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Hallo!!
this is my blog for all the things i make
knitting, crochet, spinning, mending, you name a fiber craft i probably have done or will do it at some point!
all of the things i make will be tagged as bastlerei und fäden (its german btw and means crafts and strings)
hope you can get some inpiration or simply look at the cool things i can make!
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(my main blog is @amethyst-cave but thats mainly fandom stuff)
often i feel like a deer to be hunted craving gentle hands and vulnerability but i flee from the slightest sounds i yearn for the day that i can step into the openness and feel at ease
self portrait, march 2025
woven with fishing line and mohair
alright it is time to flick some corriedale
Incredible incredible fleece wow
literally just finger twisted from the picked lock, no other prep. This is going to be an incredible warp yarn 😍😍😍
oh i’m in danger
okay 20g of fluff for the nano, the goldy green project spin has been ejected for the monent
Gorgeous! the lustre! It's so white and clean- was the sheep coated?!
It was only coated through hay season and the fleece was priced slightly lower because of that. I don’t even know what I’d do with one of her year round coated corriedales, I’m beside myself at how much I love this one.
so I recently picked back up my wheat and flowers shawl, which I realize now I never posted about on tumblr (or if I did I can't find the posts about it), and yall this bitch
so this shawl is an amalgam of bullshit, right? like the center is a big fuckoff square knit back and forth and based on shetland lace patterns (I think it's called The Twins, but I went for it because it looks like honeycomb) and some estonian patterns I kludged together into a bee shape, then picked up all the sides and knit out from the center from there, right?
and then from there it transitions into a pretty standard mesh of brick-stacked [\OO/] shapes, with the double yarn over getting knit then purled so you do get four stitches to work with out of each four stitches you used on the previous row
and THEN, what EMERGES from that mesh is inward-pointing sheaves of wheat and bunches of flowers, so that by the time that border is finished (currently it is NOT), the end of the border is the "ground" from which the wheat and flowers are growing. These are all various Niebling bits I stole or adapted into the shapes that I want, from a ton of magazines from like. I dunno, the 40s I think?
(then I gotta figure out another small border and an edging, but that's for Later PPN, and not my current problem)
so, right now, I'm at about here in my progress diagram:
just about finishing up the lower sheaves of wheat, soon to be starting on the flowers in the corners, about half done with the shawl as a whole if you count the theoretical next border and edging, right?
and it is
SO HARD
to figure out where I was and what I was doing on this FUCKING chart that I WROTE because I HAD a paper pattern that I took notes on when what I thought was gonna happen needed to change, and I CAN'T FIND IT ANYMORE
so NOW I'm trying to RECREATE that chart, based on the excel file version of the original chart, using stitchmaps, and it's...
Not Going Great, Yall
been commiserating with a friend and
anyway this is my life for the forseeable future, or at least for the rest of the afternoon
Getting there!!!
(this is why I love stitch maps, it helps me read my knitting and figure out where shit's going)
so is this one of the wheat motifs? that is fascinating, i may need to look at stitch maps. would you share what estonian patterns you used for bees?
oh sure, let me find it!
the big V is a nupp, I waaaaaaanna say like 5 or 7 stitch nupp??? but it's been literal years since I did that part and I don't recall
makes one of these, though!
that is adorable and so very awesome. i enjoy knitting nupps, i think they're fun. now i need more books on estonian lace...
those embroidered thimble rings are GORGEOUS!!! how did you make them? :0
the shiiiinneeee, its so prettyyy!!!
tyyy!
I'm sorry, I'm going to infodump about them because I love them! the shine is because I use silk thread!
I'll try to illustrate this this because it's hard to explain, but ngl my photo taking is a bit sporadic so these are all from different projects!
so this is the base of them. a strip of card (if using as a thimble: measure around the middle of your middle finger) with a strip of BIAS CUT woven fabric wrapped around it.
then you need (a) padding and (b) to mark out a (usually even) number of segments. I'm doing 16ths at the moment, but 8 is probably the most common.
I've done a bunch of experimenting different ways of doing both of these, unsure on the best yet tbh! traditionally (a) is silk fibre
the first stitches, basically match up the lines in zigzag patterns. you can get an incredible amount of pattern out of sewing little zigzags. mine and all of these below are silk, but I've also used all sorts of thread, and even used 8/2 bamboo for a bracelet once
look at them.....
the colour..the geometry..
I hope this somewhat makes sense!
By day I wove the web, and in the night by torchlight, I unwove it.
ἔνθα καὶ ἠματίη μὲν ὑφαίνεσκον μέγαν ἱστόν, νύκτας δ᾽ ἀλλύεσκον, ἐπεὶ δαΐδας παραθείμην.
Odyssey 19.149–150. Emily Wilson translation.
a weaving based on Dora Wheeler's "Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night", which is one of my favorite works that looks woven but is actually embroidered. I wanted to try out deborah silver's split-shed weaving technique, so I chose polychrome taqueté with linen and cashmere. I maybe should have chosen an easier technique with fewer colors to start, but here we are! on the right side, I left the uppermost warp threads bare to show the unraveling.
reference below the cut:
Finished!!
quilt time quilt time
LET ME PUT Y’ALL ONTO THIS BOOK
So the book is Reflections From a Flaxen Past by Kati Reeder Meek. It’s specifically an exploration of Lithuanian fiber art from the perspective of an outsider, she’s super clear about not being Lithuanian herself so the vast majority of the book just features other Lithuanian artists.
