As others have said/implied, you should have in inkling “when it’s time”. As long as the dog is still happy, it is cruel to put them down.

We had a 12 year old with back/knee issues. He had trouble getting up on his own towards the end, but there was always someone there to help. Then one day he couldn’t stay up for more than 15 minutes. He was already on meds, and there weren’t any options without him being miserable.

YouTube, and forums for questions. Many popular patterns have videos.

I think places like apostrophe patterns are good for beginner patterns because they do fully custom patterns based on your measurements.

For a starter machine, definitely do research, because shitty sewing machines suck to use soooo much and pull any fun out of sewing. People online seem to really like Juki. My girlfriend has a brother, and it definitely feels kinda cheap and has trouble with thick stuff sometimes.

If you’re really into sewing, a serger is totally worth it, A cover stitch is nice to have.

Sewing! My girlfriend is into it and had some machines already. It’s way easier and more fun than I expected.

I’d personally recommend the second hand market depending on what your budget is.

For real. Meanwhile they always seem to forget the thousands of Nazi scientists hired by the USSR after WW2. What coincidence 🤪

Edit:

I got banned from hexbear for saying something like it’s “based that for free Biden’s admin got the IMF to loan Pakistan money at the cost of sending weapons to Ukraine to fight our enemies for free.”

I got banned from Lemmygrad for pointing out that China is a fasco-capitalst state that manipulates its currency to keep the party members rich and factory workers poor, which doesn’t feel very socialist to me.

I just dislike that their collective emotional reaction always seems perfectly calculated to be to the benefit of the CCP or Russia, no matter the topic.

I for one am in favor. I strongly dislike them and the hexbears. They talk all kinds of shit about being open to arguing and dunking on libs, they’ll brigade other instances and communities, but ban you for having a different opinion in their instance. It’s wild.