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[carolinawrenn]

Spring Light. Made by Stephanie Wilds.

[nanenna]

Finally finished.

[zableye]

knitted another creature jumper! will probably put up tester calls on my IG within the next month

ig: zableye_

[merlions]

I hope all new fiber artists know that the "slightly misshapen" object they made that they're stressed about not looking good:

1. Happens to every fiber artist always, you're too zoomed in to its every detail because you're the one who made it and most people would think it looks normal, or at least much less misshapen than you do, stand 20ft away from it and look at it and then see how you feel (true about all art tbh)

2. Gets better and more uniform each time you do anything

and the *very most important*:

3. Can be made Significantly Less Misshapen by just grabbing the fabric and stretching it in a few directions

I keep helping new fiber artists who are like "but my thing looks so bad :(((" by like, taking their object and stretching it sideways and horizontal, and handing it back, and they're like "????? Magic?????" bc it looks perfect.

Trust the process. Trust the stretchy process

[lesbian-space-fish]

I finished my hannigram love crime sweater!! I love it so much it’s my favorite thing I’ve ever knitted <3

[vincentbriggs]

You've mentioned before that it is acceptable to sew the sleeve onto the torso of a garment before sewing into a tube, and also that construction for something may be different when done by hand vs machine. So far, all the tutorials about sleeves w/ gussets I've seen involve sewing the gusset onto the sleeve, making a tube, and then attaching it to the body. If I do it by hand, can I get away with putting the sleeve on before I turn it into a tube?

Oh nonono that's not just an acceptable way to do it, it is THE way to do the sleeves on certain types of garments!

Obviously with anything tailored it doesn't work - fitted jackets and coats are too structured and the seams there usually don't line up anyways. But if you're making a shirt or shift or nightgown, or basically anything unstructured, one layer, and with sleeve seams and side seams that line up, put the sleeve on first!!! Your shirt should resemble a large + right after the sleeves go on.

It doesn't matter if there's a gusset or not, or if you're doing it by hand or machine, this method is objectively better either way.

Attach the sleeve, finish the seam allowance, and THEN close the side and sleeve up as one. If there's a gusset then sew it in on all 4 sides before closing up the rest of the side and sleeve.

(And trim down the seam allowances of the sleeve and body pieces next to the gusset, and then fold the edges of the gusset outwards around them when you fell the seams. I'm still chugging along on my extremely long shirt tutorial and I'll go over all of this thoroughly in it.)

I know I like to say that there's no one right way to sew things, and that's true a lot of the time, and technically you can sew the sleeves on second but. please never do that. It's so so much easier to do it while they're nice and flat. Please don't make your life that much harder for no reason.

It's been about 13 years since the first and only time I used a commercial sewing pattern, but I'm pretty sure the sleeves went on in that order in the instructions for it, and commercially made shirts are done the same way!

(This one's antique from maybe the 1910's-20's because it's the only shirt I own that I didn't make myself, but you can see that the sleeve was sewn on and felled first, and I promise the modern button ups I alter at work are done the same way.)

[arkodianart]

An embroidery piece of the luggage from the Discworld series, ivory teeth, lolling red tongue and almost two dozen legs included. I somehow also managed to make it seem like it's grinning. Took me two months with two-thread embroidery. 😂

[czechstitch]

My first attempt at filet crochet, and first time using crochet thread. Basically, my hands hurt. But the pattern is halfway done and the hounds are nearly complete!

[bobbinlacebliss]

you guys remember olney handkerchief, right? I confess I sometimes forget about our olney handkerchief for months at a time...

anyway.

since my last update on this project (when dinosaurs roamed the earth) I have actually made some progress. today I even moved the lace up another notch - which incidentally meant it was time to free the first bit of lace from the last few of its pins! I do love unpinning. I try not to fiddle with the lace too much after it's free - must keep it clean - but... just a little won't hurt...

so cool right?

[applin-bottom-jeans]

i finished this a week ago and forgot to upload help

Pattern is Poetry Pullover by Sari Nordlund. a very fun pattern. also the texture on this thing is a m a z i ng it does that thing when flat where the light bounces off each part of the stitch pattern where it looks like that rhombus cube pattern and its a thin enough sweater for the weather right now and ahhhhh

i have two more sweaters on queue for the first half of the year and then i'll be free but until then i feel like a dapper lil guy

(also the mat was warping so here's me and my husband's board game collection holding it down)

[creations-by-chaosfay]

I had no idea so many people would love the purple celestial print. There's currently very little of it left in my stash, but I do have a lotta scraps of it. If y'all really wanna see something made with the print, lmk. I need the money and can have something small, like coasters or mug rugs, finished in just a couple days.

After I finish the small commissions I have (one set of coasters and a mini quilt top), I can get started on another. 🙏🏻

[fourpatch]

this is this jacket, lined mostly for opacity since the fabric (fantastic camel hair twill) let a bit of light through when i held it up to check. the lining is sandwashed cotton crepe. i constructed it by assembling the body and sleeves inside and out, then inserting the lining and basting the edges together and proceeding mostly like it was flatlined from there so that the lining would be caught in the front placket/facing. the collar, cuffs, and plackets are interfaced with mystery cotton twill in about the same colour as the crepe, which i also used for the back stay.

i finished the insides of the sleeve vents by hand (turning under the seam allowances and fell stitching the fold of the lining in place) as well as the hem facing (attached and understitched by machine, then catchstitched the top edge to the lining only so it’s invisible from the outside). sorry to my apartment neighbours for the amount of hammering involved in attaching the brass snaps.

[owlspinningyarns]

TERFs and Tradwives: no, you are not welcome here. I will block you immediately.

[cooperscreosote]

So here it is, my great mystery project - now finished!

On my search for a new crochet project that's at least sort of unique, I had the insane idea to recreate one of my favourite works of art. And well, I did. I'm honestly pretty proud of this one too because it took obviously quite a bit of effort and I'm still a beginner at crochet. Well, I'm sure someone else did it before and most likely even better, but if so I couldn't find it ;) (Not even a crochet pattern for the full thing!)

And because my photo skills aren't the best, just as usual...here's another photo taken with flash where you can actually see the stitches pretty well. Not sure if you should actually look at them closely though, lol.

[myriad-rainbows]

ⓘ A sewing machine is a device that provides a several-fold increase of the speed at which you can make mistakes

[monster-fuzz]

So I think I forgot to post about it here but I'm knitting my own wedding dress.

[hollowedskin]

@labradorduck LOOK AT THIS

[things-from-strings]

i've completely fucked up the geometry of this damn thing, but i love it too much to frog it 🖤💜❤️🧡💛🤍