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Crochet Gif Tutorials: Crocodile Stitch
A tutorial in 7 parts:
Part 1 - First Foundation Row
Part 2 - Row 1, First Scale
Part 3 - Row 1, Middle Scales
Part 4 - Row 1, Last Scale
Part 5 - Second Foundation Row
Part 6 - Row 2
Part 7 - Third Foundation Row
This tutorial shows my technique for making the crocodile stitch. Iâve looked at various other tutorials in the past and they all seem to have slightly different methods, but this is what I came up with as the way that works for me. I hope that it will help you too - but as always, play around and see what you like best!
So far, this tutorial only covers making the crocodile stitch in rows - so for things like scarves or anything rectangular. At some point in the future I hope to cover the adaptions you need to make to work this in the round.
Once I considered myself a writer. Maybe not the best writer on the planet, but a writer none the less. I scribbled lines and poems on any scrap piece of paper in my reach. While driving my car and stopped at a red light, I would grab paper and pen to scribble the latest epiphany crossing my mind. I learned to always keep a pen and some kind of paper near me. As the years went by, motherhood/parenting, chronic illness took over and though pen and paper were not forgotten, I found myself staring at my pen and questioning where all the inspiration had gone. Wondering, if this pen would ever find a voice again. These days, Penâs voice has been given over to writing letters to a piece of her heart in a jail cell. I have questioned what should I write, how do I write when my heart aches so. With pen in hand I begin with... Hi! You are on my mind... and the words just seem to spill from there. I find myself quoting scripture and whispering words of encouragement. Saying... âYou my son are not alone. Iâm right there with you. I scribble my prayers for him in these letters and I remind him, that if he is important to me, how much more important must he be to Abba his loving father in heaven. As parents our job is to teach, but how much do we learn from our own children? We learn about the loving heart of a Father God who has been rejected by his own creation. A creation that He labored over. A creation he knew and loved. My own children have given me many reasons to both laugh and cry, but of all the gifts of parenting I cherish most, my children have taught me how to trust My Abba YHVH. They have taught me that when I can trust nobody else, I can run to Him and trust Him with all the pieces of my heart. I can place them in his hands and know with absolute certainty that they are perfectly safe there. Isaiah 54 11-17 (ESV) âO afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold I will set your stones in antimony (Antimony compounds are used to make flame proofing materials. Ancient Egyptians used antimony, in the form of stibnite, for black eye make up.), and lay your foundations with sapphires. I will make your pinnacles of agate, your gates of carbuncles, and all your wall of precious stones. All your children shall be taught by the Lord and great shall be the peace of your children. In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you. If anyone stirs up strife,m it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you. Behold I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravages to destroy; no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgement. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.â
I woke up around 3am. Why on earth could I not go back to sleep is beyond my comprehension. Itâs dark and in the middle of the night, it seems that everything is magnified. My allergies have been acting up with the sudden burst of pollen floating through the air and coating everything. Literally everything. So in the middle of the night Iâm wheezing, sinuses are feeling completely impacted. Did I mention, that my neck hurt. Well it did. And it seemed to get worse and worse. I was exhausted which made the fact that I was wide awake completely ridiculous. I finally get up and get some pain relief cream to put on my neck. It does help, But! Iâm still awake. And... Iâm still exhausted. Finally I see the sun peeking through the curtains... I go to the bathroom. Crawl back in bed for one last try. I start to fall asleep... The alarm goes off. Seriously? I mean come on! Honey is in the bathroom so I think, Iâll close my eyes for just a couple of minutes. The next time I open them itâs 8:52. The moral of this little tale? Some days (nights), life just doesnât go as planned. Roll with the punches baby. Just roll.
This Disney heiress will seriously benefit from the GOP tax bill â here's why she's against it (via NowThis Politics)
âI did not do anything to earn that money. And yet, I am about to get a huge handout from Congress.â
A tax cut is not a âhandoutâ. Â
One, she is conflating two things here. She admits much of her wealth was money passed down to her from the Walt Disney family. That wealth has already been taxed when it was earned. This is not her current income. Â
Two, keeping more of your income is not a handout. That was your money, not the governmentâs. So, in actuality you are essentially handing less of your own money over to the government. You are giving the government less of a handout.
