I might have accidentally bought some new #ink...

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I wonder if being in love with the blood-red ink I've recently bough is yet another sign of the fact that I can't prove I'm not a vampyre(sic).
I should start wearing the black ribbon whose precepts I've always followed (with no plans to stop).

At least this looks like fresh blood and not something used to sign a pact with the devil.

The ink is Rohrer & Klingner writing ink, merinda.

#calligraphy #dipPen

waaaay overdue #tourDeFleece update: on day 13 I did indeed spin some wool I carded myself (forgot to take a picture while still on the spindle, but here it is before being lightly blocked:

I think that for the rest of the fleece I want to try combing it, but with this bit I also want to try some naalbinding.

Then I finished some generic black roving from the yarn shop (that I had started before #TdF19 and kept as my to-go "spin for 5 minutes" project), spun worsted, and then, instead of being able to write this post life happened again, badly, and I just didn't have the energies for it.

In the next few days I also spun another bit of generic blue roving from the yarn shop, this time woolen, and that was it for my spinning this month.

#TeamFediSpinners #FediSpinners

It's again that time of the year... :D

#DebConf19 has started and as usual the video team needs MOAR volunteers to provide full streaming and recordings coverage at the quality we're used to: if you are attending please attend one of the training sessions (they are announced in the [url=https://lists.debian.org/debconf-announce/2019/07/msg00009.html]daily announcement emails like this one): some of the tasks are pretty easy and you can sign-up for shifts during talks you wanted to attend anyway (they will not prevent you from following the talk, and in some case they may even help you do so).

If you are remoting (like me :( ) you can still help: hop on #debconf-video@OFTC to help with reviewing the recordings before they get published. If there are enough of us we can aim to release most¹ of the recordings before the conference is done! This is really helpful for people in different timezones or those who would like to attend two talks at the same time, but mostly, it's fun.

¹ except for the very last batch, of course.

#tourDeFleece update: on day 8 I did the Gotland samples as planned

Then on sunday (day 9) instead of spinning I washed a bit of the “distraction” I posted earlier, on monday life happened and I had a forced day of rest; on tuesday I mostly respected the day of rest (but I started a bit on the Coburg Fox sample) and today I finished them both.

And that's it for my basic plan for #TdF19 , which has been completed way early thanks to the power of lowered expectations!

But... tomorrow it's challenge day, when I want to try and spin some wool that I've (badly) carded myself (with dog brushes), so this evening I've done that

And then I must confess I couldn't resist starting to spin a bit of it, to see how it would be

(this one is going to be spun woolen, and then one day I think I'll buy or make a pair of combs, as for most of the things I want to do with the yarn worsted would be more appropriate)

#TeamFediSpinners #FediSpinners

#TourDeFleece update: day 5 went as planned, with the Rhoen Sheep sample:

and then, instead of killing zombies I got distracted by a sack of unknown sheep fleece, received the evening before:

Day 3 and 4 of #TourDeFleece: yesterday I spun the Romney sample, as usual half as worsted and half as woolen.

Then I had… issues… as I discovered that the floss game flare now has a shiny new campaign and… let us just say that a) I didn't post any update and b) I'm very surprised that today I still managed to spin all of the mixed brown top I planned to spin :D

Tomorrow I have a carded band of Rhoen shep waiting for me (and/or zombies and skeletons to kill, choices, choices…)

#TeamFediSpinners #FediSpinners

Days 1 and 2 of #TourDeFleece: yesterday I managed to spin half a sample of white Eider sheep (worsted):

And then today I did the rest of that sample (woolen):

for a total of about 10g, followed by the brown Eider sheep, about 12g again spun half worsted and half woolen:

I seem to be on a good start to go through the samples before the end of #TdF19… unless I get distracted by some other wool that may happen to appear around here for some reason O:-) but in that case I'll also be happy :)

#TeamFediSpinners #FediSpinners

I have everything ready for the #TourDeFleece: I have to take it extremely easy, so my plan is to go through a bag of samples and #spin all of them so that by the end of #TDF19 I can decide what I want do buy next. Many of them are from rare sheep breeds, and up to now I've mostly spun random-probably-merino.

For the challenge days I have some samples that also require carding, such as this one:

The easy target I'm aiming for is one top sample every two days, and one that requires carding on the two challenge days, bonus target is being able to do more than one of the samples that require carding (they are six in total).

Starting with an easy one:

(but tomorrow is also the release day for Debian, so it's extremely likely that I'll start on Sunday).

#TeamFediSpinners #Fedispinners

TFW you have finally repaired the battery compartment door on your camera, using a hair pin, and you can't take a picture of the repair to share on the fediverse…

I did manage to take a picture of the broken bit and of the sacrificial hairpin, however.

(also, I should have used a tripod instead of going with high iso, but the tripod was in the other room, and...)

Today I went to CastelSeprium for this

(wool and fiber tools)

and for the guided tour of the unesco site.

But then I have to admit that I stayed also for

(short line of longobard warriors getting ready for battle)

(short line of roman warriors getting ready for battle, with a much more disciplined line)

#sibriumlangobardorum

Né di Venere né di Marte si deploya né si parte

K.Ryabitsev

2019-06-17 13:23:14

Some kernel developers now have their blogs hosted on people.kernel.org, which is a WriteFreely instance with ActivityPub syndication. For example, try out @gregkh.

See more here:
people.kernel.org/read

@Gruppo Linux Como

Dowels from the hardware store are nice, straight and regular, conveniently available… and made from wood that has traveled quite a lot :(

Yesterday I had a chance to collect a few hazel sticks and made sure not to miss it: one is going to become a distaff, another has been cut into two #spindle stick size bits

The one that has been already carved into shape look pretty irregular, but I've tried it with one of the salt dough whorls I've made last week and it is surprisingly well balanced. With the other one I'm going to try to let it cure a bit before carving.

Some weeks ago I bought a spindle stick + whorl from pallia.net to try #spinning with a more european medieval technique (as opposed to the american one that I had learned from “the internet”).

I think I'd prefer to have a notch on the stick, but I didn't want to ruin the one I've bought, so I decided to carve one of the ones I had (made from a dowel) to resemble the shape, and added the notch to this latter one.

And then of course I really want to make my own whorls, but I still don't have a way to fire clay, so I had to limit myself to plastic (polymer clay), which is probably not a good choice for a number of reason, but should work for a whorl or two...

The cernit whorl weights about the same as the clay one, and is bigger, but not as bigger as I feared.

https://mastodon.at/users/switchingsocial

2019-05-22 11:09:35

#Framadate is a free open alternative to Doodle:

framadate.org

Like Doodle, Framadate lets you make quick, simple calendars and polls for finding out the opinions of your friends or colleagues without needing to register.

Unlike Doodle, Framadate respects privacy and doesn't show ads or track you.

It's made by @Framasoft and the source code is at framagit.org/framasoft/framada…

#Doodle #Alternatives

@Gruppo Linux Como @LIFO

Tonight I've been told in a vision that if you put salt (in the dream it was just a grain of coarse kitchen salt) on the skin of a spellcaster while they are actively casting spells, their skin feels burning. Not enought to actually hurt, and when the casting ends the feeling ceases immediately, but enough to distract a bit.

Should I start carrying salt in my backpack (IRL) in case I meet hostile spellcasters? Or should I start worrying about salt in case I suddenly become able to cast spells?

Should I read less fantasy stuff before going to sleep?

What every couple¹ who sleeps in the same bed need is a blanked that is infinitely extensible on both sides and covered with strips that can be made to show a 0 or a 1.

¹ generalizing to groups of more people and/or more degrees of freedom is left as an exercise to the reader