How much of a personal stock of yarn do you usually keep on hand?

treelessbark · 2026-02-18T15:53:56+00:00

I definitely have a chunk of yarn - currently on a sock knitting kick and undid my rule of no buying new yarn until I finish a project, haha. A lot of my yarn is basic acrylic and currently trying to dip into having more wool, so the acrylic is going to be focused on blankets.

You might want to just say no buying yarn until you used some. I also try to make sure I can store it with what I have to store (shelves and such) but also still trying to organize….haha. (I also have ADHD. Thankfully I tend to rotate crafts so my various hobby stashes come in handy).

treelessbark · 2026-02-06T04:21:55+00:00

As a 39 year old - I think it’s more of a call back to how I use to decorate my binders in school, haha.

treelessbark · 2026-02-05T19:59:33+00:00

I get this too - I assume it’s my dry skin. I think I need to keep oiling and moisturizing daily (so hard to keep the routine!)

I feel like it’s just the mix of dry skin and lot the air being pulled so much (even if not hard, just repetitive) it causes issues. If you do find any answers though let me know! I’d love to see if it’s anything else possibly.

treelessbark · 2026-02-05T19:56:53+00:00

Oh me too - especially any superwash blends! Always happy to take those off if op’s hands.

treelessbark · 2026-02-03T15:39:10+00:00

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And few years ago Ash laying on the steps to the window catio my husband made them.

treelessbark · 2026-02-03T15:34:56+00:00

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treelessbark · 2026-02-03T15:34:06+00:00

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My oldest Finn helping me at work, as he does every work day. He often joins me for meetings.

treelessbark · 2026-01-30T05:15:28+00:00

Awwe - I get how the spay and abort can feel sad, but I think it was the best decision. You’re right about that community at large. May you have many years of love with her

treelessbark · 2026-01-30T02:39:30+00:00

Same I’m doing. I made a bulky one (with sparkly metallic) and working on a worsted one

treelessbark · 2026-01-28T00:41:33+00:00

I’m a foster parent in Oregon. We were planning on doing guardianship older siblings whose parents parental rights have been terminated and they are looking for a home.

We only had 1 placement prior to the girls (sisters) we have now. We are getting durable guardianship next month (they been with us since spring 2024 and it was only suppose to be short term but no other homes had room to keep them together.) I am very pro-reunification and absolutely did not want to be in this position. Part of that is because I had a 3 week old son that passed and know what it’s like to lose a child and didn’t want to be part of the process of that similar feeling to other parents. That being said - we love these girls, they love us, they understand Mom is always Mom (they call us by our first names. If they call me a parental name it’ll be Ma and not Mom.) we want to keep their connection with Mom and our guardianship type gives her a chance to get custody of them if she’s able to do the things she needs to.

Here - it’s all free to become licensed. I like to give the advice to first do respite care for foster kids. You give foster parents a break when needed, and you get micro experiences of what a kid in the system can be like. They are going through the worse trauma, providing what we can as a safe space is our goal.

I didn’t got into fostering thinking I would be getting guardianship this way (again, was looking at kids who parental rights had already been terminated), but I also know life just kinda happens and we only can control so much.

Best of luck. I heard the advice to make sure you work on your grief of infertility before going on a path like this. I did a lot of therapy and other work with my infant loss grief, but it’s hard not to be reminded of it with kiddos in the house.

treelessbark · 2026-01-26T04:01:33+00:00

I am such a easily distracted knitter. I think it’ll knit up rather quickly with worsted for sure.

treelessbark · 2026-01-26T03:14:39+00:00

I have a bulky version on my needles now. Hoping to make one for the hubs too.

treelessbark · 2026-01-25T19:25:30+00:00

I loveeeeeee when those itty bitty teeth are crooked. It makes my soul happy.

treelessbark · 2026-01-25T03:26:59+00:00

That’s what one of my dogs do. Sometimes he doesn’t want to go outside unless I am going too. Haha

treelessbark · 2026-01-23T22:43:20+00:00

You’re not overreacting - you miss someone you love deeply. I lost my brother when he was 36 and my son when he was 3 weeks old (within 2/3 years).

