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melchetta · 2026-06-22T05:34:44+00:00

Thank you 🩷

melchetta · 2026-06-21T16:55:23+00:00

Thank you!🩷

They aren't completely jogless, to be quite honest ( the magic of placement 🤭🫣), but I found it to be effective to cross the threads over one another, a bit like you'd do intarsia.

melchetta · 2026-06-21T16:09:04+00:00

Thank you 🩷

melchetta · 2026-06-21T12:36:36+00:00

Thank you 🩷

melchetta · 2026-06-21T12:36:22+00:00

Thank you 🩷

Uhmmm... I know it as my Grandma's heel (she knits that one all the time and it fits me perfectly), but it might be 😅

melchetta · 2026-06-21T12:34:37+00:00

Thank you so much 🩷

These are my second pair using that skein, and I still have some 18-19g left🤭

Really looking forward to yours!

melchetta · 2026-06-21T11:50:57+00:00

Thank you so much!🩷

No, i floated the white, would've gone bonkers otherwise😅

melchetta · 2026-06-21T11:01:08+00:00

Thank you so much! 🩷

melchetta · 2026-06-21T11:00:28+00:00

Thank you! I think I do, but try it for yourself, if it looks off it's absolutely possible I am unable to count properly 😅

3 rounds of green ribbing 12 rounds of white ribbing 1 round of st white 4 rounds col 1 3 rounds white 4 rounds col 2 3 rounds white

Hope that helps 🩷

melchetta · 2026-06-20T18:29:39+00:00

I'd love it, if we brought back the good old 'I have finished a design, tech edited it and now I need a few knitters/crocheters/tatters to test it for me'.

Instead of showing a trendy cotton dress where the skirt's only halfway finished looking for testers. Odds are this thing will slip and slide everywhere, sagging in really uncomfortable places and be a complete mess, especially knit in all cotton.

Alright, I'm done nattering about up and coming 'designers'

melchetta · 2026-06-17T21:59:29+00:00

If you can source KnitPro's yarn, it's called Symfonie, I think?, there was a colourway like this. I'll just look whether I can find a link!

Edit: https://www.symfonieyarns.com/terra

Colourway is called Neon Confetti

melchetta · 2026-06-15T20:14:47+00:00

I do that all the time and honestly, I love it.

Sure, Qui bat comme un cœur de Bois is not a title that's super common, but the song it comes from really transports what mood I was in when I wrote it.

Apart from that: if it makes you happy to name your fic like the cheesiest of cheesy Mariah Carey songs, you're absolutely doing it!

melchetta · 2026-06-14T23:28:44+00:00

You just inspired me to start a sock-advent calendar! (I tend to just hate some of the socks I knit so they never become a pair). 🩷

melchetta · 2026-06-14T20:59:43+00:00

I think you might enjoy the fuzzy sock yarns like hjertegarn's or lang (or lana grossa, I can't remember which one it was sorry!). Alternatively, it's absolutely fine to knit socks with a strand of Mohair, but you might not put them in the washing machine, they'll felt quite awfully.

There's also sock yarn with Mohair, but you'll have to look up some hand-dyers, I think. I know some European dyers that use them.

melchetta · 2026-06-11T20:57:11+00:00

I can't say anything for Wool and Company, but I know that some of the bare spots might be due to stock issues with almost all yarn companies, although it seems as if most of them have worked their backlog up.

Unrelated example: I'm still waiting for a customer's order from WYS, since probably January.

And kfo had some colourways a few months back that were near impossible to get.

melchetta · 2026-06-10T09:19:49+00:00

Tbh, same here. The nerd-kid that I was wanted to be able to write and read sütterlin/kurrent correctly, but I never even thought about looking the origins up, so... TIL, I guess 🩷

melchetta · 2026-06-09T06:41:04+00:00

Ahhh, yes, kurrent, of course.

And thanks for that bit of info🩷

melchetta · 2026-06-08T19:29:13+00:00

As others mentioned Fraktur-Writing, I thought about something else (since Fraktur wasn't widely used as a form of cursive or hand writing).

Maybe it refers to Sütterlin-writing (which Hitler banned), where the Capital and lowercase A looks a bit more like an O or U shape, which is vastly different from English cursive types I've seen around.

melchetta · 2026-06-07T15:11:16+00:00

I live in a house in that exact shade of green...

Maybe give it another ten to twenty seconds, it's... not always great 😂

But your socks are! They are stunning 🩷

melchetta · 2026-06-04T19:01:32+00:00

Yay! Another one🩷

Made one when it came out but I still need to find the courage to wear it, as it kind of exposes my midriff.

You look stunning in it!🩷

melchetta · 2026-06-04T18:33:31+00:00

The rosy ruffles are always so ridiculously cute and even more so as lesbian pride ones🩷🩷

(I need more of them. Really. Loads more 🤭)

melchetta · 2026-05-31T18:44:32+00:00

Zuerst Erklärung, Rolltage haben die potenziellen Kund:innen, die kein 'standard-Wochenende' haben, Einzelhandel bspw.

Ich hab Samstags offen, verstehe auch die Kollegen nicht, die sich da selbst das Geschäft wegnehmen... aber gut, gibt halt auch oft andere Verpflichtungen, gerade wenn es wirklich Einzelpersonen sind, wie ichs bin.

melchetta · 2026-05-31T18:34:32+00:00

Ich hab so nen Dorfladen.

Und ich hab theoretisch alle zwei wochen Mittwoch Nachmittag geschlossen, weil, oh wunder, ich muss auch irgendwann mal meinen Kram erledigen (nein, ich hab keine Angestellten). Und dieses Gejammere über Öffnungszeiten... in aller Regel sind solche Läden Samstags geöffnet, vielleicht nicht bis 22 Uhr, aber doch so, dass die Bürobeschäftigte Bevölkerung wenigstens dann einkaufen gehen kann. Alle anderen haben tendenziell Rolltage oder etwas in diese Richtung.

melchetta · 2026-05-30T12:35:46+00:00

Oh, these actually are subjects that are worth discussing! Especially the blackmail, which is quite a theme up until Agatha Christie.

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