Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@jorge I'm really excited to see all this progress! You are living in the future.

@landrew @hackaday You are most welcome! I'm so pleased you enjoyed it.

@liaizon Thank you! I wove it on a vintage four-harness floor loom. Unbranded, but I believe it is from the 1960s.

@shawnp0wers That's why I get my media advice from Burger King: they let me have it my way.

For Easter dinner we will be wiping our mouths with overshot napkins I wove last year. I didn't realize until after I wove them that the elongated wheels (due to fabric weft matching warp in thickness) look like a row of Easter eggs.

#weaving #easter

@BadgerBadgerBadger I wrote down the full proccess on my site step by step so you can use my software! https://kylerank.in/tempus_nectit/

I almost forgot to change the yarn color in my knitting clock for today! I had planned to do it before bed, but first thing in the morning works as a backup.

#knitting #easter

@ljs It's true, most other car companies are aspiring to catch up to the smartphoneification of their cars, where Tesla still has quite a lead.

Among the list of reasons modern cars are unappealing to me: in addition to uploading location data, they also sometimes have cameras that upload video to the vendor. In this case employees at Tesla found the juiciest videos and shared them internally:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

#privacy

My weaving and other projects are put on hold for a bit, but it's for a good reason! After completing this first self-published book (which I hope to launch in the coming weeks), I've been (re)bitten by the writing bug.

I want to ride this wave of writing productivity so my off-work time and weekends will be devoted to writing a brand new book! I'll share more once I get a bit further in the process, but the outline is already done and I'm ready to start writing.

#writing #SideHustle

@apples_and_pears @hackaday I am super excited.

Neat! My Tempus Nectit knitting machine clock project was featured on @hackaday !

https://hackaday.com/2023/04/05/tempus-nectit-a-diy-knitting-clock-with-instructions/

@FanCityKnits Yes that is exactly the technique!

@FanCityKnits The one thing to consider when weaving thin yarn like that on a rigid heddle (or really any loom) is to ensure you have a fine enough reed (heddle in your case), likely 12 dent or smaller, do the ruler test with the yarn to see what you need. Otherwise with a larger reed you risk having a weft-faced fabric, and I suspect you want to highlight the warp. Using a finer weft will help with that.

@FanCityKnits I think that could work well, especially if the bands repeat at relatively similar distances.

There is a project/technique in Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom called "Palindrome Skeins" where the skein is looped so that the color repeats show up in bands together. Then it is all warped according to those bands.

@Kymberly During my first attempt at overshot weaving, I learned just how much more it wants to draw in compared to other techniques, which combined with my poorer technique, meant abrasion on the edge of the warp.

Before then I was intimidated about breaking warp threads. That project I got to practice replacing warp threads at least a dozen times. So all that to say, if you get to that place and need help, ask away!

Some might find it interesting that all of the work to turn a bunch of disparate articles into a properly-formatted book, from the additional writing and formatting work (VIM + LaTeX plugin), digital page proof review (Evince), LaTeX research and integration with the self-publishing platform (Firefox), cover photo tweaks (GIMP), happened not only with FOSS tools, but all on my personal computer, which happens to be a Librem 5 phone attached to a lapdock.

#Librem5 #lapdock #convergence #foss