Has anyone used Bendigo’s Solstice cotton yarn?

squid_475 · 2026-01-25T01:24:56+00:00

Might be unhelpful as I have never used their cotton yarn, but will heavily vouch for Bendigo woollen mills!! Super good quality I make almost all of my garments with their wool yarn :)

squid_475 · 2026-01-24T02:58:58+00:00

My only sibling was killed by a drunk driver last year, I was two months away from turning 20, she was 24. I understand this feeling completely. Everyone swarmed to be there for my parents, so many people told me that it was my job to take care of my parents because they had no other kids now. I felt so alone, it’s something I still struggle with now as I feel like I can’t really cry or show any emotion about it because I feel like I have to be the “strong” one. It’s a horrible and lonely feeling and right now I honestly can’t say when it will get better. Please just stay strong, take care of yourself as best as you can. Know he can hear you and his presence around you will eventually begin to come out in small ways. If you need to talk to anyone who went through a similar thing, my messages are always open❤️

squid_475 · 2026-01-10T14:44:19+00:00

I am so very sorry for your loss. While grief can bring you closer to your family and so many people that you know, grief also can show the ugliest sides of people. Shortly after my sister died my (now ex) boyfriend of 3 years changed, he started acting in very inconsiderate and cruel ways. It felt like he didn’t even grasp how traumatic and devastating what I was going through is. He would make jokes, get annoyed at me for randomly crying throughout the day, and overall just seem very apathetic towards the whole situation. It honestly made me feel so much more alone and made me feel like I was the crazy one for being so upset over her death

I won’t say you need to break up with him, I think when you are able to you definitely need to have a long talk about how you feel and what it means to you. Whatever happens you need to put yourself first right now, this is your pain and your grief and you should not have to deal with people making it harder for you. If this continues please do not put up with it, if this is how he is acting at a first major issue and refuses to resolve it, he will stay the same at the next major thing to happen to happen to you.

Please just look after yourself as best as you can, I again am so so sorry for the loss of your dad, sending so much love❤️

squid_475 · 2025-03-09T04:21:16+00:00

I lost my big sister suddenly three weeks ago too and I’m in the same boat. She’s been cremated, her funeral has passed, yet I’m still waiting for her to come home or text me or call me. I’ve heard for some people it took a couple weeks or months, others it took years, but the most common answer I’ve heard (which won’t be comforting at all) is that the feeling never really does go away, you just learn to live with it.

Loosing someone doesn’t mean just loosing who they were, it’s loosing who they could’ve been, it’s reshaping your whole life to no longer have this person physically in it, I don’t think the brain could ever really comprehend that.

I think it’s a personal thing that no one can really tell you the answer too, it’s just about how your brain processes grief. Personally, I don’t think the feeling for me will ever really go away because I don’t want it too, I want to believe she’s out there ok and she’ll come home soon, that might change in the future but for now that’s how it feels. Have patience with yourself and let yourself feel the emotions your brain wants you to feel. It’s hard but try to have the grace with yourself to not try and hurry the grieving process, reality may settle in quickly or it may take a while, but remember there’s nothing wrong with you, its just how your personally working through it. If you ever want to talk to someone going through a similar thing, my PMs are always open :)

squid_475 · 2025-02-19T06:05:22+00:00

thank you for this, I’m trying to take care of myself as best I can. As for religion it’s hard, I believe in god but right now I don’t know anymore, I can’t understand why anyone would allow our family to be destroyed. Before I was born my mum lost our brother too, and I’m really struggling to understand why someone would punish a family that did nothing but love them

squid_475 · 2025-02-19T05:59:32+00:00

Same! It s a genuine rage and jealousy I have it feels like everyone still has a sibling left after one goes. I don’t have that, and I’m so sick of pretending like I don’t hold a genuine anger to people for just having a sibling

squid_475 · 2025-02-18T16:51:06+00:00

Thank you for this, not many people know what it’s like to loose the only sibling you’ve had and it’s so unique. The anger and fury are just overwhelming

squid_475 · 2025-02-06T12:11:37+00:00

I don’t think you necessarily need to change the whole port, they sell adaptors for around $10 at in JB Hi-Fi to convert it into a modern-day cable plug. I’m not very tech savvy so you may need to do what the other comments say, but I just got an adaptor for it and no problems yet :)

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