Why buy, when for twice the price you could make?

i inherited my grandmother's embroidery stand, took it apart for storage and only realised at the final step of disassembly i should have taken pictures for reference to put it back together whoops

putting it back together has foiled both me and my mother (who is really good at contraptions so that was. kind of a shock).

does anyone have an embroidery stand or experience putting them together that could help me figure out how it goes together?

this is what we have so far. we can't figure out how to attach the actual frame which holds the fabric (not pictured for privacy reasons but happy to share in dms if it would help). we're pretty sure we're mostly there: the top of the frame is secured under the block at the top, there's space for it. but there's nothing for the frame to rest on at the bottom, except maybe those two arms closest to the front, but they aren't stable and the frame doesn't fit on them comfortably. any advice welcome, and please share if you can for reach!

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the proportions on the header band have improved, but I think I maybe should have doubled the weft threads for the warp.

I started weaving the spear, penelope, and the right border via double-weave with the intent to leave the remaining warp threads unwoven (as they would be on penelope's loom on the pot), but predictably this is giving me tension problems. I either need to increase the loom weights or just weave the black layer and leave the orange warp threads unwoven, and then switch colors once I get to the heddle bars in the drawing, with the black warp threads floating on top. (I guess weft-faced tapestry would be a third option, if I add a ton more tension.)

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I used leftovers from various pants I've made. As you can see, the purple I used for the head is the same as the purple of the pants I'm wearing in the photo. This green linen I got from Metro Textiles turned out to be absolutely awful quality so I've been looking for something to do with it and this is fine for now. It's a fun silly little thing that I don't plan on using regularly, unlike the pants I made out of it that disintegrated at the seams within 6 months of sewing them. Still pissed about that.

Look at this buttonhole I stitched where the drawstring exits the fish!! Isn't it beautiful?! I wanted to stitch the seam allowance down a little bit here and ended up doing buttonhole stitch around the edges of the opening just to make it nice.

Okay now I am going to go back to hiding from the light, though. Because while my mood is way better thanks to fish bag I do still feel like, really unwell and awful on a physical level.

Universe: lads lads lads this clumsy newbie who's scared of her sewing machine is trying to construct a 3D shape by sewing straight slippery little bits of lycra to curved slippery little bits of lycra. She's using the 'I dunno, the only one I could find that looked about normal' foot. The cat thinks he's helping. It's gonna be hilarious.

I made a hat for running and swimming in the sun. There's a lot wrong with it but it fits and it's got dinosaurs on. I used the correct needles for the type and density of fabric and only broke two of them.

The site sits near Søften in eastern Jutland, about 10 kilometers north of modern Aarhus. Excavations by the Moesgaard Museum show a planned production area instead of a normal farming village. The settlement covered at least 100,000 square meters. Most of the work focused on making textiles, though other forms of handwork also took place there.

1. Standing Around and Guarding Stuff in Space

2. Standing Around and Guarding Equipment in Space (Thinking About How You Are Also Equipment )

3. Having an Existential Crisis and Staring at a Wall

4. Standing Around and Guarding Stuff in Space

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I had a lot of fun with this project and I also learned a lot along the way. Looking at the finished blanket, I can see how different my tension was for squares by how much they puff up after the seaming! This picture is after washing and drying, because first off, a blanket made over a year and a bit probably has a bunch of dirt on it and second, I don't want there to be any surprises if I tell the parents to toss it in the washer and dryer. I also lightly ironed but that didn't really stop the puffing.

I am extremely pleased with the design I chose for this - there were many variations in the running (and I had a little poll for it as well, here and on my discord) and in the end I went with a fun asymmetrical pattern that still had a lot of orderly lines to make me happy.

Also cannot believe that the colour lines could turn out this crisp - like I am shocked at the effect when they're arranged like this.

And now that I've made this, I do want to make something else with half square triangle crochet but not with cotton again because this was a pain to seam and it definitely has less stretch than wool would. Before this, I had bought yarn to make a cardigan from half square triangles and maybe I make that or I try for something else. We'll see.

This is what the backside looks like! the squares are joined with a slip stitch join through the back loops of the squares. It also worked out that there were 11 seams horizontally and vertically and I used 11 colours on this so I just used a different colour per seam and then did a final slip stitch edge all the way around.

lil sneak peak of my test knit now that i am on to the body ⫘⫘⫘