#hand things

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@ghostgore2000 wanted to put our new silk pillowcases to good use

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Also finished the second mitt from this pattern.

Woodland Mitts

Join Brenda K. B. Anderson for a free LIVE tutorial on Friday, November 12th at 10:00 a.m. CT. and make sure to download the free Woodland M

I had to undo the first one I made since I used too small of a hook, but the second and third ones whipped up nice and quick (probably from practice and using a larger hook size). Will probably make some of these in other colors for family members this winter.

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The upside to dictating a stim toy review post on my iPad is no typing. Plus tapping on the iPad screen causes me less discomfort than using my mouse.

The downside to dictating a stim toy review post is that nobody told Apple about words like “stim” or “stimmy” or “boinks fidget” or “tangle” or “chewellery”...

It’s not quite as efficient as I was hoping. I suppose it’s a bit much to expect the iOS-standard speech to text to handle community-specific jargon, since I’m already asking it to handle my Aussie accent, inability to pronounce “th”, and fast speech rate. I don’t have very clear speech, which is the reason why I’ve had such a horrific time with other speech to text options (to the point of hyperbolically wanting to murder every person who’s thought to help me by reminding me speech to text exists). So the fact I even manage to slowly (with corrections) dictate a whole post is impressive to me.

(So far, it has correctly handled the word “the” ... so suck on that, abusive and ableist ex-boyfriend who kept trying to give me “speech lessons” that were just obnoxious corrections and hence caused a life-long self-consciousness over an incredibly minor and entirely non-disabling speech impediment, one with which I’m still struggling.)

It’s still far better than Dragon Naturally Speaking, though, and while the auto-correct and select-correct options based on sentence context isn’t perfect, it actually corrected the initial incorrect interpretations of my words to the correct ones about fifty percent of the time.

Honestly, if you’re like me and you’ve struggled with speech to text, see if you can borrow someone’s iThing and try it out. It’s not as good as typing; nothing is. But it is at least reasonable. I am amazed, honestly. I hoped it would be better than everything else I’ve tried, in the way of someone trying but not daring to hope, but it works.

I need to get a proper stand for the iPad, though. Or a bean bag so I can balance it in my lap at the right angle. I keep trying to hold it in my left hand while using it with my right, and I’m sure that’s 99% of the reason why my left wrist is awful right now. It’s not that lightweight by my “I can’t hold a single freaking porcelain dinner plate in my left hand” standards...

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