Testing photos

This was taken on 2/20, up in the woods in Hemlock. We went up this weekend and almost all of the snow is gone! They may still get snow, as it’s at 1700 feet. The dogs seem to like it either way.

A quick one

It’s been over a year since Lon died. I am coping, but ready to make some big changes here. I just hate it when I get held back now. I have also figured out the problem with posting my pictures, so will try and do something to fix that. Most of my energy goes towards trying to handle work. I am so ready to retire. Will try and post something longer here soon.

Merry Christmas!

Just a quick post to wish everyone Merry Christmas. I’ll try and do a longer one over this weekend.

 

I had to put my good dog Gary down last week. He was diagnosed with a very malignant fast growing cancer on the tonsils. They removed the tumor but it grew back within a month. His salivary glands were swollen hard and he was having problems breathing. He just ran out of good days. I really loved that dog, so this has been a sad time for me. But I do have some news to report and will update soon.

Still Around

I’m trying to put together a post on Spindlitis too, but having issues uploading pictures.  This has been a pretty awful month too. I had to put down Lolo on the 8th. I always considered her to be Lon’s cat. When his second wife, Kate, died, Lolo was a kitten. Lon was out back, grieving, and Lolo jumped on his lap. He told her she would always have a home with him. Still don’t know what happened. It was some sort of intestinal blockage. So I’m down to just one cat, Fanny.

Lon’s 70th birthday would have been on the 12th. And the 20th would have been our anniversary. Of course, there’s still so much stuff locked down, I can’t do anything but sit at home. I take the dogs out for a drive on Sunday. I’ve been going to Carson lately, so that I can get the dogs used to their long leads.

I am still planning to move to Tennessee. I am trying to pare down the things I want to take. There’s going to be a lot left behind for Quinn to deal with. I’ve made him an offer on the river place, and am waiting to see if he wants it enough to put the deal together. I am also waiting for the probate to worked on for the house. I want to be bought out, so that I don’t have anything left here to deal with. I am planning, in the next month or so, to buy an older Suburban. Then I’ll have to buy a covered trailer for the move. Just having the Suburban gives me options. I could rent a trailer if needed. It’s all very hard because I want to be gone now. I just need to finish up here and go to a new place. I need to start my new life and I feel like I’m in a holding pattern. I do still plan to take all my treadles with me 🙂

Won’t hold this post up for pictures. I’ll try and post again soon.

What an awful year so far!

One of my cats died the first week in January too. Every week this year just seems to get worse. But we will either live through it or we won’t. I take the dogs out for a truck ride on Fridays. I seem to still wind up going out for groceries weekly. I have plenty long keeping stuff, but I keep running out of oranges. I’ve been eating two a day for breakfast. I should just eat the frozen and canned fruit I have, I guess. I have things I’d like to be doing. I may put in a couple of small garden beds. I don’t know how long I’ll be at the house, so why not? It’s not that big of a loss if I have to leave it behind. And I am still planning to sell both places and leave. My pulmonologist says I need to get out of the house. I trust this doctor. And I want to live out in the country again. I just get overwhelmed when I try to go through stuff. I think, when we get past the lockdown, I’ll get someone to help me. Then I can just put the keepers in one bin, stuff for Quinn in another, and load the truck up with things to donate. I will get rid of a lot more stuff, since it’s just me.

Miss Lon. Don’t much feel like spinning or knitting, even though I have lots of supplies. I take the dogs out a lot. Pretty much everyone at work is working from home. It’s not so much that I mind being by myself at the house. It’s just stressful when I do decide to go out. And we are headed back to wet weather, after a really lovely sunny March. I just hope we can find a new normal soon.

I survived the weekend

It was the time I was stressing about. Saturday, I picked up Quinn at the halfway mark. We drove to Tacoma and Point Defiance. We waiting at Owen Beach for awhile, until all the nephews showed up. Dean brought Dewey, Lon ‘s macaw, and his new cockatoo, Ace. I had to keep my distance. We couldn’t find a good spot to spread the ashes on Five mile drive, so decided to do it on the Vashon Ferry. Lon used to live on Vashon and took the ferry to work at the shipyard. And we spread his mom’s ashes from that ferry too. We found out that they will slow the ferry to let you spread the ashes. The problem was that they have a different idea of what that means. I opened the bag and let them fly. I was supposed to just heave the bag overboard. I’m glad I didn’t know.

