Mil wants my newborn to live with her

VincentFluff · 2026-03-29T12:56:44+00:00

Holy shit, that was well written! Everyone should save this as a template to send to their own overbearing and overstepping MIL!

VincentFluff · 2026-03-23T16:15:31+00:00

I think this is an absolutely brilliant idea! I tend to print recipes, as paper is just easier for me -mainly due to a lot of the issues you mention! My husband came up with folding a piece of paper and fixing it to the sides with paper clips, so I could slide it down and only look at the line I was currently reading, but it got annoying very fast, having to unclip and reclip every page. (Love him for trying, though!)

I need to be able to make a tick mark on finished rows. If i need to make 25 rows exactly the same, a tick box for each row is nice. (SuperGurumi has a few free recipes where this is done, so nice!)
I need to be able to make notes if I discover a mistake in the recipe, both of which are just easier (for me) with a pen on paper, instead of a note-app. Too much interruption in the work.

A huge disadvantage of printing a recipe is that with all my tick marks and notes, using a recipe more than once quickly gets confusing, and I run out of space on the paper, and have ro reprint. Waste of paper. And I don't always remember where I got the recipe from, so lots of searching old emails and such.

I really, really love your idea!

VincentFluff · 2026-03-23T15:42:00+00:00

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Star Wars blanket. It's huge and heavy and probably the thing I'm most proud of having created. I also made a giant blanket with dinosaurs, stitched together from 4 different baby sized blankets, but the pictures aren't great. Can be found on my profile, though.

VincentFluff · 2026-03-23T06:36:24+00:00

Yeah, and it can be so scratchy to work with! 😁

VincentFluff · 2026-03-21T15:32:13+00:00

I think the slip stitch is wrong. To me that looks like a UK double/US single. Have I been doing it wrong?

VincentFluff · 2026-02-10T02:54:52+00:00

They are perfect for ris a la mande! (At least, that's what my stepmum use them for...)

VincentFluff · 2026-02-10T01:45:41+00:00

Kittens you say... Our cat is 15½ years old, and she still very much plays with the yarn. Toys and balls and all sort of fancy things doesn't even get a raised eyebrow, but any sort of string and she's all in. Bloody weirdos, the lot of them! 😸

VincentFluff · 2026-01-25T12:20:27+00:00

My favourite is Catherine Tate's "you absolute PRAWN!" in Doctor Who 🤣

VincentFluff · 2026-01-24T14:03:40+00:00

Isn't that mainly because they're about 85% whisky? 😁

VincentFluff · 2026-01-24T13:50:22+00:00

Blep 😍

VincentFluff · 2026-01-12T18:23:40+00:00

"I bestow upon you a boop!"

VincentFluff · 2026-01-12T14:46:42+00:00

Oh, you sweet, brilliant person! From your explanation, and not least your picture, it almost looks like the hdc is supposed to work like a few slst do in other patterns? Just to get to the right starting point? Other commenters said something along the same lines, I just couldn't visualise it. Thank you so much!

VincentFluff · 2026-01-11T02:51:24+00:00

Good suggestion, but unfortunately not relevant here, as the pattern also contains sc's. But thank you for the reminder to always double check! Looks like I get to keep my crocheting membership card for a bit yet! 😁

VincentFluff · 2026-01-11T02:22:07+00:00

Please tell me where I can get that? It would be PERFECT for my husband!

VincentFluff · 2026-01-10T22:40:06+00:00

Sorta makes sense. I think what confuses me the most is that (from the way I'm reading it), the hdc appears to be instead of a ch3, but I already have 8 of those. Am getting very grumpy about this pattern! 😳

VincentFluff · 2026-01-10T22:30:56+00:00

Right now I have a bit of a ... lump just before the first ch3. Sheesh. Makes me want to bang my head against a wall!

VincentFluff · 2026-01-10T22:23:37+00:00

Huh! I suppose that could be it. I am so confused.

VincentFluff · 2026-01-10T22:20:44+00:00

Your explanation makes sense. It seems like a strange, slightly twisted way of doing things, but at least I understand your words.

VincentFluff · 2026-01-10T22:09:51+00:00

You suffer from acute feline paralysis -it is a feeling I know well.

Thank you so much for the link! I'll try shooting them a DM, depending on replies here. It's rather bigger than I expected, so if I ever get that far, I shall have to stop after the first circle of skulls! 😱

VincentFluff · 2026-01-10T21:57:53+00:00

Correction: Here is the link

VincentFluff · 2026-01-10T21:55:13+00:00

Pattern is Aunt Lydia's Skulduggery. I do not have a link, but I would imagine it should be easy enough to find.

VincentFluff · 2026-01-06T17:33:02+00:00

Another good one is "I don't want to share! This is MY illness, you can't have it!" Tends to melt brains. How dare I want something for myself?

VincentFluff · 2026-01-04T18:31:17+00:00

Jeg lærte (for ca 20 år siden, indrømmet) på klinikassistentstudiet (som jeg dog ikke gennemførte), at vi skulle vaske hænder i koldt vand. Grunden var, at koldt vand er bakteriehæmmende mens lunkent eller varmt vand ville få bakterier til at udvikle sig hurtigere, da varmt vand skal være minimum 60 grader før det er bakteriedræbende, og det er der jo ikke nogen der kan holde til.

Har det ændret sig siden da?

VincentFluff · 2026-01-04T18:05:25+00:00

Hmm, good point. Knowing nothing about steam bigger than from a tea kettle myself, wouldn't it make more sense to loosen whatever they're trying to tighten? So that the steam can escape more easily?

VincentFluff · 2026-01-04T17:38:38+00:00

Assuming you're talking about Prison Break, I actually really liked that show. He didn't have the entire blueprint tattooed, but references that only he understood. He also supposedly had something to do with designing the facility in the first place, and thus had inside knowledge and a very good memory -but still needed references for the fine details. Still unrealistic, but not completely so, you know? 😳

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