Florence Spurling is a moderately popular knitwear designer who made her Scout Shawl pattern in 2021. It uses different color work designs "patchworked" together to form a shawl.

Earlier this month a smaller designer named Susan Chin released her Quilt Star Scarf pattern. It has a similar shape and patchwork construction to Spurling's design.

This has lead people to accuse Chin of plagiarism, which Spurling addressed in an instagram post see above and below

(I can't link to the post because Spurling later deleted it)

The scarves obviously have some similarities, but they also have some differences. Here's a list of what's the same and what's different that someone else wrote, speaking of plagiarism :

Both objects use Intarsia and Fair Isle/Stranded colorwork.

Both patterns have multiple blocks in different motifs, joined together as the finished object is worked.

Both patterns have colorwork charts. (Scout > Shawl is in full color; Quilt Star is in greyscale)

The border is not indicated on either pattern's chart.

Suggested Gauge for the two patterns; Scout Shawl suggests 28sts x 30rows for 10cm, using 3.5mm needles. Quilt Star suggests 28sts x 27 rows for 10cm using 2.5mm or 3mm needles.

Finished size for Scout Shawl is 181cm, 37cm deep

Finished size for Quilt Star is 150cm, 35cm deep

Scout Shawl relies on 5 colors and makes suggestions as to the color contrast if you don't use the same palette as the pattern. Color 1 is the garter stitch border.

Quilt Star relies on 8 colors. No contrast is suggested, only the colors recommended in the original pattern. Color 8 is the 1x1 rib border.

At least one motif in Scout uses 3 colors.

Each motif in Quilt uses no more than 2 colors.

Cast on is 8 stitches for Scout.

Cast on is 4 stitches for Quilt.

All sections on Scout meet at 90 degree angles.

Some sections on Quilt meet at diagonals, at ~45deg ish.

Scout has 10 distinct blocks and patterns.

Quilt has 7 (?) distinct patterns. There seems to be an error in the charts. I'm not sure my count is correct based on the charts alone. But it is certainly fewer.

Increases on Scout are M1L, Decreases are k2tog

Increases on Quilt are kfb, decreases are k2tog.

Scout's finishing has no special bind off for the remaining 8 stitches.

Quilt uses a seamed bind off for the 6 remaining stitches.

Motifs for Scout appear to be floral.

Motifs for Quilt appear to be star-them

Source

VERDICT: they're different patterns.

This didn't stop people from stirring shit, because obviously you need to have an MFA to be inspired by patchwork, and only one person is allowed to be inspired by a thing.

People (Spurling suck ups) went on social media to b-word, including leaving comments on the Ravelry page for Chin's scarf. (Ravelry is like letterboxd for knitting and crochet, and also a platform that many designers use to sell their patterns)

Source, but you need a Ravelry account to view

This lead to Chin taking the pattern down for sale. Satisfied with the results, Spurling deleted her post . And so ends another chapter in the ongoing saga of insecure designers accusing others of plagiarism.

A few I remember from the last year:

A designer put out merch with "Knit Club" on a baseball caps. Well some other pattern designer has a community by that unique name and also has baseball caps merch (but none that actually say "Knit Club"

Source

"Only I'm allowed to be copy 1950s dresses!"

Source

"omg why are you so obsessed with me, stop copying me" macrame. Except her product looks like something posted earlier by someone else on TikTok. (If they look similar it's because there's only so much shit you can make with macrame and there's probably patterns for something like this in a book from the 70s)

Source

One French company accused another French company of copying their, um… tailor clappers, test squares and pointer cowtools (these are pretty common cowtools that have existed for a long time, this like Milwaukee accusing Makita of stealing their idea of the hammer)

Source

I forgot to add that while I agree with most of the commenters on the craft snark thread, look at this b-word trying to turn it into a race thing

source

I'll keep posting this guy here while he keeps posting to /r/WaltDisneyWorld. He's absolutely dominating the subreddit - three of his selfies this month have more upmarseys than the news that beloved ride Muppets 3D is closing down and this will soon be the fourth.

The mods are still working overtime to protect him - they do more work in his threads than every other /r/WaltDisneyWorld thread combined. Comment locks and sneedy mod comments everywhere. OP seems to have free rein to be as toxic as he wants in an otherwise civil subreddit:

How indeed?

I want to get him over here but I don't want to log into my Reddit account again.

