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Ta da! 🎉 Despite trying to chop my index finger clean off (don't ask) and two stitches later (yes, in my finger, not in the work), I have finished the Melt the ICE Toque:
#MelttheICE #knitting #hatknitting #knitters #knit #fiberarts #knittersofmastodon #knittersofmasto
Speculative fiction as historiography.
"Hobbits don't knit. Or rather, I can't justifiably argue that they do, which took an insane [sic] amount of historical research to get to that admission and might help us teach a more engaging version of our own history."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpa45HWJtXw
#knitting #FiberArts #fashion #history #LotR #fantasy #MediaLiteracy
I haven't done any painting or sketching all month long, but my knitting game is on point! I have a shawl to finish with an April 30 deadline, and I'm absolutely determined to be ahead of schedule.
Romantika Shawl by Dominique Trad, in fluffy vintage mohair and contrasting merino sock yarn
Goodbye Vienna.
I've knit less than I thought (but about as much as I'd expected) during the 3 days there, maybe about half a sock. But there's still at least 7 hours of train ride ahead of me.
Some white #crochet from our Festival ...
Does anybody know how this "wavy" technique (photo 3/4) was called/made:
edit: Image search showed me "Victorian hexagons". I found originals from the 1920/50s but it may be much older.
On Ravelry I found modernized patterns with "popcorns": https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/marguerite-bedspread-6132
#fiberArts #fibreArt #häkeln #crocheter #museum #yarn #wool #white #Alsace #MaisonRurale
An 80cm loom is a massive workout for the upper back and arms when you’re short like me (arm span is 1.5m), and wrists when using a tapestry beater to tighten everything up.
The jersey rag run has begun - two sheets worth of rags to go. This was all I could manage today though before my spine started saying nope.
Glad to see progress on a project started years ago. It got wider than anticipated!😄
I had promised you more #grannies from our Festival of #Wool & #Yarn. The square-bags were new, but I suspect the horrible shades of orange and brown are original 1970s. 🤭
We had a big hype with grannies in the 1960/70s, first with colourful fancy #hippie #fashion, then in the typical colours of rubbish bins (in the early 1970s, everything had that dirty orange: bins, coffee-machines, skirts, wall-papers). @fiberarts
I recently finished this gorgeous (if I do say so myself) spin of a Polwarth/Silk blend from Fossil Fibers Cephalopoda series. I think it’s destined to be a shawl or a hat, probably combined with another yarn because this is only 174 yds. #handSpinning #textilearts #FiberArts this is the one I was referring to in my earlier comment thread with @madgeface
I’m also super pleased that my attempts
as spinner thicker yarn were successful. I’m doing thin again now.
just relax, you’re doing fine
sport of sacred spherical cows
Ash O'Kesta
FanCityKnits 🇺🇦🧶
badstitch
Petra van Cronenburg
Kymberly
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