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The one bizarre thing to me about textiles is that warp-weighted weaving is at least 6500 years old, but our oldest knitted artifacts are only ~1000 years old, and crochet 200 years old. Even though you need less equipment to knit (two sticks) or crochet (one hook) compared to warp-weighted weaving (frame, loom weights, batting, heddles). Why the big gaps between these inventions? And why did each one appear and spread when it did?

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Can someone please explain to me WHY no one can accept that I knit for pleasure?? Every time someone compliments me on my knitting they ask me if I've thought about selling it. NO GOD DAMMIIT NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE A SIDE HUSTLE

It would take all the pleasure out of it.

Bring back people doing things for fun. Jesus.

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Jeny’s interlock cast off exactly mirrors the long-tail (and the backward loop) cast on AND is a very good stretchy bind off.

This baby sweater is knit bottom up, but I made the sleeves top down, picking up stitches around the armhole, so to get the same edge on the ribbing, I did the long-tail cast on on the body and the interlock cast off on the sleeves.

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My queers, we really need to put the "no men" thing away. Men are not inherently bad. There are queer men. There are questioning men. There's men that are just plain cool. Denying these men a space at our table is not helping - except the TERFs. I just came off the back of reading a transphobe gleeful rant about the need to have pride without men - They of course mean me. This kind of stuff is damaging to me and I really need us all to take a step back and maybe kill this "men dni, men not allowed" stuff. What you mean is "no men who are going to do mean stuff to me." And frankly those men won't give a shit about that kind of boundary.

But I promise you there's a fleet of good honest men who will see that and be sad they're not allowed in your version of queer spaces.

PATRIARCHY is what you hate. Dni Patriarchs.

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Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

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Love this one so much. The vibrancy!

The scrap quilt is finally fully finished!!!

It’s a wonderful chaotic mess with hundreds of separate pieces of fabric in it and I love it so much

#quiltinspo

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“One other thing that we must do, and is something which tactically separates us Anarchists from the Marxist-Leninists, is that we use our studies of the authoritarian personality to help us organise against fascist recruitment. All the M-L’s ‘United Fronts’ care about is a strict political approach to defeat fascism and prevent them from attaining state power, while being able to usher the Communist party in instead. They organise liberals and others into mass coalitions just to seize power, and then crush all radical and liberal ideological opponents after they get done with the fascists. That is why the Stalinist ‘Communist’ states resemble fascist police states so much in refusing to allow ideological plurality – they are both totalitarian. For that matter, how much difference was there really between Stalin and Hitler? So, I say that merely physically beating back the fascists is not the issue. We need to study what accounts for the mass psychology of fascism and then defeat it ideologically, going to the core of the deep seated racist beliefs, emotions, and authoritarian conditioning of those workers who support fascism and all police state authority.”

-Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, “Anarchism and the Black Revolution”

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Little example of nontextile mending.

#mendingmatters #repairandcare

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Amazing. Not my work. Great example of mending.

Now that Pixie's out of her bitey puppy phase, I'm fixing some of the shirts she bit holes in.

This the sleeve of one of my flannels:

Gonna do a bit more of this pattern and color on a big hole in the shoulder and another small one on the back.

The backing material is 14 count cross-stitch Aida (to keep the geometrics geometric), and the thread is 2 strands of embroidery floss. Still gotta wash the starch out because it's stuff as hell right now.

The pattern came from an image search for geometric embroidery designs. It's a lot bigger than this, but I only needed the center piece for this one.

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When I was a very suicidal trans activist in Texas, Benjamin Sisko saying “sure, you would [die for your people]. Dying gets you off the hook. The question is: are you willing to live for your people?” changed and possibly saved my life. It’s up there with “if we are going to be damned, let us be damned for who we really are” from Picard. Star Trek not only shows us a better world, it teaches us how to make it there

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for when the tv knitting needs to be a shape, I have been referring back to this pdf for years for basic garter stuff. also handy when designing your own lace rot 😊

#knowledge hoard

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if Ghibli film aren’t queer media then why does it make me feel so gender? huh?

prettyboyproblems

girlviolence

camp-scarecrow-father and I-wanna-see-a-giantwoman👀 (deluxe addition)

EVIL-girlviolence (this is from the Nausicaa manga)

PilotGender

MeanHighFemme

MessyOlderSister™

and finally, not necessarily Gender, but definitely adjacent: 

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Albrecht Durer c. 1507-1519

Study of a Basilisk, the Sun, and the Moon

#embroideryinspo

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Oh hey, do you know what time it is? It is highly specific resource time!

Today we have the Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank! There are HUNDREDS of stitch types in the RSN Stitch Bank.

And more added regularly, let’s look at a recent addition

I picked the first one in the 25 recently added Elizabethan stitches, the Elizabethan French Stitch

The stitch bank provides written and photo tutorials as well as a video option to learn to do it yourself. There are examples of the stitch in use, resources, references, everything but a needle and thread!

rsnstitchbank.org

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Nålhus aka needle houses aka needle keepers made with wool fabric, protected by a ceramic case. Stamped patterns with inspiration from plants and nature in general and the geometrical lines somewhat inspired by runes.

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One of these are still in the shop now at nymla.se