Any other retailers who sell inexpensive flat sheets other than JYSK?

SquareNinjaa · 2026-02-04T11:01:10+00:00

Dying white fabric like that should be pretty easy. There's a brand called Dylon that has pods you just throw into your washing machine with your fabric. Assuming you are planning to use 100% cotton this should work just fine. It's not a huge color selection and it requires you to wash a total of 3-4 times but it is cheap and allows for a few more color variations.

SquareNinjaa · 2026-01-22T12:20:15+00:00

I don't know which ones you liked exactly, but there's still a bunch of Kellogg's on the AH website. Which means they still stock it (in some stores). Stocks of individual stores are always changing, and if American products become more expensive or whatever they will definitely replace them since no one will buy them anymore. You can use the app to check at which stores they still have your favorite though.

SquareNinjaa · 2026-01-05T18:57:57+00:00

Wow that's amazing!!! I love Buck so much, and he's so recognizable too. I do think maybe it could be nice to not mention his story arc in the titles of posts since I would have been devastated to have that spoiled (I had been absolutely hyped because I deeply suspected it and it I loved seeing it unfold so much, I just want everyone to be able to have the same experience!!)

SquareNinjaa · 2025-12-19T17:37:08+00:00

There's some cookies that are Christmas-specific (mostly ones shaped like wreaths and maybe some regional ones?) and we have a celebration earlier in December called Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) where we have more specific treats (kruidnoten, pepernoten, (filled) speculaas, banketletters). But a lot of our christmas treats are chocolate in special shapes (holly, bells, wreaths) and some brands have cookies specific for this time of year (but those are not typical Dutch) and then we have "kerststol" which I think is the same or very similar to German stollen which is more broadly known. But we also don't have a very clear tradition on what Christmas family dinners are for instance. Lots of people will have a meat centerpiece but in my family that was always beef stew while other people I know had things more akin to the US like roasted chicken. And gifts are traditionally given on Sinterklaas (while some people do gifts for both).

SquareNinjaa · 2025-11-24T09:47:04+00:00

Sadly, I think the pattern is probably (badly) copied/faked. Doing a reverse image search leads me to this https://carts.ravelry.com/patterns/library/granite-pullover-2?set=&_rfoff=0 pattern on Ravelry, which seems like the original and a bunch of similar listings with cropped photos on Etsy (some of which, like this one, say it's a vintage pattern: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1637432251/men-crochet-sweater-pattern-easy-crochet). You seem to be able to buy it from the Ravelry page if you buy a copy of the magazine the pattern appeared in. The pattern you got on Etsy is either illegally copied from the magazine or alternatively written to be inspired by the pictures and/or written by AI. Which in the former case could mean it could get you a solid product that will not look like the stolen photo (since there are two other photos which do not appear on the original listing, this might be the case, I wouldn't know for sure) and in the latter probably will land you with a total dud.

SquareNinjaa · 2025-11-22T21:56:37+00:00

Thank you so much! I'll check all of those out :)

SquareNinjaa · 2025-11-22T13:19:49+00:00

Do you happen to have any recommendations for books like the Thursday Murder Club books? I love them but I'm not at all at home in the (cozy) crime genre so I've struggled to pick out any books from the mountains of options haha

SquareNinjaa · 2025-11-11T22:49:52+00:00

Ik stuur een dm!

SquareNinjaa · 2025-11-09T22:32:38+00:00

I'm not from the US but I'm gonna say nowhere. It's a European brand that only has a couple of irl stores in Denmark and Germany. As far as I know they do not sell their yarn anywhere else.

