yarny habits & stuff

My knitting/crafting side blog. Following from jessthebaker

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, for hands and wrists!

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[livlina-angel]

posting this with every artist tag i can think of, even if you dont do crochet, PLEASE TAKE RESTS FOR YOUR HANDS!!! no matter what medium artist you are, take care of your articulations

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌

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[ruffboi-mags]

1) do this even if you're under 40. seriously. I definitely should have been doing something like this for years and I only turned 40 a month and a half ago

2) if you're like me just now trying this going "oh god i've only done 15 and i think my hands are cramping" start lower than 30 and increase by 5 once whatever number you're doing no longer makes your hand cramp up. I can manage about 15 per exercise at the moment.

[creations-by-chaosfay]

If you're hypermobile, be especially gentle.

[makereadgrow]

If I could sit down every single new sewist who wants to learn and improve their skills I would tell them the following things

Read the manual. Work through the manual from front to back. Read the troubleshooting section even when you're not having a problem. Read it. Keep it handy. Maybe download a PDF too, just in case the hard copy walks off.

Buy an iron and ironing board. They don't have to be fancy, a bigger board is only better if it is stable. An regular Ikea board has worked for me for years. A $20 iron from Walmart will noticeably improve your work. Press every seam before another seam intersects it. Don't just iron at the end.

Sewing machine needles have sizes AND types and you need to match them to your fabric. They also wear down. The often quoted rule is 8 hours of run time and its a pretty good rule.

The problem is almost never the tension settings, and even less often is it the bobbin tension. The problem is almost always your threading or needle.

Clean your machine. Do not use canned air. Take off the plate under the foot and use a brush and or a keyboard vacuum to get the fluff out.

[poppyflo2]

Katharine Hepburn knitting on set of Bringing up Baby, 1938

[kaijuerotica]

do u wanna see the gromit sweater i knitted last year

[kaijuerotica]

[aeide]

took a brief interlude from the Eternal Table Runner to weave some sheep:

and now back to the overshot. rip penelope, you would have loved how long this is taking me.

[owlspinningyarns]

3 months of spinning here and there and i finally have finished the singles of this purple mulberry silk project! now on to plying

oh. fuck.

plying.

[only-cat-memes]

[peonypurls]

Wool flowers are the kind I can always keep alive ✨️😌

[kiiyarayne]

haha, after all morning and a good portion of last night re-warping the loom from my failed attempt at the same pattern, I have something looking good... and the right side up

[ofchaosgoddess]

oh i never showed y’all my spindles, remind me tomorrow

[ofchaosgoddess]

My spindle herd!!!

[resolutionblue]

yes hello id like to submit a pattern for best description

[blorbosrotatingme]

Updated pattern link (The Flying Yak shop appears to have moved entirely to Etsy)

[jesstheknitter]

A baby blanket that I finished recently and have been waiting to gift before I can show off photos. It’s from the Eyelet Blanket pattern (pt8351) and yarn Spring Cotton 8ply in colourway Spring Waters. Both from Bendigo Woollen Mills.

[onesomewhatpeevedwasp]

When you learn how to crochet/ knit or really any type of fiber arts, there will be a voice in your head that tells you that you should make something for everyone for the holidays.

Do not listen to that voice, for it is the devil.

[jesstheknitter]

I’ve been driving around with this cowl WIP in the glovebox for months, as it’s been my mindless stuck-in-traffic knitting and my being-a-passenger knitting. I had an unexpected train trip last weekend and took it along and *BOOP* finished object!

It’s about 400m of 8ply wool, Whisper from Bendigo Woollen Mills in colour Cherry. Pattern is a version of Copilot by Dominique Trad (free on Ravelry)

[koniknits]

It's not the Fourth Doctor scarf but it's also not not the Fourth Doctor scarf, right?

[pixelartjourney]

Just make it exist first, you can make it good later