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SHAME THE MONSTER

Preparing to dress the new table loom and sigh it looks like I've already got some issues with my warp cross for 1 half of my warp

This is because my dumb ass forgot to tie the center of the cross and pulled it off the warping board.

That and my little monster bit through some warp threads so I now have a smattering of single slip knots that is making my life hell

#I'm going to just walk away for tonight and try again tomorrow #maybe #weaving #warping the loom #craftblr

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Preparing to dress the new table loom and sigh it looks like I've already got some issues with my warp cross for 1 half of my warp

This is because my dumb ass forgot to tie the center of the cross and pulled it off the warping board.

That and my little monster bit through some warp threads so I now have a smattering of single slip knots that is making my life hell

#I'm going to just walk away for tonight and try again tomorrow #maybe #weaving #warping the loom #craftblr

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eepy

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The urge to embroider this is very difficult to squash

shoutout to the "foolproof" bread recipe I fucked up entirely for inspiring this

#embroidery inspo #q

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HOLY SHIT

Last night was my company Holiday Party, and we're doing really well, so it was held at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)

I was so happy that also included the Styled by Sargent exhibit, of John Singer Sargent paintings and the actual articles of clothing alongside them.

Now, you have probably seen this painting of Lady Macbeth

But have you seen the costume she's wearing??

It's gorgeous, obviously.

But that texture! It's *crochet*

And some knitting

Really simple crochet too; just a chain and single crochet lattice with beads and metallic thread added for this chain mail effect.

Despite John Singer Sargent being an expert painter of fabric (no, really, just look at it), I never knew Lady Macbeth's costume had to be *hand crocheted* for that texture in the painting.

Anyway I'm gonna be making myself some faux-chainmail by crocheting it for the next Renn Faire

#lady macbeth #costume #crochet

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Spinning some of my dot dyed corriedale from that workshop and I think it looks pretty great!

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Spinning some of my dot dyed corriedale from that workshop and I think it looks pretty great!

#dot dye #corriedale #craftblr #hand spinning #wool #yarn #hand dyed

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Patreon, Squarespace, Gumroad. What do all these online spaces have in common? A monopolizing payment processor. My hand slipped and I contacted the ACLU, the FSC, and the MA Bar Association for legal assistance. If you’ve been fucked over by draconian nsfw bans please join my Mastercard Injury Mailing List.

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I've secured my spot and will be going to the fleece workshop and the spindle workshop if anyone wants to tell me they like my shoelaces

Is anyone going to the Ontario Handspinning Seminar this June?

Registration is closing soon!

#this is your reminder to sign up for things now before spots all fill up! #could be that I end up going since it is sorta nearish enough to drive to if my body allows for it #might be cool to see some crafty tumblr peeps out in the wild #hand spinning #ontario hand spinning seminar 2024 #craftblr #ontario #canada

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My dot dyed fibers became a tad felted but fear not, hand carders to the rescue!

#no idea what to do with them but I figure I just ply it on itself and put it away until inspiration hits? #the purple and blue is corriedale #the green and blue is polwarth #dot dye #hand dyed #polwarth #corriedale #fiber #fibre #craftblr

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Dude, same

Yes I'm a sick individual (beige enjoyer)

#q #weaving

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There is no warp in Ba Sing Se

#I didn't forget to tie my cross on my second section of warp #why would you even suggest such a thing #weaving #craftblr

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Another reblog you need not pay attention to, for there is Nothing Bad happening with warping the current project on the new table loom

I have discovered another difference with how Kettricken is compared to the YT video I'm trying to follow, her apron bar at the back doesn't have apron strings(?)

So at approx. 5:05 in this video I am hella confused as to how I am supposed to attach to beam my warp

#there is no war in ba sing se #learning to weave #weaving advice #warping the loom #dressing the loom #warping back to front #weaving #loom #troubleshooting #craftblr

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Don't worry about why I'm reblogging this today, Nothing Bad is Happening with my current weaving project

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The point of the threads going down and up in the warp cross is to record their order. There is no deeper meaning to which ones go up vs down. Unless you are doing plain weave, or if you care about mathematical knot theory.

(If you were doing plain weave, there’d be a relevant bonus; but you’re skipping straight ahead to patterns. So ignore whether individual warps go down or up, and just pick whoever is next in the queue.)

At the point where the cross is happening, who can slide freely? That’s who’s next.

Behold, the shitty pixels I made on my phone:

Working manga style from right to left, obviously red is first. Who’s next? Is it yellow? Imagine taking both ends of yellow and dragging the whole yellow thread to the right. It would loop around orange and drag orange along with it. That means that yellow isn’t actually free. Orange comes before yellow. Slide it on over.

Great, we sorted that out. Who’s next? We’ve got green looking pretty similar to how yellow looked last time. Does that mean green can’t move?

Imagine grabbing both ends of green and dragging it to the right. It slides freely, without making anyone else come along with it. That means green is free, and it’s the next in the queue.

The point of the warp cross is that *if you correctly isolate it*, it physically prevents you from sliding the wrong thread.

*Once you know where the cross is* you literally don’t have to guess or remember anything.

You can put it down and walk away and forget everything and come back and know which warp is the next one to thread. It’s the one that slides freely *on the edge of the isolated warp cross*.

Ok, why all the weird purple scare quotes? Let’s look at a hypothetical warp that is more fucked up:

If you try to grab both ends of one of of these warps where they meet the edge of the image frame, you won’t be able to slide any of them freely to the right.

Evil wizards twisted things around and even braided some of the ends together.

But! All hope is not lost, because the warp cross is still intact. It’s right there in the center.

We pushed the gray lease sticks as closely together as they possibly could go. If we imagine grabbing a warp just by the points where it crosses the two lease sticks, we can see that everything is already set up to slide freely in the correct order.

So, all that’s left to do is to untangle the warp ends so that they neatly flow from the warp cross.

Remember, the warps only appear to cross over each other in the “warp cross” if you view it from the side. (Like you did when you were winding it on your warping board.)

The actual definition of the warp cross is the place where the warp crosses from being on top of one lease stick to being on the bottom of the other one.

#learning to weave #weaving advice #weaving #dressing the loom #sleying the reed #warp cross #loom #hand weaving #handwoven #topology #knot theory #weaving theory #reference #blatantescapism

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*trying to socialize* so do you guys want to hear how i'd kill you

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Continue✨ Keep going✨

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Is anyone going to the Ontario Handspinning Seminar this June?

Registration is closing soon!

#this is your reminder to sign up for things now before spots all fill up! #could be that I end up going since it is sorta nearish enough to drive to if my body allows for it #might be cool to see some crafty tumblr peeps out in the wild #hand spinning #ontario hand spinning seminar 2024 #craftblr