I've been trying to get into a routine of going for a morning walk. It's not far, just basically climbing a hill near home, sitting down on a bench at the top pretending to enjoy the view but really trying not to pass out because I'm terribly unfit, then back down.

Well, guess what used to be in that patch of dirt? Yep, my bench.

Who suddenly took it away? No idea. For what purpose? Beats me.

Now I just have to defiantly sit on the grass next to it and dare anyone to comment.

Hmph.

What's grinding your gears today?

Going with a knitting post today! Any other keen sock knitters about? Feel free to show off your cozy feet and recommend good patterns!

I love knitting socks, they're the best travel project and you can just get so many stunning sock yarns from indie dyers.

These beauties are the "Drippity Drop Socks" pattern by Kay F Jones which I was gifted by a very kind Instagram friend. The yarn was by Castle View Yarns, their Fear of the Dark colourway on a typical 75/25 merino/nylon base.

One thing I'll say about this pattern is that the toe section was weird. Instead of just decreasing down each side which is what I've seen in basically every other cuff-down sock pattern, it had me decrease evenly around the whole toe so it has a slightly odd "bunched" feel. If I make this pattern again I'll probably just do the toes the normal way tbh.

Other than that though, absolutely love them!

Like probably most of you I do own at least the majority of the books in physical form. But sometimes it's just easier to read on Kindle.

Sadly they're about £5.99 each, which is absolutely worth it if you can afford it, but x41 books it really adds up.

The good news is, if you check regularly you'll find that one or two books go on sale at a time for as little as 99p. Personally I pick up anything that goes under £2, currently I think that's just Guards! Guards! but they change all the time.

If anyone knows what schedule they change on that would be useful info, atm I just have a reminder to check back every couple of weeks.

(link is to the UK page but I'm sure the same applies on other Amazon sites too)

Joining @Wigglet@beehaw.org in the quest to fill this place with fun craft projects. Yesterday was sewing, today I present to you...wedding crochet!

I taught my bf (ok yes now husband but that sounds weird still) to crochet last year, so we made these simple little crochet flowers together for our small ceremony a couple months ago. The smaller white flowers are just artificial Baby's Breath from Amazon.

The pattern was Crochet Ranunculus from Moara Crochet but fair warning that the written version didn't make much sense and the video was much better. There's lots of blue and white sock yarn left over so I may yet end up with some kind of souvenir ankle socks out of it.

My ribbon wrapping technique left a bit to be desired but it was the night before and things were fraught!

Tried to sew my own wedding dress too but that was a fail so I just picked up a £30 thing off Amazon. Worked out just fine!

Hi, sorry if this is a stupid question I'm sure you're having to answer all kinds of ridiculous things with the influx of us newbies.

I'm finding that often I can't actually see most of the discussion in a thread while logged into my account. I'll see a thread with no comments, and be able to reply to it normally, but if I view that same thread in incognito mode suddenly I see all the other comments that are apparently invisible to me while logged in.

On Mastodon there are sometimes similar issues that can be got around by following users or searching specific toot URLs to help federate, but I have no idea what the equivalent action is on Lemmy.

Any pointers very welcome, thanks!

I've been a massive fan of Eurovision since I was a little kid and this was the first time it's been hosted in the UK since 1998, so if there's ever an excuse for a special make it was this one!

I used the "Magnolia Boat Neck Dress" pattern from My Golden Thimble, which I've used before and is fairly beginner-friendly. It comes with all kinds of options for different necklines, pockets, additional ruffles etc but for this one I just stuck to the basics. I did make the pocket insides out of some red cotton scraps though because why the heck not, although I can't figure out how to attach more than one image to show you...

The main fabric is just some flag print polycotton that you can find all over eBay, technically it wasn't 100% accurate to the list of participating countries this year but hey, close enough.

We had a fantastic time in Liverpool, and as luck would have it the person sitting in front of us in the arena recognised my dress from a Mastodon post about it the day before! What are the chances?!

Pattern link: https://www.mygoldenthimble.com/summer-dress-sewing-pattern-boat-neck/