Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@Wildbill Not to mention the Darmok TNG episode which is essentially about communicating purely via memes.

"The man lusts after attractive female, his partner, disgusted"
"The girl, smiling in front of burning building"
"This is fine"

@wendynather For our org the line would be security design decisions that would remove control from our customers and put it only in our (the vendor's) hands. Even if we manage security for our customers for ease of use, they must be able to "take the wheel" and drive any time they want to.

Don Quixote is hundreds of years old, but the story of a man who becomes so immersed in media that he can no longer distiguish fantasy from reality, and is aided by people who indulge the fantasy while saving him from himself, seems so very modern.

@aparrish Here it is in action for my current project. My beater bar has a metal weight at the bottom that works as an attachment point.

@aparrish I also keep a little Field Notes notebook to track each of my weaving projects!

During the actual weaving I've started attaching a piece of paper to my loom with magnets and then instead of checking things off with a pen, sliding a small magnet over to the next section after one is complete. I found it's a bit less disruptive than bringing out a pen.

@josh I am so very sorry Josh. What a difficult time :(

@iammo I do a bit of both although I am much more experienced as a weaver (if one year experience counts for anything) and only started flatbed machine knitting this month.

Fixed! I had to undo all of my weaving and white header, and then I untied the left warp bundle and removed the floating selvedge and then unthreaded the leftmost thread from its heddle turning it into a floating selvedge. Then I retied that bundle to the beam and started over and caught up to where I was. That's enough for the night. #weaving

Spot the threading mistake! It turns out there is one extra thread on the left than the right. That will drive me crazy so I will be removing all the picks and the hemstitching at the bottom and remove a warp thread.

@CuriousMe@mastodon.nz Thank you! It was free from Craigslist!

Here we go again. I liked the last scarf I made for a gift so much I'm weaving a narrower men's version for myself. #weaving

@firdarrig If you could have only one reed, in my opinion you got the ideal one.

My floor loom came with a 6, 8, 10 and 12. Maybe it's just the type of projects I pick, but I almost exclusively use my 12-dent reed. I've used my 10-dent reed a couple times, but never used the other ones (and anyway a 12 dent reed becomes a 6 dent reed if you skip every other slot).

I bet most of those projects could adapt to 12-dent with finer yarn choices.

@firdarrig Rigid heddle or floor/table loom?

@AugustusMorning I wash the brush out and shake it out before I put it back in the bottom. If you mean the top, I won't know for a year or so when I use up this soap I guess. I try to leave suds on the soap itself as it just becomes more soap I can lather next time.

@McGrathKnits That does make sense. I guess I just need to find a hat pattern that does this so I have a sense of where one would start decreasing, and how many ending rows you would want, ideally that also considers the limitations of flatbed machines compared to circular knitting.

@JoanESheldon Thank you!

Fourth time's the charm! I figured out the right number of stitches per row, and overall rows to make a hat that fits the way I like. I still need to learn more about better ways to reduce stitches so it bunches up less at the top. Still, overall this was a good project to learn machine knitting with. #knitting #machineknitting

@NebbyBeulah A lot of my yarn either came with my free loom, my free knitting machine, or from an estate sale where I bought cones of yarn by the garbage bag.