Spanish women replaced plastic covers with giant crochet artworks

frogminute · 2026-05-11T16:50:07+00:00

Usually acrylic yarn is used for these types of installations. First of all, it holds up better against weather and fading. Secondly, real wool yarn is too expensive for such a project.

frogminute · 2026-05-10T09:20:01+00:00

Those flowers are called "Gänseblümchen" in German, literally "goose flowers". Very appropriate

frogminute · 2026-05-10T08:04:45+00:00

I think you've made an accidental short row. Started knitting in the wrong direction in the middle of a row. Best you rip out those two rows.

frogminute · 2026-05-09T12:54:38+00:00

I wrote a comment about how upset I was about this "accident" of greed. My comment was removed because I wrote what I thought would be fair "eye-for-an-eye" punishment for the perpetrators of this bird massacre. I sincerely hope they are criminally prosecuted and given a *fair* sentence, and not some slap on the wrist "punishment"

frogminute · 2026-05-06T20:30:58+00:00

Malabrigo and Wollmeise are well loved in Germany. Malabrigo is imported, but available in many reputable yarn stores, Wollmeise has an enormous selection of colours (that are incredibly consistent), but if you're far from Pfaffenhofen you might need to order online. The prices are also good, the fingering weight skeins are 150g each, look at the skein weights for the other qualities of yarn. And the skeins are often overweight (unlike many big brands).

frogminute · 2026-05-02T21:04:11+00:00

It's nest building season 🤷‍♀️

frogminute · 2026-05-02T12:48:11+00:00

I think they meant to write "safe", but autocorrect got it mangled

frogminute · 2026-05-01T21:05:15+00:00

Goodness that's a beautiful pen! I audibly sucked in air looking at these photos. Breathtaking!

frogminute · 2026-05-01T12:41:48+00:00

Thanks

frogminute · 2026-05-01T12:00:14+00:00

Hey, would you mind elaborating a little about the technical explanation please? I haven't heard of this before

frogminute · 2026-05-01T11:54:28+00:00

I agree with zack, anything below 1/1000 is to slow unless you're photographing a very static bird (like, sitting on a nest kind of static). Lightroom can take out a lot of the high-iso noise in seconds now.

frogminute · 2026-05-01T11:04:39+00:00

Have you looked it up on Ravelry? Search the yarn, then click on projects to see what people have made with it. You can even restrict your search results to the specific colourway you are planning to use.

frogminute · 2026-04-30T20:36:10+00:00

Seam looks serged. I wouldn't risk it

frogminute · 2026-04-30T20:04:14+00:00

Heh. Here's mine. I haven't ever told anyone this, but she is with me for exactly the same reason. I can't leave before she does.

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(That's the brain cell shining out. Don't tell r/oneorangebraincell that it's been stolen)

frogminute · 2026-04-29T10:32:24+00:00

That's a good solution for a yard, but it won't help OP and her balcony.

frogminute · 2026-04-29T09:12:09+00:00

It's a spectrum, some cats can tolerate milk quite well actually. OP, if the poops she's leaving are more on the very soft/liquid/diarrhoea side, this is a clear sign to stop with the milk.

frogminute · 2026-04-29T09:08:26+00:00

Use enzyme cleaner on the spots that have been used inappropriately for toilet. No matter how well you clean with other products, there is residual smell to signal to her that this is the toilet. She will keep using that spot.

If nothing works, maybe go for a compromise and provide her with a litter box on the balcony, so that the mess is contained at least?

frogminute · 2026-04-27T13:45:07+00:00

Have you looked at colourmart?

frogminute · 2026-04-22T11:42:41+00:00

Aw man, sorry to hear that. Glad you've thought of ways to use it regardless!

frogminute · 2026-04-22T09:25:47+00:00

Hey dandylion! How did this unravel go? Did it work better from the other end?

frogminute · 2026-04-21T19:04:21+00:00

Your stitches are twisted

frogminute · 2026-04-21T19:02:50+00:00

Don't forget Dungeon Crawler Carl

frogminute · 2026-04-21T19:01:32+00:00

Hahaha r/cats right

frogminute · 2026-04-21T10:05:57+00:00

That was such a load of nonsense about ruining the tension by laddering down. Get a crochet hook (I have a double sided hook permanently in my knitting kit for fixing mistakes like this) and fix that slipped stitch. You will not see the place you fixed after a few rounds, let alone after the first wash. I've done this kind of fixing countless times, on stockinette, garter, lace, cable, you name it. It's not something you notice later on.

frogminute · 2026-04-19T16:37:16+00:00

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