Hermit’s Home Fiber Arts

[emilysidhe]

Knitting finished as of last night! Still need to weave in a few ends, wash, and block.

Was aiming for 48” x 60”, came out 39” x 60” so far, but I’m hoping to be able to block it to a little wider and I’m ok losing a few inches of length for that

[butterflypeaflowertea]

feeling this old mitski tweet so hard lately

[oganneb]

Emil is my "yup this is real wool" detector. It's only real wool that he goes this nuts over

[unicornery]

[musashi]

Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.

[musashi]

So, Cheeseburger died on November 21st after an unfairly short battle with an unfairly rare cancer that is rarely seen in cats. I only got to spend a month with him after his diagnosis, and losing him has been the greatest heartbreak of my entire life so far. He was my best friend and my soul cat, and he was there for me when I was completely alone, for twelve long years.

I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.

I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.

Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.

Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.

[cottagelf]

A resident of Hamnavoe, Shetland Islands in Scotland, Anne Eunson decided to knit herself a beautiful lace fence using twine. The fence is fashioned from strong black twine - the same kind that is used to make fishing nets - and Anne knitted it on specially adapted curtain rods. It took her about three weeks to knit enough lace to surround her front garden, using a 23 stitch repeat of a familiar Shetland lace pattern.

*Photo via Laine Glover‎, Social History

[glawdragon]

😮😮😮🧶

[nopizzaaftermidnight]

[nopizzaaftermidnight]

June 26, 2014

What the heck! As of this reblog, this comic has 21 notes. Apparently a little reblog chain happened, but I don’t really remember noticing. Much higher numbers than my usual 0 or 1. My first taste of success, and I totally missed it!

[nopizzaaftermidnight]

honestly, if I had a comic take off I wouldn’t mind this one. I still like the joke.

[hermit-home]

I have completed quite possibly my favorite art piece I’ve done in a long time

Western Steppe Jackalope, silverpoint on prepared paper. (I’m in love with this medium btw. Drawing with pure silver is delightful)

The Western Steppe Jackalope is a seldomn-seen inhabitant of the sagebrush steppe in the western United States. Little is known about them.

Is he about to dash off because he’s been spotted? Is he about to stand up on his hind legs and start asking you riddles? Who’s to say.

[possessedpasm]

Something I learned is if you don't step out of your artistic comfort zone a little, you're gonna be even more exhausted with making art. Your mind is a caged tiger and it needs to attack something new from time to time. Your mind is pacing in its enclosure 🐅

If you don't like drawing figures and poses because they're frustrating, draw figures and poses and get frustrated! Draw them! With anger! Swear and curse at them!

If you don't like drawing traditionally because there's too much room to make mistakes, draw traditionally and make mistakes! Scream while doing it! Put on scary music! Make it silly!

This goes for any kind of craft or skill

You stand to lose nothing in the end (Except maybe your own patience and sanity but that's temporary). But you do gain at least a little bit more knowledge and skill to feed your mind tiger

[hermit-home]

Experimenting with a new medium recently! This isn’t graphite, but pure silver!

Silverpoint (or metalpoint) is a drawing technique that predates pencils as a medium. It was used by Da Vinci and renaissance artists across Europe for drawing; a metal stylus, usually made of silver, leaves marks behind on a specially prepared, slightly abrasive surface. The drawings could then be tinted with pigments (like the chokecherries shown here) or highlighted with white to increase contrast and help the drawings pop.

You cannot achieve the same depth of value as you can with charcoal or graphite, nor does it erase well, so precision is the name of the game. Over time, these the silver in these drawings will tarnish to a warm brown, until they appear the same sepia tone as old renaissance drawings.

[caseyscraftycorner]

the thing no one tells you about learning to knit is that you will learn about how great wool is as a textile and you will be so very angry about the fact that they fucking took it away from us

[cleverbutnotcleverenough]

Inge Bjørn (1925-2025)

[roycohn]

new tag game if you were a zoo animal what would be the enrichment activity they put in your enclosure. mine would be assembling flat pack furniture. any time i got antsy and threatened to rip the zookeeper's face off they'd throw me an ikea dresser or something to calm me down

[roycohn]

new tag game if you were a zoo animal what would be the enrichment activity they put in your enclosure. mine would be assembling flat pack furniture. any time i got antsy and threatened to rip the zookeeper's face off they'd throw me an ikea dresser or something to calm me down

[tidesandtwilight]

I respect your defense of bisexual woman and all but I just don’t want to put my mouth somewhere I know a dick has been

Yall out here acting like these girls’ pussies be haunted by the ghosts of penises past, this ain’t a Dickmas Carol, be so fucking for real

[bemusedlybespectacled]

[carolxdanvers]

"women are tainted by their previous sexual encounters" doesn't become less openly misogynistic just because it's said by a woman btw

[alibrariangoestoikea]

I was working with an item today that just utterly flabbergasted a part of me (the other was deeply frustrated with the catalogue record AS SOMEONE APPARENTLY THOUGHT IT WAS PRINTED ON SILK, coming back to that in a minute) … but ANYWAYS … said item is a replica of a medieval manuscript prayer book THAT IS ENTIRELY WOVEN out of grey and black silk … WOVEN … text, images, intricate grey scale, WOVEN … NOT PRINTED …

And it’s flabbergasting because it’s from 1888, Jacquard machine, IT USED PUNCH CARDS to weave these intricate pages … something like 400 weft per near square inch … IT looks like a page of textured paper, but it’s not, it’s entirely SILK … F*CK …

Anyways …

[alibrariangoestoikea]

OKS I’ve since calmed down and found out that the reason they used “printed” is because it is essentially printed by a computer … in a weird way; when I import the record, I’m just gonna take that note out …

BUT this is the item btw

WOVEN! WOVEN ON A LOOM using f*ckin’ punch cards!

[vinceaddams]

This portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard was also woven with punch cards in 1839!

[stephaniematurin]

NOW GUESS WHY EARLY COMPUTERS WERE PROGRAMMED

WITH

PUNCH CARDS

yes you’re right, they used jacquard-loom techniques

[alibrariangoestoikea]

Jacquard Loom: Early Computer Programing    

I just wanted to add a video discussing how a jacquard-loom worked, cuz this is nuts

A Jacquard loom in action    

[sorreleater]

ENOUGH I GET IT

[hermit-home]

Fun fact, I don’t just do fiber arts! I also leatherwork, draw and paint, and just picked up wood carving again after a multi-year hiatus. Check out this tiny spice scoop I made for my kitchen!