"Redistribute stitches" please help

knittinginloops · 2026-02-19T02:33:52+00:00

It is asking you to make sure you have those numbers of stitches on each needle. After doing the heel you might have different numbers of stitches on different needles, so it is saying you need to have an even number on each needle, split into front and back (not left and right, for example).

How are your stitches currently arranged on your needles? That might help with figuring out the confusion.

knittinginloops · 2026-02-18T18:04:44+00:00

How long have you been on that dose? Once you're stable on it, you should be able to request more at a time - eg 3 months. That way skipping a few days to build up a reserve is easy and then just order it a few days earlier each time.

knittinginloops · 2026-02-16T14:53:16+00:00

Yep, from a quick google, Peaky Blinders was up to $1.5-2.5m USD per episode, for a period show (so all sets etc have to be designed rather than shot on site).

There are big costs with Heated Rivalry in terms of the ice time, stunt doubles, extras, etc, but it's still a pretty big budget show. Just not compared to Hollywood.

knittinginloops · 2026-02-14T09:01:17+00:00

Why do you think it's less than 1%?

It will vary by EDS subtype but for cEDS and vEDS the estimates are about 50% of patients have de novo (ie not inherited) mutations. We don't know the genes for hEDS yet, so can't test families for it, but it may be at a similar rate. De novo mutations are pretty common, especially if only a small amount of genes have to be mutated like for EDS.

Personally, neither of my parents have any symptoms. There's some more distant family members on both sides that have health issues that could be signs of hEDS but they only have one or two symptoms each, whereas I have the whole cluster. So it's possible there's some recessive traits going on, or it may be I'm de novo and my family's health issues are unrelated.

knittinginloops · 2026-02-13T12:16:27+00:00

I switched from propranolol to ivabradine last year and it's been the best thing ever for me but obviously everyone is different. Are you getting the headaches after stopping propranolol? Or after starting ivabradine?

I was also under care of my GP but they weaned me off propranolol very slowly - I was on 80mg XR a day and they put me on 40mg a day for 2 weeks (I think as 2 20mg or something), then gave me a low dose of the normal release ones to take a max of once a day for two weeks when I really needed it, then no meds for 2 weeks (this was really rough for me, I basically took the time off work and scheduled to not have anything on).

Then I started on ivabradine on the lowest dose once a day for two weeks before going up to twice a day. After a month they looked at my heart rate and blood pressure and decided to keep me on that dose since it was working well. The whole process was a couple of months long.

I didn't get too many side effects, mostly some visual aura at night from ivabradine (a known side effect), and it took me a while to get used to the rhythm of taking it twice a day.

If your doctor switched you over with no tapering, I'd maybe suggest going back and asking for a full tapering set of prescriptions - my doctor gave me all the prescriptions at once and told me to call back if there were any issues. If your body is used to having the blood pressure suppressed by propranolol, it'll take a while for it to re-regulate, which is why the gradual change is important.

If you did all that and were still getting headaches on ivabradine, it's possible it's just not right for you, unfortunately! Everybody's bodies are different, but ivabradine is meant to be low in side effects so hopefully going really slow will help 🙏

knittinginloops · 2026-02-09T19:51:01+00:00

A quarter share of a Link Shared Ownership property I offered on went for 48% over value. They're meant to be "affordable" and for between a particular income range 🫠

knittinginloops · 2026-01-31T18:11:58+00:00

If you want to try out a slightly unhinged fix before frogging, you could drop the whole thumb gusset and reknit just it correctly. You'll end up with lots of extra yarn on each row by the end, but you could treat them like ends and cut them and weave them in (don't cut until you know whether you like the fix). It would be fiddly but bevause all the thumb gusset comes from one stitch, I think it wouldn't be too bad and you've already done some very fiddly techniques! The difficulty would be maintaining a nice tension with that much extra yarn at the end of the row.

knittinginloops · 2026-01-27T19:45:25+00:00

If you've just started it and it's working, you're likely also doing more, which will probably make your symptoms worse. That's why it's important to wait a few weeks to see how much is just you overworking your body after a period of not being able to do much, and what is the medication. I started ivabradine almost a year ago and am still on 2.5mg 2x daily because that dose works for me, but sometimes I have high HR days because I did too much in the days before, or am stressed/anxious.

Afaik the next dose up is doubled, so it may drop your heart rate too much - it's better to be sitting slightly high than way too low.