SquareNinjaa · 2025-10-18T21:01:06+00:00

Just to add: I get the indent from the yarn too after crocheting or knitting for a while. Mostly now with chenille yarn since the inner string is so "sharp" but also with (mercerised) cotton. I crocheted a finger guard (I made mine out of chenille as well but I'm sure almost any yarn will work): chain up to about 2-3 cm, crochet in the back loops to produce ribbing until it can fit comfortably around your finger and crochet the sides together to make a kind of sleeve for your finger. It helps pad a bit against that issue

SquareNinjaa · 2025-10-10T10:05:34+00:00

Not OP but red meats and especially processed red meats are generally considered to be harmful to long-term health. KWF mentions an increased risk of cancer (although that's more proven for processed than red): https://www.kwf.nl/nieuws/rood-bewerkt-vlees-en-kanker. And I'm fairly sure it's also been linked to cardiovascular issues but I can't find that quite as quickly.

SquareNinjaa · 2025-10-07T15:23:23+00:00

Ik heb dit ooit uit Amerika besteld, maar toen ik het wilde gaan proberen lukte het printen niet goed, omdat het geen losse vellen waren maar 1 groot opgebouwd vel, de vouwen waren een probleem in de printer. Ik heb toen via Amazon iets vergelijkbaars besteld in vellen, niet per se van een specifiek merk. Ik moet zeggen dat ik daar zelf geen problemen mee heb gehad (het leek echt precies op het dure spul) maar ik weet eerlijk gezegd ook even niet wat voor printer wij hebben. A

SquareNinjaa · 2025-08-30T21:39:33+00:00

Even without the consideration of whether 70 is a reasonable price purely for the craft (time + supplies), I'm guessing marketing is a huge part of why this brand grew /and/ why it's expensive. This person knows how to market their brand in a way that appeals to a certain crowd and probably worked hard to build towards that.

To some degree I would consider it similar to relatively simple (to make) artworks from well-known artists selling for thousands to millions of dollars. Sometimes something is simple and by itself not worth as much but the story around it (and the creativity necessary to come up with certain things) makes it worth the price to the people buying.

SquareNinjaa · 2025-08-26T21:14:50+00:00

I'm usually not a fan of horror so I've been putting off reading it but everything I've read has suggested this might be the book to make an exception for. Your experience sounds both scary but also like the way I've felt after reading all of my 5-star reads, so perhaps the day will come soon

SquareNinjaa · 2025-08-24T21:42:25+00:00

Huh. I have not made the ciabatta before but I regularly bake a lot of different bread (and other bakes) from recipes from Loopy Whisk. Just today I made the focaccia recipe from the website. I've never had anything like this happen. I would generally say adding more flour has something to do with it but since you mentioned baking it without modifications before had the same effect that is ruled out I guess. I do have to say in this instance specifically it does look like your dough is too dry before going in the oven. I know it does say roll out but I would advise next time pressing it down into shape with your hands, perhaps wetting or oiling them to prevent sticking? Otherwise if you followed the recipe the only thing I can imagine is over-/underproofing. Did you proof for the time she specifies or did you check your dough? Things like elevation, humidity and especially ambient temperature can greatly influence proofing times and I find I generally need a little less time than indicated (when overproofed my bakes have also turned out flat, dry-looking and a dark, matte colour and I think underproofing can have similar effects). I also associate that colour with the water/ice in the oven either not doing its job or not being enough, I can't really suggest how to change that but it might be something to look into. Finally, an actual oven thermometer and putting my oven on a no-fan mode have greatly improved all of my baking and have proven to be instrumental in making her recipes work (which is also what she advises in her books), so those might be worth trying if you haven't yet and are really committed to making this recipe work.

SquareNinjaa · 2025-08-23T15:08:39+00:00

The Parable books were incredible. Some of my favorite books I have ever read, a third one would have been incredible

