Your classic 30-something burnt out lawyer from New England with a dozen or so hobbies and a fantasy of running away to do yarn stuff in the woods.
I’m a regular reblogger of fiber crafts, Ghost (band), ghosts (paranormal phenomenon), folklore and cryptids, and a rotating collection of other bands, tv shows, movies, and books. The usual suspects apart from Ghost include Black Sails, Leverage, X Files, My Chemical Romance, DC Comics, Cryptonaut Podcast, and This Paranormal Life. There will be some 18+ content because I am 18+.
I knit, crochet, spin yarn (on hand spindles and now on a wheel) and needle felt. I’ve dabbled in weaving as well and have recently tried lace tatting. I try to tag my own stuff with “#indrid makes stuff”
Why is there a diarrhea parasite outbreak in America?
Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to disease prevention and control.
Why is measles back in America?
Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including RFK Jr, cut vaccine and measles prevention funding and programs.
Why is the New World Screwworm infecting cattle in Texas, when it had previously been eliminated from the area?
Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Elon Musk, cut USAID funding, which in part worked to monitor and prevent screwworm outbreaks.
Why was there a flu outbreak in our armed forces?
Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Pete Hegseth, cut vaccination requirements for our armed forces, putting all of them at risk alongside our military readiness.
What contributed to the Covid outbreak?
Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to a pandemic prevention program in his first term because Barack Obama had created it.
“America first” sends its regards. Trump voters, please learn your lesson. And if you don’t, it’ll be taught to you again with yet another diarrhea outbreak.
completed weaving of the penelope skyphos from chiusi:
the header is tablet-woven linen, with the linen weft for the band used as the warp for the rest of the piece on a warp-weighted loom, which you can see in the photos below (there is also a previous post with more process photos here). the reverse is a negative mirror image of the front, since I wove this as double-weave pickup rather than tapestry:
additional details below the cut:
the bottom and side borders of the finished piece are tablet-woven with a mixture of linen and mercerized cotton. the sides are a classic meander motif, while the bottom border includes the "X" square from the skyphos itself. the bottom border was woven directly onto the piece using the remainder of the warp beneath penelope's feet (tablet draft for anyone interested—I designed it to be twist-neutral and everything). the side borders are sewn on because I didn't set up the side borders when I started the project, but ellen harlizius-klück previously executed a stunning version here that has the side borders woven in, as well as a really helpful video on this technique.
I was originally planning to leave part of the black warp threads unwoven to serve as penelope's warp, the way I did a few years ago with the amasis painter vase:
but I couldn't figure out how to execute it well in this version, especially since I was doing double-weave and not tapestry. perhaps next time! overall, this was a complicated and fun project as a first warp-weighted loom piece. I learned a lot of important lessons—chief among them being to actually calculate warp lengths instead of eyeballing them and to increase the loom weights on the warps for better tension. unfortunately, I also learned I want to build a large warp-weighted loom (the one I have now was made by jennifer marcus at fiber paintings studio and it is lovely, but I would like to weave larger pieces.)
the original pot also features telemachus standing over a grieving penelope (I had room only for his spear), perhaps a reference to the scene in book 1 when he reprimands his mother and orders her back upstairs:
Odysseus was not the only one
who did not come back home again from Troy.
Many were lost. Go in and do your work.
Stick to the loom and distaff. Tell your slaves
to do their chores as well. It is for men
to talk, especially me. I am the master.
οὐ γὰρ Ὀδυσσεὺς οἶος ἀπώλεσε νόστιμον ἦμαρ
ἐν Τροίῃ, πολλοὶ δὲ καὶ ἄλλοι φῶτες ὄλοντο.
ἀλλ᾽ εἰς οἶκον ἰοῦσα τὰ σ᾽ αὐτῆς ἔργα κόμιζε,
ἱστόν τ᾽ ἠλακάτην τε, καὶ ἀμφιπόλοισι κέλευε
ἔργον ἐποίχεσθαι: μῦθος δ᾽ ἄνδρεσσι μελήσει
πᾶσι, μάλιστα δ᾽ ἐμοί: τοῦ γὰρ κράτος ἔστ᾽ ἐνὶ οἴκῳ.
Od. 1.354–359. Emily Wilson translation.
my plan is to eventually create a larger version of this piece that includes telemachus and the meta aspect of unwoven warp threads. it would also be interesting to figure out if I can weave a different image on the back of the cloth, since the reverse of the pot itself depicts eurycleia recognizing odysseus as she washes his feet.
STOP FUCKING SMOOTHENING THE PAPAS. THEY ARE ALL OVER 50. DID YOU FORGET THAT? WHAT 50 YEAR OLD HAVE YOU SEEN WITHOUT WRINKLES WITHOUT A FACE LIFT AND BOTOX??? I GET COPIA HAD PLASTIC SURGERY BUT HE STILL! LOOKS! DISTINCTLY! OLD!!! THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE NON WRINKLED PAPA IS PERPETUA AND THAT IS REEEAAAALLY TEETERING THE LINE, BUDDY. TOBIAS ISN'T 54 LIKE HIM. DO BETTER!!!!! DO BETTER ON BEHALF OF THE OLD MEN!!!!!!!!!! SEND POST.
Well, folks, I got canned.
Hi! My name is Elise. You may have seen me here… Elise Horn needs your support for Help Elise (and cats!) Su
i hate having to do this, and i SUPER hate having to do this when i did it not too long ago, but here we are. i'm absolutely terrified, though i'm working as hard as i know how to. but there isn't anything i won't do for the cats.
things are pretty dire. please help if you can, even if it's just a reblog.
Well, folks, I got canned.
Hi! My name is Elise. You may have seen me here… Elise Horn needs your support for Help Elise (and cats!) Su
i hate having to do this, and i SUPER hate having to do this when i did it not too long ago, but here we are. i'm absolutely terrified, though i'm working as hard as i know how to. but there isn't anything i won't do for the cats.
things are pretty dire. please help if you can, even if it's just a reblog.
