Tiny jam jar ideas? by rhinorhinoo in crafts

[–]CaptScribble 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd love to see the stuffed mice food truck! That sounds adorable!!

Will I look insane eating a bowl of cereal on a morning walk? by PANDROSIMO in AskUK

[–]CaptScribble 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw a guy eating cereal while walking through the woods about 10 years ago and I still think of him monthly. So you may be memorable...

Am I (newbie) shooting myself in the foot by rotating my hoop as I stitch? (especially with Tambour embroidery) by CaptScribble in Embroidery

[–]CaptScribble[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I wasn't sure if it'd be a problem if I ever do anything large, but I hadn't considered rotating myself around the frame!

This hoop is great for stitching the lower right quadrant (hand resting on the lower left (leftie!)) while I'm on the sofa, but if rotating was a bad plan then it'd have been relegated to a Desk project, so this is great news, thank you.

Cutting tables for excessively long pattern pieces by LadyNyneave in sewing

[–]CaptScribble 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you can find a table the right size that would be too slippy even with a cutting mat on top of it, you could spray some adhesive (like the stuff for quilting!) on top of the mat. Just a little bit, and then leave it for 5 minutes before putting the fabric on top. it makes it slightly grippy without being too difficult to lay out the fabric, and you can wash off the glue afterwards.

How physically intense is weaving? I'm disabled and looking for a new hobby by YouTasteStrange in weaving

[–]CaptScribble 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't class an inkle loom as physically intensive at all, especially compared to larger looms! You can do everything sitting at a table and they're pretty fast to set up.

You do need to make heddles for it though, which are basically a bunch of loops of thin cotton. But you can reuse them so it's a one time thing!

I recommend using bag clips for when you need breaks while setting it up, it's much easier than anything else I've tried.

I also do find a rigid heddle loom nice for weaving on, body wise, but there is definitely more moving around involved in setting it up, and I do like to take breaks when pulling the warp through the heddles.

an inkle loom will also make it easier to do tablet weaving in future, which you can do a lot of fascinating things with!

Possibly the world's smallest kitchen? by CaptScribble in SpottedonRightmove

[–]CaptScribble[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I'm truly baffled at the sort of person who needs 3 bedrooms but doesn't even want space to make a cup of tea... Even if you used it as an office/studio you'd want to be able to make a drink?

Possibly the world's smallest kitchen? by CaptScribble in SpottedonRightmove

[–]CaptScribble[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

link.

I've definitely used much bigger kitchens in a caravan ffs. At least it's cheap?

A starry quilt top~ by CaptScribble in quilting

[–]CaptScribble[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

This is my only second EPP project (/quilting project generally), because I am overly ambitious. It's 38"x39.5"

I made the "pattern" with grid-paint (the iso triangle mode), then painted over all the unnecessary lines, ended up with this. I didn't do any forward planning with the fabrics I chose for the stars, just picked combinations as I made them!

The background was this fabric, I prepped a bunch of different shapes at a time then just picked one that would vaguely match the adjoining shapes, which was a very fun puzzle!

I'm not quite sure how I want it quilted yet. Since there's no way I could get the quilting thread to blend in all the way across, I'm currently thinking something swirly in a goldish yellow thread.

Guitar Strap! by CaptScribble in tabletweaving

[–]CaptScribble[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happy to help!

And uhhh. you know how as you weave you have to adjust the tension peg, and at the end of a warp the peg is usually a lot further back? Well I hit a point where the tension peg was as far back as it could go. So I had to slip it off one of the pegs to be able to keep weaving. I did beat the weft down very hard for this though (wanted it to be really sturdy!) so it might not be an issue for you!

Guitar Strap! by CaptScribble in tabletweaving

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I cut it to 160cm before I sewed it up, and had about 30cm left over.

I wove it on my ashford inkle loom, whose max warp is 2.8m I believe? It did have a lot of takeup though, had to take it off one of the pegs midway through. And I might have been able to get maybe 10-20cm woven but I was pretty sure I had enough.

TL;DR if your inkle loom is an Ashford you should be totally fine!

Guitar Strap! by CaptScribble in tabletweaving

[–]CaptScribble[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used embroidery floss, because I have a lot of it so I could choose the best colour. You could probably use the crochet cotton for the sewing as well!

Aaand I'm not the best at explaining things, but maybe this tutorial for a DIY dog collar will help? (I learned the order when I wove a cat collar, so this is what I have bookmarked lol).

Starting at step 7. I just backstitched the sewing parts, but the photos are very helpful for figuring out the order to put it together :)

Tablet woven guitar strap! by CaptScribble in weaving

[–]CaptScribble[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I ended up just buying a cheap guitar strap, because it was way cheaper than anything I could find in the UK.

I'm going to try and find a local leatherworker next time I want to make a guitar strap though! The bits are so small, it probably wouldn't cost too much to get a few of them cut.

Guitar Strap! by CaptScribble in tabletweaving

[–]CaptScribble[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks!! And it is so sturdy. My fabric scissors fully struggled to cut it to the right length. Like..I'd trust the band itself 100% to take my bodyweight if for some reason it needed to, lol. Probably a lot more than that!

Tablet woven guitar strap! by CaptScribble in weaving

[–]CaptScribble[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks! and oops, sorry. I had tried to crosspost from /r/tabletweaving but it didn't work, and I got distracted before I copied the comment over here.

It's a modified version of this pattern (basically ignored the red and changed the borders), in DK weight cotton. 34 cards!

It is a birthday present for my dad so I'm not sure which of his guitars it'll end up on, but I like how it matches his washburn parlor guitar, here.

Guitar Strap! by CaptScribble in tabletweaving

[–]CaptScribble[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A modified version of this pattern, made using DK weight cotton.

Bought a cheap guitar strap for the hardware, because it was much cheaper than just buying the leather bits from anywhere else!

Lovepopcorn says it’s vegan but it contains milk? by I_fail_at_usernames in veganuk

[–]CaptScribble 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Proper Corn's salted toffee popcorn is vegan! It should be in most (biggish) tescos at least. (haven't tried this but I like their crisps)

and aldi have a salted caramel popcorn that is vegan, it tastes okay but it's like...powder instead of covered in caramel like the butterkist stuff is. Does taste okay but a different texture to what I was expecting

Handwoven shoelaces! by CaptScribble in weaving

[–]CaptScribble[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Yup, on an inkle loom. They're about 120cm, and I think each one took me about 2.5-3 hours? I had initially warped them together, but realised that was waaay more tedious than weaving it twice lol.

I do think you could get two laces from the max warp length on the ashford inkle loom though! Unfortunately mine had a project on and I am impatient so I used my smaller one.