#I love buying yarn

[lulushishii]

Half assed finger coloring of a messy Zolu doodle while I mourn the loss of my Apple Pencil, never to be seen or heard from again (I lost it)

#zolu fanart #zolu #one piece #zoro x luffy #roronoa zoro #monkey d. luffy #taking naps together is their love language #if I have to buy another Apple Pencil I’m super glueing a string of yarn to it #for now take this #my finger hurts

[finelythreadedsky]

fiber arts are very dangerous because you knit one and a half sweaters and pretty soon you've got yourself thinking "yeah i could probably do that proverbial impossible task from that one fairy tale"

#no buying nettle yarn. no buying nettle yarn! #mine #i think theoretically at least it would be possible to do a nettle shirt that also fulfills the impossible task in scarborough fair #love impossible tasks. love to complete one one day.

[emgoesmed]

2/15/2024

Scenes from yesterday 🥰

30nym challenge Day 7: Reflect on the past week. What went well and what went badly?

Honestly I’ve really enjoyed this week! Nothing went badly. The worst part was the commute to campus for a couple days, to tutor M1 students. What went well: I’ve had so much free time to exercise this week! It feels so good & it’s a privilege to be able to move and be active.

#emgoesmed #studyblr #studyspo #med student #med school #med studyblr #30nym #productivity #coffee #vacation #cat #not my cat #i love meeting cats when I’m out and about #I got yarn for a friend who crochets and knits #it took so much self restraint not to buy some for myself #but I have 2 unfinished knitting projects

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Book Mail, or: I Really Need To Go Back On A Book Buying Ban, Huh.

#books #book photography #book haul #ordinary monsters #j. m. miro #jm miro #hell followed with us #andrew joseph white #no one will come back for us #premee mohamed #piranesi #susanna clarke #ordinary monsters was Not technically mail (i went into HPB and it was a new remaindered copy for $12 lol) #(i had a birthday coupon so i figured what the hell #the REST however was book mail #NO ONE was preordered on indie day so that doesn't count #but hell and piranesi were both recent orders from Brilliant Books in michigan and they need some help #i love them so i helped but. now i REALLY need to quit buying shit for a while lmaooo #(this also goes for yarn i think) #unfortunately i have poor impulse control at certain times of the month and i'm already irritable as hell about it and Life so. hnngh #i want a fucking house and some fucking space and a fucking book deal #instead i keep buying myself little treats about it #because nothing is working #i don't want a career i just want money #(unless it's a noveling career that i could do)

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

Y'all ever see a sweater that you instantly become Totally Normal about and then realize it's a 2.5K USD designer piece

I'm completely in love with this sweater. I swatched out the open work and got pretty close to the original (my double yarnover holes are more round than square but I'm ok with that. I also think they're slipping one of the vertical stitches in the decrease columns because I have one more stitch than they do for every repeat) I've never knit a saddle shoulder construction sweater tho so I would have to figure out the most optimal way to go about it.

This is certainly going on my "one day" project list mainly because I really would want to knit it in a similar colourway (or navy or dark brown) and fingering weight yarn. Which the only solid colour I have even remotely near of right now is a yellow and I'm pretty sure that still wouldn't be enough.

This isn't the first designer knit item I've ever looked at and said to myself "I could make that" but it is the first one that I've ever wanted to make. I'm not a sweater guy in either wearing nor making but I think this would be a good layering piece for formal wear which I just don't have right now. So even if I don't wear it often it would still have a use.

#justifying to myself why i need to reverse engineer a fucking designer sweater #i need him in my life #going to take a look-see to see if i can get a good image of the under arm/body sleeve area #and download every single image of him off this webpage #but rn i need to downsize on my stash so I'm going to put him off/buying yarn for as long as i can stand #which gives me time for the “do i actually love this or did i love this at midnight on a random Wednesday” #will i still want this sweater in two weeks? two months? the two years it would take to knit him?

[cosmicrhetoric]

should i.......preemptively buy 40$ worth of yarn before a designer picks me for a test knit.......

#its risky but this designer LOVES me if i do this one for her it'll be my third test for her. and im the only one who is doing my job #i mean my due diligence. im posting stories and tagging the knitwear companies and i finished both projects weeks before everyone else #AND to justify the expense i found another pattern i could do with this wool for like four bucks #but this design is a we are knitters collab and sorry you couldnt paaaay me to buy yarn from them. actually you could. #would love free yarn. but if im not getting it for free no way am i buying shit that expensive #if i bought we are knitters yarn for this project it would be a 130$ expense almost #as opposed to the 40 i found on sale from this small norwegian brand. itll felt a little but this is the kind of knit that looks good felte

[unopenablebox]

far enough in the lace section that my golden autumn shawl actually looks like something

