Calendae Creations

I'm a disabled artist, supporting myself through commissions and sales.  I mostly work with textiles and ceramics, but dabble in other media. I'm queer, trans, and Jewish. they/them.  -- https://ko-fi.com/calendae_creations -- https://www.ravelry.com/designers/lanthir-calendae

[calendae-creations]

I'm still going through an extremely rough time. My parents both died in September 2025, only a month after I lost my car to a bad crash. My parents left debts, no liquid assets, and a house in bad condition and with high HOA fees. I'm renting the house out for this year to a neighbor who was in a similarly bad state, but she caught covid and is 2 moths behind on rent.

I'm staying with a friend still for the rest of this month, and have a plan that might get me housed at least intermittently until I can sell my parents' house at the start of next year.

In the meantime however, I'm trying to scrape enough money together to afford: -$260 a month for my storage units -$500 for property tax on the car I inherited -brake repairs, tires, inspections, and registration for said car -$100 a month for groceries, as my food stamps seem to have not been renewed -$70 a month for my student loan payments

I have a massive amount of inventory in my shop – home decor, shawls, pottery, jewelry, Judaica, knitting patterns, pride wear, and more – as well as my fundraiser. If you’re on a tight budget, check out my discount section!

I'm also happy to take commissions! If there's a custom piece you'd be interested in having me make, I always welcome messages here. In addition, I have some order forms in my ko-fi for customizable commissions -- hats, kippot, leg warmers, and more!

Shipping outside the USA is not currently available through the store, but I can and do ship internationally – just message me about it and pay me directly through paypal or venmo or with a card through my ko-fi, once I can get you a shipping estimate. Online orders of 2 or more items come with a free watercolour bookmark!

Any purchases, commissions, donations, or even just reblogs, would be greatly appreciated!

[vincentknits]

currently 79 rows into this doily,, its been quite a fun knit so far and theres another 114 rows to go so im hoping it stays that way,, progress so far,,

plus some close ups

pattern is the Ramona French chart of Federdolde by Herbert Niebling and its being knit on 2mm needles in Anchor Freccia 20

[mystitchworld]

Eat your greens! 🌱🐑

[pintoras]

Pegi Nicol MacLeod (Canadian, 1904 - 1949): Pair of Hands Knitting with Red Wool, Pair of Hands Knitting with Green Wool (1942) (via National Gallery of Canada)

[thirrith]

another bite sized fair isle project to quench my fair isle thirst

pattern

[pardalote]

Time for a little bit of stitched bird spam. These little birbs make me smile so much.

And this little guy lives on my desk, he's an all time fav:

[cabinet-of-crafts]

I finished this spin at the end of last year and I'm so happy with it. I adore the colours, they gave me a lot of joy while spinning.

The two skeins add up to about 100g and 190m at 12wpi.

It's spindle spun and chain plied to preserve the gradient, I'm very exited to see how it knits up, though I haven't decided what I'll make with it yet.

[brambledragonpottery]

Some recent nature inspired ceramic mugs. https://shop.brambledragon.com

[calendae-creations]

This handmade necklace is available for sale in my shop! It features green glass beads, tiny gold glass seed beads, a blue and white glass bead and a snowflake obsidian bead with brass filigree, small white shell beads, fresh water pearls, rutilated quartz beads, and agate beads. It catches light beautifully, which I tried my best to convey with the short video clip.

Shipping outside the USA is not currently available through the store, but I can and do ship internationally – just message me about it and pay me directly through paypal or venmo or with a card through my ko-fi, once I can get you a shipping estimate. Any order of 2 or more items from my online store comes with a free watercolour bookmark.

Any purchases, commissions, donations, or even just reblogs, are always greatly appreciated!

[unfinishedsweaters]

might delete this later, because no one really needs to see my tawdry little blocking setup, but I basically spent last night agonizing over blocking this thing out to exactly its natural dimensions with no distortion so I would not have to explain it to the one person out of hundreds who really just does not like instructions to block to match schematic.The distortion is the point of the entire design; it works so much better this way. The quick lazy blocking is just a bonus.

[swampandbone]

Momma opossum and babies cup. They are so cute 🥹🥹🥹

[rabbivolesolo]

I FINALLY finished the second Piranesi piece! Now to give the angel a little glow-up since the moths decided that they, too, wished to take up residence in the House

[theprofessional-amateur]

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!

