Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

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.

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.

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

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

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

I put the knitting machine away when tidying up the other day, and I now have the supplies to either start work on the fourth (and final?) knitted hat, OR I could weave myself a scarf based on my last black scarf pattern. Since everything is put away it is equally convenient to start either project.

Now I have to decide, knitting or weaving? #knitting #machineknitting #weaving

Third hat is (almost) the charm! The fit around my head is just about perfect this time. The hat is slightly too long but other than that and a little sloppiness in parts of the seam I am pretty happy with it.

I am still going to make a fourth hat that is closer to perfect though. #knitting #machineknitting

Yesterday I learned that there is apparently a motorized attachment (knitking kg-93) for my knitting machine that automates most of the process. You set it up, tell it the number of rows, and it knits back and forth (slowly) leaving you with your knitted fabric. https://youtube.com/watch?v=0ejrLRcvYkE #knitting #machineknitting

I'm becoming quite a fan of @great78@mastodon.archive.org here. Part of my morning routine is now queuing up all of the records that were posted while I was asleep and listen to them with my morning coffee.

It would be really cool if there were some sort of podcast-like RSS feed I could subscribe to and automatically pull down the audio posted each day using my podcast application. Because of how these posts are linked, turning the Mastodon feed into an RSS feed doesn't solve it.

For some people, attention is a drug (and online, it can be profitable too). If an attention addict can't get positive attention they'll settle for negative attention. As they say, "There's no such thing as bad publicity."

Maybe I'm just a contrarian, but while everyone else stares angrily at the loud motorcycle driving down the street blaring horrible music, my instinct is to ignore them and starve them of the negative attention they are demanding.

I finished knitting my (adult-sized) hat this weekend. I ran out of yarn before the end so I starting reducing rows early. The result is that the hat sits high on my head. But I can take everything I learned from this hat and apply it to the next one to make one that fits me perfectly. #knitting #machineknitting

It turns out this wasn't really my fault! After trying again with the proper sized yarn I've determined the #knitting pattern is incorrect. Other hat patterns for this type of knitting machine call for about double the stitches per row and about double the rows.

I learned a lot through this painful process though. I understand enough about how this works that I'm going to try to adapt a different pattern that has proper measurements to the style of hat I want. #knitting #machineknitting

I have knitted a hat! ...for a baby?
So I suspected this might happen because the pattern called for thicker yarn than I chose to use, with fewer stitches/inch. I wanted to follow the instructions anyway just so I understood the process and outcome before I started making modifications. While I really like this wool for a hat I'd wear, I do think it's a bit too fine for my first knitting project. #knitting #machineknitting