pls recommend a true beginners first crochet project
I really like washcloths because they're small and you can start with a single crochet stitch and work your way from there. Cotton yarn is pretty cheap too, though it isn't stretchy. If you're struggling too much with cotton, blanket squares are another option that can use any yarn.
This tutorial has good pictures.
What I did to learn each crochet stitch was use wikihow because each step is in gif form. Videos were too fast for me and still images didn't make sense. They have guides for everything from making a chain to more complicated ways of starting a project like Magic Loop.
Been looking at customization w a friend recently and neo's had some great items the past few months but... why are nearly all mara clothes wigs and dresses designed for upright humanoid pets
Eriophora Dyeworks traded goods and favors with a number of herders locally and in the sister cities to have raw materials on which to use their dyes. Of course, there were the heritage breeds of sheep, the llama and alpaca herds that peered at them from small faces on periscope necks when the dye makers came to visit, even the tranquil domestic unicorns with their spinnable manes and tails. More precious for their rarity were the people who kept vegetable lambs and spun their ovine cotton, or the otherwise eerily motionless keepers of spiders, whose fingers constantly rolled like they were pulling up a single strand of steel-strong silk from some industrious arachnid just out of the uneasy visitor's sight.
Normally I don't have those wierd impulses with dye, but omfg this particular color looks so much like koolaid I had to keep telling myself not to take a swig
I’ve finally got asiriza to what I think is just the right paint/custom- she’s probably had the most (deliberately chosen) colours of any of my pets, going from red to magma to eventide to finally stealthy.
I pointed this item out to my friend and said, "I want this one" and decided on pulling 3 accessories & 3 trinkets/backgrounds, then on my 3rd accessory pull got the exact item I wanted
This past year for one of my final projects I combined dyework, drawing, and embroidery. This piece is directly inspired by mushrooms that were growing in a stairwell in my school, fitting with this years pieces that were all inspired by the places that I consider home.
My design process starts with drawing, so it seemed right to highlight that in one of my final pieces, while utilizing natural dyes as paint. I began by compiling my photos of the mushrooms and doing gesture drawings and studies of them in graphite, which is also what I used on the finished piece. The natural dyes I used were bought from Maiwa, including logwood, walnut, and cutch. The piece is entirely silk, the fabric is silk noile that I stretched onto a frame and the embroidery threads are both cultivated silk and silk noile.
(hopefully tumblr doesn’t eat the image quality too much -_-).
"Autumn mood" kimono items collection by 3magpies studio, featuring among other things a pumpkin hanhaba obi, a kimono with hidden foxes, a haneri with maple leaves+mushrooms+foxes+spiderweb, a mushrooms colllection hanhaba obi, a skulls+bats halloweeny hanhaba obi.
I love the hidden foxes kimono with its white ground and bright coloring similar to Ryukyuan bingata dyework <3
I was noticing people mentioning in asks that they've taken up embroidery, etc from reading your fics and being inspired In that vein: count me in that number now!
I have gotten way more interested and active about making bread from scratch, sourdough, grinding my own flour etc. I could already bake but I hadn't been bothering for years. Reading about Lamb and Julita got me back into it.
Also, fiber arts and dyeing: Lambert in MBTT with his dyeworks experiments inspired me to get some books on dyeing your own skeins and I'm planting some dye plants in my garden this year. Starting with Coreopsis, Calendula, Yarrow, and maybe some acorn experiments with our nearby Oak. So mostly yellows/browns/maybe greys... I'm still working on getting ahold of seeds and making a space for madder and woad. But it has been bringing my latent inner chemistry nerd a lot of joy!
So thank you, your fics bring both comfort re-reads AND more involvement with new hobbies!
That is all amazingly cool and I am delighted to have helped inspire you to pick those hobbies back up! You'll have to let me know how the dyeing experiments work out!
i asked my dad to buy me 3 things from he store and he got two wrong???
he is now going back to the store to get the right ones but how do u mess up that much he didnt even have to buy anything else except for toilet paper i am PUZZLED
How??? Yesterday I sent my husband to the store to pick up a gallon of paint, and he brought back TWO gallons and one of them was a color I didn't even need yet. At least he got the right color as well lol!
New sock alert: I'm endeavouring to knit the world's tackiest socks. I'm unsure if I like the spiral rib or just plain stockinette. The ethos of these socks is More so I want to do some kind of stitch pattern, but the stockinette shows off the gorgeous yarn so well.
(the variegated yarn is Shits and Giggles from Okanagan Dyeworks and it's gorgeous and fills me with glee)
Finished the slouchy beanie! It has mistakes, but this was my first foray into Magic Loop, so perfection was not expected.
Really loved the gradient on this. Yarn is from The Blue Brick Dyeworks in colorway The City of Grand Rapids. Not what I had originally planned, but the stash needed destashing. Spawn found a friend to take the finished product off my hands.
Look! I made room in the closet for more fiber! Mwahahhaha...