mesterspets

[mesterspets]

the fuck you lookin at keep scrolling

[mesterspets]

This is one of the more ambitious pieces I've done for a bit, and I did it on an absurd deadline, but my trans dragon back patch is done! The project ended up taking 130 hours of working time to finish, using two strands of cotton floss for both fills and outlines. The base pattern was from my own collection and was originally from 1936.

[mesterspets]

[mesterspets]

BEHOLD

smiling bat :)

based on this guy ^ my favorite little guy from British Library Harley MS 3244 f 55v

[mesterspets]

Unrecorded artist, Moose Hair Tufting, early to mid-20th century, Moose hair, fabric, porcupine quills.

Raclin Murphy Museum

[mesterspets]

Beaded Torah Mantle, Jewish Museum, New York.

[mesterspets]

Today we lost the iconic artist Faith Ringgold whose quilt work beautifully presented black, and especially black female, life and culture. Rest in power sister <3

[mesterspets]

I embroidered the mystery files logo :)

Ghost files or puppet history coming soon

[mesterspets]

"crochet can't be made by machines" went from being a cool fun fact to being a call to action of "so if you see mass manufactured crochet in Target, that was made by a person and they were underpaid and you should boycott it" which is true, it was made by a person, but EVERY item of clothing you own (that you did not purchase from a company using ethical labor) was made by a person being underpaid (at *best*.)

Sewing machines are operated by *people*. Knitting machines are operated by *people*. Yes lots of the process is automated but you cannot tell a machine "make me a t-shirt" or "make me a knit cardigan".

Higher awareness of fast fashion, and the true human labor and abuse behind it, is GREAT, but let's not pretend that the crochet hat in target is THE problem. Every article of clothing in target is the problem. "All clothes are made by people" is the jumping off point here into understanding this issue it's not just crochet it's the whole thing ahhhhHHHHHHHHHH

[mesterspets]

Hadi Rahnaward: 'Fragile Balance' (2023) rug sculpture created with matches

[mesterspets]

Purl the Scandinavian way

The video shows the purl several times. Notice again how you keep the stitch from slipping off the needle by holding it in place with the fingers.

Bring the yearn in front of the right hand needle

Then go into the next loop from the right side

Drag the loop out towards yourself

And then twist the needles so the right hand needle is behind left hand needle

Loop the yarn around the right needles with the finger

And now the most difficult

Twist the right needle back towards yourself

And under the left hand loop

And back out of the loop

And voilà, a purl stitch

[mesterspets]

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.

[mesterspets]

Nerida by Anna Nikipirowicz on Ravelry

[mesterspets]

New hat and fingerless mitts!

#knitting #crafts #my post #handmade #stickning

[mesterspets]

True facts.

[mesterspets]

Math is really tiring, im so glad i finally get to relax and do some knitting and crochet and i oh god oh my what the fuck

[mesterspets]

Martina Heiduczek