RSN Stitchbank

rsnstitchbank.org

[vincentbriggs]

I looked at some of the tutorials last night and holy shit I'm so impressed! They're SO thorough! Not only do they have written and video instructions, but there are photo and illustration options for each image AND a "flip view" button so that left handed people can see all the images in reverse!

[theprofessional-amateur]

I am going to jump in and add, as you said they are very detailed in their directions, something that takes a lot of time and money.

If anyone who has enjoyed this resource has the means, I encourage you to adopt or sponsor a stitch to help keep this free to access. I know not everyone has the means to (fair, been there) but if you can, check out their sponsor options

RSN Stitch Bank Progress

And one other resource I have shared before, The Lady's Magazine. Embroidery patterns from 1770-1819. In case anyone wants some historic ideas for using all these new embroidery stitches

The Lady's Magazine: Patterns of Perfection

[thingsic]

[wyrmscraft]

I quilted someone’s quilt on the long arm at work and loved the pattern. She told me it was the Stash Buster Challenge 2022 pattern and it was free online.

I did not make it scrappy, but it is all from my stash!

I have no idea how many blocks I’ll be able to get out of my fabric, but at least 32, so it should end up at least 60”x70”

… if I can make 50 I can put it on point and I like that layout even better than horizontal.

[floofushush]

I hand sewed a pride flag out of scrap fabric!

[norsesuggestions]

Bockstensmanen, a medieval person who happened to die in a bog which preserved his clothes (and more), clothes like hella comfy??

Like seriously. Comfy and warm wool clothes!

(yes this are pictures of his actual outfit, not reconstructed clothing. They were very well preserved in all except colour. The bog gave everything that yellow shade, i suspect)

Picture from: https://www.museumhalland.se/bockstensmannen/kladerna/

[norsesuggestions]

His kjortel (the clothing for his upper body)

He got a mantel that resemble a poncho

It goes around the entire body! So perhaps not quite a mantel but.

A got a little hood with a fashionedble long thingy at the end

Warm that too! There is no openings for wind or anything, so like. Just pull hood over head, get warm!

Warm socks! Gotta keep em feets warm (and just like in english, the swedish words for trousers, byxor, is in plural in its normal form, just because the medieval version of trousers consisted of two separate peices like here.

Somewhere, there should be something for hos upper legs but idk were that one is)

Anyway! I do think one can tell that keeping warm was an important part of the logic behind bockstensmannens clothing. Not odd that, when he lived in Scandinavia and all…

All pictures from

https://www.museumhalland.se/bockstensmannen/kladerna/

[norsesuggestions]

When we already at it, with listning his entire outfit. Here his this shoes

[norsesuggestions]

Reconstruction in how he might have looked like in life. The musuem points out, that his skull was very smashed when found, werehas it might be a bit so so with this dolls facial similiarity with bockstensmannen in life. And his hair colour we know not, the bog will colour most hair red with enough time.

But that hairstyle! That he really had! Bockstensmannen wore like Peak Fluffy Medieval Hair Fashion in life

The entire doll wearing bockstensmannens reconstructed clothing

Source: https://www.museumhalland.se/bockstensmannen/bockstensmannen-far-ett-ansikte/

https://www.museumhalland.se/utstallning/bockstensmannen/

[tumblunni]

Holy shit forbidden fashionable bog man

[petermorwood]

Now add colour, from period illustrations or marginalia, or by checking posts like this one which includes pics of what colours were available for medieval clothing. The post also includes information of what social status went with what colour, and how expensive they were.

That popular fantasy colour black was for wealthy people and some monastic orders; a true colourfast dye hadn’t been invented yet so, to stay properly black rather than fading, clothes had to be regularly taken apart, re-dyed, then sewn back together again. Not something the “lower and middling sort” could afford, either in time or money, and if they could (plot point?) there might be curiosity about how they were managing to do it.

But one thing is certain - “Monty Python Muddy” is Right Out.

This selection, shown in a comment on the other post by @elfwreck​, is from HIstorical Enterprises, and any number of tailors and costumers who’d be happy to work with any of them (I’m partial to those greys, myself…)