Exactly. She’s using straight needles (with a knob on one end) instead of double-pointed needles. DPNs are also straight I guess! But “straight needles” specifically means the ones with one point and a knob.

More info: https://creatingruth.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/do-you-knit-like-miss-marple/

There was a bizarre movement in the Victorian era to get people to knit with their needles held with tips pointed down because it’s “more ladylike” but it’s also very difficult and irritating to knit that way so it didn’t catch on.

I don’t think there’s any way to knit a tubular sock on straight needles; the geometry doesn’t allow it. You can knit a sock flat and then sew it up into a tube, but it would look different from the comic.

Edit: actually now that I’ve thought about it more, I think there is a way but it would be super annoying (slip every other stitch so you’re knitting the back and front of the tube at the same time, that might work…). Basically the equivalent of writing a letter by writing every other word and then going back to fill in the rest. Possible, but no reason to do it.

That’s called ‘frogging’ (because you rip-it, rip-it), and you don’t use needles to do it.

Artists. I beg you. Do any research into what knitting looks like before drawing someone knitting.

In their 90s? Gimme some bread and dancing then!

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This, but I use washi tape because it is less gunky.

I believe they do this the same way they do traffic jams, by seeing how many android phones are at the location vs. average.

Patriarchy oppresses us all.

There are plenty of women who live like this now. It’s a cultural thing, not a timeline thing. I had a roommate in college who would wake up before dawn to do her makeup so nobody would see her without it.

(Also high society women certainly didn’t make their own breakfasts… well, ever, but especially not hundreds of years ago)

From the video it looks like the plastic rings are casings and the wheels are inside them, and the wheels poke out at the bottom. Seems dumb to me.

You can kind of see it here but it looks like they’re intentionally hiding a good view of it with angles/lighting:

My company built a big lab with expensive equipment and then laid off the person who was an expert in using all of it.

And Onion articles, and other satire.

Reminded me of Annihilation (the books go weird places)

Sooo much more. The Baroque Cycle is like Cryptonomicon squared.

Pretty much Jack Shaftoe’s storyline in Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle

You didn’t read the article. These are images that appeared in the documentary and were not marked as generated. It was implied they were real photos.