APR-JUN: Big Swap!

[starrley]

That is freaking awesome. I love you RMDC.

Yes! BMH is going to love this! I always look forward to your posts, RMDC. You're hilarious!

[katdun]

That is freaking awesome. I love you RMDC.

Yes! BMH is going to love this! I always look forward to your posts, RMDC. You're hilarious!

^this!

[Ally]

Oh RMDC, you do keep me in stitches...geddit???

[DuckyBelkins]

Omg you guys, I became SO convinced that we had to send in our gifts by May 30. I seriously started panicking. I have some awesome gifts lined up for my partner (srsly, you're going to love them partner!) but I was starting to panic that I'd never get them done on time! Phew, I can totally breathe now, feels nice haha

[blackmageheart]

shanoa raises an interesting question:

...stitching at an estimated rate of almost a full BMH per day...

I'm curious as to how much stitching that equals, it would be a neat way for us to keep track of how long it takes us to complete things!

I first assumed that she operates at one full stitch every ten seconds. This was to include time spent looking at the pattern, untangling knots (tip: she doesn't have to do this; knots are so scared of her she has to wear velcro shoes), and so on. That means six stitches a minute, or three hundred sixty stitches an hour. Then I assumed that she stitches one hour a day. I know that she actually stitches nine hours a day, but I didn't count the time she spends stitching in her sleep.

So for our purposes, one BMH-day is equal to three hundred sixty stitches. This assumes investment in the project, i.e. work beyond "casual stitching". From the April-June Series of Challenges thread:

If we do fill it all in, and usually for backgrounds you need to, that is 4,096 stitches. That'll take some time! Just had to do the math... it always sounds so impressive.

I have done a couple of pieces that exact size, took me a week each, casual stitching

So we know that her "rest" rate is less than 585.14 stitches per day - which is just about a fifth of a true BMH nine-hour day. In fact, it's only about 65 stitches an hour! This provides a good check of our assumptions. It's reasonable for her to stitch twice as fast when she's invested than when she's at rest - bringing her rate to 130 stitches an hour - and when we factor in the warp bubble she generates around her while stitching, that accelerates her rate relative to the world around her by a factor of almost 3.

Further on in that thread:

I do think that 4096 stitches can be done by anyone in a month, easily. You'd only have to do 136.5 stitches every day in June!

136.5 is an "easily" achieved rate for her, taking less than half an hour of invested work, and just a little over two hours of work at her rest rate.

CONCLUSION:

Work rate
1 BMH-sec = 0.1 st
1 BMH-hr = 360 st

Rest rate
1 BMHr-sec ~ 0.01 st
1 BMHr-hr = 65 st

I have just spent ten minutes rofling at this - tis an epic piece of logic and reasoning! Yet a strangely familiar tale...
I have just decided, I need this printed and framed.

[LinkIsMyHomeboy]

I have just spent ten minutes rofling at this - tis an epic piece of logic and reasoning! Yet a strangely familiar tale...
I have just decided, I need this printed and framed.

Wouldn't you rather stitch it?

[msstitcher]

I have just spent ten minutes rofling at this - tis an epic piece of logic and reasoning! Yet a strangely familiar tale...
I have just decided, I need this printed and framed.

Wouldn't you rather stitch it?

Damnit - you got there before me!
RMDC you are awsome!

[blackmageheart]

I have just spent ten minutes rofling at this - tis an epic piece of logic and reasoning! Yet a strangely familiar tale...
I have just decided, I need this printed and framed.

Wouldn't you rather stitch it?

Thinking about it...seriously thinking about it.

[Myu]

My boyfriend always says that I stitch really fast. After seeing BMH's rate I was curious about mine, so I timed myself and I actually make 6 stitches per minute.


Then, I realised that my current pattern consists of 89401 stitches... That's going to take a lot of time! Almost 250 hours of stitching

[RMDC]

Wouldn't you rather stitch it?

Thinking about it...seriously thinking about it.

Feel free to edit.

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