Knitted Kneil

http://knittedkneil.com Playing with string making fancy knots

[eatingabagelbeingacunt]

Architectural knits Wei Wilkins

[shamebats]

Whoa, it's finally completed! The glorious tattoo sweater

[mybeingthere]

Wally Dion, born 1976, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Fabric Star Quilts.

Wally (Walter) Dion is a Canadian artist of Saulteaux ancestry living and working in Upstate New York. Working in a number of media including painting, drawing and sculpture.

Wally explains:

"The first fabric star quilt was made as part of a 2022 residency at Wanuskewin Park. It was my way of reflecting upon prairie tall grass and the reintroduction of bison into the Great Plaines. I wanted to make several transparent quilts and superimpose them; one in front another... a quilt for the microbiome, another for the bison, their manure & hooves, another for the summer fires that scorch the ground and a final quilt for the sweetgrass braid.

I was considering how all of these things worked together for thousands of years to create what is known as the 'prairie tall grass ecosystem'. A vast and fertile expanse of land stretching from the foothills of Alberta to the banks of the Mississippi. I wanted to highlight the invisibility of systems when everything is working well, as it should be.

I started with the green quilt because it is the colour of the sweet grass braid that is exchanged in ceremony and relationship building. I considered the nature and tradition of quilting; impoverished craftspeople using tiny scraps of fabric. I considered the act of offering fabric and adherence to tradition. I thought of a thousand tiny prayers and how that might look; invisible acts of respect and adherence to protocols spanning decades. My thoughts travelled across the land, imagining the trees and rocks collecting these prayers like a bush of cloth, or an etched boulders."

fabric quilts - Wally Dion

prairie tall grass quilts, Bonavista NL, 2023 bison quilt, 2023. 127 ¼ h x 106 ¼ w. fabric, copper pipe. fire quilt, 2023

[thewaytheywore-deactivated20250]

[icterid-rubus]

A complete panic knit for my friend. I started to think about what would happen if we had another 18° winter and so pumped out this hardy, if unpractical, sweater. It’s non-superwash wool, but I figure it’s better to have as an option on a really cold day than not. I finished it off with some little bone buttons that I love so much.

[allonsybadwolf]

✨new spindle new spindle new spindle✨

[galacticmountains]

So my friend is super into fiver arts and textiles and I have a public service announcement for fanfic authors, especially ones writing wealthy characters: satin is a weave, NOT a fiber. Silk can be satin bc satin is the weave. When you talk of satin being cheap, that would specifically be polyester satin.

[lacewise]

It can also be rayon! Depending on the timeline, fantasy, etc (if they don’t want to deal with petroleum) they can cover this up real fast by making “satin” slang for faux silk that doesn’t rely on plastic and play with the timelines of fabric innovation. The slang solution is similar to how a lot of laypeople use satin now, but in a lot of contexts it’s probably easier (definitely more accurate) to keep separate. (Which is part of why it’s often so grating!!!)

[yes, I know, adding nuance to pedantry I caused makes me the most annoying person on Earth.]

[yarnings]

If you want to write someone who knows this sort of thing: further detail is that the weave is satin, but the fabric (made with that weave) is either satin or sateen, depending on the fibre that went into it. This is the sort of thing that isn't really relevant for modern settings, because it's all just called satin now (like how my fabric store sells "cotton flannel", even though technically that would have been flannelette). But someone who specifically knows about this from a fabric and sewing perspective, especially in a historical setting, will care.

[bumblebee-bea]

I literally don't learn from my mistakes.

[barachiki]

Sherlock only wears this cardigan periodically.

(har har)

[catboyphobic-deactivated2021021]

Holding my laughter in so hard

[cinnamonsprankles]

I'm sorry who the FUCK tagged this as oshacore that is the funniest thing I've seen all day

[lizluvscupcakes]

Laugh all you want, my man is visible in dark environments and unlikely to be struck by oncoming vehicles

[peoplecallmelucifer]

@osha-official-therapist @osha-unofficial @osha-official-the-sequel

[osha-unofficial]

Go further with the OSHA-core fashion. Put a hard hat on, some steel toed boots, really sell the look.

[lady-winter-ukraine]

I want a new hat for the winter. 🤔

(pattern from the Internet.)

[tweedlestrove]

A treatise on embroidery, crochet and knitting .. : Perkins, George C : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

133 p. 21 cm

Next book on the list to transcribe is this illustrated one on embroidery, crochet, and knitting. It contains examples, patterns, and descriptions of different stitches. Posting the link for those who'd like to read the whole thing without waiting for me to do an image dump!

[the-sea-anemone]

In honour of fall, allow me to introduce you all to this monstrosity I made back when I first started knitting and didn't understand how dimensions work:

[everythingfox]

“I jokingly asked my mom to knit a sweater for my cat. she took it seriously, and actually did it”

(via)

[knithacker]

Max Alexander Knit A Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly! 👉 https://buff.ly/3gkvHA4 🦋

[dawnthread]

aaaaaand it is BLOCKED!!

all i need to do now is wait a couple days for it to dry, and then unpin it

each one of those mat blocks is about a foot square, for scale - i need to get another set of them, i had to cannibalize out from underneath the shawl body to get the perimeter big enough to pin it all out, i've been meaning to do that for ages and not done it yet

the finished-finished product is getting so close i can taste it

[lady-winter-ukraine]

hello dear reader. I have absolutely no time to do my favorite job. 😰

this is a raglan line pattern. wanted to do it for a long time.🤔

in the row where the arrow is indicated, no loops are added. ☝️