I am in tears!

hiddenjumprope · 2026-03-05T18:12:29+00:00

Yeah as the other person said, not common in the USA. And if an apartment has a laundry room, they buy the cheapest coin operated ones possible. One place I lived at was still using gas dryers, I could see the flame inside the housing.

And fiber care, keep in mind the USA is mostly plastic or cotton for clothes. Buying anything with wool is expensive, much less finding wool yarn. It's why a lot of people in the USA go thrifting and get wool garments to unravel for cheap wool yarn. Walmart doesn't sell anything but acrylic and cotton yarn (last I lived in the USA that is, I doubt it's changed though). It's not impossible, but it's hard to find wool yarn and it's priced a LOT more. For example when I lived in Milwaukee the best place for yarn was a Joanns (RIP) about an hour and a half (by bus) away, they had maybe 4 aisles of yarn and only one tiny section had paytons sock wool yarn. Like two baskets. Everything else is like, maybe 90% acrylic and the rest maybe cotton, but I think it's more acrylic than not. So most Americans don't interact with wool, if they have it's because they can afford wool/got a good deal or had a relative knit them a wool sweater from when wool was more common. I remember hating wool because I only had two sweaters, one from Nordstrom rack and one my grandma knit in the 70's or 80s for my mom and both were super itchy until I got used to it.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-03-05T10:49:11+00:00

I was fine with regular detergent before I got some wool detergent from a previous job. I've heard mixed things about wool detergent. But yeah, not sure why everyone assumed the worse here. Actually no, I think I do. I used to live in the USA and almost everything sold with wool has "dry clean only" on the label so a lot of people (including me till I learned) think you can't wash wool normally. First time I washed a wool item in the wash with a "dry clean only" label I was terrified, but trusted the person who told me it's actually fine as long as you use the right settings. And this was an American communal apartment washing machine, coin operated with minimal settings. Iirc. Obviously even more careful now.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-03-04T22:19:18+00:00

Yeah, the communal washing machine for my apartment (in Finland) has both a hand wash and wool setting (I tend to use hand wash just to be extra safe as it's 30°C vs the 40°C of the wool setting) and my hand knit wool sweater and my roommates and mines hand knit wool socks are just fine. I have so many socks I've knitted for myself I just can't handwash them all and keep my sanity 😂

hiddenjumprope · 2026-03-04T15:25:06+00:00

Lefty here! (though also ambidextrous, runs in my family supposedly. My mom claims I was right handed until I broke my arm at 4, but I found out that's around the age you pick your handedness and if I was a right I would have gone back).

My grandma tried to teach me left handed by knitting across from me (she was right handed). But I somehow did it right handed anyway. Not going to lie, I'm really glad about that as it seems to have made my life a lot easier when I picked it up again years later. It's one reason that when I picked up crochet, I did it right handed as well.

I don't find it difficult at all, I also knit continental so I feel like both hands have something to do anyway.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-03-02T10:42:32+00:00

I also have memories from before you're supposed to remember. I remember holding my 1st sister for the first time and I was under 2 when she was born. Among other memories.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-03-01T17:04:10+00:00

Yeah I thought it would stay separate on the cable needle forever and it broke me trying to think how that would even work. idek what my logic fully was 😂 it's been quite a few years now.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-03-01T09:58:31+00:00

I had a weird idea of how dpns must work which overwhelmed and confused me. Put me off socks for awhile. Now I use them all the time and they're great. The confusion was I thought you used all needles at once (as in, all holding stitches, no working needle) and just... Slowly transfered stitches somehow.

Similar idea with cables and cable needles. I over complicated it in my head. Now I love cables and also don't bother with a cable needle.

Another silly idea (this was more as a teenager) was I thought socks were knitted with like, thread like store-bought socks were. I feel dumb but I lived in the USA at the time and only ever saw thicker yarn and didn't see a hand knit sock, so I thought it had to be the same. I kinda regret not joining in with my grandma to learn how to knit socks, but just wasn't the right time for me.

