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What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

Date: 2015-10-29 01:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dhampyresa
My writing + trick or treat letters.

Date: 2015-10-29 01:40 pm (UTC)
fred_mouse: line drawing of sheep coloured in queer flag colours with dream bubble reading 'dreamwidth' (Default)
From: [personal profile] fred_mouse
The research design paper for Australian Longitudinal Women's Health study, c1996-7. Some interesting commentary about the things they tested in the pilot study to try and improve response rates.

Date: 2015-10-31 06:51 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] fred_mouse
In this context, 'longitudinal' refers to across time. The first set of data was collected across 1997-1998, and there have been six or seven followups, on the same people.

Date: 2015-10-29 03:16 pm (UTC)
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Twitter et al (which is very busy after last night's GOP debate), info on tape/paddle looms, emails, and a short MCU fic a friend just posted.

Tape looms - a very short course

Date: 2015-10-30 02:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] weaverbird
Definition: A Tape, Band or Gate loom is a simple, portable, rigid heddle loom.
Tape Looms are centuries old, invented for the purpose of making narrow bands of fabric. Before the invention of zippers and Velcro, everyone needed a narrow piece of fabric that was strong, practical and attractive to tie aprons, hats, clothing, bags, suspenders, belts, seam binding, cording, guitar and banjo straps, curtain tie backs, dog collars, leashes, head bands, garters and trim.
- Regina Britton

Here is a paddle loom
The warp yarns are threaded through the slots and holes and weaving is done by fastening one end of the warp to a doorknob or piece of heavy furniture and the other end to your waist. Then the paddle is alternately raised and lowered to create a space between the warp yarns (called a shed) through which the shuttle bearing the weft yarn is passed. (If you ever made a Popsicle stick loom in Girl Scouts – it's precisely like that.)

A box loom is slightly more complex in that it holds the paddle in a frame that also serves to hold the warp under tension. Here is a box loom with work in progress

Both from this site

ETA: A google image search yields lots of good pictures

I'm in the process of creating some clothing such as might have been worn by a fictional pre-industrial society (say about 18th century rural England) and my research is taking me down numberless interesting byways!
Edited (to add another link) Date: 2015-10-30 03:14 pm (UTC)

Re: Tape looms - a very short course

Date: 2015-10-30 04:31 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] weaverbird
As with most weaving, using a paddle loom can be very simple, but one can also add layers of complexity. Utterly plain tape to use as, say, a petticoat drawstring, is simple enough for a small child to weave (albeit with some help getting the warp set up), whereas something meant to show off - a belt, guitar strap, suspenders - can be a real work of art, with complex use of color and weave structure.

And yes, I plan to weave at least some bands for this project. The yardage for garments and other items will be woven on my floor loom - an 8-shaft Baby Wolf - and I am considering spinning some wool yarn to either weave or knit. Also plan to attempt to learn to spin flax. Then there are dyeing and felting components, and more. It's an absorbing, long-term, open-ended labor of love. *g*

Date: 2015-10-29 04:28 pm (UTC)
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A post about sexism in YA. Very interesting.

Date: 2015-10-30 05:36 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jb_slasher
I'm afraid the post is f-locked but a part of it was a commentary on this blog post: The Boy Problem

Date: 2015-10-30 05:51 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] alexseanchai
Okay, thanks, and thanks anyway

Date: 2015-10-29 07:31 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] alexseanchai
Textbook. Also, The Chicks With Sticks Guide to Knitting, the envelope bag pattern. I want to get back to Dwelling on the Threshold but I might ought to prioritize Take Back the Economy since I told my classmates I was reading it. (One of the textbook readings is a vision for queer liberation that entails the end of capitalism. Okay, I am down with this, now what does that in the author's view look like? I mean, I can probably fill in that gap once I've finished reading Take Back the Economy...)

I am literally sitting here with nothing to do all day but read, art, and homework. (Off work all week for the community theater production I'm in—it's tech week; dress rehearsal was last night, first performance is tomorrow night—and there's no rehearsal tonight.) Why is it so hard to do anything but Netsurf?

Date: 2015-10-30 04:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ironed_orchid
After flipping through many books with different stitch patterns for knitting, I finally decided on one which suits the yarn I am using, and then settled in to watch Buffy dvds and knit.

Aside from that, mostly twitter and facebook.

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