weaving my webs

your favorite spider

[gayledayleknits]

Hello Tumblr! I'm Gayle and this is my knitting blog! Facts about me:

I have been knitting since 2012

I specialize in fine lace

I am a spider in real life

While I am by no means a teacher, I am always happy to answer questions or give advice -- my number one goal is to de-mystify lace knitting and encourage people.

Blog Rules:

Black lives matter

Palestine will be free

There is no feminism without transfeminism

Transandrophobia is not real. Ditto for misandry and reverse racism.

[gayledayleknits]

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contact me here or through ko-fi if you're interested in a commission

and lastly, if you've read this far, please reblog 💜

[batmanshole]

childhood: i fell of the playstructure head first but im okay

adulthood: i pulled a muscle knitting

[eerilyquietglacier]

[tavina-writes]

the fifth shawl of the year is complete! (Yes I know I didn't post shawl #4 yet, but I'm waiting for the pattern page to become available before I do.)

This is Denise Bartels' Venetian Light Shawl: Semi-circular in Malabrigo Silkpaca, colorway '114 Cantabrico.'

Overall, this was a really delightful knit for a good fandom friend and I had a lot of fun!

Ravelry Project page (x)

[shipsong]

purely because it's harder and harder to find hiyahiya in the US i got chiagoo lace fixed circulars to double up my sock needle supply and these lace tips are weak as hell. gentle. knitting equivalent of youtube hot ones but it's stabbing yourself in the finger

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[neechees]

I'm making a list of some beadwork artists on etsy (+ a couple other sites) because I was sick of seeing ai scams made from Moniyaws so here's a list of authentic, Native made beadwork from real Native artists and their tribes if you're in the market for some beadwork. Feel free to add yourself if you're an ndn artist!

Kiwewin Beads (Cree)

RonnieReneesboutique (Diné)

BeadinByCourt (Sac & Fox)

WhisperingWindsShop (Cheyenne River Lakota)

SweetgrassCrafts (Cree)

BlueSpruceBeadwork (Mi'kmaq)

MahtheyzhaweyArts (Ponca and Choctaw)

BiidaabanStudio (Ojibwe)

BeadworkByMegh (Metis)

BearRiverCreations (Washo/Lakota/Oneida/Cheyenne)

pihpihcewbeadwork (Cree)

Gitxsanmysticcrafts (Gitxsan/Cree)

YellowBearWoman (Cree)

SweetGrassByHeather (Cree)

DearFears (Chahta)

CraftyCrawfordArt (Cherokee)

Kauyumarishop (Wixárika and Mexica)

WabanakiBeadwork (Metis/Abenaki)

Indigannette (Metis/Inuit)

OdeiminandSage (Ojibwe)

beadworkbytayy (Choctaw/Chickasaw)

MemengwaaBeads (Ojibwe)

KatawashishinBeads (Metis)

StrangekatCreations (Metis)

GreensCraftsStudio (Algonquin)

SpiritSistersbyLisa (Inuit)

BorealForestBeads (Cree)

LoveAlaskaDesign (Aleut/St'at'imc)

ThornyBeadwork (Dakota)

BougieBascan (Athabaskan)

TheSunkenMoon (Occaneechi Saponi)

SimplyNizhoni (Navajo)

NativeNerdery (Potawatomi)

IbaabiwinWiigwaas (Odawa & Potawatomi)

also, non-etsy:

Mathosapabeads (Lakota)

Chulalusa (Chahta/Cherokee)

NeepinMoon (Cree)

sleepymakwabeads (Ojibwe)

[gayledayleknits]

Does anybody have any tips for keeping your stitches from felting when you're doing a knitted-on edging? 😅

[kernalphage]

You know what? I'm posting it again as it's own post to brag.

Look at her!!

[byjove]

Imagine going on a movie date with a girl and she shows up to the movie theatre with a big huge fuckoff suspiciously large purse so you assume she’s maybe sneaking in snacks but the movie starts and you look over and she’s in the middle of a knitting project. She gets up halfway through the film to use the bathroom and accidentally knocks over her bag and balls of yarn go rolling down the aisle in the empty movie theatre like tumbleweeds and you have to go running after them. I think I’d marry her.

[flowerrss-deactivated20200923]

[mountain-spirits-deactivated202]

This is Cecelia Nez, a traditional weaver from the Navajo Nation and her work is absurdly beautiful. 🕊

[tsulasgi]

Goin thru the fiber art tag but I gotta block anybody that tags their shit cottagecore. Get out of my house.

[justiaerdumas]

how it started:

how it ended:

[laurajameskinney]

was crawling around on the floor for like 2 hours blocking my dress #mydress and chat. my back. it hurts.

[laurajameskinney]

anyways. look at this.

[laurajameskinney]

ok great job looking everybody. now this.

[levitatingfeline]

Holy fuck WOW that is gorgeous! Is it a pattern you designed and if so do you sell it anywhere??

[gayledayleknits]

(OP on the craft blog I've made since making this post) the pattern was designed by @monster-fuzz and is available for free here! The original post was just meant to be an update for my friends and not get any reblogs, which is why I didn't put any attribution there 😅.

[elodieunderglass]

it's a well-known fact in the textile crafting community that "making objects from textiles" is an entirely separate hobby from "having a collection of materials to make things with."

crafters often refer to this collection as a "stash" or a "hoard."

it's normal to have, but sometimes comes with a certain awkwardness.

the problem is that it takes a very long time to make things from textiles - and it is extremely quick, fun and easy to get more materials.

Presents, impulse purchases, leftovers from other projects, things you bought FULLY intending to make something that you changed your mind about...

Another problem is that you genuinely DO have a plan for the materials! your intentions and desires are THERE!

and admitting that it isn't going to happen - or that your mind has changed, or you're no longer able to do them - can be really painful!

it's incredibly hard to say: "we are not the people who can do these things. we are not the people who WILL do these things."

but sometimes you need to.

it's a natural part of life. it might feel painful to let go of things that you really want to use, but won't. But clearing them out - and the attached guilt and shame - will make room for a lot more things in your life. Room for things you'll use. Room for the projects you'll do.

Room and space - not for hanging on to the shades of the ambitions and intentions and people you aren't - not being held for lives you don't have - but room and space for who you are today, and who you'll be tomorrow, and for the things you'll do.

Room and space to grow.

[tavina-writes]

I haven't been updating here too much about knitting stuff but! I'm working on test knitting a shawl pattern and I took a photo of it outside in the sun today and it's GORGEOUS.

The yarn in question is Manos del Uruguay's Marina in the colorway Filigree. The pattern is coming soon!

[gayledayleknits]

picking up my knitting for the first time in a week lets hope i didnt forget how