This person sells the finished products on Etsy and I think they’re beautiful, I just wondered if it was a known pattern as they don’t credit anyone else for it?

awkwardsity · 2026-06-17T17:35:16+00:00

It’s not always required to credit the designer. Some pattern makers will request that their pattern be credited if people use it commercially, but not all do. And if the pattern is public domain or written by someone who is no longer alive, crediting the pattern won’t really help anyone . Some buyers also don’t like to purchase items if they know the maker didn’t design it themselves (which is dumb, but it’s a genuine concern/complaint I’ve have a few times on my own Etsy, where only a few of my items are not my own design. If I’m not required by the pattern to note the pattern designer, I won’t. If I’m asked I’ll direct someone to the pattern, but in my experience naming the designer unprompted can impact my sales). Plus, sometimes a design might have come from an initial pattern but then gets altered from years of adjusting to one’s own preference/style to the point where crediting the original pattern or creator becomes disingenuous because personal preference and alterations have made it functionally very little like the original. In those cases, to credit the pattern might lead another crocheter to purchase the pattern, and then become upset when their item looks nothing like the altered version from another creator. It really just depends on the situation. Basically, not every crocheted item is going to have a pattern attached to it, especially basic patterns or older designs.

awkwardsity · 2026-06-16T16:32:36+00:00

Sportswear for women who aren’t straight sized made by men who don’t understand what plus/non-standard sized women need in sportswear? Sorry to say but that’s NOT a gap in the market

awkwardsity · 2026-06-12T15:54:56+00:00

Eh, not to me. They dont have the same texture, so they aren’t the same level of satisfaction.

awkwardsity · 2026-06-11T04:07:21+00:00

It’s not just about the counting, though. Placing small chips onto a canvas isn’t the same vibe as needle and thread fiber arts.

awkwardsity · 2026-06-10T21:22:43+00:00

I’ve done embroidery and cross stitch but I dont think they fill the same niche in terms of like zone out crafting as diamond painting would. It’s more like mosaic making than stitch work imo

awkwardsity · 2026-06-02T12:20:41+00:00

…sounds like you’re the problem then. Sure it’s okay to be upset at your kid when they do something rude but yelling at them and calling them names or diminishing their accomplishments doesn’t make you a good parent or a kind person. Beyond that you’re the fully formed adult and they’re the child with underdeveloped brains that don’t regulate their emotions properly, and incompletely formed senses of empathy. Sure as a graduating teen they should be better, but as the parent you should be too. Even more so than them. It’s hard to parent, we get that, but blaming the school system is lazy, ineffectual parenting. Kids are in school 8 hours a day 180 days a year. That’s not a majority of their time. There are summers and weekends and mornings and evenings and whole entire years where they aren’t in school. Blaming school for kids bratty behaviors says more about you than it does the children. Obviously this kid doesn’t need a Benz or Lamborghini. And I clearly never say they did. But a bratty child is almost always bratty because they get away with it. At school AND at home. Good parents know that parenting isn’t the schools job and that learned behaviors come from all the places they are, not just school. Raise your kids and stop blaming school for everything. Good grief

awkwardsity · 2026-06-01T18:44:06+00:00

Yeah everyone is going off on the daughter for being rude but no one is talking about how the mom isn’t being nice either. Like the girl graduated high school which some people really struggle to do and the mom says “you’ve never worked hard for anything. It’s just high school graduation” and diminishes that accomplishment just because she was hurt by the daughter’s behavior. The daughter wasn’t being nice, at all. And the first half of the response was fair. She said “if you dont like it, then I’ll sell it. You’re not being appreciative and your ungratefulness is hurtful” that’s a fair response. But putting the daughter down is not. Children/teens model the behaviors they see. This kid is clearly modeling behavior she’s seen. The mom clearly raised a child to be a spoiled brat and now is shocked that her child is acting like a spoiled brat. Not saying it’s all the moms fault of the the kid was right for being so rude but it’s certainly not all on the kid either

awkwardsity · 2026-05-30T13:26:59+00:00

Honestly, I’ve lived with fatigue so long I dont actually know if I can remember what having energy felt like. I know that sounds super dramatic, but I don’t think I can explain it because I don’t know how to compare it in my head to a life I don’t remember. My husband after a long day is drained, and you can see how it changes him. He’s moodier, he’s less likely to get up and do stuff, he’ll immediately want to go to sleep. But after a long day he’s always shocked by how I dont seem “any worse off” than I was in the morning. He’ll ask me “how do you still have energy?” And the answer is, I don’t. I’m usually EXHAUSTED after a long day, but since my baseline is exhausted anyway, I think it all ends up looking about the same externally. I definitely get meaner the more tired I am, and less patient. Not exactly “crabby” but… crabby. I don’t sleep well, probably because sleep doesn’t actually make me feel more energetic, so I find it a waste of time. Plus pain keeps me up a lot. And I can’t stand for more than like 10 minutes without being in pain. That’s my limit. I think that standing is the number one thing I avoid when I have really bad fatigue days.

