I Love Lace

I am autistic and I love lace. My main blog is @sturgeonposting

[zenaiida]

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[clockwork-garden]

kindnesses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mixed fabrics (cotton, linen, synth blends: hand-dyed, over-dyed, commercial); machine and hand-pieced, hand quilted, hand appliqued.)

embracing what i want from quilting versus what i thought i had to strive for. this is going to a pretty fancy show in september so maybe bad timing but we'll see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pehme-kiisu]

flower because it's summer 🌼 this was a practise piece to learn a new technique

[wisphunt]

My final for the first year of my fashion and textile course :] fossils cardigan featuring living fossils like coelacanth and lots of dinosaur bones. Big love letter to palaeontology and natural history. Got super into my knitting machine but I wasn’t very adept with it yet so I sort of crocheted around the edges of my pieces and sewed them all together, and crocheted some edges/ribbing. The buttons are handmade from polymer clay. Used some second hand gold yarn I found in a charity shop and a whole bunch of mixed variegated wool together. My most ambitious project yet I completely just did not speak to people for that final month I was working on this 😭

Some close ups:

And my watercolour paintings this piece was based on:

[bisonwares]

Showing off the Arapaima I made! (Pattern also made by me)

This was the test of the new pattern and I love her. 🎏💕

[worcestershirecheshirecat]

Oh my goodness, this is so beautiful. Everything about this is perfect.

[steampunkvampireworm]

i made her in real life

[quill-ting]

Australasian Quilt Convention 2026

There were some absolutely incredible quilts this year! I don't think I could pick a favourite, but here are a few of them.

[quill-ting]

Ok just a few more...

[pardalote]

It's been a while since I bombarded you all with a swarm of beetle photos. So here are some beetles I've stitched, including some little peeks under 'the hood'. :D

[astargatelover]

@onenicebugperday

[sioltach]

Geometric shapes with plant roots by Diana Scherer

[theinternetarchive]

'penelope unraveling her work at night,' silk embroidered with silk thread; dora wheeler, north american, 1886.

[cicada-heart]

beaded lobster earrings 🦞✨hand stitched with vintage & salvaged beads and rhinestones

etsy

[shuttletatted]

Made bag

[unidentifiedmammal]

this is just a prototype/concept testing thingamabob BUT.... This is spider silk embroidery! It's literally a tiny rectangle (less than a centimeter) but it's so shiny and pretty.

Collected from webs of the Joro spider, a type of golden orb weaver. Yes, it's naturally that golden

This is from the support threads, not washed at all. The sticky inner web wasn't used, as it's goopy and full of debris. The support threads are also the longest and the strongest, so i can pluck off 1-2ft sections at a time (usually combining a few separate strands into one thread)

And some photos of the back + the hoop contraption, made with spare parts:

Dunno what i'll do with this concept yet but i think the whole thing would look cool covered in these rectangles. It would be nice to embroider a joro spider with it, but I don't have the colors (and it'd be mighty complex) but we'll see

[batbetbitbotbut]

A minor stress of yarncrafts which I don't see discussed much:

There is a small tangle in your yarn. Topologically you know it must be a slipknot; if you give it a good firm tug, it should come undone.

Just how much force are you willing to stake on that?

[ub-sessed]

Every time I encounter a small tangle now, I say to myself, "Topologically you know it must be a slipknot."

[carolinawrenn]

Spring Light. Made by Stephanie Wilds.

[thejonderettegirl]

[theinternetarchive]

knitted textures from 'the encyclopedia of knitting,' lesley stanfield and melody griffith, pub. 2000.

[noxx-notions]

Playing with thread

Size 3, size 10, size 70, size 140/2

... and yes the last one was a bad time. Just wanted to see if I could do it 😂