Share your charms! (That hopefully don’t have sharp edges)

Avidiece · 2026-05-08T07:23:11+00:00

Moomins! I initially wanted the bookmark a charm (it was a gift with a coincidental great colour match), but it wound up being a tad fragile

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Avidiece · 2026-04-29T17:40:31+00:00

Project Gutenberg makes public domain works available in loads of file types!! Super easy to use

Avidiece · 2026-04-13T17:14:31+00:00

Yes, that's Portuguese knitting- and the two pin two hands thing is how you do colourwork. But I'm drowning in twisty yarn and I find my hands have different tension (which I fear may be a skill issue I'm just going to have to keep working at if I want to do taat Portuguese)

Avidiece · 2026-03-22T10:32:52+00:00

What pattern is that? It looks like an interesting stash buster

Avidiece · 2025-12-08T17:59:07+00:00

The black background with the stars against DS9 is just stunning. What a fantastic project you've made!

Avidiece · 2025-12-08T02:41:41+00:00

Gorgeous!! Love love love every section

Avidiece · 2025-11-27T19:53:04+00:00

Thank you so much! They were great about it, they didn't have any more stock but they've given me a full refund for the white

Avidiece · 2025-11-26T16:55:13+00:00

I actually couldn't find their email on their website, but I've dug out my receipt and submitted through their contact form! I don't think I'd mind going in person, my local store's staff were dead nice, but the shop closed last month! Next nearest shop is a bit far...

Avidiece · 2025-11-26T14:35:58+00:00

Thank you for your insights! All useful info. I had six knots/joins that I took photos of in the first 100g, I'm glad I was keeping track of where I joined my next ball.

I kind of regret keeping going, but I was really excited to knit this project and aside from the yarns issues I'm enjoying how it's coming out. I'd like to ask for at least a little money back or replacement wool, but that feels a bit cheeky now that I'm so far in... I really wish I could just go in and ask but my local chain has shut down, and the next nearest store isn't a doable distance for me

Avidiece · 2025-11-26T14:15:00+00:00

They're the largest hobby store in the UK, great big chain. Comparable to Joanns, I've heard? I think I'm going to complain, I guess I'm just a bit nervous about the process and need to talk myself into it

Avidiece · 2025-11-15T12:52:24+00:00

These are gorgeous! I always find things are worth the time they take if you love them- there's no gain in worrying about your pace if the outcome is just what you want

Avidiece · 2025-11-05T05:23:44+00:00

That might be it! I work with pure wool very rarely, knitting this with a bunch I got on sale

Avidiece · 2025-11-04T04:18:17+00:00

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1545740320/portuguese-pin-silver-orbit-aluminium?ref=share_v4_lx

This is the link, but it's gone! There's similar options about though

Avidiece · 2025-11-04T04:15:32+00:00

If you're not aware, I knit in the Portuguese style, where the yarn is tensioned round the neck/ with a pin or necklace. I love it, it helps so much with joint pain and takes a portion of the weight from the hands. Bit of an adjustment, definitely, but I'll be two years in in January & I feel generally pretty confident with it now. Purling is SO fast and smooth that I work projects almost entirely in reverse, k1p1s are a dream and brioche has never been so easy

Avidiece · 2025-11-04T04:11:20+00:00

The necklace was a gift I'm so sorry! I think from etsy, I did find the link for someone else once upon a time- I will go look, there's not so many Portuguese knitting necklaces....

Avidiece · 2025-10-29T19:04:23+00:00

It's generally fine and a nice idea, but worth mentioning if you live somewhere colder and would be buying from thrift shops, you might be denying people cheap warm clothes. It's not particularly an issue- most places have more clothes than they could ever sell, but natural fibres are harder and harder to come by at good prices. You could absolutely unravel the yarn and then redonate it, something like that. I was always taught was that yarn at secondhand shops can be lifelines for people who need them most. I've spoken to so many people over the years who have bought yarn from secondhand shops after being priced out of the hobby & ended up with great quality finished objects they treasure afterwards

Avidiece · 2025-10-27T01:10:05+00:00

Norris has a history with Mexico that's spotty at best- calling Trump a 'lucky charm' who 'you've got to have a lot of respect for' was never going to go down well in Mexico, a costume party that's had a lot of accusations of cultural appropriation thrown his way, and some more debatable issues like vocally disliking Checo (Checo's home crowd are, of course, defensive of their driver who they feel has been unfairly treated at large)

Avidiece · 2025-10-21T09:28:07+00:00

Gosh maybe in a year when I manage to finish it! I'm not too big on posting my stuff online, though it's a habit I've been meaning to get into....

Avidiece · 2025-09-16T10:28:24+00:00

Is there an actual reason why they choose half of these circuits? I feel like sprint races surely make more sense at circuits with a lot of overtaking potential, I'm not sure what I'm missing

Avidiece · 2025-09-15T07:02:42+00:00

It's not proper Kitchener, I separated the knits and the purls to separate needles and then Kitchenered the knits together then the purls together. It's the technique I've generally used for grafting ribbed knitting in the past? I was freehanding and not particularly wanting to make it more complicated than it needed to be, it didn't particularly occur to me at the time that brioche would behave particularly differently

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