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Lalique amethyst glass buckle

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Falling in love with art nouveau bat jewelry

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Emil Riester (German, ) • Moth brooch • Gilded silver, abalone, chalcedony, green paste, garnet, pearls • German • 1907

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so Pacific Knit Company sells what they call 'doodle' deck, which are full or half decks of cards with knitting patterns on them. Every motif is 24 stitches wide, and a variable amount of stitches tall. The cardstock is comparable to playing cards.

You can shuffle the cards to get a randomized pattern, you can pick out the patterns you think would make a neat hat or scarf (or socks or sweaters, if you're willing to do a bit more work), you can mix-and-match the decks.

And each deck comes with three cards of instructions, including how to make a single-sided cowl and an infinity cowl using the cards.

#must make #come back later #resources #knitting inspiration

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Starting on a sort of patchwork sweater featuring a bunch of spring species, to try to use up my leftover dyed yarn. First one is done, featuring red winged blackbird.

The olive base is dyed yellow onion skins after dyed in iron, and the yellow is leftover goldenrod dyed from a few years back. Everything else is from a local yarn store.

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gonna put the progress of this thing in its own post

so we start with references

then i figure out my layouts and start sketchin, putting the text down first after initial drafting

then i gotta fully flesh out all of the illustrative bits with pencil sketching. we got the holy gritty with his holy hockey staff and flyers pendant, little bits of orange dashed onto there, designing the flyers logo wherever i can

then we get black inking on there, bit more orange as well. normally i get kinda heartbroken when I smear a bit of ink here or there by mistake, even patch to fix mistakes sometimes.

But I'm gonna be real. The small blots match too well with the overall energy of the piece

the next image will be the fully completed piece!

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My blanket is finally finished, and it's huge.

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I'm trying lacto fermentation for the first time! I'm trying various combinations of turnip, swede and carrot, with peppercorns, parsley, majoram, chilli flakes. Can't wait to see what happens...

[Image ID: Five recycled jars filled with different pickling vegetables. There's sliced swede in three jars, one jar with cubed turnip and one jar with batons of carrots. Some peppercorns and herbs can be seen in the bottom of the jars.]

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Finished crocheting my first blanket today! :) a 5'3"ish me for scale

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"Don't just throw ripped jeans away, you can repair them using these 10 cute Visible Mending techniques!!" unfortunately my friend the first point of failure for every single pair of jeans i have owned in my life has been the Crotch and Ass. Knees: fine, cuffs: fine; but 3 years in, and all that stands between the world and my astronaut-patterned taint is 0.5µm of denim worn so thin that every squat threatens to tear it to shreds like wet toilet paper. If the Tiktok craft community could figure out a way to resurrect jeans afflicted in such a way that doesn't involve adding a whole ass buttpatch like some sort of inverse assless chaps situation then that'd be great

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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.

#Must make #Crochet idea #Blanket

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Abalone I found on the beach…

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pink

#journalling #Bujo #Must make #Bujo ideas

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Colour theme for the inside of my planner: 🌹🏵️🌼🍀🪨🪵

Colour theme for the outside of my planner: 🌹🏵️🌼🍀🪨🪵

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you could have had any other dreams or goals, so the fact that you have those specific ones must have a reason for it 🌱

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Words of wisdom from a duck critter 🪿