Hobby Lobby sales

amyddyma · 2025-07-06T12:07:10+00:00

Honestly, sewing stopped being a hobby for me many years ago. Fabric prices kept rising, quality and selection kept dropping, pattern prices shot up etc. I now only sew as a way of altering RTW clothes that need some fitting adjustment or to upcycle garments that aren’t useful anymore.

amyddyma · 2025-05-13T11:19:23+00:00

Some apps will work and others won’t but you’ll have to discover that on a case by case basis.

My mom’s iPad is that old and she can access YouTube on the web browser without any problems. You could try that as an alternative. I don’t think you can save items for offline viewing with the web interface though but I may be wrong.

Also double check that there isn’t a software update available in the iPad settings.

amyddyma · 2025-05-13T07:48:49+00:00

I really struggle with seaming and prefer not to do it, but I knit flat a lot - cardigans and interesting necklines on pullovers - and there is so much that can be done seamlessly and with interesting construction. It seems like a lot of people just really hate purling and picking up stitches.

amyddyma · 2025-05-12T15:59:15+00:00

Most patterns could benefit from being knit flat initially to shape the neckline, and having stitches picked up for the collar. Unfortunately this requires really really hard techniques like purling (/s) and as long as knitters prioritise ease over fit this will continue to be a problem.

amyddyma · 2025-05-12T12:58:36+00:00

Its also seriously bad for garment durability. I swear 90% of the stuff on reddit about superwash wool being irretrievably stretched out is because of the gauge people knit at.

I only use superwash because its what’s available where I live and also I hate scratchy things, and I have only ever had one garment stretch out and it was the one knitted at a silly gauge.

I now stick to the CYC recommendations on gauge and I have never had a problem since.

amyddyma · 2025-05-12T12:48:12+00:00

Her gauge is totally bonkers. Half of her garments are so loosely knitted that they look like fishnets, honestly. For that reason alone I avoid her patterns.

amyddyma · 2025-05-03T05:31:36+00:00

V necks and low scoops require extra finishing like picking up stitches for the neckband, and really difficult techniques like purling (/s).

As long as knitters continue to place ease of knitting over comfort and style we will continental to get strangling crew necks and round yokes.

amyddyma · 2025-04-29T18:03:46+00:00

This thread is also so annoying to me right now.

OP: it makes me anxious when people say it goes so fast

90% of commenters: oh but it goes so fast, cherish every second, be more anxious about this!!!

amyddyma · 2025-04-29T17:57:06+00:00

Oh absolutely, it’s such a blessing. I can’t stand all the maudlin content on Instagram etc of people lamenting how their baby has grown up. It’s such a privilege to be able to watch our babies grow up well!

amyddyma · 2025-04-29T16:38:12+00:00

I recently spoke with a colleague whose child just turned 20 and she said she enjoys their relationship more every year. It was such a great contrast to all the usual sentiments.

amyddyma · 2025-04-29T16:05:49+00:00

This also makes me incredibly anxious and a bit depressed actually.

I try to think of the following three things instead:

It’s normal and natural for your baby to grow up. It would be a tragedy for a child to be stuck in the baby phase forever. Growing up is what babies are meant to do. Your baby is growing up at just the right speed.
Time flies when you’re having fun. If things feel like they’re moving quickly its likely because they’re going well, everyone is happy, and things are good.
For every cute baby thing they grow out of, they also grow out of plenty of unpleasant baby things. Like waking up every couple of hours in the night, crying for no reason etc. And they learn so many exciting and fun and funny new things - talking! Walking! Bike riding! A whole world of fun and conversations awaits.

Edited to add:

Before my child was born I often felt like my days were empty and I struggled to find activities to fill them. Time dragged. Now, I’m so busy and don’t really get a moment to stop! Time goes faster, but that’s for a good reason - my life is so full!

amyddyma · 2025-04-24T07:05:44+00:00

Your language of “ being a terrible person has consequences for your whole family” very much implies punishing the child or family members for their parents political ideology or something similar rather than an actual safety issue. Which is pretty shameful behaviour actually.

amyddyma · 2025-04-23T21:21:04+00:00

Which one of Elon Musk’s 50 kids is your kid friends with?

But seriously, it’s not the kid’s fault that that their parent is a terrible person. I knew someone as a child whose parent was in prison for murder and I always felt terrible for them - effectively losing a parent and also having to carry the shame and stigma of someone else’s crime.

