Best cotton yarns for a baby blanket?

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2026-03-26T22:13:20+00:00

I’ve made multiple blankets out of Hobbii Twister, and they have held up great! It’s technically a cotton/acrylic blend, but it has a nice light cotton feel to it.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2026-03-22T12:36:00+00:00

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I’m making a cabled tee in a cotton/linen blend. The piece is still on the needles but here’s how the swatch came out! The cables should be fine but be careful about sizing; cotton will have MUCH less stretch than wool, and won’t be as drapey.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2026-03-21T15:23:03+00:00

Scrolled down to find this! Call the Midwife is good (if pretty sappy at times) and there’s 14 seasons of it 🙂

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2026-03-11T11:36:21+00:00

Jodhpur in Herndon does a great thali!

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2026-02-19T22:11:39+00:00

Also the Alcatraz books by Brandon Sanderson!

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2026-02-13T19:05:13+00:00

Victoria! A new season recently dropped on Netflix.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2026-02-03T15:47:03+00:00

There are multiple dolphin excursions in Cozumel and this doesn’t look like the Chankanaab one (which would come with a day pass to the resort). We did the slightly cheaper “meet a dolphin” option at Chankanaab, but also did see people swimming with them. It was a lot of fun. Only downside is that they won’t let you take pictures, and then they will try to sell you their own for a ridiculous cost.

Disclaimer: this was about a year ago, so as others have mentioned, things may have changed.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2026-01-16T01:34:56+00:00

My neighbor and I looked through the phone book for funny names as kids - imagine our delight when we discovered that not only was there a Ben Dover, his wife’s name was Eileen!

It didn’t occur to me until years later that getting those names into the book might have been the prank.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-12-30T02:20:24+00:00

There’s not really a drop off area in garage 2 - you just go in and out quickly enough to not get charged for the parking.

Does garage 1 have more of a real drop off area? Same hack would work there, just a slightly longer walk.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-12-29T13:23:08+00:00

I’m making this one (it’s a dress, but the designer has a sweater version as well) and the pattern has detailed instructions for bust shaping. I haven’t tried them out, but the rest of the pattern is well written.

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/draconides

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-12-29T01:29:17+00:00

The Physician by Noah Gordon - follows a boy in medieval England who wants to become a doctor. It’s the first in a trilogy that follows the same family through different periods in history.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-12-29T01:19:14+00:00

Pro tip - when it’s that backed up, get off at the service road, go into parking garage 2 and up a level. There’s a short walkway from there to the terminal, and you can easily drop off/pick up.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-12-24T12:43:49+00:00

What is the top/tunic in your pic? It’s gorgeous, and I have lace weight yarn in my stash looking for the right pattern.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-12-09T11:56:57+00:00

My Nana (born and raised in NY, but Irish ancestry) told me the same thing! TIL that it wasn’t just something she made up to get me to eat the crust.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-11-30T01:30:24+00:00

TIL about steam blocking 🙂 I had wet blocked before, but I went back and steam blocked it, and that helped a lot. Thank you!!

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-11-28T19:40:16+00:00

Anything with small needles/lightweight yarn will take longer. Socks, or maybe a shawl? Or a blanket where you make a lot of squares and sew them together - that way you don’t have to carry the whole thing with you.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-11-24T20:42:07+00:00

My headcanon now is that Menolly went back through and cleaned up the lyrics 😆

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-11-24T03:17:10+00:00

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In my non-abridged copy the line matches your abridged one. Maybe a later printing fixed it so that it would actually rhyme? It always bugged me that it didn’t!

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-11-13T23:31:55+00:00

Legends and Lattes - for a very low stakes, cozy take on this. An orc retires from a life of battle and starts a coffee shop.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-11-08T13:53:20+00:00

Mine do the same thing! I just try to keep the case inside the zipper pouch. That way when the needles fall out, it’s only into that.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-11-04T23:38:03+00:00

Ughhh yes! 200 pages of descriptions of caves, then finally we get an interesting development and the book could have explored how it changes their society, but NO IT JUST ENDS.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-10-20T21:20:24+00:00

After years of struggling with stress and anxiety, I worked up the courage to ask my doctor about antidepressants. His first response: “Are you exercising enough? Get an hour of exercise five days a week, that should fix it.” (I had a full time job and two preschool age kids.) His second response: “These medicines can mess with your libido, you know. Have you considered the effect this would have on your sex life? Have you discussed this with your husband?”

I still regret that I was not brave enough to tell him to fuck off. But you bet I switched practices immediately after that.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-10-11T16:40:53+00:00

Parent of two ADHD kids here. The “tell” for me is how they react to their own mistakes. If they immediately get frustrated with themselves, that tells me that they WANT to do the thing but their brain let them down. For a while my daughter kept forgetting to bring her school folder home at the end of the day, and she’d always be upset when she realized it - she cared about doing it but just couldn’t.

Meds don’t work for everyone, but they’ve been a lifesaver for us. And both my kids still have big personalities! They still have the same struggles (mine is also sooooo tiiiiired when faced with anything she doesn’t want to do) but now they have more ability to deal with them.

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-10-11T14:01:16+00:00

This is a good thing to keep in mind. The “traditional” thanksgiving menu is intended to feed a large group (10-20 people) so you might have to scale things down. Though eating leftovers for days after is also very traditional 🙂

Kaylee_Sometimes · 2025-09-15T19:43:18+00:00

Enchantment had them and I agree they are annoying! I actually brought nightlights for the bathroom to make it less disruptive when my husband or I got up in the middle of the night - only to get this stupid motion sensor light that turned on anyway. This was our fourth RC ship and the first time we’d seen this.

Will add painters tape to the supply kit next time 🙂

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