QTpi

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[–] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the US, it is an Individual Donor Assessment and applies to everyone. Everyone gets the same question tree, regardless of sexual orientation. If you have had a new partner in the last 3 months or have multiple partners that doesn't defer you, it sends you to the next tier of question: have you engaged in anal sex. Yes to anal with a new partner or multiple partners is the deferral. If you haven't had a new partner or multiple partners in the last 3 months, you will not be asked about anal sex. Canada went live with their individual donor assessment a year before the US and has noted a slight drop in donations in straight donors because they are now being deferred for high risk activity when they were previously missed.

Prep is listed under a medication deferral. First responders that take prep for protection from workplace exposure are deferred as well.

(I'm a blood banker)

[–] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

This meme feels too real. I've definitely been MJ....

[–] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Retoin, won't you retoin my love?

My love is yours

[–] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

My Clinical Microbiology teacher: I'm no longer allowed to teach you how to waft plates, but... if you happen to catch a whiff of ____ growing on a plate, you would smell ____. ::wink, wink::

[–] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

15 minute drive to the store, better grab my knitting

[–] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

This overlooks that 100% cotton jeans will break down when they are discarded (unlike polyester and nylon). A good pair of jeans can be mended and worn for many years instead of a new pair every year. Jeans can lead a very useful "after life" as insulation or be recycled into new fabric.

It also ignores the chemicals and energy required to turn beechwood and bamboo into wearable fabric.

I don't know what the solution is but natural fabrics aren't the enemy.

[–] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is such a cool concept!

 

Over blocked or missed my gauge, who knows but this was too much. It was frogged for it's sin.

I discovered that my most spectacular knitting fails have no picture evidence... The one that bums me out, I could have sworn I took a picture, a failed unicorn horn. I knit a unicorn horn to attach to a hoodie and wanted to have the spiral up the horn. I knit the horn, threaded yarn around through the stitches, and pulled it to create the 3D effect. The tip of the horn looked very NSFW.

 

Last night I cast on Wanderwillows. I bought the yarn 10 years ago 🫣😱. Confession is good for the soul. 🤣

[–] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Full moons do not have an impact on people with mental illness, make weird things happen, increase work load, or increase the chance of going into labor. I have worked in three separate hospitals in three separate states and the consensus is: full moons bring out the crazies and the babies.

 

Thesesocks are knit from the heel out, grafted together to make a tube, and then the toe and cuff are picked up and knit. No one believed me when they saw my project when I told them it was a sock. I felt the urge to sacrifice a chicken before grafting because I wasn't sure it was going to work.

I would say Go Hawks! But it is not that kind of a season this season... 🫣😭

 

My 7yo daughter I want to finger knit. Ok, I go downstairs to the craft room for the yarn I bought her. No, I need thick yarn. I think about that... probably right. We go downstairs and pick out some bulky yarn. Sit down to start and my 7yo son says he wants to finger knit too. I give him a choice of colors and go downstairs for more bulky yarn. Set up daughter's slip knot so she can start and ask son for the yarn I want to play like it's a magic rope. Turn back to daughter who is struggling. I quickly refresh my memory on how to finger knit and try to help. She says, I don't want to finger knit, I want to knit with needles. I collect the yarn and go back downstairs for her needles and yarn. I quickly refresh my memory on how to knit left handed (she's a lefty) and pull her into my lap to start knitting together. We do three stitches with the limerick I don't want to knit.

And that... Is why I'm rocking back and forth in the corner (jk).

 

Whatcha working on?

[–] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I might have to fire up the 'ol cricut and make this.

 

I finished my brain candy stripey hat.

 

I made these hats for my twins. They didn't get to wear them long because the stitch pattern didn't stretch much but the hats made for adorable newborn photos.

Pattern

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by QTpi@sh.itjust.works to c/knitting@lemmy.world
 

I scoured my ravelry account and the ONLY explicitly Halloween thing I've ever knit is this scarf whose progress was chronicled here. Lots of animal/character hats, but I don't think of them as Halloween-y.

 

I know the new theme went up this morning but I forgot that these fit the homewares theme.

 

Week by week, my dragon's hoard grows (there are another 6 quart jars of canned peaches not in the picture)

 
[–] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I do this for lunches at work and call them grown up lunchables

[–] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Medical Laboratory Scientist (blood banker) checking in

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