Kari

Woodworking hand tools

Taking part in a #handtoolsonly #woodworking online class - very inspiring. My dining room is currently functioning as a workshop.

Cotton Fibonacci-striped baby blanket in 2/2 twill

Closeup of 2/2 twill

So, it's finished! 2/2 twill, 5 sections of Fibonacci stripes in warp (1,1,2,3,5), 8/2 unmercerized cotton doubled in warp, 8/4 single thread in weft, rigid heddle loom, two 12.5 dpi heddles plus pickup stick and heddle rod. Machine washed 60 degrees celsius. Hemmed by hand.

I’m still a sucker for great surface design, and admire those who excel at it.

But, over the long haul, a designer’s job is to discover what’s needed, align colleagues and stakeholders, and make it work. (2/2)

I'm with you on that vote! Thanks! 🙌

Puppytooth weaving on a small rigid heddle loom, with a sticky alpaca yarn.

Voven alpaca scarf with black and pink puppytooth pattern, and hand twisted fringes

Ah, I have that book, must have a look! My first weave was a scarf with a sticky alpaca yarn. Was a nightmare to weave. Thank you so much for the advice about the folded edge, must study that in particular 🙌 I'll weave a small practice piece, as it will be my first time with double width weaving.

Thanks! Hope to finish it by early March, as that is when my new niece is expected 😍

Yes, I think I will land om cotton for the baby blanket. Would still like to try the panel blanket in wool, but will make a throw for myself. Thank you for sharing! 🤩

That makes a lot of sense! Thank you! 🙌

Ashford's panel wool blanket on a rigid heddle loom

Kelly Casanova's double width weave cotton baby blanket on a rigid heddle

So the
#weaving
me is researching baby blankets on my
#rigidheddleloom. Soft baby merino wool, or cotton? Ashford's panel variant - www.ashford.co.nz/big-blanket-... or Kelly Casanovas double width weaving baby blanket - kelly-casanova-weaving-lessons.teachable.com/p/doubleweav...? Must sample.

Why are work systems for employees in public services so bad, e.g. in health- or other welfare services?

This has a detrimental effect on people who depend on public services, and who may already be vulnerable.

We need to do better.

#publicservices #ux #productdesign

From Ideas to Impact: The Case for Teamwide Experimentation Empower your product team with experimentation: challenge assumptions, reduce risks, and build a culture of learning to stay ahead…

Great ideas don’t live in silos. Experimentation works best when it’s a team sport—collaborative, iterative, and focused on actual impact. Let’s make everyone on the #product team responsible for #experimentation medium.com/thrivve-part... #prod_mgmt

It is cool! For me, making work systems for expert users, a nice feature of the components are that most of them have compact variants. Our users want information density, and hate scrolling. Compact variants allow us to accommodate that, without compromising key accessibility requirements.

Aksel - aksel.nav.no En samling ressurser fra ulike fagdisipliner som hjelper oss å skape bedre, universelt tilgjengelige og sammenhengende produkter i NAV.

aksel.nav.no is the open source #designsystem developed by the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration.

There is a lot of effort put into making Aksel's 40+ components accessible, and flexible. And there are >910 open-source icons.

Yes, everything is in Norwegian. But it is #opensource!

Not tried it yet, but it's on the list!

✨ Nothing beats working with amazing engineers who:

• Think in product outcomes
• Have a keen eye for design
• Love experimenting until we find the perfect solution

True partnership in product development is when engineering & design push each other to be better. Grateful for my team! ✨

Stack of paper note to keep track of a 14 step weaving sequence.

I made 14 little paper notes with the sequence, put them in a stack and turned one note over when I put the shuttle through. Think I avoided many mistakes, but had to redo a few times even so. Challenging! I got this idea from a post in a weaving group.

Broken warp threads that had to be replaced and given tension. The back of the loom with spoons and other weight objects looks a bit like wind chimes.

Beautiful! Hard weave for me, the black yarn turned out to be a bit rotten, and earp threads kept breaking. The same type of yarn as the rest of the colours, but I didn't warp test all the colours, so that's a really good learning point. The back of the loom looked like wind chimes after a while.

Hva er BlueSky uttrykket for en #tweetup? 🤔

Diamond twill colour gamp with 6 colours

Warp for diamond twill colour gamp with 6 colours

I used this pattern as a starting point, and made a diamond twill colour gamp with 6 colours: shuttlesandneedles.com/blogs/news-1...

Thank you!

A cotton diamond twill scarf woven on a rigid heddle loom

Diamond twill on a rigid heddle loom, using two heddles.

Two heddles on a rigid heddle loom, for diamond twill

Made this cotton scarf on my #rigidheddleloom a few weeks ago. The most challenging #weaving for me so far. #diamondtwill #twill

"Thinking outside the box" is often associated with being creative and innovative.

Comparatively easy to be creative with few boundaries and a new system (no box).

Continuous improvement requires true creativity to innovate "within the box". Lots of boundaries.
#productmanagement #product #ux

😂 I never even noticed before I saw the photo! 🙈

Woll woven herringbone twill scarf

Person wearing wool woven herringbone twill scarf

Here's the finished item. I used two heddles the same DPI, a heddlerod with string heddles and a pickup stick. The weaving sequence has only 4 steps and was much easier than I expected. I followed Kelly Casanova's lesson: kelly-casanova-weaving-lessons.teachable.com/p/herringbon...

An upholstered chair covered with cow skin print fabric. A Basset hound that looks worried.

I upholstered an old chair, and covered it with a cow skin print fabric. My Basset hound looks worried.

#upholstery

Squeezing the Numbers to Design a Weaving Draft Handweaving blog by Beryl Moody

Seen this? bannermountaintextiles.blogspot.com/2016/10/sque...

I think mine will have to be as well, I am fascinated!

That's absolutely beautiful! It just looks right. The colours are amazing!

I never knew about AdaCad, only started weaving a year ago. Thanks for that!

Nothing much to contribute, but I wonder, was AdaCad named after Ada Dietz? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Dietz

You have most likely seen these, but just in case:

Fiberarts.org: fiberarts.org/design/artic...

Dietz' monograph (pdf, hosted at Univ. of Arizona): www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/wea...