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 ; _ ;
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Hey, I was wondering how you were able to write captions next to your f/o pictures on your carrd? :Oc it looks really nice!
thank u!! my carrd is jerry-rigged beyond belief but shh thats ok <3 ill explain it as best i can!
the main container is four columns!
the first column has a gallery in it with the doctor, master, azi+crow, and campbell's icons!
the second column is where the captions are! its all one textbox with everyones name/status/tags
(ignore my spellchecker roasting me)
(same thing with the other half!)
this is the little page that splits up the container btw! it was way too hard to get 100% even but thats ok !
other settings if you like specifics:
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been hesitating to post this bc i usually try to be super chill and upbeat, but im also trying to be more genuine, so here it is i guess (im doing okay, dont worry)
this probably warrants a trigger warning even tho nothing ever really happened :/
i´d like to thank from the bottom of my heart the friends ive made on this silly little site, i may be a almost a stranger to some of you, im not the greatest at keeping contact with anyone, but if i call you a friend its because you have very special a place in my heart <3<3<3
when i first made tumblr i was really struggling, it felt almost impossible to see anything lovable in myself, if it were up to my whims back then, i wouldve made myself poof out of existence, leave no trace behind. "Goodbye to that worthless piece of trash, everythings so much better without her"
it wasn´t that there was anything wrong at home, my family´s always been nothing but loving and caring to me, but i just struggled to understand *why* that was, i wasn´t contributing financially, functionally, nor did i excell at absolutely anything (looking back, i didn´t have to, i was literally 14) , everything id ever been remotely good at i knew someone who was better than me by a long shot. i didn´t have any irl friends, i had my cousins, but being family it felt a little like they were conditioned and obligated to love me because we were family
i felt alone despite being surrounded by people who loved me, i´d grown too used to it to recognize it as genuine love, so meeting you guys really helped me know that hey! maybe people arent just nice to me because they feel obligated to be! you guys inadvertedly gave me the support i needed to continue living life! And for that im endlessly grateful for <3
i can recall several times, when i was beating myself up over the simplest of mistakes, i genuinely didn´t want to exist if i wasn´t perfect, but when my spiraling got too bad and i´d even start to think of how i´d explain to yall that i´d finally given up on living, i´d start bawling my eyes out, beause I couldn't do that to yall, I still had messages to reply to, friends to wish happy birthday to... i would be devastated if any of you guys left and i couldn´t do anything to help you
so i made myself stick around, to hold on to whatever i could even if it consisted of numbing myself to the point of it being unhealthy. and ive lost years trying to get a grip and snap back to reality, but i made it! im happy these days, and i know no matter what happens im glad im still alive. And hey, maybe i´ll start digging myself into a pit again eventually, this post has been sitting in my drafts a couple weeks and in that time ive had some less than ideal days where i felt myself slipping into that old, sad, lonely, self deprecating mentality, but the difference between back then and now is that now i know i made it out of there once, and i know what´s real because ive already recognized it before, my family isnt lying to me when they say they love me, my fiends arent lying to me when they say they care about me, the only one whos lying to me is myself, saying im not worth any of that.
so i´ll say it again, thank you friends, for existing and being there, for being my lifeline and not letting me go off the deep end, and acting as band aids for my emotional self-inflicted wounds, i´m not sure how i can ever pay you back, i´m here if you ever need me, i love you, please take care <3
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