This was the latest item in a seemingly unending line of statements from suppliers about escalating prices:
I’m not going to cough up that amount, any more than I’m going to put up with Microsoft’s appalling greed – with regard to which I shall forego Outlook in divesting myself of Office 365 and Edge and use Firefox and Thunderbird, as my sister tells me the latter can now have a calendar added.
With regard to Automattic’s cash-grab, I shall cease this blog. It didn’t do much, anyway.
I had NO IDEA there were so many clever crocheting women whose language is Spanish and who post enviable patterns to their YouTube channels. It started with that gorgeous pattern I last posted; and then Google started feeding me Spanish posts until I was bloody overwhelmed !
I commenced to become distressed by it all – so many glorious patterns, no way of accessing them (the English ‘translations’ are garbage thrown from the Tower of Babel).
Then, just TODAY !, I found this link. You may pray for me, all you believers; for I do not myself indulge in such activity. [grin]
This’d be fine in a decent colour.
Now HERE’s a claret-coloured bolero ! 🙂
Don’t think I’d go to Machu Picchu ..
I’ve asked if s/he will translate this one. I’d give my wisdom teeth to have a usable pattern.
Take a quick gink at the opening of the YouTube video here, and you’ll possibly realize that the pattern would appeal madly to moi ! 😀
You’ll also comprehend without doubt that it brings with it a problem I’m unable to solve; and it occurred to me that there just might be someone out there who knows of a potential solution – because I know some of you are geeks !
How to get a translation – subtitles would be fine, of course – in English from this amazingly talented Mexican lady’s YouTube video ?
There are closed captions there, but they’re in Spanish, presumably for deaf people. Unlike some sites, the captions are offered only in the language of the channel. 😦
Not only is this delightful A-shaped cardi pattern in her gallery, but a number of other patterns that would give me pleasure to make. So I’m desperate to find some kind of solution ..
P.S. My wonderful, clever friend the Goanna has the answer that requires no effort at all from me ! (Sue also has the geek answer, below; but it means I must pull the ancient finger out and WORK !)
I go to the video, turn captions ON and go to settings, then to Subtitles/CC;
then to Spanish (auto-generated) and THEN to Auto-translate. At which point practically every world language drops down and I have only to select English !
Of course it’s “translated” English; but that is defintely sufficient for my porpoises !
A big fat THANK-YOU to both ladies. I’m perfectly sure Sue’s solution works; but I can mess up anything ..
MS Outlook is pretty good at finding spam: not a single email bearing an African name gets through [grin].
I rather like the ones that have Subjects like “Hello dear”, or “Wells Frago grant” – spam that can make me laugh is pretty good, I sometimes think.
But one from today takes the cake:
Hmmm .. shall I open it ? – might it have a genuine offer inside ?
Not I ! – and I doubt I’ve ever responded negatively to such a thought as vigorously as I did when coming across this pattern:
Gosh, this is pretty ..
It is a glorious thing indeed !
It is called “Spring Fling Garden Blanket or Throw“, and was created and made by a young Canadian woman living in London whose name is Debi. Her website is Dearest Debi and on YouTube she’s DebiDearest, with over 59 thousand followers. She looks like an adolescent, but is the mother of a couple of children. And she is, as you can see from the image, a very creative crochet designer.
Just imagine how exhausting it must be, developing a pattern like that, and of that size .. The mind boggles. Well, mine does.
And then she has to actually produce one, right ? – probably a few for her own satisfaction before she hands it over to her testers.
But that’s far from the end of it ! Because then she has to make another one, in segments, for her crochet-along videos ! There are no less than 8 videos covering all of the 108 rounds, and they show every round with nothing left out: CALs or KALs must do this or they can’t be considered useful (or usable !). So there a crochet YouTuber must go again, making it yet another time but in close-up segments, editing repeated bits to prevent the video’s being hours long, and talking over it as she goes.
Jesus. Not for me. Not that I am ever going to be sufficiently talented as to design anything.
Honestly: can it be worth it ? I might ask Debi.
Wondering if it’d be a bit risky asking her about weaving in all the ends .. [grin]
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