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Here’s a quick and comprehensive video of how I made paper 📝

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My blanket is finally finished, and it's huge.

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Keychain I made in 2021 out of bits and pieces I had lying around.

Admittedly some of the pieces have fallen apart since, but it is my everyday keychain.

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Trying blackwork embroidery for the first time!

I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, but I was intimidated by the lack of instructions. Yeah, it’s only backstitch, but where do you start? What’s best practice for moving around the piece? How do you do Holbein stitch without losing track of where you are in the pattern?

So this is me saying fuck it there’s no rules. Whatever works.

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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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Literally

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100g of dyed mixed breed locks, colourway „Star Crossed Lovers“ by Marie Reddings Arts, spun lock by lock and autowrapped with a coral pink Madeira Spectra glitter thread.

The colours were lovely and the locks soft but still so very dirty, preparing them took forever….

Don‘t know what to do with these yet - should I take up tapestry weaving..? XD

#i gasped so loud #that’s sexy af

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I came across this in a book I'm currently reading and it's really stuck in my mind and I wanted to share

'Sheep in Wolf's clothing' by Judith Duffey 1986

I don't know if anyone on here is going to be interested I'm this piece or anything but I wanted to share as it struck me an an amazing piece of textile art

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stuck in the time loop but i just use it as a free day off. im not even trying to get out. i am teaching myself to knit. i am crocheting. i am cooking. not even doing anything crazy. just escaping capitalism for a week. day 375 and im not sure what lesson it's trying to teach but i've taught myself to hand make lace so all is well

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950 yards of gradient 2 ply from 4 ounces of Ramboulliet wool, WPI is probably at least 35 or so but i am too busy petting the skein to check it. i'm so happy with how it came out, still have a lot of work to do on my fine yarn skills but look at it!

#at first I thought it was beautiful as just a dye job #but then I saw inconsistencies and realized it’s dyed and THEN spun #op I am bowing to you for such a beautiful long gradient fine yarn this is beautiful

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freshly washed and dripping all over my balcony

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“Temporary stitches” all stitches are temporary if you have a pair of scissors and aren’t a coward

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Upon finishing your knitted garment, immediately throw it at the nearest family or friend so that they may inspect and admire your creation.

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90g, 650m of Polwarth/Milk Protein Fiber finally done! Just needs to finish drying and then it‘ll be turned into a slutty crop top (my sis‘ words).

Wool is „Standing Stones“ colourway by Regenbogenwolle.

#the gasp i gusped #this is genuinely so beautiful #I love a good two ply

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By LabradoriteKing on Pinterest

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I think next I wanna try making each wing of a moth separate and then combine them somehow?? To make a 3d beaded moth.

Enough wire, determination and beads and this will happen