âYou might have heard it called a âtax cutâ And yes, it is a very fat tax cutâŚfor me, along with some other people and corporations, mostly in the 1%.â
âOther peopleâ? Oh, you mean all income brackets?
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âBut itâs probably not going to be a meaningful tax cut to you. For example, if you work for a living, your income is probably going to be taxed at a higher rate than mine.â
Again, this is completely dishonest. Â
According to the actual income tax brackets proposed, every bracket gets a reduction in marginal rate. She assumes that this cut is not going to be meaningful to you, but thatâs because she is a bitter condescending wretch. How about you decide if keeping an extra couple hundred or thousand dollars of your own income is meaningful to you. 80% of households are getting some kind of cut.  Please stop worrying about whether I will find it significant or not. Nothing is stopping someone from giving back their tax cut to the IRS.
Second, she tries to obfuscate the issue by conflating income tax cuts with a reduced corporate tax rate. In fact, she seems to also conflate a âpass-throughâ tax rate with the corporate tax rate because she mentions she will be taxed at 21%, which is the proposed rate in this latest plan. But sole proprietorships, partnerships, LLCs, and S-corporations do not pay the corporate tax rate. This is actually how pass-through income is taxed in the proposed tax plan:
Adopts a 20 percent deduction for pass-through income, limited to the greater of (a) 50 percent of wage income or (b) 25 percent of wage income plus 2.5 percent of the cost of tangible depreciable property for qualifying businesses, including publicly traded partnerships but not including certain service providers. Limitations (both caps and exclusions) do not apply for those with incomes below $315,000 (joint), and phase out over a $100,000 range.
So, either this lady or the NowThis producers are completely clueless or completely dishonestâŚbut probably both.
âThis tax bill will give me this tax cut while also KILLING health insurance for over 13 million people.â
Youâll notice the subtle colorful language there.
No, this plan does not âkillâ health insurance. It simply repeals the unconstitutional Obamacare mandate. And just to remind any libs out there, a mandate simply means you must purchase healthcare insurance or face a fine/penalty/tax or whatever the Supreme Court finally decided what it is.
âIt will let me pass over $20 million along to my children, tax free.â
Oh, well, I guess your other $480 million will be taxed away then. Why donât you just give it all to the government now instead of to your unworthy offspring? Why doesnât this resentful rich Hollywood lib just forfeit her massive wealth instead of advocating the government keep taking a larger percentage of my income?
If you donât know what she is talking about, she is referring to the estate tax, also known as the âdeath taxâ. Itâs the long held belief that upon your death, the government is entitled to a cut of your wealth. Hereâs the thing though, all her earned or handed-down wealth has already been taxed. Again, any income the Disney family made that added up to the wealth she received was taxed at the corporate level or through capital gains. So, like the capital gains tax, the estate tax is a form of double taxation.Â
âIn the meantime, you can say goodbye to any of the state and local taxes you write off.â
This is partially true, but they donât tell you the full story. Â
First, this is what is in the last version of this bill that Iâve read before it passed through the House and was sent to the Presidentâs desk:
Caps the state and local tax deduction at $10,000 (property plus choice of income or sales taxes, as under current law), except for taxes paid or accrued in carrying on a trade or business.
So, I wouldnât say itâs a full goodbye of the state and local deductions. However, hereâs the thing you may not know about these deductions in what are mostly blue states: they are basically state revenue subsidies that disproportionately make the state citizens who have no state income tax pay more in taxes to the federal government. If you do not like paying state and federal income taxes, I do not blame you; but if my state does not have an income tax and therefore no state deductions from my federal tax bill, then neither should you. How about your call up your state Reps and have them do away with your state income tax instead?
âAnd if you are a teacher, you can say goodbye to writing off school supplies.â
Iâm not sure how long ago they recorded this video, but this issue was corrected in the latest draft of the bill. They have kept the deduction rate at $250. However, I personally would like to see teacherâs be able to deduct all of their personally purchased supplies, even though many do not take advantage of this write-off.
