Seth

I shoulda just wrote every purl row into my html transcription and put the whole thing into a ol; then the short rows can be nested and it will be extremely funny in a good way (and I won't have to worry about numbering rows wrong when editing things)

I needed to fix a few small errors anyways...

I messed up a couple increase translations so I gotta fix those but. Wow Wow Wow was this just a 1000% better experience that no longer feels vaguely cursed.

I'm thinking about taking my korok pattern and making an html version just for kicks cuz I love this so much (including embedding the face doodles I made for it), but I don't think I can distribute that on Ravelry cuz I think they limit to pdfs.

so the bottom half of the frog is still cursed. I also did my own thing up to the toes, where I do partially my own thing already (there's a Most Excellent trick for a series of icords for toes/fingers I unvented¹ where you cut a longer tail when you finish the first one, weave it down the digit, and then use it for the next one, and the next one, and on down the line for however many toes/fingers you need. It means you only weave in one tail for all of them and it looks very nice. So I follow the pattern but don't add new yarn because I'm too powerful), and they're not necessarily cursed, but I don't like how the results look!

I've determined at least a partial root to my unease in this pattern, though:

• the decrease positioning is not consistent, and includes decreases on the edge (on a seamed edge!!)
• the pattern uses both even and odd numbers of stitches, and doesn't need to--it could just stick with a central stitch or a central pair and be totally fine (and the inc/dc to adjust from even/odd is always necessarily weird)

There is also a few places of dense (i.e. every row w/out rest) increases/decreases, which is always difficult with a low stitch count, but that's understandable: lifelike stuffies necessitate this kind of aggresive change. My anatomically close bumble bee sculpture--which includes simplified mouthparts--has more than its fair share of this, no question.

I'm currently revising the pattern for a few transcription errors, but I'm really thinking about slipping in a fix to the even/odd stitch count thing (I already mentally fix the lack of edge stitch, so that's becoming written this edit for sure)

1. honestly I really do want to say invented here, but along with Zimmerman who I first saw use this term, I recognize knitting is ancient and literally anything you do in it has been done before--just maybe not recorded (or not recorded in a way you'd recognize)

I messed up a couple increase translations so I gotta fix those but. Wow Wow Wow was this just a 1000% better experience that no longer feels vaguely cursed.

I'm thinking about taking my korok pattern and making an html version just for kicks cuz I love this so much (including embedding the face doodles I made for it), but I don't think I can distribute that on Ravelry cuz I think they limit to pdfs.

a) I think this will be more pleasant to read on mobile, my primary method of pattern reading
b) I think it's funny
c) this pattern..... has bad vibes?? idk. This may rinse them, who knows

Some Fun? Parts of This:

• I get to rewrite to my preferred increase/SR turn
• every kfb in the pattern pastes as k?? why is the fb turning into the escape unicode character.
• I am putting all the steps inside <pre> tags so my new lines are more convenient. I have changed pre's font to be arial. is this a crime? I do not know.
• I'm also putting the css inside a <style> tag at the top of the document so it can be one self-contained document; this also feels like a crime somehow

I'm doing this in vs code, which I use but like, not often, so:

• emmet is my friend, we are all love emmet's wrap with abbreviation
• alt click to edit multiple lines at once is also The Best (how do I do this entirely from keyboard?)
• not related to vs code since this is how they paste everywhere but: it's not just kfb. Any time f[letter][space] gets copied from the pdf it gets pasted as a unicode symbol.

hee hee ha ha <pre> came to bite me in its lack of word wrap; It was indeed a True Crime. Had to go and <p> everything

Anyways it's done now; I showed it to my wife compared to the pdf and she was like, "wow yeah nice move that's rough"

I would share this but it definitely assumes one has read or even knit the pattern and its source is a paid ravelry pattern so I'd only do it if I knew someone had bought it already and, like me, needed a device-friendlier version