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K // 28 // she/they // fiber art blog ! // I follow from @umbrellas-on-bridges <3

[cabinet-of-crafts]

I took my spindle to the park today

The fiber is peruvian wool from All The Pretty Fibers, I love how the colour matches the leaves

[string-ecology]

I accidentally took a two day spinning break because some large trash bags of clothing I need to donate were blocking my access to my spinning spot! But we tread onwards… 🐑

Also, anybody else watching that one TdF Facebook group utterly implode because the admins keep deleting posts by members that try to explain the harm and offensiveness of generative AI? Yeah…

[precious-silly-thing-deactivate]

Permindar Kaur

You & Me, 1997

Polar fleece

52 pairs of figure

[string-ecology]

More… hank 2 done, hank 3 incoming! 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 the bottom picture also shows that I’m spinning on my most modern wheel, a Blue Bonnet Bumble Bee 🐝

[creations-by-chaosfay]

Please reblog!

My hip surgery consultation did not go well. They were more middleman than anything else. It was basically confirmation i do need surgery. They sent a referral out for an orthopedic surgeon. In a month, i may hear from them again about aspirating the cyst next to the flap tear, and a cortisol shot to reduce the swelling. Small update: the called, said they can see me at the end of September. I declined due to how poorly I treated and the horrible service reviews.

I was hoping for surgery during the summer. The weather rarely changes, which has my joints happy. Autumn fluctuates and makes my body very unhappy.

In good news, i have plenty of time to finish the wallhanging i plan on hanging in my sewing room.

We're still preparing for my surgery, which means

prepping the house, and hopefully getting a ramp installed,

putting together activities to keep me occupied, like Lego sets,

and putting money together for me to get the laptop I need, seeing as I would like to write my book. Currently, i cannot sit at my computer because i end up pinching the injured area of my hip.

I have a list you can order from and help me out here. It has the laptop crowdfund, ttrpg constructs for me to build, Lego sets, food, postcards and postage stamps (i'm active on postcrossing), and various other things. You can order them on my behalf, with the option of remaining anonymous.

Commissions are open, with ten slots, and will remain open until all slots are taken or when the wet season arrives...so probably October.

Chaosfay's Commissions

If you would like to have something handmade and one-of-a-kind, check out my quilts. As small as 1.5x1.5 inches and as large as queen size.

I will work on commissions as much as I safely can. When surgery happens, there will be a lengthy wait. Could be a few weeks or a few months. Snatch up a slot soon!

Please reblog!!!

I'm on social security, and my husband hasn't been able to find a second job. What he makes as my state-paid caregiver covers our mortgage and a couple bills. My SSDI covers about two weeks of groceries and one other bill. Before our current leadership caused inflation to get this bad, it would have been barely enough. Not anymore. Any help we can get will make a difference, and that includes reblogging, which is free.

Liking a post bookmarks it for you, reblogs get seen.

Thank you!

[string-ecology]

Tour de Fleece! Day 7 already! I’m on skein two of this chain-plied wool! 🐑🐑 Don’t worry, I like my handspun to be a little over-plied and rope-like, but I think/hope the next few skeins will be slightly less over-plied.

[veenlijpo]

First skein of tour de fleece has been completed!

Alpaca mixed with cat hair!

[string-ecology]

Sample bobbin for Tour de Fleece 2026! To be honest I think this fleece is still a bit too dirty and not carded enough for my liking. I may pivot to a different spinning project and continue to process the fleece throughout the month on the side. 🐑 Tomorrow I will ply this bobbin and see how the full skein looks before I decide!

[serendipitouscrafts]

I finished the quilt! I finished it Christmas eve morning with just enough time to wash it and photograph it in the brief daylight.

I gave it to dad this afternoon, along with some new light blue sheets to go with it.

[crookedtines]

Finally bought some dye and have been having so much fun with optical color mixing. I decided to start with cmyk primaries to get some vibrant color options.

So far I've only mixed up the main batch of colors, but I'll split them up and create a palatte of tints and shades once I have access to a scale again.

I don't have any fancy tools and have been blending the fiber by hand, so it's probably best I have a forced break for the sake of my fingers. Once I'm done I should have a very useful set of 57 2g swatches to play with! (Plus 5 more for a set of grayscale swatches)

If I'm still up for it, I might repeat the whole thing with my classic red, yellow, blue primary dye set. For a truly massive set of heather swatches.

[crookedtines]

I'll create a comprehensive guide to all the color mixes and my process once I'm done, but in the meantime here's a mixing guide for the colors I've already done!

The ratios are presented in the same order as the wool swatches in the photo above it. I didn't simplify any of the ratios so you'll have to deal with 2:2s instead of 1:1s, oops.

For anyone curious, I used brilliant yellow, deep magenta, and caribbean blue from Dharma dyes on their corriedale wool for my base colors.

[crookedtines]

Finally finished weighing out and blending all the tints and shades! Each color got a swatch mixed with 50% white, and 50% black.

Plus some pure black and white mixes to compare to my cyan/magenta/yellow midtone gray tint and shade.

I really like the oil slick quality of the color based grays!

[dabblingreturns]

Tell me your worst crafting bad habit.

And I'm not talking normal stuff like being overly ambition, or lack of planning, not finishings

Tell me the stupid stuff.

I'll go first: I keep working with size 11 and size 15 seed beads in bed. And find them in my sheets when I'm trying to sleep

[blessedbrick]

This is mine I think

Original post here

[punkrorschach]

games over! everyone loses! 👍

[string-ecology]

More !!! Tour de Fleece prep ! Everything is now skirted, washed, scoured, and dry, so now I’m carding!

My drum carder is a Facebook marketplace find… it was $100, and it’s as old as dirt. It’s working just okay on these fleeces so far. I wish it had a mounted licker-in…

As I pluck and card the wool, my hands are staying clean but definitely getting a little bit greasy. I am debating on whether I want to try and gently scour the carded fiber again just to get it a little bit less greasy. I do love lanolin though! 🐏🐑🧼

[highdensityrabbitsituation]

Actually finished binding this like a month ago but only just now got around to taking a nice photo (which was promptly crunched into oblivion by tumblr, oh well). Machine pieced, hand-quilted, machine-bound. Letters are from All Well Workshop's Patchwork Alphabet though, if I may take a moment to brag, I designed the apostrophe myself

[string-ecology]

More Tour de Fleece prep! Scouring some washed and skirted fleeces! I sewed this four-chambered bag out of a Christmas-themed, faux-lace table runner from the thrift store. It happens to perfectly fit one fleece and also perfectly fit in a bath tub! I’m really happy with how it’s working! I’m scouring with Kookaburra wool detergent. 🐑🐏🧼🫧 Sadie loves rolling in the dirty wool!

[delor-art]

rate my 5 minute drop spindle that i cobbled together from a pencil, fat cat eraser, and shower curtain hook

[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:

[nessochist]

Kandy G. Lopez R ² - Roscoe and Reggie 2024 Yarn and acrylic paint on hook mesh

Orlando Museum of Art’s 2025 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art