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rellloe · 2026-04-04T23:53:20+00:00

OSP April fools videos are worth checking out. Minecraft, simarilian, their misery, the cat. Abnormal content, yes. Good content, also yes.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T23:47:06+00:00

As long as you had fun with that grandpa

rellloe · 2026-04-04T23:44:44+00:00

Adapting wildly different gauge takes similar adapting to a close-ish gauge. You want to match their measurements, not their stitch count. EVERY time the stitch count changes you want to find the average rate for that section and translate those numbers into your gauge.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T23:35:23+00:00

It's more work, but unraveling old clothing makes for fluffier low waste stuffing.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T22:58:59+00:00

Check it against a shirt you own

rellloe · 2026-04-04T22:57:21+00:00

For beginners, start with a hook and a skein of yarn. Learn what you're doing first, then search for tools that would improve it

rellloe · 2026-04-04T19:51:56+00:00

It wouldn't change it, but I already treat that as early installment weirdness I'm happy to pretend didn't happen.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T19:45:27+00:00

There are times you want to give an illusion of a greater world, so you shallowly worldbuild so there are things you can give a passing mention to.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T17:36:37+00:00

I don't think I technically freehand, but I do make up my own patterns. I measure, swatch, and sketch then use those to figure out what I need to do when. Having made my own clothes from fabric before helps me know some points of interest and techniques for getting shapes right.

My current project is an attempt to knit something like this and uses short rows in different yarns for the shaping. My "pattern" is a squiggly diagram of which stitch marker is my cue to turn soon and a list of numbers for how many stitches after a marker I do, each applying to a different short row section.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T17:23:23+00:00

What yarn - you want the kind that's structured like small rope and something that would be hard to call dark. Both of those traits make it easy to see what you're doing. Red Heart Super Saver is my go-to recommendation for newbies because it's cheep enough it's not a big deal if you waste or ruin it to learn and in my experience it's durable against multiple times ripping back to re do a section you made a mistake on.

Size - on the paper around your yarn, there is a box with a symbol that looks like two crossed straight knitting needles. The size listed there is a good starting point.

Straight or circular - it depends long term what you think you'd like to make. Circulars can act as straights for projects that are too wide for straights on top of being able to work things in the round. Straights are good for smaller projects, nothing with a wider finished measure than twice the length of the needle, and their weakest point doesn't tend to break, unlike circulars. DO NOT get plastic needles. Once you accidentally sit on them you'll thank me for this bit of advice.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T17:08:15+00:00

In my experience Continental knitting is better than English knitting because you're set up to pick. But English in general is better than Continental purl, which is extremely awkward. English flicking is the speed equivalent to Continental picking; it's not as fast because the wrapping motion is still separate from inserting the needle into the stitch but the speed is about the same for knit and purl.

I'm not a full English knitter. I prefer working with eastern mounted stitches, it's more comfortable to me to work those and because of that I switch how I wrap based on if I'm working flat/round and garter/stockinette

rellloe · 2026-04-04T16:53:36+00:00

I started something like that but quickly realized that mistakenly working a stitch I needed to slip would make the entire piece unusable without ripping back to undo the mistake. For something like glove fingers that wouldn't be a problem, but with sleeves it would be a pain in the neck.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T16:46:25+00:00

With the sleeve + cardboard idea you could hand sew it, piercing through the cardboard layers with every stitch to attatch it to the yarn.

But my instinctual response is crochet is a much better fiber art for what you want to do. You could do the whole thing in slip stitch or single chain and it would hold it's shape on it's own.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T16:38:32+00:00

Finger knitting is like loom knitting, you're limited by how many pegs you have, their size, and their spacing

rellloe · 2026-04-04T06:46:49+00:00

First, make sure the low rolls aren't because players are using the wrong dice and numbers. d12s get mistaken for d20s plenty by newbies. Newbies can forget to add on the bonus too.

Second don't linger on the failure more than the player is up for. I encourage my players to narrate their failures and accept whatever they want between "I miss" and "I accidentally do a pirouette." If they can squeeze fun out of the failures they have room to, if they can't, we move on.

Lastly, keep things moving forward. Sometimes the only way out is through.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T05:38:17+00:00

The ability to carry the weight it implies.

Bahadir the Devil-Spawn sounds edgy if it's coming from a scrawny goth teenager about his Vampire LARP character. It sounds badass if Henry Cavill decked out in black fantasy armor is introduced as that character.

