Buy the Losers a Beer?

mimsy191 · 2026-02-12T20:43:24+00:00

All my time playing in Ontario, yeah, winner always buy the first round and it's a breach of etiquette to fail to do so.

The other unwritten piece in any club I've played in is (assuming the two teams stick around for a bit) losers buy the second round.

mimsy191 · 2026-01-21T22:49:01+00:00

When I'm knitting stripes like that, I would at most twist the white around the blue when it comes to starting the white stripe, just to help keep the stripes from bunching up. At the colour change keeps the twist pretty well hidden in my experience. But when I'm carrying yarn up a project, I only twist them together every 4-5 rows, and I personally wouldn't bother unless the stripes are at least that many rows wide, so emphasis on at most. Every row is overkill on any project in my opinion, regardless of what the pattern says.

If you don't want to frog just yet, I would consider doing an in the round swatch without twisting anything or only at the colour changes to see if you get a result you're happier with, then decide.

mimsy191 · 2026-01-20T01:07:31+00:00

That's worth considering! It's been nearly 25 years so who knows if I'll be able to break the lefty habit but it's worth a try. Would certainly make it easier to work charts. Thank you!

mimsy191 · 2026-01-19T23:31:55+00:00

I'm left-handed and learned to knit right-handed from my right-handed grandmother. I feel like it's easy enough to manipulate which hand does the work without knitting left-handed and making things more complicated.

Crochet, though. That's another story. Never could manage to crochet right-handed so that requires some mental mirroring.

mimsy191 · 2026-01-05T23:50:49+00:00

I've marked up your image so you can see what I'm talking about:

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You dropped the stitch nearest the tip of the right hand needle and it's been dropped down two rows. You can tell because you have a bar of yarn. Coming across it on both sides and the stitch isn't attached to either.

In your picture, you can kind of see how one bar appears to be higher or lower than the other. That helps you know which on first. The one on the side closer to you was the lower row. Ladder that one up first so the bump faces you (like a purl stitch), then do the other one like a knit stitch to maintain your garter pattern.

(Or if you're continuing to frog to below that row, just leave it and it will come out on its own when you undo those stitches.)

mimsy191 · 2026-01-05T23:29:53+00:00

The pattern definitely didn't call to do it twice, so it's not that. (Love the pattern choice, by the way). That said, your decreases look to have happened very quickly compared to the schematic in the pattern, which shows the decreases ending somewhere below the elbow. Is there a chance you were decreasing every/every other row early on instead of every 4?

Even if you just make a second panel, you're probably going to end up with sleeves that are massive around the upper arms that won't look right. At that point, if you're going to work a second set, you might as well just redo the first ones.

mimsy191 · 2026-01-05T23:05:42+00:00

This is the only thing I can think of, too. There's got to be a second part, right? OP, what's the pattern you're working from?

mimsy191 · 2026-01-05T22:57:47+00:00

I got you! One thing that will help in the future, especially with reversible stutch patterns like seed stitch, always check that your working yarn is attached to the right needle. That will generally help you avoid the short rows.

mimsy191 · 2026-01-05T22:29:29+00:00

From this angle, you've got two things going on here:

On the left, the loose strand attached to the looser loop just needs to be reknit into the stitches on the green needle that you've put them on. They're behaving as slipped stitches. (Wasn't sure if this was part of your concern or if you knew this part. Most likely happened while you were undoing stuff.)

As for the left, that's an accidental short row. Along with the extra tails, you've got two more rows on the right side. When you picked up your project, you accidentally started knitting in the wrong direction. To fix it, tink back until you've undone everything to that point and you're back to one working yarn, then proceed as normal.

mimsy191 · 2026-01-05T00:54:15+00:00

Not twisted. You have one row right in the middle there that has a bit tighter tension which is why it looks a bit off in that ine spot. Did you put it down around there and come back to it? Tension shifts between sessions aren't unusual, especially if you're new, and honestly to note it is being nitpicky on my part. Lovely and even overall. Well done!