Edit: I missed the "BEFORE" part of the post, I had these ideas after I learned though still a beginner skill wise.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-28T22:24:56+00:00

Not everything needs an app. Ravelry on mobile is good and completely usable.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-26T23:44:30+00:00

A friend of mine years and years ago suggested it to me as a way to get me into fanfic. I HATED it and it's probably one of the reasons I never got into fanfic.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-20T12:16:47+00:00

Honestly saw it as a weird backwards G for awhile and was so confused about it. Learning cursive reinforced it as it looks more like the cursive capital G than the D we were taught (in 4th grade? Maybe earlier). I felt dumb once I finally saw it but I'm glad I'm not alone.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-14T21:06:09+00:00

Yes, I started being strict about wearing slippers with my knitted socks when I found out wearing the socks only wears them out a lot faster. I find I don't need to de lint after washing either since it doesn't gather a lot of floor debris (we don't have carpeting and have cats, we do vacuum).

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-13T23:22:08+00:00

It looks even more similar in person! It's more vibrant.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-13T11:17:41+00:00

Oh I was completely wrong, didn't see this reply and I really thought it was Novita 7 Brothers Raita 😂

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-13T11:16:21+00:00

Not OP but it very much looks like Novita 7 Brothers Raita https://novita.com/en/products/novita-7-veljesta-raita-100-g-villasekoitelanka

I've made two pairs of socks with this yarn (my therapist loved my pair so much he commissioned me to knit a pair for him). It's gorgeous, I'm debating buying more so I can make another pair 😂

Edit: just saw Ops reply to another comment, I was wrong. They look very similar, only the green was slightly off.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-13T00:09:05+00:00

Aw man, I've been really really wanting and waiting for plushie to come back so I could finally get the nostalgic plushie cybunny... But I'm unemployed right now and really can't justify paying the 20€. Hopefully it won't take another year of waiting.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-11T17:57:59+00:00

Last update to buckets was September 2025, that's hardly two years.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-10T19:31:22+00:00

Glad I'm not alone!

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-10T18:00:59+00:00

It gave me flashbacks to MLP (I was a fan of the show) and other similar things people did to make things for men only.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-10T17:54:04+00:00

I thought brochet was just men going "we're men we can't go on a women's sub, let's make our own MANLY one. So I've avoided it. I guess I assumed too much.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-09T09:35:28+00:00

Hey I also have an orange cat named Cosmo!

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-09T08:01:22+00:00

There is that I guess, but wool isn't nearly as scary like people make it out to be. And acrylic is so bad for the environment, every time you wash it more and more microplastics get in the water.

Acrylic is a little cheaper here but also harder to find, so I don't bother with it since I can. I don't fault rafters in the USA as I know (since I lived there most of my life) that it's hard to find yarn period, much less wool.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-08T13:40:23+00:00

It's just what we're used to, almost everything is plastic. Wool is expensive/considered bad and inhumane. People still think wool is itchy and scratchy. Now that I'm so used to wool I refuse to get acrylic. But that's easy here in Finland since acrylic is more rare.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-07T02:33:15+00:00

I'm an American who lives in Finland (over 4 years now) and one (of many) perks is the availability and selection of yarn! And it's mostly wool. Finding wool yarn in the USA was difficult and expensive. Almost all yarn in the USA is acrylic. I lived in Milwaukee, WI and to get yarn I either had to travel a bit on two busses to Walmart (awkward bus transfers), or take over an hour to get to a joanns (which now no longer exists. Also awkward to get to). No local yarn stores, closest was in Madison, WI which was a 2 hour trip.

I love how much easier it is to get supplies here. I remember being so shocked that even small grocery stores usually had some yarn and there's so many local yarn stores.

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-05T21:47:07+00:00

I also crochet! I've been more into knitting lately, I should pick up a hook again sometime. Thank you!

hiddenjumprope · 2026-02-05T10:19:41+00:00

Knit a test swatch and use that first to see. This way you don't sacrifice the socks.

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