âWith a suffocating education system, a dying infrastructure, and a national debt that will be at least $1.5 trillion bigger, that social mobility will be far out of reach for people like you.â
Oh, our public education system is âsuffocatingâ? Well, how about we try more school choice and more private systems for a change?
Whatever happened to all that $816.3 billion in Obama stimulus to save our âcrumbling infrastructureâ? Oh, thatâs right.Â
Suddenly the left is really worried about our massive federal debt. Yes, the Republicans are going to have to reform some entitlements and other spending in order to make up for any federal revenue deficits that occur despite any dynamic growth offset from these cuts; but letâs be honest, $1.5 trillion over 10 years is nothing compared to the $9 trillion Obama added over less than 8 years.
And upward mobility is alive and well in the United States.
âNo one who votes for this tax bill will be voting with your life in mind. But you will pay for it.â
Actually, we wonât be paying for it. Thatâs the point of a tax cut. We are paying less to the government.
âAnd the debt it generates in cuts to Medicare, Social Security, public education, and bills paid to your mechanic to repair the axles you break in the pot holes on your way to work.â
There are no solid proposals, especially involving this tax bill, that lead to cuts to either Medicare or Social Security. Either way, these plans are bankrupt and have to be reformed whether we cut taxes or not.
The pot hole and public education argument is also not relevant to this tax bill considering these are state and local issues, not federal ones. Nice try, lady.
âMy grandfather and my great-uncle relied on public investment to build Walt Disney Company into what it is today.â
Try private investment. Walt Disney was one of the most famous examples of a ground floor entrepreneurial success stories. If they had any help from the government in any capacity, it came much later on in the Walt Disney Companyâs history after they were established. The government didnât help build the Walt Disney company in the beginning; hard work and private investment did.
âIf a democracy is just a bunch of people advocating for their own self-interest instead of the interests of the greater good, then weâre not a democracy; weâre anarchy.â
We are not a democracy, you poor deluded collectivist fool. A bunch of individuals advocating for their own best interests through mutual voluntary cooperation is much better for the âgreater goodâ than to be held hostage to the whims of the angry mob of entitled idiots within a democracy. The absence of collectivism is not anarchy. So, take your âit takes a villageâ nonsense and shove it. Your democracy is still not entitled to the fruits of my labor.
âHave I made you angry yet? I really hope Iâve made you angry.â
Progressivism is a crooked system in which they use lies, envy, and panic in order to make ignorant people angry so they can push their big government agenda. At the end of the day, this bitter, old, wealth-guilty Hollywood elitist is peddling a bunch of Democrat lies in order to mislead people into believing that keeping more of their own money is somehow not only not in their best interests, but is somehow actually harmful.
Good summary, if anyone is interested in how the tax plan will actually effect them. There is a lot of misinformation floating around out there. I like the tax bill. Not as well as I would true tax reform like flat tax or something similar, but lowering taxes is usually a good thing in my book. My main bitch is that it doesnât come with equally vigorous spending cuts on the Federal level.
Ever wonder how much yarn is in your project? Maybe you just designed a pattern and arenât sure how to refine the yarn requirements. These questions are addressed in the latest issue of the Bhooked Podcast! Listen on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, TuneIn or right here from my website! BHP044: How Much Yarn Did I Use? How to Calculate Yarn in a Project http://www.bhookedcrochet.com/2017/12/28/bhp044-much-yarn-use-calculate-yarn-project/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=bhookedcrochet&utm_content=BHP044%3A%20How%20Much%20Yarn%20Did%20I%20Use%3F%20How%20to%20Calculate%20Yarn%20in%20a%20Project
Casting On With a Crochet Hook and a Knitting Needle
The crochet cast-on method creates a really neat edge that resembles a chain cast-off edge. Because of this, this cast-on method is sometimes known as the cast-off cast-on method.
When Should You Use a Crochet Cast-on?
Edges where you want to add a crochet edging;
Edges where you want to add a fringe;
When you want the cast-on and cast-off edges to match.
Is this the best of both worlds?? Â Free pattern via Being Knitterly
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