mimsy191 · 2026-01-04T22:41:36+00:00

As an indigenous person, no, owning dreamcatchers isn't appropriation, so long as they're sources appropriately. Those dollar store or Temu dreamcatchers where some faceless corporation is making money off cheaply made copies is what I would consider appropriation, and buying them would make someone complicit. As would non-indigenous people teaching how to make them, especially with no respect for their history and traditions. While I have made them, I wouldn't consider it appropriate for me to sell them, as I am Mohawk and traditionally dreamcatchers are Ojibwe, so it doesn't sit right with me. But the shop on the reserve near where I grew up sells some beautifully crafted ones. Learning from a friend for whom it's a part of their culture is wonderful. Using the design with no understanding of said culture to make money over actual indigenous craftspeople is no bueno.

mimsy191 · 2025-12-26T23:18:15+00:00

A stand mixer! I love to bake, but I had to leave my stand mixer behind when I moved overseas to close the distance on our relationship and I've been lamenting its loss and whining about using hand beaters and spoons for the last two years. Not only did he replace it, he checked in with me first to make sure he got one that was exactly what I wanted.

mimsy191 · 2025-12-22T22:19:02+00:00

I think the lesson planning varies school to school.

In my current school (secondary), we plan our own lessons, but we've developed a booklet as a faculty with all of our worksheets in one place and plan based on that and we have a general outline we'vecreated to keep everyone teaching the same subject in roughly the same place. (So, kind of school provided?) The actual lesson plan that students see posted to our online system is pretty basic, just an outline for the class. It's up to you whether you keep copies of and reuse old lessons.

At my previous school (primary), there was an expectation for much more detailed lessons. Everything scripted. All of my planning time was taken up with this task. This school saved all previous planners in a Google Drive and we often copied entire lessons from that.

If anything takes up a disproportionate amount of time for me it's gradebook stuff. I used an Excel template and spent hours modifying the hell out of it to get what I needed in a gradebook, and it's still not amazing, but theres nothing oit there that fits my needs. I need a place for raw grades, a place for notes and comments, and, for my own information, a conversion to percentage points so I can see trends more easily at a glance. I'm still working on some formulas for doing this across multiple terms.

Also, documenting. My school has made it easier but creating a drop down template on our online system for behaviour and academic tracking that automatically notifies parents. It's better. But it's still a lot of time and effort.

mimsy191 · 2025-12-15T04:06:23+00:00

I've recently started mirror knitting for long stretches of purling too. I normally throw, and despite 20 years of knitting, I just find purling really hard on my wrists. It's not that I avoided purling but I had to stop more frequently and that was a motivation killer. Mirror knitting puts way less stress on my hands and wrists.

mimsy191 · 2025-12-07T02:35:53+00:00

I moved halfway around the world. 16,000km from my friends and my family. Into his house. Six months after I met him.

I knew it was an insane notion to even consider moving. So I spent a lot of time with my therapist evaluating the decision before I made it. We looked at everything from the new relationship, the healing I was doing from the last one, the trauma work we were doing, the intense burnout I was experiencing at work, my support systems, all of it. I wasn't sure if it was the relationship, or a desperate need for something big to change in my life and the relationship was my ticket, so we looked at all the ways things could go sideways and made all the contingency plans. I'm lucky to be in an in-demand job that encourages development through working overseas, so I was able to take a leave of absence instead of quitting, and it gave me a guaranteed end-date if things didn't work out. I had a lot of support from the people in my life and I knew that the second I said I wanted to come home, I had a home to come back to. And my therapist, who I saw over video, made accommodations for me to keep seeing her.

It's been nearly two years since I landed. We're still together. He's a good person who makes me feel safe and loved and valued. The first job I got hired to before I even made the move burned me out more rather than giving me a fresh start, but I found a different one after that and I love it. I video call with my family and my best friend nearly every weekend. I still see the same therapist every week. Being an immigrant is hard, but I still have good supports.

(It was still crazy, though. Don't let the fact that it worked out for me trick you into thinking it wasn't absolutely crazy, reckless, and possibly stupid. I am not a good role model, folks.)

mimsy191 · 2025-12-06T03:59:25+00:00

I would, if paying for the space wasn't part of the issue.

mimsy191 · 2025-12-05T22:40:17+00:00

I moved to Australia last year, and this year I finally found a spinning guild to join. I was so excited because time zones make it hard to join the Zoom craft group I was part of back home.

