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finally finished knitting these socks! The cable pattern has bunnies in it 🐇
Yarn is from Juniper Moon Farm, Herriot Fine yarn in the color ‘timber wolf’ (75/25 baby alpaca/nylon). Needles are size 0 wooden needles from lykke. Bunny cables are from ‘Bunny Sock Hop’ by Ann Clark on Ravelry
#knitting#sock knitting#knitblr#hand knit socks#hand knitted#fiber arts#mine#these took me like… a year? more? because I kept putting them down for months#I want to sew in some elastic to the top bc they do not stay up on their own at all#sock glue works but I want them to have some grip of their own#they’re so soft and cozy though!!#I’m excited to wear them this fall/winter
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camo jacket, robbing corner stores
hard odds to beat when you're on all fours
words from Crush by Ethel Cain | pattern and embroidery by me
#crush is literally THEE GALLAVICH SONG!!!#ALSO THIS TOOK ME 2 MONTHS I WASTED SO MUCH EVENWEAVE AND BLACK THREAD PLEAK REBLOG PLEASEKEE#gallavich#shameless#ethel cain#mickey milkovich#sameless us#embroidery#fiber arts#mine#smoking#a.txt#ian gallagher x mickey milkovich#ian x mickey#not cross stitch for once! this is my first real try at embroidery!#i want to ramble about this on and on but i shant#get me on a podcast for that#sewing#crush ethel cain#usercallilcon
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This quilt block will soon become a wall hanging:)
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hello it is me @yarn-chicken and i have for you a flock of yarn chickens
patterns: chicken moon star heart heart (applique) sunflower
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Woo! finished my first single on my new EEW 6.1(?). First time ever spinning on a "wheel" instead of a drop spindle, and honestly I love it so much.
I finally started getting the hang of long draws, but you can tell I'm still working on consistency. It's so much faster!! The first 4 oz took me a few weeks and the last 4 oz only took me like 3 days!!!!
I'm planning to chain ply this one, to match what I did with the same fiber on my drop spindles. I think the single is roughly 20wpi as-is. Not sure what that will translate to once it's plied - maybe an aran?
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Swiss darning stars on this crazy green cashmere hoodie I got for like $3 at value world when I was 19
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I've had a hard time articulating to people just how fundamental spinning used to be in people's lives, and how eerie it is that it's vanished so entirely. It occurred to me today that it's a bit like if in the future all food was made by machine, and people forgot what farming and cooking were. Not just that they forgot how to do it; they had never heard of it.
When they use phrases like "spinning yarns" for telling stories or "heckling a performer" without understanding where they come from, I imagine a scene in the future where someone uses the phrase "stir the pot" to mean "cause a disagreement" and I say, did you know a pot used to be a container for heating food, and stirring was a way of combining different components of food together? "Wow, you're full of weird facts! How do you even know that?"
When I say I spin and people say "What, like you do exercise bikes? Is that a kind of dancing? What's drafting? What's a hackle?" it's like if I started talking about my cooking hobby and my friend asked "What's salt? Also, what's cooking?" Well, you see, there are a lot of stages to food preparation, starting with planting crops, and cooking is one of the later stages. Salt is a chemical used in cooking which mostly alters the flavor of the food but can also be used for other things, like drawing out moisture...
"Wow, that sounds so complicated. You must have done a lot of research. You're so good at cooking!" I'm really not. In the past, children started learning about cooking as early as age five ("Isn't that child labor?"), and many people cooked every day their whole lives ("Man, people worked so hard back then."). And that's just an average person, not to mention people called "chefs" who did it professionally. I go to the historic preservation center to use their stove once or twice a week, and I started learning a couple years ago. So what I know is less sophisticated than what some children could do back in the day.
"Can you make me a snickers bar?" No, that would be pretty hard. I just make sandwiches mostly. Sometimes I do scrambled eggs. "Oh, I would've thought a snickers bar would be way more basic than eggs. They seem so simple!"
