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Carla Burke wrote:Wow! Loads of work has gone into these. I can't wait to get my hands on some!

I want both decks as well and have now purchased 4 decks of the original!

My fervent hope is that enough folks will express interest for these to be put into production and we can all get secondary decks! Then games of Go Fish can be played by calls for the subject rather than # and suit!

Christopher Weeks wrote:I want to update this thread with a new picture.

I'm also trying to color-sort (based on overall tonal feel, which is tricky sometimes when yarns with short color-changes have been used) and make interesting gradients. I'm not quite sure how I want to arrange things, but I think I'm going to pursue the up-thread suggestion and put together a poncho of sorts.

(I need a bigger dining table!)

Your dining table is fine. When you've gotten these all sorted and joined, repeat the process then join those and you have a big blanket. Or leave them separate and have curtains with a bit more sewing.

Thanks Thom. I've considered that method because I want to try the 3 sisters at least once in my life!  To break up this clay to attempt an experimental patch of bio drilling and tilling plants, I used a sheet vinyl knife. I made many passes to break up that soil. I didn't get deep enough really for the radish seeds but there were radish sprouts verifiable. I used alfalfa, daikon radish, flax and crimson clover.  There were 4 or 5 short rows. Then in harshest permies fashion, it only got 1 watering by hand. I left them to the elements. I saw sprouts of most but it was dry and they failed.

I haven't made any progress since because I've been focused on my rabbits and getting space built for chickens to be added this year. I'll get around to a catch up post sometime. Bottom line here, I believe I will have to bring in a ton of materials to improve what I can, where I can, and while I have the energy and health to get my infrastructure in place. All while also keeping up on the maintenance aspect of keeping land.

And today we lost Robert Redford.  How long before all my youth famous are gone? The ones I expect to hit me hard are Elton John, Sting and Phil Collins. Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott.

Mary - I just need to find free for the hauling materials. I don't know many locals, but the word is out that I'm in the market to relieve someone of a mountian of manure, hay/straw, etc.  I do mow my fallen leaves in a few areas that we keep clear, but I don't go down to the next bench to rake them off the forest floor. I've also put raked leaves into a trash can and used my weed whacker to pulverize them for immediate addition to my raised beds that will sleep until spring.
I think if I can create an inch of something resembling soil I might be able to plant cover crop seeds to grow and maybe they can start breaking up the top inch or two. Until I can get 4-6 inches of breakup, I really don't think I can grow much.

Christopher Weeks wrote:This just popped up in my feed elsewhere and I guess now I'm using this thread a little like a Pinterest board (though I never got the hang of that place). I suppose this is actually just printed, but still...

Hi Christopher!  Your shirt idea would use a 2x2 loom.

I belong to a Facebook group for pin loom weaving support. Folks there are fantastically supportive, many with great ideas how to achieve all sorts of things. There are weave-alongs and challenges.

A temperature blanket might be a good project for you.  And there's a sister page at FB for that as well.

I'd suggest practice your joins to find what you'd like best before starting joins on a wearable.  I tend to whip stitch with right sides facing each other, and picking up loops and the flats between.  I don't knit but do crochet and many will go around each piece like that before joining or join and encircle the whole thing.

A simple project is 3 squares in line into a circle then cinched and stuffed. To finish, thread a yarn and go through the top and bottom (cinched part) to make the pumpkin ridges. I've done a few and have a few new ones in progress now.

I've made a new post on my thread about my journey. Beware! Most find this pin loom weaving quite addictive.  And there are different spacing (sett) on the pins to understand.  I prefer the Zoom Loom 3-pin set up, and many have that. But there's also equidistant spacing, and looms that are sett wider for heavier yarns and sett finer for the thinner yarns. Think real wool/alpaca 2-ply.

Bottom line is to have fun and explore.

The promised photos. I've discovered chenille yarns and purchased several skipper looms to work them. Unfortunately the man who makes the skipper looms has closed up shop and there are few out there still available.

I watch news shows mostly for weather forecasts. Or if there's been a weather event to know what to expect. As nearly all the other news is bad, terrible,  or bordering on insane, I skip most of it most of the time. Scrolling Facebook gets me a few headliners. And I have a couple of emailed headliners. I scan those and delete before reading.  Mostly news-free has eased my sense of doom coming.

My how time flies when you're having fun! Is that what that was? FUN?
Pack, sell, rent and drive a big moving truck for a headlong, 4 day exodus away from the west coast to where I should have been all along! Almost Heaven. We spent the first 4 months working towards being able to get through our first winter using only wood or electricity to heat in overnight temps down into the single digits. I'm sure I'll make a woven temperature blanket for perhaps our first full year here.

On arrival everyone helped unload the moving truck and get us settled for the day. We burned through the money getting plumbing in, running water, a flushing toilet. We cooked on a single electric hot plate and an electric kettle for hot water to wash anything with and poured water from bottles for the first 2 weeks. It was almost glamping! But I sidetrack myself...

I've not done much weaving since we left Southern California's rat race. I did small stars for everyone for Xmas. 1 loom, 7 colors of yarn. I've been occupied working off the property to pay the bills until we could claim (early) retirement and not have to worry about covering the few bills we have.

A mere 28-30 hrs per week kicked my fanny feathers right into almost shape. I was beat at the end of every 7 hour shift and had to drive home, in the dark, on windy and narrow mountainous roads 30 minutes up. I've not quite gotten comfortable with driving in snow. Winter is coming.

I have rabbits to care for. I've been building hugel beds here and there with the rotting wood laying everywhere, the rabbit manure and waste hay, straw, wood ashes, pulverized leaves... I've been busy building raised beds close to the house and planting fruit trees. Hubby has done the plumbing and construction and mechanical stuff. He's cleared land, and learned how to not use a chainsaw.

I'm beginning to get back to my weaving more seriously. I've purchased 4 more pin looms in different sizes and pin spacing (wider for heavier yarns) and am close to completing a large "chubby star" pillow as a gift. I'll add pix soon from my cell. There's over 9k on just my phone!

And in case my style hasn't given you any clues, I'm finding out at retirement age that I am neurodivergent in the most special way. Things that make you go, "Hmmmmm!"

Ryan Burkitt wrote:

Apparently if you get the soil biology right it should break up the clay for you, but I think you’re on the right track with using organic matter. Have you tried hot compost or Johnson Sue?

I've never heard of Johnson Sue.
If I could just get the volume I need to get 1 of the small fields to have good soil... it's going to take awhile with only 4 breeding does (rabbits) working to produce the manure part of this solution.