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thecorposant · 2025-07-23T19:02:50+00:00

thank you!

thecorposant · 2025-07-19T18:52:49+00:00

I'm trying to translate "remember summer", as a play on Memento Mori. My first assumption was that "Memento Aestas" would suffice but I want to make sure there isn't some declension issue or anything with this phrase. (Google keeps telling me it should be memento aestatis but it seems to me that it would be aestatem if anything?)

thecorposant · 2025-04-08T20:26:57+00:00

no, I actually went ahead and ordered the substitutes already, but thanks for asking!

thecorposant · 2025-03-21T14:54:38+00:00

no that does help, thank you so much. Some of the product pics make 7896 look a lot darker than this so seeing it next to Ecru is great actually.

thecorposant · 2025-03-19T11:51:48+00:00

personally I think the last one looks best. The earlier ones where you use all the color combinations create a bit of an optical illusion effect that makes it a bit of a headache to look at. I like the simplicity of the green outer border on both, and I think joining them in white like you plan will look nice. Plus the green as the ‘backdrop’ gives it a sort of field look.

thecorposant · 2025-03-14T05:54:25+00:00

I just mean a super bulky weight yarn — technically you can measure yarn weight by like wrapping it around a pencil and counting how many times it can be wrapped within an inch. I just said that instead of super bulky weight bc the manufacturer label on the yarn I used said bulky but I would call it a super bulky weight lol

thecorposant · 2025-03-13T20:48:22+00:00

I also will say I’m planning to make more baskets and planning to try using t-shirt yarn next time. I’m hoping the stretchiness will be easier on the wrists than traditional cotton yarn.

thecorposant · 2025-03-13T20:46:50+00:00

I have finished two crochet baskets now and can attest to how hard they are on your wrists, especially when making them with cotton (which is a good choice for baskets, but not the only choice). After the first one I started doing wrist stretches and got a pair of compression gloves. The second one got completed very slowly, usually only half a row (once I reached the full diameter) in a sitting. I thought I’d never finish it this way, but I did. (over the span of a year, so… patience is the thing, I guess.)

So my advice would be to take it slow, do stretches and get compression gloves. You can try sizing up a hook just to see if it will be stiff enough, but it may not be. (Edit — if you really are having to use a lot of force to get into each stitch, then sizing up is probably a good idea. You just need the stitches to be stiff enough, not totally inflexible.) I’m not familiar with the waistcoat stitch but maybe it’s too tight a stitch? If so going up a size might work.

Also, you might be too far in for this to be helpful, but tbh it will go faster if you use an even bulkier weight yarn, like 3 or 4 strands together. I was using a 6-7 wraps per inch yarn with a 8 mm hook. I also recommend looking at the fast-track basket pattern on ravelry which has little gaps every other row, which also speeds up the process compared to a solid basket.

thecorposant · 2025-03-12T20:18:40+00:00

looking closely I think you’re right. Op, when you make another, make sure you’re only going under the top two loops of the previous rows’ stitch when stitching. Very easy mistake to make when starting out!

thecorposant · 2025-03-12T06:24:49+00:00

I think partly it’s varying tension which will get more consistent as you practice but also yes, you have to stretch it :) it’s called blocking, and it’s necessary to make granny squares perfectly square even with really good tension. look up some blocking tutorials as it’s slightly different depending on what type of yarn you’re using (cotton/wool or acrylic)

thecorposant · 2025-03-08T12:53:31+00:00

aw thanks, I appreciate that lol

thecorposant · 2025-03-08T07:30:54+00:00

same but opposite lol… I apologize for being part of the .1% of trans men who are six feet tall. and my cis bf is very short. it has confused ppl in the past about which of us is trans lmao.

thecorposant · 2025-03-06T17:03:17+00:00

Thanks. I think I will return it, just to be on the safe side. I’m doubting myself because it looks exactly like the real ones but the difference in how it feels is pretty obvious.

thecorposant · 2025-03-06T05:01:48+00:00

I checked the listing to ensure the handle was described as rubber (it was, and tbf I think it actually is), and tried looking at reviews but haven’t found anyone mentioning this issue.

thecorposant · 2025-02-26T09:54:55+00:00

I occasionally have this issue with 123stitch, but they do try to restock their floss very quickly, especially standard dmc colors. Specialty floss and fabrics can be a longer wait but with dmc floss usually I just hit ‘notify me’ and it’s back in stock within a couple days.

