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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

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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 😳

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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.

Grey and white fluffy cat sitting on his bottom and looking at the camera.

I may have interrupted a meditative bath session

Brisket runs on Dunkin 😍

It looks AMAZING! and hey, coordinated glasses too! Such a great color on you

The theme from Murder, She Wrote 😍

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

The clues maybe led him there...

A Grey and white fluffy cat is lying on his back, looking away from the camera at a brown brindle and white dog sitting nicely, who is looking at the camera.

"I swear, we're playing nicely" - Hardy, who was mouthing Big League's belly just moments before.

Natasha Cloud at the podium on stage.

"I refuse to accept a world where people are punished for seeking safety or silenced for speaking the truth. I refuse a system that values profit over people and power over love." - Natasha Cloud