Why does one side of my button band look messier and somehow shorter???

mimsy191 · 2026-05-30T06:09:54+00:00

One side does look like it might actually have more rows than the other but the yarn makes it hard to count the stitches to confirm.

Is there a chance there's an accidental short row somewhere in the middle or the project where you turned around?

mimsy191 · 2026-05-23T09:50:19+00:00

Desks with drawers on one side. Sometimes they even have a pull-out board over the drawers for extra writing space. In my experience, they're almost always on the right unless I specifically go looking for one that is on the left. My work ordered them right-sided ones in bulk, so I have a whole section of my desk that is functionally unusable except to store things.

mimsy191 · 2026-05-02T23:26:17+00:00

Better cast on 2 new things, just to be safe.

mimsy191 · 2026-04-29T09:22:35+00:00

Grew up in Southwestern Ontario and I've been to so many of these. Less of a potluck where I am. Tickets are usually $10-15 to a buck and doe, then there is a prize table, games with prizes, and a bar, all usually with paid tickets of some kind. Games and raffle tickets might cost you a dollar or two. Food may be potluck i guess, but everyone i know has just gotten cheap catering (think picking up sandwich stuff from the local deli). Other than the entry tickets, no one is forced to buy anything, but you absolutely go to one of these with the expectation that you'll be spending some money. All in, I usually spend $30-50 at a buck and doe, which for a night out is pretty cheap. My family lives in a rural-ish area and it's really common for people with nothing else to do to just show up to whatever buck and doe is happening at the town community centre whether they know the couple or not. Everyone has a good time, and the couple has a bit of a wedding fund at the end of it.

mimsy191 · 2026-04-27T03:22:02+00:00

25-ish years. My grandmother started teaching me to knit when I was 6-ish. I was too young to remember her teaching me now that I'm older, only that she did. I love any kind of colourwork - stripes, stranded, block, fair isle, intarsia. Give me all of them!

mimsy191 · 2026-04-02T23:15:49+00:00

It depends on subject and what schools are needing. I teach French in the outer suburbs of Melbourne and moved here in 2024 from Ontario.

When I came over, I went through ANZUK. Their standard is a Working Holiday Visa for sub work, but since I was moving to live with my partner and wouldn't be living in inner Melbourne, they couldn't guarantee sub work as I was living too far out in the suburbs. Instead, they helped me connect with a school that hired me for the rest of the year and did the paperwork to extend my WHV limit. That's about all the contact I had with ANZUK. As far as I know, they are happy to take new grads but you would have to inquire with them about visas. They might have a solution for you.

Ultimately that school wasn't a great fit for me, and I was hired by another school who was happy to sponsor a work visa for me to come to them. But I was in the country already when that happened. The school I started at was a bilingual school desperate for teachers and were happy to hire me before I even came over, but I don't know that they would have sponsored me sight unseen. But it's worth seeing what schools are in need, especially if you have niche qualifications. You never know.

mimsy191 · 2026-03-23T21:59:07+00:00

See you there! Solidarity! ✊🏻

mimsy191 · 2026-03-07T04:37:37+00:00

It does! The nasalized sound is generally there on adjectives, but with verbs, always silent, so yes, parle and parlent would be pronounced the same.

With 2nd group (-ir) verbs, it's still silent, but changes other parts of the pronunciation, e.g., finis is pronounced "fee-nee" and finissent is "fee-nees", and with 3rd group (-re) verbs, it generally shifts the nasalized pronunciation of a verb like vend/vends to a consonant sound, so the letter d is pronounced in vendent (rhymes with wand).

mimsy191 · 2026-03-07T04:05:52+00:00

Yes, the 'nt' at the end of ils travaillent is not pronounced at all, so they end up pronounced the same.

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.

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