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Ridiculous Project

I am a fiber fangirl.  What this means is that I love making stuff with anything that qualifies as fiber.  This includes but is not limited to yarn, cloth, and roving wool.  On a daily basis I am surrounded by knitting needles, yarn, sewing machines, felting needles, roving wool, and so much fabric.  I am happy this way; being surrounded by my inspiration, tools, and materials is exhilarating.  But there’s one tool that isn’t in my arsenal that I have craved for quite some time.  A loom, I did a one month intensive weaving workshop right after I graduated from college, and I haven’t been on a loom since.  I loved the workshop, I would spend 10 hours or more on a loom everyday and I wouldn’t have had it any other way.  But now it’s been years and I still don’t have one, and given my current financials I definitely can’t buy one.  They tend to run over 500 dollars, especially for a nice one. 

So I gave up, and continually scanned craigslist in hopes that someone might be willing to give away a functional loom.  Then during my internet wanderings I found this post.  For those that don’t feel like clicking it’s an old wordpress post about how to build a loom out of cardboard.  A very nice 8 shaft loom, meaning I could weave many fancy weaves.  If I can build it, which is the ridiculous project.  The post isn’t super detailed on how some of the build is going to go, and it has some design points that I disagree with.  Therefore along with the following the instructions and any other information I can possibly find, there will also probably be a good deal of me just making stuff up.  Alright, let’s go.

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What the heck is happening?

Right, if any of you know me from other places on the internet you know that I do Geeky Living a youtube show about geeky crafting.  Which I haven’t updated in forever...  So why haven’t I updated in a while?  Well the rule with youtube seems to be, “Do it as long as you’re going to do it anyway.”  And to be honest for good or bad, all of the geeky projects I wanted to make and was going to make anyway have been made.  The geeky projects I’ve been thinking of lately I’m not excited about, and I’m not excited to make videos about it.  For that reason I don’t think it’s worthwhile for me to try to make videos I’m not excited about to post every week.  Therefore I’m changing formats.  Geeky Living wil still get updated, but it will sporadic.  Essentially if I think of a project and I’m excited about it, or going to make it anyway, I will film it and make a video about it.  I think this will result in a lot better videos and much better projects.  

If you’re new to me and thinking who the heck are you and why should I care, worry not it will become clear.  I am an extremely geeky crafty person.  My interests in different types of crafting/creating waxes and wanes but I do enjoy sharing my projects with the greater world.  If you’re interested to see what I’m up to on a semi regular basis that why not follow me and see what I do?  If you’re just interested in Geeky Living I recomend subscribing to the youtube channel or liking the Facebook page.