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✨ jack

☀️ he/him if we know each other she/her if we don't

✨ 20s

☀️ not american

✨ real ones know my main, no one else needs to

☀️ i aim to put image description in alt text for every post but if i miss one please let me know! please don't reblog my posts if they don't have alt text, let me add it first so that version gets sent around! thank you!

☀️⭐☀️⭐☀️ crafts ☀️⭐☀️⭐☀️

✨ stuff i actively do

🌙 crochet (now including tunisian!)

🌙 sewing

✨ stuff i want to do

🌙 weaving

🌙 fabric painting

🌙 quilting

🌙 knitting

🌙 felting

🌙 printmaking

🌙 woodworking

🌙 pottery

✨ stuff i don't like doing but sometimes have to anyway

🌙 embroidery

☀️⭐☀️⭐☀️ tags ☀️⭐☀️⭐☀️

#full craft tag → every post with my crafts

#finished → glam shots of finished projects

#progress → project updates

#text post → you won't believe what

#other people's art → also self explanatory

crafts listed above have their own tags if i've posted anything with them

specific project tags as of rn: #hex cardigans #tie skirts #blankets

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finished all 20 squares, ends woven in. on monday i got determined to finish this blanket by sunday and now im on track to maybe finish it even sooner. just joining and border to go!

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we are probably moving in about a year and im so determined to bust my stash before then. halfway through my chunky yarn but that is of course the easy bit

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decided to finally eat through my stash of this chunky orange yarn i got for a project i ended up not doing. i have 20 100g balls of it, each ball making a square of this size. 7 rounds measures 35cm, so ill end up with a blanket of 140×175 (plus border) which is so perfect. i hardly ever work with chunky yarn but its so fun for a quick project. excited to have this finished, the yarn is very very soft

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progress on the baby blanket for my puppy. tunisian crochet is fun but it does hurt the wrist, so i realised i could in no way finish it for when puppy arrives (which at the time of posting is tomorrow) so im taking a break from it. when the main panel is done, im going to attempt dying it with coffee or onion skins and then border it with a green yarn

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need to crochet something for my puppy before i get her on saturday. could i pull off a baby blanket? maybe. a bandana may be wiser but she's a harness dog so she wouldnt be able to really wear it anyway. hard decision

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making use of my new tunisian crochet skills and powering through a blanket. just hoping ill have enough wool yarn for it

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learnt tunisian crochet to make the straps. initially i was just going to leave them flat but my tension was too tight on the last stitch of the rows so it ended up really warped. sewed the edges together to form a rope to hide this and it actually looks really good

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need to crochet something for my puppy before i get her on saturday. could i pull off a baby blanket? maybe. a bandana may be wiser but she's a harness dog so she wouldnt be able to really wear it anyway. hard decision

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conquered tunisian crochet

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havent posted in a while because ive only been doing tiny amounts of progress every day so there wasn't anything worth posting. yesterday i finally got to joining this bag though! turned out much smaller than i expected but its still really nice.

still need to make the straps (going to learn tunisian crochet to do it) weave in ends and line it. may or may not sell it i havent decided yet

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embroidered care instruction label and artist label all done and sewn in in a day. progress on the second half of the crochet is accumulation of tiny bits of work every day since i last posted an update, im toiling away at it. turns out a black and white repetition is really boring to work

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yarn chicken won

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i want to become very small and hang out in there. please

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got so much done!!! decided to add lining to the cardigan, which i guess is more of a jacket now, and then made the whole lining. started and finished in a day. started sewing it into the finished half of the crochet. ive never made lining i had to fully just wing it but it was actually really easy with a hexagon cardigan essentially being 4 L shaped panels

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today was big cant wait to post pics in the morning

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and indeed i frogged the last colour and changed it for a nicer one. millions of times better. so happy i did this. working on the second half now and considering whether i should add lining or not. it would make the garment a lot more structurally sound but im going to taper the sleeve for ribbing quite dramatically and im not sure how to work around that. i would add the lining before adding the decrease rounds but im not sure how it would look for those few rounds not to be lined. maybe if i do it in single crochet or even slip stitch, it will be dense enough not to matter

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the second i posted that i decided to frog the last colour bc its too similar to the previous one. i will after all end it on the colour i wanted to just by skipping the two before it