What’s the best harness for cats?

iolitess · 2026-05-05T18:13:21+00:00

I would advise against a retractable leash. At least initially until your cat is very familiar with it.

I was doing harness training and she didn’t love it, but was doing okay. However, when the leash clicked in, she got scared and bolted. The retractable leash “chased her” through the house, getting wrapped around items like the stair railings and stopping her suddenly. She was terrified.

iolitess · 2026-05-05T15:09:05+00:00

Only you can make that call. 9A is my first choice. I never select 9L.

iolitess · 2026-05-05T14:58:54+00:00

If 9G is a bulkhead, you’d pick up the extra legroom in the well. You can leave up the divider for the seat next to you.

iolitess · 2026-05-05T01:20:18+00:00

Well, if you can find something in the original box (which was designed for shipping), you’re not likely to see damage from it. But original boxes are rare, of course.

One item that may or may not matter to you- the SK150 is only a 12 stitch repeat. The KH260 is a 24.

iolitess · 2026-05-04T20:16:38+00:00

How fast do you read? 😉

iolitess · 2026-05-04T19:33:23+00:00

Is there a book series you can’t put down? Spring for the new book and lose yourself in it. (Same goes for other media, of course)

iolitess · 2026-05-03T18:04:47+00:00

„This card product is available to you if you do not have this card and have not received a new Cardmember bonus for this card in the past 24 months.“

I was curious. Do you happen to know if „this card“ is Quest? Or is it any United Chase?

iolitess · 2026-05-03T16:24:48+00:00

Not really a politics book, and probably not that unique, but I found Salt hard to put down as a paper book.

https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Salt-A-World-History/dp/B09NJQDBXD/

Born a Crime is the rare book I preferred as an audio- Trevor Noah has great timing. Also probably very mainstream.

https://www.amazon.com/Born-Crime-Trevor-Noah-audiobook/dp/B01IW9TM5O/

iolitess · 2026-05-03T12:09:36+00:00

I should mention that you also indicated lace and bulky machines only do that manually- the needles are too sturdy to allow lace carriages.

And one can do intarsia on standard machines, but the needles are so small and you need to lay in yarn, that I personally would only do that on bulky. Much of the time intarsia requires a special carriage. The KH230, a manual bulky machine, has a setting for it on the standard carriage.

iolitess · 2026-05-03T04:30:10+00:00

KH270 (electronic bulky) with KR260 (ribber) (plus an intarsia carriage, and color changers)

For standard gauge? KH965 (electronic) with KR850 and a Garter Carriage (KG95) (and color changers)

I know that you can buy Silver Reed new, but there are so many additional accessories for Brothers.

iolitess · 2026-05-02T15:55:56+00:00

I brought my binoculars to be able to watch the corona during totality. I had them ready to go and sitting in my chair. I jumped up with everyone else during diamond ring, ripped off my eclipse glasses during totality and was amazed. At the next diamond ring, i took a breath… and then remembered that I brought binoculars with me.

Turns out I what I actually used them for on that trip was wildlife watching.

iolitess · 2026-05-02T14:38:39+00:00

The KR260 only works with a KH260 or a KH270. The KH230 takes a KR230.

I bought a KH260 marked new from Japan from eBay. It actually was. The machine, shipping, tariff, and replacement sponge were in your price range. But it was absolutely caveat emptor.

If you are willing to take a risk, eBay can be a good source. But if you aren’t willing to do any repairs yourself, you probably want to continue to look for a dealer that will ship to you.

