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Danielle Baines
@daniellebaines.bsky.social
Mom to a non-binary adult person (how can they be in their 20s when I'm still in my 20s?), two cats, and a hedgehog. Senior Estimator for an architectural woodwork company. Knitter. Seamstress. Reluctant Housekeeper. she/her
They never swatch or they never block.
December 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
If more designers were better at grading patterns, the amount of math I’d have to do when I knit their patterns would likely be significantly less. Everybody wins.
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I change them whenever I actually remember. It usually takes days to remember the one in the car.
November 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I haven’t watched baseball since the World Series in 1993. My paternal gramma was a die-hard Jays fan. She watched every game of every season. We watched them together that year.
November 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Oh I wish I could be there!! Have extra fun for me & Jasper!
October 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I spend a lot of time making them bigger and pasting the key on the same page.

And this might be a me thing, but I like when the key for a cable chart tells you which cable the symbol is for AND how to work that cable. Often the ‘what’ is in the key but the ‘how’ is on a glossary somewhere else.
October 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I like it when the key/legend is on the same page as the chart. I have copied & pasted it when it’s not.
October 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It goes in the basket for my Sunday knitting group. When the basket is full I take it in and everyone gets new yarn.

I may have changed my mind about since I bought it, but someone else is going to love it or at least have a purpose for it.
September 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Couldn’t see it without a whole lot of zooming. I’d leave it. I’ve seen worse in a tutorial. It may have a tiny hair but it is also an excellent illustration of the thing you need. The latter outweighs the former.
August 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
🎉
April 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I’ve been trying to crochet a lobster for three years. I will not be defeated. But in need some space before I try again. (It’s a kit. I’m not inventing anything remarkable. Just trying & failing to follow some instructions. It’s not them. It’s me.)
March 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
*bring
March 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Also code for “we don’t know what’s going to happen but you should being a jacket of some kind”
March 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Nope. No. Thanks but I’ll pass.
March 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Same
March 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Mads & his friends are off to Pancake Supper at the local church hall this evening. They have graciously allowed that I can join them.
March 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM