Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@FizzyDaisies Thank you! I started out a year ago with a 32" Kromski rigid heddle loom and around two months later found a free floor loom on Craigslist.

I recommend a rigid heddle loom to try out the hobby before investing in something bigger. There are a lot of books and large community around rigid heddle weaving and with 3 heddles you have the equivalent of a 4-harness floor loom.

I recently ordered a small package of fabric labels so I could add a simple "Handwoven by Kyle Rankin" label on things I made for others (you can see an example on the wider scarf at the top of this thread).

I'm torn whether I should add the label to something I've made for myself. I mean I already know it was handwoven by me, but perhaps it would be good to add it for posterity decades from now?

Those of you who label your projects, do you label projects you make only for yourself? #weaving

@cafechatnoir Thank you!

@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.