I might have to fire up the 'ol cricut and make this.
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I don't know where they are getting that price for blood. My perfectly legal, screened, and tested Red Blood Cell units are about $455/pint, plasma $118/pint, and platelets are $1,577/pint. I don't know if they are undervaluing because whole blood is a pain to work with.
Frozen bone for transplant that I've seen (I work in Blood Bank) are small pieces, not entire bone. That price quote doesn't specify per gram, per bone, or per "unit" so who knows.
I have resumed working on the second Halloween scarf
I'm a Medical Laboratory Scientist (bachelor's degree, nationally certified, and current on my certificate maintenance continuing education requirements) and it has taken 16 years for me to crack 100k/year. I started at 38k. There are not enough MLS out there to staff all the labs in the US. Labs are scrambling to figure out how to continue providing patient care in the face of crippling staffing shortages and yet pay is still shit.
Adding to the other comments (which nailed it). Hudson Bay Company made the pattern famous. Pendleton (in OR) started making one nearly identical in 1916 and called it the Glacier National Park pattern. The Hudson Bay Company fur trade ran down into the WA and OR territories so the pattern is entrenched in PNW culture as well.
It might be entertaining to see if saying the Pendleton blanket is better than the HBC blanket (or vice versa) would start a fight. I know that HBC is thicker (and therefore warmer) but their blanket is woven with unfinished edges so a little prone to fraying. Pendleton has a tighter weave and finished edges. Personally, I'd be happy with being gifted either because 🤑🤑💸💸
Beautiful work!
It took some digging to find the stitch because of ambiguous naming (criss cross and woven, both being used by the pattern author). Here's a blog post about the stitch.
we will end up with a whole month of socks as [previously threatened]
I'm enjoying the themes but then I've been knitting for 22 years (I started in college, I'm not a granny 🥴) so I have a lot of work to pick from.
I think the longer time frame might be an enhancement.
A theme idea that might be encouraging to newer knitters is "knit fail", "oops" or "TIL". The idea being that people share a mistake or lesson learned the hard way and what was learned. It would be a keeping it real moment (not all projects go well) and a learning experience. We might learn that we are not the only ones on our embarrassing "I was x days old when I learned..."
Halloween Doodle double knit scarf is officially hibernating. I started working on a Holiday Doodle single sided cowl for myself. I'm also pulling charts from the Arctic expansion, holiday expansion, and possibly winter skies. I'm hoping the change of pace brings motivation (was so unmotivated to work on more double knitting).