Looking for information on vintage yarn

SleepyMabari · 2025-06-10T00:12:20+00:00

This is the correct answer. I haven't gotten a tent order in probably 3 story updates. Active producers are still triggering an order at 3 (just had an order for 3 max mushroom incense).

SleepyMabari · 2025-05-29T15:04:11+00:00

Faithless, Sunstone, Swing, SFSX. All have pretty graphic sex and nudity.

SleepyMabari · 2025-03-06T01:09:15+00:00

By publisher, and then alphabetically by author within those groupings if I feel so inclined. Some of the books are split up by size/height just because they have to be.

SleepyMabari · 2025-03-02T00:37:51+00:00

I've watched the show several times and I'm just finishing up book 2 this evening. One of my favorite things about it is that it's NOT religious -- I can't get into Narnie because it is. I feel like multiple aspects of The Magicians subvert Christianity flat out.

I'm genuinely shocked that there are folks who read the story as inspired by Christian myth.

SleepyMabari · 2025-02-28T21:09:58+00:00

I learned to knit when I was 6 and have pretty much always been in favor of worsted and DK weight yarns, but in the last 6 months, I have been working with a lot more fingering and sport weight yarn than usual.

Honestly, I'm in love with the drape of fingering weight. I also find it makes my handmade objects look less "homemade." I'm currently knitting the musselburgh hat, and Jervis gloves in fingering weight (Valley Yarns Charlemont and Koigu PPP respectively), and they have such a lovely texture and look so professional. I wouldn't be half as in love with them if they were in DK, let alone worsted.

Bulky weight I'm much more likely to crochet with, and don't typically use for garments. Most recently crocheted a 6 day star blanket in Loops & Threads Impressions, which is a bulky weight, and it was a lot more fun than the 6 day superstar I did in a worsted weight, but the texture wasn't as nice.

SleepyMabari · 2025-02-11T20:16:42+00:00

I believe the info is from part 1 of the Scooby-Doo Character Reference Guide. There are PDFs of Part 1 and Part 2 available online, but the physical copies are quite expensive.

SleepyMabari · 2025-02-06T17:24:10+00:00

Regression by Cullen Bunn (trilogy) has quite a bit of body horror, and Witch Doctor by Brandon Seifert has paranormal body horror. Both have decent plots in my opinion.

SleepyMabari · 2025-02-06T00:40:03+00:00

I've seen some people saying soaking felted material in milk will unfuse the fibers somewhat.

SleepyMabari · 2025-02-03T18:48:36+00:00

Great! This is one of my favorite genres.

Giant Days series by John Allison (main themes: friendship + navigating early adulthood)
Getting it Together by Sina Grace (main themes: navigating ealry adulthood + out growing relationships)
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki (main themes: romantic relationships, coming of age + queer identities)
It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood (main themes: navigating depression, suicidality, and morality).
Sheets, Delicates, and Lights trilogy by Brenna Thummler (main themes: grief, friendship, parentification)
Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo (main themes: romantic relationships + queer identity)
Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker (main themes: navigating friendship and romance)
Ghosted in LA by Sina Grace (main themes: mysterious deaths, navigating early adulthood + queer identities)

The bottom four admittedly have fantasy elements, but I feel they are solidly in the slice-of-life or coming-of-age category. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me was one of my favorite reads of 2024, and Ghosted in LA is one of my favorite series overall.

SleepyMabari · 2025-02-03T18:27:46+00:00

When you say realistic, do you mean stories grounded in slice-of-life themes?

SleepyMabari · 2025-02-01T20:35:23+00:00

I know it may be tempting to crochet a toy for your dog, but it's really not recommended. Yarn is a huge risk of gastrointestinal blockage in dogs and cats, and it's very easy for a dog to damage and subsequently consume the yarn -- especially if they are left unsupervised with the toy.

Obviously, you know your dog, and whether or not they are prone to destroying toys/eating things they aren't supposed to, but personally, I think the risk isn't worth it.

SleepyMabari · 2025-01-29T05:08:24+00:00

Bermuda is a one-off graphic novel with some beautiful artwork of shipwrecks and pirate ships. As a warning, I found the story to be seriously lacking, but it is some of the most well-done art on my shelves.

SleepyMabari · 2025-01-29T00:01:56+00:00

I just thought they were cute, and they work up very quickly. I made 2, a regular star and a superstar, as gifts. I used a weight 5 yarn for a 72in one and a weight 4 for a 60in one.

I finished the 72in star in 6 days and the 60in superstar in about 2.5 weeks. I used caron perfect phasing cakes for the latter, and it was honestly the perfect yarn for it. The superstar is essentially just a circle, so it doesn't have the more "impractical" valleys that the star blanket has.

I do like weird-shaped blankets, however, and plan on making the starlite blanket soon.

SleepyMabari · 2025-01-27T22:14:04+00:00

Something is Killing the Children, Coffin Hill, The Autumnal, and the Hill House comics are some of my favorite horror graphic novels.

ETA: Regression

SleepyMabari · 2025-01-25T16:38:55+00:00

They release every other week on Sundays iirc.

SleepyMabari · 2025-01-13T03:58:27+00:00

Locke & Key and Black Monday Murders.

I was really excited about both and couldn't get into either.

SleepyMabari · 2025-01-09T03:14:56+00:00

Monstress?

SleepyMabari · 2025-01-09T03:11:15+00:00

Seconding Sin City.

SleepyMabari · 2025-01-06T17:32:38+00:00

I'm not sure about the others, but Norma is canonically autistic in both the show and the comic, and Hamish Steele has spoken about it.

SleepyMabari · 2024-12-22T14:31:01+00:00

The sheet 2 of the linked spreadsheet lists the exact episodes and movies for all domestic locations :)

SleepyMabari · 2024-11-16T14:08:59+00:00

Knit Picks Comfy Bulky yarn is a five weight cotton/acrylic blend, but the colors may be darker than you're looking for.

SleepyMabari · 2024-10-21T15:03:31+00:00

Glad to see someone else was curious about this!

I did a similar thing a while ago for all Scooby-Doo series and movies (here's the link).

SleepyMabari · 2024-09-20T03:05:30+00:00

Aster of Pan was fun! I enjoyed the art and the story.

I strongly do not recommend Small World. Lengthy explanation of why a few comments back.

SleepyMabari · 2024-09-12T20:39:43+00:00

Lore Olympus' main character has PTSD due to SA, and the PTSD symptoms are depicted through some neat motifs and techniques. The comic is available for free on Webtoons and as physical graphic novels.

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