learning new things!

silly user tries to learn to play pandeiro and knitting (mostly knitting) =)

[panknitting]

this right here is my goal. i want to be able to make a poncho like mask wandersong’s to cosplay as them. this is literally why i want to learn knitting lmao. asked a friend for help to get started n stuffs, don’t think they’ll respond till the new year tho. this blog is also about me learning the pandeiro too. why not separate them? meh.

i will be posting my progress on both and that’s basically it. lmao

[fiskael]

Happy year of the horse!!!! Have my wild horses sweater finally released from the void!

[awaytonowhereville]

1 day on hrt: i want to do cosplay

[cock-holliday]

I think people need to be more comfortable with illegalism and I’m not kidding. Of course the more legal something is, the safer and easier it is to do, but the more people who disregard the law, the harder it is to enforce. There are plenty of laws on the books that people just ignore and are never or rarely policed.

Becoming more comfortable with little illegal activities makes you more comfortable with bigger more important illegal activities. Additionally, it is crucial to build a wall of silence. Nobody talks everybody walks.

People who give out food without a permit, hold a march without a permit, grow a garden without a permit, are more likely to be people you could turn to to work with on preventing an eviction, or keeping people out of cop hands, or helping your friend Jane get crucial healthcare when it’s not legal in your state.

Communities comfortable with these acts won’t call the cops, and then nobody knows that it’s happening.

People have got to shift from both the idea that lawful = good/ illegal = bad, and that the illegality of something means that’s the end of it, and the only fight left is to make it legal again.

[anarchistmemedistro]

illegalism

illegalism

[anarchistmemedistro]

[citrusslugcat]

This fella is getting overconfident on how good they are at movement... ʕ•-•ʔ

[gifsofprocesses]

How a sewing machine works 

[tiffanyblews666]

I HAVE WONDERED MY WHOLE LIFE BUT NO ONE WOULD LET ME TAKE THEM APART THANK YOU SO MUCH

[theriu]

Ooooooohhh!

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

This just makes me more confused - what holds up that middle circle? How does the red part spin?

[bertiluna]

I’m not an expert, just an hobby sewer so if you know more feel free to jump in and correct me!

The red part and the circle inside of it are the shuttle hook, bobbin case, and bobbin. The bobbin is free moving inside of the bobbin case which allows for that circular motion of the thread without getting caught (though they sometimes will anyway bc sewing machines can just be Like That).

This is how the machines I’m familiar with tend to work (though there are lots of different bobbin setups). The bobbin case attaches into the machine with the shuttle hook surrounding it.

Here’s a more in depth gif of the shuttle hook and bobbin!

Again, it works a little different on different machines but this is generally how it works. In the original gif, the green thread is threaded through the top of the machine and through the needle (black thread in this bottom gif). The blue thread is wound around the bobbin and acts as a sort of mini spool of thread from inside the machine. The top thread is hooked around the bobbin thread using the shuttle hook (as shown in both gifs), which makes the stitches stronger and cleaner on both sides of the fabric.

@20dollarlolita is a great resource for sewing and sewing machine stuff, their tutorials definitely have helped me get familiar with my sewing machine!

[20dollarlolita]

Just a couple of pictures of hook/bobbin areas on a sewing machine.

The little green gizmo is the bobbin. In the animation up top, the circle represents the bobbin. When we take out the bobbin (and in this case, the bobbin retaining collar) we can see the black bobbin case. In this specific style of machine (called a “horizontal rotary hook”), the bobbin is held into the case just by gravity. This is also called a “drop-in bobbin” machine because the bobbin just drops in, but horizontal rotary hook is a more accurate description.

If we take out the bobbin case, we can see the hook. Technically, the entire metal loop that goes around the bobbin is the hook, but the point of the hook that actually grabs the thread is where the arrow is.

The red part in the animation spins because that’s a part of the machine, and the machine is designed to spin it. In the case of this machine, there’s a gear underneath.

If anyone has wondered why, after 130 years of making sewing machines, no one has figured out how to make a sewing machine where you put a full spool of thread in the bobbin (and therefore don’t have to wind bobbins or run out of bobbin anymore), the answer is that the top thread has to pass entirely around the thread on the bottom. There’s no other way to make the lockstitch that sewing machines use. The smaller the bobbin, the easier it is to pass thread around it. Cheap machines will often have smaller bobbins because a smaller bobbin means a machine can be built with lower tolerances. But small bobbins are annoying to use, so designers are always trying to make better machines with bigger bobbins.

The lockstitch, which all modern sewing machines use, was one of the critical patents necessary for making a sewing machine. It was invented by Elias Howe, along with The patent for a sewing machine needle with the hole in the point. Alan B Wilson (we love Allan B Wilson) came up with the full rotary hook that you see up there. He also had the patent for the four motion feed, which is still used on pretty much every sewing machine to this day. Isaac Singer had the patent for sewing machines with a horizontal sewing surface and a vertical needle. And these critical patents, that were made before a functional sewing machine was ever developed, are still used to this day in almost all sewing machines.

