This is exactly why I chose Mbin: to help diversify Threadiverse software.

I appreciate people like you.

even sometimes picks up the old sticks as a way to meditate in between dives.

I have never tried to knit with an entirely wet body before (I am assuming the quoted part means he dives off the board, and picks up his knitting until it is time to dive again in a few minutes). Maybe I’ll try right after showering and see what happens.

Curious when he started that sweater, because if he started when the Olympics started this year he is really fast.

Is that still good? I heard about some old music piracy sites now being flooded with viruses and the like. I don’t feel like having to be careful with what I download so I’ll probably resort to a YouTube to mp3 downloader since most of what I have is probably posted on YouTube, and I am not one of those people who can detect a difference in audio quality with different file types. I appreciate the help!

Younger person in my 20s. Most of my friends use Spotify. I grew up buying music on iTunes and will continue to do that. I also have little interest in discovering new music and a preference for straight-up owning instead of streaming something I do not own. (Yes, I am aware I should probably go reread the TOS to see if I actually own or if Apple can remotely take my “ownership” away and back up the files like mad.) But I know my approach is uncommon amongst my social group.

I do not have CDs and will not buy one. I know of their use for backing things up. I keep external hard drives but otherwise do not really like physical media and want to keep the count of physical things I have down. Another thing to collect dust, to have to try to keep nice because I like things to look nice, and to be heartbroken about when I inevitably spill something on it/scratch it/otherwise break or damage it, whether in a “it will lose functionality” way or just a superficial way. I’ll avoid the pain and just go digital.

I am also just not much of a merch person. I might donate money to support musicians but please don’t give me a T-shirt I’ll never want to wear (they are not my style, I might buy clothing if it actually fits my style but merch clothing almost always doesn’t) or a poster I’ll never hang up. If I like your music I might buy sheet music to play it myself. Better be accurate though, not a simplification, or I’ll turn up my nose and transcribe it myself. Can’t guarantee I’ll have perfect results, but I will be closer to the original than the simplified piano/vocal/maybe guitar scores that are often put out.

I also don’t know what skibidi toilet is, besides a meme that really belongs to people a decade younger than me. I don’t care to find out but I am happy to let them have their fun.

English-style is my default, and my tension isn’t perfect with that style, just better than in continental. So I’ll take that advice! Thank you anyways!

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Experienced it, no. Heard of it? Yes. And I’m pretty oblivious, so if I’m aware of it I bet it’s a widespread concept…

Did you intentionally pick the yarn to go with the purple thing your friend is wearing?

So I am very late to this post, but as a certified video hater thank you for posting the pattern in text!!

Aghhhh I despise watching videos to learn and was specifically seeking out static visual guides to learn continental, which is why I’m definitely not happy that my guide isn’t for continental. Thanks again for correcting my mistakes. Still not 100% sure what western mount is (a specific way to knit all on its own, like English and Continental? A foundation upon which those two build?) but I did retitle this to get rid of the claim it would teach Continental.

And this is the Fediverse, not a private conversation—feel free to post information! I personally feel the more useful information, the better, and would like more information. But even if I did not, someone else browsing the thread might appreciate it :)

Hope this guide is not incorrect.

Ouch. As someone trying to learn continental, who found this online and posted here thinking it was a good tutorial, thanks for letting me know I gave people misinformation. Would this actually be English style or is Western style something different? (In honesty, when people use words like “front of stitch” and “back of stitch” and “leading leg” I just flat out do not understand.) If so, I’ll retitle my posts.

As someone who also tries to avoid video as much as I can and favors text and static images, thank you for bringing this to my attention. I knew of the Internet Archive but never bothered with its search bar beyond just pasting in the URL of the webpage I wanted to see previous versions of, or the webpage I wanted backed up.

I am also a slow knitter!

There are very few problems in life that can’t at least be a bit improved with a spreadsheet

I agree and that sentence makes me happy.

Although, when I first clicked I did not think this was going to be a progress tracker. Figured it would be maybe a personal project log, tracking start and end date, how much fun you had doing it, personal notes, etc. Or using the cells to make a knitting chart (the visual patterns).

This is so nice-looking!

That is very kind of you, thank you!

I was super intimidated by cabling, but I tried it for the first time and it is nowhere near as hard as I thought it was! The only difficult thing I need to deal with is accounting for how it changes up the gauge. I used this article with photo diagrams to help me, as well as a tiny portion of this video.

I do not have the patience for videos. I just needed to see the process of how you work the stitches on the cable needle off of it: after you slide the stitches on from, say, the right, do you slide them back up the right and work them off from there, orienting the cable needle as needed so you can do so? Or do you slide them up the left instead? The article would not tell me, so I was forced to resort to the video. I did not watch past 4:12. The answer I use now is “whatever you have to do to knit them in the same order you’d knit them if you left them on the regular, non-cable needle”.

Fully aware I am nowhere near the best knitter here, but still proud of the new technique.

I had no idea knitted garments could stand up to swimming!

I learned the very basics (cast on, bind off, knit, purl, knit 2 together, read a knitting pattern with those things in it) from my grandmother and a knitting book.

Nowadays, learning more about knitting is on a need-to-know basis. I’ll see a pretty pattern and a technique in it I don’t know, and decide that I’m willing to take on the project anyways. Or I’ll reach the end of a project and realize I forgot the best way to weave in the ends and need to look it up.

When I end up needing to learn more, I’ll use online resources, favoring articles with images (like this one telling you how to weave in ends in stockinette) and GIFs over videos, and favoring shorter videos over longer ones.

I’m good!