#fiber management

[gretchensinister]

Simple skirt project schedule:

Cutting pieces: 1 hour

Ironing pieces: 10 minutes

Pinning pieces: 30 minutes

Sitting on the sewing machine table: 1-3 months

Sewing everything together: 1 hour

[amimere]

tdf update 1

i have started my tdf by plying the yarn i started around easter, it has been a nice little warm-up before starting on a big project

[crimeronan]

followed up my shower by making the astonishingly healthy choice to have a huge bowl of cereal and a banana for breakfast, even though my first instinct was to make a meal of ben & jerrys ice cream instead. in conclusion i am Excelling at self-care & if i keep this up i will for sure cure my chronic illness.

[moonlit-clary-sage]

I wasn't meant to work customer service 40 hours a week, I was meant to embroider and weave and knit and spin yarn and sew and darn and mend for my village with the speed and efficiency of someone who literally cannot keep their hands still.

[lixenn]

Crochet corner

I'm back with my yarn babbling again, this time because I want to distract myself from thesis writing OTL

My current scarf project is still ongoing and I left it at home so I can't show any progress pictures since I'm in my dorm again (and I forgot to take some when I was still at my parents place), so I will talk about my past projects.

And when I say past, I mean past, as in I will go back to my crochet roots. You're getting my fiber artist history hot off the keyboard folks, so strap in and enjoy the ride.

Back to the beginnings

My crochet journey started way back in primary school, where tiny baby Lix made a small square creature in craft class. Basically we crocheted a square (easily done with single crochets, can be achieved by tiny people) folded it in half, sewed together the edges, stuffed it with cotton fluff stuff and sewed it shut. Put on some eyes, a nose and mouth plus fake fur as hair and hurray you made a square creature! I actually kept that thing for years, it was chilling on our radiator like a wonky guardian until it eventually got lost or thrown out (I can't remember which). I remember that the stitches were surpisingly neat for my age, which past Lix apparently couldn't replicate for years. Primary school me had talent... (unfortunately I don't have a picture of the wonky square creature or I would have showed you guys)

Deco for the win

While I did try once or twice to get back into crocheting again it never really worked out until! My mum found this website: Drops-Design. A German (?) website for knitting and crochet patterns (and lots of other stuff). She showed me some cute cupcake and coffe cup coasters and asked if I could make them. Past Lix - like current Lix - was filled with false confidence and answered with: "Yeah, sure I can try." So, my mum ordered the yarn over the website and my crochet adventures started from anew.

Fortunately for my sanity the patterns my mum asked for had video tutorials attached, otherwise I would have been utterly fucked, since I have never read a crochet pattern in my life. With the help of the video, the coasters were relatively easy to make even when I was confronted with unknown stitches and multiple colour changes. The end result didn't look nearly as nice as what the website showed but for my first few tries I was satisfied.

Once again I have no pictures available but if you want to take a look at the pattern it's here. There you can also see the finished product.

From this point onwards I started going nuts with making deco shit. All differnt kind of flowers, stars, snowflakes and bunnies. That site opened the crochet door for me and I was happy as a clam.

Granny square madness

However, times were changing once again, when my dear friend got me some yarn for Christmas.

200 g of yarn.

With colour transition.

I only ever used solid coloured yarn before and was at a loss of what to do with this gift.

And what else to do when lost in the yarn world, then look at youtube for help. Spoiler: Youtube helped tremendously as it introduced me to the glorious invention that is granny squares.

Granny squares are fun shit, they come in all kinds of different patterns and colours and you can make lots of things with them. I watched a simple tutorial on youtube and got hooked. I used my friends gift to make granny squares only to be confronted with another dilemma: What to do with those granny squares? I got max 20 squares out of these 200 g and let me tell you my dudes, that's nothing for a bigger project.

So I simply went absolutely batshit crazy, for I decided to make a patchwork granny square blanket.

