Spare Time

[theoriginalmcc]

I haven't forgotten LiveJournal.  In many ways, I still prefer it to Facebook.  If everyone on Facebook would take the initiative to hide all their irrelevant posts from the newsfeed (and if I could find a way to automatically block anything that had to do with a war, farm, or aquarium), then maybe I could keep up.  I don't really try to keep up,

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[leimon_malakoi]

I love weaving! my mom was a weaver, and last year she gave me the table loom of horrible tension. So I could start weaving as well. Then a friend's mother gave me a very nice floor loom on semi-perminate loan.
So if you want, in a month or so when I get the Star of Bethlehem pattern off the table loom I can loan that to you for a year or so so you can decide if you want to keep up with weaving. Then you can either drop the $600 on your own loom and give it back, or give up weaving (and give it back). The loom is almost 100 years old so you can't break it any more, and the shed is terrible.
Let me know if you ever want to take a pilgrimage to The Mannings (which is in PA near Gettysburg and has wonderful fiber and looms, and even better- they have classes.) Also I did some research while I was in the burg- there is a really nice weavers guild there. you should join it.

And I can show you how to make a triangle loom - great for plaids and shawls. Also I have a weaving journal: textilejnkie. And I have fiber! I can share.

[theoriginalmcc]

Sweet! Yes to everything! I'd love to borrow the table loom (maybe from Sapphire Joust through War of the Wings?), and learn to make/use a triangle loom. I'm game for a pilgrimage. I Googled "The Mannings". The website says they're in East Berlin. Who the heck intentionally names a town East Berlin? Not sure how soon you'd want to make that trek, but I don't have anything planned for January 16th & 17th. Too soon?

I've been in touch with these folks http://www.handweaversguild.org/ but, as you can imagine, they are crazy busy with craft fairs and personal projects through the end of the year. Plus, their next meeting is on my dad's birthday. So, I'll catch up with them in 2010.

Girl, you rock! Thanks!

[crazilla]

In response to your comment, i took a moment's fiddling to discover that clicking "Hide" next to a news feed item from FarmVille (for instance) hides all future such items from one's feed. This would supposedly work for any application, so you need only see one to tell Facebook that you would never see another. Does that help?

[theoriginalmcc]

I have been doing that regularly. However, hiding Farmtown does not prevent me from seeing Farmville, OurFarm, or whatever the next knockoff is. That's what I was trying to get across. Good to hear from you. I'm happy to know that you still lurk on here sometimes.