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🧶 Cow hitch increase

Unlike all other single-stitch increases I know, this one is perfectly symmetrical. I’ve been seeing it a lot in my feed lately, so I thought I’d share it. Haven’t tried it yet in a project though.

It mimics the structure of a cow hitch knot - hence the name.

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Depending on what you are making, you may need to increase the number of stitches on your needles. There is a number of ways to do this. For

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Reblogging to try and remember to actually use this the next time I knit.

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Quote of the day

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sometimes I knit a dream into a scarf

or maybe a little kiss

you never know what I’m putting in the yarn

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It smells and sounds like spring

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Not to romanticize on main but there is really something healing about sitting in front of an open window listening to birds and wind chimes and enjoying a natural breeze. It’s like the world is telling you breath

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So most people are familiar with “petrichor,” a word that describes the smell of the earth after rain. This happens because the rain stimulates the rocks, soil, and plants to produce oils, as well as stimulating ozone.

Spring time has a similar thing, a literal smell that deeply effects us as the world wakes up. It’s a smell that’s part of petrichor but here it’s much stronger. And that is geosmin. Geosmin is produced by deep algaes and soil bacterias and as the earth “wakes up” after winter it’s a lot more potent because the ground is more open. So even if there hasn’t been rain fall our noses are very attuned to “hello, the dirt is awakening.” It tickles our little cave man brain.

You can find perfumes and candles that include “geosmin” as an ingredient. Great if you live somewhere where you can’t really open windows or if you have some winter time blues.

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Explore digital books on Bookshop.org

This is huge: You can now buy ebooks from Bookshop.org, a website that helps boost sales to local independent bookshops!

To read an ebook purchased from Bookshop.org, you must use their own app (for a mobile device) or read it in a web browser. So, unfortunately, you can't (yet) send it to your ereader, but still, you're able to buy ebooks and also share a little bit of that profit with your local bookstore, if they're an affiliate!

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I would really encourage people to check this out. During times of instability it is important to support your local economy. Instead of giving your money to Amazon so Bezos can add to his dragon's hoard, why not give it to a local bookshop where that money will go to real people who actually love books and provide a community space for readers?

And I do mean local! You can choose exactly which bookshop your money goes to when you buy from this website! If you don't have a local shop, the profits are still divided among the indie bookstores.

Now that they are offering ebooks it just makes it that much easier for us booklovers to ditch Amazon. I know I already do all of my ebook reading on my phone so it's a no-brainer for me.

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Sometimes little pleasures in life are loadbearing. Whenever someone is like "If you'd just give up tea and coffee and sugar and--" im like I'll stop you right there. Because if you finish that sentence i am going to kill everyone in this building and then myself. If i have to face the horrors of the world without my little jar of caramel flavoured instant coffee i am going to go full American Psycho. Believe it or not, my main priority in life is not to have perfect teeth or be an Olympic athlete or look like a supermodel, but to actually enjoy living, because I spent far too long not doing that and it royally sucked. And boy, some people don't like hearing that. Particularly dentists

augustarambles

Sometimes the rats in my brain come together and start yelling “YEARNING” and in trying to appease them I ask “FOR WHAT” but they are too small so all they can say is “YEARNING” which is a very big word for such a tiny creature, even collectively

mandyseley

I loved this visual so much I had to doodle it.

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i hope every single one of you outlives these hateful fucks on the news right now. i hope each and every one of you is able to find joy and support throughout these tumultuous times and i hope you get to live so fiercely as yourself. i hope you wake up one day to news that you’ve outlived those pieces of absolute shit and whether that brings you joy or relief or hope or what have you, i hope you live to see that day

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Jason: now what have I taught you tonight? Repeat it back to me rest of batfamily: *in chorus* not to beat up common pickpockets Jason: are there any acceptions? rest of batfamily: *hesitantly* . . . no Jason: *slams hands on table* WRONG you can beat the shit out of anyone wearing a MAGA hat batfamily: Jason: I don’t care if they were literally just walking down the fucking street, I want you to show them the intimate dread one experiences when looking down at a hospital bill for a broken jaw

koukouvayia

you have to

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having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer

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to love and be loved is to rest