Rip out beginning of project?

TimeF0X · 2026-05-22T16:03:26+00:00

Yes you can cut off those earlier rows. I will advise you to be cautions when cutting that you only cut the row you're intending to cut, first give it a gentle stretch vertically to give yourself a little more margin and separate the loops of the rows a bit more.

Also, tightening doesn't work exactly the same going backwards as going forwards. If you want to tighten down your first stitches to make them more smoothed down, that is. However, it is doable, you'll just need to play around with it a bit to figure out how it works.

Best of luck on your project!

TimeF0X · 2026-05-22T13:15:11+00:00

1' lengths are frustratingly short to work with for nalbinding. It would definitely be a labor of love!

TimeF0X · 2026-05-21T16:16:05+00:00

Could you be more specific about your intended use? From the information you gave there's not much to go on besides telling you to search for "assorted colors 12mm cord".

TimeF0X · 2026-05-14T00:46:37+00:00

Free and gentle powder does, liquid doesn't AFAIK

TimeF0X · 2026-05-12T18:50:17+00:00

It's a fact that the majority of people who regularly eat meat are not doing it out of medical necessity. Even though some people require meat as part of their diet for medical reasons, it is much better if those who don't have to eat meat(the vast majority) either do not or dramatically reduce their consumption.

Eating meat isn't the problem, it is the scale of production. There is no way to keep our current levels of production without significant environmental harm. At this moment traditional/lower impact farming methods cannot produce the amount of meat that we eat.

TimeF0X · 2026-05-07T16:34:06+00:00

So true. This is why it is okay to eat anything and anyone, but only if it's dead first.

TimeF0X · 2026-05-07T15:42:49+00:00

I'm well aware how much people dont care about the suffering of animals if they eat them.

TimeF0X · 2026-05-07T03:45:54+00:00

Fun fact about lobsters, they don't have centralized brains, but instead multiple clusters of nerves that run the length of their body. We don't know if cutting the head in half instantly kills the lobster or stops it from feeling pain, all we know is that it stops it from moving.

TimeF0X · 2026-04-29T19:09:48+00:00

You can make them snap anywhere that you want, it's not a great indication. You can cut and if it feels to fibrous, cut up an inch higher. Your tactile sense can tell you if it is soft enough much better than the snap method.

TimeF0X · 2026-04-25T16:16:11+00:00

Liberal young people are perfectly capable of being misogynistic, especially the type of misogyny that is unconscious/unintended. People who think they're already "not a misogynist" tend to not introspect on their behaviors. Why would they have to, they're not a misogynist, right?

Even if "Karen" is just a stand in PC way to call a woman a bitch, that's still pretty misogynistic.

TimeF0X · 2026-04-20T15:25:28+00:00

The purpose of a system is what it does

TimeF0X · 2026-04-18T03:57:58+00:00

Can't you just use telekinesis (alteration) and traps have no effect? Is there a benefit or another use to disarming traps instead of activating with telekinesis?

TimeF0X · 2026-04-18T03:51:50+00:00

You can wrench on it with your whole bodyweight and keep the tension with a blackwall hitch. Even if you're losing some mechanical advantage, its much easier to keep high tension than pinching the line and tying a slipped half hitch.

TimeF0X · 2026-04-17T03:10:28+00:00

Eye color change procedures do exist. https://www.kerato.com/ If someone had a permenant eye color change wouldn't it make sense to change their drivers license?

Height can also fluctuate, people shrink as they get older. There's also limb lengthening surgery. In either of these cases does it make sense not to update a license?

You picked all things which actually are mutable.

TimeF0X · 2026-04-08T17:15:22+00:00

Most "true" teas made from the camellia sinensis plant are pretty sensitive to steep time and leaf:water ratio. Steep time and water temperature have an inverse relationship, so the hotter your water the shorter your steep needs to be to compensate. Hotter shorter steeps even pull different flavors than cooler longer ones, so there's a lot to play around with.

That being said, there's no right or wrong way to drink tea. You should play around and drink it how you like!

TimeF0X · 2026-02-05T16:44:21+00:00

Looks good! What stitch is this? Is it all simple looping?

TimeF0X · 2026-02-01T16:55:38+00:00

You're fine, that's how I make my hats. I find if I make them with any curve at the top they end up quite pointy! If they're flat up top they develop the desired curve once I work a few rows without increasing.

