I had set up a very simple pvc loom, but a bit more complicated than this, about eight years ago. Of course, I drew three plans last night thinking about it, and then went and looked in the box of stuff in the garage, and slapped this together without having to cut anything or go to town for parts. Currently, waiting for my brain to kick in what I've forgotten - or throw some simple acrylic yarn on there and see what the in-real-time issues are that show themselves. I made a purse on this last time and I know it had a cross-bar of some type.. and it was always falling over with JUST ts on the bottom, so I put some extensions on this one to hold behind the brick. But still - I know this is only 1.0.. maybe even .99, because I didn't even have to cut anything.
(curiosity / techie : the height is a good 36 inches (plus a few, so finished 36 is possible), by a potential 36, more likely a 30 or 24 inch width.. we'll have to see. The bars are now glued in such a way that the top 'u' can be removed, and extended with a coupling and more pipe for greater height, but the bottom cross-bar is glued tight to keep that from slipping and the elbow and T are glued at the top corners, as well)
I would like to try a twill or a herringbone type thing again, and that takes some distance to make it look really nice, but it's also 'tetchy'. I'd like to try multiple coloured warps.
Mark wants to bake today, and make candy.
He made terrariums for propagating begonias with Esme the other day, planted coleus and tomatoes etc etc.. They've been very busy there. Esme bought a new bike with the money I had set aside for her, as her other one was not adult sized and she has grown. She could have bought whatever she wanted I told her - and that is what she wanted. It was on sale, and we had to replace some parts on it right away, and it was a bit fraught and tense, but between the three of us we did get it operational and she learned how to use the new gears and brakes which were different from her old bike. Sometimes when Mark and I are arguing about tools (wrench type and sizes) and methods though, Esme feels like she is caught in the middle... but we got through it, even with my dyslexia that always adds to that.
I made a little distance on the orange weaving although I have no immediate use for it at the moment.
Mark was watching a horror film last night (well, historical vampire thing) and I had just begun this, so I continued working on it so I could look at it and not the screen most of the time. Still, images tried to repeat later when I wanted to sleep - such is a half-photographic memory. But I made a good progress and I love the colours on it - it is almost all black with the red thread on the bottom, and then it will stripe, then be the lighter color on top with the handles - I made a bit larger one a few years ago and use it as a hamper hanging up, but keep forgetting it by the washing machine and then coming upstairs and saying 'oh, the hamper is gone'. A second one won't help that entirely, but it can't hurt, and I do love the stripes.
Loki cat with all his stripes
telling me I can't make the bed because he is so huge and can't move... it's a queen sized bed, and I usually do put all the blankets right in the morning - but with twenty pounds of parked cat, it's a bit difficult.
Charlotte and Minion cat
Languages : Czech, Catalan, Spanish, French,
bit of still very introductory Russian to compare the Cyrillic
spellings with the Czech
I tested into third section with the Spanish on my phone, only in the first section of Catalan (tiene muy poco!) which is in Spanish (so it's really double-duty and fun because of that), and into the middle of the first section of Czech, which I was quite happy with as I didn't remember how much I remembered. Doing the (high level grammar) French and Russian alternatively on the other profile to round out the xp there daily. Sometimes I can do the French all day and that is the best thing - sometimes I only want to do that grammar once and then move onto something simpler. I really appreciated alternating with the Cyrillic alphabet today - it felt like I was using another part of my brain that needed the exercise. I've been considering updating and practicing the Greek again for exactly the same reason, but not quite ready to dive back into Japanese - I feel like that needs more time to percolate through layers and then well back up to be interesting again.
Charlotte snoring loudly and having what seems to be an excellent afternoon nap... We've made four dozen cookies, Esme has put a ring with the hatchet around a tree that we intend to cut down sometime in the coming years, and I've used some pvc glue on half of the joints of the loom and warped up a strap to test it out with. I remember I had made myself a 'nail apron' pocket thing to tie to the bottom rail to hold bits of yarn bobbins that were in use - going to have to find that again, it's in the gardening things likely.
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