"That shit bleedin', P"

~unknown scholar

I probably didn't cook f enough

Tonight I'm a freaking carnivore

Got the uhhh kraft ranch too

for the !goyslopenjoyers in the audience

The dust has mostly settled from the manifest changes, so I thought it would be a good time to ask again.

brave ( chrome) - 36 votes

Old Post link

https://www.statista.com/statistics/545520/market-share-of-internet-browsers-usa/

I'm curious if you guys are still using Firef*x? I just threw in the towel. My main issue is degrading performance, it seems like to use the browser i have to close and re-open it every 12 hours or my performance would slow to a Crawl, I also noticed worse RAM usage than with chrome. I'm going to use chrome a bit to see if the ads effect me, I'm going to KMS if I have to switch back.

old poll results:

Shut the fuck up you fat cunt#recasteggman https://t.co/orHxDvCAjK

— Rogue (Blaze) 🇵🇸 (@blazetherogue) February 13, 2025

A voice actor did something you didn’t like? https://t.co/zze99qtuwm pic.twitter.com/3gjMbSlIGL

— Manlet Thorin (@ManletThorin) February 12, 2025

some people r demanding a recast because theyre cancel happy cute twinks

Reddit protest pic.twitter.com/K5Zk9nOtGF

— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) February 5, 2025

Greetings dramanauts. Today were gonna look /u/SashaButNotGray1. I found this specimen when scrolling through /r/probation . Our friend is originally from Texas where he got in a little kerfuffle . He accepted the plea for two years probation on a second degree felony charge to misdemeanor assault. He went to the best place for advice, Reddit dot com , for his new life on probation. This was three months ago.

https://old.reddit.com/r/probation/comments/1g63idg/accepted_plea/

Fast forward to today. Homie fled the county . He went to Europe . But not to Germany , Finland , or even Italy . He went to fricking Russia! Now he wants to get back to the good ol US of A because he learned what everyone in Russia already knows, Russia sucks . Now he runs back to the best place for advice, Reddit dot com. Jannies do their thing!

https://old.reddit.com/r/probation/comments/1ikgyhc/i_left_country/

Like every other r-slurred zoomoid, he's been rug pulled on a meme coin.

https://old.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/1fbeqc8/cannot_get_my_jup/

https://old.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/1fbet3e/coin_base_scam/

He's even got the zoomer haircut.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rhinoplastyquestions/comments/1citfhw/6_months_post_op/

Anyways, /u/SashaButNotGray1, best of luck to you. You stupid, stupid man.

Right about now, 18yr old Alan Filion, aka "Torswats" is in his sentencing hearing for running a SWATTing for hire service through Telegram.

What you may not know is it was Filion who the cult stalking my family paid to SWAT us dozens of times.https://t.co/vxVvSSMoaI

— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) February 11, 2025

Previous posts, drama childs

https://rdrama.net/post/240585/the-government-did-something-right-for

https://rdrama.net/post/242408/an-exhibit-in-the-state-of

https://rdrama.net/post/242539/fatrick-tomilinson-craps-in-his-jeans

https://rdrama.net/post/317161/patrick-tomlinson-won-torswats-a-person

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/torswats-alan-winston-filion-entropy-cowbin-sneed-social-BIPOCchat-patriots-farm-lambright-legion-project-coomer.166962/post-20566033

Some kiwifriends believe this could mean <1 year with time served considered.

Is Patrick being r-slurred and imagining the stalker children getting away with it? Does Pat have a reliable source and is accurately conveying it? Discuss

Nevermind he got 48 months https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/california-teenager-sentenced-48-months-prison-nationwide-swatting-spree (I didn't refresh fast enough)

Sheehy: How many genders are there?

Hegseth: Two

Sheehy: I know that well, I’m a Sheehy pic.twitter.com/cCqa155hjh

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 14, 2025

In the Senate hearing for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, freshman Senator Tim Sheehy decides to crack a little joke.

: How many genders are there? A tough one.

: Uh, Senator there are two genders.

