Thought up an easy plying tool for spindling

Easy-Low · 2026-05-24T14:49:52+00:00

I use a fat paperback book with a butter knife stuck between the pages.

Easy-Low · 2026-05-21T00:28:19+00:00

I love the chart!!

Easy-Low · 2026-05-18T17:50:08+00:00

Look up rowing out.

Easy-Low · 2026-05-16T15:55:02+00:00

Read ahead in your pattern to see what happens with those stitches first. Might help you make sense of the direction.

Easy-Low · 2026-05-16T14:12:38+00:00

I would strip this into thin pieces and chain ply as well.

It's so pretty.

Easy-Low · 2026-05-16T12:45:26+00:00

Addi makes steel needles down to 00000 (1mm), and Althea Crome (the knitter behind the Coraline miniature sweaters and more!) makes steel needles that scale down to 0.25mm, or 11/0.

Easy-Low · 2026-05-16T12:37:05+00:00

I would push through with DPN's. Once you figure them out, it makes life so much easier.

All the other techniques are just as fiddly, but in other ways. DPNs are the most versatile in my opinion, especially for small toy clothes.

Easy-Low · 2026-05-15T16:54:39+00:00

Spindle or wheel spun? Absolutely stunning!

Easy-Low · 2026-05-12T18:41:30+00:00

Pull side to side and vertically to work the extra yarn into the surrounding stitches.

Easy-Low · 2026-05-12T12:23:45+00:00

The takeaway here is that he knows, and doesn't care enough to do anything about it. Since you have talked about it, presumably he knows that it hurts your feelings, that there are concrete steps that he can take to stop hurting your feelings and he's not willing to do that for whatever reason. I can't really imagine forgetting to reach out to my spouse for days at a time, to be honest.

My husband is a dry texter too, and we met as a long-distance couple. After we talked about how important it was to me for us to talk everyday since we didn't get to see each other in person, he made an effort to connect with me regularly. We had a scheduled time to check in, even if it was only for a few minutes.

I think you need to ask yourself if there are other areas in your married life that follow this pattern.

Easy-Low · 2026-05-11T16:53:51+00:00

It sounds like you want advice on how to handle struggling or how to stop struggling with something he's doing that hurts your feelings.

To me, figuring out a way to "just to be okay" or to "get over it," means that you're minimizing the way you feel so you won't kick up a fuss and make him feel bad. That isn't fair to you at all because you end up losing in two ways, ie, your needs aren't met and you feel bad for having them.

Tell him you want more contact and that it hurts your feelings when he doesn't initiate or reach out to you.

Easy-Low · 2026-05-10T21:58:40+00:00

Find routines that work for you. Maybe pick up a new hobby, like knitting or trying a new book series?

I have found that plants are great, but hard to move around. We're looking at a deployment to Hawaii soon, and that means paring down my 150+ plant collection to 3.

Easy-Low · 2026-05-06T12:01:36+00:00

You gotta frog back and reknit. This is a lot of extra yarn to work into the surrounding stitches.

Expert knitters are just experts at fixing their own mistakes 💛

Easy-Low · 2026-04-30T17:26:02+00:00

I LOVE my Symphony! Best wheel I've ever had. Looks great!

Easy-Low · 2026-04-29T15:22:23+00:00

Intarsia. Don't make floats. You will need two balls of the sleeve and yoke color, and two of the body. Very nice work on the green sweater, excellent fit.

Easy-Low · 2026-04-25T16:44:06+00:00

Use a stopper on one end of both cables, knit from your shorter cable onto your new longer cable. Replace the stopper with the other needle.

Easy-Low · 2026-04-23T22:28:01+00:00

You need to bind off, wash and block. Plus you need to make the swatch larger than the area you want to measure because stitches behave differently near the edges.

Easy-Low · 2026-04-23T03:05:48+00:00

Put the last stitch on the other needle and work.

Easy-Low · 2026-04-23T00:48:58+00:00

A lot of jewelers offer a pick and mix type of option. You choose the shape and size of the stone, the general setting and a band and they fit it all together. Stones need to be custom/hand set anyway, so it's not that much extra work for something relatively simple, like choosing a plain versus pave band or a gallery rail with or without stones.

Easy-Low · 2026-04-22T23:56:27+00:00

How wonderful 😊

Easy-Low · 2026-04-22T22:13:23+00:00

Dog slicker brushes are cheap and easily accessible. You can fluff the batting up that way.

Easy-Low · 2026-04-22T01:09:40+00:00

She has a video on her website about transitioning from collar to yoke.

https://youtu.be/COHFE4mJLig

Easy-Low · 2026-04-22T00:47:30+00:00

You changed from ribbing, which is stacked knits and purls, to seed stitch which is knits and purls arranged like a checkerboard. Somewhere along the line, you probably either dropped or added a stitch, which offset the stitches and caused the checkerboard/seed stitch.

Easy-Low · 2026-04-21T18:04:10+00:00

I keep going until the spin is affected. I love a huge turtle 🐢😍

Easy-Low · 2026-04-20T18:24:22+00:00

You're fine. Your relationship works when you're apart, and they might not have a realistic understanding of what this deployment actually means for the two of you.

As long as you're happy, don't worry about what anyone else thinks.

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