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Major Update

hi u might remember me from this post

tl;dr i moved in with my estranged father in November and he quickly got invasive emotionally verbally abusive and given his history his privacy invasions and sexual talks were huge red flags and he kicked me out after confronting him on going thru my things

i have been in a motel since then with my cat and some neighborhood bedbugs

today i just got confirmation i was approved for the studio i wanted 🫀🫀🫀🧿 deposit is paid i just need some help with the prorated rent($440)

and a little extra for transportation to bring my things(two trips via lyft if my sister cant help) and some $ for blankets and an air mattress ($150?)

i have a ko-fi but paypal is being very shitty about releasing money ko-fi sends there ill still attach it tho and update that goal

0/600

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When I make posts about gauge swatching half the replies are "I refuse to knit gauge swatches and yeah my stuff never turns out right but I just suffer lmao"

What are you, Catholic? Knit a swatch!!

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First time posting my knitting to tumblr. Look at my Bug Son

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Progress is being made!

#thats gorgeous:0 #do you have a chart or pattern??

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working on a worsted weight project after spending two weeks only knitting socks is so wild like why do these needles feel so big they're only 5mm

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I've started one. the fuckit blanket

idk who needs to hear this but if you knit or crochet you do not need to stress about it all of the time. that defeats the purpose of having a hobby. yes sometimes i do projects that require learning new stitches and making several runs to the craft store and searching for a specific brand of yarn and counting stitches and recounting stitches. but i also have a blanket that i call my "idgaf blanket" and it's literally just a giant gloriously repetitive chain stitch blanket made of a conglomeration of whatever yarn i happen to have scraps of. my rules are no undoing for dropped stitches, no overthinking color patterns. for just this one project, i simply crochet it because i like the feeling of crocheting. sometimes i just need to work on my idgaf blanket and that's okay and when it's done i'm sure i'll appreciate it a lot more simply because it never gave me anxiety

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oh an idgaf blanket is SUCH a good idea and I'm gonna start one ASAP

idk who needs to hear this but if you knit or crochet you do not need to stress about it all of the time. that defeats the purpose of having a hobby. yes sometimes i do projects that require learning new stitches and making several runs to the craft store and searching for a specific brand of yarn and counting stitches and recounting stitches. but i also have a blanket that i call my "idgaf blanket" and it's literally just a giant gloriously repetitive chain stitch blanket made of a conglomeration of whatever yarn i happen to have scraps of. my rules are no undoing for dropped stitches, no overthinking color patterns. for just this one project, i simply crochet it because i like the feeling of crocheting. sometimes i just need to work on my idgaf blanket and that's okay and when it's done i'm sure i'll appreciate it a lot more simply because it never gave me anxiety

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ok so I'm knitting this scarf right. it's a basic knit, just the knit stitch. and I can't decide how long to make it.

so for every note I'll knit a couple rows. do your worst

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My top knitting tip is that if you don't have small enough gauge needles, just use big ones and put on a horror film and the tension will sort itself out

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this is wonderful and it makes me so happy

In honour of fall, allow me to introduce you all to this monstrosity I made back when I first started knitting and didn't understand how dimensions work:

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✨everything is fossil-ble🦴🦖

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Ah yes, chat GPT coming for our pattern makers

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A unknown group of knitters c.1921, photographed by Harris & Ewing.

#cool!! #knitting history

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Casting off the body of your sweater you excitedly pick up the stitches to knit the sleeve. The pattern calls for 19.5 inches.

The first day you knit 8 inches.

The second day you manage 4.

“Only 7.5 more to go!” You excitedly tell your friend, “I only started the sleeves yesterday but look how much I have done!”

“You’ll be done by the end of the week!” She encourages.

The third day you knit 3 more inches and measure your work. Just 4.5 inches to go!

You knit some more and measure again. 3 inches left!

You knit some more. 2.5 inches to go!

You finish another episode of the series you’re watching while knitting. 2.5 inches to go!

You knit another few rows. Only 1.5 more inches to go!

“Knit fast, die warm” you whisper to yourself as the clicking of your needles somehow slow down the faster your fingers knit.

You knit night after night for days, weeks.

You finish the season of the series you’re binge watching while knitting.

You measure again…

And again…

Just 1.5 inches left to go!

You finish your Netflix series and have to find a new one to binge.

You measure again…

And again…

Always 1.5 inches to go. The ball of yarn seemingly unchanged by the passage of time.

You add a stitch marker before you knit some more. Just a few more rounds… you can see the fabric work up.

This time you use a different measuring tape.

2.75 inches to go. The ball seems bigger, somehow.

Autumn winds howl at your door as you knit faster.

You measure again out of desperation, pulling on the sleeve just a little.

Nineteen inches.

Sacrificing a half inch you think, “what odds?” And move onto ribbing, desperate to move on to a new project.

You don’t remember knitting the second sleeve. But it’s finally time to block the sweater.

You measure the sleeves.

Twenty-one inches.

#FUCK DONT CALL ME OUT LIKE THIS

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"Girl Sitting Knitting" and "Girl Standing Knitting" by Vincent Van Gogh, 1882. Pencil on paper.