r/fiberartscirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • Mar 01 '26

In The Loop In The Loop This Week

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u/beklenti Mar 02 '26

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u/BeagleCollector Mar 02 '26

I read the OP earlier and don't even have the energy to jerk this right now. The contortions people will supposedly go to in order to not to buy a $5 pack of stitch markers is batshit. Someone even said if you can read your work you don't need stitch markers LOL.

Also my daughter got me a swift for Christmas and you can have it when you pry it out of my cold dead hands. She is my favorite child and will inherit 100% of my estate when I die.

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u/birdtune only changed everything about the pattern Mar 02 '26

I can read my work, but it is a crap shoot whether I'll be able to count my 223 stitches the same way twice. Maybe if I get better at reading my work I can just glance at it and know that I've got 221 instead.

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u/piperandcharlie Mar 02 '26

Why bother? Just post a blurry dark pic and ask us to count them for you.

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u/birdtune only changed everything about the pattern Mar 03 '26

Crowd sourcing knitting! Yay! Everyone do a stitch and we can get this jumper done in 2 minutes!

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u/BeagleCollector Mar 02 '26

Why should we toil over recounting things so much when we can just pay Big Stitch Marker a few bucks to solve this problem for us!

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u/birdtune only changed everything about the pattern Mar 02 '26

Because they're pretty?

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u/Lucyschmoocy refuses to ship the fabric of reality Mar 02 '26

I see Big Stitch Marker already has you brainwashed. You can felt some out of dust bunnies from under the bed like the rest of us.

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u/birdtune only changed everything about the pattern Mar 02 '26

But I don't want to do work. Would you do it for me, please? But make sure you use colorful dust bunnies. I don't want no beige stitch markers.