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sorts of fields, administration, academia etc. Maybe a GDR thing (long-term stable employment+closed borders) maybe a small country thing. If it's the latter, how are the chances you'll see some of them again?

Ugh, that's so useless. Sorry about that :-/ but yeah, good about the colleagues. I don't know how it works in Sweden, but I was suddenly thinking about my mom's generation where people would know their colleagues for their entire work life, even when they went somewhere else. And it was in all

What a hard decision! How are the colors distributed in the project, are there equal amounts of the two(three?) or is there a MC and some CC drops?
And wow, this teal is so, so beautiful I want to swim in it

Oh no 😢 that doesn't sound like you do it willingly

Hehe,will do!
And the number of <3 might indicate I'm not the only one interested ^^

you out on a hot beverage with knitting ;-)

I had to look up Cradle Catholic (English isn't my first language), but anyone who has some sort of connection to Catholicism, even a love-hate relationship, a math degree and is apparently nonbinary *must* be a really interesting person ^^
I'm on the other side of the world, otherwise I'd ask

I love that gif in this context ^^
And yeah, the one time I did more than two colors I threw the third, less used one. I think it also made it more dominant? How did you do it re dominance?

Thank you <3

It really sucks, bc it's so hard to prove
and you (or rather I) feel like an idiot for pointing at it.

Just made me think of this, in terms of disability activism, this is why disabled people get so angry at the term "special needs".

Yeah, I have seen it often, but not put like that, thank you for putting it into words.
(Just to be clear, I didn't check whether the designers I mentioned participate, they are also nearly all trans/nonbinary or of Color, so def no in-group)
And yes, this might happen here. Who knows.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Ouch :-/ it's so weird how one event on one side of the body can cause another on the other end 🙈 hoping the nail situation can be treated soon <3

Yeah, I know. Sorry, this was not meant as an attack against you. I am just generally fed up with gatekeeping and arguments that aren't real arguments.

And I think in general events like that are great, there are quite a few people in there whose work I admire :)

instead of selling the same hat 30 times.

Same for Nicole Larkin-York: lots of work on well fitting garments, 12 patterns

Harper Bee, who closed shop this February, is one of the best designers I know, also with years of experience. They published 27 patterns.

Even Rebecca Clow, who is quite well-known for versatile, well fitting garments, has "only" 38 patterns. Because she chooses to put 2-6 options into one pattern

For example, Chin Matthews is a perfectly good designer with a lot of originality and several years of experience. There are 14 patterns.

Soomin Anh (dalbodreh), solid gender expansive garments, 11 patterns.

is simply also good and interesting to other people in a completely different way.
This is made by greed.

I also don't particularly care, if it's personal.
It's bullshit that is meant to keep people down who work outside the box, to keep the status quo. And the status quo is white, cis, middle-class and thin women designers.
Rules like that are made by people afraid that they will loose if someone else

XD *fingers crossed* ;-)

Maybe. But this was not yet on there when I looked. I wouldn't have bothered.
And it's still bullshit.
Look at the crap people like petite knit produce, that is completely unwearable if you're not skinny.

I am so done having to explain this to people who call themselves "experienced designers".

Screenshot of a ravelry search, showing the category drop down filter and the numbers of search results: Clothing 2,827 Accessories 11,537 Medical 0 Home 1278 Toys&Hobbies 708 Pet 18 Components 128

Also, if you look at the categories, you can clearly see the bias:
Only 10% garments (that would even include baby stuff, which is quick).
It's fine, if someone wants to make an accessory KAL and announces it as such.
But pretending like this? 🙄

messages about this to that condescending Nina woman, which she ignored.

claims to offer "the best of indie design", and arbitrarily excluding people because they work on things that require more time seems absolutely not like "the best of indie design".

Which isn't to say the participating designers are bad or sth. But the setup is rubbish. And I had written several

you're Woolly Wormhead, of course)

So maybe she didn't lie.
It's still disgusting behavior. Because: these rules had not been communicated publicly, or I wouldn't have asked. And I am pretty sure that quite a few established garment designers would have been up in arms about it, since the KAL

Yes. OK.
The other bundle was the sale bundle, apparently.

Still, if you boast that you have over 200 participating designers, why would you set an arbitrary min pattern threshold per designer? Quantity is not quality.
And it's obvious that a hat is much less work than a garment. (Unless

Yes, me too!
Using all the tech I can to be as analogous as possible XD

(I think no degree of simplicity would have made it right for them... Bread and games...)

KAL. So far, I believe one single white cis woman with the power to do so has simply decided that she doesn't want me in "her" crowd.

entered 100 hats and other small accessories and there are other designers with similarly large portfolios.

Which means, she lied.
There is no "20 for sale published designs" threshold.

Why would she do it? No idea. But I find that quite disgusting.

I also don't think it's a general thing of this