Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@rmordecai Thank you!

@Kymberly I like the way you combined the vertical and horizontal twill stripes.

I finished my scarf! I had previously made a scarf as a gift that I liked so much that I decided to make a narrower men's version for myself. I've attached pictures of both for comparison.

This weave was pretty loose to get the pattern I wanted. As a result I had to be very careful with it off the loom, and also fix a few picks that were out of place.

I ended up washing this in hot water and agitating it quite a bit, because I wanted it to full and shrink a bit into its final form. #weaving

@whack So very frustrating :( I'm sorry.

@shawnp0wers Basically I set 0, 10, 20, and 30C as mental guideposts with their relative Fahrenheit equivalents and use them as reference points for readings between the posts.

@shawnp0wers That is exactly why I set my weather app to Celsius. I'm slowly (I've been doing this for over a year) developing an intuitive sense for it. I still don't think in Celsius, but I'm having to switch back to Fahrenheit to understand temperatures less.

@shawnp0wers Lately I've been trying to immerse myself in metric (have weather reports default to it, use it for measurements/temps when brewing beer) so that I can develop a better intuitive sense of it.

Many of my coworkers are not in the US so I try to share measurements in metric when chatting with them to be considerate.

My son is currently learning fraction math in school and I realized the primary practical use for it is dealing with silly Imperial measurements.

@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