Oh no, not again

Including (but not limited to) Spirograph, Velocipede's Cycloidal Scribbling-Engine, fractals, atmospheric optics, letterpress, printmaking, fruits and vegetables I have known, and sundry shiny & diverse objects.

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the &c. cable: some extremely minimal notes

The chart has been slightly refined and adjusted from the one I used for the swatch in the picture. Both characters use the continuous cable technique. There are some places where things happen on wrong-side rows. The cable crossing with the red symbol involves dropping one stitch to reverse the direction of the column (which then gets grafted at the bottom of the ampersand) and then picking up a stitch again at the top, behind the three stitches of the wide diagonal line. The horizontal serif can be done with a lateral braid or by binding off the stitches and then picking up new stitches on the return row.

There are all sorts of fiddly refinements that I would like to write about, but I'm seriously crunched for time, so it's not going to happen right now. Good luck to anybody brave enough to try this!

[mrvelocipede]

Okay, it's an official pattern now.

Flaming Sword pattern by Morgen Bell

This is an advanced-level (or maybe adventurous intermediate) cable motif 52 rows high, that starts and ends with 19 stitches. It assumes k

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[hatesaltrat]

I can hear this image

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Writing CSS always seems like a disproportionately large amount of work for a very small and unreliable result. I suppose no one expects people to actually type the stuff in a text editor; we're all supposed to be using AI code generators or something. Sigh.

Be that as it may, there are some instructions for knitting the Traveling Stitch* on my website now. They are very much not optimized for mobile. But the pictures do get bigger if you click on them.

[* I still think of it as a Fake Decrease, and I'm pretty sure I've seen it called Twisted Stitch, which seems very confusing because how do you distinguish that from stitches knit through the back loop? It's also a Mock Cable, I guess. Is there any kind of standard terminology for any of this?]

[mrvelocipede]

[transcyberism]

there are four human activities and they are crafting, stories, math, and fucking around. whatever you're doing is at least one of those four.

[mrvelocipede]

I've been working on adding some knitting stitch instructions to my website. I think that hits all four.

[mrvelocipede]

so extremely weary of dealing with The Only Person Who Has Ever Experienced Anxiety In the History of the Universe

[nemfrog]

The Penitent Magdalene. Tomo IV. Nuevo Testamento de Mateo a Apocalipsis. 1883 ed. Engraving by Gustave Doré.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Brain exhaustion. 1884. Book cover.

[mrvelocipede]

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many things in my life are pretty crummy right now, but I did get to cut a decorative edge on a watermelon, so that was fun.

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This is one of my favorite kinds of weather, when the clouds make a stripe down the river valley.

[berlynn-wohl]

a marriage of humankind's two greatest design achievements: the illuminated manuscript and the cool S

[uglyrenaissancebabies]

British Library, Harley 4425, f. 140.

Fuck you, baby.

[mrvelocipede]

In which David Attenborough inadvertently earworms me, and I make a video about it.

[mrvelocipede]

Happy 100th birthday, Sir David Attenborough!

[mrvelocipede]

I've read a few things about an autistic/ADHD feature described as "waiting mode." If somebody has an important thing to do later, they get stuck in a mental state where they can't do anything else in the meantime, because they're waiting. Which makes a certain amount of sense, in a way.

So. My formerly-employed, suddenly-laid-off spouse had a couple of very promising interviews. And then a proper job offer. Hooray! That was...a couple of weeks ago maybe?

And then he was in hardcore Waiting Mode. And was overwhelmingly jittery and grumpy and utterly impossible to cope with, because not only was he in waiting mode, but he couldn't stand anyone around him doing anything either. I've been alternating between trying to do things (like, y'know, keep the boring bits of our routines running and juggle the dwindling budget), and fighting endlessly and stupidly about no I'm not going to just...not eat dinner for the next two weeks, and neither are any of the rest of the household, can you please stop being so weird and obstructive about this?!? Or else hiding out in corners of the house wasting time on mindless computer games with the sound turned off, because hearing sounds was apparently also intolerable.

In short, I've been completely losing my mind with frustration. But now it's a new month, and job stuff is happening. It's all remote, so he's still around, but is at least occupied. With things that I hope will count as acceptable activities, so that maybe the rest of us can go back to doing things too.