We drove home, after eating lunch. Quinn had Abe with him, which was nice. The baby got a bit cranky, but it’s a long drive. Sunday was the memorial. I’d picked up Lon’s favorite cookies. I bought a small coffee maker and had milk to go with the cookies. The boating friend, the Coots, showed up, as did two of the nephews and a lot of Quinn’s friends.  I had that list of songs Lon wanted to be played. I ran those from my phone to a bluetooth speaker. And I had posters of him, taped up in the room. I think it went off pretty well. Quinn’s sister picked up him, so I didn’t have to do the long drive to the coast.

 

There’s no easy way to say goodbye and I miss him, every day. Here’s a picture of him from happier times, when he could still go boating, in the time before we met.

And an update here.

My husband Lon died a couple of weeks ago. It was unexpected and quick (liver disease). I am just overwhelmed right now. It could be a couple more weeks before I feel like working on this blog, so thought I’d do a quick post, in case anyone still reads this.

Sorry for the long silence

I got involved with Christmas knitting and just didn’t get around to posting. I have a bunch of things that I completed. Still need to take some pictures. Everything has been good around here. The kids came up the weekend before Christmas. Always good to see the grandson, although I didn’t take pictures this time. He is very headstrong and at the age to get into everything. Little Knits has had some great buys on yarn, so I have a much larger stash now. It’s interesting that I didn’t really get any presents for Christmas, but I didn’t miss them. Managed to knit a watch cap for Lon’s nephew that fits his big head. He was happy with it. I need to start some projects for Lon, now that I have time. I am starting a new project for me, PNW cardigan. I’m using West Yorkshire Spinners, Fleece Roving in BFL. I like the yarn a lot. I started the PNW pattern in some Eco Plus but I’ve lost two balls of the yarn. This should be a quick project. And I can knit socks for us, finally.

Still trying to finish up the house. We ran into two major projects to do. We did get the roof done. The guy that was working for us is in jail. Will likely be at least three months before he gets out, if then. So maybe, we can get back on it this spring. It’s so frustrating. And the river place is a mess. It’s been cleaned back up but I’d really like to get all those folks out of there. I want to sell that more than anything.

Hope everyone had a good Christmas and plans for a Happy New Year!

Finally

For a quick health update…it turns out my pulmonologist was concerned about a possible marker for rheumatic arthritis. For most people the marker indicates you could come down with RA. But it also is a marker for skin diseases. I have psoriasis. I was given instructions on what to be aware of, as far as changes in my regular osteoarthritis. I am doing a bone density scan and going to a new primary care doctor next week. And I need to find a home for the chickens so I can start weaning off prednisone. My pulmonologist cracks me up. He was wearing Carhart jeans with a short sleeved, snap button Western shirt when I saw him. I guess you can take the boy out of Tennessee, but you can’t take Tennessee out of the boy!

I have been happily playing with my Palm Zire 71. Finally was down to where I just used it for Handy Shopper and Bible reading at night. Yes, it’s time for the analog itch. Since I am using my Traveler’s notebook for fiber and knitting, I couldn’t use it. I set up my Passport model as a wallet, but I just am not happy with that size. I tried a Field Notes leather cover, but had already decided what I needed before it got here. What I really wanted was something I wanted for two years and talked myself out of, every time. I wanted the Olive limited edition Traveler’s Notebook. I found one at a somewhat reasonable price and bought it. It’s nice when you get the second TN because you already have stuff to use from TN #1 and you have an idea of how to set it up.

I like to use buttons on the elastic band. They add some interest without getting in the way too much. The insert with the zippered pouch is a test. If I like this, I’ll get a nicer version. The zipper doesn’t work well on this one. I’m using an old monthly insert with a lined paper insert. The kraft envelope was in use with the black TN. I really do love how these work. You can completely change the function by changing out the inserts. And the leather used reminds me of Coach leather. It’s just as thick. This fits in my Tom Bihn bag and I’m using it as a wallet replacement. I am still using the Zire at home, at night. I use it for Bible reading. And I’m always going to love my gadgets but it is a relief to use something that doesn’t need to be charged. It wasn’t a frugal purchase, but sometimes, you just want something and can’t talk yourself out of it.

