Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and the rest

mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 19812 Location: under the bed

i bought the yarn years ago, from this odd store that sold factory ends and the like. so i'm not sure of the contents - feels a bit like wool, but i wouldn't be surprised if it was acrylic. it's dark green - very merry-men-in-sherwood-foresty. i was planning to do something with a bit of lace - there's an old shetland lace pattern, just a few eyelets that give you a pretty solid but vertically striped fabric.

and a hood, of course - gotta have a hood. my ideas have evolved with all the shawl work i have done in the last few years, i'm figuring i will start with the hood, then connect that to a sort of faroese shoulder, then just keep knitting until i run out of yarn. or i guess get something so long i trip over it - i seem to have bought a lot of yarn.
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Finnegan · Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 5:46 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the explanations. yeah, the issues are much clearer now. again, I want thank everyone who replied for doing so in a calm, patient, clear and informative manner. I know some people question the reasoning behind articles like this just to stir up controversy, but it really means a lot to me that even though I often question or ask for clarification on some of these articles that I'm always answered respectfully and things are explained like you understand that I am only asking to so that I can understand the issues better and be a better informed and more sensitive person (especially as I am finding myself identifying less and less than with how I was raised but have no community to learn from). I don't know, maybe I have posted enough that it is clear that my questions are only my attempts to learn and better understand, but I'm still appreciative of how they are responded to, especially and most consistently by Samsally and stripeypants (I love you guys*); but also by Echo in this instance and by Sam in the feminism thread.

*guys being used as gender neutral and my love for how much both of you have helped me, because you've come to have played an important influence in my life, I've always enjoyed our exchanges, and because I'm genuinely fond of you both. and even though I took a bit of a hiatus from the forum due to life complications, illness, and trying to figure somethings out on my own; I liked to think that we were getting to be friends before I disappeared. (I still have those naked jesus on a pegasus animations in use in various places and still get a kick out of them every time I see them).
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stripeypants · Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 10:51 pm Post subject:

stripeypants · Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 11:03 pm Post subject:

Echo · Joined: 18 Jul 2013 Posts: 1845

Just to add my own comments - everyone else has already covered it really, but as I was mentioned by name I thought I ought to say something - yes, questions asked in good faith are always welcome. Otherwise it's difficult to learn from anyone else's perspective on a matter. And I always try to respond in a neutral but informative manner, because... well, if someone's taken the care to ask politely and in a non-prejudiced manner, it's worth being polite enough to answer in a similar manner.

And one of the things I like about this place is that, a few problematic users aside, we can generally get on with each other and learn things from each other's perspectives, rather than following the pattern of much of the rest of the internet and yelling at each other from entrenched positions while others look on and don't understand any of it.

So Yay for everyone. Except the contents of my ignore list. ;-D

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stripeypants · Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 12:24 pm Post subject:

Factory ends are the last runs (and I think also first runs) of fiber products. They tend to have knots and other imperfections, so companies that normally charge big prices can't charge them for these. So they offer them in bulk for cheap.

That's also why fabric is cheaper at Wal-mart and Jo-Ann fabrics than quilt stores. The quilt stores get the good stuff. Wal-mart and Jo-ann's get the cheap stuff. Some people do not give a crap about the difference - especially since nowadays fabric has become so expensive that making your own clothes isn't actually financially worth it most of the time.
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Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 7362

Yeah it's so weird when people get like, judgy over the lack of home-made stuff I wear?

It's like "Excuse me I could spend $15 on a cute shirt that I know fits well and hangs right and have it immediately or I could spend $40 on fabric, spend 10-20 hours working on it, and still not know if it'll turn out shitty or not. Which option do you -think- I'm going to pick more often?"
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