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gingersnapwolves · 12 hours

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y'all said such kind words about my dad's crewel work so here are more pictures!

These are before he started putting himself and Addie (the doggo) into each one. I think my favorite is the one with the lavender fields but I'm also a big fan of the one with the stripey rocks =D

#personal #artwork #fiber arts #embroidery

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loosethreadstitchery · 20 hours

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Finished yesterday. Cross stitch for the frame and blackwork embroidery for the circular fills, on black 14-count Aida cloth.

While I feel like I've generally improved my project photography skills over the last few years, the contrast (or lack thereof) between DMC 211 and DMC B5200 in those smallest circles was A Trial.

Pattern here.

#cross stitch #blackwork #embroidery #blackwork embroidery #fiber arts #fibre arts #circle #purple #geometric #pattern #my designs

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spontaneousmusicalnumber · 2 days

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I've made a fiber arts community on tumblr!

I thought the concept was cool, at least better than those weird groupchats forever ago. Communities can hold up to 25 people, including me. Posts are publicly viewable.

Is anyone interested in joining?

#fiber arts #weaving #spinning #knitting #crochet #post is a lil crispy so you can tell its a screenshot

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flowbish · 2 days

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Embrace Octopus Sweater, completed in march 2023

this was the pattern that got me into knitting sweaters, and the pattern that got me into knitting color work. it took years and several sweaters, shirts, and other color work projects to work my skills up to the point I felt comfortable with this, but for a while this was what was guiding my knitting journey. now that I'm on the other side, I do feel a bit lost. it's really fun having something that consumes you like this—I feel like I'm always chasing something that can be that light, that can answer questions about what to do next, that can give me a metric to measure against. until I find that again, I'll just be making what feels right in the moment

also, wearing this sweater feels like you're getting a big, warm hug from a tentacled beast, which I'm sure some of you freaks are into

#knitting #knitblr #fiber arts #yarn #handmade #sweater #octopus #tentacles

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jules-dahl · 3 days

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Here's a couple of my older makes.

Spice Market, by The Guy With The Hook:

And the Cosmic CAL blanket (pattern by Helen Shrimpton/Crystals and Crochet):

#crocheters of tumblr #crochet afghan #crochet blanket #crystals and crochet #spice market #yarn crafts #crafts #crafters of tumblr #yarn #crochet #fiber arts #fiber crafts

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bakingmoomins · 2 days

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I've been really into making granny squares/granny polygons and using them for tilings

#this is for my math and fiber arts workshop and i am very excited #mathposting #fiber arts #crochet #🐌#🧶🪳

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ace-louis · 3 days

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I need a little advice from the knitting community on here about how to proceed with my jumper.

The vision was to knit a black jumper with different coloured stripes in green, yellow and blue using leftover yarn from socks I knitted previously.

When knitting the blue stripe I realised that the blue colour wasn't contrasting enough with the black to really pop. All three sock yarns have a nice little gradient going which looks really nice for green and yellow but the blue yarn has some really dark bits in it that don't contrast much against the black. So I undid it and used some red yarn that I had left over. Unfortunately this doesn't have a gradient, so I am not convinced it really works. I am a bit torn about what to do now.

#personal #Knitting #Knitblr #Fiber arts #Fiber crafts #knitters of tumblr #knitwear #Knitting jumper #Jumper #Sweater #hand knitted #hand knit sweater

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saja-star · 4 months

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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?

#spinning #historical reenactment #fiber arts #history

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sleepycatmama · 8 months

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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.

#crafts #fiber arts #cross stitch #embroidery #hand quilting

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freeasfishes · 3 months

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Displaced grandmother making clothes for children

#free palestine #palestine #tiktok #fiber arts #knitting

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monstera-tea · 7 months

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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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bright-thehawksflight · 3 months

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You know at first I didn't believe it when fiber artists on tumblr would tell me to be wary of the fiber art slippery slope. And yet. I hear the siren call of the spindle. Fellow crafters help me resist. Tie me to the fucking mast. Please.

#fiber arts #crafts #craftblr #yarnblr #knitting #spinning #drop spindle #i can't start learning how to spin now i just can't #please i still live with my parents i have no storage space #it is the need for new stimuli #my enclosure is small but i yearn for enrichment #lisa says the things

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curlytrek1701 · 11 months

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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