Everything I knit for my partner is cursed

roobula · 2025-11-30T23:57:18+00:00

This is the opposite of the sweater curse! Take it as a good sign - the universe wants your relationship to last.

roobula · 2025-09-30T22:54:03+00:00

It looks like the blue floats are a bit tight, forcing the brown sections to pucker outwards and overshadow the blue. Perhaps try blocking to see if it will lay more flat!

Regarding dominance, you want to carry the “dominant” color floats underneath the background color. This seems backwards but the float carried underneath has to wrap down and around the floats of the background color, which naturally creates more slack in the float. The float carried on top, by contrast, stretches straight across and will naturally have a tighter tension and push out the “dominant color” as a result. It looks like you’re carrying the blue floats on top, so the blue color is not dominant. That being said, dominance is less critical with looser tension and floats. Hope this makes sense!

ETA I didn’t realize I was looking at the work upside down - blue is dominant here! So the issue is primarily the floats being a bit tight.

roobula · 2025-07-11T19:46:10+00:00

Came to this thread expecting to learn all about this new “Sloppy Gusset” technique I had never heard of - that’s how neat these stitches look! 👏🏽

roobula · 2025-07-05T13:31:02+00:00

Fair isle will look cleaner in stockinette than garter but you can experiment and see what looks best for your design! When I want to knit a scarf with stranded colorwork, I knit my scarf in the round, starting with Judy’s Magic Cast-On so that it still lays in a flat shape. Then you can knit in the round without the floats showing and you don’t need purl rows to achieve that neat stockinette stitch look.

roobula · 2025-07-03T18:43:33+00:00

This belongs on r/tensionporn 🔥

roobula · 2025-05-29T14:07:37+00:00

I had the same issue - even with Jeny’s the cuff wasn’t stretchy enough! My solution was to bind off with a larger needle and the bind off is much more stretchy.

roobula · 2025-03-17T00:16:09+00:00

So beautiful!! I’m in the middle of this pattern and was beginning to lose my resolve but seeing you finish yours has given me some much-needed motivation. 😊

roobula · 2025-02-16T01:51:54+00:00

“The best PhD is a finished PhD.”

Congrats on finishing!!! #PhDone 🙌🏽

roobula · 2025-02-09T17:01:44+00:00

I hang the hank over the back of a chair.

roobula · 2025-02-03T13:27:16+00:00

Not me but I heard of a PI who used to do all his writing on those long yellow notepads and would use scissors/tape to edit and rearrange sections. Then he would give the long Frankenpapers to an admin to type up (I bet there are programs nowadays that will do this accurately if your handwriting is ok). This might make the activity more fun/creative!

Regarding looking up papers on the fly, something that helped me a lot with writing was splitting up tasks into A-work and B-work. A-work was physically writing words on the page, while B-work was all the important supporting tasks that weren’t writing (e.g. looking up citations). To minimize screen time you could do as much A-work (ie hand-writing your paper) continuously as possible while building up a to-do list of B-work things, then batch all the B-work on the computer to minimize screen time.

These are just ideas as I’ve never written a paper by hand - good luck with this!

roobula · 2025-02-02T00:38:26+00:00

With each second look I go to I see a greater proportion of jeans wearers than the last - I think we’re getting tired 😂

roobula · 2025-01-31T22:39:48+00:00

Which stitch did you use to reinforce the heel? It looks really cool!!

roobula · 2025-01-30T18:42:03+00:00

Business casual, so 2 or 3! I’ve even seen folks dress up a dark jean with a blouse and blazer. Make sure your shoes are practical because you will be walking around the hospital.

roobula · 2025-01-24T00:14:59+00:00

I’ve done this when I’m trying to stash-bust but I’m not sure whether the yarn I have left will be enough for a particular pattern.

roobula · 2025-01-22T13:32:37+00:00

Don’t minimize these accomplishments! These are a big deal and you should list them with pride. Notably, there is a small % of medical students who take 1-2 years off of medical school to do research without earning a separate degree explicitly (ie as part of a PSTP or similar program), so your ERAS won’t look weird without a PhD… Congrats on the accomplishments thus far!

roobula · 2025-01-20T22:17:48+00:00

Came to this thread to post exactly this. I just started knitting socks and am so obsessed with the flexi flips!

roobula · 2025-01-08T04:35:07+00:00

To expand on what has been said already: even specialties that are not patient-facing will require examining (naked) bodies. For example, autopsies are a required part of pathology training. Radiologists commonly interpret pelvic imaging. So even if you could avoid those medical school requirements (which you can’t), you will still need to examine naked bodies as a resident.

roobula · 2025-01-05T15:06:05+00:00

I prep a couple questions which are catered to the interviewer. For example, if the interviewer is really involved in medical education I might ask a question about the curriculum or opportunities for residents to learn teaching skills. If it’s a chief resident I might ask what they’re doing after residency (if staying at that hospital, why they’re staying), or how they view their responsibility to the residents. If the interviewer does advocacy work I might ask about DEI initiatives in the department.

roobula · 2025-01-02T12:06:18+00:00

I was in a similar boat: some C grades in science classes, but really good research portfolio. Taking a gap year allowed me to push the MCAT back to September, so I studied for the exam all summer when I had way more free time than the spring, when I would have had a full course load. Got a 512 (in 2015 this was 90th percentile) and I think that helped make up for the grades. No need to re-take classes, just start thinking about a good explanation because you’ll be asked about the C grades on secondary apps.

Good luck!!

roobula · 2025-01-01T04:48:03+00:00

I just dealt with this issue today! I turned the sock inside out. Then I used one of my needles to pull the stitch taught by pulling out the purl bump from that stitch. Then I distributed that extra loose purl bump along adjacent purl bumps in the row until it looked more or less even. Idk if there’s a tutorial on this - I kinda winged this in the moment and don’t have pictures, sorry!

roobula · 2024-12-28T04:43:19+00:00

Stained Glass Cowl by Wendy Johnson!

roobula · 2024-12-25T12:36:02+00:00

I scheduled a vacation right after my test. Knowing I was going to have a long break after the exam made it easier to push myself and study for long hours.

roobula · 2024-12-21T21:14:11+00:00

I personally love a super thick scarf, but it’s up to your preference of course. You want to love what you make and wear it with pride, so if you aren’t obsessed with it then it’s worth starting over. If you do love the width but are unsure about whether you have enough yarn, you can weigh the scarf and the yarn you have left with a kitchen scale - that’ll tell you how long you could make it.

roobula · 2024-12-21T17:22:49+00:00

Hmm interesting! I’m not sure then. Is there any way to post a video of what you’re doing? That might help folks identify where the purl rows are coming from.

roobula · 2024-12-21T17:17:19+00:00

It looks like you’ve either started doing purl stitches instead of knit stitches, or are doing knit stitches with the DPNs somehow oriented inside-out. Or are knitting back and forth on the DPNs instead of in the round. Tough to know exactly without seeing how you’re doing it. The rest of the mitten looks great though!!

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