#my yarn is away!!!

[lit-in-thy-heart]

when you run out of energy midway through a task but it really needs to be finished

#GUYS I TACKLED THE PART OF MY ROOM THAT I'VE BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON #my yarn is away!!! #my cushions are away!!! #i no longer want to cry when i open my built-in wardrobe!!! #only *minor* issue is that my bed is covered in everything that has yet to be put away #and so is half my floor #also i will have to take a load of stuff to the charity shop which i've been putting off for like a week and a half #but i'll persuade myself tomorrow by having a little treat of coffee afterwards #took a break an hour ago when it was getting overwhelming to cuddle a cat #that also helped #i just #i don't want to have to move everything to redecorate soon #but that's not urgent so i can probably leave it a few months lol #and then i need to figure out wtf is going on with my wardrobe doors and if they can be fixed or if it needs replacing #but that's a probably for next week me :) #personal #lit talks

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

helloooo have a messy scribble page of oc concepts. unfortunately, im in love and will now proceed to ramble At Length

but before that! rudimentary height chart!

all i know rn is Mairy - the cow - is about the same height as Howdy/Barnaby/Poppy (around 8ft), Hettie & Daisy are in the Wally/Julie/Sally category (around 3ft), and Jesterly is more Frank/Eddie (around 4ft). Derry Drake is fuckoff huge, and Casey is... idk really. tall but not That tall

so. rambles. i... have those, yeah

Mairy Love - she/her - lesbian a gorgeous white/blue cow! originally she was gonna be pink/white, but blue/white is my favorite color combo and honestly? it's dairy colors to me. she's big! she's strong! she's very gentle and sweet but also takes shit from no one, even though she doesn't like confrontation much (unless its playful roughhousing! jokes fly completely over her head! i'm thinking she tends to a lovely orchard of various fruit trees, and probably cultivates some crops for fun as well. maybe seasonal ones? pumpkins for the spooky season, fir trees for those snowy days, etc.

Casey J. Mittens - he/him - aro this orange fella is scaredy cat central! unfortunately for him, he's also curious to a fault! curiosity killed the cat, and he fears the day that rings true for him! he'd rather curl up at home or in a cozy tree, crocheting something cute from one of his many balls of yarn than do anything else. he tries to be a voice of reason, but is too easily convinced otherwise. he's that friend who says "we shouldn't be doing this" as he wholeheartedly assists in the shenanigan in question.

Hettie (currently undecided) - she/her - bi true to her honeybee heritage, Hettie is a florist! she boasts an impressive array of flowers that she tends to like her life depends on it. she's always running around to make sure they're all getting the best care - and she's always checking in on her pals to make sure they're taken care of, too. she's a busy bee who wouldn't know a day's rest if it stung her on the ass! It takes a lot to make her mad, but everybody better watch out when her wings start buzzing

Daisy Hop - she/him - pan i actually created Daisy as a supplementary character for a certain au, but realized i could find a place for her in this little group. i'm thinking he runs a little shop - a roadside stall, more like - where she can both sell her own homemade candy & his friends' stuff! she's the only one in the group that can keep up with Hettie's energy, and even surpass it at times. though unlike Hettie, Daisy knows how to take (and appreciate) a break!

Jesterly - whatever/is/funniest - Derry a menace. they love pranks above all else, oftentimes at the expense of others. he's always up to something and is never not scheming something! there's always Someone to bother! in all honesty she's more like an annoying stray cat that no one can get rid of... and they better not try, or they'll face the wrath of this fool's Very large partner! The jester's cap never comes off, and neither does the mask!

Derry Drake - they/them - Jesterly there's no sugarcoating it - Derry is a big lazy grump! it's almost impossible to get them out of their cave, or off of any place they decide to nap. the only thing that can reliably get them moving is the promise - or prospect - of food. it's a wonder how they've accumulated such a hoard of random things in the back of their cave, seeing as they rarely get up at all. they're incredibly nearsighted and bite first, ask questions later - after all, who knows if the colorful blob in front of them is food or not! better to be safe than hungry!

currently in my mind they have their own little community deep in the woods. Daisy lives in a modified burrow, Maisy has a cute farmhouse, Casey lives in a cozy treehouse, Hettie has a small cottage, and Derry & Jesterly live in a cave. within their community, they share practically everything. want a snack? pluck something from the orchard. need a new pair of mittens? ask Casey! i suppose you could say they're communists <3 (except for Daisy. she won't charge his friends, but anyone else is free game)

Mairy and Hettie have romantic tension, Daisy and Derry are the only ones who can tolerate Jes, Mairy wants Jes dead, Casey is terrified of Derry, Daisy's rapid-fire speech confuses everyone but Hettie, etc. i should make a chart for funsies...