Haven't you ever wondered where food comes from? I ask them. When you were a kid, did you ever pick apart the different colored bits in your food and wonder what it was made of? "No, I never really thought about it." Did you know rice balls are called that because they're made from part of a plant called rice? "Oh haha, that's so weird. I thought 'rice' was just an adjective for anything that was soft and white."
People always ask me why I took up spinning. Isn't it weird that there are things we take so much for granted that we don't even notice when they're gone? Isn't it strange that something which has been part of humanity all across the planet since the Neanderthals is being forgotten in our generation? Isn't it funny that when knowledge dies, it leaves behind a ghost, just like a person? Don't you want to commune with it?
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there's actually a secret eighth deadly sin and it's exactly like gluttony except for textile projects
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so since retiring, my dad has gotten into crewel, which is like freestyle embroidery with yarn, and his stuff is pretty good, he made this one which is hanging in my office at work
and lately he's taken to putting himself and his dog into the landscapes and I just think it's! so! cute!
see the little man and the little dog!!!! that's my dad!!!!
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One should always have at least 2 craft projects going. That way, when one of them is messed up and misbehaving, you can switch to another, and let the first one sit there and think about what it's done.
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Displaced grandmother making clothes for children
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so today at work one of my coworkers hands me a box
I have no context for this. He’s a 50? 60? Year old plumber who tends to walk into the office, tell a dad joke, and leave. I’ve just arrived at work and am still putting my purse away. So he hands me this box and says it comes with instructions. I open it and unfold this
He says his great grandma probably made it
This pansy is the tiniest pocket in the world
It could use some blocking after who knows how many years in the box but look at these sweet little pansies!
The pattern was clearly typed on a typewriter, several pages of it. I guess this was an apron specifically for having your friends over for tea.
I just happened to be wearing a skirt that kind of goes with it, so I did wear it all day (it’s a @mayakern skirt!) and another friend said I look like I should be living in a shoe. Perhaps as some sort of mouse girl making pastries for the other woodland creatures. But uhhhhh what an incredible heirloom piece to just be handed. It’s probably twice as old as I am. I’m definitely going to bring it to stitch circle this week
#crochet#knitblr#fiber arts#idk if there’s a crochetblr please don’t think I don’t know the difference#there are two types of people who find out you crochet#the first type immediately asks you to make them a blanket or a sweater#the second type just hands you something incredible and beautiful unprompted
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not to sound corny but the textile arts make me feel connected to the world around me. it's so intentional and deliberate and when i sit and do it, i think a lot about how many other women that came before me used to do it, how many hands have used the same supplies i am using, and how many other people might be doing the same thing as me all across the world right now
#fiber arts#knitting#crochet#embroidery#cross stitch#tambour embroidery#spinning#quilting#sewing#weaving
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Fiber arts is just Math in sheep's clothing
#the angles were off on the armsceyes of the shirt im modifying#aaah#sewing#knitting#crochet#knit#fiber arts#weaving#fiber art
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K so not to be dramatic or anything, but there's a free vintage French pattern book available on antiquepatternlibrary so if you like to crochet/weave/make pixel art/tie epic friendship bracelets don't walk- RUN.
It has scenes from aesop's fables! Cherubs doing things! Beheadings! Greek muses! Little farm people! Intricate floral pattern! Goth stained-glass window like patterns! Fun little corner pieces! Eeeeeeeeeeeeee
https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/C-TT008-180.htm
#tapestry#crochet#friendship bracelets#pixel art#weaving#art#fiber arts#crafts#creativity#cross stitch#cross stitch pattern#pattern#crochet pattern#tapestry pattern#bracelet pattern
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symbiosis
some visible mending I did on an old flannel recently! this was fun but took me so long to convince myself to do, Im very happy with how its come out though. The lichens are oak moss, bloodstain lichen, a third thats very common in texas but i forgot the name of, and then some lovely little algae (i love algae in theory but hate it in eutrophication ;v;)
#lichen#art#traditional art#artists on tumblr#embroidery#visible mending#sustainable fashion#slow fashion#patch#biology art#fiber arts#moss#algae#symbiosis
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