#sort of regretting not using more visible beads but it was hard finding something i really liked with this yarn #now im wondering if i should try a niebling doily next. the answer is no bc i should aim to knit something i can use ever #& not make choices that encourage me to buy even more $40 skeins of pure silk rather than using the many extremely nice yarns i have #but i do enjoy knitting mildly elaborate lace and feeling smug. #box opener #knitting #i'm using dyeforyarn laceweight tussah silk and it is SO nice i'm really loving it. was worried it'd be splitty but so far not much #very soft very pleasant fabric. this thing will probably come out kind of small given that i'm down to like 3mms to get a fabric i like #but if i wear it it'll be as a scarf anyway. and it's sooo soft so who cares. #look at that fun honeycombed lace netting between the floral motifs. what more can a man want in life

[rhysintherain]

Okay, who had "Rhys buys a big, complicated piece of equipment they may or may not actually finish a project on in the next 2 years" for their 2023 Tumblr fibre arts bingo?

Because I just bought a 24" table loom lol.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go hand carve some shuttles from my cedar kindling supply, since I spent all my money on a loom and can't afford tools...

#craft things #weaving #fiber arts #this is the low quality screenshot of the classifieds picture because i can't find a place to put it without my messy house behind it #I'll post a better one once i start using it #it was only 100$ i couldn't pass it up #my grandmother has one that's the same style and its one of the things i miss most from living at home #and shes never ever going to let me have it #so i had to buy my own #the lovely old lady i bought it from had 3 looms in her living room #on the upside maybe I'll use up some of my unnecessary collection of yarn now #lmao we all know how THAT goes...

[dandyshucks]

ouhhhh the neighbour doesn't have any supplies of her own for crochet and I'm teaching her and my mother today starting in just over an hour

and i am ... not selfish with my supplies but i am unemployed and living off a very tight budget (cannot purchase any more yarn for projects unless i manage to do some pretty spectacular savings on my groceries for the month which is... not very doable) so I'm a tad worried she's going to be good at crocheting and want to Make Something with the yarn that i do have fjdskl and I would normally be totally fine with that but considering there's basically nowhere in town to buy yarn (i've had to buy online) and shipping is $20+ lately, that's not exactly a great thing for me right now 🧍‍♂️

#but i feel terrible for worrying about this fdsjkl like it feels selfish and greedy to worry #however. she is employed. as is her husband. and i have been unemployed (due to disability lol) and have had zero income for three yrs #just living off savings and watching it get drained slowly all away by my parents charging me rent to live in the basement fdsjkl #(and i realize i am very very lucky to have had so much in my savings account that i'd been stashing away since my first job in gr 8 lol) #so um... i think perhaps she should go to walmart and buy whatever random skein they have on the bare shelves #in NORMAL circumstances i'd be totally fine to share my supplies #i love teaching ppl and sharing my crafts !!! i love helping ppl make art !! i am normally very happy to share and give away !! #this is not normal circumstances though i am so stressed about even just buying groceries lately fdsjkl #AUUGHH i was just hoping she'd got some sort of beginner's kit or smth already fdsjkl #im probably worrying about nothing though fdsjkl like crochet takes a while to get the hang of #and hopefully by the time we have our next ''lesson''/teaching session she will have acquired at least some yarn of her own #and unfortunately i cannot lend her any of my hooks bc i am working on a project that requires the hooks i'd normally lend #vent // #dandy.cmd #I'LL DELETE THIS LATER BTW SORRY i just have to yell somewhere so i dont cry and panic dsfjkl i got myself so worried over this

[milkweedman]

I've rapidly become obsessed with that belt, I Need to make a recreation...

#augh no time though #one of the local museums is buying folk art and seems to have zero clue what theyre looking for #and i am gonna try to sell something to them for display #but i think i need to make something first bc im really attached to all my pieces atm #so im Busy ! #but i love that belt #was looking at the louvre page too they have the dimensions and all #need to study it a little closer and see if i could figure out the number of plies and if its the same in all the yarns ? #would be SO cool to do it out of naturally dyed wool #augh i need to get back to cleaning this place. i hate how busy i am i just want to sleep and make recreations of byzantine iron age belts #in peace. and maybe even play a little mined craft... is that so much to ask

[the-fibre-stuff]

So I made a bit of an oops... I checked out the yarn at the thrift store today. (I have no excuse. It’s not even near the knitting needles these days, so I can check those out and not look at the yarn, if I want to exercise self restraint.)

For $12 I got 6 x laceweight in what feels so much like 100% wool that I haven’t even done a burn test yet. 2 ply. Each ball is between 45 and 55g. Lovely colours.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I assume it’s not washable, so I need to take that into consideration with what I make and for whom. (i.e. not the kids.)

#I'm off to browse Ravelry #This stuff is so lovely #I need to stop buying laceweight #stick to the heavier stuff #not that I have a shortage of sock yarn either

[vargaslovinghours]

If not your Best Behaviour, how about moderately good behaviour? No?