Very cool to see the many, many pictures of women weaving and spinning. Also a great inspiration book because again, there’s just SO MANY pictures of weavings.
I’ve seen a couple posts about weaving songs AND THIS BOOK HAS SOME both in the original Lithuanian and an English translation.
But my FAVORITE part of the book is ALL THE PATTERN DRAFTS. They’re all very pretty and there’s quite a few I haven’t seen before.
There’s a section towards the end that has a really extensive list of museums and other resources which is a little outdated since the book was published in 2000 but still mostly relevant. I have no idea how my grandmother found this book for me but I’m very excited to give it a full read.
I couldn’t resist starting another Luminous once I saw this line of fabric. It’s called Color Collage by Shelley Davies from Northcott and it’s been in the back of my mind for ages.
I’m using six colours in the piecing, which should make it 92”x109” (unless I mess with the pattern even more and take one of the rows out completely) which will technically be a king size LOL The seventh colour pink is gonna be used on the binding so I get to use alllll the colours we had in stock in the shop 🎉
Someone please stop me, I can’t stop making these fucking things lmao 😭😭😭😂😂😂 I had a plan to do something else but I couldn’t help it!
Okay, blocks done and middle rows complete!
I did take one row out of the centre so there are only two red centre blocks instead of three. 109” is too big for my queen bed, but I can work with 101” LOL
Technically this will still fit a king at 92”x101”, but I am a blanket hog and that feels like a really skinny king to me.
ALSO??
Because I altered the amount of rows (downsizing) but did not alter the amount of blocks I made, I ended up with just enough left over to make two matching pillow cases! They are even on point like the quilt.
This is gonna look spectacular on a bed.
It’s so beautiful…. 😭😭😭💖💖💖
And it’s so fucking big LOL
Not as big as the greyscale king for my brother, but still. It feels big.
As you can see a little from the roll on the back of the long arm, I found a fun rainbow universe print to put on it with all the colours on the front.
I’m quilting the pillowcases too, though in a tighter pattern so they can handle more washing.
I can’t wait to put this on a bed.
"modern" spinning wheels are either funky Leonard of Quirm designs that cost like $2,000 or they look like they belong on a shelf at Ikea
actually never mind look at this one i'm obsessed with her:
the brand is Athena Spinning . . . and it looks like an owl . . . I love you indie manufacturers
It's waterproof. It's windproof. It's lightweight and durable. And it's made from the intestines of two bears, painstakingly cleaned and sew
I really wanted to know more about this, especially how the water proof stitching works. Here's more information on this project, and hopefully more in the future!
This is amazing! I need to make a note to play around with that water proof stitch technology soon.
June Pardue has a video on YouTube demonstrating the waterproof stitch!
This is so damn cool.
It's waterproof. It's windproof. It's lightweight and durable. And it's made from the intestines of two bears, painstakingly cleaned and sew
I really wanted to know more about this, especially how the water proof stitching works. Here's more information on this project, and hopefully more in the future!
This is amazing! I need to make a note to play around with that water proof stitch technology soon.
there's actually a secret eighth deadly sin and it's exactly like gluttony except for textile projects
The weaving setup!
including cat ofc.
i got this sceme from a tablet weaving workshop i went to. you mostly tension it with slipknots and ikea clips (the ones to keep your chips fresh yk). the heedle is made out of cardboard foe now, but i'll either make one out of wood myself or get my brother to 3d print me one.
and it works! i wouldnt say that it works increadibly well but very much good enough for me
@skylark-whaleshark you wanted to see so i hope its oke i'm tagging you
Every now and then I look through the internet archive for interesting vintage sewing and fibercraft books. Today I found one that's really cool!
Clothes for Independent Living is the earliest source I've seen about altering clothing for people with disabilities. It was published in 1978 by the Michigan State University Cooperative Extension. They have hacks to add flexibility for better range of motion, help for people who use crutches and some basic stuff to improve clothing fit for people who use wheelchairs. The info on fastenings is pretty outdated, I think we have a lot of better options now, but otherwise the whole little pamphlet is useful and accessible.
Found out I was short fabric on another project and decided I wasn’t going into town to pick it up, so I pulled a jelly roll out to keep myself busy until I went back to town.
Figured I do a quick quilt top, you know, just throw something together.
And then I made two blocks of the forty eight needed for this Harvest quilt and boy howdy.
Not a quick quilt two day top, this one LOL
The blocks look fantastic ofc.
And the quilt! She be gorgeous!
Love that fuck-off bright yellow I picked for the cornerstones, they’re perfect for this.
Thinking about quilting it in a blue thread, but we’ll see when I audition colours lol
So we have this bin of partially used bobbins for the long arm. And we only have so many bobbins of course.
I decided that since the quilt top was so colourful, I’d put plain flat black cotton the back and use up some of these bobbins, making the quilting on the back really stand out.
Holy shit did it work or what! I love it, of course LOL
I used a medium purple on the top so it would fade into the patchwork and not show up too much on the background. The quilting pattern is called Pink Lemonade and it is one of my favourite quilting patterns.
I didn’t have any left over border fabric, so I found a nice blue that matched with that print and made it my binding. I debated using purple, but couldn’t convince myself to do it.
The blue looks good though, from the front and the back.
