I looked into it and came to the same conclusion. I like the compactness of DPS, but mostly they look very stabby and I'll 100% drop them. 😄   Sadly I couldn't find any cute knitting shops. The one in Helsinki was so colourful and helpful and friendly but I couldn't find anything like that here.   Thanks for not trying to discourage me of my silly ideas. 🙂

I also tried sulfate free shampoo and silicone free conditioner on the advice of curly people online but it didn't help so I went back. I also went back to cheap (but popular, with lots of research funding) brands and it's working splendidly.

Man, that all sounds super complicated but i hope its going well for you. Doing new crud that involves other people is always that edge of cliff moment (i always think it must be a tad like learning to hang-glide). Hopefully it gets easier with practice.      Sadly no. Id say scotland, but that seems like a long way to go for socks.    Horror and i are not the best of friends. I like a good alien movie, but most horror movies are a no for me. Have low tollerance i think.    

I agree that you should start with yarn and a pattern that you like. You are not in primary school where you would have to work with acrylic yarn and plastic needles. One skein of yarn is usually enough for a hat, so it will not be too expensive. Even if you get beautiful hand-dyed yarn.   One of the helpful features of Ravelry is that you can see how a pattern worked for other people. Plus you can read their comments about it. That lets you see how the pattern looks when knit with different colors and yarns. If you see a hat pattern and think "that would be cute if it was not chartreuse", you can see what other people did and if you like it.   As a knitter who prefers double-pointed needles for socks and gloves, I strongly recommend getting a long circular needle and using the magic loop method. It is much more beginner friendly.   Make sure that the yarn feels good on your skin. The hat will be on your forehead and ears. You do not want it to be scratchy.   I think that knitting in the round is easier than flat knitting. Once you get going, you just keep spiraling until you are done. There will be some decreases as you get to the top of the hat so that it is head shaped, but those are easy. The start (casting on) is a bit tricky for either circular or flat knitting. Some knitting shops offer casting on as a service. Check if that is available near you.

Ah.  So again,     I may -- since I already have the anti-chlorine shampoo -- just use up the bottle and make sure to condition really well afterward.  We shall make a trial next time I go to the pool and see if my hair seems too dry or no.  So many moving parts to figure!

Because I'll be the one making it! 😂   But at least they're your crooked potholders. ☺️

I'm thinking I might try for a Noon-O-Clock assessment each day in the next round, since it seems that by noon I've accomplished most if not all of what I'll get done in the day other than reading (and sometimes even for reading as well). Today, so far, I've: walked 1.5 miles cleaned out the fridge set out the compost pail cooked Senate Bean Soup Transferred the apple pear sauce to storage jars for the fridge Rinsed a bunch of cooking dishes for the next round of washing (probably tonight) Logged in to work Posted in my thread (still need to go catch up on the threads of others, possibly after lunch). It's not a great list, but it's not bad for an Apathy day. I had a nice bowl of yogurt with granola and apple-pear sauce and a dash of cinnamon, and it was lovely. I have work to do between now and leaving for the dentist (rescheduled from a coupe weeks ago with the horrible flooding and rains), and then in throry I'm reading a couple essays by Dewey. We'll just have to see how it goes. If I can find my gumption, it's a beautiful day for a walk, and the dentist is only 20 minutes or so away.

And this is where I'm stuck at for most creative projects. 😀 I've tried to knit, but even my potholders were crooked.😄 And I don't really want to spend 10,00  hours learning how to make a decent potholder

Yup, that is a LOT for an 11 year old. She seems to be super sensitive to perceived rejection and abandonment. No wonder you’re tired. I’m sorry, friend

Give me like, 5 years to come around and I'll be wearing more of a pagne-style wrapper. Your corner of the rainbow world is broadening my horizons with all these GNC badies playing with silhouette and color. Meanwhile I'm still in the cis dude ghetto, lamely asking if the clothing is "functional", as if a beige Carhartt coverall are the only wrapping my body wants this side of the tomb.  [insert longer discussion here on the construction of the 19st century male gender and the aesthetics of utility for WFH desk jockies]     Swoon, please always suggest potential patron saints?? Low church boy here and the revelation that you high churchies were hording the polytheism has been a delight this last decade. St Jude I love in theory as one of the darlings of the labor movement, but I was seduced by Flobots' and Grace Morbitzer's Saint Rita and she's been "my" saint ever since.       Powerlifting socks are always easy but given recent weight loss, this should be a colder winter for me than normal and any chance to wear wool knee socks is a plus. Any go-to sources?     I mean, it's "wet" horror-comedy. No matter what perspective you use to engage the franchise, mild body-horror is the punchline every time. Zero shade if that's a miss for you. Mostly its a miss for me too, but Liam has been broadening my horror horizons.      Yeah, safety and privacy concerns are very very real. Honestly I was nervous about this one, and fairly grateful that it went well / I was able to engage it from a healthy perspective.     You're brilliant, can you imagine a Ferrari brand kilt?? It would probs be a sleek steel-gray leather but in a pencil skirt silhouette, and the posh kinksters would go wild with glee. But like, very demure, very glee.