#if i want to get realllly out of my comfort zone #i could talk about how my brain automatically started going 'ok this is how they interact with The Neighbors' #but i think. ill save that for now #listen listen for my whole life ive always kept my fan-ocs expressly separate from canon characters #i either put them far away from the action or in a different point in time entirely #but i can. i can have fun? with this maybe? its just a silly side thing... im playing with dolls... #i have Thoughts... #scribble salad #wh oc #welcome home oc #mairy will sometimes crush Difficult To Crush things to intimidate choice people #she's intimidating and she knows it! she'd rather be nice but sometimes a bitch has to get smacked #mairy: im a pacifist #mairy: *loading shotgun* however- #derry often steals casey's yarn for their own hoard #so casey has to go steal it back (or ask for it. either way derry makes a fuss) #I LOVE THEM. FUCK #i dont need any more ocs please... i already have several hundred...

[tj-crochets]

So my neighborhood is getting re-paved (or whatever the word is for fixing the roads) sometime this week, and I don't know for sure that it will aggravate my asthma, but also like...I strongly suspect it won't help my asthma? I've moved my work set up into my bedroom, as far from the street as possible, and will have both my air purifiers in that room, but my sewing machine is harder to move so I may or may not be able to sew at all this week. Wish me luck lol

#the person behind the yarn #hopefully I am just overpreparing #and it will be quick and easy and the wind will blow away from my house #but just in case! I am preparing #because it would really suck to try to move my whole desk setup while wheezing

[strayheat]

MY RAMEN BLANKIE 🍜🍜

context; everyone around me is getting into crocheting and I Want Also. i do not own a crochet hook. i do however, own knitting needles and a Very Yellow yarn to spare >>:)

tldr; made the first square, feedback team said it looked like ramen noodles, i am making a ramen noodles blankie now >:3c

this is the plan: (×more squares)

PLUS UM. i have a real cute border idea for when all the rest is ready but. i rly like it and i dont wamna say it bc bc um👉👈 if i pretend i dont care about it maybe i'll actually get to the point of making it.. 🤲 (its rly fun though trust)

and now. the journey so far

bit wobbly i'll admit BUT‼️‼️ isnt it ramen coded :^)

aaaaandd 👉👈 look at this

LOOK!!!!!! 🤲🤲 my most recent one vs. my first one

i connected two of em together to see if it'll work at all and it kinda did, here's more progress

and as of right now i have 8 squares done (WAHOO💪💪) and ive run out of the ✨️✨️yellow mystery yarn✨️ <- got it from a friend years ago, i have no info on it and i know Nothing abt yarn so. im now playing checkers in a world built for chess sigh.. 😔😔 being very brave though

here's where we're at now!!

the 8th square was still a ball of yarn then >:)

more yarn to arrive this week and then its beast mode babey!!!!!

((im thinking the blankie will need approx. 50 ish squares?? at least. if i want it to be a sensible size bUT!! maybe ill do a border reveal when im more squares in hm👁👁 who's to say))

bonus: heres how these little guys start out hehe

and unraveling the previous thing i had made >:))

#if it doesnt look like ramen to u do NOT tell me im 8 squares deep ok this is Happening #anyways lowkey thank god i don't have yarn knitting is so ridiculously addicting🗿🗿🗿🗿 #like have i gone to sleep at 2am on multiple business days last week and the previous one because i was knitting away? i can neither confir #m nor deny. all im gonna say #special thanks to goma for pushing me to publicize my ramen blankie hopefully this will make me more persistent 🔥🔥🔥🔥 #stray makes a ramen blankie #stray does fiber crafts #fiber crafts #knitting

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE RAIN HERON by Robbie Arnott.*

The People have Spoken, so I'm reading THE RAIN HERON next! This one's been on my radar for a while, although I'm glad I waited (because I like this cover variant much more than the first variant that I saw).

*Featuring Dye Mad Yarns' Great Lakes Collection moonlighting as a background.

#books #books of 2024 #the rain heron #robbie arnott #is three hyperlinks too many in a post that's only three sentences long?? #oh well lmao #book photography #i intend to make the EMBRACE octopus sweater out of the yarn btw #i had to dig it out of its box for this picture and it's been in there long enough that its structural integrity is now Cubelike #it's Fine i'm Fine #now i'm gonna put the yarn away and clean and dust my room wish me luck lmao

[toytulini]

me: doomscroll website app 10hrs straight make posts read posts play video game caffeinate slam quick easy dopamine button dont think aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

my guardian angel (currently taking the form of Marina from splatoon to try to get me to listen to her:) do we think maybe completing a physical craft would cause less despair?

