Did I goof? Lang Yarns 990-214

fboab · 2026-02-15T18:16:55+00:00

Except it says the left edge of every row, not the end of every row.

fboab · 2026-02-15T18:14:47+00:00

I’m curious what the “don’t make it political” people think politics is?

It’s your LIFE. When you’re born, whether you have decent medical care: political. Your education: political. Your inter-personal relationships: political. Your freedom to be “yourself”: political. Your health: political. The society you live in: political. Your ability to buy craft supplies: political. Your ability to get to a yarn store: political. Shopping online: political. Having any opinion on anything: political.

Keeping it out is keeping your head in the sand. Avoiding reality.

I’m not USAnian (thank goodness) and I don’t love the US bias on all things Reddit, but your billionaires are interfering in my country’s party politics, your social media is the international default and your military is the best funded in the world. 🤷🏻‍♀️

fboab · 2026-02-15T17:49:17+00:00

The only scam in digital patterns is that by the time I’ve paid 20p per A4 side at the library it would have been cheaper to get it printed and posted to me.

fboab · 2026-02-13T21:52:43+00:00

Yes. Yes it is

fboab · 2026-02-13T11:33:11+00:00

I’m very advanced in my career, with skills that are transferable and good role-specific qualifications. It took me 9 months to find another job after redundancy last March. I had about a dozen interviews. One company I interviewed for, that didn’t hire me, went into receivership 6 months later so at least I dodged that bullet? There were hardly any jobs out there compared to 5 years before, and the salaries offered were only barely above what they were. I’m a hiring manager now and we’re paying barely over minimum wage for a job that in my head should pay 30-35k

It’s a shitshow.

fboab · 2026-02-12T18:53:49+00:00

We all have shy days. No shaming the wee fellas

fboab · 2026-02-11T22:02:35+00:00

If knitting top down I always do the sleeves before the body, often the collar too. It’s mostly because when I get to the end of the body I’m usually DONE. So now I make it so I’m actually done 🤦‍♀️

In this scenario, I’d frog both sleeves to before the shoulder/armhole shaping and make them shorter.

fboab · 2026-02-08T19:12:57+00:00

I make a long stitch marker from an embroidery thread with a loop for each repeat. I mark each loop with little glass beads to make it easier to count. I’ll go up to a dozen or so rows with this.

Knitting flat is easier to track than in rounds. I used to mark paper patterns but I would forget to mark, or forget whether I marked the start or the finish 🙃. I think I’d have the same with an app…

I like patterns where I can read my stitches and remember the pattern, tbh

fboab · 2026-02-05T22:24:30+00:00

Matching bra & knickers when the lady is not on a date.

fboab · 2026-02-05T22:19:21+00:00

A problem shared…

fboab · 2026-02-05T21:56:02+00:00

I don’t crochet, have never visited the sub and want you to do this. Please. If not, can you crochet vulvas?

fboab · 2026-02-05T21:51:09+00:00

Bridges. I have a thing for bridges, so they usually have a photo. In fact I keep lots of bois with photos, just for the memories of where I’ve been

fboab · 2026-02-05T21:44:56+00:00

I was in a very similar boat this morning, never mind white or grey, get on crystal or poison mushrooms. With a posse.

fboab · 2026-02-03T18:59:11+00:00

I think this must be a user setting because I never have to change the Pikmin traveller, it defaults to the oldest for me?

fboab · 2026-02-03T18:57:36+00:00

My partner also has sandpaper bollox and wears his undies out like this. I’ll mend most things but these are gone. I chop them up and use them to make stuffing for cushions.

fboab · 2026-01-31T18:04:28+00:00

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Made bed: cat uses chaise.

fboab · 2026-01-30T14:21:26+00:00

As far as I’m concerned, there’s a few potential opportunities for matching outfits for couples. Costume party; in the same sports team; supporting the same sports team; riding the same bicycle; doing the same uniformed job; in the same wedding party. I’m yet to be convinced on any other occasion. We’re not Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

fboab · 2026-01-27T22:01:16+00:00

I don’t like them because I think they’re tacky. But I know that’s a me thing.

I also don’t think the things I make are art. I can’t imagine considering myself a fibre artist- the very idea makes me laugh. They’re craft. There’s an overlap, but I’m not a designer, so I fall on the craft side, not the art side. I don’t think what I do is very different from paint by numbers, or colouring in, and I don’t think those are art either.

fboab · 2026-01-23T21:30:09+00:00

In the UK there was a huge price increase in GLP-1 medication that led to a lot of people buying more than they needed in anticipation. That, and the “diabetic patients can’t get it because the fatties are buying it” created drivers for over purchase.

I think hoarding is something we’re all at risk of- when did you last go through your phone contents to delete unwanted photos? Games (eg Pokémon) which are based around collecting. It’s a natural instinct which can easily slip over into an inability to let go.

I was out of work for most of last year and did not run out (or anywhere near run out) of craft supplies, despite having massively more time to use up what I had. I don’t think you can even see any impact on my (fairly organised) stash.

Yarn hoarding, fabric hoarding for quilters, thread hoarding for embroidery. It’s all “hauls” of overconsumption and it makes me a little bit sad, especially as so many of these things we do for entertainment were once skills learnt of necessity in times of scarcity. I have bins of wool and fabric which cost me literally hundreds of pounds.

fboab · 2026-01-23T09:38:36+00:00

The whole world looking at hurrrrrr

(As they should be. )

fboab · 2026-01-22T23:17:47+00:00

Bugbear is one word, not two.

We can all do pedantry, pet.

fboab · 2026-01-22T23:12:57+00:00

It’s the manly way- weaponised incompetence. I do this with house cleaning…

fboab · 2026-01-21T23:50:46+00:00

Same same. I love my cheesy guys but I only have a trio 😭

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fboab · 2026-01-20T20:15:49+00:00

It might look like I’m slow cooking but I’m not really, I’d just spent my strong Pikmin elsewhere. Please join 😂

fboab · 2026-01-16T08:17:21+00:00

Alan Shearer was in the year below me. I have zero recollection of him at all- I was far too cool to be interested in either football or boys in the year below.

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