weaving nerdery continues: pickup

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so I attempted to teach myself pickup, which, well… I should actually buy a book or something. I searched the web and found a lot of mediocre videos and in my struggle to find a threading pattern wound up with one that was, well, not strictly ideal. I still don’t understand the principle entirely well enough to improvise my own pattern, but then, perhaps maybe I do, and I should experiment a little bit.

But! The upshot is that I successfully wove a band of about 45″ in length, a bit over an inch wide, and while I didn’t have any good patterns, I did have a pixel chart of 5-pixel-high letters, so I put text all down the length of the band.

My first few letters…. weren’t, and I nearly gave up, but then decided I had to make this work, and so I wrote “fuck this”, and discovered that F and U and C are all quite easy to do, and by the time I got to K, which is not so easy, I had momentum on my side.

So I kept going. Pictures below the cut.

This was my first success, that F. The K is…. mostly intelligible.

This is the other end of the band, where I finished it and then cut it off the loom. The K is… not really better. I know what’s wrong but well– by that point I didn’t have enough slack to fix my mistakes.

But here’s the middle of the band, which I’m rather proud of:

I can do all through Spite

Which strengthens me

One of those slogans you see kicking around the Internet, and which someone recently had commented to me on AO3 as a life slogan for Yennefer, which is accurate.

I do get the general gist of the technique, and I… sort of think I know how to do this with slightly less frustration…. maybe. So, I gotta summon my nerve for that but I’m gonna try. (Your picture was not posted)