Band weaving what else, and comic relief

I woke this morning thinking it's June, so white rabbits, and I get to thread a heddle, wheee. Takes all sorts.

And I did thread the heddle. But first I had to measure and count heddle sizes. They don't come marked with the ends per inch, EPI, nor the number of threads they'll hold.

So I finally got them all out and measured and counted and marked. This will save a lot of fumbling and cursing. I already know the frame loom sizing, but the others tend to get forgotten.

Then I picked the heddle that would work best, threaded it and mounted it on the narrow loom.

Then I studied the krokbragd pattern and made notes. Then I worked a bit of the band. Then I realized I didn't understand the color sequence. That's a whole other thing to keep in mind while navigating the three weaving sequences. Then I unwove.

Then I made more notes.  

Then I realized I need to know the line total for the pattern repeat, so made more calculations and notes 

And I'm about here.

There's such a pleasure in translating the physical weaving into ways I can understand and do it. The process is engrossing.  I don't worry so much about the product.

Then, as I was walking home,  beautiful day for walking and I'm so happy I can walk without pain, though a bit more wobbly than I used to be, I saw Gary's friend running down the path from my house. 

She came dashing at me and said, I ran into your house, wrong house! We all screamed laughing because this has happened so many times, neighbors, relatives, total strangers. So many people have parked,  then marched unerringly up the wrong path and burst into my house.

I've had quite a few encounters, reading or knitting peacefully on the sofa and suddenly there's someone in front of me clearly wondering what I'm doing here? Why is the house all different? Who are you anyway?

It's hard to get lonely when people keep showing up in the living room. Who says you have to get out to meet people? I can do it without moving.

They're all nice, quite flustered at the mistake and not sure how to handle my "Can I help you?"

Then V. and Gary left for a week in Florida. Another relative, soon to be the next door tenant, is holding the fort.  That will be peaceful.

Then later an unboxing 

My clamps to hold the frame loom, costing more than the loom, but useful for many purposes. The qr code takes you to a place to download printable labels. I don't have any need, but I don't see why you can't try it.

I was about to recycle the box when I realized it's very nice corrugated cardboard, useful to make little looms and other fancy stuff. 

The Woolery loves me -- they've sold me heddles, the lucet and now these clamps. I like the way they work and their well designed website. This matters.

Lovely day everyone! I hope you're blessed with comic neighbors, they're the best.

Next best is an Ayelet Waldman

I love her engaging, miss nothing writing, and this novel stretches over years in a Maine community with Manhattan and Oxford and Europe and Cambodia thrown in. Sorrow, parties, drama, fights of all kinds, talent and the lack of it, Maine steadfastness, it's a lot.

I do all the things so you don't have to!

Pride Month!

I'll reclaim this and clean it up if it's the last thing I do.

Happy Earth Day! Gentle rain here, perfect

 

This evening I'm at another Stand up for Science online event, this time to celebrate our earth. 

I think you can still sign up. Go to standupforscience.net and find the simple registration form.  Show up! 8pm Eastern time. I'm posting early to give you the chance.

The loom is on its way. I keep getting excited updates -- now in NJ! Too funny.  But yes, I'm ready. 

Meanwhile I slept till 9:30 this morning, unheard of, but all's well, and I've started another Tudor history, this time a fictional account but well researched, of Thomas Cromwell. 

Happy Earth Day, everyone, each one do our bit where we are, following Jane Goodall's advice. Also go, Virginia!

Now that Orban is gone, Hungary has released massive funding to Ukraine that he had blocked.

Interesting day, high and low tech

I was lugging a couple of bags of potting soil through the house this morning, to fill more pots and decided I'd better take a walk immediately to avoid back issues, and it seems to have worked.  I'm quite ahead of time with the pots ready for seed, as you see

Last night, one thing and another, online meetings interrupted by Gary with plant questions, I went to bed forgetting the patio door was wide open. I found out this morning when I noticed the furnace running..

Anyway my knitting friend who originally gave me the cotton bolls from which I extracted the seeds now wants to reserve one of my seedlings because hers aren't doing well. So that will happen when she says, because she's a master gardener and knows this stuff 😉

I heard the #$#$ in the White House had been manipulating the stock market again, as well as bombing, so I thought I'd check my retirement account such as it is. Hm. 

I decided if I needed anything now's a good time, since my stocks are up. No, I don't sell at the top of the market, but I can afford to use a bit of my divi for fun. Thereby pulling something good out of evil doings.

Sooo I thought instead of mulling about a narrow band loom, why not just get one and make bandweaving more portable than back strap method.

So this is on its way 

They market it as a beginner loom, no idea why since bandweaving isn't exactly beginning weaving, but I think it will work for me.

And I'd been having all kinds of problems with one of my tablets, dropping out of online meetings, showing no Wi-Fi even though connected when the other devices were online, etc, very puzzling despite all workarounds including the nuclear clear everything off the browser and start over. But it still balked, and it's losing battery faster. I think it's just worn out, aren't we all.

So while I was on a shopping roll, I decided on this 

Not expensive, marked down, probably because a newer shinier one is coming in, and in blue. For $20 more you can have it in grey. Make it make sense. 

I found it as "best value" on a couple of consumer report sites, so okay.  I won't agonize over it. It's replacing one that's done fine for several years, and was also low-cost. 

And I'm getting ready to ship out various art works to friends here and there, part of my deaccessioning. Posh art term for winnowing. I had to order package tape, but I can use the cardboard cases the potting soil came in, cut down, as protective stiff inserts for the packages. Waste not etc.

Oh, and the shoelaces are in action, with gold aglets.

Acrylic metallic gold paint. Works a treat.

Happy day everyone, I'm hoping for a quiet evening to read my current mystery. Living in hope. 

Sez Ted and Big Ursy and Pony and Ursula