Q5: This ‘dishcloth’ thing came about from my misreading last week.
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Q5: This ‘dishcloth’ thing came about from my misreading last week. What funny or confusing misreadings, potential or actual, have you had in your making? Instructions, measurements, or whatever you casually read during your projects.
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Q5: This ‘dishcloth’ thing came about from my misreading last week. What funny or confusing misreadings, potential or actual, have you had in your making? Instructions, measurements, or whatever you casually read during your projects.
@MakersHour I do try to skim read through the whole pattern before starting a knitting or crochet project, but sometimes it just doesn't make sense until you get into it.
So I'm not sure it counts as funny, certainly not to me, but if I had a quid for every time I've completely misread the instructions and not noticed for a week I'd probably already be buying that yarn van we were talking about the other week.
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Q5: This ‘dishcloth’ thing came about from my misreading last week. What funny or confusing misreadings, potential or actual, have you had in your making? Instructions, measurements, or whatever you casually read during your projects.
@MakersHour
A5: Although not my making, I do have a very funny story where it was a new colleague's turn to make "Friday Cake" for the group, and he was very excited as he hadn't baked before.He made a cake with a "secret ingredient" and was very excited for us to guess it.
We all bit into the cake and immediately made an array of bad faces.
The secret ingredient was a cup of coffee. He had added a cup of ground coffee.
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Q5: This ‘dishcloth’ thing came about from my misreading last week. What funny or confusing misreadings, potential or actual, have you had in your making? Instructions, measurements, or whatever you casually read during your projects.
@MakersHour A5 Misreading component values can lead to some rather infuriating fault finding!
Mistyping is just considered part of the normal workings of the universe...
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@MakersHour
A5: Although not my making, I do have a very funny story where it was a new colleague's turn to make "Friday Cake" for the group, and he was very excited as he hadn't baked before.He made a cake with a "secret ingredient" and was very excited for us to guess it.
We all bit into the cake and immediately made an array of bad faces.
The secret ingredient was a cup of coffee. He had added a cup of ground coffee.
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@MakersHour
A5: Although not my making, I do have a very funny story where it was a new colleague's turn to make "Friday Cake" for the group, and he was very excited as he hadn't baked before.He made a cake with a "secret ingredient" and was very excited for us to guess it.
We all bit into the cake and immediately made an array of bad faces.
The secret ingredient was a cup of coffee. He had added a cup of ground coffee.
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@MakersHour
A5: Although not my making, I do have a very funny story where it was a new colleague's turn to make "Friday Cake" for the group, and he was very excited as he hadn't baked before.He made a cake with a "secret ingredient" and was very excited for us to guess it.
We all bit into the cake and immediately made an array of bad faces.
The secret ingredient was a cup of coffee. He had added a cup of ground coffee.
@MakersHour he said the recipe was called "Black Magic Cake", I just looked it up and at least this recipe calls for one cup of "brewed black coffee". Maybe his was vaguer?
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Q5: This ‘dishcloth’ thing came about from my misreading last week. What funny or confusing misreadings, potential or actual, have you had in your making? Instructions, measurements, or whatever you casually read during your projects.
Q5: This ‘dishcloth’ thing came about from my misreading last week. What funny or confusing misreadings, potential or actual, have you had in your making? Instructions, measurements, or whatever you casually read during your projects.
Mostly deliberate, non-subtle, often rather NSFW, innuendo. I am usually setting up the misreadings, per se. (Or are they misreadings?)
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Q5: This ‘dishcloth’ thing came about from my misreading last week. What funny or confusing misreadings, potential or actual, have you had in your making? Instructions, measurements, or whatever you casually read during your projects.
Q5: This ‘dishcloth’ thing came about from my misreading last week. What funny or confusing misreadings, potential or actual, have you had in your making? Instructions, measurements, or whatever you casually read during your projects.
I haven't made the mistake, but it's important when cooking to make sure you read tsp (teaspoon) and tbsp (tablespoon) correctly.
Or as my late godmother once failed to do, know the difference between a clove of garlic and a bulb....
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Q5: This ‘dishcloth’ thing came about from my misreading last week. What funny or confusing misreadings, potential or actual, have you had in your making? Instructions, measurements, or whatever you casually read during your projects.
A5 at risk of an actual sensible answer today. After too many drawings where workshop dirt blurred part of the dimension, so you can't see if the part should be 75mm or 75cm. I now stick to only using 1000 multiples. So m, mm, um, etc... this then provides context. A 75m length doesn't fit in the lathe, it has to be 75mm. Even if the unit part of the drawing is completely obscured by oil or coffee... That and only using sensible unit systems, provides for error checking
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