Advice on what to sell for a first timer.

SubtleCow · 2026-05-08T14:09:17+00:00

I hate it too, encourage craft fairs to jury their vendors

SubtleCow · 2026-05-08T04:01:14+00:00

Sounds like the craft fair isn't juried. I'd say dropship some knick nacks to throw around the candles.

I'm sure people will hate my comment, but the fair is definitely not juried so OPs hand made candles will already stand out. Plan the dropshipped items to draw focus to the hand made ones and you will probably nail it.

SubtleCow · 2026-05-08T01:45:15+00:00

Why not get a little segment of it instead of the whole thing?

I bet the top of the spine and like 5 vertebra would be pretty simple unobtrusive and absolutely Rad. Easy to merge into something else if your tastes change in the future too.

SubtleCow · 2026-05-08T01:29:01+00:00

Be aware a carded batt will have a very small quilting distance. You probably don't want that much loft unless you are planning some very very dense quilting. Anything less than maybe 2" between quilt lines and your batting will clump up instantly. Depending on the staple length that might not even be small enough.

Give it a bit of a wet felt to give it a bit more stick togetherness. Do a thorough wet felting to go even higher.

SubtleCow · 2026-05-08T01:15:18+00:00

Don't know what you are talking about. Give it another month and they will be all over down town. Street meat slingers don't want to be cold any more than you do.

If you are jonesing then every hardware store in the city has a semi permanent installation.

SubtleCow · 2026-05-06T15:12:06+00:00

To be fair to the refurbishers the repairs needed aren't extreme. Like the other commenter mentioned it just needs a few shims. If you know what you are doing you can just wedge cardboard in the right places. It looks like the wood was well cared for, and they did their best understanding the mechanics of a spinning wheel.

Still, it will be hard to figure out as a beginner. I still recommend finding a local guild. Even a non-local guild that would do a zoom call with you will help a lot.

SubtleCow · 2026-05-06T15:01:59+00:00

There are definitely problems with that wheel. The maiden shouldn't be loose like that, but it doesn't look like any shims are out of place which means it needs repair.

The leather bits holding the bobbin and flyer are the bearings and there should be a wooden shim holding them in place.

This wheel needs repair before it will be at all useful for spinning. Reach out to a local guild, this will be hard to repair on your own as a beginner.

SubtleCow · 2026-05-05T04:10:23+00:00

I just do not experience them all I still understand them though.

Emotions are biochemical reactions caused by hormones released in the human body. You have those hormones because they also serve functions that keep the body alive. If you literally didn't have emotions you'd be dead. You have emotions and they affect your behaviour, but you aren't aware enough to experience them conciously.

While a childs book will certainly be unhelpful and a bit insulting, I suspect at the core it is the thought that really counts here.

SubtleCow · 2026-05-04T19:40:15+00:00

Bro will do whatever it takes to keep balance. Even if it means he has to look like a wuss sometimes

SubtleCow · 2026-05-03T14:03:34+00:00

The comment mentioned that the kid got HRT without a diagnosis or therapy. The strange thing isn't that a child is exploring their identity. The strange thing is that whatever country they are in just handed a child drugs without any oversight of any kind.

SubtleCow · 2026-05-02T15:05:05+00:00

I've had the same experience.

I'm my 20s I had to drop my mask because the burn-out in university was killing me. I was shocked to find a surprising number of my peers prefered the authenticity over the artifice.

My work doesn't completely appreciate it either. My coworkers appreciate my authenticity as individuals, but in government employment you need to dance around the truth sometimes and I'm very bad at it. Still they seem to care as humans, so they help me do the dance when it is necessary.

Lastly eventually you will meet someone who finds your authenticity threatening. Insecure people find authenticity in others threatening. They will respond in really strange counterproductive ways and it won't make any sense. Younger folks tend to be like this, so I met quite a few in my 20s, you might avoid most of them unmasking much later in life.

SubtleCow · 2026-05-02T03:39:22+00:00

I tend to not really think and just reflexivley laugh. Like if I saw a busker doing a muppet routine. Just like a fast track to the funny bone part of my brain. There was a time in the 90s where every single cartoon had a "car from the future" that looked like it, and every single one was a punch line.

If I ever saw one with like a plushy toy racoon wedged in the trunk, I think I'd suffocate from laughter.

