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@ix boot check: if you are wearing boots, remove them before you Get On the Dance Stage

@Betty I also got some results adding “reticule” since historically reticules were netted, though “how to make a reticule” has mostly sewn versions based on some specific Regency pattern apparently. Here’s a possible instructable: https://www.instructables.com/Primitive-Net-Making-From-Carving-Your-Needle-To-W/ and some more instructions with images https://www.fourteenacre.co.uk/design_category/net-making/

@Betty I had some decent luck specifically searching for “netting needle” (and, FWIW, using DuckDuckGo as is my default; not sure if other engines perform differently with that query). For example, this: https://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/making-a-net-zmaz73sozraw/ which *looks* like it is genAI sludge but does seem real, and the instructions are accurate to netting as I know it.

Anyway I blame the computer people for coopting “network” (and even “network fiber”! Ugh)

@ali a question for @alicia

@lindsey @dhess @alexr What’s cooler than being cool? Iceland

(Also, the next song was “Wiggle” by Jason Derulo. Presumably after we left there was some Sir Mix-a-lot, idk.)

@dhess @lindsey @alexr When we were in Iceland last week, we visited a yarn shop in a tiny little town near a camp site — just the yarn shop, a knife maker, a small waterfall, and some street cats. The shop was staffed by a young woman maybe barely out of her teens; no one else there so presumably the music choice was all hers. The song: “Hey Ya” by Outkast.

@lndf if you like sheep, I definitely recommend Iceland :)

Another lamb with white wool (which was right next to the two in the earlier shot and probably a sibling). They are chomping a tall blade of grass and look content.

A ewe and a lamb standing side by side. The lamb has adorable black patches. The ground is grassy and the ocean is visible in the background.

Here are some knitting machines I saw in Iceland

(this was a 100% for-funsies trip; I wasn’t specifically seeking out work-related things; nonetheless Iceland is understandably very knitting-centric so this was a recurring theme)

A vintage motorized v-bed knitting machine. It has a fair number of patterning and takedown widgets such that it could be used for fairly automatic production. There are craft-shop knickknacks are books around it. This was in Alafoss yarn shop, and was not currently in use — seemed to be there for decorative purposes — but it looked like it was in operating condition.

Also at Alafoss yarn shop; the v-bed machine in the previous picture is visible at the left edge of this one. This picture shows a vintage industrial circular sock-knitting machine with ribbing cylinder and a slew of yarn feeders — would be appropriate for making patterned socks mostly automatically. Again, it looks like it hasn’t been operated recently but it probably could be.

A Stoll contemporary industrial electronic v-bed knitting machine, currently knitting yardage of double-bed jacquard with an all-over puffin pattern. This was in the Kayla Wool Shop in Vik. They had two other v-beds as well — one of which was a delightfully chunky 3 gauge — and a circular machine very similar to the previous picture.

A very vintage-looking purely mechanical domestic v-bed machine. It is styled similarly to a 1930’s sewing machine — black lacquer and gold floral motifs on the parts that can be decorated — and has a hand crank with a nice wooden knob. This was in a museum — Arbaer Open Air Museum, which focuses on Reykjavik history of the 1800’s-1950’sish — so it presumably has not been operated recently but it looked in pretty good shape.

@infryq @simrob With acrylic, I would advise to *not* leave the masking paper on (it’ll be annoying to pick later), but you can still get the cool effect with acrylic paint applied intaglio-style — dab messily into the etched crevices, then wipe the surface with a damp [paper] towel. This is my favorite trick for quickly making fancy-looking plaques.

Here are some animals I saw in Iceland

Two lambs in long grass under a rock formation. The lambs have white wool and a wise and skeptical look on their faces.

An orange housecat with long fur and a leonine face. They’re about to duck into some bushes.

The noble puffin. Puffins are smaller than you think. This one is sitting amongst some grass tufts. The Pierrot eye markings make them look sad, but they were swooping joyously in the air just before this picture was taken, I promise.

A wee horse foal. The Icelandic horse is small and neotenously rounded even as an adult, and this one is even smaller and rounder. Their coat is what I would call “chestnut,” but I think an actual horse person would call “bay” — reddish brown in any case. They are sitting in the grass in what looks like warm sun but which I can confidently tell you was pretty cold weather.

@rose_alibi I have a perfume like that — “Stel” from Treading Water: https://www.treadingwaterperfume.com/store-1/p/stel (I like their “Fig Wasp” more though)

@chrisamaphone @v yeah I am *very* in favor of no-downloads “type a thing here.” (I know we’ve talked about how much of my initial difficulty with code stuff was not knowing “where to type.”) That said, when I do this in class, I have them write directly in their browser’s JS console. I provide essentially only one public function, drawPixel(x, y, color), via a “library” script link on a static page I tell them to visit. (Later, we talk about how I made that library.)

@v I feel basically the same way. I have a fair amount of love in my heart for original-flavor Processing and found that it solved a real problem for me at the time I learned it, and I also have a fair amount of love in my heart for using in-browser JavaScript especially for casual teaching contexts (no need to install anything!), and yet p5.js has felt like a worst-of-both-worlds to me. Clearly it’s working for other folks, though. 🤷

@chrisamaphone @palvaro @lindsey hm but in the spirit of the assertion: I took your “refuse to nod along with jargon we don’t understand” as more about willingness to admit to knowledge gaps (the other person may well be using precise/nuanced terms but you don’t know them), whereas your clarification sounds more like a desire for precision. I agree with Lindsey that the former thing would ideally be a broad academic skill.

@scunning If you’d like to purchase fare in advance and you have an android or apple phone, you can also use mobile ticketing: https://www.rideprt.org/fares-and-passes/mobileticket/
(Note: “three-hour pass” is the same thing as “one ticket” — all Pittsburgh busses have free transfers within three hours, unless you pay with cash.)

If the ticketing thing is confusing or you don’t have time to stop at the machine, you can also just pay with cash on board the bus. Exact change needed, and you won’t get the transfers.

@chrisamaphone For fit, I do also consider the possibility of tailoring. For feel: I’m very snobby about fibers and as you know I am above-average familiar with fabric and conversant in clothing-related words, so I can usually guess reasonably well from descriptions/photos how something will feel. I’m not sure how anyone else does this.

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