Crafting and other things
Nov. 23rd, 2022 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukeI took most of this week off work but haven't gone anywhere. I wish the holidays were spread out more, this is silly.
I fixed two electrical outlets yesterday, one was under the counter and whatever we plugged in would fall out. I pulled it out and somehow the plastic had broken. Replaced easy. The second one was in the terrible floor mounted outlet holder, metal, not fully secured, on the floor so difficult to work with. I do dislike the 12 gauge wire in these situations, the wire does not want to bend when there is limited space. Not sure why this outlet wasn't working but I just replaced the outlet and it is working great now.
Later, I built a stool for my loom. Not for weaving, but for threading the loom. Turns out, most people remove the loom beater and sit in the loom. Since I needed the stool to straddle the treadles and the frame but not be super tall so the heddles were at eye level. Set up in the basement and just used hand saw instead of pulling out the jigsaw or circular saw since it was simple and more fun.
I finished threading the heddles yesterday and sleyed the reed too. Tied on this morning and spent a little time this evening doing the first weaving! It's a sampler so I'm working through all the patterns the weaving book recommends trying on the sampler. When I get a few more done, I'll post some pictures. The more I learn, the more I'm thinking about taking a class at the Marshfield School of Weaving. The classes look really good and I follow one of the instructors on instagram and he weaves on an enormous beautiful jack loom doing overshot coverlets and things. Incredible work. Expensive classes though. I'd need to save up.
I made fancy ice cream this morning. I made pastry cream over the weekend for F's cat since it was basically the only things she would eat at that point (rip Remi, she was put down yesterday,dragonlady7 wrote a lovely eulogy here) so I had egg whites left over. I cooked the egg whites plus other stuff in a double boiler until they were 172F then whipped them in the stand mixer, then whipped heavy cream and folded them together. That will be for thanksgiving tomorrow at F's sister's place
I finished two hats up that are christmas gifts, they need some small things still like ear flaps but I consider them done enough. I took my sweater with me to donate blood and since there's always a wait, I got some rows knitted. I'll be taking with me to the gathering tomorrow too. Blood donation was good, went quick once they hooked me up and I'm just a tiny bit tired and slightly thirsty.
Time to lay in bed and read :)
I fixed two electrical outlets yesterday, one was under the counter and whatever we plugged in would fall out. I pulled it out and somehow the plastic had broken. Replaced easy. The second one was in the terrible floor mounted outlet holder, metal, not fully secured, on the floor so difficult to work with. I do dislike the 12 gauge wire in these situations, the wire does not want to bend when there is limited space. Not sure why this outlet wasn't working but I just replaced the outlet and it is working great now.
Later, I built a stool for my loom. Not for weaving, but for threading the loom. Turns out, most people remove the loom beater and sit in the loom. Since I needed the stool to straddle the treadles and the frame but not be super tall so the heddles were at eye level. Set up in the basement and just used hand saw instead of pulling out the jigsaw or circular saw since it was simple and more fun.
I finished threading the heddles yesterday and sleyed the reed too. Tied on this morning and spent a little time this evening doing the first weaving! It's a sampler so I'm working through all the patterns the weaving book recommends trying on the sampler. When I get a few more done, I'll post some pictures. The more I learn, the more I'm thinking about taking a class at the Marshfield School of Weaving. The classes look really good and I follow one of the instructors on instagram and he weaves on an enormous beautiful jack loom doing overshot coverlets and things. Incredible work. Expensive classes though. I'd need to save up.
I made fancy ice cream this morning. I made pastry cream over the weekend for F's cat since it was basically the only things she would eat at that point (rip Remi, she was put down yesterday,
dragonlady7 wrote a lovely eulogy here) so I had egg whites left over. I cooked the egg whites plus other stuff in a double boiler until they were 172F then whipped them in the stand mixer, then whipped heavy cream and folded them together. That will be for thanksgiving tomorrow at F's sister's placeI finished two hats up that are christmas gifts, they need some small things still like ear flaps but I consider them done enough. I took my sweater with me to donate blood and since there's always a wait, I got some rows knitted. I'll be taking with me to the gathering tomorrow too. Blood donation was good, went quick once they hooked me up and I'm just a tiny bit tired and slightly thirsty.
Time to lay in bed and read :)
