Literal Banana

1,634 participants of whom 1.9% were non-binary

noise from being like 31 people I think? maybe the few people who mark themselves as NB are unusual in various ways - in general online samples are high % AIs themselves but maybe NBs are people?

many people agree the expression "I feel you" is violating and creepy just FYI

the world is truly a horrible place, I wish it would end

worst person you know just made a great point

not a word but

I looked out of curiosity, probably not this one but I'm impressed he exists www.etsy.com/listing/1699...

if I was going to get a yarn bowl it would be from etsy I'm ignorant beyond that but it does sound like a lovely gift

knitted! I appreciate you even knowing there's a distinction lol

thank you - I've always wanted to try it but just now getting around to it, usually my work is more random/organic

actually 22 not 11 but basically the same (so each border takes 22 stitches to work both sides)

yes exactly! I just measured the distance on my swift for the length of the skein and measured how much length stitches took and based the pattern on that (turned out to be a clean multiple of 11 so I went with 11s and just doubled the stitch count every section with a border of 11 each side)

and thank you!

I just made it up as I went along, it's just feather and fan over 11 or 22 stitch repeats with a border and sections of...let's call it "purse stitch" (it has a very hurtful and hilarious traditional name)

I'm working on one that uses actual digits of pi to approximate the spiderweb/buggy appearance of AI-generated stuff so maybe it will end up being a true pi shawl we'll see

"pi shawl" is a silly name in my opinion because the only relevant mathematical relationship is between the circumference of a circle of unit radius and the circumference of a circle of double that radius (aka 2) so it should really be called a TWO shawl if we're being real

ikat dyeing yarn in indigo

I wanted to try ikat dyeing where you kind of space dye yarn and then work it up so the dyed part overlays every row but I hate rectangles so I made it a "pi shawl"

semicircular shawl in cobweb shetland lace yarn dyed with indigo in ikat patterns

I finished this new shawl which is really different from the techniques I usually use but looks just like everything else I make somehow lol

(plant gangster voice) some guys are going in the ground this weekend

noooo that's my emotional support tension

being extremely fatigued is kind of like being super cold or super hot in that it sucks if it is forced upon you but if it's chosen it's kind of a pleasant bodily experience (cold plunge, sauna etc.)

ground as barren as my soul

I'm glad I took a few before photos because I'm kind of starting from nothing here, if anything grows at all it will be a huge improvement (I took out the locust suckers already though I have enough locust trees)

Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

hurriedly half-assing a path with random pavers I found in the garage one hour before 23 plants get delivered all at once and need to go in the ground in between and around them

it looks exactly like a circa-2008 study of a few dozen undergrads and a sketchy transparent manipulation with a "power analysis" tacked on lol

best part of aging is plants get real interesting and you can replace your personality with them

I just want them to look cool and smell nice for now but maybe! also I have heard the vines are delicious to eat

I also rooted some ivy cuttings from trying to get my ivy under control - don't want to put them in the ground but I might put them in bigger pots and let them cook

patchouli plant (left) and hop plant (right) in small seedling pots

this hop is one of the guys I am hoping will want to climb up all the trellises (also trying sweet peas)

I don't even have a lawn but I'm still ripping them out of my yard just from being NEAR a lawn

it's weird that "grass roots" has positive connotations like they are pretty bad actually

oh also the main trick is to cast on a lot of stitches (168-700 for these examples) and work horizontally, it works up SO MUCH FASTER when you only do a few rows instead of doing it vertically and turning your work every 30 seconds

what it looks like at different scales (indigo-dyed lace weight linen, 2mm jute twine, cobweb shetland wool)