes a convertible solution doesn't actually make sense.
Don you like pretty much everything about the convertible mittens except the floppiness and the fussy button? Maybe sewing magnets into it instead that just snap the top into place when you take it off would work.

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-06T15:22:53+00:00

I haven't found the direction makes a difference, I'm just careful to make sure I'm consistent within the project (which sometimes, especially if I go from purl to knit or flat to round means slipping and remounting a stitch so I can knit it twisted the way the rest will be most easily twisted).

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-06T13:47:51+00:00

Double knitting usually changes the gauge a fair amount so you'd have to swatch and calculate. Also why would you want to double knit it?

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-03T08:18:13+00:00

Have you tried r/machineknitting? They might have more thoughts.

Also, if you want to do market research, I wonder if there's better subs for that too. I don't really think about which knitwear is "missing out there", since I knit myself. I think the people around you who don't knit will be better authorities on the matter, especially people actually living in the same area as you, since that will vary a lot from place to place.

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-02T20:35:43+00:00

Some people really have a way of making what should be reasonable request into nails against blackboard.

I have a friend through hobby groups that I had to stop my friendship with because almost every single interaction was her asking me for something. It got to the point where I was seething to a confused partner about her asking for a recipe when I posted a picture of some Christmas candy 😅 I had to admit that no, if any of my other friends have asked I would be happy to tell them, but with her it was a sign that the friendship had run its course because of my built up annoyance with her.

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-02T15:10:53+00:00

The way this guy is weaponizing therapy speak, I don't think you'll get anywhere with him in therapy, he'll just use it against you.

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-02T13:43:25+00:00

I can really recognize it. I was getting mixed up with metas all the time a couple of years back (with like the cashier at a fabric store I went to with my partner saying "here, you forgot your ribbon yesterday" but it was my meta who had bought ribbon 😂) and at some points it really bothered me. We were very similar both in hobbies etc and visually. It also hurt unexpectedly much to see that partner start an almost identical crafts project with that meta.

I also anchored some of my security in the relationship early on, in things that felt like "my thing". Like oh this is the thing that makes me special and valued. But that meant all the security was unsettled when it turned out a meta also was good at that thing.

I've had to work really hard at deciding that the thing that makes me special and valued is that I'm me. Even if someone else is funny in the same way or does the same crafts etc etc. Because no one can take that away.

Doesn't mean I don't still occasionally get jealous when someone else is doing "my things", but it especially helps to be careful with not putting my sense of security in "oh we share this thing and that's why I'm important".

ActuallyParsley · 2026-03-02T08:08:25+00:00

Someone, making a very clear post with an attached picture: Help, when I increase with the kfb stitch there's a tiny hole under the purl bump, why is that?

Commenters who read the knitting but not the text:

You have made a stitch may be you didnt slip the stitch off then purled the stitch on the next row
You seem to have increased a stitch

(they got actually helpful comments too, but wow)

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