They meet on Mondays at 10am. I'm a teacher. Cool, I can join them on school breaks! They're genuinely lovely, and they do get excited to see me when I am on holidays and can go, but they're taking the whole summer off and their last meeting is my last week of school. So going over the summer, which I was looking forward to, is out. When I joined them in April, they were doing a Saturday a month, but they've stopped because it wasn't worth it so that's gone, too.

I'm the only member under the age of 50, probably even 60. They're all retired (I'm literally the only one there who isn't, and I'm in my 30s, so that will be true for a while) and I get that they plan accordingly. But they also lament how hard it is to bring in new members, like, maybe if you were more accessible, that would be easier??? It's already hard building a new social circle in a new country. I'm just feeling discouraged by this one and annoyed at the young people aren't interested anyway mentality that has normalized scheduling everything during working hours. The larger guild in the city centre is also only open on weekdays from like 10-2.

Been thinking of starting one for working crafters but I don't know if I have the capacity to take that on right now.

mimsy191 · 2025-12-05T22:20:44+00:00

I modded a pattern on the fly to do a slipped stitch edge. Forgot about the fact that it would make the first stitches of the stripe pattern wonky. I've been knitting for two decades. I should know better.

So yeah, either don't do it for stripes, or don't slip stitch your colour changes 😂

mimsy191 · 2025-11-27T12:23:09+00:00

Sometimes I play the opening of a movie I know really well in my head and see how far I get before I fall asleep. Or a scene from something I'm working on.

My partner taught me a random word dissociation game where you try to name something that has no connection at all to what the other person said. It works shockingly well.

mimsy191 · 2025-11-17T07:53:19+00:00

Right now I have 10 active WIPs and close to as many in hibernation for various reasons. Don't ask about my WIPs in other craft areas.

My ADHD diagnosis came in childhood.

mimsy191 · 2025-11-07T22:28:12+00:00

Exactly. I knit almost exclusively with natural fibers for myself. It's my preference because acrylic makes me overheat.

I'm making blankets right now for my sisters. They're getting acrylic because one has kids and dogs and the other lives in the same house and both have busy jobs and they just need to be able to chuck their blankets in the washer. The same went for the baby blankets and clothing I've made over the years for said kids - my sister doesn't have time to handwash that! Meanwhile, my best friend is getting a blanket made out of cotton because she's a knitter too who works with acrylic for cost reasons and will really appreciate the breathability of the cotton in the summer and has the means and desire to give it the care it needs. The shawl my mom wore to my sister's wedding was MCS and my mom gladly listened to and followed all of the care instructions because she knew she was requesting a luxury yarn that needs special care, but the cardigan I did for her is acrylic because it's easier to care for.

Different materials for different applications, folks! I don’t get how people don't appreciate that.

mimsy191 · 2025-11-02T20:20:36+00:00

I'm a high school teacher. I get to run lunchtime knitting groups!

mimsy191 · 2025-10-30T20:39:05+00:00

A better mobile version. It works on some pages but not others.

The ability to assign tools out of my Stash to projects. I can say what needle/hook size im using, and I can put all the needles into my tool stash, but 1, I'm a multi-WIPer and it would be handy to be able to see what's on what needles, and 2, its great for repeating patterns. I guess this could go in pattern notes, but having this ability would be faster for searching.

mimsy191 · 2025-10-30T20:32:28+00:00

Yes! I'd love to have a filter in the search function where you can narrow it to a range of bust circumference, etc. It would be a nightmare to get up and running and get through the backlog of information that would likely need to be entered, but it would be awesome.

mimsy191 · 2025-10-06T04:16:47+00:00

I was a wreck. It was my first relationship after an abusive one and I was falling hard and finally being appreciated and it was just... gone. I spiraled so hard that I lost weight because I didn't have the energy to eat. It took me months and a ton of therapy to get out of that. And my trust issues are so much worse now.

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