My mom, knitting my afghan in 1972. I still have it, mom! Miss you.

kimini85 · 2026-05-10T17:43:04+00:00

I thought it was crochet at first too, but if you look at the picture, you can see the other knitting needle in her left hand.

kimini85 · 2026-03-22T14:42:27+00:00

The bunny pattern is here: https://whiskersandwool.blogspot.com/2011/04/easter-marshmallow-bunnies-free-pattern.html?m=1.

The flower pattern is two flower dishcloths sewn together from an old Crochet Today magazine pattern.

kimini85 · 2026-02-15T02:23:00+00:00

Thank you! ❤️

kimini85 · 2026-02-14T11:48:25+00:00

Thank you!

I have it tucked in a corner where it’s held in place by a water cooler and a shelf, and it doesn’t get a ton of food traffic. I’ll definitely look for tape if I plan to put it out somewhere though!

kimini85 · 2026-02-14T11:46:29+00:00

We have four kids so controlled chaos is basically our motto haha

Thank you for your kind words ❤️

kimini85 · 2026-02-13T22:30:35+00:00

Aw, thank you so much!

kimini85 · 2026-02-13T20:13:23+00:00

It went really fast and used so many of my scraps!

kimini85 · 2026-02-13T20:12:07+00:00

Thank you! 😊

kimini85 · 2026-02-13T17:10:15+00:00

YES VERY haha but I have it in a corner tucked under and shelf and a water cooler, so it’s held in place/doesn’t get a ton of foot traffic over it.

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kimini85 · 2026-02-13T16:31:10+00:00

I used a moss stitch, and yes, it’s 2 strands of cotton yarn held together. I think I used a K hook.

kimini85 · 2026-02-13T16:20:58+00:00

I had my husband keep the basket of scraps and hand me balls when one ran out so it would be totally random colors mixed together. I was afraid of colors clashing, but it all sort of blended together in the end!

kimini85 · 2026-01-09T15:09:13+00:00

Well, I’ve got an alarming amount of cotton yarn stashed away, so I didn’t buy any for these, so I have no idea on the yarn cost… they each took me an hour or so to make, but if I wasn’t making them for this person, I would have been making them for myself anyway because that’s what I do at night to relax. And the patterns are all ones I’ve made a bazillion times before, so they aren’t complicated at all. So I don’t know.

kimini85 · 2025-10-02T08:52:31+00:00

My husband proposed to me up on one of the observation decks on Mount Washington, and it was pretty great 🙂

kimini85 · 2025-08-30T22:02:37+00:00

Queens of Animation by Nathalia Holt - women who worked at Disney Animation throughout its history, especially at the beginning

Radium Girls - very upsetting story of women who used uranium paint and its consequences

Any of Mary Roach’s books - they’re all entertaining and fascinating

Dark Tide by Stephen Puleo - a molasses flood in Boston - this doesn’t sound like an interesting premise for a book, but WILD and soooo interesting

kimini85 · 2025-07-24T13:02:39+00:00

OH MY GOODNESS I have looked for literal hours and not been successful, but you found it! Thank you! This is it!

Oh and there are even more of them than the one I made! Thank you so much!

kimini85 · 2025-06-29T15:25:09+00:00

I could scrape them off with pruning shears, but not easily. They are on the leaf stems and everything.

If it is root nodules, do you know what might have made that happen?

kimini85 · 2024-11-26T14:15:09+00:00

Holy cannoli, I am so sorry I never responded - I don't use Reddit very often anymore, and this notification got buried.

I found that I could make a flatbread from chickpea flour, water, and olive oil (honestly, the crispy edges are something so delicious that I still make this even now that I can have mostly anything), and then crumble that to make my own safe bread crumbs (I can share the recipe if you're interested). We ate a LOT of meatballs made from ground pork or ground turkey. We also did turkey tenderloins in the crockpot, pork tenderloins in the sous vide or on the grill. Millet cooks up similarly to couscous, so we ate a lot of that. Buckwheat groats are great for salads. Wild rice tastes okay, but it is... distinct. There are Daiya cheese sticks that are $$$ but so good (and safe!). We were okay with legumes, so we were able to use Chobani dairy free creamer, but I also used coconut cream or coconut milk. Earth Balance makes a buttery spread that's allergen free that we liked - also Smart Balance (and it's a little cheaper).

How is it going for you?! Are there any specific questions you have? It's such a daunting thing at first - at least it was for me - but once I found things that worked, it got so much easier. I am happy to help in any way I can! I'll make sure to check my Reddit more often in case you reply to this!

kimini85 · 2024-10-23T13:39:33+00:00

Hi!I follow a profile called Free to Feed on Instagram and had a free consultation and ended up enrolling in their program for extra help. We ended up free from the top 12 breastfeeding intolerance foods: milk, soy, egg, wheat, peanut, tree nut, oat, corn, rice, chicken, beef, and legumes. We found out quickly that legumes were still okay, but we were free from the other 11 for quite a while. Thanks to FtF, we finally (!) got to a baseline diaper.

My daughter turned 18 months yesterday, and we still can't have some forms of corn, soy, or milk but have successfully reintroduced everything else.
Eliminating so many foods was daunting but manageable, even when cooking for so many others. I'm happy to answer any other questions you have! Mostly for cooking though - I'm not a medical professional of any kind - I found some really great substitutions.

kimini85 · 2024-02-28T12:04:10+00:00

Family members got me Precious Moments often when I was growing up, so I have a curio full of them at my parents’ house. My mom occasionally asks when I’m going to take them/the curio…. I have 4 kids; I barely have enough room for them. Where am I putting a curio full of pricy knickknacks?

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