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Stop upvoting stolen posts

I know this is BECish which is why I’m posting it here, but the advanced knitting sub is plagued with stolen bot reposts—four in the last ten days—and it fucking annoys me that they always get 100+ upvotes and a few ’omg your work is beautiful how did you do those sleeves’ comments, and even after this is pointed out in the comments, the upvotes keep going up until the goddamn thing is deleted. They’re easy to spot: it’s always a title, one picture only, and no text, from a new account. I’ve instituted a rule with myself now that I never upvote or post a comment until I’ve checked it’s legit. And it‘s fucking lame and it makes me sad. That’s all.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Rip9628 — 2 days ago
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Print o’ the mermaid’s tail

A companion piece for this shawl: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/comments/1togh0n/queen_of_the_shetland_sky/ for the same wedding. This one improvised (after some initial back-of-an-envelope arithmetic, see picture 4) using a couple of sources: the classic print o’ da wave, from Sharon Miller’s Heirloom Knitting, with ocean wave edgings from the same book, windowed on either side with Mermaid’s mesh from Barbara Walker’s second Treasury. This stole is for my sister, whose dress is somewhere between sky and royal blue, and is intended to harmonise with the texture and edging of the circular shawl for my mum, while looking a bit more modern. Yarn is West Yorkshire Spinners Exquisite Lace (RIP), colour Florence, 3mm needles.

First two pictures show a couple of repeats after a quick mid-project block. If I had more time before the wedding there are aspects of the design I would refine and improve, but it will do for a prototype!

u/Puzzleheaded_Rip9628 — 1 month ago