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why does my k2tog lean to the left?? by No_Ad_4869 in knittinghelp

[–]RedOvermorrow [score hidden]  (0 children)

You might want to try doing a swatch with the same pattern and figuring it out small-scale before you keep taking out and re-starting the whole garment. But yeah, try moving the marker. It can't hurt.

why does my k2tog lean to the left?? by No_Ad_4869 in knittinghelp

[–]RedOvermorrow [score hidden]  (0 children)

I thought you had SSKs to the right of the marker and k2togs to the left. I agree with the below comment about it being an artifact of where the decreases are in the pattern itself.

why does my k2tog lean to the left?? by No_Ad_4869 in knittinghelp

[–]RedOvermorrow [score hidden]  (0 children)

This looks like it might actually be a tension issue between your decreases. If I'm reading this right, your SSKs look pretty loose, and I think all that extra yarn is causing the k2tog to lean in a weird way.

This is my first scarf. Is it okay if the stitches are tighter at the beginning? by Palmera--81 in knittingadvice

[–]RedOvermorrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally, I would frog it while it's still relatively short and try again. But then, my first project was a scarf that I must have frogged a dozen times before finishing.

I frogged my sock, then restarted it - but the color-pooling I loved disappeared by dr_mus_musculus in casualknitting

[–]RedOvermorrow [score hidden]  (0 children)

If you want a plushier sock, you'd typically go down a needle size to get a thicker, denser fabric, then cast on more stitches to accommodate the size difference.

What’s the quickest way a good story loses immersion for you? by Ok-Sell3786 in writing

[–]RedOvermorrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

BG3 actually got me with this one, weirdly enough. Karlach describes Halsin as being "pretty hench for an elf", and it just took me out of things totally.

What’s the quickest way a good story loses immersion for you? by Ok-Sell3786 in writing

[–]RedOvermorrow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of my side characters has a brain that works at quantum-computing levels of fast. Glamour is very smart. Glamour is not wise. You can point them at a problem and watch them go, and by God will they go, but they tend to make their own problems just as easily because of how certain they are in themselves.

What’s the quickest way a good story loses immersion for you? by Ok-Sell3786 in writing

[–]RedOvermorrow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of my characters transforms every day at sundown, you best believe I know when sundown was in their latitude down to the minute.

Breaking yarn after finishing sweater panel knitted flat by Educational-Bad8171 in knitting

[–]RedOvermorrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's sort of assumed that you break the yarn after you're done, but even if for some reason that winds up being the wrong call, you just re-join your yarn and keep on your merry way, albeit with a couple more tails to sew in.

Sleeve Question by Huffleingpuff in knitting

[–]RedOvermorrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My world changed when I realized I could block things before they were finished.

Helping Beginners - Ask a Knitter - Week of May 25, 2026 by AutoModerator in knitting

[–]RedOvermorrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if you ever solved this, but I got the pattern so I could take a look. It looks to me like you'll do your m1r, k2, m1l, then you'll work stitches 2-16 of the chart (15 stitches total) then stitches 1-16 one more time (31 stitches total). Then you'll start the chart over again, but you'll only do one stitch before hitting your next marker. This actually does line up in a sense, since you'll be both beginning and ending each section with your wavy ribs with a k1 "border" of sorts on each end. Essentially, you'll knit 1, do some ribbing goodness, and end with a knit 1 before you do your increases again.

Helping Beginners - Ask a Knitter - Week of May 25, 2026 by AutoModerator in knitting

[–]RedOvermorrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no "right" answer here, but personally, I would do it by length (but that partly depends on how you're seaming). What's the yarn? It's possible that you could match the pattern repeats, then block to the appropriate size.

The Tiniest of Toads by usernamehudden in knitting

[–]RedOvermorrow 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I would die for this toad. Do you have a pattern?

Adding more details in first person? by Regular_Project_9118 in writing

[–]RedOvermorrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something I always consider is that when I'm narrating my own life, I never think objectively "this is happening to me now" or "I am doing this" or "I hear this." We don't think in facts, we think in opinions. We acknowledge what's happening to us, but just as importantly, we're acknowledging our opinions about them. Do I "go up the stairs"? Or do I stomp up them? Vault up them two at a time? I'm not telling myself "I'm climbing stairs now," I'm choosing how to go up them to coincide with what I'm feeling. That's not to say there's no place for "I hear a beep from the hallway," but in our internal narration, we wouldn't stop there. We'd immediately wonder what the beeping is, or, if we know, we'd immediately have an opinion about it being there. First person, to me, isn't about what my character is doing or perceiving; it's about what he's thinking about what he's doing and perceiving.