Cheklov's Stuff

So I've been buying things I honestly probably should not? But I did anyway because I am an adult and fully capable of making whatever poor life choices I want. And if that means I'm buying a whole bunch of yarn for my looms and fabric I want but don't need and a goddamn pound of mill ends to play with on my blending board then you bet your ass that's what I'm going to do. These came over the course of the better part of the weekend, and will be addressed in the order they came. (I could have done these all on their own posts...but nah.) June 27, 2019 - Knit Picks I already knew what was in this one, obviously, as I had, you know, specifically ordered it. You'd think that would make unboxing it not all that exciting but you would be WRONG. That beautiful sack of goodies! So yeah, many skeins of yarn for my loom, and a bunch of roving for playing with. The red is for Kira, but the rest is miiiiiine. The Tidepool Heather (the tealish...

So I love to weave. Specifically inkle and tablet weaving. I'm not great at it - the same problems with row counting and my inability to remember numbers that plague me in my attempts to crochet and knit are in full force here - but that doesn't stop me much. I usually stick to very simple tablet weave (WHICH I HATE THERE ARE SO MANY BEAUTIFUL PATTERNS UGH) and basic inkle patterns. I've got my little loom strung up with one such simple pattern right now. Very basic, as you can see. The pattern is as follows: It makes a cute little An Tir-themed trim though, so it's very handy. However, you might notice that my loom is quite small. In fact, working over an inch wide band gets pretty dicey when advancing the warp, and it only makes around two yards of trim, more if I'm careful and think harder about my tension peg's placement than I usually do. But it was my first functional loom, and it's great for travel, since it fits i...