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Can anyone suggest some middle names for Roselaine? It shouldn't end with N or S. Roselaine is pronounced like Rosa Lane, but without the little pause between the two. My favorite so far is Roselaine Audrey, any thoughts on that?

Does anyone know why there's such a big range of textures within Red Heart Super Saver yarn? I don't usually use RHSS, but am making my first corner to corner blanket with it. Amethyst, Cherry, and plain white are fairly rough, Heartfelt (variegated) is very rough, and Turqua is downright soft and cuddly. All the yarns were purchased in the past week.

Also, why do yarns from the same line have such different thicknesses? I've noticed that with these RHSS yarns, but also with Big Twist yarn from Joann's and Lion Brand Hometown USA. With RHSS, the variegated yarns are consistently thinner than the others, and Cherry is extra thick.

This is kind of a shot in the dark, but can anyone help me with this pattern? https://web.archive.org/web/20130116031628/http://www.marloscrochetcorner.com/Plastic%20Bag%20tote.html My problem is that I somehow keep adding a stitch with each round. I've been trying to compensate and was sticking between 54-56 stitches per round, but I'm now on row 15 and have 60 stitches. Also, the starting point for each round has spiraled around and is about 10 stitches farther down. Is that to be expected with a pattern like this?

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Does anyone recognize the pattern of the baby blanket the baby is lying on in this blog post? I think it's so cute, what a sweet little summery blanket. http://stevenandersonfamily.blogspot.com/2016/06/baby-chloe-is-one-month-old.html A cursory search of Ravelry did not help. Thank you!

I want to make this blanket http://www.redheart.com/files/patterns/pdf/LW2020_corr.pdf And here's a video showing how to do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9LjXdQE9wI Before committing to a project like that, I decided to make a sample motif to make sure I could do it. Everything went mostly fine and I want to proceed with making the afghan. But first, I have a couple of rather goofy questions about things the guy references in the video but doesn't show closely.

At several points in the video, says to "slip stitch to the top of the beginning chain 3". I'm not entirely sure what that means and need a closer up picture of where exactly he means to put the slip stitch. It's when f

This is my first thread in this sub, but I've read many other posts! You all seem so friendly and helpful (a nice contrast to some other subreddits), so I hope you can help me out.

So, I got a new pen. It's a Nemosine Singularity with a .6 nib. First thing I did was wash it out with distilled water, then I filled it up with Chesterfield Antique Copper ink to try them both out for the first time! The pen writes extremely, extremely scratchy. I was writing on Rhodia paper. It started out fine for the first line or two because I got the ink flowing by turning the piston on the converter until a drop of ink came out, but once that ink was gone, it was a mess. The nib is so scratchy that

What do you all think of Aleka as a name for a girl in the United States? Usually I prefer well established, timeless/classic names, but Aleka has been a favorite of mine for many years. I looked it up and it seems to tentatively have roots in Greece, Germany, Sweden, and Hawaii. I have always pronounced it ah-LEE-kah. Ah like the middle sound in "cup", lee like the vegetable leek, and kah like the beginning part of "cup". Or, phrased another way, like the name Alicia is sometimes pronounced, but with a 'k' instead of a 'sh' sound in the middle.

So, thoughts? Impressions? Is it usable? Does it seem really trendy or tied to a specific age group?

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How weird would it be for an American child to be named Saoirse? We love the name. I've liked it for a good 15 years. Also, from what I've heard, it can be pronounced two ways- SEER-sha or SAIR-sha. We slightly prefer the second one, but both are nice.

Our child would have some Irish ancestry, but not a ton. I have a decent amount of Irish ancestry (about 1/4). My husband's ancestry is pretty unknown because of adoption. The last name is a generic English last name similar to Johnson.

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What do you all think of Audra? I'm looking for first impressions, what kind of name you consider it to be, what kind of person you imagine, what problems/teasing you could see the name causing, etc.

According to Behindthename.com, Audra is a variation of Audrey and has been in use since the 1800s. The popularity detail for Audra in the US is interesting. It was in the top 1000 between 1887 and 1938 with the most popular rank of #522 during those years, then fell off the chart until 1966 when it suddenly entered at #283 (does anyone know what happened?) and fell of the chart again in 2001. It never got more popular than #246.