Ah, August

I took a week of vacation time last week. And I’d thought I could do some things around the house. As always, I just wasn’t up to it. We are making progress on the house. Half the roof has been re-shingled and it looks much better. The other half will be done in a couple of weeks. And we didn’t go anywhere or do anything. The reason is this week, when Lon went to the ER then hospital. He had sepsis from the broken skin on his legs. I’d tried to get him to have a doctor check out his legs and he wouldn’t go. He had the shivers Monday night and I was able to talk him to going into the ER on Tuesday. They admitted him and gave him IV antibiotics. He was released yesterday. I am totally beat. My knee has been problematic and having to hike around the hospital hasn’t helped. I have an appointment at OHSU next Friday with a rheumatologist and also with my pulmonologist. I suspect I’ll need to have surgery on this knee at some point. But we need to get Lon healed up and I have to start using compression on his legs once they have healed.

Anyway, I did make a lot of progress on my projects.

This is A Hap for Harriet in new, lighter colored yarn. It’s a lot easier to work and I think the pattern is clearer. I grabbed it and my Swift for the hospital visits, so I’ve made a lot of progress. I don’t know what I’ll do with the one I was working on. I hate to throw away that much work, but it is so dark that it’s hard to see what I’m doing.

And my handspun yoke sweater looks like this:

It’s not exactly how I envisioned it. But it will be a nice knock around sweater. If not, I’ll rip it back and make something else with the yarn. I’m almost done with the body and am considering what to do for the ribbing.

 

I have been buying rugs from Esales. I don’t seem to have pictures of the rug and runner I bought for the living room. The hardwood floors are too slick for the dogs and the rug we used to use still looks dirty. The new rug looks old, sort of an art nouveau design. I decided to buy one for the bedroom but Lon didn’t want to use it there. So it’s in the office:

It’s been too hot for the dogs to lay on it. I need to take the kilim I’ve been using outside and give it a good shake. I will be picking up a few more things for the house, just to dress it up. We really want to get this place ready to list. And I should have some sewing to do over the long weekend.

She sews!

You might remember that I have several treadles and haven’t had any posts about sewing lately. The treadles were moved out of the office into another room, as we were going to redo the floor in here. That still hasn’t happened. I tried to hem one of the skirts I’d put together, using the SuperNova. It didn’t work out well. The hem was too wonky and I wasn’t happy with it. But, for some reason, Cleo was left in the office. Cleo is the machine I used for my wedding skirt and blouse. I shuffled things around yesterday and brought her over where I can use her. Today, we sewed!

Cleo is a no drama machine. I used her for the wedding clothes because my prettier, older treadle just needed more attention than I could provide at the time. I paid more for Cleo, than most of my other machines. I think I had to rescue her, because they’d put an aquarium on top at some point and ruined the veneer. It’s a 7 drawer base and one of my favorite designs. If you are familiar with sewing machines, you will run across those that are well loved and broken in. They have an easy movement to them. I like to buy those. They aren’t as pretty but they work. Cleo is always ready to sew. Sew a skirt that really needs to be ironed because it’s a wrinkled mess? Okay, let’s give it a go. That skirt is likely going to be a work skirt anyway and I had to use white thread for the hem because I can’t find my blue thread. But it’s hemmed and I’ll run it through the wash again, to let the dryer take out the wrinkles.

The best thing is the sound of the treadle. There’s no starting buzz as the motor kicks in. It’s easy to treadle and I don’t feel rushed when I’m working. I just know that it’s going to work. I am thinking again that I should find new homes for the two electric machines I have. I don’t care for rotaries and I just don’t enjoy sewing when I use electrics. I hesitated to get rid of the Fashion Mate, as it’s another no drama machine. I need to work with my step daughter in law and get her comfortable with sewing. I can hand it off to her. The SuperNova is a nice machine but we’ve never bonded. And I think I’d rather have one of those mechanical zigzaggers for the few times I could use a zigzag. I have a buttonhole attachment for the Free, so I’m set there. I prefer working with wovens rather than knits these days. But I won’t do anything rash just yet. I just had a nice relaxing day sewing, which is something that doesn’t happen often.

Keeping track of things

Thought I’d show how I’m tracking projects and stash these days. I am using the Notes app on my iPhone.

The screenshots make it look a bit disjointed, but I can save the note as a pdf or print it out. I saved a template for both knitting and spinning and I can copy that, whenever I create a new note. I am working on how I move from a fiber stash entry, to a spinning entry, then finally a knitting entry. It’s working but I am still tweaking the system. I like it so far. It’s easy to do and I can see what I have and what I’ve been working on.

