#[spins them in a salad spinner]

[ping-ski]

Ding dong! 🔔

Trick or treat!! :3

Sun (as Sebastian solace) and Moon (as a vampire) enters your door!

(Also hey ping!! How ya doing? :3)

uhh how about a treat in the form of fanart because i love this au

(vill hihi!! i'm doin' alright and chilling at home while i still can :3 i hope life is treating you well <3)

[angst-and-fajitas]

More of them from the ol sketchbooks!!

[darcar]

self indulgent witching hours

[delucadarling]

baby's first feed 💕

not that she remembers it c:

(Kira belongs to @crownleys)

[keeps-ache]

chit chat :>

[Tarrit belongs to @euclid-dragon !]

[thegreatindoors]

Late night doodle of my boys <3 I like to think that when they were alive, Sammy and Jack took their days off on the same days so they could sit together and rekindle their love for their work without the stress of work looming over them, improvising new music and lyrics on the fly like they used to. Maybe they don't have jobs in the cycle anymore, but they still get together every once in a while.

[exculis]

and i believe i have found my salad spinner

[drawbudd]

transfemme hunter truthers i am so sorry i ever doubted you i see it now

[the-elevator-twins]

oh wowzerz!! Since you saw Brud, here’s Wenda!1!1

(i) > Another one shows up on the TV screen as you flipped back to the previous channel. There's a small white creature giving the same look. It almost looks like a cat... Maybe?

> "Awww, innit the silliest little fella?"

> "It looks like a Muppet."

> "Neil! That's not a nice thing to say!"

(i) > Your brother seems to think otherwise. Simply shrugging it off. You roll your eyes as you give a small wave.

[junespriince]

BONK BONK

Quick Stop!

little birdflash sketch :P

[originalaccountname]

I think instead of a blender to put the blorbos in you should consider the salad spinner:

pros: choice of hand-powered or electric, still making them go through The Spin™, not reducing them to a sludge

cons: not reducing them to a sludge I guess

[chaszie-zenmal]

im putting ur shapes in a salad spinner and spinning them around really fast

Their fine!!! I think??

[darcar]

FFXIV Write 2024: Prompt 19 - Taken

You don’t even know what you’re missing. 

Pieces of yourself traded away, memories poured into soulstones like pebbles to a riverbed - washed over and forgotten. 

Important things that had made you a different person, now taken by a you that no longer exists. 

And so you’re free. Free from the grief and free from the joy. 

He’ll hate you for it, and you will never know why. The things you took and gave him to carry. 

You don’t even know what you’re missing.

[friend-crow]

Alright, since this is apparently going to be a week of harvesting (and planting) herbs, I'll give you a quick rundown on how I do it.

Cut the herbs. Depending on the herbs you may want to be more or less strategic in where you cut them. Mint and sage you can kind of just hack away at, but do a little research on the herb in question so you know what you're doing.

Wash the herbs. I don't have a lot of pollution going on in my garden, but there's insects and spider webs and such that are best dealt with at this point.

Dry the herbs (part 1) -- this stage is about drying the water you washed them in. I use a salad spinner to get most of it off, then I let them sit in the basket part of the spinner, which I set on my dish drainer until they're dry to the touch.

Tie in bundles to hang.

Put paper bags over them -- ideally the thinner type like a lunch sack, for air flow. This keeps spiders from spinning new webs on your nice clean herbs. Also good for keeping dust from settling, if you're like me and liable to forget about your herbs for a few weeks.

Dry the herbs (part 2) -- this stage is about drying out the water content from inside the herbs for long term storage. Hang your bundles in a cool dry place.

This looks like a lot but it's really pretty simple and easy, especially once you've done it once or twice.

If you're making infusions and such, it's always a good idea to dry your herbs first, as the water content can cause them to go bad faster.

[ineffectualdemon]

Mobei Jun just said that the way to express romantic feelings is to beat them 3 times a day and then Sha Hualing says this:

"My lord, Mobei-Jun brings him everywhere every day without the least bit of discretion—and even brings him to the assembly hall! What is the meaning of this?"

