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'oh it must be so fun and cool knowing how to knit-'

it is. but I also experience the Madness

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I gotta make this.

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Both 😂💗🤪 @anniescatalog

Link to my blog/website: https://crochetml.com/

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this came to me in a dream

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made a guy

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can you explain what you mean when you say "lace rot" ???

It's a term one of my friends came up with - the lace rot, or lace rot disease, usually affects fibre artists (or budding fibre artists) when they're seeing other people make lace, and then suddenly they're consumed with the desire to make lace as well!

It works like this: you're innocently scrolling tumblr, and suddenly come across pictures of an incredibly beautiful, gossamer thin knit shawl, with elegant pattering and beaded in sparkly gems. It looks so intricate and complicated! Then somebody links the pattern, and you look at it, and figure out that it's actually just increases and decreases and some yarn overs. Oh, you think. You could make one too!!

At this point, it's already too late, and the lace rot has set its roots in your soul. There's no point trying to fight it. You will acquire new sharp needles, and more beads than is wise (they are so sparkly!), and oh look, you already had lace weight yarn in your stash, who would have known, and then you will knit a lace shawl. And then another lace shawl. You're browsing ravelry. Your mutuals are helpfully bringing you new patterns. Then somebody mentions crochet, or needle lace, and suddenly you're catching yourself rifling through antique pattern libraries for tatting inspiration. You're suddenly learning four new additional crafts. You make another lace shawl while yearning for more complicated lace shawls, a beautiful, gossamer thin knit shawl, with elegant pattering and beaded in sparkly gems. It looks so intricate and complicated! Yet it was surprisingly easy to create. You post it to tumblr.

Somebody else scrolls through your dash and sees your pictures. Oh, they think...

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Had a revelation recently and thought it might help other people too.

There is absolutely NO shame in having a ton of projects on the go and switching between or even dropping them on a whim.

Hobbies are meant to be FUN.

You can have 20 writing projects, or knitting, or whatever your thing is, and putting them down for a bit or abandoning them is a-okay.

I personally would never think that someone who started playing a video game and then decided to play another before it was finished was a quitter, so why am I so judgemental towards myself?

Doing your hobbies in a way that brings you joy isn't selfish or weak, it's...literally the whole point of them. Go nuts!

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...he is weaving the chocolate. Do you copy, this bitch is WEAVING CHOCOLATE

#i don't usually put chocolate guy here #but this time seems warranted #chocolate weaving

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Thank you for the boops @vanade you're a real one. o7

#i appreciate it #i feeling loved in this tumblr tonight #got max from being able to boop back in the notifications

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Sudoku puzzle blanket!

I came up with this idea when I was thinking about how to properly randomize the colors in a granny square blanket.

You'll need 9 different colors (I used white + 8 shades of purple) and 9 squares of each color. Assign each color a number 1-9. Get a completed sudoku puzzle (or solve one yourself) and start assembling!

I had my squares organized in this bin while I was working and kept this picture saved in my phone with the sudoku puzzle picture to make sure I didn't mix any of the numbers up.

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More medieval dyes for y'all!

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too poor to spend $40 (?!) on a yarn bowl? why not teapot?

#an amazing idea #i have so many tea pots

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I have finished my button video! It is 35 minutes long and I do 4 different buttons. Here’s a link to the accompanying blog post with more photos & links.

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knitting tutorial made by a twenty-something knitting influencer: 18 min long, 12 of those minutes being the intro and a sponsor plug, they show the first few steps of the tutorial at the slowest speed known to man, they show the most important steps at a neck-break speed, they stop every five seconds to talk about what they just did, 40,000 comments filled with questions ranging from insightful to “how do i knit”, filmed with a camera that costs more than a car, the tutorial is incorrect.

knitting tutorial made by a seventy-something grandmother: two min long, filmed 17 years ago, shows you what you want with the skilled patient hands of a beloved deity, made with the world’s shittiest camera, the best video on the fucking internet, four comments and 30 views, you lose the video and never find it again.

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Unblocked, still in progress. I just wanted to share here. ☺️

A bedspread I'm doing for my grandma. Sorry it's still pretty scrungly, I won't get a better pic till I'm blocking it.

#crochet #filet crochet #size 20 #peacock #bedspread #WIP

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