Tried at least 3 times on this one, at least twice k1p1 and once k4p4. None of them worked.
Is the aim to do the opposite stitch on each row, or the same stitch? So if stitch 1 row 1 is knit, is the stitch 1 row 2 supposed to be knit too or purl? @knitting
@alexisbushnell@knitting I love the colors and I love the ripple effect you’ve gotten. You’ve got knit and purl down. Now it’s just doing them in the right place. I’m wondering if part of the problem is when you hit the end of the row, then you flip the knitting over to reverse. Someone said earlier in the comments you need to ‘read the knitting’ to know how to follow the pattern. But when you are beginning, that’s hard.
So, if you are on your first row. K4P4. Ending on …
Heck yeah. My new #paper with Lindsay Oluyede & Carlos Pardo is out today in #TransportReviews:
"The why and how of COVID streets: a city level review of research into planning motivations and approaches during a crisis"
This labor of love examined the processes that led to and shaped #COVIDstreets programs in 28 cities around the world, as reported in peer-reviewed literature. 🧵
Rib stitch continues to be a disaster and I just don't understand. I tried to make sure I was moving the yarn back and forth between the needles but it's the same mess.
@inquiline yep and to make it worse I was describing their extensive legal experience, and excellent writing ability. Do not even know what word I was possibly searching for, but it wasn’t THAT.
Shoot me now.
@RickiTarr You know, I really do think that the best buffer against this woowoo nonsense is having caring relationships with people not afraid to support you in tough times, and tell you that yes, sometimes life is unfair and sucks. Together we will go on, bumbling our way through it, trying to make things better. That’s it. That’s all there is.
@alexisbushnell@knitting Woohoo! Well done! It does get easier as you get on. Keep at it, and at some point, watch some knitters (either in real life) or videos to help refine technique. I didn’t think to do this and learned habits that made knitting harder than it should be and took a while to unlearn. But, also, I think style becomes kind of personal. Just this week I learned about Norwegian purling and feel like my mind is blown. So many ways to do things!
@Lynnd@alexisbushnell@knitting people tried to teach me to knit for over a decade and I resisted/couldn’t get it. Until I got a very simple book (I think maybe a Klutz book?) with yarn and needles and on a 13 hour car trip I just knitted. Every time I made a mistake, I took the whole thing apart. Every time. Just made myself do it, and there was nothing else to do and no distractions. By the time we got to our destination, I’d done it enough, I learned!
Tell me in as many words as you can about something you wholeheartedly, unreservedly love and/or enjoy. Paint me a picture. Leave out any apologies, buts, or "in spite of"s. Just love the thing out loud, and let me love it with you.
@mishellbaker My youngest has been learning about birds. We have many feeders and look out the windows and I’m teaching them to identify them. We watched a video of a person feeding birds from their hand and they decided they wanted to do that. Spent 45 min outside in 15 °F temps holding still, waiting for the birds to come. Came in cold and glowing with joy telling me about all the bird close encounters they had. I love this so much.
Big news in bug math. This is the first year since 1803 when both 13-year cicadas and 17-year cicadas will emerge from the ground simultaneously in the US!
13 and 17 are both prime. It's believed cicadas evolved to have prime-number life cycles, thus avoiding predators that emerge more frequently, like once every 4 years or 5 years or... whatever. By showing up infrequently, with a prime number life cycle, cicadas can starve out those predators.
And since 13 and 17 are both prime and 13 × 17 = 221, both kinds of cicadas emerge simultaneously only once every 221 years. And
1803 + 221 = 2024
so now they'll both emerge simultaneously and we'll have 𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑠 of cicadas!
Also, this year the two kinds can interbreed! Maybe they're be fruitful and multiply... and we'll get 221-year cicadas. 😆
The last time the Northern Illinois Brood’s 17-year cycle aligned with the Great Southern Brood’s 13-year cycle, Thomas Jefferson was president.
@johncarlosbaez my spouse studies periodical cicadas (he’s interviewed in the NYT article). You can learn more about them, the cicada mapping project and about the broods here:
@johncarlosbaez he has a long term mapping project to very finely map the brood emergences. One fascinating finding is based on mapping of past emergences, the 17 and 13 year cicadas do not overlap. At all. And, this year, when they concur, they will be indistinguishable visually and by sound. You will ONLY know you are looking at a 13 year cicada (or 17 year) if you are well within the brood boundary since of course the boundary layers could mix this year.