u/rinky79

I pinch the yarn at the edge before I pull the shuttle across, I form the gentle bubble, and I still get these dreadful blobby edges, and the width still shrinks. (Went from 10" to 9" in spots, although I got it to widen back up to 9.5" in places). How can it be both too loose and too tight?

Any tips? Or does it just improve with experience?

If you don't look at the edges, I like how the weave itself turned out (2nd pic). It hangs really badly as a scarf, so it will be an infinity scarf (3rd pic).

The warp & colored weft is merino SW worsted in Fairy Floss by Mountaintop Yarns. The white weft is from a Corriedale (I think) sheep named Hazel, processed and hand-spun by a friend.

EDIT: NEVER MIND, I AM AN IDIOT. Should have gone back through emails before posting. Or, you know, looked at the dates. Those bills are for 2 months at a time. Carry on.

OK, I never look at the garbage bill, so it has taken me a YEAR to notice that my monthly bill went from $16 to $19 to $20 to suddenly doubling to FORTY-TWO DOLLARS.

Is that for real? I looked at some individual invoices and it's for the same service, weekly pickup of a 32/35 gallon trash bin (the smaller one).

I've done two bottles before, both came out well, and unfortunately I did not write down or otherwise save my settings. I know I did not use exactly the recommended settings for the material in XCS. I also know I used the same settings for a white vs. navy blue hydroflask.

XCS recommendation for a navy 32 oz stainless water bottle: 15% power, 100 mm/s, 200 lines

XCS recommendation for a navy stainless coffee tumbler: 25%, 180 mm/s, 200 lines

(First of all, why are those different? Both are navy coated stainless. If anything, the water bottle probably has the thicker color layer.)

Some other settings I've found floating around the internet:

20/80/300

50/250/200

30/300/300

For the life of me, I can't remember what settings I used, or even the ballpark, and the numbers above are kind of a random assortment over a big range. And of course when I opened the file, I chose the material type and it applied the recommended settings, wiping out the settings I had before.

This is for a friend, so I don't want to ruin the bottle and have to buy another one. Help! What settings are folks using to engrave on Hydro Flasks, Yetis, Stanleys, etc?

RELATED QUESTION: Is there any way to see xTool's recommended settings without applying them to your project? Why are the settings not displayed on the materials screen? Even on the materials webpage on Atomm, it just says "view parameter details in XCS." JUST SHOW ME THE NUMBERS FFS.

Under all the dust covers. Bedlam Bride made me laugh out loud.

Also, I've seen the black light photo of the spines a bunch of times, but the front covers do it too. Anarchist's Cookbook doesn't fluoresce at all.