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have a good weekend

neki desu

 

no weaving lots of knitting

burning off silk yarns like a mad woman.not because of style 😄but because i have cones and cones and i can knit without worrying i'm going to run out of yarn. i don't get a tight back knowing i won't run out of yarn in the middle of a project.

have learned some things during this time

• the obvious, that you can't work on 2 looms and 2 k machines at the same time.
• priorities: forget the poorly tensioned warp, concentrate on polishing knitting skills
• its easier to accidentally drop stitches than to unravel
• unravelling is quite a science, if started by the bottom it's a royal pain. one needs to start from the top, aka last rows finished.

proof of concept.

finally getting more comfortable with DAK although there are still things that bother me about the program.

have abandoned japanese youtube instructions for the time being.i think i am progressing a lot more by watching doramas and it's more fun. after all that's how i learned portuguese.

neki desu

 

tension woes

after almost 90 cms. look at those extremely loose threads. 

to keep my tension levels down i have been away from this loom and walking like crazy. 15k+ steps daily. the good news is that i've lost some weight.

 finally have gathered enough courage to cut and re tension.

those 9cms are going to be a pouch, high class silk pouch  ಠ ಠ  

hoping i have enough for the projected scarf.

 going to join the ganbaru💪 club again  because i want to dye it with benibana during the summer and it is extremely slow weaving.

neki desu