#toy txt post #like that one tweet. you know #just sitting here staring at my tiny balls of glow in the dark wool yarn across the room like. bro i need to make a fucking HAT #something. anything. god #just. going insane #i need to PUT AWAY MY LAUNDRY

[ohello0]

Guys,,,,,,

BEHOLD MY NEWEST CHILD! BLAHAJ BE UPON YE!!

Instead of the usual size and color scheme I decided to use up some scrap trans yarn I still had after some other projects, I’m so happy with how this came out!

Thank you to @gigginox for helping me pick out the name Lenny! If anyone wants to see me make the Traditional Blahaj(tm) lemme know ☺️

The other children will be revealed in due time

#they look like they’re smiling 🥺 #this started as a mini template for the average size and color blahaj I was planning #but clearly I got carried away #should I make other sea creatures with the rest of my pride yarn scraps…. #crochet #my children #blahaj #trans flag

[uncanny-tranny]

This is my first finished project (well, mostly, I just have to give it a final edge and then weave my ends in), I found a crochet hook holder a while back and really liked how it looks; it's crazy that I could replicate it, even if it's not technically great. If you don't look too hard or scrutinize it, you might be impressed (so please don't look close)

If you want to watch somebody who's competent in crochet, watch the video where I followed the pattern!

#art #fiber art #crochet #my crochet projects #described images #image description in alt #i'm going to make another one in a cotton yarn which i think will be better (plus it'll be in my favourite colour) #i wanted to make this one in acrylic mostly as a mock-up and proof of my ability to understand the pattern #the pattern is deceptively hard. i found it was actually very easy to follow and get used to #unfortunately you might not be able to find the written pattern since the creator has passed away and their blog has been scrubbed since </ #but their memory is still legacized in this video... and i made this hook holder because of their original design. that's mind-blowing #unfortunately i started the pattern by obsessively counting my stitches and then that went out the window

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Oopsie doodle

#someone needs to take away my credit card #I'm so excited about my horrible financial choices ^_^ #next I'm looking at a Turkish spindle #please send me your fanciest Turkish spindle shops for me to drool over #spindle #drop spindle #turkish spindle #craftblr #hand spinning #yarn

[letthebookbegin]

#polls #hyperspecific poll #if ur wondering about the hobby materials - books. calligraphy set. crochet hooks & yarn. journalling materials (journal washi tape etc etc) #embroidery kit. paints & paintbrushes & canvases. sketchbook & colouring book & things to colour in with. hiking boots & raincoat. #air dry clay packs & something awful i've made with air dry clay. candle making kit #i didnt include the last 3 in the 7 idk why #they're in the + #oh! also flower pressing kit #some of this is just bc i suck at putting things away but some of them are put away and in my eyeline anyway #and the hobbies that aren't in my eyeline are baking & henna i think #ok lets see if i make it to 70% unrelateability this time #*

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

Had an insomnia night last night. Which like usual lead to me casting on a new doily at 4 am (and sleeping until 3pm so I didn't get the good day time lighting for this photo).

This one is at least small and experimental. I was info dumping about Neibling to my father and used this doily as an example of both how Neibling sometimes would make insertions/edging for woven fabrics (which how I wanted to figure out how to turn them into stand alone doilies), and how a lot of Neibling patterns simply do not have modern photos. Upon a bit of a closer look I figured out I could solve both those problems for this particular design!

According to these charts, the center knit alone insertion (chart a) finishes with 180 stitches, and the edging charts have a 12 stitch repeat, for 15 total repeats into 180 stitches! (i was very proud of this math at 0345 lmao)

It's going to annoy me that chart B won't actually line up with chart A in an elegant way like most Neibling doilies but it's worth it just to be able to see what this pattern. Actually looks like in more pixels than there are stitches in the doily.

#project: doily 13 #lace knitting #lace rot #knitting #knitblr #also it keeps me from casting on something huge instead of working on my evenstar lmao #i've been nibbling away at it but it's already so Lorge it's slow prog #last night i even got the yarn out to knit his Pinia. with it's 111 rows. but manages to pivot to something smaller last second #my deadline for my evenstar is entirely self imposed but i do wanna get it done in time (april) #i also gotta. finish my blanket it's so cold out. but ehhhhh why do that when i could knit LACE

[malcolmreeds]

been teaching myself how to knit today, started making a scarf, its pretty poggers

#i did almost end it all when i cut the wrong ball of yarn off from the piece when alternating colours but i fixed it so crisis averted #if im not amazing at something straight away i tend to just give up but im Gritting My Teeth And Persevring #personal

[cloud-the-forgotten]

Going further into the "Galacta Knight likes shiny things" post, there are shiny things he won't go near.

