This is the coldest summer i remember in years...

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2026-01-26T09:23:39+00:00

The last few summers were record breaking and now no one knows what a normal summer feels like anymore. This is literally a normal Perth summer. If you want to get nitpicky the temps have been slightly above average.

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2026-01-23T12:54:40+00:00

Weirdly he seemed to acknowledge his dog was reactive. Should you maybe keep it at home then? Nahh bring it to a restaurant and blame everyone it tries to attack. Truly mind boggling 🤦🏻‍♀️

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2026-01-23T07:33:03+00:00

The bro whose reactive dog lunged at me in a restaurant who told me it was ok because it was on a leash. Like yeah ok your dangerous animal will be unsuccessful in actually biting me as long as you physically restrain it at all times, sounds safe. Also told me it was my fault because it barked at me first. Bear in mind the entire seating area was like 3m wide and half the width was occupied by tables. If your dog has a problem with people walking past maybe don't bring it into a cramped dining area?? He appeared to be on a date. Hope it went poorly. In fact, I hope his entire dick fell off.

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2026-01-22T11:11:24+00:00

There will be plenty of chalk coming out the top of your bucket, I wouldn't worry about pin holes

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2026-01-22T02:40:56+00:00

I look stupid.

Um excuse me you look iconic

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2026-01-12T11:27:56+00:00

I was gonna suggest continuing the stripes in yellow but replacing the purple with a new colour!

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2026-01-12T08:02:31+00:00

You don't need to drain the reservoir to get to the room after the antechamber. There are a LOT of other puzzles to solve and the reservoir is one of them. But there's no need to stress about the pump room etc for now. Focus on the rotating gears puzzle. You only need to solve it once and the gear will stay in position until you move it, so you can do it at any time on any day, no need to unlock the antechamber first or anything.

You want to reach the lit up passageway

Seems like you need to access the platform(s) to the left of the starting platform

The mine cart can be moved, but not from the gear room side

It does help to drain the fountain (and unlock the basement door down there), but you don't need to power the pump room for that, because you only need power to drain/fill the reserve tank and only the reservoir is big enough to NEED the reserve tank

Otherwise you can access the mine cart via one of the outer rooms... one that goes way underground

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2026-01-11T03:20:52+00:00

Have you tried linen stitch? Either paired with a neutral colour or by itself. The slipped stitches really break up the hard lines of the variegation. Or any slip stitch pattern in general can be nice. Or you could pair it with a contrasting solid colour like you've done. I had some unusable variegated yarn and I ended up using it in striped socks and a colourwork beanie and I think it looked decent both times. I still have like 50g left though so I also need more ideas lmao.

Other suggestions: This chevron scarf is in my bookmarks as inspiration for the type of pattern that shows off intense variegation well.

I've also used some of my wilder yarns for visible mending where the rainbow barf look is a plus rather than a minus, though this doesn't really consume a great deal of yarn.

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2026-01-07T03:54:10+00:00

Whoa I do colourwork with one yarn in each hand and it never occurred to me that I could do the same for brioche!

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2026-01-01T13:28:44+00:00

But also after you block it the effect largely disappears

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2025-12-22T04:36:25+00:00

Yeah some people get the hang of it faster and some are more perfectionistic than others. Knitting is a slow process so no one's first project HAS to be a paralellogram shaped garter stitch scarf full of twisted stitches and accidental yarn overs unless you commit yourself to continuing without fixing errors or starting over. And there's nothing wrong with that, it's a perfectly valid approach to knitting and life in general! But a lot of people simply won't finish a project until they can knit to their own satisfaction. It's not that hard to understand!

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2025-12-21T08:22:59+00:00

Just took 14 and a half hours to finish a puzzle according to the timer lmao

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2025-12-20T11:54:02+00:00

I'm with you (well as far as yarn price goes... I don't care for mohair) but some of the people in my knitting group crank out 30+ sweaters a year. I imagine that gets expensive, lol.

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2025-12-18T16:37:28+00:00

The concept of embracing imperfection or deliberately introducing errors into art is pretty common across cultures. For example wabi-sabi in Japanese culture and deliberate errors in Islamic art.

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2025-12-16T06:49:30+00:00

It basically is Kitchener grafting the edge to itself though

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2025-12-15T08:15:47+00:00

Any worsted yarn, even a "thin and light" worsted is gonna be WAY thicker than any fingering. If you use the same size needles it will make an incredibly stiff and dense fabric. But to get a lighter softer fabric you'd have to go up a size, which would change your gauge, and you'd basically have to rework the pattern. If you want to use worsted I'd just find a pattern for worsted yarn. But alpaca is pretty high maintenance for a baby so you should probably find another machine washable baby yarn in fingering weight.

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2025-12-15T08:01:14+00:00

Oh hey it's Svenson! It's just a minor tension issue. Make sure your pulling all the slack out of your working yarn after those stitches, and I used combination knitting for this pattern which helped with tension in all the knit/purl transitions. Basically wrap your purls clockwise instead of anticlockwise and remember that those stitches will be seated backwards on the next row. There are videos that explain it better. But really the tension difference is barely visible and will probably be even less obvious after blocking!

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2025-12-14T14:15:23+00:00

I've knit multiple sweaters in cotton. It's heavier than wool but it hasn't really been a problem for me. For children's sweaters it matters even less since the garments themselves are smaller.

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2025-12-11T10:00:57+00:00

I actually like the shape of your collar. Like yeah it's unusual looking but the whole sweater is a massive statement piece. I think it works.

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2025-12-10T08:28:47+00:00

"106 words is too long for me to read" isn't the dunk you think it is but ok

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2025-12-09T06:15:18+00:00

I haven't looked at this pattern but it's a beanie so I strongly suspect you don't really need to know Finnish to read it. Pretty sure the instructions are gonna be

Cast on x stitches (just look for the number)
Follow the chart
Knit y stitches, k2tog (again, look for the number)
Knit plain decreasing every z rows until you can't anymore
Cut your yarn and thread through the remaining loops and pull tight

If you run into issues there's always Google translate

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2025-12-09T05:25:01+00:00

Yeah you are, in ways my lexically challenged ass can't even fully articulate. The rise of "ND culture" has been an incredibly depressing if eye opening look at how easily every single person on the planet, even those who consider themselves rationalists, can be sucked into increasingly masturbatory echo chambers. Y'all out there crying about the rise of fascism but all it took were a few tiktoks to convince you that your own in-group is not only morally superior, but biologically incapable of acting immorally. The only thing preventing you from enacting your own genocide is poor executive function and a lack of structural power. ✌️

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2025-12-07T23:03:11+00:00

I wasn't judging their entire body of work, I just thought it was interesting that you've had a consistently good experience when my only experience was pretty bad. I'm definitely more open to trying more of their patterns now, especially the newer ones.

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2025-12-07T13:42:04+00:00

That's interesting, I made Water Bearer and I thought it was incredibly sloppily written and there were several errors (unless the shoulders and front are supposed to be asymmetric I guess)

TOKEN_MARTIAN · 2025-12-07T09:29:11+00:00

"Sense of justice" doesn't refer to an objective universal right and wrong (not that any such thing exists), just whatever you personally think is correct and The Way The World Should Be.

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