We picked this up yesterday. It’s supposed to be from Norway. The woman selling it said it was given to her when she was 16. She is moving into an 800 square foot home and downsizing. Now, I don’t care how small a space I move to, I’m keeping storage items. This trunk is in nice shape and I plan to pick up the fiber that’s covering a lot of the office floor and put it in this trunk. If I fill it up, I’ll bring in another trunk. And I plan to get my treadle and the Fashionmate out where I can use them. The other machines are in a different room and are about to be moved again. I want access to my machines again.


Two days ago was Jake’s Gotcha Day. I believe we’ve had him for four years now. I don’t want to say he’s slowing down, but he is such a good boy. We both love him.

The parrots are happy in the new home. I’ll try and bring some pictures over so I can post them here.

Bye bye, Folkwear

Got the monthly email from Folkwear today. She says “Ravelry came out with clear rules about posting support of Trump and equating it with white supremacy. It got some press. I am glad they did this and I fully support them.”

I’ve been buying Folkwear patterns for some time, back to the original owners. I used two of their patterns for my wedding skirt and blouse. I am not surprised by this stance as they did a big BIPOC email, then started using black models for their patterns. Now, there is nothing wrong with black models. But perhaps they might want to take a look at the demographics of their customers. And this owner has not owned the business all that long. I think I’ve seen maybe four different owners, since they started.

At any rate, any business that wants to call people racists based on their political affiliation will not be getting any more of my business. And that “clear rules about posting” is more BS. They are banning and suspending people for anything they feel like. But everything is acceptable if you are anti-Trump. Ravelry has had new subscriptions locked down for three weeks now. Estimates are around 20,000 members lost. And we are all sure that 8.5 million members number is bogus. I believe R was hacked and several thousand new bogus accounts created. I don’t really care. But it seems strange that some business owner would risk their own business and the jobs of their employees to virtue signal for someone else’s website and business. I’ve seen good companies go down for a lot less.

A fiber tale

UPDATED:

Right now, there are a lot of folks at Ravelry, trying to download patterns they purchased. And many seem to be saying, “What was I thinking?” So here’s a little story to go with that. This is Inglenook Fiber’s Violet Teacup.

I like their fiber and have spun several different blends. This one is merino, silk and sari silk. Let me say, up front, this is nice fiber and there’s nothing at all wrong with it!

I hadn’t been participating much at the Jenkins forum. They decided to have a Mad Hatter Spin Along. It sounded like fun. I saw this fiber and thought it would fit the theme, so I ordered it. I also ordered some of their Obsidian colorway. When I ordered this, I didn’t ask some critical questions. Is this a fiber I like to spin? What are my plans for the yarn? Is a Jenkins spindle the best choice here? I started spinning with the group and quickly ran into trouble. I did not like spinning this at all. In fact, I started randomly picking up other fibers and spinning those instead. I tried a few different Jenkins turks, but couldn’t find a good match. I even tried peeling off some of the silk but it didn’t help. It was not fun. I resigned myself to the fact that I was not going to complete this one. Then I tried some of my Hatchtown high whorls. I still didn’t like spinning it. I just sat it aside and figured I’d deal with it some day.

I got the notion today to try spinning it on my Bosworth butternut skinny midi. I really like this spindle and think I can spin almost anything on it. While this will never be my favorite fiber, I can actually spin it. And I’m spinning finer than I was on the other spindles. So yeah me! I may actually finish the two ounces of this. I still have no idea what I’ll do with the yarn.

No one twisted my arm to buy the fiber or participate. I know that I don’t like merino and that clumps of silk in a blend can cause problems drafting. But I also know that I wouldn’t have even thought about this fiber, if I hadn’t been on that forum. I was focused on what the group was doing and was interested in, not on what I like to do. And that has happened to folks that bought patterns. They may have heard about something on a forum or seen it in a pattern search. They probably didn’t take the time to ask those important questions. They just bought another pattern. Now, because downloading the purchased patterns is so time consuming, they are having to decide if they spent their money on something they want to make. Some are deciding that they have enough patterns to last for a long time. Escape from Ravelry seems to be encouraging people to use the patterns, fiber and yarns that they have and most importantly, to use their own creativity for a change. I think you are going to see some truly wonderful things created during this time. But you won’t see them on Ravelry. We’re already gone.

 

UPDATE: I was thinking about this and the SAL was actually in the Spinning Circle group, not the Jenkins group. So not as restrictive as to equipment, as long as it was done on a spindle. I finished spinning the fiber yesterday. Am plying it today.