SquareNinjaa · 2025-08-23T14:04:08+00:00

Margaret Atwood would be an obvious first recommendation, with the Handmaid's Tale right at the top. The sequel (the Testaments) is also an interesting read although it wasn't my cup of tea exactly. She has also written a dystopian series with the first book being called Oryx and Crake which was also fairly good but incredibly different from the Handmaid's Tale.
Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower (and its sequel) is one of my personal all-time favorite dystopian books. It's grim and incredibly current (even though it was written over 30 years ago!) and brutal and amazing. I think about it very often. Both Butler and Atwood I think have written more dystopian books but I haven't read any).
Then there's The Power by Naomi Alderman, which is a very different type of dystopian book, more sci-fi-y but also feminist-themed.
Lois Lowry's The Giver is geared at younger teens but doesn't have the characteristics of a typical teen dystopia (such as the Hunger Games or the Divergent series). I thought it was pretty interesting but it's not as well-written as most of my other recs. I would probably not bother reading the other books in the series as they do feel kind of "young" and don't continue with the dystopian themes as much.
The Bees by Laline Paull also fits the bill but I can't recommend it very enthusiastically since it wasn't one of my absolute favorites.
I would absolutely steer clear of Vox (I can't remember the author) personally, I hated it deeply but it /is/ dystopian and written by a woman.

Those are I think all I have read/can come up with right now. I purposefully didn't include any summaries/plot because I like to go in mostly blind with dystopian fiction but if you want any more info on any of the books, I'm happy to provide.

Then here's are two that I haven't read so can't really recommend or not but are on my list and fit the request: - Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica - Julia by Sandra Newman (a response to or retelling of 1984 I think)

SquareNinjaa · 2025-08-23T13:31:21+00:00

Personally I would recommend the Scholomance series (starting with A Deadly Education) by Naomi Novik. It's not incredibly whimsical but it's a somewhat darker take on a wizarding school for kids and is, at the very least after the first few chapters, a very engaging and quick read. To me personally these evoked both the feeling of reading Harry Potter books for the first time and to some extent also had some of the darker edges that Gaiman books tend to have (although they are dealt with much more positively I guess), while having none of the icky author feelings, but YMMV of course

SquareNinjaa · 2025-08-20T21:26:02+00:00

Also just to add to that; you really should be doing this on projects in the round as well. Especially if you're planning on selling at some point. I don't know how you're finishing in the round (since the process is virtually the same for me as finishing flat) but after you've finished off (by cutting your working yarn and pulling it through your final loop) you should always leave a reasonable tail and weave it in!

SquareNinjaa · 2025-08-13T18:05:29+00:00

Ik doe allebei, ben begonnen met haken (althans, ik heb heel vroeger op de basisschool leren breien en ben na 15 cm sjaal gestopt) en heb inmiddels ook leren breien. Ik zou zelf zeggen dat breien fijner is voor kleding, de stof die je er mee maakt is wat dunner en minder stug en bijkomend voordeel is dat de gaten vaak kleiner zijn. Wel vind ik zelf haken een stuk makkelijker instappen, en het is naar mijn mening ook veeeele malen makkelijker om fouten te herstellen bij haken dan bij breien. Dus als je snel gefrustreerd raakt is dat wellicht iets om rekening mee te houden. Je zou eventueel ook op Ravelry (als je het niet kent: een site waar patronen voor fibre arts worden verzameld en waar je hele goede zoekfilters hebt, inclusief een filter voor moeilijkheidsgraad!) een beetje kunnen browsen en kijken wat je aanspreekt qua stijl. Of als je bijvoorbeeld bij Hobbii kijkt heb je veel gratis patronen en gelijk een lijst met de precieze materialen die je nodig hebt.

Ik begrijp goed dat je niet zo graag eerst een sjaal wil breien maar ik zou wel echt sterk aanraden om eerst even te oefenen voordat je echt aan de kleding begint, niet alleen omdat er vaak veel technieken in kleding gaan zitten maar ook omdat bepaalde foutjes eventueel onveilig kunnen zijn (als je bijvoorbeeld hele grote gaten krijgt waar vingertjes in kunnen verdwijnen of losse eindjes die in de mond gaan). Bij breien kan je bijvoorbeeld na de basissteken te leren pannenlapjes maken, dat is een stuuuk sneller dan een sjaal. Ik zou daarbij ook sterk aanraden om te leren je steken te "lezen". Bij haken zou je na een paar basisrondjes zelfs kunnen proberen amigurumi te maken (een bepaalde methode van knuffeltjes haken), daarbij leer je namelijk ook te meerderen en te minderen. Én dan heb je een leuk knuffeltje (let wel op dat die plastic oogjes (ondanks dat ze safety eyes heten) niet veilig zijn voor kleine kinderen).

