that civilisation is going downhill, young people are lazy, parents are neglectful, teachers are clueless and tradition is being ignored 🤣

(Unlike the popular but fake Socrates quote, this is a real one.)
#classicsky #antiquity #culturalhistory

76 years ago, my mother was born because her mother had survived with fake papers and a tight-knit support network of stubborn people who did not give in to cruelty and indifference.
Sometimes you have to break all the laws in order to remain a human being. Remember that.
#holocaustremembranceday

and would not get them into the required position on top of the centre stitch.

It is my own pattern, you can find it here: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
The beads are put onto a stitch in the centre of the lace pattern. I'm not sure what you mean with pre-loading. If you mean string them onto the yarn and drag them along, I would not recommend that, it would be tedious

Mmmmh, now I almost regret that I take care to find unique names in languages that I love for my patterns. No one will find them 😭🤣

I am considering writing to them to talk about #knitting and #sewing hashtags and some other things that would be useful to our crafting communities. I am @knittinginspaceships there by the way, if you want to check it out.

Metaverse and want to pursue a slower and more mindful approach to social media. Slowcial media 😍 I think that is my personal goal this year.

Even Ravelry has become primarily a shop platform for most people these days, the forums and project notebooks are a lot less active compared to 10 years ago. Wouldn't it be cool if we could revive all that a bit?

that was right around the time many knitters and sewists transitioned to Instagram and there was a growing number of younger users who did not see the value in comprehensive discussion boards and community-built storage of knowledge anymore.

Thank you for this, totally have to follow someone with that handle as I'm also a runner and knitter 😍👍

Standard raglan constructions in knitting patterns are just incredibly lazy.

Btw this was a project where I experimented with additional increases and short row shaping on the top of the raglan sleeve, for a better fit for shoulders and neckline, and years later I discovered that really good sewing patterns have this, too.