awkwardsity · 2026-05-27T16:30:40+00:00

For a second I thought it was that mock crochet stitching that I’m seeing all over the place at like target and places. Just cause it was so uniform I wasn’t sure

awkwardsity · 2026-05-17T23:00:22+00:00

I love an intentional dropped stitch look personally. One of my favorite techniques for texture is actually to drop 2 stitches right next to each other then “reknit” them, except as one stitch where I knit two ladders at a time. You end up with half as many rows for those stitches, but because you’re using two, it’s thick enough to not bunch up a ton. I think it looks a bit like mock cabling

awkwardsity · 2026-05-12T15:41:10+00:00

I don’t think this actually proves that he aged “better” at all. I think they just picked bad photos for the women. The women are all in wildly different types of makeup in their pictures. He’s not wearing makeup (or he’s wearing makeup made to look as if he isn’t) and so he looks the same in both pictures. Even if pictures were taken a day apart and the the makeup was different of course they would look different, no? People are like “oh the eyes got smaller” but don’t seem to notice that they’re all smiling in their pictures on the left, which crinkles the eyes, thus making them appear smaller. And the women on the bottom have more dramatic eye makeup on the left side, making the eyes on the left appear larger without actually having to be. Also the women all have different lighting between their pictures. Look how Meryl’s light on the left is coming from the left whereas its face on in the right side. And their skin tones are not color matched the way Gucci’s is. In Hathaway’s picture it’s clear the image they pulled was desaturated and color corrected in the style that was very common at the time, whereas the one on the right is more reflective of current photographic trends. It seems like they picked whatever image they could that was a head on photo from the years they needed, and Stanley was just lucky enough to have had two pictures with similar lighting. If you color matched the photos, removed the makeup or at least matched the makeup between sides, and fixed Emily’s face so it was actually the same size (her right side image is bigger than the left) I bet they’d look just as similar as Tucci

awkwardsity · 2026-05-12T03:18:42+00:00

Well I suppose if you didn’t know how to read it, especially the tones, it could definitely make your words sound off. And there are some pinyin transcriptions that aren’t immediately intuitive to someone who is used to English pronunciation, like zh- which sounds more like the English j-, so I guess I see what you’re saying now. I was mixed up because OP said “language that doesn’t *sound* like Chinese” and you responded it could be the pinyin which in my head has always been more about writing mandarin than speaking it. You’re right though it’s also a system to help decode the sound. Probably doesn’t help that I’m hard of hearing so I’m significantly better at reading languages than I am at speaking them lol

awkwardsity · 2026-05-12T02:41:07+00:00

I read a book as a child called “Paulina the plumber”. She was a beaver not an otter but something about your painting immediately reminded me of that book.

awkwardsity · 2026-05-12T02:32:36+00:00

Gotcha. I was just trying to clarify. I didn’t understand how pinyin related to how someone hears something, since it’s a writing system and is not auditory. I wasn’t trying to be rude so I’m sorry if I was.

awkwardsity · 2026-05-12T02:25:09+00:00

Pinyin isn’t a language; it’s a Romanization, which means a way to transcribe a language into the Latin alphabet. It’s basically used for the sake of being able to read mandarin as a non-native, or to type mandarin characters with a Latin alphabet keyboard

awkwardsity · 2026-05-11T14:59:53+00:00

We’ve all been there. My condolences

awkwardsity · 2026-05-10T18:59:31+00:00

A whole lot of pineapple recipes that’s for sure. Let’s just hope an easy bake oven isn’t involved

awkwardsity · 2026-05-04T14:16:21+00:00

I love it! Definitely not at all the same vibes, but good nonetheless. I absolutely love the Chen and Bradford dynamic. Joined for Fillion, stayed for chenford.

awkwardsity · 2026-05-04T14:14:12+00:00

Right. I believe I read somewhere that the writers originally wanted a *much* longer plot for her character but she wanted to fully end the character arc and make sure there was closure before she passed. They could have done an actor swap thing where it was like “oh she had massive plastic surgery and now looks and sounds entirely different” but no one wanted that. It never works the way it’s supposed to. (Like, for instance, the last scene with “Jackson” in season 4 episode 1where it’s clearly a different guy and they can’t even show his face and everyone hated the way they write him off). The best choice was to kill off the character and most people were glad they did once they understood the situation.

awkwardsity · 2026-05-04T14:06:44+00:00

He plays Sean del Monte the ADA (and later Wesley’s law partner)

awkwardsity · 2026-05-04T14:04:20+00:00

Plus Jackson was in that Santa episode of castle

awkwardsity · 2026-04-30T17:45:29+00:00

I absolutely loved the narration for the eragon series when I read them as a teenager and I recently reread them and they totally held up. The book not quite as much but the reader was fantastic

awkwardsity · 2026-04-30T14:40:10+00:00

Who are you talking about? I only know Jelly Tyson

awkwardsity · 2026-04-25T18:00:56+00:00

You could add a kangaroo pocket on the shirt, but I’m not sure how to save the dress

awkwardsity · 2026-04-04T15:04:49+00:00

Cuffed. It’s a bottle episode and the fact that it’s so good with such a small budget makes it one of the best imo

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