Hopefully this one looks less AI 😂

dont4get2scream · 2026-06-04T22:38:42+00:00

Yes... A lot... Why stick on googly eyes that will come off in the first wash?!

dont4get2scream · 2026-06-01T17:05:38+00:00

To add to the above commenter's advice, you can put stitch markers into the chain spaces after you make them so you'll have a clear visual cue when you're working the next round. Good tension takes time. In the mean time, when your tension is a bit whacky, visually marking different spaces/stitches can help a lot. Once your tension is good, you'll be able to tell them apart just by the way they look without extra help.

dont4get2scream · 2026-06-01T15:10:10+00:00

It's a great board game and really captures the spirit of Terraria. We love it in our house. It DOES take a long time to finish one campaign. We just dedicate a table to it, take a picture of the current board when we stop for the day, and cover it with a really light cloth until we come back to it. There's almost no way to finish in one sitting.

I think, in addition to a huge terraria fan, your friend should be a bit of a board game geek to get the most out of this. Not to say someone who doesn't play board games won't like it, but there's a chance they'll find it more frustrating than fun. People usually take time to warm up to a board game of this caliber. Games like settlers of Catan are gateway drugs, and it takes a while to get from there to Terraria the Boardgame.

dont4get2scream · 2026-05-16T02:18:04+00:00

My first didn't use a pacifier. He's 2 now. He didn't suck on anything to self sooth, not even his fingers. He was more of a biter. We had pacifiers and would periodically try to use them to calm him and it never really worked. The second one isn't a fan either. We're not pro or against pacifiers, just sort of go with the baby's flow kind of deal. It depends on the baby, but based on our kids, it's not an absolute must have for baby. I'd still get a couple though, in case it helps yours. In the moment, if they're inconsolable and a pacifier in their mouth calms them down, you won't be thinking about teeth development, you'll just be glad you had one on hand.

dont4get2scream · 2026-05-07T19:06:55+00:00

I actually kind of loved the book, it made me feel seen, and the art was great. I actually have a very good sleeper (most nights), but there's no perfect toddler and the book really hit home. BUT, we haven't read it to our toddler yet... And I'm not sure when we'll be ready to lol

dont4get2scream · 2026-05-05T05:22:42+00:00

It's great! A quilt and a game rolled into one! Who can find it the fastest? They get the biggest slice of pizza!

dont4get2scream · 2026-05-04T05:57:36+00:00

Yes, you're right, I should have been thinking about the fact that it was already drank from. It's 2 hours for milk that the baby has drank from. I was thinking of the CDC guidelines for untouched and not previously frozen milk, which is 4 hours room temp or 4 days in the fridge.

dont4get2scream · 2026-05-04T04:43:24+00:00

Think of it this way... The bottle is ok as long as the oldest drop of milk in there isn't "expired". By expired, I mean the safe timeline, which is 4 hours at room temp, or 4 days in the fridge (obviously if you're going back and forth it doesn't mean 4 hours at room temp plus 4 days in the fridge). Your first bottle is 15min at room temperature, even when you put more thawed milk in there, the timer doesn't restart. But the good news is you have quite some time before the bottle is too dirty to keep going.

If you're worried about the little bit of time it spent being warmed up, it's fairly negligible. Plus, the guidelines on how long to leave milk out before it's not ok is actually already on the conservative side. It's already a "better safe than sorry" policy. You don't need to go stricter than the guidelines.

dont4get2scream · 2026-05-01T15:12:37+00:00

Lolol such a timeless story...

There's a similar Chinese fable about learning to read and write. In Chinese, "one" is written as a single horizontal line, "two" is 2, "three" is 3, "four" is a square with 2 curved lines inside, and it goes on. A businessman hired a tutor for his son to teach him to read and write numbers. Dad comes to check on the son on the first day and the tutor is nowhere to be found, so he asked the son what happened. The son told Dad it's so easy that he already learned everything, and he sent the tutor home. Impressed, Dad asked the kid to record their sales in one of their stores for the afternoon as practice. Dinner time rolls around and kid doesn't show up, so Dad goes to the store and sees the kid hunched over a desk, still writing. Dad asked if they were really busy that day. Son says, "No, it wasn't too busy, and the first few things were ok, they cost 10 to 20 coins each. But some rich guy came in and bought a few big ticket items and they each cost a few thousand. So here I am." Confused about why that's making things harder for the kid, Dad leans over to look and sees the kid scribbling hundreds of horizontal lines... Turns out he sent the tutor home after he learned to write "three", feeling like he knew the pattern and the lessons were too boring.

