Looking for disability crafts I can do sitting in bed, so Iโm channeling my inner grandma. Richelieu cutwork doily from a pattern I drew myself. Here is a link if anyone wants it!
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Looking for disability crafts I can do sitting in bed, so Iโm channeling my inner grandma. Richelieu cutwork doily from a pattern I drew myself. Here is a link if anyone wants it!
This whole project was heavily inspired by the work of Lina Shamoon/ Mirrors by Lina (website here, check out her very cool and much higher quality work). My spin on things is definitely not made as well as her stuff, but I'm still loving the effect.
This thing is still bringing me a great deal of joy. It's usually the last thing I see on my way out of the house in the morning and it's very good.
when i look up a knitting term, the last thing I want is an ai overview. I want a 60+ year old woman with no understanding of lighting or helpful camera angles who still manages to give the most concise and clear explanation of how to execute purl 2tog through the backloop. ai summary fuck off, where is phyllis?
I finally finished weaving my snowy band! Instead of being done and moving on, I've decided to sew a little drawstring project bag to feature it. This will be the first time I've incorporated my weaving into a larger project, which I've been meaning to do for a while now! It'll also be my first time sewing a bag.
I was planning on embroidering a couple scattered stars on the fabric to tie it into the band, but things quickly got out of hand.
Several days and many, many, podcasts later, this is where I'm at. The embroidery is done, and I've very roughly mocked up the bag so I can plan out the rest of it. The starry fabric to the left will be the bag's lining.
I really want to weave or braid the drawstrings with the remainder of the loom waste, but it's all a bit too short. I don't think it'd be worth knotting them together to add length. Currently debating what to do. (I played and won a dangerous game of yarn chicken with 3/5 of the fibers I used. The loom waste is all I've got)
And we're done!
I'm so happy with how it turned out! Thanks to various interfacings and the lining, the bag stands up nicely on its own but is still soft and crumply.
Having a white flannel bottom was objectively a bad call, but it had to be done. For the aesthetics. Star shaped stitching was also non-negotiable.
Drawstring holes were stitched up with more handspun yarn. It took a long time for me to decide what I wanted to do for the drawstrings themselves. I eventually decided to try tubular weaving, which was a great call. Weaving plainweave tubes is so fast??? Extremely satisfying after how painfully slow the band was.
I see more woven cordage and handmade bags in my future.
this messed up vintage cat sewing pattern has tormented me since i saw it & like some other folks have done in that post - i tried my hand at tweaking the pattern to resemble the illustration (and my personal tastes) a little more. i've ended up with this, which i have only tested at a small scale and not this final version exactly (where i have done such things as further widening the cheeks and finalizing the leg shapes.) i bestow it upon you nice folks now ๐
go forth and make weird little beanbag kittens! pls show me if you do!
woah this got big!! and after another try i have another untested tweak for yall. this should help the weird pinchy side seams out. yey
My first attempt! I made the pattern a bit smaller as I wanted it to be able to fit in a pocket, but then (accidentally but perhaps unavoidably) sewed it with a wider seam allowance than the resized pattern indicated, so the face is proportionally a bit too big and I lost some detail in the ear shape. I'm pleased with it though! It was fun to make something and to do some handsewing.
SOO CUTE AND TINIE ๐ญ
I tried this pattern a while back to try out some minky and I get no points for making the pattern well but looook at my boyyy
His name is Tofu. Thank you for sharing the pattern I will love him forever
โEgyptian Sweaterโ from โStitches in Timeโ (1986) โฅ White and blue geometry meets rainbow collar.
Did I just casually teach myself to both knit and purl backwards because I'm sick of having to turn my projects over all the time? Yes, yes I did. It's called mirror knitting and is much easier than you'd expect.
Four mini quilts (2024-25), assorted thread and fabric, approximately 2.5 x 2.5 in. ea.