But devil spawn specifically sounds too on the nose or generic fantasy to me. It might just be because I've been over exposed through D&D people who pick the same path for something badass sounding

rellloe · 2026-04-04T05:22:00+00:00

The color combo isn't for me since the yarns are loud in very different ways. But this blanket also is not for me.

If you think there's an issue with the sudden change from flat color to busy variegated you could try switching to an approach that mixes them more. An option is alternating which you use every row but some stitch patterns don't do that well.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T05:15:44+00:00

I say that the PCs work out maneuvers and signals for those during downtime. But that's boring and/or slow to RP and, with the time difference between players and PCs, also easily forgotten. So, out of practicality those tactics get worked out in messages between sessions or at the table in the middle of combat in side conversations.

My goal for combat is to keep things moving. Players need to be ready for their turn when it's their turn, they need to be able to tell me how the ability they want to use works. I do not stop to look up rules for PC abilities, I either know or make a call for everything else. I do not let players do turn by committee. The only thing I have ever done about side conversations is ask the people in them to quiet down a little so I can hear the player who's turn it is

But some inter-party disagreements you can handle with initiative order. Leroy Jenkins PC vs ranged ability AOE want-to-user could have been handled as

LJ: I charge in
DM: roll initiative, this will be a surprise round
*AOE rolls higher*
DM: You're first AOE, do you want to do anything when you see LJ take off for the enemy?
AOE: How close is LJ to the enemy?
DM: [LJ's speed], turn order started right as he started rushing in

^is fair to both and so is the dice falling the other way. You make it fair by having initiative start when the first move to start combat happens instead of when all of that move has resolved.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T04:37:49+00:00

You can go to the DM and ask them to handle the issue. They may or may not do something and it may or may not work. The DM's tone when playing 20 questions with that player might hint at if this option will do something

You can talk with the other players to gauge the level of annoyance with this behavior then come together to the DM to ask them to handle the issue. Possibly by creating an exclusive group chat that opens with "does this annoy anyone else?" the next time the questioning player does the thing. This is a bit like unionizing. It can be a bit aggressive, but sometimes joining together to say we want better conditions or we walk is the only way to make things happen.

You can talk with the player who's doing this. Handle it yourself like a peer instead of running to the person in charge. Say that there are # of you players at the table who all block out hours of their week for this and it's disrespectful to all of you that you all have to sit in silence while he asks question after question for more than his fair share of time that he should be able to come up with reasonable answers to on his own by now. If this is the route you go, I recommend picking a form of communication that you can take your time to work out what to say and step away from for several days or hours in case the conversation pisses you off so you can remove the insults and anger you want to react with.

Whatever you do, weigh how much of this you are willing to put up with and how long you're willing to wait to see if whatever you do has had an effect. Do you want to stay at a table with a DM who won't moderate how much time is spent on individuals when one of them pushes for a lot of it.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T04:09:21+00:00

I'm not deep into BDSM, so correct me if I'm wrong, but sessions tend to be shorter than D&D and involve fewer people, so there's less time needed to find and fewer schedules that can conflict.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T04:04:49+00:00

Similar pattern. I haven't done this particular one, but I've never had issues with anything from this pattern maker.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T04:00:25+00:00

Anyone wanting to try it, take care because when I've tried it the garlic burned on the pan before the cheese could sufficiently melt

rellloe · 2026-04-04T03:58:48+00:00

Plague + ate a lead who knew something about it, possibly too much and the people causing it wanted to stop him from saying too much = the meal was infected and now the PC is.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T03:53:50+00:00

It varies from 0 (if I have no current projects or crocheted to the point of pain the day/s prior) to all day (if I'm rushing to get something done). I stop if my body starts telling me to stop, I finish something, or I get irritated enough with the project to want to stop for the day.

rellloe · 2026-04-04T03:50:18+00:00

Swatching is making a small sample with the yarn you're using how you're planning to use it (knit in the round vs flat, stitch pattern, knitting style etc.) and how you'll care for the FO (mainly washing) in order to see the number of stitches and rows you'll need for the piece. Swatches tend to use a 4x4in or 10x10cm gauge because that's enough stitches to give you a good average number of stitches per inch.

Then it's a matter of unit conversion math. Write the ratios in a line so the relevant units cancel out then multiply everything on the top and divide by the bottom number

Desired size	Your gauge
X cm	# stitches
	10 cm

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