: I know that well, I'm a Sheehy (pronounced She/He)

There's some polite laughs, because it's a silly little pun, and Hegseth laughs too hard like a cute twink. People are MAD

!oldstrags

redditards try to turn a Hobbit-hole of a subreddit into a Mount Doom

First reported by @Senpai:

https://rdrama.net/post/335813/mod-of-small-lord-of-the

Some of these read-another-book jannies are alright

SRDines, ever caught between cringe and nerdshit are even force to bow:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1i9dd51/the_lord_of_the_rings_reddit_fanbase_suffers_a/

The followup:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Adulting/comments/1ij2pq9/time_stamp_vol_2_more_context/

/u/No_Excitement5215, you were fired for being a peepee, not for being late. I've done this too with people. It's way easier to fire you on a technicality than to go through the rigamarole of HR bs. Your former coworkers are probably thrilled you're gone. I feel bad for your preggo gf. Judging by your posts, you're going to split the second she shits that thing out.

We are now finally in an era where you can freely ‘virtue signal’ but with normal virtues.

Tony from LC sign is the king.
He will be my first choice if I need a sign.

pic.twitter.com/H4hcIUMH3s

— Staida (@staidaz) February 10, 2025

!chuds !transphobes

in b4

For many years, 8chan was one of the main driving forces behind memes and global politics.
We were able to do the unthinkable.
As time went on, numerous governments began to fear us and they worked together with USAID to take down 8chan.
Now with President Trump's second term we… pic.twitter.com/rTrL0Pzdpt

— Ron (@CodeMonkeyZ) February 11, 2025

https://www.8ch.net/ archive

I think he missed the boat on shitcoin scamming boomers by a mile

Reddit foids will do anything to "prep" except buy a gun.

Please, I'd just like to talk.

!friendsofspiderman

Feel free to invite your enemies here as well. I would like to talk to them.

Me and my partner are both plus size. We were having s*x doggy position and he slipped out and immediately try to go back in but went into my butt instead.

This is the second time within a month that the same incident has happened. First time I cried so much because it hurt and he comforted me. This time it hurt still as much but I didn't cry because I'm more mad than sad.

I'm mad because I've always told him that I never want to do anal it's not something for me and he brought up doing anal for the longest time until I told him I'd have to break up if this was a deal breaker because it's never happening and he let it go.

Now that this has happened twice so close together I feel as if it's been done on purpose. Only because we've always done doggy and when he slips he repositions himself gently back in he never just tries to immediately go back in.

He apologized and said "I'm sorry. It's my fault I've gained weight and my belly is more round so I couldn't see and didn't realize"

So am I to believe his belly blocked him and he was just into it that's why he didn't position himself gently back or was this done on purpose? He didn't stay in long only because I let out a scream and told him to get off. It just feels so close together to have the same thing happen twice when in our 2 year relationship this has never happened before.

JUST WANTED TO ADD: Thank you I just felt like I was overthinking this. Once I brushed it off as accidental but twice within a month is too much. He is currently snoring while I'm here with a bit of soreness, nothing compared to the first time it happened but still. This happening twice now… I don't want to think he did it on purpose but this is looking like it was. I'm not sure how to proceed if we didn't have a baby together I'd say it's over. But me being a sahm me leaving over this it just can't happen overnight.

I think I'll just refrain from s*x with him for a while. He's not an aggressive or mean person but this incident just has me needing to take a step back from being intimate.

!foidmoment

/u/LilliaBaltimore is still posting public bathroom selfies regularly (see [NO DRAMA] A Reddit poweruser is STILL getting to the top of /r/waltdisneyworld by posting bathroom selfies for more info.

Yesterday he posted a rainbow which makes me wonder if he's not so subtly calling out for Disney World hookups?

Anyone who dares to say "hey public bathroom selfies are weird and not on topic for /r/WaltDisneyWorld" is called a racist gatekeeper by /u/MarleyTheBeagle, the most typical Reddit imaginable.

Lebanese accounts are claiming Israel and HTS are working together against Hezbollah:

“Israel conducted airstrikes in Lebanon, targeting areas where armed Lebanese groups were defending border towns against HTS militia advances.” https://t.co/R4JvrpnROe pic.twitter.com/GHiaOEX4EQ

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 9, 2025

I hope they are. If both Muslim groups are fighting and killing each other, that is good news for Israel.