Landmark case (in progress)
Clear plastic produce bag reinforced with fabric scraps, yarn, and thread
Landmark case (2026), clear produce bag reinforced with scrap fabric, thread, and yarn
Some recommended books on traditional witchcraft and folk magic ๐
The God of the witches; Margaret Murray
Treading the Mill; Nigel Pearson
The Devilโs Dozen; Gemma gary
The black toad; Gemma Gary
Traditional Witchcraft A Cornish Book of Ways; Gemma gary
A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the occult
Mastering Witchcraft; Paul Huson
The crooked Path; Kelden
The Witch cult in western Europe; Margaret Murray
folk witchcraft: a guide to lore, land, and the familiar spirit for the solitary practitioner; Roger J horne
The Witches' Devil: Myth and Lore for Modern Cunning; Roger J horne
A Broom at Midnight: 13 Gates of Witchcraft by Spirit Flight; Roger J horne
The Witch's Art of Incantation: Spoken Charms, Spells, & Curses in Folk Witchcraft; Roger j Horne
The black Book of Isobel Gowdie: and other Scottish Spells & Charms
Cartomancy in Folk Witchcraft: Playing Cards and Marseille Tarot in Divination, Magic, and Lore; Roger J Horne
Alive With Spirits: The Path and Practice of Animistic Witchcraft
Besom, Stang and Sword: A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft, the Six-Fold Path and the Hidden Landscape
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, Brian P. Levack
The Malleus Maleficarum
The clovenstone working; Robin Artisson
Demons and Spirits of the land, Claude Lecouteux
Under the witching tree; Corinne Boyer
Letters From The Devilโs Forest; Robin Artisson
The magic of the horse shoe; Lawrence
These are just a few books on traditional witchcraft and folk magic; I hope this has been helpful:)
the malleus maleficarum is an extremely odd addition to this list? the witches' hammer is what they used to kill women with.
@chargedobjex I understand your point of view, but I included it because I believe it makes no sense to practise mindfully without knowing the history, including its most brutal and inhumane aspects. The Malleusโs a terrible text, but it is essential for understanding how prejudice against witches developed and how it led to persecution.
that's very fair, thank you for sharing!
Some recommended books on traditional witchcraft and folk magic ๐
The God of the witches; Margaret Murray
Treading the Mill; Nigel Pearson
The Devilโs Dozen; Gemma gary
The black toad; Gemma Gary
Traditional Witchcraft A Cornish Book of Ways; Gemma gary
A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the occult
Mastering Witchcraft; Paul Huson
The crooked Path; Kelden
The Witch cult in western Europe; Margaret Murray
folk witchcraft: a guide to lore, land, and the familiar spirit for the solitary practitioner; Roger J horne
The Witches' Devil: Myth and Lore for Modern Cunning; Roger J horne
A Broom at Midnight: 13 Gates of Witchcraft by Spirit Flight; Roger J horne
The Witch's Art of Incantation: Spoken Charms, Spells, & Curses in Folk Witchcraft; Roger j Horne
The black Book of Isobel Gowdie: and other Scottish Spells & Charms
Cartomancy in Folk Witchcraft: Playing Cards and Marseille Tarot in Divination, Magic, and Lore; Roger J Horne
Alive With Spirits: The Path and Practice of Animistic Witchcraft
Besom, Stang and Sword: A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft, the Six-Fold Path and the Hidden Landscape
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, Brian P. Levack
The Malleus Maleficarum
The clovenstone working; Robin Artisson
Demons and Spirits of the land, Claude Lecouteux
Under the witching tree; Corinne Boyer
Letters From The Devilโs Forest; Robin Artisson
The magic of the horse shoe; Lawrence
These are just a few books on traditional witchcraft and folk magic; I hope this has been helpful:)
the malleus maleficarum is an extremely odd addition to this list? the witches' hammer is what they used to kill women with.
"Sewing is a gateway drug to thinking through complex problems. It seems really simple; culturally, we make it women's work. Let me tell you: real sewing at any kind of level of proficiency is a bloody magic trick. Sewing, like mold making, involves mental frames that require one to think inside out and backwards. It requires one to work on an order of operations that is often taking into account the reverse. It's a really, really important skill, and if you learn how to sew, you're mostly on your way to carpentry and welding and sheet metal work. I'm not kidding: these are planar forms meeting under rules and conditions. And if you can make a sleeve work, I swear to God, you could build a house."
--Adam Savage
Presenting...QUEEN MATTRESS! From just a sketch to reality. I can't believe it's done.
As promised, a process reblog for the final result!
A quick recap: I had finished piecing the daytime side, sewn together my two backing pieces, added scrap fabric along the perimeter of the bodice for easier mounting on the longarm machine, and handed it off to be quilted!
