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NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS IN O'HARE
was worried about missing my connection and my brain decided the appropriate words of encouragement were "shon'ai. if there's a problem yo I'll solve it"
not to worry! my connection is now 4 hours late
NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS IN O'HARE
*packing my suitcase for a 3 day trip* hm, but what if I need my terracotta warriors..
No, seriously,
@ominous-signs
Official ominous sign
We need to bring this back full swing so bad
Rocky + Details Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller
After scrolling through a bajillion pages of the current fad for greige 10 mohairs held together plain sweaters, I have finally found a designer worth buying patterns from! If only they had this scale pattern on a sweater!
Ok. This is pretty neat. Makes me wish I knew how to knit.
Tragically, all the good tentacles are crocheted, not knit.
BTW, if anyone knows other Ravelry designers who give off similar vibes to Lavish Craft, I want their names! Or just your favorite designers in general as long as they aren’t PetiteKnit.
I’ve seen a lot of designs that are incidentally named after things from fantasy books, but the actual look of the piece wouldn’t tell you what it’s inspired by. I’m more interested in designers doing dragon scale designs or at least sweaters I can picture on a hobbit.
Fabel Knitwear has some pretty stuff, but I hear her gauge is weird af and her patterns are confusing. I have the Montmartre but haven’t made a serious attempt at it yet, so we’ll see what I think. I’m not finding the instructions bad, but I agree with all the nitpickers that her own knitting is that trendy airy bullshit where the needles are 5 sizes too big and you’re making up for it with hairy yarns. My sense is that she’s one of those designers whose shots of herself in samples are by far the best thing about the designs.
I’ve spotted a couple of things I want from Skeindeer Knits. Lots of classic looks there that I can’t easily get from a store.
Norah Gaughan‘s more whimsical designs, like this one and this one, might be up your alley. (She has a lot of really basic stuff too, including at least a couple in the vein of the trend you mentioned, but she’s also a bloody wizard with cables and other interesting design elements.)
Oh man! I had not realized those were by the same person! I’ve run across both separate times and found them intriguing.
You may like Dragon Lore? Or any of Alexandra Davidoff’s other dragon projects?
Her other knits are a range of “normal” to “fantasy-esque”, but I think they’re neat. :)
Heavener Scarf
Azul
Niiiice
Some of Nim Teasdale’s designs give off similar vibes!
She also has a lot of lacework in some of her shawl designs but all are very pretty.
I’ve made her Goldleaf and Corozona patterns and I’ve found them easy to follow.
May I introduce you to my knitting crush Tania Richter?
Her designs aren’t things a fantasy character would wear, necessarily, but *I* sure want to wear them as a lover of fantasy. (I haven’t sprung for any yet so I can’t speak to the pattern drafting functionality, but she seems to be popular which is a good sign.)
Ooh, I don’t think I’ve seen these yet.
I’m very excited about the recs you’re all giving me, especially the ones I’ve never seen.
When searching on ravelry, you can put a minus before a search term like so: -mohair. This will remove any patterns that identify as using mohair. This might make avoiding those kinds of patterns easier.
Here are some cool fantasy-ish pieces I’ve seen:
Olivia’s Cape by Amy Gunderson
The Seer by Ninja Chickens
Silversmith Hoodie by Meiju K-P
Dragon Scale Mitts by Colette Smith
Sekiryu Kimono Sweater by Tania Richter
Long Cardigan by Little Bunnyxx
Firebird by Inna M (a colorwork chart)
Tahesha the dragon (ess) by Ina Wendrock (cable chart)
Interesting. I didn’t realize Ravelry search respected - notation like that.
Ooh, I’ve spotted Olivia’s Cape before, and I do indeed love it. Nice list here!
do you like lace? Because I just discovered Sharon Winsauer
Imperial Dance of the Dragon & Phoenix
Running Free
The Zodiac
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Kulabra Designs is also great for interesting, intricate colorwork!! Obviously, your choice of yarn really matters, but Natalia Moreva does incredible colorwork. The best part? Very rarely do you ever have to break your yarn. You might think you’re gonna have to weave in a million ends, but you don’t.
