Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@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.

@NebbyBeulah At the moment I'm relying on patterns I find online, and I've had mixed results so far. I did find some knitting machine pattern books for sale online (most are from the 1980s and 1990s) and am hoping someone gets me one for Christmas.

When I become more experienced, there are explanations for how to adapt traditional knitting patterns to machine knitting that I hope to be able to use.

@NebbyBeulah Yes although I haven't set it up yet. I just got this machine a couple months ago (free from Craigslist) and I'm still learning how to use it.

@emilyfreeman Welcome!

Now that I set up my knitting machine semi-permanently in my office, the room has become a nice shapshot of my interests, from computers to 3D printing to antique calculators. #knitting #machineknitting #3Dprinting #antiques #calculators #vintagecomputing

@wendynather There are plenty high follower accounts I don't follow because they post and boost so frequently that it would fill up my timeline, so having someone else I do follow boost important posts those accounts make *would* help in my use case.

I just wish Mastodon only showed boosted posts once instead of each time someone new you follow boosts the same post.