#💟 #Doodles #Art #Edgar #Scriabin #Ladyverse #Silly little things again #I can't explain the first one #The words spontaneously appeared and I had to use them so *gestures vaguely* #It's not actually cat food lol #P...probably #The Ladyverses were from watching some videos and wedding dresses featured and I was still in a skirt/dress mood #Lady!Edgar in white satin ♥ #Scriabin could be in black to counterpart but honestly I imagined a nice gunmetal purple lace and velvet #I love the Ladyverses so much ;; #Ahem anyway lol #I've already forgotten exactly what inspired the Swear Jar/Yarn Fund but I have been thinking about Scriabin looking at the skein lately #It also amuses me to think of Edgar implementing a swear jar to try to keep Todd's poor ears from burning haha #The poor kid's heard way worse than bad words ahh #And then Scriabin co-opting it so he can just keep buying more and more yarn haha #That last one fills me with love #I've been kinda bit by the animation bug again - tho I haven't done anything about it yet :P #But I had the mental image of Edgar breathing lightly and it slowly rising and lowering toy Scriabin legs hehe ♪ #It was also really fun to doodle Edgar's hair pulling against his hairline and where it's cut again ♥ #So cute 💕

[frogcoded]

ended up frogging my embarassing second attempt at a sweater because i hated it so now i'm starting again but following a pattern this time. i did this for sewing too where i started out wanting to just do things my way then realised i had to stop and learn first and then i could start winging things. it's going to be the same for crochet and i enjoy it too much to let it go

#at least this time i really really love the color i picked #but next time i want to try some thinner yarn because this is a bit too chunky for my taste #but on god i will finish this before i buy any more yarn

[fruitsclipper]

yeah the blanky is going to be 6x9 (lol) i only need to make 47 more squares And then finish them and then. slipstitch them together And. crochet border around the whole blanket. i hate acrylic yarn btw it just feels yucky but unfortunately its all i have on hand aside from my cotton doily thread

#astr.txt #id love to make a nice wool blanket someday... #or at least like a wool shawl. winters are fuck here + the house is so cold #Maybe. i buy some next time i go yarn shopping. wistful sigh

[bwabbitv3s]

I made a lot of amigurumi during 2020-2022 it left me with lots of partly used skeins of yarn in random colours. So one of my yarn projects for 2023 is a scrapbuster project. I plan on making a Hygge Burst blanket to use up the awkward scraps I have with bits too small for normal projects.

This is a tiny bit out of my comfort zone as I prefer to buy and use yarn for specific patterns. Or plan out the exact colours and amounts I need so I don't end up with too much extra or short of yarn. A project that is all about just putting things together is a bit intimidating so make a pleasing end project without knowing what it will look like.

I am also making my first magic yarn balls to use up the tiny scraps that can't be used. Eventually they will be used for a project where I hold two strands together one a plain white or black with the multicoloured one.

#crochet #wip #scrapbuster #yarn stash buster project #I have too much tiny balls of scrap yarn taking up space #I try to avoid having too much of a yarn stash #Which is hard because yarn is so pretty and soft #I only buy yarn if I have a pattern for it to stop me having a giant stash of yarn #nothing is sadder to me than looking at my stash of lovely yarn and not knowing what to do with it

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

It's that time of year again where I don't feel bad about buying discount yarn by justifying it as an birthday present to myself.

At least this time I had a strong idea of how I was going to use everything I bought. Keyword "had", now that I can see the yarn in person I'm not feeling as confident.

The orange hanks (Koigu Premium Merino in colourway 1113) look really good on camera but is much more peachy in person. Which isn't to my taste and not what I expected. I'm no longer sure what I want to make with it, probably something either purely practical (like a knee/elbow warmer) or a gift for someone, maybe a colourwork cowl? Or a hat for my dad to keep in his car during the winter time

The blue skeins (Paintbox Socks in Kingfisher Blue 1434) are a little bit more on me, I expected a lighter, brighter blue and didn't do enough research to double check. It's still very pretty so I'm not too disappointed, but I had planned to knit a shawl with the paintbox, the more teal blue hank (Cloudborn Fibers Superwash Sock Twist in Lagoon), and the light grey hank (Cascade Heritage Sock in Grey 5660). I still think there's a project in there somewhere, but I'm not happy with both blues together.

I've been trying not to just buy yarn because it's pretty and only buy when I have an actual project in mind, I have a big enough stash that I don't need to add more to it (arguably i need to give some away/donate it/sell it, a lot of it does not spark joy anymore now that i know what i like to create). Hopefully it doesn't take long for me to figure out what I would like to do with them.

#knitblr #knitting #yarn #craftblr #yarnblr #collecting yarn is the real hobby #technically i don't even have my full stash here and what i have is already more than two trash bags full (temporary home) #I still have a lot of yarn in storage from when i moved but honestly like. I'm so much happier with this smaller amount. #There was so much yarn i bought when I was less experienced or had different priorities #there was a lot of “oh i love rainbow variegated barf yarn!” and then I would knit 3 rows and go “oh i hATE it” #Solids are way more boring to like look at and buy but then i love knitting with them way more