(above) Royal Peacock: (Ravelry link/Website link)
(above) Dripping Ripples (Ravelry link/Website link)
(above) Taboo (Ravelry link/Website link)
(above) Squirpool (Ravelry link/Website link)
(above) Pavlin (Ravelry link/Website link)
She also has a ton of extremely detailed colorwork socks, mittens, hats, and sweaters, but these shawls/scarves allow for such big, striking motifs, I had to show them.
are u guys hearing this
(This is a Great Golden Digger Wasp - Sphex ichneumoneus - doing what its name implies, digging. But you may also notice, if you turn the sound on, that she’s making some incredible noises as she does so.)
Incredible onomatopoeia practice happening in my notes
That bug isn't digging, it's playing a kazoo
it's a free play buddy, clocks all zeros
9 years ago I read a little comic that would change the way I think about the world forever. It's hard to believe we actually got to this day bc it seemed so far off in 2017 that it might as well have not existed, yet here we are. It's after the end of the world <3
according to An Immense World, apparently giant squid eyes are, like, UNREASONABLY large, even for something their size living at those depths. the next largest eyes on earth, blue whale eyes, are less than half the size, and swordfish, who live at similar depths as giant squid and have the largest eyes of any fish, have eyes that could fit inside a giant squid's pupil.
eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??
turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.
sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale lurking around
and also I gotta say, the imagery... the huge lurking threat betrayed only by the ambiguous glowing shape of its movements through the water, is really evocative, if spooky deep-sea games aren't already using that to make things extremely ominous then they should really start
so awesome how there's an animal called a gooey duck & it's spelled geoduck for some reason & it's a humongous clam for some reason
guys its july 20th, the day humans first ever made it to the moon. its moon day. everyone wake up its moon day. the first time humankind set foot on a celestial being that wasn't earth was 55 years ago today. probably culturally significant i think. happy moon day everyone
Ex-libris by the Catalan artist Alexandre de Riquer (1856-1920), made around the year 1900. These ones are some of the examples preserved in the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC).
An ex-libris, also called bookplate, is a kind of printed stamp at the beginning or end of a book that says who owns it (think of the stamp you surely have seen in the books owned by a library). Though ex-libris have been used since ancient times, their "golden age" in Catalonia was during the Modernist movement (the Catalan equivalent of Art Nouveau), where many bookworm people commissioned artists to have a beautiful personal ex-libris that they could use to stamp all their collection.
The text in the 1st one, written in the Catalan language, says "no matter how much you know, there's always much more that you don't know" (per molt que sapies es molt mes lo que ignores).
Source: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.
i like when mary and armando act silly too
Gannet Diving necklace by Rie Taniguchi
The summer between the end of high school and the start of college, I wrote a ridiculous play about pirates and put on a staged reading with some friends at an amphitheatre at a local park before a small audience of friends and family. It was never published or staged again. But I just got a message from an old high school friend I haven’t seen in years. He accidentally quoted the play in a conversation with friends, was asked what he was quoting, he couldn’t remember either, and wracked his brain until he finally remembered it was that silly play reading that we did one day in the park over 10 years ago. It made me happy. (The line was, “Huzzah for mercantilism!” by the way.)
A very tiny percentage of creators go on to be famous, but that doesn’t mean that people don’t remember little things you did for years and years. Who came up with most of the world’s most famous jump rope rhymes? Who coined some of the famous idioms we use in daily speech? Who made up ‘Jingle Bells, Batman Smells?” Somehow, all of these things stuck and spread around.
When I was a small child, I saw a high school put on a production of the musical HONK. In one song, the mother duck describes various dangers that her baby should avoid in the water, including fishing line, which could strangle him. A member of the ensemble played the role of fishing line, doing a maniacal laugh and over-the-top strangling motions, and I found it hilarious– and to this day, that’s an example I often think of when talking about how ensemble members can still stand out in theatre. The guy who played the role might not even remember that he did that, but I do.
I took Suzuki violin lessons as a kid. The teacher made up lyrics to some of the songs, and she let her students make some up, too. Now whenever I hear the instrumental of one of those pieces, I always remember these ridiculous lyrics about a skunk that we sang in violin class. I don’t even know which student invented them!
In middle school, I found a video about atoms parodying Bill Nye made by some kids for a school product. It probably had less than 1,000 views, but I think of quotes from that video all the time. They had a parody of “We Will Rock You” with the chorus, “Protons, neutrons, electrons” that I think about a lot.
I just love that this is part of human life. Our memories don’t just pick up quotes from great art, literature, and music, but little things, too.
