birds and bees and trees and leaves

ab null/void

[corknee]

You’re cat sitting? Oh? You’re getting paid to snoop?

[trislosherfan25]

Yaaay fruit party!!!!

[abandonedandurbex]

Abandoned intersection near Ottawa. [720 × 404].

[tooies]

i think "take a hike" is like the funniest response to someone. like dude just get outta here. and go experience the wonder of nature for a bit

[funeralprocessor]

ancestral form of touch grass

[sparklingspangles]

So something I have become aware of recently is that even within the super talented fibre arts circles many people still perceive lacemaking as too hard. There seems to be the perception that lacemakers start off doing complicated ‘lacy’ things and that is all there is. So if people do not instantly understand then it is beyond them. This is not true!

I have seen several people on here trying out lace which makes me super dooper happy! None of them have just made a bandage or a snake. It feels like if everyone took up knitting by making a cable jumper as their first project, instead of just doing a garter stitch scarf. Which is great if that is what you want to do, go for it. But if that all feels a bit too much you can start 1 stich at a time, just make a snake (or a bandage if you must be mature) .

Bobbin lace is no harder than knitting. Can you count to 4? Then you can make bobbin lace, there are only 2 basic movements and you use 4 bobbins at a time. And there are loads of patterns out there that are the equivalent of a garter stitch scarf. Just the basic stich repeated until it is in your head but following a different shape. Cross, twist put a pin in it. Doesn’t that sound easy?

Please please please don’t be discouraged by seeing the work of people who have been making lace for years. You can start out with easy things and get used to the process, figure out your tension etc. Here is my third piece I ever made - hey it is a snake, so were the first and second! This one has eyes and a sparkly thread! 

Snake pattern - Snakes galore by Christine Springett    

Edit to include better instructions for book/online learners thanks to @nianeyna:

Bandage pattern: https://www.theedkins.co.uk/jo/lace/pat1.htm (other great help is also on this site https://www.theedkins.co.uk/jo/lace/index.htm)

 A free alternative cool fire pattern - https://www.laceguild.org/beginners-pattern -hang on all bobbins on first pin and work in same way as the bandage

A follow-up cat! https://jblace.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/beginner-cat.pdf

[weirdsatellites]

IMINT #06562 from NROL-129 (TS/SCI)

1. Light Cartel 2. Temple of Starfish

[catasters]

[troutlawyer]

Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post

[purr-positivity]

Small cat, big love

[polkadotmotmot]

Cesc Abad - Good Luck, 2022

[weepingwidar]

Lola Gil (American, 1975) - Dehydrated (2019)

[amandalanzone]

[70sscifiart]

Rodney Matthews’ ships.

[justanothermasterpiece]

Antoni Tapies.

[stealfocus]

ARTIST: Pedro Coronel

[nobrashfestivity]

Gunta Stölzl, Red-Green Slit Tapestry, 1927-28

[retroscifiart]

Art by Stephen Bradbury for ‘Cat-a-lyst’, by Alan Dean Foster (Orbit, 1992)