Rhyme x Reason | Lo
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Knitting, spinning, & baking | PhD candidate | Research on violence, brain injury, and health | Human rights not up for debate | Colorado 🏔
It looks amazing! I have this in my queue and need to find the right colors. ☺️
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It looks amazing! I have this in my queue and need to find the right colors. ☺️
Congratulations!! You've got this!
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Congratulations!! You've got this!
Yeah I'm about an hour away too 😢 but I'm glad they're there!
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Yeah I'm about an hour away too 😢 but I'm glad they're there!
I totally sent this to a group of friends (thank you!), and one shared this but said they have a crazy waitlist
denverhistoricalfencing.com
denverhistoricalfencing.com
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.
denverhistoricalfencing.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I totally sent this to a group of friends (thank you!), and one shared this but said they have a crazy waitlist
denverhistoricalfencing.com
denverhistoricalfencing.com
Furthering the feud with the Mathemagician.
November 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Furthering the feud with the Mathemagician.
Wow, that's massively not cool. I'm so sorry.
October 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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 😅
October 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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
October 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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
How I looked:
Too Tight GIF
Alt: Gus Gus from Cinderella, trying on his new sweater
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October 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
How I looked:
Picture of the sweater I was supposed to make
October 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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!
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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! 😵💫
October 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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
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
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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
aaaand for my next project, I made a skirt! 4/8
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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
aaaand for my next project, I made a skirt! 4/8
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
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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