#knit life

[dofnup]

Last night I came to the realization that I had to frog 2 rows but instead I just sat there thinking about frogging 2 rows and grumbling about it, but not actually frogging them, until it was time for dinner. Then this morning they weren't magically frogged? Ugh.

#knitting #knitblr #knit life #knitting world problems

[cindycintn]

New Year, New Stitches: Crafting Daily Knitting Rituals

Happy New Year! Have you considered a new daily knitting ritual? Thinking about a temperature blanket for 2024? Read more for my thoughts and a pattern.

It’s a brand new year! Looking for a new way to find a sense of calm and grounding each and every day? Think about starting a daily knitting ritual. By taking up a daily knitting ritual, you are invited to weave the threads of your daily life into a tangible tapestry—a daily celebration in which you find a sense of calm and grounding.  You can do a temperature blanket, a prayer shawl, or any…

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#daily knitting #daily knitting ritual #knit life #knitting for mindfulness #meditative knitting #temperature blanket

[crampedfingers]

final piece for my knitting project in class ! (time lapsed photo collage of a wip)

#knitting #knit #knitspo #knittersoftumblr #knittersgottaknit #knit love #knit life #knitting wip

[m0rb1dch1ld]

Omg it’s done!!! I am super happy with how this one turned out! The colors are breathtaking!

I still have another romantic cowl to make for my cousin!

The pattern I used is by tuteate! You can find it here!

Enjoy!

#loom knit #knit goodies #look knitters of tumblr #knitter #knit #knitters of tumblr #knitting #knit life #loom knitting #loom knitter #yarn craft #yarn crafting #yarn crafter #slow craft #slow crafting #slow crafter #yarn love

[happyheidi]

don’t invite me unless these are the plans

#I need a knitting ghost in my life #cottagecore #moomin #moominpappas memoirs #moominpappa #moominvalley #cartoon #ghost #cute #kids shows #knitting #90s #tanoshii moomin ikka #anime aesthetic #nostalgia #nostalgiacore

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i am thinking how much poorer, how much less colorful the world would be if art was only made by "professionals." if all the music, all the stories, all the sketches & paintings & craftwork of the world was created only by the small category of people able to make a decent living from their art. imagine if the only people allowed to create were the experts & the renowned & those aspiring to the top. what a grey world that would be. how much joy would be bleached away! i love you people who create for the sake of creating, i love you artists who do art for tiny audiences, i love you people who make things even just for one person, even just for themselves, even if no one's watching, thank you thank you thank you for decorating the world in which we all exist

#not a shitpost #related: the most powerful crafters alive are crocheters who spend 7+ years making an intricate table cloth no one is allowed to eat on #all that arcane magic into making a display object primarily for their own enjoyment #and that of the blessed few lucky enough to be invited into their home to behold what is by rights a sacred object #if you spend a certain number of hours crafting something u have the right to have it put in a shrine or museum of your choosing i think #you have imbued it with your Life Essence by sheer force of concentration and obsession it is Holy now #anyways. old ladies who knit/crochet/embroider etc are a thousands times more powerful and intimidating #than old white dudes who are obsessed with war memorabilia or whatever #i have nothing but respect awe and appropriate amounts of fear towards crafters. my liege

[obsob]

oaugh kitties

#mine #original #my sketchbooks r full of odd cats and bad figure drawing #as life should b #i had an entire breakdown yesterday but now i feel fine !! #bought sm snacks today....am going to practice knitting #i am . not good. but i am having fun

[inkskinned]

the rise of AI art isn't surprising to us. for our entire lives, the attitude towards our skills has always been - that's not a real thing. it has been consistently, repeatedly devalued.

people treat art - all forms of it - as if it could exist by accident, by rote. they don't understand how much art is in the world. someone designed your home. someone designed the sign inside of your local grocery store. when you quote a character or line from something in media, that's a line a real person wrote.

"i could do that." sure, but you didn't. there's this joke where a plumber comes over to a house and twists a single knob. charges the guy 10k. the guy, furious, asks how the hell the bill is so high. the plumber says - "turning the knob was a dollar. the knowledge is the rest of the money."

the trouble is that nobody believes artists have knowledge. that we actively study. that we work hard, beyond doing our scales and occasionally writing a poem. the trouble is that unless you are already framed in a museum or have a book on a shelf or some kind of product, you aren't really an artist. hell, because of where i post my work, i'll never be considered a poet.

the thing that makes you an artist is choice. the thing that makes all art is choice. AI art is the fetid belief that art is instead an equation. that it must answer a specific question. Even with machine learning, AI cannot make a choice the way we can - because the choices we make have always been personal, complicated. our skills cannot be confined to "prompt and execution." what we are "solving" isn't just a system of numbers - it is how we process our entire existence. it isn't just "2 and 2 is 4", it's staring hard at the numbers and making the four into an alligator. it's rearranging the letters to say ow and it is the ugly drawing we make in the margin.

at some point, you will be able to write something by feeding my work into a machine. it will be perfectly legible and even might sound like me. but a machine doesn't understand why i do these things. it can be taught preferences, habits, statistical probability. it doesn't know why certain vowels sound good to me. it doesn't know the private rules i keep. it doesn't know how to keep evolving.

