#weft

Because I’m pathologically incapable of sticking to one thing, my first weaving on my home floor loom!

Either way, I hope you have a nice day today and a great week ahead of you!

Hello!! I first must say I am incredibly chuffed by this. So of course I would love to talk about him!!

Gabe Waters is the main npc of a mini ttrpg campaign I'm running! Well. One of three major npcs. Depending on how you measure its either my first or second campaign I've run, so I'm extraordinarily excited about it all. Gabe posting if you will.

Gabe Waters as a character is the type of person who is always happy. For the most part this is genuine. He enjoys being light/humorous and finds so much joy in everything. But also, you know, very few people on this planet never have bad days. As much as Gabe is nearly a human embodiment of the 😃 emoji, he is also an expert at weaseling his way out of talking about himself.

Anyway the real part comes into the fact that the campaign is a horror themed campaign! I'm using the Liminal Horror system with the Layers of Unreality voidcrawl generator, which is a lot of proper nouns to say its sort of the backrooms, with a bit more flavor. Most of the campaign takes place with the party searching for their friend, Gabe, in a place called the Skein.

The Skein is, somewhat, a ttrpg-ized backrooms. It is a place outside of space. It is a place that, though it appears like the real world at first, slowly twists into a well, warped version of reality. It is supposed to be deeply horrific in its incoherence, and of course, its pulling of various themes and tropes of various horror media (dolls/mannequins, doppelgangers, meat, the uncanny).

It however, very importantly, isn't inherently evil or malicious. Its two creators/children/gaurdians, Warp and Weft, are inhuman, odd, and deeply fascinated with the weird. Unfortunately, it has been plagued with something called the Burn. Its a destructive force that seeks to eat at and "burn" the ecosystem of the Skein.

Gabe, for his part, has been in the Skein before. Frequently even. He stumbled into it nearly 5 years before the main story takes place. His experience with the Burn left him with an uncanny, deep matte black mark cutting across his right arm and chest. It also gave him a deep fascination with the Skein, and eventually he ends up becoming very very good friends with Warp. Despite his initial injury and repeated visits, he hasn't told anyone of the Skein.

Anyway. Uh. I hope that all got across him (and my campaign) at least a little bit. He is someone who seems far more candid than he is. He isn't tragic so much as he is blindingly insistent on not involving other people in his problems if he doesn't have to. He is also the biggest fan of kaomoji. ( ≧∀≦)ノ

I've learnt a new craft

Its called Sprang, a scandinavian word for a craft that could well date back before the neolithic based on fabric scraps found, so ive heard. Its also known as knotless netting.

Heres the wiki if youre interested:

I have made a little bag, and a blue thing (as yet indeterminiate end product) and lastly a glove made from my handspun wool!

The fabric sprang makes is very elastic, there are only warp threads, no weft, and its made by twisting the threads across each other, often described as being like a chainlink fence.

Because the threads are twisted, the fabric actually grows from both ends in to the middle! The two halves are mirrors of each other (mistakes end up duplicated too), and its finished off with a bind across the middle to stop it unravelling. Im crocheting across, but you could sew it too.

The elasticity in the fabric means its great for bags and garments, there are some fantastic examples of tunics, pants, hairnets, and even dresses made this way.

Im enjoying it far more than weaving at the moment, and cant wait to make some more gloves and experiment with other "stitches".