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▲ 176 r/Unravelers

I did something I never thought I would do

I live in a rural area and there are no yarn shops here. We have one small thrift store in the town near me but so far this year I’ve only found two sweaters there. We do have a discount clothing store. I was there today and noticed they had some discount cotton sweaters and I thought I’m gonna look for the largest size and just check out the seams.

I found a pretty coral coloured vest and it turns out the seams were good and for $12 I bought this oversized vest. It took a while to figure out how to take it apart, but I eventually did.

I used the weighing method this subreddit taught me and I have 232g or 680m of really soft 100% cotton DK weight yarn for $12.

I think this would only work for summer yarns as all their sweaters are acrylic. But really happy I found this!

Edit to add: I never thought I would buy a new sweater and frog it. I always buy from thrift shops.

u/Ebowa — 3 days ago
▲ 481 r/over60

The secret side of Mothers Day

I wanted to get myself a nice quilt for today and while i was in line, the woman ahead of me turned and said “ Are you buying your own Mothers Day gift too?” lol we both had a good laugh at that because it was true.

I bought that damn quilt and it’s on my bed and I feel a moment of happiness on a tough day.

Some of us came from dysfunctional families, some of our children are estranged from us, some if us have bonus children provided by others, some of us have furry children, some of us are grieving whatever you associate this day with.

Whatever your circumstances, I hope you do something nice for yourself today and just for today, just for this moment, laugh at whatever challenge you are facing and celebrate YOU.

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u/Ebowa — 3 days ago
▲ 5 r/knittinghelp

What did I do here?

This is a triangle scarf I made and i just noticed these stitches going contrary? Could someone explain what I did? Is this what is called twisted stitches?

I am frogging it as I don’t have enough yarn to make it the size I wanted.

u/Ebowa — 4 days ago
▲ 32 r/exmormon

I think a great way to show solidarity against TSCC and their lawsuit against Mormon Stories is to purposely use it in a hashtag on socials and tell our own story. It can be positive, critical, confessional, happy, sad, it doesn’t matter. It’s using those very words. There’s no way the church would come for all of us, and it’s at least something we can do.

Many of us are still attending for various reasons, so the “story” can also be positive. It can be as simple as one line. The point is solidarity.

u/Ebowa — 15 days ago
▲ 358 r/knitting

My Step by Step Sweater, full of errors but that’s ok with me since I’m a Type B knitter. I never thought I could make a sweater as I have zero confidence. I did the Icelandic bind off just because I liked doing it and I like the look. I love the 3/4 sleeves because it doesn’t feel so binding as a sweater. Florence Miller is a great teacher and I’m grateful for her pattern, I will be attempting her cardigan next. The embroidery help was from Elin Petronella https://youtu.be/TiaZTwE6EZ8?si=y6LyR\_zQsvGMwfdb

u/Ebowa — 17 days ago