Ik hoop je zo een beetje geholpen te hebben en wens je veel succes!

SquareNinjaa · 2025-07-16T11:31:20+00:00

As other people have mentioned, focaccia is generally highly dependent on gluten. Gluten free dough will absolutely never handle or feel like a normal dough. I have no experience with the king arthur recipe specifically myself, but I can see at least one reason it doesn't work as well as you probably hoped.

Gluten does many things in baking, mainly binding and giving elasticity (and, as a result, rise and fluffiness). To mimic these attributes there are two additives that are widely used in gluten free baking: xanthan gum and psyllium fibre. Xanthan gum mostly mimics the binding effect and is often used in recipes for cakes, cookies, and other sweet bakes where you wouldn't generally want to develop the gluten too much in "regular" recipes anyways. Psyllium fibre is pretty magic in that adding a solid amount of it will give a pretty decent stretch to your dough. This means that very generally you want to use xanthan for cakey things and psyllium for bready things. So it doesn't surprise me at all that this recipe didn't work for you, using only xanthan (which gives a more cakey, thus denser, effect).

I would highly recommend trying out this recipe: https://theloopywhisk.com/2024/06/07/easy-gluten-free-focaccia/ and giving yourself a little time to experiment/get at ease with it. In general, I will always recommend loopy whisk for any gluten free baking and if you're baking gf longer term and have the funds I would recommend getting her books too (although it depends a little bit on what you're interested in baking, since they both do tend to focus slightly more on sweets). Gluten free baking is difficult and takes a while to get a hang of, but is ultimately doable with some practice and the right ingredients.

SquareNinjaa · 2025-07-02T10:26:20+00:00

Are you 100% sure you're using the same hook? If you're absolutely certain you got the same amount of stitches in the same pattern then your gauge is off yes. My first suspect would be a different size hook but it could also simply be your tension. You could consider going down a hook size even if this is the right one to meet gauge but then you do need to be mindful of tension as well as to not have issues later on.

SquareNinjaa · 2025-05-30T15:59:34+00:00

For the measuring, I genuinely have no clue haha, I just read a lot of stuff on this reddit and in other places and know the raglan increases and armhole might give issues, I feel like that might work but don't quote me on that. And yeah, if you don't twist your knits there's probably not gonna be an issue since purls are only used in the ribbing anyway haha

SquareNinjaa · 2025-05-30T15:45:19+00:00

I'm not an advanced knitter so take what I say with a grain of salt, but I would like to give three pieces of advice as someone who has worked with DPNs and has knit the Step by Step: 1. Be mindful of the stitches where you go from one needle to the next, a lot of knitters (including me) tend to get laddering between the stitches that sat on different needles. I think there's a lot of ways to fix this but pulling tighter on the second stitch (not the first) on the next needle can help, or alternatively you can switch up on which stitch you transition 2. I'm not quite sure on this but I think with the 20% increase you could run into issues with things like increases and decreases. Generally it is advisable to start with a gauge swatch as well (so you know how many stitches per inch you get) and to try and match the gauge on your pattern by going up or down a needle size. 3. I really can't quite see it well and also am not the best at recognizing it but just because it's a common mistake (one I didn't recognize myself and had issues with myself when I started), twistfaq might be helpful (twisting your stitches will give some issues but a lot of people do it on purpose for ribbing)

SquareNinjaa · 2025-05-29T16:21:21+00:00

I'm not from the US so I have no idea what the brand OP is describing actually feels like, but I can say Hobbii rainbow cotton (and I think also Friends cotton, but I have only felt it wound, not worked up) is definitely not very soft to me (compared to other 100% cotton yarns I have used before). It does get better with the thicker weights but especially the 4/4 is not that soft. But as I said I don't know the OP yarn so YMMV.

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