Tasks / Stitch N Bitch
Learn to knit or crochet. Knit together an object that expresses a strongly held opinion. Mail your creation to someone, preferably the person about whose actions you have that opinion.
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45 points
Level 3
In the zone of: The University of Aesthematics
Created by Burn Unit
2 completed :: 6 in progress
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naalbinding counts.
I'd say tatting too.
needlepointers you get your own damn tasks
Whereas people with socks get their own darn tasks.
Basically it's really, really old-school knitting.
Done by vikings, with only one needle.
I already know how to do both. I'd rather weave though. Do you think that's acceptable? And the title says stitch. Should I involve needle pointing?
I'm telling you needlepointing can fuck right off!
I'd vote for weaving if it was awesome. Aw who am I kidding, I'd probably vote for weaving, heedlessly, awesome or not very, effortlessly and without looking back.
Just what do you have against needlepointing?
Im learning to knit!
Hoorah.
I suck at it but it's worth a try.
Oh for pity's sake (podcast makers pay attention now): naalbinding is like viking knitting! It's an old cousin of knitting and crochet that uses a single needle to make loops of thread mesh together. You can find it on teh interweb several places like here, here and of course google. gawds you people are lazy.
Also vis a vis "needlepoint", if you have to ask about something so obvious, you'll never understand.
I'm assuming this will be involved in any n0rd completions we see of this task, at a minimum.
About two weeks ago, I found myself in a hotel room in Maryland with nothing to do.
See, I went to northern Maryland for an SCA event there, and I knew on Sunday I would be at another event in Ashburn, Virginia, which was on my way home and therefore made the trek to Manchester not quite so insane as it would have been otherwise. In between, I spent the night in a cheap motel in Frederick.
I didn't bring enough reading material. So rather than sit on my ass and watch whatever was on TV, I went to the Wal-Mart a block or two from my motel and spent about ten dollars on a few office supplies and some string. Then I returned to my room and taught myself basic doubleface tablet weaving.
Tablet weaving is a style of weaving invented in the dark ages which involves running each thread of warp through a hole in a card. Structurally, it's defined by "warp twining" - the warp threads form groups, the threads within each group twisting together like a braid, and the weft holding all of these together. In the specific doubleface style of weaving, each group has two threads of one color and two of another, and one of the four is on the surface of the fabric while another of the other color is on the opposite face; the two sides are thus mirror images of one another. Between passes of the weft, the cards are turned; if the normal basic pattern is followed, you produce a woven ribbon, one color on one side and another on the other side, but the method lends itself quite well to altering this pattern to produce designs formed out of spots where the two colors trade places. It's also a "warp faced" weave - the design is produced entirely from warp threads; the weft is visible only at the edges of the band, and does not participate in forming the pattern.
My first piece was, of course, pretty terrible. You can see picks where I forgot to pass the weft, where I didn't advance the cards properly and produced long floats, and so forth. I'm learning. This poorly-woven first band will be mailed to the town of Frederick tomorrow.
I wish I'd brought a camera on the road trip, since then you'd see the makeshift loom I constructed out of four rubber bands, two pencils, two hotel-room chairs, and a couple dozen index cards. Seriously, it was very MacGuyverish. And it took me a while to figure out what I was doing - but I had plenty of time.
Of course I did. I was in Frederick, and Frederick is pretty fucking
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