Things that are shiny and pink? Avoided. Crystals, jewels, and gems? Avoided. Things that are shiny but clear/see-through (like glass, mirrors, etc.)? Avoided. Shiny rocks are on thin ice.

Coins, glitter pens, and other shiny things though? Those are fair game to him >:D

(One time Prince Fluff gave Galacta some shiny beads! Galacta immediately decided he was his friend and gave him glitter pens in return ^-^)

#I had to include a prince fluff interaction! I found my copy of extra epic yarn and had him on my mind for a while (5 hours) :3 #anyway. this is why I said he's like a magpie or a crow :3 #cloud does a ramble :3 #blorbo tag <3 #cloud's 12am thoughts #<it isn't 12am yet but. am eepy. and it's like an hour away anyway :3 #kirby au #kirby headcanons #<getting those out the way first :3 #kirby #galacta knight #prince fluff

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! Weird question, when people talk about joint pain, is that like pain of the muscles around the joint, or pain in the joint itself? And how do you tell the difference?

Asking because multiple doctors keep asking about/assuming I have joint pain, and while I do have some stiffness and pain in joints sometimes I assumed it was the muscles around the joints, because my electrolytes are Very Wrong and it causes muscle issues

Oh wait extra question: when you get cold do the bones in your hands and feet ache and feel like they take forever to warm up? Because I thought that was just bad circulation (from my inability to electrolyte correctly) but now I’m not sure

#the person behind the yarn #medical mention #like. if bending my knee or putting weight on it hurts #but my IT band on the outside of my thigh is ridiculously cramped up #how do I tell muscle pain from joint pain? #I ask doctors but just get told ‘if it’s joint pain you’ll know’ which is supremely unhelpful #like. does the very sharp pain I get in my sternum when my ribs are trying to escape count? #does wrist pain count if it goes away when I crack my wrists??? #(my doctors think I might have weird Rheumatoid Arthritis) #(not that RA is necessarily weird more that it’s been weirdly not super focused on my joints if that is the issue) #(like. less pain than they expected?)

[septembersung]

The clean out and revamping of the studio continues. Today it was “hey this thing you’ve been using as an organizer on the back of the door doesn’t actually work; let’s put all this yarn etc in boxes”

I am torn between joy over a working door, unease because when things are in boxes I forget about them, and chagrin that I’ve rarely used these particular materials despite looking at them nearly every day.

#to be fair to me one reason I’ve rarely used it is as the quote unquote multipurpose room the studio has been frequently too messy and #generally overrun to do any projects in at all #my life #the studio will no longer be multipurpose. it will be yarn hours all the time #except when it’s fabric hours #one of my best friends used to be a professional organizer. like helping hoarders #she’s holding my hand through this entire process #mostly by giving me courage to Throw Things Away

[neverbelessthan]

I got tagged by the lovely @sleepystede to make an adorable little picrew blorbo dude. Thank you for tagging me! 🥰

I was feelin' the spots. He looks like a little chicken stuck in a stress ball. Also this is a 10/10 accurate representation of me in a few weeks, glasses and noise cancelling headphones on, listening to @lindie-kninjaknitter's podfics while i wander about Japan ✌️

tagging: @jessystardust, @adickaboutspoons, @scorpiostarseed, @wickedlycaskett, @endevouring-to-surprise, @daria-meoi, @pumpkinspicepirates and sorry sorry sorry if i've tagged anyone who has already done it, and if I missed someone who would like to do it please just pretend that I'm better at this than I am and that I tagged you. (And if I keep tagging you for these things and you hate them, please tell me to stop.) *social anxiety jazz hands*

(I've been buried under mountains of uni work and only just realised that i've been tagged for a bunch of things! Sorry! I'm slowly toddling my way through them, thank you so much for thinking of me! ❤️)

#my little dude is so cute i love him #i feel like i need to go knit myself a two tone yellow polkadot colourwork sweater now to bring this shit to life #(side note i just discovered a yarn store that's only 30mins drive away and they have PROPER YARN as in more than just the basic #acrylic and cheap-ass wool that Spotlight overcharges for i drove down there today and i spent way too much money but now #i have enough Indiecita alpaca yarn to knit the forest sweater pattern i bought the other day 😭😭😭😭😭) also have i mentioned #how obsessed i am with kninjaknitter's podfics? because holy shit i honestly don't know how i lived without them #who was i before i had her fucking 9.5hr Synchronicity podfic saved to my phone? because i do not remember that person #will both of my 11hr flights be wall to wall podfic and knitting? yes. yes they will #but kate! - you say - don't you literally have 50+ books to read before next semester? don't you start your thesis in a few weeks? #yes. and yes. and shut up i'm going on holidays 🙉