Fiber arts. SoCal. Social justice. Snark.
Blocking can only help (a bit), if you used natural fibers like wool or cotton. I can’t tell from your photo or post if you used acrylic yarn, which will not block.
I echo the advice about a border to make the outside edge more uniform.
Good luck with it! It’s a gorgeous pattern!
I saw an ADHD influencer recommend wearing ear plugs in public to block out environmental noise to keep conversation directed at you still audible.
I get distracted in public when my ears pick up conversation around me - especially people who are fighting or gossiping and I find it very entertaining compared to the discussion I’m in - so this is something I’d like to try the next time I have a dinner out at a busy restaurant with others.
Editing to add: I just listened to about a minute of the femtanyl song you linked and I realized that I also get in the zone productive with some types of music in which I can’t understand the lyrics. I listen to a Pandora station built around Sigur Ros because I can’t understand the language lol
By virtue of the fact that up until just a few months ago, you could even go there and casually peruse security sensitive and classified information if only you found the right bathroom, I guess you could say it was priceless.
This makes me wonder if team Trump isn’t preemptively muddying the waters for pending news of Trump’s inevitable death. I wonder if Trump got a prognosis recently and this is just a type of staw poll taken about how ready and willing the GOP would accept a replacement name on the ticket.
I guess you missed it when the story was broken that apparently Nancy Reagan used to give epic jobbers.
But no school district in Texas who stupidly thinks that chaplains should work in public schools would knowingly hire Satanists when there are probably many Christian denomination chaplains available.
Different story if the only applicant is a Satanist, but the district just declares the search as failed without interviewing the Satanist. Then it’s a matter of religious discrimination in the hiring process for that one individual.
I can’t think of any situation in which the actual chaplain at any given school could challenge this law to the point it starts moving through the courts.
To get into the court system, some parents are going to have to sue. I’m predicting a Jewish family, Muslim family, or Bahai family raising suit after the WASP chaplain starts evangelizing to the non-believers.
Of course he said that because if Trump is disqualified because of J6, then so would also half the GOP’s varsity team from Congress. I think if all of Trump’s in-government co-conspirators (just to name a few, but not an exhaustive list: Meadows, Scott, Hawley, Boebert, Gaetz, Greene, etc.) were expelled and never allowed to return to government, I’m pretty sure at least half those seats would go to middle of the road Democrats (I mean at least Boebert’s seat, minimum) and the GOP would lose their razor thin margin in the Senate.
I think this is one of the many major reasons Pence keeps towing this line for Trump.
Absolute lack of self awareness. Like, what does it mean if the criticism is coming from both the left and now the right about how blind the loyalty is to this orange fascist? They’re desperate to link DeSantis and Hillary, but don’t you think DeSantis also stands to benefit from conservatives’ blind loyalty. When even he is trying to be the wake up call, and they reject it… Good God.
America. Where others’ enjoyment of looking at your pregnant body is more important than what you can do with your own body.
Someone remind me if Ken Starr is alive or dead…
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I echo what others have said about this sounding like a control issue, but I want to check in with you about some relationship dynamics before jumping too firmly to that conclusion. You phrased your partner’s side as:
He’d like to know what I’m up to when not at work
Is he an introverted person who has a small social circle? Does he have a clingy attachment style in your relationship? Does he have this expectation for a check in when he isn’t traveling? Have you talked with him about your own communication style and/or how your ADHD manifests as time blindness, as you put it?
This is an interesting insight. I have a degree in philosophy but tap danced around the Nietzsche class to go to the phenomenology & existentialism course instead lol
If you pick up this book, I highly recommend another book written by the same author - Michael Ende - called Momo.
The fantasy parts of the NES sometimes feel like allegory but mostly feel like folly. But Momo is ostensibly an allegory from the beginning. It also feels like waking up your inner child.
The parts of the NES that were not adapted into the films are absolutely whimsical and amazing. It’s a true wonder why some details were used in the film and not others. It’s a lot of fun!
I also knit/crochet as a very industrious hobby. When people tell me that I should sell my items, I reply that they couldn’t afford my items. It took me 100+ hours to make this sweater and the yarn alone cost me over $200. This sweater is in the ballpark of $1500 in value. You can’t afford me.
I liked the episode!
But I was going into it with expectations that it was going to be kind of mid like the first season of Disenchanted. I was very pleasantly surprised that there was like a legitimate plot line, even though it was kind of silly. It seem like the same level of incredulous shenanigans that Futurama has always gotten itself into.
This looks like you purled that first row with the black yarn instead of knit it.
If you feel brave you can ladder down and use a crochet hook to reknit that singular column of stitches. It is relatively easy to do but very intimidating at first, especially with colorwork like this.
I really like tutorials by Roxanne Richardson, who I believe is a master knitter. Here is how she explains the ladder down method.
Otherwise you already know … Frog it.
This project almost broke my hands because the twisted stitches on such a small gauge has a lot of tension. I also never really grokked the pattern in terms of the cabling, so I had to meticulously track each line of the pattern up until maybe the next to last repeat of the pattern.
If this helps, let me tell you where I first got tripped up in this pattern: this sock is worked like a front panel (shin side) and back panel (calf side), but worked in the round like a 3D printer. So when you first come to the end of the cabling motif, you’ve finished the shin panel; now repeat the same motif to finish the calf panel. When you’ve gone through all the rows of the motif, you’ll have very clear borders separating the front from the back. The cabling does not circle the leg.
Hope that helps!
Not sure if the flash adds anything but here’s a second photo of the pattern.
This looks so great!! I’m glad you went for the blocking and can now confidently give it to your Godchild. They’ll love it!