— I Stand with Israel (@freegames101) February 9, 2025

The only people dying in this mess are the arabs, who are fighting man to man while Israel brought it's jets. Too bad both Syria and Lebanon lost their surface to air missiles, I wonder what happened to them

I just thought y'all might want to know! Just in case you feel like writing any friendly letters to the US government 🥰

Just reported Elon Musk as a DEI hire

https://old.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/1i7pxaj/wvp_is_committed_to_being_a_safe_haven_on_the/

Dearest Witches,

We share people's concern about the crisis in politics occurring in the USA right now. We stand in solidarity not only with our American witches, but with all worldwide who have been dealing with unstable or downright oppressive regimes.

https://old.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/1i7g9bh/canceled_prime_what_else_are_we_canceling/

Canceled Prime. Left FB, never got IG. Left X. Joined BlueSky (shout out to the WitchSky feed). Joined Dropout.

Doing what I can.

https://old.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/1i7g9bh/canceled_prime_what_else_are_we_canceling/m8l7152/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/1i89dmk/given_what_is_going_on_right_now_some_of_my/

It was witch hunt not wizard hunt, duh

@JimieWhales do you have this sticker?

https://old.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/1i8m8el/resistance_among_the_teens_part_2/

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1i7phrg/i_rebuilt_reproductiverightsgov/

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1i89l7n/bodypolicing_and_being_midsize/

I'm what's considered mid-sized I guess... neither fat nor thin. I don't look visually big, but I have a belly, I have rolls, it's just when I'm clothed it's not so apparent. I'm thick, I have huge thighs, covered in cellulite.

So people, especially women, who are heavier than I am often get offended if I say I wish I had a little less fat. They treat me like I'm nuts and "so skinny!"

It never began

for instance, during lunch at work I mentioned I was starting to track my nutrition and exercise more often because I want to lean out, and another colleague jumped at me, almost angrily, and told me I didn't need to.

Right there with you!

I wear a US 16, and am tall.

That would be considered obese even at 6'6

I'm built different that plus size but get an annoyed look in "straight sized" shops when I ask for my size.

I mean, I'm talking about my experience. My colleagues are mostly women, thye share their struggles with weight during lunch. Just because I'm a little smaller doesn't mean I don't also struggle or that it's not valid. What am I supposed to do, just stay quiet durig lunch not to offend them, ion times when that's the MAIN conversation topic?

Woman companionship

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskWomenOver30/comments/1ewa9z5/almost_36f_and_my_looks_have_officially_faded_im/

She also hit the incelhood the wall

I was actually sort of happy about it after the oversaturation of male entitlement in my teens and twenties. 35 is the first year I've (personally, not speaking for anyone else) started to feel sexually invisible to the average passerby and it's just so... weird? Hard to explain, but it felt like I could hold people's attention (not even sexual attention, but general attention) without even trying before, but now I actually have to do something extra in order to secure my position.

To be honest, I've even been wondering if I have a worse personality than previously thought, because people generally even seem to find me less interesting now as well; they respond with more politeness compared to, well, genuine enthusiasm... and I don't just mean hetero men, but other women as well; society at large, really. Like, have I been very boring all this time, but people were only interested in what I had to say because I was a pretty young thing? (I'm probably not describing all of this very well, but it's a feeling I've really been stewing in this year.)

• I think the grief of it will last me awhile, even if I do enjoy the upside of being less sexualised than I was during my peak years.

I feel like I actually hit a happy medium in my late twenties to early thirties and the equilibrium has shifted over too much now, but I digress. The other way I cope is just glowing up my appearance in ways I have neglected, like slowly shedding the weight I've put on these past few years and revamping my wardrobe a little - things that may not make a huge difference to other people, but help me tolerate my own reflection better.

Says she doesn't care process to tell how she trying to improve her looks

It's nasty how much people feign interest in your mind and what you say just because you're attractive. I've been used by one too many guys because of that. One thing that sticks with me as a single woman is to pay attention to how a man I'm interested in treats women who he isn't attracted to. Does he genuinely listen and contribute to conversations with older women, fat women, trans women, etc. or does he only see and respect conventionally attractive women.

Does that man is interested in her

The goal of this post was to look how our girls cope with age of Chud, but on xx chromosomes I found the proof of ze walldo

Have a nice day

You don't need to take kids to the grocery store with you. I understand restaurants and movies and other places, but why do you need to take kids to the grocery store? Putting their filthy hands on the meat and veg.Order online if you can't get somebody to watch them for 2 hours.

— The Lawnmower Man 🇺🇸 🏴‍☠️ (@JohnsonLwnNPest) February 9, 2025