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And he still doesn't get that he's being treated specially? Like he doesn't have anything to do. He could be idling his time away writing and Mobei would be happy

They are basically unofficially married at this point! And Shang Qinghua

Does!

Not!

Get!

It!

And like even Luo Binghe is like "they are married what's you're problem?" In his response:

Luo Binghe was also unconcerned. "You see him every day; are you not used to it yet?"

And then after he gives a 20 minute speech of acting pathetic and clingy and obedient is how you tell a guy that you're hot for him Mobei basically says "so you're saying you like me then" as he presses himself into Mobei's side

WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKING STUPID AIRPLANE

YOU CREATED THE DEMONIC MODE OF COURTING YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT

GOD I LOVE YOU AND I WANT TO SPIN YOU IN A SALAD SPINNER

[crow-crafting]

Hello! I have so many questions. Okay. 1) I want to make a bunch of cotton kitchen towels both for practice and also because I need kitchen towels. This feels like a reasonable beginner project, is that correct? 2) I keep reading that you can do multiple towels on one warp but I’m not seeing how you’re supposed to separate the towels. Is it just cut the thread, roll more, start a new towel? But then how do you start the new towel? 3) when wet finishing something off the loom, the order is definitely sew the ends and then wash right? I don’t see how you could wash before seaming the ends…

Thank you so much for your time! And if you have links to beginner resources I’d really appreciate them!

I am so excited for your weaving journey!

I feel like towels are a great beginner's project. With a rigid heddle, it is mostly sticking with plain weave (also called tabby weave), so you can play a lot with colors and textures with the yarns themself.

I am currently warping up 6 yards to make 5 towels in one warp. The best way that I have found to make multiple projects in one warp is to...

Leave a gap between the projects!

Once you have gotten to the end of your first towel, hem stitch the edge to finish it off. Then, leave a couple inch gap on your warp and start weaving again!

If you like, you can use a waste yarn here to give you a solid edge to beat against.

Screenshot taken from the video Suzie Liles' Fastest Hem Stitch from the channel Eugene Textile Center.

It shows a good idea on the spacing to leave, as well as a good hemstitch to keep the edges all in place before you are done.

The video is below:

For towels especially, I like starting and finishing the last inch or so with a thinner weft (if you have one that coordinates), so you can sew the edges.

Also, it's a good idea to know how long your project it, so you know when to stop! This is doubly true if you are looking to make projects of the same size. Some people use a flexible tape measure and sewing clips, but I use a method with a ribbon and sewing pins. Try a few different ways and see what you like best!

This is an example of my measuring ribbon! I got a few spools from my local big box store (Michael's in this case) for a couple dollars, and they have been a great way to ensure I have consistent items. Any color works, the person I learned this from uses white ribbon. I just have red here because it makes it easy for me to find when it gets buried in my art room.

You are very right in needing to finish your edges before wet finishing.

Most towels, be they commercial or handmade, are hemmed. It gives them a little most structure and longevity. I would consider sewing the raw edge (not the selvage, your woven edge) if you have a way to do so. Even if you don't have a good way to do so, fringes are very cute on towels!

If you do choose to hem, I usually go for .5" hem size. The picture above shows how I usually fold it, so the raw edge is tucked away and less prone to wearing.

With wet finishing for weaving, I am usually a bit mean to my pieces. I use HOT water, dish soap, and agitate the heck out of it. I do my wet finishing in a five gallon bucket, then spin the excess water out with a salad spinner, then hang it over a clothes drying rack.

I am going to work on pulling together a good list of resources I have been using and probably reblog onto this with it.

In the meantime! A good tip for you, that I didn't learn until I was at least 8 projects in, is to use some kind of layer between your yarns in your warp. It helps so much with tension and keeps your yarns from wanting to snarl up with the layer beneath it.

Screenshot taken from the video Rigid Heddle Part 3 - Threading holes and Tying on the Warp from the channel Margery Erickson.

Like this! The weaver here is using cardboard, and gives a very good demonstration on winding on in the video below. The actual winding starts around the 10:30 mark.

I will be back with more information...