[panknitting]

y'all i finished the thing like 6 months ago i promise that i'll show it when twitter actually gets banned in BR in a few units of time and i HAVE to move here lmao

also i have ONE low quality pic of it fully in action

wait i'll just wait for halloween when i use it again (or next year if push comes to shove)

[panknitting]

hellllllllllo so uh i'm almost done so ig i'll have to catch y'all up on a lot

what i've done is instead of doing a bunch of markers where i have added a stitch, i've divided the poncho up into 8 parts, adding 4 stitches each row but alternating them so they add up nicely.

to help u understand think of the blue and yellow lines as separate markers. if in a row i find the yellow marker, i will add one. if i find a blue one, i will simply stitch it. and then the next row i stitch on the yellows and add on the blues! i'd have added examples of both but oopsie daisy i forgor, maybe later tho :v

also, i stopped with the markers every row cuz it was wayyy too many markers and it'd be a waste + i'd have to be actively thinking "do i add now or stitch?" with this method you get an octagon shape which isn't a circle so it kinda sucks but it'll look cool i hope but it is way easier on the brain, u just see on the marker lines if there's an added stitch from last row. if there is, just stitch. if there isn't, add! :D

anyways, this is the last step, doing the lil frilly things at the bottom! for this it's basically casting off but you do the last cast off literally every time, cutting the yarn for it to go off but adding the working yarn again so it can still continue after cutting.

and that's it! this thing is gonna be ready in a few days so hellllll yeah =)

[panknitting]

i found the read more button y'all no more long ass post in the wild

[panknitting]

hellllllllllo so uh i'm almost done so ig i'll have to catch y'all up on a lot

what i've done is instead of doing a bunch of markers where i have added a stitch, i've divided the poncho up into 8 parts, adding 4 stitches each row but alternating them so they add up nicely.

to help u understand think of the blue and yellow lines as separate markers. if in a row i find the yellow marker, i will add one. if i find a blue one, i will simply stitch it. and then the next row i stitch on the yellows and add on the blues! i'd have added examples of both but oopsie daisy i forgor, maybe later tho :v

also, i stopped with the markers every row cuz it was wayyy too many markers and it'd be a waste + i'd have to be actively thinking "do i add now or stitch?" with this method you get an octagon shape which isn't a circle so it kinda sucks but it'll look cool i hope but it is way easier on the brain, u just see on the marker lines if there's an added stitch from last row. if there is, just stitch. if there isn't, add! :D

anyways, this is the last step, doing the lil frilly things at the bottom! for this it's basically casting off but you do the last cast off literally every time, cutting the yarn for it to go off but adding the working yarn again so it can still continue after cutting.

and that's it! this thing is gonna be ready in a few days so hellllll yeah =)

[panknitting]

holy frig i forgot i had this blog i am literally almost finished and i shared none of the process.

[panknitting]

holy frig i forgot i had this blog i am literally almost finished and i shared none of the process.

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[panknitting]

starting over because i got the calculatuons and proportions wrong. 100%, 1000% sad. i was like 2000 stitches in. immaculately sad. devastated. i will never (tomorrow) recover. good day.

[panknitting]

helloooo people!! there is a cosplay event in my city in about a month so this project is back in the works!

i basically ditched the whole "learn from youtube" thing and proceeded to try things out myself, this being the result.

i tried adding a loop at the end of every row, but that only means that thr ends will get longer as the middle stays the same, so not really what i need for a circular thingymabob.

basically i gotta add random ones in the middle so it becomes the circle. will add diagram next post.

was a nice step in the learning curve tho! am excited =)

[panknitting]

it has been a long time but nevertheless i am here now. hi, hello. the ball of yarn in the last post was used to make a scarf together with like 4 more of them. sadly i cannot show it here because i forgot to take a photo of it lmao. this next ball of yarn was chosen by my mother to make a scarf for her! so now i'm just going and going and going forwards with the same motion. thankfully this is pretty nice i've found so i'll be doing more of this going forward. still haven't practiced purling at all, since i don't really need it for a scarf since a scarf having a "correct side" is against all laws of scarves that i know of. the smaller needles are a bit difficult to use in the beginning but i got used to them pretty fast. the goal continues being skilled enough so i can make mask wandersong's poncho (and to be as cool as them but tbh we all know they're the coolest entity in fiction so that ain't happening any time soon lmao). the grind continues...

[panknitting]

so uhhh i started already and i got i little carried away and forgot to post here lmao. my friend showed me a place to get wool and needles from. it's a generic store tho, one of those big ones that have lots and lots of things so not as good as a proper knitting stuff store probably but oh well, i'll get to know those as i go along. i got one thick ball of yarn and big, thick needles (8mm). i followed this youtube video to learn how to make stiches and the guy is really patient, the whole video is basically just ten minutes of him explaining the same motion over and over lmao. but that's cool. idk if you can notice from the pictures, but the stiches in the first row are very tight. he said to give 'em a nice lil' tug but i guess i went overboard with it XD. i stopped there and the next day i looked up what was wrong and one website said i was separating the needles too far apart between stiches, which i definetly was doing and didn't know was wrong, and that was what was making the big loop in the second picture. it said i could ignore it and just move on to the next row and to be careful not to stich into the loop, so i was relieved. unfortunately though, i failed to notice that i had skipped the second to last stitch, so it didn't go away. so now it's just there chillin'. the project was supposed to be a scarf, but i massively underestimated how much space the yarn needs, and i made it 42 stitches wide XD. now i will have a comically wide scarf X3. that is all for now. i'll try to make smaller posts more frequently so it isn't a big wall of text next time. cya!

[curseworm]

the inherent shame of beginning… dont look at me while i learn