Thanks!

Very glad you are still above the dirt. Or at least most of the dirt. As you say, laundry is forever.

Also bodies are stupid and wonderful and annoying and can do and feel so many things. I have so much respect for all I can do and feel through my flesh vessel, but goddamn the maintenance.

My first weaving pattern just got published at Gist!

It’s called “Radiant Gradient” and I wrote it almost a year ago so it’s fantastic to see it out in the world!

www.gistyarn.com/collections/...

photos by Ian Justice, courtesy of Gist Yarn

#weaving

Nonsense! That’s a lovely bit of hand weaving!!

A portion of a weaving draft

Aaaaand I just noticed handweaving puts up their website hero pic rather than the draft, so here is a picture of the draft itself:

Is there a good bluesky ipad client?

Also if you tag with #weaving other folks interested in weaving things can admire your work!

Fun!

A warp on the loom with two shuttles on the new cloth

The cloth from the first photo off the loom, washed and pressed

Thanks!

Also derp I forgot to add the tag #weaving and here is the 8s pattern I made this reduction from:

Handweaving.net Weaving Drafts, Tools, and Documents Archive Weaving archive site with thousands of historic weaving drafts, documents, and tools

Someone on r/weaving asked if it was possible to create a 4s version of my recent shadow weave project, so I made one. Draft on handweaving.net:

handweaving.net/draft-detail...

I never thought I would be free of the pain. It is such a big difference.

Yup. I am working on recovering from spinal surgery. I now have a stick for a neck, but no nerve pain. :-)

Lol those must be your “missing years.”

Hello fellow disabled menopausal woman! Seems like we are living similar lives. <3

I say this as a disabled person who would love to bike, but can’t. The few relatively level paths in my current area (eg paths around small lakes and retention ponds) are so crowded with walkers and small children and leashed dogs that it isn’t safe.

So much of our beautiful country doesn’t have a level mile, though. Cycling in the US is not an activity for the unfit in any city where I have personally resided, and bike paths wouldn’t change that.

Mine had a big yard to be in during the day, but they had to be locked in at night due to predators.

Mood.

White wash and diatomaceous earth were key for us.

We initially were good about scraping off surfaces and replacing the straw in the boxes on the floor at least a couple times a week and hosing out the coop once a month or so, and still got infested.

That was enough to take care of it. We kept a dust bath in the coop, and added the pressure wash/ whitewash/ rake out and re-mulch to our spring and fall cleanup routine. We never had any more problems.

The shelter was two x-pens from our dogs with some roosting poles put through them and a blue tarp bungied on top.

We raked out the yard while the chickens were out of it, and put down fresh mulch.

We went through that.

Evicted the chickens into temporary shelter with a 75% sand 25% diatomaceous earth dust bath. We had an old kitty litter box for a nesting box that we cleaned daily.

Pressure washed the coop, let it dry, then whitewashed the interior with two coats, and let that dry.

All the diatomaceous earth!

Whitewash the world!!

Welcome !!

Oh wow. I love this!

My guess is it has to do with breed standards at the time. “Level topline” is a common requirement in breed standards for farm animals. “Depth of girth” is another, which refers to the circumference just behind the forelegs. And you found reference to the brisket already.

I make my own charts when I want to knit something for which I only have a written pattern. :-)

Nice work!

It’s my favorite thing I have woven to date. :-)

Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me!!

I have always kinda coveted those old irons! I generally love old fiber arts tools

Shadow weave close-up

Shadow weave close-up

Shadow weave project hanging on a fence in the sun

Shadow weave project on the loom

I am finally back after several months away, and have finished the first project off my loom since my surgery! #weaving