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SO LIKE???? Did any other glasses wearers realize you can just?? Wrap the arms of your glasses in yarn/string/fabric and make them whatever color you want??

🤯🤯🤯

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Purple Deadnettle Pattern

One of my favorite flowers 💜 Free pattern for whatever craft you like!

Based on these:

#weaving #loom weaving #weaving pattern #cross stitch #cross stitching #cross stitch pattern #pattern #flower pattern #flowers #granny square #knitting #knitting pattern #filet crochet #crochet #crocheting #Weaving #deadnettle #Purple deadnettle #pixel art #Pixel #grid art #fiber arts #fiber crafts #fiber art #fibre arts #yarn crafts #fibercraft #craft #fibre crafts #knitblr

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I LOVE WEAVING SO MUCH

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Well I was trying to do something else by guessing how it was made and I got that wrong but this pattern doesn't look bad (if we ignore how shitty this black cotton is, it's a terrible cotton and I won't buy it again for sure)

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making a metallic spiderweb for a beautiful vintage mirror frame!

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I've wanted to do something with this general shape for awhile, and finally figured out how I wanted to approach it - intertwined rainbow gradients. Blackwork embroidery on 14-count Aida cloth.

Pattern here.

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Big Flower!

Made my flower patter again, but this one is big!

Theoretically usable for weaving, knitting and cross stitch! Feel free to use if you like it!

Also, does anyone know how to deal with draw-in??? These sides are getting ridiculous! I didn't think I was pulling the selvedge that hard, but maybe I really do need to relax a bit lol

#weaving #fiber arts #fiber crafts #loom #loom weaving #fiber art #fibre arts #yarn crafts #fibercraft #cross stitch #cross stitch pattern #pattern #weaving pattern #knitting pattern #flower pattern #knitblr #knitting #cross stitching

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This story was an absolute adventure, good on you for keeping at it despite the frustration!!

That vindication though!!

You'd think this would've turned me off of lace.

So, a couple of (sob) decades ago, I made my mother a lace doily centerpiece for her table. It was a large snowflake about 13 inches (33 cm) in diameter since she loved Christmas and snow.

It was my first real attempt at lace, and it was from a magazine printed in 1938. Vintage and lovely! Woot! Sure, it was ornate and probably wasn't meant for a beginner, but a) I never do anything the easy way, and b) I've been crocheting since I was a kid, so I know my stuff. It was slow going, of course, but pretty straightforward.

Two weeks in, I realized something wasn't right. The arms of the snowflake were looking nothing like the picture, and frankly, were look like they were made by a drunken monkey. I would frog them and redo them thinking maybe I was reading the pattern wrong. Did this several times until, out of sheer frustration, I frogged back several rows and went looking for the tequila. (If you can't beat the drunken monkey, become one.)

Three shots of tequila later, I discovered there were major mistakes in the pattern. Like, enough to make it look a right mess. That night, I ripped back about a week's worth of work, cried a little, and went to bed.

The next day, I started again, this time fixing the pattern as I went along until the printed page was a mess of corrections and cussing. Far be it for me to expect a magazine from 1938 to have had their shit together. (Oh sure, I can say "Well, it taught me how to fix a pattern!" but I won't out of fucking spite.)

Well, since my mom passed last April, we've been slowly going through her things. I finally found that doily. I'm proud to say that other than dingy from use and storage, it still looks as good as the day I finished it.

I decided over the holidays to start looking for that pattern because I actually do want to finish the dinner set. Luckily since nothing ever dies on the internet and my Search Fu is strong, I found it.

Y'all, the first thing I read in its description was "There Are Errors In The Pattern".

I never felt so much "thank the gods it wasn't just me!" about a pattern in my entire fiber arts life! There was that tiny part of me that thought maybe I was still reading it wrong and I just ended up making it a clearer read. Nope. It really was was written by a drunken monkey. (And, corrected by an even drunker one.)

Sometimes, it really is the damn pattern and not you.

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Flower Pattern Revision

So, based on feedback from @persianpenname, I've revised my homemade flower pattern slightly. Still works for weaving, knitting and cross stitch!

Also, I upgraded my cardboard box loom!! It's an IKEA box, so I've named this loom Blahaj!

Ive been working with patterns and textures, trying to learn how they work.

This is what the pattern ended up looking like post-revision!! Would be super fun to do with yellow warps and dark brown weft, would look like little sunflowers!

Since I've learned how easy patterns are to make, I'll probably make more!

#loom #fiber crafts #loom weaving #weaving #yarn crafts #fiber art #fiber arts #fibre arts #fibercraft #yarn #knitting #knitting pattern #knitblr #cross stitch #cross stitching #cross stitch pattern #crafts #craftblr #stitchcraft #pattern #flower pattern #weaving pattern

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Weaving: my lover, my enemy, my friend

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ooooh, love the almost rope/net pattern it makes! And the colors you chose are phenomenal! 🤍💙

Absolutely awesome new tablet weaving pattern!

#weaving

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Does this make sense to anyone other than me? 😭

It's intended to be a weaving pattern, but could also be used for cross stitch or knitting.

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Y'all, I spent WAY too long on this. 😭

I made a heddle comb out of cardboard, coffee stirrers and a LOT of packing tape.

It kind of works????

Not quite the way it's supposed to, but I DO like the pattern I'm getting from it.

Will probably switch back to my peg-loom setup after this one.

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Second weaving done!

I swear for every inch of this one, I learned how NOT to do something. Lots of learning and growth!

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Drew a little robin picture to go with the robin feather I found, really happy with how this turned out! Gonna laminate it with the feather inside.

#drawing #hand drawn #robin #apple blossom #Feather #coloring #spring

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Finished my first ever weaving!!!

I rewarped my loom, and now I'm playing around with switching colors!! This continues to be a lot of fun.

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First Time Weaving

So I felt the siren call of the fiber arts and NEEDED a loom. Ended up making one out of wooden skewers shoved into the edges of a cardboard box. My shuttle is two wooden party forks taped together. My warps are loose, my selvedge is too tight and I keep missing stitches, but I'm weaving!!! It's so much fun too!! :D

#fiber art #fibre arts #fibercraft #loom weaving #weaving #fiber crafts #yarn crafts #loom #fiber arts #Loom #DIY