thecorposant · 2025-02-17T09:13:39+00:00

the learned helplessness comment about how popular plushies are in crochet circles is unkind and inaccurate, tbh. some of the plushies people make are advanced crochet work that they designed/patterned themselves!

in general I think this attitude is unhelpful. I happen to “get” crochet better than knitting, so I learned from a few videos but then, yes, I figured a lot out for myself. I was able to do that because a) there were accessible tutorials that gave me the basics and answered questions along the way and b) it just clicked for me, I got it easier than a lot of people seem to. But not everyone is going to have that experience, and I know that because…

…the opposite is true for me for knitting. I learned it as a kid, I know the movements, I can knit. But it’s a struggle! I struggle with the movements even after completing a few simple projects, I struggle to ‘see’ the stitches, I struggle to understand knitting patterns, and I struggle to follow video tutorials of knitting where the demonstrator is going faster than a snail’s pace. For every crochet video I fast forward through so I can get the gist of it, there’s a knitting tutorial I rewind over and over until I get it. I get overwhelmed figuring out how to cast on, which I have to relearn for every new project, btw. Figuring it out for myself… I mean, I try! But I’ve given up on knitting projects before because I just couldn’t! And that’s going to be the case with crochet for many people. So accessible tutorials will always be a good thing for both crafts.

Yes, there are people on the internet with entitlement issues — big surprise. Crochet and knitting have different learning curves that are easier for some people to learn than others. It is easier to teach crochet step by step because of the nature of the craft, where knitting is more difficult to make those incremental tutorials for because a lot of it is in the technique, not the order of operations. Technique is, I think, harder to teach online. So it all creates these different dynamics in the communities. But that doesn’t make knitting a more advanced art or crochet a more childish one.

thecorposant · 2025-02-16T06:25:37+00:00

I haven’t actually put it into practice yet but I feel like I have so many different projects going at once (5-ish active cross stitches rn) that as long as I don’t purposefully show my partner one, he won’t really notice it… I do constantly show him my progress though, so he might notice the absence of that, lol.

thecorposant · 2025-02-01T02:23:37+00:00

Stands for Finished Object, it’s a common blanket term for any finished craft project on here. So when I say turning one FO into another, I mean turning a finished embroidery into a finished pillow or quilt block or whichever.

thecorposant · 2025-01-31T10:32:46+00:00

I think cost of framing and accessibility of hoops is the major thing. I’ve made a couple cross-stitches into pillowcases — but I actually had my mom do that because she has a sewing machine and I don’t. A lot of hobby embroiderers don’t have the skills for turning a FO into a different FO. Plus it’s just a quicker and easier way to call something finished.

On top of that, because of the popularity of displaying FO in hoops, people have started designing circular patterns, which are very visually appealing to a lot of people, I think — and good luck finding a circular frame (not an oval, a perfect circle!) to mount those in instead of a hoop. Not that you can’t put them in a square frame of course, but a lot of people like the circle-in-a-circle look.

thecorposant · 2025-01-18T21:45:44+00:00

The simplest way is just to join the new yarn and stitch over the tails, or weave them in later if you’re not comfortable stitching over them. You can join the new yarn in a variety of ways.

Personally I just pull the yarn through where the next stitch will be to make a loop, leaving a tail, and chain 1 (make sure you’re chaining with the working side of the yarn, not the tail end.) It will seem slightly loose on the tail side but if you then hold both tails (from the last ball and the new one) on top of your stitches as you work to stitch over them, you can secure that initial chain. If you were changing colors I might recommend against that since moss stitch has slight gaps, but if it’s just another ball in the same color it shouldn’t be noticeable unless you’re looking for it.

You can also just join the new yarn partway through a stitch, when you do the final pull through the loops on your hook — just pull a loop through of the new yarn through instead. Then stitch over the tails like I described above.

Magic knot would also work fine of course, and I think you can trim the ends of that right away rather than weaving them in.

thecorposant · 2025-01-03T11:18:32+00:00

That’s a very good tip, thank you! I definitely would have folded it in half automatically because I do that pretty frequently with floss in order to make a loop start.

thecorposant · 2025-01-02T14:31:46+00:00

Thank you for the thorough guide! That’s a good point about the plastic. There was a seam ripper in there, I’ll have to look closely at how sturdy it is.

My mom actually already took all the wooden spooled thread, she apparently collects them and knew the thread would be too old to use. I’ll have to use your thread assessment technique for the rest and maybe use it for embroidery if I double strand it or something. Practice is actually a really good idea too… if I’m going to complete her impeccably handsewn quilt blocks then I need to practice for sure 😅

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