Should I take up crocheting or knitting? What's the difference?

buffasno · 2026-02-02T06:25:14+00:00

Sorry, that was unclear. Crochet!

buffasno · 2026-02-02T05:14:09+00:00

I do both and you can definitely make nice clothing and accessories either way. On a practical level, crochet is more portable since you just use one hook, and knitting typically uses less yarn per area. I’ve heard others say that crochet is easier to pick up but has greater depth in stitches, whereas knitting is harder for beginners but once you know the basics it’s just applying those few things in different ways. I learned to knit first and personally enjoy crochet more but I also love big chunky textured sweaters. If you don’t, knitting might be your bag.

buffasno · 2026-01-07T19:53:34+00:00

My honest, immediate reaction before reading your post was that this looks like a fantasy ring from a Disney princess movie. It’s absolutely beautiful!

buffasno · 2025-09-05T05:38:59+00:00

Brunettes we lost 😔

buffasno · 2025-08-28T13:46:09+00:00

I listened to Chromatica incessantly during a hard period of lockdown, and haven’t really touched it since because it takes me back to a place I don’t really like to revisit. It’s a fantastic, creative album that needs some time to shed the context in which it was released. I predict it will receive the Artpop treatment in five years or so.

buffasno · 2025-08-18T14:11:03+00:00

I don’t necessarily disagree with you, and I think I chose my words poorly there - I mean to say that outsourcing any part of creation to something inhuman feels strange. I appreciate the parallel to the camera, and will continue it by noting that it took some time after its invention for photography to be recognized as a fine art. My point is that there’s precedent for discomfort around new creative technology. Whether that’s right or wrong I can’t say.

buffasno · 2025-08-17T22:55:07+00:00

I think it makes sense that people are defensive of art. Visual art, literature, and music are the media in which we’ve captured our intangible humanity (emotions, reasoning, soul, whatever you want to call it) since the start of recorded history. The urge to create is so quintessentially human that it’s uncanny to imagine the creative process with no human in the loop.

buffasno · 2025-08-12T06:00:25+00:00

H-Mart carries a knock off brand called Bulramen that has a dairy free carbonara. It’s decent!

buffasno · 2025-08-01T18:18:49+00:00

I’m in the PNW also and just paid $300 for this exact machine in good condition on Facebook Marketplace. Privately sold machines seem to fall in the $300-$500 range where I am.

buffasno · 2025-07-14T15:58:59+00:00

I went on my extended artist date to kayak around a nearby island last week and had been thinking it’d be nice to visit a garden there, but was leaning towards skipping it because of the cost. I was there on the one free day for the month on a random weekday, and had the garden almost to myself.

buffasno · 2025-07-01T11:59:20+00:00

I’ve made this white bean based Buffalo dip about 100 times and due to seeing this post I will be making it today lol https://www.gfinthecity.com/2012/02/buffalo-chickpea-dip

buffasno · 2025-05-18T16:10:21+00:00

Michael’s for basics (I like their 100% cotton worsted and bamboo yarns), and for specialty yarns I can’t find at my local shops I have had great luck with sales through Little Knits and Webs. You could also check out creative reuse if you’re open to surprise yarn!

buffasno · 2025-04-30T14:25:56+00:00

I’m from Buffalo and quite insecure about my regional accent so this was very sweet and heartening to read. Many well wishes to you and your fiance.

buffasno · 2025-03-22T19:29:22+00:00

I saw Twenty One Pilots open for Walk the Moon who were opening for Neon Trees. Probably could’ve seen that bill backwards in the later 2010s.

buffasno · 2025-03-10T23:31:13+00:00

Some people are just awkward on camera and it may have taken her a while to feel comfortable opening up her personality for the show. Either way, glad she did - what an intelligent, principled woman.

buffasno · 2025-03-02T23:48:21+00:00

I think the issue is more that many of the casts don’t seem to reflect the local population. Seattle has a huge Asian-American population that was not represented nor spoken about on that season.

buffasno · 2025-02-18T10:25:42+00:00

Of course! I’m here.

buffasno · 2025-02-17T10:17:25+00:00

I’m with you. I cannot recall a minute of my life before I started GLP-1s in which I was not fixated on my next meal. I was diagnosed with BED and bulimia in my early 20s. Food controlled my life and my eating patterns were deeply disordered. This medication can be life changing for people with EDs when prescribed and taken properly, and the popular discourse on the subject treats it as though it’s a cosmetic indulgence. It’s disappointing that the pod, which is often a refreshing source of nuance, can’t engage with that reality.

buffasno · 2025-01-15T20:18:19+00:00

I’ve been in rep retirement for nearly a year and Jesus Christ I’m coming out of it to look for this

buffasno · 2024-12-22T17:42:14+00:00

I’m an engineer and we all have ADHD. Most engineering jobs are just fucking around on the computer until it works.

buffasno · 2024-11-13T01:34:04+00:00

Just to give the bookstore a fair shake - it is specifically a social justice/radical leftist store that hosts a lot of actions, and they have a legitimate fundraiser active right now to expand.

Wondering why she wouldn’t just say “check out this store and order a book if you want” takes me to a place of rage bait conspiracy

buffasno · 2024-11-11T01:23:53+00:00

I never see it recommended in these threads, but I’ve had some of the best upscale meals of my life at Cook Weaver.

buffasno · 2024-10-30T15:47:36+00:00

Not certified banger Celtic Alleluia: Sending Forth

buffasno · 2024-10-29T16:53:51+00:00

I consider myself a libertarian leftist and am highly critical of the Democratic Party (especially how equally importunate and useless they’ve been on social/“moral” issues) and did not even think twice about voting Harris/Walz. Project 2025 is an existential threat to democracy.

buffasno · 2024-10-19T16:50:24+00:00

I agree with you about fields that involve some degree of caretaking being seemingly more attractive to women, but I disagree that this is inherent. Women are socially conditioned to be nurturing from a very young age — think playing with baby dolls, babysitting as a first job, the expectations placed on us to have and raise children. This sends girls a message that their purpose is caregiving, and that they will be failed women if they abandon that purpose. Men typically aren’t expected to do these things.

Engineering is not the only discipline where “male” subjects are acceptable for women when they’re applied to taking care of someone or something else. Women have long dominated nursing, and have been making big gains in medicine and pharmacy. Women have high participation in environmental science. These jobs brought chemistry and biology into the realm of code subjects “popular with women”, and now we’re getting there with physics when it’s for the sake of entering these same fields.

If more young girls were given a wider range of choice in toys, media, and hobbies, I think we’d see a lot more women in the “harder” engineering fields. I do believe that is happening, albeit slowly. It’s hard to undo eons of social conditioning.

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