i thought it would be cool to have them connected and hanging around my neck when not in use (you know why) but instead i have made a very effective white noise machine: guys if you want the murmur of a thousand beads gently moving against each other beamed straight into your ears, if you want to feel it reverberate against the fleshy walls of your brain, if you desired for years to hear nothing but the sweet chsshchssshhchchchssh of ceramic against ceramic - this is for you

uh oh

moaned to my friend about not feeling as fit as last year and she looked at me with an expression of mild concern for my cognitive abilities and went .....you sold your loom

cried at work today for the dumbest reason... shirt being crinkly. (not mine)

bye bye loom

thank you for teaching me

un deux trois il a vingt-neuf ans (not quite yet, i am early finishing these for my partners birthday)

things to improve - messy selvages - terrible seams - planning and estimating yarn amounts - planning speed maybe

first time - doubling up the border threads in the warp for stronger selvages - making a spreadsheet with all the info - very helpful, could be neater - using a thinner yarn in the weft for the bits that become the seams. good idea, great idea, a few issues there: edges pulled up even when giving a lot of slack. because of that i only did 3cm of it. which was really not enough for a neat finish and made the seams embarrassingly messy on the back. - using these weights when beaming the warp

i love them.

very happy with the textures these sequences gave me, want to put together a neat reference to file.

okay so. planning and estimating yarn amounts needed when you don't have information on the yarn because you bought offcuts or how to deal with this.

design wise projects like towels are very suited. making several pieces of sth. on one warp means if you run out of weft material you can just. change it. figuring out g/m was trickyyy i got different results from calculating it based on a sample and weighing part of the warp. so i took a conservative average to do my calculations. now that i am finished it turns out i could've maybe squeezed in one more towel. hypothetically it could be interesting to instead map out that range a bit more thoroughly and look at that.

overall planning took much longer than anticipated and weaving was a lot quicker. i'm happy i did this last project on my loom, i think i'm ready to sell her now. knowing it's the right decision doesn't make it less of a heartache though ; _ ;

downloaded fibreworks to play around with and i got happy just seeing the extremely saturated pixel art icon on my desktop but nothing could've prepared me for the flood of nostalgia when i opened it - felt like going back in time and opening magical mspaint as a child 😭

backk on trackk

i got matching pocket knives for my best friend + me and naturally i made little charms for them and now i am filled with the need to bejewel

"i thought there was more yarn left on these"

"ah well i'm sure it will be enough for the project i planned quite carefully otherwise"

the good news is it did motivate me to build out my crude little spreadsheet. i now have the ability to input smaller and smaller numbers of items i plan to weave on that warp and at a glance see how short i must make my warp to not exceed the amount of yarn i actually have. if i were more skilled this could be calculated automatically but as it is i have the pleasure of chipping away at my plans click by click. delightful.

last page of the sketchbook i started drawing in a year ago. i'm happy. he's making otherwordly music i can hear it!

in hindsight i think i stopped because i came to know what i was doing a little too well. wasn't surprising myself anymore which meant it became boring. and i used to be pretty hard on myself about this because i always feel like i quit things when i start to get better, just before it gets interesting and if i could just stick with it a bit longer etcetc

but do you know. i don't regret that i (mostly) stopped drawing and learned weaving&spinning&tc for a few years. i'm pretty pleased about that actually.

replaced the label on these pants i bought secondhand, but imagine what could be done if i got fabric paint or access to screenprinting (!!!)

so many possibilities...

math

spent all day trying to puzzle out a weaving question and relearned many interesting things about permutation and combination and i think i finally drew the possibility tree that got me to understand why the results are what the results are. math.

feeling happy, stupid, smart and like i need a walk and a shower maybe but i'm putting it here because i'm bound to forget again sometime

if you have e.g. four possible ways of treadling (and sinking your shafts in a way both you and your loom prefer: in twos) how many unique sequences can you make?

the answer is 3! = 6

why? because the sequence is repeated it doesn't matter which treadle you start with. so if you pick one as a starting point and go through all of the different possibilities with that starting point this works out to be 3! = 3x2x1 = 6

because the sequence is what matters, the three remaining starting points will simply end up being repetitions of one of those six sequences.

thanks to the 8 hour detour i now also know what happens when i pick 4 out of 6 possible treadling options and repeat those WOW

actually 6 options, i choose 6 = 5! = 120 6 options, i choose 4 = 15 treadle combos of 4 and as learned before, each of these have 3! possible sequences so 15x6 = 90 possibilities - not that much of a difference to using all 6 :D