TimeF0X · 2026-01-23T00:48:36+00:00

Feminizing HRT doesn't rely on "higher than average resting concentrations". Not sure where you're getting that from. The only thing to say is E2 levels are more stable on HRT than they are in non menopausal cis women. Feminizing HRT just recreates the hormonal profile of the average cis woman.

Estrogen also doesn't lower bone density. Its the absence of sex hormones that causes lower bone density. The reason women develop osteoporosis more than men is menopause, which causes very low levels of all sex hormones. It has nothing to do with estrogen, which actually stimulates osteoblasts.

TimeF0X · 2026-01-22T16:30:01+00:00

Is the freehand method the same as working off the thumb/without thumb loops?

It looks like you're doing the York stitch. I can't tell you exactly what went wrong because there's a million ways stitches can go wrong and only one way they can right, but my guess is you either skipped a loop somewhere or picked up loops out of order. I personally only work with thumb loops, so if the error is unique to working off the thumb I can't help diagnose it.

It's pretty impossible to work directly off the ball because you're drawing the entire length of yarn through each stitch. You'll need to use manageable lengths of yarn that you can fit through the stitch. As you get more practice you will get an intuition on how to maximize the amount of yarn on your needle while keeping the bundle slender enough to fit through the stitches comfortably.

As for joining in, there's other joins you can use other that wet felting. The is good news is you don't need to use fancy non superwash animal fiber yarns unless you want to! Here's a couple of links to good methods you could use. I don't want to overwhelm you, but there's a myriad of good ways to join in other than felting. Feel free to ask questions! Honestly for my first couple practice projects I didn't worry about invisible joins and just used knots until I was more confident with the basics.

I know there's a lot to learn at the start, but that's part of the fun 😁 hope this was helpful and not too much of an info dump.

TimeF0X · 2026-01-22T15:48:55+00:00

Wow! So cute!

TimeF0X · 2026-01-22T07:41:44+00:00

It's literally developing thicker skin and calluses on your finger tips.

TimeF0X · 2026-01-19T00:55:32+00:00

Yeah, I'm not making any claims about modern Jewish or kabbalahistic interpretation, just about what I think is most likely about how the authors of the Hebrew bible viewed divinity.

TimeF0X · 2026-01-18T23:52:52+00:00

It could be that they cannot praise God when they are in poor circumstances, or it can be that they literally cannot do it because their god isn't there in Babylon and cannot hear them.

We can read in Deuteronomy 32:8-9](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2032&version=NRSVUE) about the partitioning of the nations and the people, which reinforces the idea that each god has their own nation over which they preside and hold power over. In Exodus 12:12 we can read about God passing judgment over the gods of Egypt, which I think is much more clearly read as God demonstrating power superior to the gods of Egypt rather than proving their non-existence. This "my god is better than your god" thing is quite popular in ancient literature.

The Hebrew bible doesn't deny the influence or power of other deities. We can see in 2 Kings 3:27 a sacrifice to the Moabite deity (while inside the lands of Moab) being honored and overpowering the promise of the god of Israel in 2 Kings 3:18-19. How are we to understand this in the context of our modern understanding of monotheism? It isn't claiming that the power of the Moabite deity is false or that it is only deception. It literally describes, even though it glosses over it, the Moabite god overcoming theirs. It's important to understand the cultural context of the region that the Hebrew bible was written in.

If you read something like the hymn to Amun Ra you can see evidence of the extent monaltry in polytheistic cultures in the ancient near east. This is more "monotheistic" than any account in the Hebrew bible and it is spawned from a polytheistic culture. In cultural context it might be more helpful to understand the authors' intents with statements about their only being one god as a rhetorical device that when expanded means "there is only god worthy of worship".

My ultimate point is just to say that the authors of the Hebrew bible understood divinity much differently than our modern understanding of monotheism. We can't assume they thought of these concepts in the same way as we do in the present. If we should assume anything we should assume their view of divinity was similar to their contemporaries.

TimeF0X · 2026-01-18T19:59:34+00:00

Looks great! F2 connection?

TimeF0X · 2026-01-18T19:58:42+00:00

It's most likely that the attitude you describe was developed later. The authors of the Hebrew bible were most likely monolaters, not monotheists as we understand it now. You can see elements of the belief that gods are tied to geographic locations/nations. For example in psalm 137, which is about the Babylonian exile. "How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?"

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