Meh and yay
Feb. 7th, 2023 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marmota_b I've just kind of spontaneously left a Facebook group that used to be a source of joy and inspiration and whimsy because it's been increasingly becoming a source of frustration. It now officially has a "controversy" and, you now, ain't nobody got time for that.
I think that's often the problem when groups with too wide a focus become too big. People start using them to vent, for one.
I began doubting myself over that move pretty much immediately - night shifts this week, I'm not at my best - but, well, night shifts are a fact of my life now and if that group that used to give me a mood boost is ceasing to do so, I really do have better things to do with the free hours of my day than to keep filtering that out.
I think it was also brought into sharp focus because I had been previously browsing vintage knitting patterns online that people have generously shared for free and... THAT is the sort of online experience I want to be a part of (even actively, if I can). And I think that group has become too big for its shoes and for that sort of thing; individual voices are beginning to get lost unless they're loud, and the loudest people now are the disgruntled ones.
And since that's been my experience, that's the end of my venting in this post, and instead I shall excitedly share what I might have once shared in that group: that I started knitting a gauge sample from a cone yarn I got for free at work and I think it's going to be a perfect match for vintage 3-ply yarns from 1930s & 1940s patterns. As per Retro Claude's video youtu.be/pH1aT8ab91w. And I think if I triple some thin yarns from the same work-related yarn haul, I may get similar results.
It's not what I had once planned to write about on this blog, but whatever. Creativity is creativity.
P.S. Also, I now finally have a digital scale which makes planning knitting projects so much easier. The old kitchen scale is hugely imprecise. (It was equally frustrating for baking, but at least there I can do it by the ear to an extent.)
I think that's often the problem when groups with too wide a focus become too big. People start using them to vent, for one.
I began doubting myself over that move pretty much immediately - night shifts this week, I'm not at my best - but, well, night shifts are a fact of my life now and if that group that used to give me a mood boost is ceasing to do so, I really do have better things to do with the free hours of my day than to keep filtering that out.
I think it was also brought into sharp focus because I had been previously browsing vintage knitting patterns online that people have generously shared for free and... THAT is the sort of online experience I want to be a part of (even actively, if I can). And I think that group has become too big for its shoes and for that sort of thing; individual voices are beginning to get lost unless they're loud, and the loudest people now are the disgruntled ones.
And since that's been my experience, that's the end of my venting in this post, and instead I shall excitedly share what I might have once shared in that group: that I started knitting a gauge sample from a cone yarn I got for free at work and I think it's going to be a perfect match for vintage 3-ply yarns from 1930s & 1940s patterns. As per Retro Claude's video youtu.be/pH1aT8ab91w. And I think if I triple some thin yarns from the same work-related yarn haul, I may get similar results.
It's not what I had once planned to write about on this blog, but whatever. Creativity is creativity.
P.S. Also, I now finally have a digital scale which makes planning knitting projects so much easier. The old kitchen scale is hugely imprecise. (It was equally frustrating for baking, but at least there I can do it by the ear to an extent.)