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Weaving on youtube: boring, all white or neutral colours, roving weight yarn if you're lucky.
Weaving on pinterest: SO MANY BRIGHT COLOURS! DIFFERENT WEIGHTS OF YARN! Not boring at all!
I realise these are GROSS over-simplifications, but it's a bit how I feel sometimes. Also it didn't help that the people whose weaving videos I watched were - I don't want to say "generic crafters", because it feels very mean, and yet that's what they do. They rarely spend more than one or two videos on whatever craft they're trying, and their channel contains multitudes. So of course they weren't really going to branch out and try weirder stuff. Also the one channel I watched a lot of is more a lifestyle channel, and her focus is mostly on decorating, so she's going to go with what's fashionable in that, and that is, of course, whites and neutrals.
Not that there is anything wrong with liking whites and neutrals, because there isn't. I just like colours, y'all.
Anyway, after months of not doing any, I am back on a weaving thing in part because my friend Sarah bought herself a loom so she could weave yarn she can no longer knit with. Obviously, I am mildly jealous, as I don't really have room for a loom at the moment. I don't really think I want one, at least not at the moment, since I'm not that into it anyway. (Though looms are not as expensive as I thought! I can get one similar to Sarah's for around £120 which seems cheap to me! I thought I'd be looking at at least £500, but I guess it depends what you want it to do as to how much it will cost).
I particularly like weaving where there's a mixture of thicker warp and thinner weft (or, yanno, a whole bunch of what they call art yarn, of which I have some), or really slubby yarn has been used. There are examples in my weaving folder on my pinterest, if you want to see what I'm talking about.
So I'm going to have a go at that, along with everything else I am messing with at the moment - which is dyeing fabric with food items (I just dyed some fabric with coffee and it smells disgusting. I'm not sure how it smells worse than tea dyed stuff, AND YET), and also making weird sewn on doodles with fabric scraps to see how it turns out, and some other bits and bobs as well.
And, not for the first time, I have spent most of this week wishing I'd gone to the textiles lessons at college when I was doing art. I think I didn't because they clashed with something else, and I deemed that thing more important, and also I didn't think I was that interested in it, in spite of my first ever project there being extremely textiles based (it's how I'm familiar with dyeing stuff with tea).
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In other news, I bought the Inscryption soundtrack because it is available on Bandcamp for $4!! and it is an absolute banger.
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And that is all I have to say at the moment, really!
Weaving on pinterest: SO MANY BRIGHT COLOURS! DIFFERENT WEIGHTS OF YARN! Not boring at all!
I realise these are GROSS over-simplifications, but it's a bit how I feel sometimes. Also it didn't help that the people whose weaving videos I watched were - I don't want to say "generic crafters", because it feels very mean, and yet that's what they do. They rarely spend more than one or two videos on whatever craft they're trying, and their channel contains multitudes. So of course they weren't really going to branch out and try weirder stuff. Also the one channel I watched a lot of is more a lifestyle channel, and her focus is mostly on decorating, so she's going to go with what's fashionable in that, and that is, of course, whites and neutrals.
Not that there is anything wrong with liking whites and neutrals, because there isn't. I just like colours, y'all.
Anyway, after months of not doing any, I am back on a weaving thing in part because my friend Sarah bought herself a loom so she could weave yarn she can no longer knit with. Obviously, I am mildly jealous, as I don't really have room for a loom at the moment. I don't really think I want one, at least not at the moment, since I'm not that into it anyway. (Though looms are not as expensive as I thought! I can get one similar to Sarah's for around £120 which seems cheap to me! I thought I'd be looking at at least £500, but I guess it depends what you want it to do as to how much it will cost).
I particularly like weaving where there's a mixture of thicker warp and thinner weft (or, yanno, a whole bunch of what they call art yarn, of which I have some), or really slubby yarn has been used. There are examples in my weaving folder on my pinterest, if you want to see what I'm talking about.
So I'm going to have a go at that, along with everything else I am messing with at the moment - which is dyeing fabric with food items (I just dyed some fabric with coffee and it smells disgusting. I'm not sure how it smells worse than tea dyed stuff, AND YET), and also making weird sewn on doodles with fabric scraps to see how it turns out, and some other bits and bobs as well.
And, not for the first time, I have spent most of this week wishing I'd gone to the textiles lessons at college when I was doing art. I think I didn't because they clashed with something else, and I deemed that thing more important, and also I didn't think I was that interested in it, in spite of my first ever project there being extremely textiles based (it's how I'm familiar with dyeing stuff with tea).
~
In other news, I bought the Inscryption soundtrack because it is available on Bandcamp for $4!! and it is an absolute banger.
~
And that is all I have to say at the moment, really!