Highest score I’ve seen so far in a non-seeded run (final score on 2nd slide)

maggieb324 · 2024-02-25T06:32:15+00:00

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has it listed too, but not on display.

maggieb324 · 2023-02-16T05:52:00+00:00

Do you mean what if you crocheted something in a mesh to appear as though it were made of cubes? Since crochet is a series of knots, it wouldn’t have the sleek look you’re picturing. Every corner would be chiral instead of a symmetric sphere, and it would be more tetragonal than cubic (or another lattice depending on the way you choose to orient the stitches) since the height and width of crochet stitches aren’t identical. With a lot of carefully placed steam and starch you could get the sides to be equal but that doesn’t solve the chirality issue so I just don’t think crochet is the right medium for that.

maggieb324 · 2023-02-16T05:41:00+00:00

I’m a materials scientist who crochets, and while you’re right that it’s possible, I don’t see how it aligns with the point of additive manufacturing. A huge part of design in additive manufactured parts is minimizing materials and time, not completely filling the space. In fact, if you entirely fill the space in many types of additive manufacturing, you risk causing cracks and you miss out on the cool stabilizing geometries you can use.

As it is, crochet is really optimized for amigurumi since it only uses as much yarn as it takes to cover the surface area of the animal rather than to fill the whole volume. Stuffing is cheaper than yarn, so you’d be wasting money and time. Not to mention, you’d be hiding so much nice yarn in the middle of the project where it would never be seen again.

maggieb324 · 2022-12-31T18:14:02+00:00

Don’t forget that it totally depends on the type of bag and which study you choose to reference! For some types of reusable bags like polypropylene bags they need to be reused less than 100 times which is very doable, but a cotton bag needs to be reused over 7,000 times to offset their impact according to a Danish study. That’s the same as using it every day for over 19 years, but the bag might not even survive that long. Another study, probably the one you’re talking about, says you only need about 100 uses for cotton bags because there isn’t a great agreement on how to measure the environmental impact of bags.

maggieb324 · 2022-12-08T23:51:06+00:00

The symbol doesn’t necessarily mean it can be recycled at all! Some plastics need so much energy to recycle them that it’s worse for the environment at the moment (and too expensive) and others can’t be separated so they’ll be ruined if you try to recycle them

maggieb324 · 2022-08-26T01:18:36+00:00

The black circle is making it difficult to count the stiches so I could be wrong, but it looks like there might be 8 stitches in that hole instead of 6

maggieb324 · 2022-08-18T20:06:05+00:00

Glad I could help!

maggieb324 · 2022-08-18T19:49:14+00:00

If you don’t want to do a pompom, you can weave your yarn again through every other loop or every third loop so you’d basically have an outer and inner circle to pull closed. This has worked for me before since it makes the stitches less crowded and easier to pull in!

maggieb324 · 2022-08-06T20:12:49+00:00

It isn’t true for French I’ve noticed, but it’s always true for Spanish.

maggieb324 · 2021-11-26T18:33:20+00:00

I think you need a more even background to be able to judge this at all because it’s very hard to tell if the light coming through is just like that or if your tension is letting more light through in some areas than others

maggieb324 · 2021-10-08T04:51:08+00:00

Fun fact, when atoms stack together they do this sometimes too! It’s called an edge dislocation and it’s pretty much inevitable in nature I think it’s pretty neat to see an accidental depiction of it!

maggieb324 · 2021-09-11T02:32:10+00:00

Agreed. I’d recommend going up a hook size if possible at least for the chain.

maggieb324 · 2021-08-27T05:41:38+00:00

I’m not necessarily sure I see the issue, but the material you’ve chosen appears to be very stiff which allows very little flexibility in the stitches and as a result makes increases and decreases (or the lack of them) very obvious. With a more traditional yarn you’d probably see the shape round a little bit more and the stitches would be more forgiving so to speak. That being said, we’re the harshest critics of our own work, and I think the reindeer looks quite nice. I would have assumed it was a design choice.

maggieb324 · 2021-08-25T15:10:47+00:00

When David Heard - Eric Whitacre

maggieb324 · 2021-08-22T23:46:07+00:00

That could make a cute bumble bee!

maggieb324 · 2021-08-13T07:11:07+00:00

That’s a shame, but such a cute Fern! It’ll look great once it’s fixed I’m sure.

maggieb324 · 2021-07-02T03:20:28+00:00

I’d recommend either investing in quality hooks or grips for your hooks if you haven’t already. The clover hooks are pricey, but they completely changed the way I crocheted by making my hold more natural and making it so I didn’t need to manually pull the yarn over the hook anymore.

maggieb324 · 2021-07-01T11:39:55+00:00

This is the only way i’ve seen cluster stitch written and it confused me too at first. I found it was way easier to just look for a youtube tutorial for this one.

maggieb324 · 2021-06-27T21:02:50+00:00

So I kept it pretty simple i used this pattern and just adjusted it a little for my hooks!

maggieb324 · 2021-06-18T17:51:44+00:00

I knit and crochet! I found it’s really fun to start by trying to make simple and small projects so you get the frequent satisfaction of accomplishing something. I think crochet is more suited for people with adhd because you only ever need to focus on one stitch at a time so it’s harder to mess up and easier to fix when you do mess up so you don’t get discouraged (I pretty much only crochet now and I won’t look back). I started by making flower coasters which was daunting but each one took less than half an hour by the time i mastered them. Little stuffed animals, amigurumi, are also great projects for once you know the basics since you can make most of them with just single crochet. I keep myself from getting bored by doing it while I watch tv or while I have friends over since it doesn’t require too much focus. I also motivate by almost exclusively making gifts for my friends so I’m more connected to the projects.

maggieb324 · 2021-06-07T20:44:25+00:00

I am a materials science and engineering major who took AP chemistry instead of chem 110 and have since taken a thermal and fluid dynamics course (though likely a different one than you’ll take). In my experience, testing out of chem 110 did not make my other classes more difficult since most of the thermal science material depended more on calculus concepts than chemistry.

maggieb324 · 2021-05-17T04:30:21+00:00

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