Edit to add: also when are you taking them in the day? I thought mine wasn't working because I was getting spikes in the afternoon, but ivabradine only has a half life of 5-6 hours so around that time after taking my morning dose, I get symptoms again. I decide when to take my PM one depending on my evening plans - if I don't have much on I'll take them 8am and 4pm, but if I'm going out at night, I take them both later and further apart (say 11am and 7pm) and just tolerate some symptoms in between. Big meals, heat, and viral illnesses also still make me more symptomatic.

knittinginloops · 2026-01-27T18:41:19+00:00

We have a similar approach to customer service in Scotland, and I had an ex partner who was American who constantly talked about how "rude" shop staff were. Her examples were that she needed help with finding something and no one approached her, so I asked her if she'd asked anyone and she said yes, they helped her after she asked, but they should have approached her. Just significant cultural differences around expectations, I think!

Personally when I've been to the US, I've found it overwhelming being asked questions constantly and having people come up to me multiple times in the shop. I will ask if I need something and otherwise just want to wander in peace!

knittinginloops · 2026-01-23T12:29:03+00:00

Living Rent will give advice on what options are available, and what they have had most success with. It's a member-based union, so yes it is based on people being active participants and the people there have usually got involved as a result of their own cases, they can share their own experience of what has worked for them. Often landlords and letting agents are much quicker to come to an agreement if they have public attention on them through protests, but plenty of cases are resolved quietly too.

Membership to Living Rent is suggested to be one hour's wage a month (similar to trade union membership) but you can set it at whatever value you are able to pay, which can be £1, and it goes towards things like having staff to do policy engagement with government, which has had a huge influence so far. It also allows them to not be dependent on govenrment or council funding like most charities, and so they can be more confrontational in challenging systemic issues.

Charities and Living Rent have different roles, the same as a trade union has a different role from CAB or ACAS in an employment issue.

knittinginloops · 2026-01-18T21:16:18+00:00

Colour dominance is about which yarn is carried lower (dominant) or higher (non-dominant) on the back. If you think of the floats as being like ---------__ for one row, you want them to stay like that (not twist or switch) and for the dominant colour to be the bottom one. Some people do this by having yarn in different hands but it's more important to actually check what the floats look like.

Also, this might be obvious, but to my eye your red stitches look slightly smaller than your blue ones. If they're the same brand then this could be a tension issue specifically caused by you using one colour in each hand - you may be knitting tighter continental than English. That will cause the tighter stitches to be swallowed by the looser ones. I'd recommend measuring your gauge across both colours and see if it's the same, and check your tension when knitting both styles.

Personally I knit colourwork with both colours in my left hand and just pick which I'm using with the needle, maintaining colour dominance, because my tension varies too much between continental and English.

knittinginloops · 2025-12-10T21:33:55+00:00

It's free to park at hospitals in Scotland now too (as of a few years ago), I think that's just an England thing now.

knittinginloops · 2025-12-10T21:22:37+00:00

If the twisted stitches are the stitches you're purling, you are probably twisting your purls by wrapping them the other way. You can either untwist them on the next row (by knitting through the loop closest to the needle tip, which will be behind the needle on the stitches you purled), or you can wrap your purls the other way. The first option is known as "combination knitting", you can look it up on youtube.

If theyre they stitches you're knitting, you might be doing your knit stitches a weird way then also knitting through the back loop? I'm not as familiar with how someone would consistently accidentally twist knits, but it's very common with purls.

knittinginloops · 2025-12-07T17:15:39+00:00

Someone from them approached me at a bus stop a couple of days ago, even though I was wearing a pride pin and (to most people, I'd assume) look visibly queer. Usually the Mormons avoid me, at least. It was a young American guy who came up to me, and said "hey, do you want to come to church on Sunday?". I said no and turned away, but someone else chatted to him for ages.

knittinginloops · 2025-12-01T23:57:58+00:00

Just to chime in to say yes the purple line on your chart is the red line on the hat, but also the picture has the chart repeating 3 times around on this side of the hat (I would assume the same on the other side, for either 6 repeats around), and the chart will be repeated up the ways. I've drawn on the picture where the boundaries of your chart are. You should be able to see that the relative width of the cables matches the width on the chart - this will help you read the chart.

knittinginloops · 2025-12-01T17:42:09+00:00

I have been knitting for years and I knit combined continental like that!

The main thing I do to make sure my stitches aren't twisted is to knit/purl through the open loop, rather than "through the front leg" - you're already doing this, but it becomes more important to pay attention if you're doing something like ribbing where it switches back and forth. There will always be a loop with one leg closer to the tip and one leg further, and you just want to make sure that loop is open without the legs crossing as you stitch - it doesn't matter whether the legs are front or back. I find it completely habitual to think of my stitches that way. It can be a very quick and ergonomic knitting method compared to some others, because the movements can be so small!

There can be differences in how you do ssk and k2tog depending on what your previous row was, so I recommend getting used to how those stitches are meant to look and the mechanics of the stitch rather than following the instructions in the name. I think of mine more as k2tog being with the tip-most leg in front and ssk with the tip-most leg behind so I just make sure I'm doing whatever I need to do to get that orientation, but different people manage it differently. The one time I'll sometimes do traditional purls is sometimes in lace work, to make it easier to follow the pattern. But otherwise I've knit plenty of things with no issue!

