Yay - a fellow raveler :) Maybe you can find a good group from this search. https://www.ravelry.com/groups/search#sort=best&query=beginner

I can recommend the tutorials (some with video) on The Spruce. I can also recommend Ravelry for any questions and fiber craft related socialising :) Good luck with it. I love how knitting and crochet can calm my mind and lets me produce something pretty and/or useful with my hands.

there’s a book called stitch and bitch by debbie stoller that i’ve given to a few friends and they’ve learned from it. i would also recommend supplementing the book with youtube videos to see it in 3D. (also if you want to learn to crochet she wrote a great crochet book called the happy hooker)

Try starting with arm knitting! I’m a knitter, and that’s how I started. Plus, it’s super easy, and you can wear a scarf in an hour. Here’s a quick youtube tutorial:

Hahaha drunk crafting is the best. There are a lot of Jezzies here who are really talented knitters who could probably point you in the right direction!

“ ... fuck over the states that didn’t go red in 2016.”

Because even little dogs need love too, here is Henri, in a wool sweater, having taken over Marzipan’s bed (she’s in her crate, taking a puppy nap). What he lacks in floof, he makes up in sad eyes.

I love Jennifer Crusie, I wish she wrote more books.

So Bannon got hit with two subpoenas, one for each shirt. And I’m officially a Girther. It’s funny how, by growing an inch in height, Trump is no longer considered obese.

Oh! I’ve met a new friend! The entire show was delightful but especially the novelty of an animal being so lowkey important to the entire narrative! I have to be honest, though, I am rewatching the show (almost 20 years later) and am caught up the end of season 2... it was such a great show as a kid and I find I still…

I hope I’m not being too green but I would be so happy to know this is coming from the cult. Paul Haggis created Diefenbaker! (The wolf not the PM)

Go you!!! Really glad it worked out for you :)

My husband just told me a story tonight about an incident at work. One of the engineers posted in the Slack “tech chat”: “Hey guys, I got this email and I clicked the link and I think it’s a virus.”

Now THAT guy’s gonna get a talking to!

See! Now get in there and get a bonus!

Oh, you know, people over-emphasize the robustness an rationality of computer systems. I’m glad you didn’t get into a lot of trouble, but I’m not in the least surprised that no one could figure out what happened.

Oh man, I feel ya on that. For the first half of my career my superpower seemed to be “accidentally screwing up major systems in a way that was totally random, barely replicable, and most likely would never, ever happen again, but let’s close that loophole/solve that bug just in case.” It is terrifying.

my first college apartment was a studio, almost quite literally one room, and it was dominated by my cali king waterbed (don’t ask) - the awkwardness for me was inviting anyone over, and opening by door to what appeared to be an invitation to debauchery.

Between Steve Bannon getting shitcanned from Breitbart and Trump purportedly softening his stance on DACA, the Deplorables in the Breitbart comments section have been furious today, with much gnashing of teeth and rending of MAGA hats.

I have been there and done that on one level or another so many times that I’ve started to laugh right along with the IT people. My computer whisperer likes to say that if it can be broke, I’ll break it, and if it can’t, I’ll still break it. The best part has been watching new IT people assure me that ‘this is…