Just your friendly, neighborhood, geek who loves to crochet.
It’s beautiful! What technique did you use for the color work? I don’t recognize it. I’ve done a lot of Mosaic crochet but this doesn’t look like mosaic to me.
The biggest thing to practice at first is tension. If you are yanking the yarn tight, it will make the rest of the work on the project far more difficult and require a lot more force from your wrist. Looser tension and a more relaxed posture in general will reduce strain. But it really just comes with practice. You’ll get there if you stick with it and find your own rhythm and way to hold your yarn that works for you.
Definitely a garter snake. Little harmless cutie.
Ya, that was a typo in my comment, I was searching for the proper spelling. I have since gotten it added to my profile. Beehaw must have been overwhelmed this morning.
Thanks, I’ll give it some time to stabilize.
Hello! And thank you for hosting!
I’m still finding my way around and I’ve kind of figured out the remote subscribing thing…but there are some communities that I cannot see in the search despite knowing that they are there (if I visit the other instance directly). I’ve seen posts where people say to just do a search for that community and it will get indexed on your instance, but it doesn’t seem to be working for me.
For example: /c/animals@beehaw.org is a valid community over on beehaw, but I can’t subscribe to it by searching it here (or by going to the extended URL myself) and despite having tried several times to do the search, it just isn’t indexing for me to be able to subscribe to it.
EDIT: I have now been able to get it added. Beehaw was probably just overwhelmed this morning. Thanks all for the help.
I dislike Apple due to their user-hostile business practices. They don’t let you install alternate browsers or keyboards (TRULY alternate and not just re-skins of Safari and the iOS keyboard). They don’t let you sideload (officially). They don’t want you to interface with other phone manufacturers in an equitable way (see the whole blue bubble/green bubble drama). They don’t want you to have the freedom to repair your own devices (see the whole right to repair movement).
And so on and so forth. They are nice products and do what they are supposed to with minimal friction. I just cannot support a company that is so blatantly user-hostile.
Oh interesting, it’s basically tapestry crochet but with half-doubles instead of singles. No wonder the blocking opened up the stitches so much! Thank you for sharing!