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I will reblog everything from here to there

Have a cat picture in the meantime

@diamondot speaking for myself, i just decided to learn it one day a few years ago (i had a viking phase ok) and simply started with it. It's surprisingly easy since all the info is available on the net. Honestly, i don't remember where i started since it has been so long ago and now i just browse pinterest for patterns alone. Google tablet weaving or card weaving (same thing, different names) patterns and some basic explanations and yt vids for how to turn and weave the stuff. Things like

S and Z threading are there for a reason, so mind your card orientation. Start with some easy pattern like simple wave or diamonds above, 6 - 10 cards are good for your first project. Don't lose hope in initial stage. Streching and threading all that yarn can take anything between 20 minutes and 3 hours depending on how big is the pattern and how skilled you are. Since you need some lenghts to secure ends and to turn cards, use about 40 cm more than wished lenght of your final product. Secure lose ends after threading through cards so you won't end with a bundled mess. Streching/knotting them to something is one way. Taping each card threads together or using weights (check pictures below) is another way (good only for shorter stuff though). Cards could be made out of anything as long as they have smooth edges and rounded corners. Cardboard, thicker plastic sheet, literal cards cut into squares with holes punched through them, whatever. These are mine 2 decks, minus cards i am using atm.

When you start weaving and pattern looks like a total mess, try turning cards in opposite directions. It usualy solves the problem (all that forward/backward can be a bit tricky and mirroring motions/patterns/card orientation can be confusing at first seemingly messing all your work even though you are doing everything right technicaly, just in opposite order/direction). Don't lose your hope. I still manage to mess up like first 5cm of every other work i start. It's not an issue as that start usualy gets cut off anyway (the tension is not right for at least first 4 rows, aka 1 full card rotation, until all threads go up and down at least once no matter what you do. Don't sweat it). You don't need any fancy startup either. Historicaly, people used to weave like this and this and this:

I just strech the thing between 2 chairs myself. Door knobs work as well and so does staircase railing. Wherever you have some space. Long hair clips are your friend, especialy when you are done with weaving for the day and you don't want stuff to tangle

GOT MYSELF A NEW TOY!

And have to wait till tomorrow to use it, because only then the weaving cards will come.

That will give me a new thing to do in this crisis.

As a nurse this is going to be tough...

At least I have a wonderful Human at my side, who can take care of the food/cleaning stuff....

A friend of mine ist living alone (also a nurse), we already have a plan to get here here, if she has no way of taking care of her self.

The hospital I am working with made a contract with a near hotel, if workers are to exhausted to get home.

Everything is very terrifying, but I am HELLA grateful for my job. Because I do not have to worry about anything else? Rent, job, money, nothing I have to worry about... And that gives me a sense of security.

Only left to hope, that the governments sanctions are enough to flatten the curve...

Also my apartment has no room long enough to do it like you do it, only where I would be TOTALLY in the way.

S and Z threading switched from center on. White turns forward, grey back

GOT MYSELF A NEW TOY!

And have to wait till tomorrow to use it, because only then the weaving cards will come.

That will give me a new thing to do in this crisis.

As a nurse this is going to be tough...

At least I have a wonderful Human at my side, who can take care of the food/cleaning stuff....

A friend of mine ist living alone (also a nurse), we already have a plan to get here here, if she has no way of taking care of her self.

The hospital I am working with made a contract with a near hotel, if workers are to exhausted to get home.

Everything is very terrifying, but I am HELLA grateful for my job. Because I do not have to worry about anything else? Rent, job, money, nothing I have to worry about... And that gives me a sense of security.

Only left to hope, that the governments sanctions are enough to flatten the curve...

Also my apartment has no room long enough to do it like you do it, only where I would be TOTALLY in the way.

GOT MYSELF A NEW TOY!

And have to wait till tomorrow to use it, because only then the weaving cards will come.

That will give me a new thing to do in this crisis.

As a nurse this is going to be tough...

At least I have a wonderful Human at my side, who can take care of the food/cleaning stuff....

A friend of mine ist living alone (also a nurse), we already have a plan to get here here, if she has no way of taking care of her self.

The hospital I am working with made a contract with a near hotel, if workers are to exhausted to get home.

Everything is very terrifying, but I am HELLA grateful for my job. Because I do not have to worry about anything else? Rent, job, money, nothing I have to worry about... And that gives me a sense of security.

Only left to hope, that the governments sanctions are enough to flatten the curve...