"but i want something to exist that doesn't exist yet." great. i'm glad you feel creative. go ahead and pay a fucking artist for it.

this is all saying something we all already knew. the sad fucking truth: we have to die to remind you. only when we're gone do we suddenly finally fucking mean something to you. artists are not replicable. we each genuinely have a skill, talent, and process that makes us unique. and there's actual quiet power in everything we do.

#also pay plumbers more. and electricians. and other devalued occupations #idk that this makes sense #but im like #people being so fucking pleased with themselves about the fact they can ''fake'' art #n im like #sure #but what if we stop making things for you huh #what if we stop giving u this stuff anymore #what happens to ur ai art? does it keep growing? does it keep making choices? #why do u need to see us as machines? #''i want X to exist but i don't have the skill to do it'' #okay spend literally years of your life studying #''i don't want to do that'' #okay pay someone who DID do that #''no i don't think it's a real skill'' #okay so. YOU can't do it. and a LOT of people can't do it. but you think WE should be able to? #FOR FREE? #either it has value or it dont baby make up ur OWN mind #btw studying here is not used academically. i think if ur like. constantly knitting. #thats studying #do u spend hours reading and find urself taking notes and learning about writing #ur studying #do you follow other artists and spend a lot of your time trying new things (even unsuccessfully) #that's also studying #etc #was weird to write this thing about choices and then be like. wait why DO i like that

[noballoonsinspace]

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Self-taught one work-in-progress at a time so that there’s some beginner stuff I don’t know and advanced stuff that I do know and I will forever be making silly beginner mistakes in complex projects that I’ll probably never complete :)

#only to add to the Bin Of Half Realized Dreams aka endless wips 😭 #crochet #needlework #textile arts #craftblr #audhd problems #knitting #crocheting #granny square #granny squares #art wip #current wip #crochet wip #creative process #hyperfixation #adhd life #adhd artist #works in progress #work in progress

[werewolf-transgenderism]

rude of my mutuals to be little gay people who live in my phone and not little gay people from real life. I want to make you little trinkets and thingies

#how am I supposed to show you that I love and appreciate you if I can't make you little thingies #with my words???? couldn't be me I can't talk in real life OR online #my love language is making little handmade things for people! drawing things and knitting things and crafting things and handwriting things #I am like a crow or perhaps a raven I will bring you shiny things to show my appreciation

[gornwen]

Please admire my giant baby blanket for Handsome's very tiny niece.

And all the ends I had to weave in.

Pattern: Fly Away Blanket from Tin Can Knits

Yarn: Knit Picks Comfy Worsted and Comfy Color Mist

#yarnblr #finished object #yarn motherfucker #knitblr #knit knit knit #knitting #baby blanket #life with pants #yarn #i made this #knit #handknit

[brackenblythe]

Finishing my first knitting project and taking breakfast in bed

#brackenblythe #studyblr #mine #study aesthetic #academic #light academia #dark academia #cozy autumn #warm and cozy #cozycore #cozy #soft life #soft aesthetic #knitting #bookblr #reading #coffee #food #minimal aesthetic #slow down

[uncanny-tranny]

Blessing of the knitter/crocheter: may your hands never have cuts, bruising, sores, hangnails, or any other nuisance that would make your craft painful. May your hands and wrists never ache 🪷💛

#art #knitting #crochet #i just figured out that the reason i feel like my yarn is burning me is because i have a cut right where my yarn goes #AND it's on the knuckle. this is so fucked up.... #hate and sadness on planet earth #and yet i have still crocheted my rows. i get knocked down but i get up again. you're never gonna keep me down #that cat meme of that song has stayed in my head since i first saw it. i think it's saved my life actually #also this blessing goes double if you have a disability especially of the hands 💛🪷💛

[m0rb1dch1ld]

The way that the shades of purples, oranges, and pinks all cascade into each makes me want to make something else out of this yarn.

I cant get over how gorgeous this yarn is and how pretty this project is coming along!

#wip #work in progress #knit #yarn craft #yarn crafting #slow crafting #knitting #knitter #knitters of tumblr #loom knit #knitting project #loom knitting #loom knitter #slow craft #slow crafter #knitblr #knit life #handmade

[turtle-ika]

idk what came over me but after i read @20s-turtle-posting ‘s post about their Don and Raph headcanon -

... Raph can go hide out in Don's lab area with his knitting while Don rants to him about the latest problem that has caught his attention ...

- i dropped everything i was doing an drew this in a day, i even drew a full background which is super rare

#tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt 2003 #tmnt raphael #tmnt donatello #my art #my stuff #fanart #can you tell i've never knitted in my life #can one even knit with only 3 fingers? #the og twins raph and don

[milkweedman]

It's interesting that crochet is regarded as much easier to fix mistakes, while knitting is very difficult to fix mistakes. I think that's true only when you're a novice--it's easy to just undo stitches with crochet by pulling the yarn, and more difficult to tink back or frog part of jt and put back on the needles.

But once you're comfortable fixing stitches in knitting, it's really not so bad. Laddering down allows you to fix stitches many rows ago, and if you can stomach it, you can undo big and complicated mistakes with some surgery. But with crochet (at least as far as I know; I welcome correction from more experienced crocheters) you can frog, but... that's about it. Want to fix a stitch 10 rows back ? Either make peace with it or frog 10 rows. I find crochet less fixable than knitting by far.

#crochet #knitting #nice to crochet again #im going until my wrists fully rebel #bc life is short and bad but crochet bags are good and forever.