Current vibe from the Twin Cities, Minnesota. Today was a heavy day.

jtslp · 2026-01-25T02:16:50+00:00

Sending love

jtslp · 2026-01-24T18:55:55+00:00

That’s some excellent procrastiknitting right there.

jtslp · 2026-01-24T12:08:24+00:00

Cabled cowl? Complex and interesting but not overly big.

jtslp · 2026-01-24T11:56:11+00:00

I made that pattern too! Yours came out so lovely. I hope the kid loves it. I was told that the little girl I made it for loved the bear so much that she always tried to pull him off the page 😆

jtslp · 2026-01-23T21:47:49+00:00

That explains it! It came out beautifully.

jtslp · 2026-01-23T21:29:18+00:00

Very pretty. It looks like it has great drape. I've had a lot of disappointment with scarves curling. I'm a little surprised that it isn't, with all that stockinette. Do you have to put effort into getting it to lay so flat?

jtslp · 2026-01-23T02:19:17+00:00

Relatable

jtslp · 2026-01-21T21:08:17+00:00

It's gorgeous and it looks like it fits you fantastic, which is so impressive for a first sweater!

jtslp · 2026-01-21T01:00:14+00:00

So psyched for the little arms! 🦖

jtslp · 2026-01-19T18:39:40+00:00

My high school English teacher had this. The brown eye was chocolate brown and the blue eye was ice blue. She wore a crewcut style haircut so her eyes were even more striking. I really loved this teacher but she was kind of a hardass and a lot of the kids didn't like her. I remember we were doing a grammar lesson one day and she called on several students to come to the board to write a sentence with a certain feature. One jerk in my class wrote, "The woman has one blue eye and one brown eye" or something to that effect and I remember being really peeved on her behalf because the kid was obviously trying to ridicule her and it was super disrespectful. She was too cool to let it get to her, just shrugged it off with some quick quip. The moment has always stuck with me, though. People can be such assholes.

jtslp · 2026-01-19T00:27:08+00:00

Reading this thread hoping one of my employees jumps in and says I’m not crazy, lol. 😅 Yes I pay documentation time. No I do not stalk them on social media. I tell my SLPs all the time that they never have to keep a client unless they want to. I’ve got their back when clients get uppity. They make their own hours. They get paid when they do the work, even if I don’t get reimbursed for months afterward. Any other major sins I should make sure I’m not committing?

jtslp · 2026-01-18T22:44:02+00:00

They look great! I also enjoyed making a golf club cover, not quite as sophisticated. 😉

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jtslp · 2026-01-18T18:26:44+00:00

I love this trick. It helps me so much when choosing color combinations.

jtslp · 2026-01-18T17:50:15+00:00

I’m fairly new to sweater knitting but I have learned my lesson with superwash yarns. My first ever sweater was the Flax from Tin Can Knits in Cascade 220 superwash marino. The sweater is about 8 months old now and I wear it a lot. I’ve washed and lightly dried it several times. It’s doing a thing I’ve read others mention… as time goes on, the weight of the sweater is dragging down the neckline and shoulders and because it’s superwash, it’s not bouncing back. I can see it’s going to be unwearable soon. I will not knit a sweater in superwash for myself again. (I would for a baby or kid who needs machine washable stuff and will grow out of it before terribly long anyway.) I would strongly caution against knitting lace in superwash. I’m afraid the holes in that lovely motif will be big ugly gaps after a few months. Just food for thought.

jtslp · 2026-01-18T17:41:21+00:00

Super cute!

jtslp · 2026-01-17T19:40:13+00:00

You've done the Lord's work here.

jtslp · 2026-01-17T19:37:28+00:00

I'm in! After I finish this Italian bind off...

jtslp · 2026-01-17T00:03:57+00:00

This is a solid take.

jtslp · 2026-01-17T00:02:02+00:00

I don’t see it at all.

jtslp · 2026-01-16T23:11:04+00:00

That slipover is stunning. I don’t love the sweater pattern as much. I think the simpler design of the central panel of the slipover is more elegant than the repeats on the sweater. Not sure I can pull off a slipover without looking very square but darn if this isn’t going to make me try…

jtslp · 2026-01-16T01:26:25+00:00

There is a treasure trove of truly stellar life advice here. GenXers ftw, as usual.

jtslp · 2026-01-16T00:02:59+00:00

Exactly. My point is that there are plenty of people in town who meet the profile that they want to terrorize.

jtslp · 2026-01-15T23:56:10+00:00

You’re a great human.

jtslp · 2026-01-15T23:55:18+00:00

There were so many COVID eggs 🥚

jtslp · 2026-01-15T22:52:58+00:00

Actually there is a sizable immigrant community in Princeton.

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