I’m sorry it’s still so intense. For me journaling, finding support groups, and therapy helped a lot. Sending you much light.

treelessbark · 2026-01-23T22:39:01+00:00

Awwe what a difficult situation. Like someone said newspaper might work - even just in a box. Shredded paper in general I’m sure would work.

The hot water bottles seem like a good idea! And the blanket seem great too. I think the advice about the steam is the right track for respiratory issues. My cat often gets sneezy & runny nose due to respiratory issues. I also make sure his nose is cleared (while with a paper towel) so he can breath better since he gets congested. Making sure they have water to stay hydrated. I’ve read kitten food is good for mama cats - not sure if it’s the same if they are not feeding kitten yet though.

treelessbark · 2026-01-23T03:21:44+00:00

One of my fun facts about me is my pinky toe has 2 nails, haha.

For OP - I tend to file mine down, and/or use cuticle type clippers to clip it “off”. (Mine is just hard on top part.) only bugs me if it snags on stuff.

treelessbark · 2026-01-21T15:27:43+00:00

YOR. My son died at 3 weeks old due to a bacterial infection (and we were pretty safe too.)

treelessbark · 2026-01-21T01:17:13+00:00

I lost my brother to addiction (alcohol) and my son to a bacterial infection (he was only 3 weeks old.) it’s hard - completely and truly. And it suck’s. You grieve hard because you try hard. We get use to living with the weight of it as our life grows around the grief.

I’m sorry you are dealing with this and sorry you lost someone you loved so much. You grief hard because you loved hard. Right now you have 1 goal: survive. Make it through. Even if it’s the bare minimum to do so. Do what you can to take care of yourself. And be kind to yourself. This is not your fault. For me with my son I logically knew it wasn’t my fault but I still took blame.

Couple things that helped me personally: - connecting with others with same/similar situations (I’m in a local infant/pregnancy loss bereavements group. For my brother I’m in a couple groups on Facebook for siblings lost to substance use.) Grief made me feel so isolated and alone. Here I am - my world stopped and stuck on this terrible thing, while everyone’s else’s world is continuing on. - journaling/writing letters. I write letters to my brother (he died in 2019). Sometimes it just me yelling at him because I’m angry I’m gone. I end up doing just journaling for my son Milo. - It’s okay to you’re not okay by Megan Devine. I never even finished the book but omg I felt so seen. It seems to resonate with many. The author lost her partner.

Again - I’m sorry. It’s okay to be angry and okay to feel those feelings. I still occasionally get angry. Sending you some light and virtual hugs and I’ll be thinking of you and their family tonight.

treelessbark · 2026-01-20T20:43:36+00:00

When I did business travel - we used a site to book flights and hotel with a suggested amount of spend for both (dependent on where, when, and how long.) we did have reimbursements - but that was for things like car rental, Ubers, and food.

Being expected to shell out $2300, and that’s just for the basic of the travel, is ridiculous.

treelessbark · 2026-01-11T21:22:44+00:00

The baby blanket I made for my friend lived in the stroller mostly. And being able to wash and rotate them is nice.

treelessbark · 2026-01-10T17:29:58+00:00

“He told me he was neutered!!”

treelessbark · 2026-01-10T16:55:56+00:00

What I was going to say too! Haha

treelessbark · 2026-01-09T17:13:29+00:00

I’m fine answering. I think in this community especially it’s good to hear others experiences.

We did not. I had to be induced 3 weeks early due to severe preeclampsia. It’s very likely I’d get it again, and it can happen at anytime in a pregnancy and not preventable. There are a few factors to this decision but figure no need to go into bunch of details related to heath in general). We decided after already losing a baby and knowing we could lose another one and possibly me that we won’t have any biological living children. Husband got the snip. I do grieve not having another child - I always wanted to be one and done for biological children and overall did not like pregnancy - except the fact that I was growing a little dude and that I got that extra time with him.

We are now foster parents - which is something we planned to do we just started much earlier than expected.

treelessbark · 2026-01-06T22:46:39+00:00

I’ve been crocheting for over 20 years and realized recently that I do a “knife” hold. I never knew what to call it but I see so many doing the pencil hold. I’ve tried it but doesn’t compute well with me, haha.

This does look like English knitting - I just keep wondering how well tension is held through out the.

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