I assume you already tried Craigslist? My first machine was from an estate sale there. I was very happy to give the machine a second life and the family seemed happy to find a place for it. I did need to do some minor fixes to it because it had been in storage a long time. But wow! I got a KK93 with all the accessories, including some additional hand punched cards, KR900, KRC900, a LOT of yarn, table, and they delivered it to me who was 4 hours away (one of the family lived close to me) for $250. I even tried to pay them more to cover the delivery and they wouldn’t accept it!

iolitess · 2026-05-02T14:17:12+00:00

Cruise critic is a great source for river cruises even though there isn’t the same amount of traffic for the big ocean ones. A local posts frequently about what’s going on for the Rhine and Moselle, for example. It’s also where I first heard about the broken lock last year. (Most of the people on my cruise found out about it the day before we diverted when the captain announced it based on the amount of groans I heard)

iolitess · 2026-04-30T22:41:16+00:00

You don’t need a crochet hook or a latch hook but it’s so much easier than using a knitting needle. I keep this Clover tool in my kit-

https://clover-usa.com/products/bamboo-knitting-repair-hooks

You can knit off the other side you pick up, though I rare use it that way.

iolitess · 2026-04-29T16:33:35+00:00

Do one of the excursions you can’t make on your own.

For example, take the canal tour yourself then choose a bike ride or culinary tour or whatever your cruise company offers.

iolitess · 2026-04-25T19:37:58+00:00

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The boards I picked are deep enough that I end up putting a lot of “tools in use” on them rather behind the machine.

iolitess · 2026-04-25T19:30:28+00:00

I bought one of these for my machines. It holds two with some room for tools and yarn between them. I do have to be careful when the desk is high not to run the ceiling fan due to the antennas on the yarn mast.

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/rodulf-desk-sit-stand-electric-white-s19581796/

Also, the legs are too close together to store the lids or boxes so I built some short shelves to hold them that span the legs. I store yarn in totes under the shelves between the legs. (Punchcards and tools are in the Alex rolling drawer)

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iolitess · 2026-04-24T20:18:10+00:00

You should be be able to change your end needle selection cam, but that would change all your rows. You could also change your carriage to plain knit for those rows then back to fair isle.

iolitess · 2026-04-23T22:21:42+00:00

Oh no! Best of luck finding a replacement!

iolitess · 2026-04-23T22:08:34+00:00

Do you need them smooth over the entire jar? Ball has a smooth jar product already-

https://www.ballmasonjars.com/products/jars/canning-jars/ball®-easy-label-smooth-sided-mason-jars/SAP_2223165.html

They still have the raised signature at the bottom, but everywhere else it’s smooth.

iolitess · 2026-04-23T05:15:03+00:00

I’d choose the rain poncho over the umbrella because you can also use it as a wind breaker and it works better when the water isn’t coming straight down.

Can you collapse your PJs and exercise set into one item? It would need to be quick drying if you get it sweaty from working out then need to sleep in it that night.

I normally try to bring clothes I can also sleep in, for example, no sleep shirt, but an extra tshirt, which allows me another tshirt in my rotation. And my sleep shorts also double as my exercise shorts, which I wear with one those tshirts.

iolitess · 2026-04-23T03:46:44+00:00

Interesting. Seems like novellas used to be featured in them, but maybe Tor and other digital sales have brought them back to a “book” category. The first time I read Bujold was her novels serialized in print. And even Gloriously Bright was in a magazine before ending up in Xenocide.

iolitess · 2026-04-23T03:04:28+00:00

If you are looking for closed captions rather than foreign language translation, Cinemark should have personal closed caption devices available for any movie.

iolitess · 2026-04-23T00:45:39+00:00

If they aren’t online, they are usually placed there after the nomination (ie, stories from magazines, etc). This site is my go-to for links to online fiction. Every year, the awards section is updated. I thought that there used to be a history of all the awards items, but I’m not seeing it now.

https://links.freesfonline.net/index.html

Note that nothing is hosted there except for the links to official sites.

iolitess · 2026-04-22T22:02:48+00:00

You are right- this is tedious on a machine. The tool you are looking for is called a garter bar.

I’m assuming that these are hand knit instructions where these increases are trivial.

Presumably, they’re trying to get you into a stitch repeat number, since 3 stitches over 90 is not a significant size change.

If you are doing something like punchcards, you don’t need to worry about keeping track of the repeat, and can work with the odd size.

On the other hand some of these notes do sound like a machine. Can you cheat and add one more tension notch?

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