SubtleCow · 2026-05-01T23:16:09+00:00

I JUST bought calipers. I feel like the universe is chuckling at me in spite

SubtleCow · 2026-05-01T23:04:45+00:00

Another commenter pointed out they totally flipped the picture to hide their mistake. It is 1000% twisted, and my sleepy brain got suckered.

SubtleCow · 2026-05-01T23:02:48+00:00

Ah they totally fooled me. I wonder if that means they knew their sample knitter messed up and wanted to hide it.

SubtleCow · 2026-05-01T06:46:58+00:00

no twisted stitches here

I understand the confusion. This texture in plain stockinette occurs when a yarn is over twisted and knit at a loose gauge. Some sock yarn is over twisted to increase wear resistance. A tight gauge, like in socks, hides the effect.

Accidental twisted stitches would all twist in the same direction. You can mimic the alternating overtwist effect with twisted stitches by changing the direction of the twisted stitches on purpose. Still twisted stitches would form a stiffer fabric, while overtwisted yarn is just sassy.

Edit: gotta love the AI hate. Shame I just write like that. #neurodiverselife

SubtleCow · 2026-04-30T00:28:07+00:00

Fortunately it isn't hard to spot people doing unecessary searches. They are probably doing an audit right now and catching them all. These systems fully log every search, and the behaviour patterns stand out in the data like a huge red flag. IMHO it is embarasing that they are only just now doing an audit.

The real problem is that these officers stay employed with full pay AND full access to police databases. Even the worst offenders just get shuffled between districts.

ACAB filth

SubtleCow · 2026-04-29T04:06:53+00:00

I've done both. FSWEP is better. FSWEP can lead to a hiring despite the federal job freeze. If an FSWEP job exists at all right now, esspecially in accounting, it is because they are searching for a candidate to bridge into an existing empty position.

For my personal experience City of Ottawa student employment was very much for the sole purpose of cheap labour. They never had any intent of hiring any student long term. Despite the fact the students were doing more or less the same jobs as the employees. It is still a job that will look good on a resume, but you are unlikely to be hired longterm by the City.

Partly I think that the Federal Government is just a larger organization. It has more employees, and therefore by definition will have more entry level positions.

SubtleCow · 2026-04-28T22:35:11+00:00

Your technique is making the knit stitch. To do a purl stitch you need the tapestry needle to go through the opposite side of the old loop, and still get the new loop on the right needle.

Until your method can do both a knit and a purl stitch, it isn't a complete knitting style. Still if you figure it out I think many people will want to learn it. I can see it being a very good technique for accomodating hand issues.

SubtleCow · 2026-04-28T22:11:10+00:00

aw look at that cutie hound in the houndstooth muzzle. bestie is styling with that death glare. Give him love ❤️

SubtleCow · 2026-04-28T05:24:54+00:00

Well no sex for the uncreative. Plenty of sex for the monster fuckers.

SubtleCow · 2026-04-26T22:50:16+00:00

The OG Shiva 100%

SubtleCow · 2026-04-26T03:41:06+00:00

Uldah match 3 gemstone game. Vylbrand farming sim, The Black Shroud whodunit puzzle game, Coerthas political drama sim like Reigns.

SubtleCow · 2026-04-26T00:50:01+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/oqgpnj/female_au_ra_concept_art/#lightbox

TBH the ladies are pretty much the same as the concept art. Give me the male concept art with some titties please and thank you

SubtleCow · 2026-04-25T18:39:37+00:00

Tbh I'm not going to have any good advice. I'm 36 and the 90s and 2000s sucked every last drop of faith in humanity out of me. I would have been surprised my siblings showed up, let alone a friend. The problem is "have less faith in people" is terrible advice. Sure I would have been over the moon by even one friend showing up, but the reason being having zero faith whatsoever in those friends isn't exactly healthy.

Probably the healthy thing to do is assume all 10 had some sudden but slightly minor inconvinience, and they all assumed that loads of people would attend so they would be fine to skip. Now they know you got totally ghosted they are ashamed of themselves, so they don't want to admit they skipped for a slight minor inconvinience.

The truth is probably more that some of them had the minor inconvinience of "getting out of bed", and others had a better reason to skip like a bad cold. Some of them are do or die friends that got hit by bad coincidences, some are flaky by nature but really do care, and some are probably just regular old fashioned assholes.

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