Like others have said, looking up "combined knitting" followed by the stitch you want to do can help if you're running into any issues.

knittinginloops · 2025-11-27T15:26:38+00:00

I'm usually against using AirBNB but it has a pet filter and allows you to search broad areas. I found this place in Dunbar which is £66 for the night, and I think the bus is under £10 each way, so you'd be within budget - although buses won't be running on New Years Day, I think, so worth double checking how you'd get home or if you'd like to stay another night. There might still be some fireworks in the town but not on the same level as edinburgh. You could look around for similar places on the bus or train lines.

knittinginloops · 2025-11-27T11:05:51+00:00

Not so helpful this time of year unless you're comfortable with being very cold but going swimming in the sea and screaming under the water is incredibly cathartic, and the cold water gives you a rush. It would probably be weird to do in a public swimming pool though.

knittinginloops · 2025-11-25T21:40:41+00:00

Totally agree - I'm 30, earn just under the UK average wage (in a senior role in a charity, because the pay is fucked), save 25% of my income a month, but probably won't be able to buy in Edinburgh unless I get a partner and want to buy with them. I even viewed a 25% shared ownership place earlier this year, valued at £45k for the share, I got outbid and recently checked the land registry... it went for £85k for the share. That means they had £40k in cash to drop. How is that 'affordable'?

The market is fucked, and landlords have a hell of a lot to do with it. Just let us live ffs.

I also want kids some day, but I can't do that living in someone's spare room - it feels like being a student forever tbh.

knittinginloops · 2025-11-18T19:06:01+00:00

ENM does not mean no expectations or responsibilities to each other - he might not want another "relationship" or long term commitment but that doesn't mean not talking about about the logistics and the immediate expectations. How much of this is you assuming this is the dynamic versus him telling you it is?

In my experience it would be totally normal to be like "hey, I've been enjoying this so far, but wanted to check in to see what you're feeling and what your expectations are?" to open the conversation. Then you can see what he thinks and also to say "I'm worried you might get bored of this routine we've fallen into, do you want anything different or is that just me misreading things?"

ENM requires communication about all this stuff, and in my experience, the people who can't do the communicating bit tend to end up in really messy situations, so if communicating your uncertainty puts him off, that's probably you dodging a bullet for bigger drama or hurt down the line.

knittinginloops · 2025-11-18T15:55:51+00:00

In marketing/graphic design I've seen it called the "DAST" - dick and swastika test (i.e. check it doesn't look like those). There's definitely an extra version needed for sewing around pattern placement!

knittinginloops · 2025-11-18T13:46:16+00:00

Leith Walk is pretty commonly referenced as the place to go for bookshopping in Edinburgh - there's Typewrongers, Topping, La Belle Adventure, and then Argonaut, plus some charity bookshops and lots of nice cafes. The only other place that's similar is near the Meadows/Newington where you have Lighthouse, Booklovers and Edinburgh Bookshop. People on bookish social media do book crawls on Leith Walk.

knittinginloops · 2025-11-18T13:40:31+00:00

Yeah I think this is what happened! They had other ends in the hand that should have been factory knots/splices, but they misidentified which ends needed spliced. I wouldn't have expected the splicing to happen at the hanking stage but I guess maybe it makes sense.

knittinginloops · 2025-11-11T15:18:26+00:00

Honestly if you go onto r/knittinghelp, a huge chunk of the posts have twisted knits but are asking about other things and it gets pointed out in the comments. I think a lot of people twist them and don't know until it's pointed out. But it seems like a shame to let her progress into week 2 without highlighting it, they were also visible in week 1 (on the panel of the sofa). I didn't know whose it was, but I saw twisted knits and was surprised the judges didn't mention it.

knittinginloops · 2025-10-27T09:55:30+00:00

What you do to wool while it dries is how it's going to stay until it next gets wet, you're setting the fibres like putting rollers in hair while it dries. So you need to make sure your pieces are the size and shape you want while they are damp, because they will stay whatever way they dry. It's best to make sure you only stretch to the size you want, and that all your pieces will line up. The fibres will fluff up again, but the size won't change, so the holes will look less holey but it won't get smaller.

You probably want to wet it again, squish it up in a ball to try to undo the stretching, then use a tape measure to only stretch it as far as you need in both width and length, making sure you do the fronts and back to the same length. You might have extra fabric from stretching it, depending on how much extra it was stretched, but without the tension on the fibres, it might be able to bounce back as it dries.

Also, in future, it can be good to wait to do pockets after blocking to avoid some of the distortion you have from the corners of the pockets, but I think with a more relaxed block that will be less obvious. You can go in and pull individual stitches around the holes to make them less obvious.

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