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When knitting socks cuff down, a using stretchy cast-on is very important. Not only do you want the sock to make it past your heel, you also don’t want the cuff to be strangling your calves or ankles when you wear them.

Read more on the blog (and find links to tutorials for each type).

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Three stretchy cast-ons for sock knitting

01 German Twisted: A variation on the long tail cast-on, the German twisted cast-on is also known as the Old Norwegian cast-on, and is the gold standard for stretchy sock cast-ons. While it is a little fiddly, it’s well worth it and creates a nice edge for the cuff.

02 Long Tail: Another well-known option, the long tail cast-on is less stretchy than the German twisted cast-on, but is still a solid option for sock cuffs. This is my preferred method, but some people find they struggle not to cast on too tightly.

03 Knitted: Like the long tail cast-on, the stretchiness of this method is determined by how tightly you work the stitches as you cast them on. To ensure this cast-on is appropriately stretchy, make sure you work it with a needle that’s one size up from the size you plan to knit the rest of the sock with.

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Concorde: A comparison

*** Crew totals include Pilot, First Officer, Flight Engineer, and Flight Attendants

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More and more recently, I’ve begun to get some people coming to me asking for some clarification on LGBTQ stuff. When I was younger, I had to discover many basic identities and labels by myself, through research of various sources, or pieced together from disconnected blog posts. 

In the year 2019 you’d think we’d have a kid-friendly website that describes all of this in simple terms but... I’ve yet to find one that isn’t primed for guardians/parents of LGBTQ parnets and prioratizes them instead of the LGBTQ kids themselves.... 

So I tried to make a quick graphic to organize everything!

Keep in mind - this is based on MY experience and the terminology I have grown up using. Everyone’s experiences may differ - and I tried to simplify in some places to make it easier to read. (For example... I didn’t really go into detail on non-binary identities... but I may make a seperate graphic for that someday because that’s its own box of pears.) 

If you have feelings about this, feel free to go more in depth in the comments! 

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F1 rajongóknak különösen https://atlo.team/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/formula1szaguldocirkusz-1.html

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Guide for Plant Based Textile Dyes

You can find this Plant Based Dyes Infographic here.

You can use these natural ingredients to dye fabrics:

Onions skins, holy basil, turmeric, indigo

some lichens, some barks, some seeds, eucalyptus leaves

bloodwood kino, logwood, avocado seeds, sunflower seed hulls

teas, coffees, some roots, acorns, oak galls, pomegranate rind

marigolds, annatto, saffron, butterfly bush, banksia cones

bamboo, cherries, elderberry, madder root, grape skins

rosehips, strawberries, purple sage, blackberries, blueberries

cornflowers, hyacinth, olives, red cabbage, ornamental plum leaves

artichokes, hydrangea flowers, calendula, camellia, chamomile

moringa leaves and bark, lilac flower, nettles, rosemary, spinach

rosella roots, lentils, dandelion, fennel, iris, bay leaves, crocus, daffodil, paprika, weld 

How Do You Use Natural Dyes on Fabric?

Step-by-Step How to Dye Fabric from my post here:

Pre-wash and pre-soak your fabric.  It is best to use 100% natural fabrics that are undyed.  I have recently fallen in love with China silk habotai because it’s elegant and billowy without the price pitfall of crepe de chine.

Chop up your food source into little tiny bits (but not so tiny that they can’t be strained out).  For onions and plums, use only the skins

Prepare the water base in a large pot: add the water in a 2:1 ratio of water to food source (so if you have 2 cups of chopped bits, add 4 cups of water)

Boil the mixture for approximately an hour

Strain out food source and return liquid dye to pot

Add salt or vinegar, depending on the food source, to the water and mix.  For fruits and vegetables, add ½ cup of salt to every 8 cups of water.  For plant material, add 1 part vinegar to 4 parts water).  Salt and vinegar act as fixatives for the dye.

Add your pre-soaked fabric to the dye, stirring thoroughly, and bring up to a boil

Depending on how dark you would like the dyed fabric to be, boil your fabric in the dye for any length of time up to about an hour and a half.  At that point, your dye is probably exhausted.

Hand wash your fabric in cold water and organic detergent at least twice to ensure that all of the dye and fixative are out of the fabric, rinse, and hang dry or lay flat.

**if you would like a lighter color, either add less fixative (vinegar or salt) or boil for less time – or a little of both!  You can also add some salt/vinegar to the pre-soak water, but I haven’t really seen a difference with doing so.

I also posted this infographic from Design Sponge here.

[phier]

A painting I did for a school assignment on the amphibian chytrid fungus. It is a concept idea for a Zoo and would function as a wall painting (ca. 3x3m) with two different lighting options to show the chytrid spores painted with fluorescent paint.

There are additional text elements, but here’s the original painting for now.

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Biomolecules