Picture of the spindle I’m plying with and my plying stick:

And here’s the plying stick in action, so that you can see how easy it is to control the twist at the end:

 

The new forum is live!

It’s at https://slippedstitches.com

I am keeping this forum politics free. I want us to focus on the things we have in common and give us one small area where we don’t have to have politics intrude. This will be a small forum and I hope we’ll have some interesting discussions.

The parrots are being loaded up, and will be leaving for their new home in Utah. I’m not sure if he’s also taking the cockatoo, which has a home with his brother in Florida. We are letting the two brothers sort it out.

Lots of interesting discussions about Ravelry on the Walkaway group at Facebook. There seems to be some agreement that Ravelry lends itself to mindless pattern searches and working on designs that we might not do otherwise. Folks that have left have discovered that they have more patterns than they will ever use. And I do believe we will see a return to creativity. Ravelry doesn’t really lend itself to more complicate projects that take time. It’s too easy to get swept up in some KAL. I deleted my account last week. I’m actually getting a lot of spinning done. And I really love all my new Bosworth spindles! I started what will be a spindle spun sweater. I’d already been working on one of the yarns but I don’t really have enough for the whole sweater. So I’ll do a circular yoke sweater, my own design. It’s already fun!

Updates

The new site is just about ready for traffic. I’m having some more testing done tonight. This will be a small (I hope) politics free crafting site. My opinion is that we’d be better served to have a by invite only mailing list for political discussions. I’ll see how it goes.

We had a nice Fourth. The dogs took it pretty well. We always have the Austin Airs going, which put out some noise. Didn’t really do anything special to celebrate. I’ve finished the projects I was working on. Just need to block the baby sweater and sew on buttons. The socks are done too. I’m leaving it at that for now. I still have a teddy bear to knit.

I am having a lot of fun with the spinning project. I’ve been doing some small projects just to get a feel for the new spindles. I posted them on the Spindlitis blog, but will post here as well:

 

Bosworth Butternut Maxi with walnut shaft, Midi with walnut shaft and Skinny Midi with walnut shaftSide view

Two Skinny Cherry Maxis, cedar shaft and one Skinny Cherry Midi, Birch shaft

Side view

I wanted to have two spindles close enough to use on the same project and two that could be used for plying on the same project. The Butternut Maxi is 40 grams and heavier than the cherry maxis. And the skinny cherry midi is lighter than the other midis. It’s working out well so far. I haven’t started my sweater spin yet. I am still at the sampling stage.

We had a load of shingles dropped off on the 3rd for the re-roofing project. I don’t know yet when that will actually take place. It is so nice to have time off from work this week. I need to schedule more time. I usually do it in August and the weather turns too hot to do anything.

Tech talk

To start out, here’s a few links with protecting your information online:

http://techland.time.com/2013/07/24/11-simple-ways-to-protect-your-privacy/

https://www.wikihow.com/Protect-Personal-Information

We live in an era, where words you posted on the Internet a decade ago can come back to haunt you. And there are people out there looking to rob you and dox you. (Doxxing is searching for personal information, like name, address and employer and using that information to hound and intimidate you.) I thought it might be time to go over the basics again.

The first rule is, be suspicious. I deal with customers that get phishing emails, popups asking for information and strange calls. I’m always happy that they called before clicking on those links or giving out personal information. If I get an email from Paypal, saying something about my account, I go to the actual Paypal site. If you move your mouse over the actual link, you should see something in the lower left corner of the browser (PC) that shows where that link goes. Most of the time, it doesn’t go to the site. Start by being suspicious.

Secondly, close out old accounts! I finally closed out my LinkedIn account the other day. I’m done with looking for work–I’ll retire from this job. There was just too much of my personal information available there. I also closed out a Twitter account. I used my name for the username. Again, that’s just too much info out there. I opened a new one, with a different name and email address. I still have several free email accounts out there, that I’ll never be able to log into.

