freckled fiber

🔮 This world is suspicious of the independent mind; don't let it crush you. 1% coffee, 99% fiber arts knit // spin // weave // crochet

[freckledfiber]

Tour de Fleece has been going well this year. I'm happy to not be on an organized team but rather engaging and sharing with the groups I frequent the most and loosely following the Tour.

Here are some yarns I've been working on since the beginning of the month! Some are long-term projects that are finally coming to fruition, and some are new. I'm really pleased with my progress in making yarn, learning new techniques, and hybridizing techniques to work better for my spinning style.

As an aside, I want to say that I'm incredibly disappointed with the main TdF group that's still hosted on Ravelry and their choice to use genAI banners and welcome images throughout the team threads. Visiting the group and seeing that really solidified my choice to participate elsewhere.

[stillout2lunch]

Most recent progress pic of my glorious loon sweater. It’s a little old, it has sleeves now!

[saltsparkle]

Not my official "post for this yarn, specifically", but it turned out really pretty pre-wash. Photobomb by Chel, who enjoys her summer concrete time.

[ofchaosgoddess]

TdF Day 14

I actually managed to get up in time and spin before work! Both singles spun up and ready for plying.

[ofchaosgoddess]

plying day! If I get both mini skeins and this blellow spin plyed up today, I’ll be at 400g finished yarn for tdf and will have met my stretch goal of spin at least as much as I spun last year (now that I’m right next to the goal I can say it).

And the first mini is plied 😊

[ofchaosgoddess]

Plying the romney/mohair fractal. This wasn’t my most consistent spin ever but it looks like I’ll still get some decent yardage out of it!

[ofchaosgoddess]

definitely not winning any consistency awards for this one 😅

[swords-n-spindles]

What if I ignored all my spinning and knitting and sewing WIPs and started a fully new spinning project... what then...

[eptck]

you have to be kinder to people with memory issues.

you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

you have to be kind. you have to be kind.

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

daily affirmations: i am allowed to be weird on tumblr. i am allowed to post stuff that makes me seem crazy because it's fun to do that. no one is watching me panopticon style they are just following me normalstyle. i am allowed to be weird on tumblr.

[should-be-sleeping]

[jadeandquartzes]

[id: a gif of brennan lee mulligan in battle for beyond, saying "you don't have to respect me. in fact, I'd prefer you didn't." end id.]

[freckledfiber]

Bring Back Blogs!

Do it! Do it now! Get into your old account or create a new one. Settle on a theme. You can change it later.  

Write something and post it.

I need all of us, including myself, to realize that we're out here in the world having these wonderful, deep conversations about our respective niche hobbies, and they're not being archived anywhere.

Search engines may not work properly anymore, and search engine optimization (SEO) is a mess that I refuse to even poke with a stick. Half the time your blog is going to get deprioritized by Google, but that doesn't mean we can't be out here sharing for the love of the game. Just get out there and talk about what you've been deep diving into today or this week. Don't pay attention to whether anyone reads it or not. It's out there, and it's findable if someone really wants to find it.

[freckledfiber]

The algorithm replaced checking your faves' blogs, but you can still do just that. Put that shit in your bookmarks bar and visit them regularly like it's 2009. I bet it looks better there than on Instagram anyway. And you won't have 85 promoted posts vying for your attention.

[freckledfiber]

Bring Back Blogs!

Do it! Do it now! Get into your old account or create a new one. Settle on a theme. You can change it later.  

Write something and post it.

I need all of us, including myself, to realize that we're out here in the world having these wonderful, deep conversations about our respective niche hobbies, and they're not being archived anywhere.

Search engines may not work properly anymore, and search engine optimization (SEO) is a mess that I refuse to even poke with a stick. Half the time your blog is going to get deprioritized by Google, but that doesn't mean we can't be out here sharing for the love of the game. Just get out there and talk about what you've been deep diving into today or this week. Don't pay attention to whether anyone reads it or not. It's out there, and it's findable if someone really wants to find it.

[evilscientist3]

the thing about fruit flies is that in the abstract, they live peaceful and irreproachable lives nibbling on overripe fruit and its attending microbes, but practically speaking they awaken some sort of primordial rage within me. Get off my bananas you little fucks

[freckledfiber]

Don't get me started about fungus gnats. Get off my plants you little fucks.

[exwife-of-frankenstein]

Youtube is full of ads, spotify is full of ads, tumblr is full of ads, pinterest is full of ads. Everything uses ai. Every new update makes the website/app worse. Youtube auto translates almost every video I want to watch. Sometimes pinterest only loads ads for me. Check out this new ai feature. Here's a new update that breaks ur laptop. Here's a new update that breaks ur phone. Why are u complaining about ur phone, just get the newest iphone lol. Join my patreon. Join my membership. Pay a monthly membership to get all features. Upgrade your membership to get even more features. Subscribe to netflix. Subscribe to disney. Subscribe to amazon. Subscribe to hulu. This content isn't available in ur country. This content was removed. This website was removed. This feature only exists for apple. This app only exists for apple. U need to a WiFi connection to play this game. U need an account. We need your email to finish creating this account. We need your number to finish creating your account. We need your id to finish creating your account. In order to delete your account please write an email. In order to delete your account you need a laptop. Oops our database was hacked and ur information was stolen. Ur data was sold from this random website u used once 10 years ago. Spam call. Spam call. Spam call.

[freckledfiber]

While people deserve to be paid for their labor, the nebulous "they" simultaneously convinced us that we had to monetize our hobby writing* or we were contributing to people not getting paid for their labor.

Heaven forbid someone wants to write* publicly for love of the process and finding folks with similar interests.

Now we're inundated with newsletters and blog posts written like marketing copy in order to fit as many affiliate links as possible, and those of us who just want to read and yap on the internet without being accosted by ads and sponsored "content" are screaming.

This can apply to any type of creation, digital or physical.

[freckledfiber]

I keep crocheting squares. I don't have any tangible plans for them. They're just nice to make. I can do a couple on my lunch break, or several while I'm watching TV. They're not "post-worthy," but I feel like that doesn't matter so much here. Tumblr feels like a cozier space. Folks ramble about whatever they're currently interested in, and it's not ninety percent marketing copy. I've been on Instagram for a long time, but it doesn't feel like home anymore. Here, I feel like I can talk and post about spinning and weaving, but also books and technical editing.

[freckledfiber]

This itty bitty purple one is my favorite so far.

[decomposedmaw]

Leaf boat

[ccsartcafe]

Would you like a little spooky pie? 👻✨️

[fairydropart]

Autumn is here!

[titsay]

[freckledfiber]

I will never not repost this.

[ashlgcostumes]

“A child/student/young person asked me how to do X why does nobody get taught anything these days!!!” It’s you, buddy, you’re the teaching, this may legitimately never have come up before, why do people think education is exclusively some kind of abstract preemptive measure, most importantly done by other people so the rest of us only get the benefits and don’t have to do the work. Sometimes the person who is going to teach this is you. Fucking step up