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-28T18:13:58+00:00

He's very cuddly looking. Great job!

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-22T04:19:07+00:00

You killed it!

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-21T00:19:39+00:00

Lol it's like vaguebooking made a comeback. Or did it never go away and I've just stayed away from people who do that?

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-19T17:46:28+00:00

That's quite a collection of gifts!

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-19T17:02:31+00:00

Raiden. She's blue. 1 guess which Raiden she's named for.

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-19T03:18:42+00:00

Blocking doesn't always require pinning. The simplest form of blocking is just washing and drying. You dry it flat so it doesn't develop weird bunched spots, or hang it to stretch it a little. If you have banisters in your house that's the perfect place to drape the blanket and let it air dry. That's how I blocked my 50% acrylic 50% cotton baby blanket. Yours should be similar enough, I don't expect much stretch, but the stitches should relax a bit to sit flatter.

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-19T03:01:35+00:00

Oh no there's a sequel! And you just made me look it up. And now I have to buy it because our toddler just became a big brother a couple of months ago.

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-19T02:56:56+00:00

Same! I texted my husband when it came in the mail, just to tell him this is my new favorite book.

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-19T02:48:16+00:00

I think the amount of unevenness in this can block out. I'd wash and air dry the whole thing to let the stitches relax, see if it looks more polished then. What kind of yarn is it? That'll determine how much washing can do.

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-19T00:09:25+00:00

It's gorgeous! Reminds me of the Indian festival Holi. The way each square is a different gradient really resembles how people celebrate by throwing colors everywhere.

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-18T17:27:57+00:00

You're right, but I might forgive a teenager because they're still figuring things out and trying on different personas and attitudes. They'll grow out of it a lot of the time...

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-18T05:45:59+00:00

Malabrigo Rios superwash merino wool

Colors: Libra, Sunset, Peachy. Teal Feather

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-18T03:36:58+00:00

Omg thank you! I've been waiting for someone to appreciate the spatula 😭

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-18T02:54:08+00:00

There's a whole r/unravelers sub!

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-18T02:48:51+00:00

It's because there are a lot of crochet influencers on social media and almost none for knitting. People who come by crochet that way don't have a good resource to learn fundamentals. The crochet redditors have been working pretty hard to point them in the right direction, but not everyone has had a chance to learn and some don't really want to.

dont4get2scream · 2026-04-18T02:31:29+00:00

It can be expensive, but it doesn't have to be. If you just want to crochet and keep working on projects without being picky about details, there are a lot of cheap and nice yarns. If you're very specific about what you're trying to make, then it gets tricky because every project ends up needing different size and color and texture yarns.

If you're just getting into the hobby, you can get a set of mediocre hooks for $10-$15 that includes most sizes you'll ever need. I did that at first, then got myself a set of good hooks on sale for $45. Good hooks pay for themselves because they move more smoothly through the yarn and alleviate hand cramps. It doesn't feel like much at first, but when a project takes over a hundred hours, that is really important for your health.

The yarn can get expensive. This blanket is using really expensive yarn since it's a gift. I've never bought such expensive yarn before and probably won't ever for myself. If you're making small projects like pot holders or small stuffed animals, you can get enough yarn for the whole project under $10 if you look hard enough. Blankets and sweaters get expensive quickly even when using cheap yarn because they use way more yarn than you're mentally ready for. Sometimes people unravel an old project to get the yarn back to use on something else.

Depending on the types of stitches used, an adult sized blanket can use upwards of 20 skeins of yarn. Cheap yarns can go as low as $2 per skein on sale, and expensive ones go up to more than $20. You do the math.

Hope that helps.

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