I’ve made a couple of baby blankets and those are so satisfying. And I’ve been making touques for all the kids in my life and those are really fun projects too.

This is fabulous! Making pieces tiny enough for pets must be so satisfying. You can get so many projects finished so quickly.

I found a technique that worked well for me. I want to share with you and others, but I don’t want to come across as judging you in anyway. It’s hard to find great candidates of any sort. And I wouldn’t necessarily recommend my technique to every company, because it’s just not reasonable in all cases.

I’ve found that the best way to get a good mix of people hired onto the team is to do more than hope that it happens.

I had to get out to workshops, conferences, and meetups. Local universities had groups that I got in touch with. I had to make connections with the communities that I was looking to hire from. It was a lot of hard work.

But once you’ve developed those connections, candidates roll in with surprising regularity for a long time. After two years I had a team of 10 great devs with a 50/50 split between genders and a huge range of background and cultures. It was the most fun team to work with and we made awesome stuff.

That is incredibly cute! Thanks

I love it!

Gonna piggy back on your comment to agree with OP. I get such joy from reading Becky Chambers!

Well done! I really like the colours and the pattern. Does the bottom hem have a sawtooth kind of edge? Is it made of diamonds or did you fill in the gaps with triangles?

Thank you for this! Lots of people online have pushed forward the idea that Google search results are not as useful as before. This was the first article that I’ve read that did a good job of quantifying what that actually means and providing context as to why it is happening.

That is super cute! Is it green because sloths sometimes play host to algae?

Damn. I had forgotten what actual journalism looks like. There was actual work done here to investigate and acquire facts. I’ve been reading “articles” that are just paraphrased PR statements for so long. This was a breath of fresh air.

Thank you so much. Those are words I didn’t know before now, and I’m learning so much from the articles I’m reading.

I am trying to imagine how the rows of this blanket would be formed. It looks like each row contains two different coloured fibers, and you’re forming knots with one and just working the other fiber in? Forming the knot around the other fiber? And it looks like different rows are using different pairs of colour. So at the end of the current row you’re dropping the two fibers and then picking up the fibers from the previous row and using those to start the next row?

It’s a beautiful piece. I can imagine why you’d never want to do it again.

I’ve been enjoying my Fairphone 4 a lot since getting it last year. This camera update really improved the experience of taking photos.

Yeah, definitely a tension thing. My previous attempt was tight and small and starting to curl in on itself by the time I got out to the 6th or 7th ring. This one was much better shape wise and I learned to enjoy the feel of working with the looser yarn.

I had to build all the way out to a chain 41 row for this to fit my shoulders and hips properly. I also tried blocking a project for the first time. That really helped the chains relax into the right shape and it gave me a chance to shape the whole thing to fit better as a top. Because really, it wants to be a big lace doily :)

Yay! It looks great! I finished mine just recently too!

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Thank you so much. I’m using exactly the same weight of yarn and roughly the same hook size. I’ve often suspected that I’m putting away too much tension on my crochet knots. I think this is a good gage of that. Instead of grabbing a heavier fiber, I’m going to take another shot at it and see if I can learn to be more loose.

Because of your post I took a shot at this. I think I grabbed a yarn that was too fine, though, because after making 6 circles worth of it (getting out to the chain 13 band), it’s still not much larger than my palm.

I could have sworn the person in the video said that she was using a size 3 hook. I didn’t know if she meant 3mm or a US 3, but either way that’s a pretty small hook, so I picked a yarn to suit.

What weight of yarn are you using for your project? And what size hook, I guess?

Looks like I can order on Amazon easily enough. Going to see if I can get it more locally though, and leave that for a last resort.

Thanks!

Oh, those are very pretty skeins! Thank you.

I hadn’t even considered asking. It’s a Michael’s craft shop, so I assumed they just stock whatever corporate HQ tells them to. But the people who work there are passionate and if there’s a way for it to happen they’d be happy to let me know, I’m sure. Thanks.