Third, passwords. Everyone hates passwords. I see a lot more than you do, dealing with customers. It is typically a five character word with the number 1 at the end. Seriously. I have a lot of passwords, both work and home. I was setting up a new website for myself and had to set up passwords for all sorts of things. For you, I’d recommend a password manager (digital) or a notebook for passwords (analog). I’ve used Last Pass. It’s a great program, inexpensive, and doesn’t store your information on the cloud. You set a master password to log into your saved info and you can set a different password for each site. It will generate one for you which is the best route to take. You need more complex passwords for critical services, like logging into your bank. Passwords need to be at least eight characters long. Every site will have different requirements and no matter what you do, you will face the frustration of trying five or six different passwords with no luck. Happens to the best of us. The other advantage to password managers and notebooks is that you let someone you trust have access to the information, if anything happens to you. My husband was not able to get into his second wife’s email account, after she died. He had no idea what the password was, and there were people that he just couldn’t contact.  And one last thing, do not use your work passwords for personal sites and vice versa. We all want to have just a few passwords to remember. But the fewer passwords that you have, the easier it would be for someone to hack into all of your sites and services. Keep track of your wifi password and change that periodically too!

Personal information. Try and give these sites the bare minimum. We try to be helpful, but really, why do they need to know some of this stuff? I went through Facebook and deleted all my work history. Fortunately, I’d never linked it to the official sites. Go back, take a look at the sites you use and edit what is kept online. It can be fun to do a search for your own name, just to see what pops up.

Tech. If you use newer equipment, keep it up to date. Do the operating system updates. Anti-virus and anti-malware software is a must on PCs. Do a regular scan and scan anything you see something suspicious on the computer. Macs are not immune to viruses. So far, there haven’t been a lot of cell phone viruses, but you should be aware they exist. If you have a router (and you probably do), you should know about firmware updates. If you own the router, you should learn how to check for updates and how to apply them.  The reason I said newer equipment is that I find it useful to use obsolete tech. I have a Palm PDA that has Keyring installed. This is a free password manager. I can sync to my old G4 Power PC Mac for a backup. The program works just fine. I also use HandyShopper for my grocery lists and a couple of other programs. Cost for this tech is minimal. The old computers don’t work well on the internet because they don’t have modern browsers. They still work well for all sorts of graphics, documents, spreadsheets and other interesting programs. They aren’t a target any more, so typically don’t get hacked. I run Linux Mint on older ThinkPads for my work from home computers. And this technology is cheap these days.

Finally, you are never too old to learn! I’m saving something up for when I do retire. Fairly regularly, I get someone on the phone that tells me they can’t do something because they are in their 70s or 80s. I can understand physical limitations. When I am ready to retire, I will tell them my current age (68) and let them know how easy they have it. I have to keep up with new technologies, operating systems and applications like email. There’s no real excuse for not knowing the right terminology or how to check the settings on your email program. If you don’t know something, learn how to do a search online. You Tube is full of how to videos. Look up definitions, learn how to secure your computer or change those passwords. Lifelong learning is what keeps your mind young. Don’t decide that you can’t do something when you haven’t really tried.

Please take the time to change old passwords, update old accounts, and learn something new.

So special

As you know, I was banned for 10 days over a week ago. I have not been able to post anything at Ravelry. This morning, I received an email from them, banning me for 30 days! What this means is that I am being banned for posts on the internet and on my own websites. I feel certain I can go on Discus and be told this is perfectly acceptable.

But this is not acceptable. My posts on the internet are not under their control and violate nothing (unless they are unhappy that I’ve called them liars over their new policy. I think this pretty much proves that.) I have other things to do right now, so I’m going wait and see if they decide to perma-ban me, based on my online posts at my own site and others.

The internet is full of dead links. Make Ravelry one of them.

 

New site

I’m not ready to go yet, but this site is: https://ourunraveled.com

A Quick Note

I’ve been asked a few times, so will respond here. I haven’t deleted my Ravelry account yet. I have removed all my projects, stash pictures, etc. Here’s why I haven’t deleted my account yet:  I have been mentoring a new spinner on one of the forums. She’s making great progress! I don’t think she lives in the US and I do not have any way to reach her, other than through Ravelry. It’s probably silly of me, but I wanted to give her one last word of encouragement before I delete the account. I did read one of the new forums Ravelry allows, which exists for people to say how much  they like the new policy. It convinced me that I really don’t want to be on the same website with those folks. And the forums that I did follow seem to be trying to pretend none of this happened. I guess that’s all they can do.

In case you think that this is just a decision on the part of Ravelry, Reddit shut down The_Donald subreddit. I knew nothing about this site or the group until the run up to the election. They were responsible for a lot of the funny pro-Trump memes you saw. It was just a lot of young guys having fun. The timing of it seems to add to the illusion this is a coordinated event. It will be interesting to see if there are other, unrelated sites that decide it’s time to suppress pro-Trump support.

More on the new project after the weekend. I think I’m making progress but won’t know for sure until I get everything set up.