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It looks amazing! I have this in my queue and need to find the right colors. ☺️

Brown brindle dog with white chest and neck lying on his left side with his front paws held up T-rex style, back to back next to a Grey and white fluffy cat lying on his right side with his paws also in front

I love finding them like this

Congratulations!! You've got this!

Yeah I'm about an hour away too 😢 but I'm glad they're there!

Denver Historical Fencing Academy Denver Historical Fencing Academy is Colorado's first HEMA School dedicated to utilizing modern training paradigms to improve your skills when fencing with a longsword or other historical weapons.

I totally sent this to a group of friends (thank you!), and one shared this but said they have a crazy waitlist
denverhistoricalfencing.com

Furthering the feud with the Mathemagician.

Quote by Howard Zinn, historian and WWII Vet: “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many— where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending his spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. —Howard Zinn

Some people undermine hopeful thoughts/ideas as though they are more worried about being right while in a bad situation, than daring to allow a hope-that could be dashed or come to fruition-into their heart and mind.

Hope leads to action.
Despair leads to giving up.

Be hopeful, my friends!

Grey and white fluffy cat showing on his back with his front legs stretched and his back legs flexed.

Grey and white fluffy cat peacefully asleep on his back with front legs sticking up slightly

I try to huff the belly fur daily.

Wow, that's massively not cool. I'm so sorry.

It was honestly terrifying, like getting stuck in a zippered garment and no one around to unzip you! Only funny once you're released 😅

Yeah, I probably shouldn't have been knitting with that yarn for a first sweater hahaha. My next sweater i made of mohair. I still have it but rarely wear it because it gets so itchy! Today's mohair is so much better than 20 years ago

Our town has one! Come get some holiday gifts, have lunch downtown, and walk the lake!
evergreenchristianoutreach.org

Too Tight GIF Alt: Gus Gus from Cinderella, trying on his new sweater

How I looked:

A picture of a woman in a knit sweater and belt from a knitting pattern magazine

Picture of the sweater I was supposed to make

I don't even know how I got it on! It probably would have been super uncomfortable as a binder, sadly. It's fine against my neck as a cowl, but my chest gets itchy if I'm wearing anything low cut. I was so sad at the time that it didn't come out right, but probably better for my skin that it didn't!

Hahaha that'd be some kind of Frankensweater! 😵‍💫

So, those are my horror stories. Did I learn my lesson? Yes. Do I make swatches now? Rarely. 😅 In general, I've found that most things work & I can generally get the idea of something isn't going to knit up properly. But if I'm making a skirt, you bet I will! (I haven't made one since 🤪) 8/8

The waist was so big that the whole thing could have been a cape/poncho. I had a friend who was hugely 9 months pregnant and she was like, "I can't do a thing with this," while flapping that waist around her pregnant belly. 🤣🤣🤣 I still have that yarn and haven't used it for anything else yet. /8

I'm finished, it's beautiful. It doesn't fit. It DOESN'T fit. Because I was not going to knit tight, so I started purposely knitting loose at the waist. And then got into my natural tension by about the hips. And never noticed for the WHOLE skirt. 😅 6/8

A Pic from a knitting pattern book of a woman wearing a handknit skirt with a petticoat underneath

This is the pic from the book. Gorgeous, right? Starts at the waist and has a bunch of symmetrical increases for this beautiful flare. So I'm not knitting tight at all! I am not caring about gauge and get into the groove of knitting. 5/8

You'd think I'd have learned my lesson from that, right? Well, no. 😅 I just veered into "I'm not going to knit tightly!" Like I could control that..... 🤣🤣🤣

aaaand for my next project, I made a skirt! 4/8

A white woman in glasses is wearing a blue handknit cardigan and camel handknit cowl.

I ended up using the unused good yarn to make a cowl, which is my very favorite to this day (about 18ish years later). It would have made a gorgeous sweater. 😢 3/8

I had to stand with my arms up, like a child asking for uppies, and someone had to help me shake out of it. Oh, and it was made from gorgeous single ply aran because I didn't know better, and frogging this sweater ruined the yarn. A very expensive mistake. 2/8

Two things of #knittinghorrorstory for ##showmeyourknits! I was an ambitious new knitter who cared not for gauges and swatches and just wanted to knit my heart out. I wanted to make this cute sweater and made the whole body, which fit like a glove. A very tight glove. That I couldn't take off. 1/8

THAT is a fabulous sweater!

These contiguous posts in my timeline show how companies, both big and small, can either devote themselves to the trivial and evil or the substantive and good.

Oh this is funny, but I would diiieeeeee of embarrassment 😳

Here's a link to Jefferson County resources:
www.jeffco.us/faq.aspx?TID...

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.