Please let me remind you people that before this lapse of judgement I only worked on small projects aka things that I made in one day tops.

Once again I follow my motto: Go big or go home and ohhh boy did I go big. I went gigantic and here is proof:

That badboy is the definition of patchwork because it's made up out of FOUR different types of yarn, since I have run out of yarn SO MANY TIMES IT WAS RIDICULOUS! I needed to rebuy yarn at least five times, I was going insane. This project took me over half a year if not longer and weaving in the ends- *shudders* horrible, dreadful, hated every minute of it.

But I like the finished product, it's now chilling on my coach at my parents place, not really used all that often but still pretty.

I didn't stop with the granny squares after that clusterfuck though. Nooooooo sire~ I made a shitton of other granny square projects since I like to suffer (none of them as big as my blanket however, thank the outer gods).

Well, I certainly rambled enough for one post, I will be back with other projects in the future!

Toodles~

[tacit-semantics]

Making an effort to try some of the motifs (maybe?? Not quite sure what to call them actually) in the Priscilla netting book and this one. Mostly worked out??

[squeakadeeks]

can i offer you a singular lagombi gauntlet in this trying time

[goldkirk]

question: have any of you personally seen a dietician (not looking for experiences with nutritionists, only dieticians), and did you find it helpful or useful, and if you did see a dietician and you ALSO have seen a GI doctor, how did the experience compare for you in terms of helpfulness + how much you felt listened to and helped?

[lepton-software]

Optimizing Networks for Efficiency: Strategies and Best Practices

In the ever-evolving landscape of telecoms, network optimization is now a focus for service providing companies searching to enhance performance and offer extraordinary service quality. 

The Role of Fiber Management

Fiber Management is a cornerstone of current network optimization. As  fiber optic networks become the backbone for worldwide connectivity, managing these assets efficiently is important. Fiber management is the systematic management and control of fiber optic cable, connectors and the associated infrastructure to ensure uninterrupted data transmission.

Click to read more.

Originally published: https://leptonsoftware.com/optimizing-networks-for-efficiency-strategies-and-best-practices/

[nube55]

Get you a partner who starts playing Chariots of Fire when they notice you're in the last 20 stitches of your long ass crochet project 😂

[amimere]

tdf update 2

first third of my tdf project is done!

i ended up going with the sweater (or cardigan) spin ive been planning for a few years, i decided on going for a higher twist and thicker yarn than i usually do for it, so its not as even as it could be, but that just adds to the charm imho

now im on to the the second of the three colors i picked out for this project

[samaspic31]

What kind of crochet projects do you have 👀

omg thank you so much for asking !!! i just finished those gloves im making lace chokers (the black one looks wonky cause i haven't blocked it yet), i also finished a devil horn headband for halloween as well as spiderwebs and red leg warmers not pictured here (and i have so many other unfinished wips but let's not start on that-)

[livethrushit]

wool tapestry 'pictorial tapestry of five arab women" from tunisia / uw-madison's helen louise allen textile collection

[coridallasmultipass]

Halloween costume hint:

(The stitch marker and the word that describes this colour-pattern of yarn [or fabric] are 2 more hints.)

[tiktaaliker]

so. heres another one

this one took me like. probably >40 tries over the course of 4 days to get all the way through without tripping over anything too badly hence my little celebration at the end there lol

bit of backstory/context here: blackboxwarrior is my Ultimate Vocal Stim. its long and its complicated and i have a fucking AWFUL stutter so it takes some serious work to get all of it out which makes it perfect for me. you might notice that i start out relatively slow but by the end im going EXTREMELY fast. thats because this is what i also call a "momentum" song for me because there are a LOT of points where i cant help it but to speed up so if i dont start out slow it turns into vocal soup. which is typically ok for singing it under my breath but does NOT work for a recording. i also had all the vereses completely memorized but i had to reference the lyrics for the monologue- i think i have it memorized now tho because of how many attempts this took haha