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Throwback to one of my early patterns that is already 11 years old - Zimtstern Mitts, fingerless gloves started from the thumb with surface crochet added as you go. The free knitting pattern is available from my blog:

https://knitting-and-so-on.blogspot.com/2013/11/zimtstern-mitts.html

eriond

I knitted a pair of these last year!

their-we-go

I made this scarf tonight!

It was handwoven on a rigid heddle loom and took exactly one Star Trek movie and three Star Trek episodes to make :-)

myarmcanfly

Cooking up some colors for MFF today! These are going to be 2oz braids of polwarth roving for spinning, and I’ll have a special price for those who want to try it out and buy a braid and a spindle together!

sometimes-stitcher

oops I started another project while ignoring my 2 other wips. this is the bifurca vest, already one of my favorites because of the unusual construction, color work and the small amount of yarn

braid vs skein (vs cat ???)

anyway, in love with this chain ply, the fibre is polwarth from @littlebirdinagarden 's summer solstice mystery box (please go look at their stuff if you haven't, it's all wonderful) i think its roughly dk ?? I wasn't worrying too much about consistency bc I wanted to have fun and I'm planning on using it for the weft of a scarf so not really crucial

#fibre arts #fiber crafts #hand spinning #spinning #spinning wheel

gentlepetparenting

Can't believe I just, like, made this

#BEAUTIFUL #what lovely blues it looks stunning op

wyndecraeft

One side effect of my research for this novel being steeped heavily in textile history is my swelling disgust with modern fabrics.

Firstly they're so thin? Like most things you see in Old Navy or even department stores might as well be tissue paper?? Even some branded sports t-shirts I've bought in recent years (that are supposed to be 'official apparel' and allegedly decent quality) are definitely not going to hold up more than a year or two without getting little holes from wear.

This side of even two hundred years ago fabrics were made to be used for YEARS, and that's with wearing them way more often because you only owned like three sets of clothes. They were thick and well made and most importantly made to LAST. And they were gorgeous?? Some of the weaves were so fine and the drape so buttery we still don't entirely know how these people managed to make them BY HAND. Not to mention intricate patterning and details that turned even some simple garments into freaking ART.

I know this is not news, the fast fashion phenomenon is well documented. Reading so much about the amazing fabrics we used to create and how we cherished and valued them, though, is making it hard not to mourn what we lost to mass production and capitalism. Not just the quality of the clothing and fabrics themselves, but the generations of knowledge and techniques that are just gone. It makes me what to cry.

I need to get a sewing machine.

marzipanandminutiae

and the sheer variety

nowadays it's Fifty Shades of Plastic, andif people know any fabric terms at all, they think each type only has one form it can take. all silk is limp and shiny like lightweight satin; all wool is heavy coating. all cotton is t-shirt or quilting material

there used to be wool GAUZE. heavy silk twill. knitted silk used to make stretchy stockings. cottons so fine you could see through them, and they were still strong. blends of wool, linen, cotton, and silk in different combinations that have properties even I'm not familiar with yet, as a researcher specializing in this stuff.

mydignityisinflames

Finished a embroidering another pair of converse! These ones are for my mum's birthday 🌸

2012earthnoises

Tshirt idea I had

cognitivejustice

Download this easy DIY clothing repair guide (only 10 pages) from Uni of Kentucky

link to PDF

ramshacklefey

Excellent resource if you're new to sewing and want to start doing some clothing repair!

queenofzan

Professional seamstress here, who has taught intro to sewing many times, saying: this guide is excellent!

cutearose

froggy socks :)

xensilverquill

Oh, won't you come with me where the moon is made of gold? 🌙💚

(pattern link under cut!)

delilahjk

spinners of tumblr: I want more fiber friends on here so I've decided to do a little q&a type thing!! pick a question or two and answer in the tags (or however else u want to answer idc). I'm a fairly new spinner and it would be great to meet some of the other fiber artists in this space :)

please note that I am queer and pro-palestine, and that terfs are not welcome here <3

questions:

1: favorite breed of sheep (to spin, to own, to look at... up to you!)

2: how long have you been spinning and why did you start?

3: tell me about your wheel or spindle- how did you acquire it? favorite thing about it?

4: favorite spinning technique

5: outside of spinning, what hobbies or professions do you do?

6: a pic of your favorite spin

7: shoutout your preferred place to buy fiber

8: favorite color to spin- include some pics if you'd like!

9: dream spinning wheel, if money was no issue?

#3. i have a few spindles from various places but right now my only wheel is a secondhand mahogany kromski prelude i got off ebay #from a nice lady in somerset who didnt use it anymore #i named her ophelia and i think theres a picture somewhere on my blog of her seatbelted into the back of my grandads car lol #5. im a digital artist !! but i also collect and customise furbys and fashion dolls #and knit and crochet and occassionally weave #and i dont have a profession really but im an english lit student atm 😅

sometiktoksarevalid

etrianodysseyobsession-hd-deact

I have thoughts about the last part:

This is what mass consumerist art has done to the idea of selling that as a product when it's so clearly fine art. Like, with the effort she's putting in x20 for a decent wage and materials?? That's a $80,000 piece of art a member of the landed gentry would commission a year in advance for his wife on their 20th wedding anniversary. This is a priceless heirloom. How can you say "Oh yeah, I wanna buy it, you should sell them" as if you could ever turn something like this into a product??

This is fine art, period. That piece will be in a museum, or if not is should be in a museum in a hundred years.