After just a few short days, Laura handed it back to me, fully quilted and
OH. MY. GOD.
IT WAS GORGEOUS!!!!
The original pantograph I chose was called Echoed Swirls, but unfortunately it was too large. At the scale we wanted, it would have been 22 inches tall, which was longer than the working bed size of the longarm machine. So we had to do a quick pivot to a new design. I ended up choosing Breeze. It maintained the 'Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night' look I was going for, while also fitting into the quilting 'zone.' We chose a gold metallic for the upper thread, and a stronger grey for the bobbin. Apparently, metallic threads require a lot of supervision, as they are prone to breaking, but Laura assured me that she had it handled. And boy, did she have it handled. I cannot praise her enough! Even with all of my weird requirements, she did a remarkable job :)
I feel like the pictures don't do it justice, since it's hard to capture the beautiful sparkle of the gold threads, but here are a few close up shots I took:
I then did the work of trimming and cleaning up the edges. All along the top where I had sewn scrap fabric to help with mounting onto the longarm, I had to painstakingly cut around the fabric with applique scissors and then tease out the scraps from beneath the quilting. Could I have just trimmed about half an inch away all around? Technically yes, but I was a bit worried about losing more seam allowance just in case I ended up needing that extra wiggle room for adjustments. Especially since quilting already has a slight shrinking effect on the fabric. I also had to seam rip the pocket slits open and tie off all the loose quilting threads. I re-drew the quilting lines that I had to rip out with a heat-erasing pen and back-stitched over them by hand, using the same gold thread that Laura was kind enough to give to me!
Once all my edges were trimmed, I began working on the watteau pleats. I pretty much just followed the instructions in The American Duchess Guide to Eighteenth Century Dressmaking by Lauren Stowell and Abby Cox. My pleats measured about 4 inches in length down the back, and each center pleat was about 2.5 inches. While laid flat, I pinned them, and then prick-stitched in place.
I then worked on top-stitching the other pieces of my dress that I had assumed were too small to bother with the longarm for. I used the image of the pantograph and scaled it to the same size that was used on the rest of the dress. Using my projector, I traced the image onto the sleeves, shoulder straps, and bodice fronts. I then followed the chalk marks on my sewing machine. I assembled the sleeves, and prepared the dress for my final fitting.
I don't have any pictures of this process, but it involved trying on the dress, and having my wonderful partner help to pin the skirt and sleeves in a flattering way. I then went back, and sewed them permanently to the bodice lining. The shoulder strap edges were turned under and sewn on last to cover the raw edges of the sleeve heads. Strips of fabric were sewn to the front skirt openings to cover the raw edges, which were likewise folded under. A strip of gold velvet was used for the hem facing.ย A silver star patch was appliqued on to cover an old tear in the backing fabric.
And with that, the dress was complete! All I had left to do was gather my accessories (including a pocket bag I made to wear under my panniers), and don my battle armor (a.k.a heavy, quilted dress).
nautical + space themed quilt pieces by Sampaguita Quilts ! :)
the link leads to her full gallery on her blog; i recommend having a look at all of her work!
Evening jacket, 1937, by Elsa Schiaparelli
A fine and important Elsa Schiaparelli couture Zodiac jacket, the Astrology Collection, Winter, 1938-39, Paris. This is arguably one of the most beautiful of all Schiaparelli's creations with its glittering embroidery, shimmering star-shaped beads and rhinestones set against a midnight blue velvet background. Marlene Dietrich was photographed in her Beverly Hills residence in 1938 wearing the zodiac ensemble with matching dress. Schiap was fascinated by the night sky that she used to view as a child through her uncle's telescope - the renowned astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, director of the Brera Observatory in Milan. He inspired in her a lifelong fascination with the celestial realm. He commented that the moles on her cheeks reminded him of the Big Dipper which she adopted as her 'lucky star', incorporating it into printed fabrics, the fabric lining her salon, her own personal jewellery as well as on this magnificent jacket. Schiaparelli's press agent Hortense MacDonald stated that the Astrology collection was defined by Euclid's famous geometric treatise - 'Elements'.
Hi! I put together an introduction post to block printing on fabric, based on my experience so far. Some basic info on printmaking blocks, ink types and the like. Enjoy!