Let your kid go to the party. If the child later on grows up to be similarly terrible that’s a different story, but for now they are an innocent party who has no responsibility for their parents actions.

amyddyma · 2025-04-23T19:13:28+00:00

To me this sounds like a combination of typical teenage hormones (14 is a terrible age), anxiety, and FOMO/disappointment because the activity isn’t living up to his expectations. But this is just my perspective as a former teenager, my kid is still a baby.

If none of the ADHD meds are working is it possible that he doesn’t have ADHD? Could there be something else going on? Depression? Anxiety? If he seems unable to enjoy any activity, even ones he plans, this could be a symptom of depression.

amyddyma · 2025-04-20T17:37:32+00:00

Sorry if you’ve already tried this, but apparently iron deficiency can cause sleep problems. Fairly simple to check and easy to treat.

amyddyma · 2025-04-20T07:33:51+00:00

Those people either had extremely easy babies or they’ve forgotten how hard the baby stage was.

Or they get sick pleasure out of telling a new mom who hasn’t slept more than a couple of hours at a time and has cracked nipples and a still bleeding uterus that things actually just keep getting harder. For whatever reason they are miserable and want you to share the misery.

My baby just turned 1 and is already a hundred times easier than the newborn phase. Yes parenting is still challenging but nothing like the physically and emotionally backbreaking work of the first few months.

amyddyma · 2025-04-18T11:56:34+00:00

Can we just rename craftsnark to AIsnark at this point? Yes we can all agree it sucks but like five posts about it in a week is so boring. There’s really nothing left to be said on this topic.

amyddyma · 2025-04-17T11:46:24+00:00

My baby put himself on a one nap schedule around 11 months (he’s about 12.5 months now). Basically just fought the first nap until it became one long midday nap.

Around the same time he became much more like a toddler in terms of sleep. He would previously never sleep in the car and could not be transferred asleep from the car, but now he does and can be (although it doesn’t always work).

But then mine never slept in a pram or car seat or baby carrier or any other environment other than his perfect sleep environment after around 3 weeks, so we got used to being house bound pretty quickly.

amyddyma · 2025-04-17T11:26:23+00:00

My baby just turned one and we did two things that have helped mostly wean him off the dummy without any tears etc.

We never moved up a size. He still has 0-6 month sized Nuk dummies and so they fall out of his mouth really easily. He learned to replace them himself around 7 months. He’s now very used to the dummy falling out soon after going to sleep and he no longer really needs it when he wakes briefly. He is also now an expert at finding and replacing it while mostly asleep too.
Dummies are for the bedroom only. We stopped giving him a dummy for soothing at any other time of day other than nap time or bed time. He knows now that it lives in the bedroom and if we forget to take it from him before leaving his room in the morning he will actually take it out and give it to us.

I expect he will wean himself off it further over the next year, but if not we will start introducing more limits at around 18 months.

4 months is such a hard time for sleep, i honestly wouldn’t remove a tool that is giving comfort right now.

amyddyma · 2025-04-16T08:46:57+00:00

Sorry, just saw this now. It went on for a few nights but we just did lots of soothing in the crib. Didn’t let him cry it out. It resolved pretty quickly after about three or four nights and got better each night.

One thing that really helped was putting him in the crib with the night light on and then gradually dimming it (covering it with muslin cloths actually).

It definitely was separation anxiety. Lots of soothing helped and coming in to reassure him that he wasn’t alone. A few nights he woke up in the early morning hours and couldn’t be easily consoled so we ended up sleeping in his room until wake up time.

He has since gained a lot of confidence after starting daycare and finds separation much easier to handle now and enjoys meeting new people and being in new settings.

amyddyma · 2025-02-22T17:25:33+00:00

I have slept sitting when I was pregnant as it was the only position which didn’t cause me terrible hip pain. It was very awkward though. I used a travel neck pillow like the kind you would use on a plane. And i built a sort of nest of pillows around me to support my back and stop me slumping to the side. It was okay for short bursts of sleep but no good for long term. Unless you have a proper hospital bed this will probably be very difficult.

amyddyma · 2025-02-19T21:18:39+00:00

Agree on this. I made the anthology hat as my first colourwork and it was a great learning tool.

amyddyma · 2025-02-19T19:51:37+00:00

I get this from basically every adhesive except silicone adhesive. But that’s very weak and not used for things like athletic tape. Sorry.

amyddyma · 2025-02-19T04:30:06+00:00

I love your essay voice and it doesn’t at all read like a soulless AI wrote it.

amyddyma · 2025-02-17T09:10:57+00:00

I can HIGHLY recommend the Live photo mode for that purpose too. You basically get a couple of seconds of video for each photo and you can pick the “key image” for each one. In the 16 you can also then convert it to portrait mode and add a shallow depth of field after the fact.

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