oh, forevermore

artist (fiber arts, printmaking, illustrating) ▪︎ i like animals and stories and the little details of things

[not100bees]

People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

yesterday my grandma found a penny on the floor and said to my grandpa “there’s that penny again, pa!” and i absolutely lost my mind because i couldn’t shelve the thought of a single panel Far Side comic of two old people on the front porch in the middle of nowhere and a giant penny angrily and inexplicably rolling through the wastes

“there’s that penny again, pa!”

[secreteggplantbaby]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this is hands down my single favorite post ive ever made that got notes

[ledwinged]

[damndorothea]

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

[calvinandhobbes-rss]

[lazystitches]

made a basket and then made a fawn and lo and behold they are perfect for each other

[jesterlesbian]

what are people's favorite niche ice cream flavors. mine are superman and blue moon (specifically from the midwest like michigan/indiana/wisconsin), van leeuwen's royal wedding cake, and jeni's wildberry lavender

[warmfuzzyphoto]

1980s

[lazystitches]

may books resulted in me needing to read more John Steinbeck and Agatha Christie books (and kept my enjoyment of McMurtry's westerns going. I actually need to update my rating of Buffalo Girls to 4.5 stars cuz i liked it better than The Mad Wife.)

[inthetags]

Reblog and name an unexpected skill you have, in the tags

[thegentlemanstar]

this site gets accused of being way too usamerican a lot but i wonder what the actual proportion is

are you usamerican

yes

no

some other nuanced answer (pls elaborate in the tags i’m nosy)

Voting ended onJun 5

[lazystitches]

I was intending to just draw doc with his fiddle and you see how that ended up

(i’m still intending to just draw doc with his fiddle, don’t worry)

[podartists]

Study of a Hound | John Emms

[alex99a]

The Far Side for Thursday May twenty-eighth.

Back-in only, please.

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A99a

Everything happens so much

[thefandomlesbian]

The best summary of Chester's character lies within these three events.

[thefandomlesbian]

[random-brushstrokes]

John Singer Sargent - A Jersey Calf (1893)

[iamasalmon]

the thing about fiber art that nobody tells you about is that every single kind of fiber art is a gateway drug to other kinds of fiber art.

[amymon-arachne]

Okay, but super curious now. What kind of path have people’s fibre arts journies taken?

For me it’s cross stitch -> tatting (only mild success) -> weaving (rigid heddle -> inkle -> 4 shaft) -> spinning -> knitting.

I did technically also do sewing in middle/high school but I don’t count it because I didn’t enjoy it enough to stick with it.

Next one I learn will either be bobbin lace or crochet, but that last one will be probably be kicking and screaming because I have to join my blanket squares together, rather than actually wanting a new hobby. Or maybe dyeing fibre with food colouring, but that depends on when I get my kitchen back from Renovation Hell.

[batbetbitbotbut]

The very early days: cross stitch starting at age 4 (my first project was a rainbow and it took me two years), one attempt by my grandma to teach me to knit which is not in continuity with my adult knitting, friendship bracelets, school projects with bits of sewing or making pompoms or whatever.

Age 11-12: spinning, pin loom weaving. Made a bunch of yarn I didn't use, stopped after a few years.

Age 21+: knitting stuck this time. Got back into spinning now that I could knit with it. Added crochet to supplement the knitting. Shaft loom out of the blue age 27, now learning garment sewing with a goal to use my own fabric. And I've got deeply enough info everything that I now collect new beginner fibrecraft skills for their own sake.

[littlebirdinagarden]

Age 9ish: learned to knit but didn’t really take it up

Age 16: took up knitting more, but still not very seriously

Age 19: got my sewing machine and made a few things. Didn’t last very long

Age 22: started knitting a bit more seriously

Age 23 (2020): learned to crochet and dye yarn. The dyeing stuck more than the crochet did. I fell in love with dyeing, and thus fell in love with knitting with my own dyed yarn so the two hobbies fed each other. I also attempted to learn to spin with my first spindle but very quickly gave up

Age 26+: got my spinning wheel, fell in love with spinning. Not so much processing fibre though. Got my rigid heddle the next year but only used it sporadically until I had a Weaving Moment last year. I’ve done one embroidery. Trying to get back into sewing.

[crow-crafting]

Don't ask me ages for anything but...

crochet (fail) -> knitting (fail) -> cross stitch -> pin loom weaving (potholders) -> sewing -> knitting (fail) -> crochet (made a couple blankets) -> frame loom weaving -> rigid heddle weaving -> multishaft weaving -> fleece preparation -> wheel spinning -> dyeing -> continuous strand weaving -> drop spindle spinning -> pick-up band weaving -> (future nalbinding)

The ones I still do are sewing, pin loom weaving, frame loom weaving, rh weaving, multishaft weaving, continuous strand weaving, pick-up band spinning, fleece prep, wheel spinning, drop spinning, and dyeing.

And do NOT ask me to count my current wips.

[lazystitches]

no idea of when exactly i picked up each but mine from age 7 or so onward is as follows:

Cross stitch > hand sewing > knitting > crochet > machine sewing > spindle spinning > wheel spinning > tatting > dyeing > rigid heddle weaving > inkle weaving > fleece processing > needle felting > basket making (as of yesterday. if that counts)