![]() ![]() MakieLab have always been about the convergence of the digital and real world, and so it’s no surprise that they’ve released two new apps to start to merge the two worlds together. ![]() ![]() Part of their appeal is the rooted in the maker/hacker culture, with MakieLab and their customers making and sharing clothes and accessories for the dolls - from little knitted beanies to cut-and-sew bags and dresses to 3D files for shoes and glasses that you can print at home. Makies, you may remember, are fully posable, 10 inch, fashion dolls that you design the facials features of and then have custom 3D-printed - making each one unique. Both also need some work, but I'll post more about that in the future if I decide to wave goodbye.It’s been a while since my daughter’s Makie Doll arrived with us now, but she’s still managed to hold her spot on the “toys I must play with” list, easily supplanting Barbie and her vacuous friends. With all that said, I have two looms in the mix that will probably need new homes, the Peacock and the Kessenich. (And if I want to use silken threads, well, I just fire up the little Louet W30!!) It's not fine weaving with silken threads, but it suits me. It's called continuous weave, where the warp and weft are woven at the same time. If you've ever seen a triloom, you'll know the weaver walks the yarn from side to side, hooking it onto opposing nails and weaving over and under the horizontal threads that are created in the process. (Do I sound a little defiant?) And yet, I think I really started weaving because I wanted to follow the fibers visually and figure out how structure was created. So, my little saying on the top of my blog, "weaving and knitting on small looms," still holds water. My looms, every one, are still portable and small enough to fold up and store on a shelf or under the desk. It was about five months later that I bought the Emilia loom. But first, with my inquisitive nature and with some helpful words from a Ravelry weaver, along with Laverne's fantastic series on backstrap weaving at Weavezine, I put together a backstrap loom (and chiseled my hand in the process!), and figured out lifting patterns for plain weave, weft-faced projects. From there, I let things slide, weaving-wise, until the next fall, about a year later, when I suddenly had an urge to buy a "real" loom. Little did I know that those simple looms would teach me the basics of weaving. The first looms I had an interest in were the 4" square looms and the little Wonder Weave rigid heddle loom. Okay, we've gone way past the medium plastic bin storage idea!įor some reason–and not just because I'm running out of room in my tiny 8'x9' office–with the recent purchase of the 7' triloom, I feel I've actually come full circle.
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