Yeah this is a normal phrase in British English too. Today you learned!

Oh no, my condolences.

ME TOO! 😎

Yes! Knowing your way round a spreaddie is so useful for working out stitch counts and especially if you’re designing something from scratch.

I have a terrible habit of knitting things at an entirely different gauge to the pattern and needing to change up stitch counts accordingly so it’s definitely a handy skill to fall back on 😅

Yes, you understand! Sometimes I just need to see the numbers 😅

Most of the time I’m with you, luckily I’ve got plenty other projects on the go without a time constraint!

Hah, don’t worry I don’t do this for everything! But I need this one finished by a certain date, and having the hard numbers is very motivational :D

Wow! You can really tell the effort that went into it, it looks actually store-bought it’s so perfect!

Also, shoutout to that excellent t-shirt, someone’s got taste 😄

You’ve had some well-meaning but ultimately not quite accurate answers in this thread so just to clarify:

You can follow, post to and interact with Lemmy communities from Mastodon, because they’re treated the same way as a “group” on Mastodon in general.

You can NOT follow and interact with Mastodon users from Lemmy, because Mastodon accounts are individual “users” and Lemmy doesn’t have the concept of following and interacting with users, only with communities. If Lemmy ever does add a feature to let us follow other users, then in theory following Mastodon users will also become possible.

It’s so bright and happy I love it!

Interesting! We had a post here a while back experimenting with this and getting terrible results, so I wouldn’t be trusting it with any expensive yarn just yet! But at the rate these things are developing, maybe there’s been significant progress since then.

Would definitely be interested to see how the pattern works up!

I think I did have some of those in the list originally but then worried they might be too niche! Common things like self striping could definitely work though, or specific fibres or weights. Will stick them in the rotation and see! 😄

This is exactly why I love it here, which is weird because it’s exactly what I hate about living in a small town irl 🤷‍♀️

Here’s one I found in York a while back, for your perusal.

Welcome to the world of tomorrow!

Honestly this was on my mind because I saw a clickbait YT title the other day claiming that the creator had one chance to do a thing or would have to “be a janitor forever” which…a) that’s ridiculous and b) doesn’t sound half bad to me at all 🤷‍♀️

I’ve done all kinds of random jobs but like to tell anyone who will listen that my time as a cleaner was possibly the best of them all.

I worked in a building that was entirely dedicated to operating and adminning a traffic tunnel, so there were normal office rooms but also cool control rooms full of flashing lights and interesting displays and friendly people who were only too happy to infodump about it all.

The top floor was entirely given over to a conference room featuring a massive scale model of our tunnel but also the surrounding road system, complete with tiny toy cars. That room also had a hot drinks machine that was entirely free to employees so most of my breaks were spent up there with a book drinking hot chocolate.

Yeah, cleaning toilets and buffing floors is not exactly going to keep your mind occupied, but that just means it’s free to wander to more interesting places. No stress, nothing to take home at the end of the day.

If you can get by on the generally lower pay and get to clean somewhere interesting there are a lot of unexpected perks, tbh.

Looks like you’ve got a local infestation of Yarn Bombers!

This will most likely not be the last postbox hat you see 😄

Thanks! Yes I’m going to take them on a road trip next weekend and I think that should force some good progress (if maybe not an actual finish, let’s not get too optimistic here). It’ll all be worth it in the end!

That’s true I suppose, these have a different construction to how I usually make socks so it’s all a learning experience in one way or the other.

Just wish one of things I’m learning didn’t have to be “knitting mojo can disappear alarmingly fast” 😅