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white flag by lucia gallipoli

[ID: a white lace curtain with the words "I DIDN'T ASK TO BE BORN / BUT I CERTAINLY DIDN'T / ASK TO DIE / EXCEPT FOR WHEN I DID / AND I THANK GOD / HE NEVER LISTENS" added with white interfacing just above a flower motif border /End ID]

ofchaosgoddess

Two spindles full! And seven to go :)

stahsm

Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy

justiaerdumas

how it started:

how it ended:

taztopaz

Plant materials are so funny because to finish their yarn you need to beat them the hell up

Also boiling my cotton made it so dark. Huh

skeksis98

tracking progress on this hanui braid 𓆈

scrixels

those embroidered thimble rings are GORGEOUS!!! how did you make them? :0

the shiiiinneeee, its so prettyyy!!!

tyyy!

I'm sorry, I'm going to infodump about them because I love them! the shine is because I use silk thread!

I'll try to illustrate this this because it's hard to explain, but ngl my photo taking is a bit sporadic so these are all from different projects!

so this is the base of them. a strip of card (if using as a thimble: measure around the middle of your middle finger) with a strip of BIAS CUT woven fabric wrapped around it.

then you need (a) padding and (b) to mark out a (usually even) number of segments. I'm doing 16ths at the moment, but 8 is probably the most common.

I've done a bunch of experimenting different ways of doing both of these, unsure on the best yet tbh! traditionally (a) is silk fibre

the first stitches, basically match up the lines in zigzag patterns. you can get an incredible amount of pattern out of sewing little zigzags. mine and all of these below are silk, but I've also used all sorts of thread, and even used 8/2 bamboo for a bracelet once

look at them.....

the colour..the geometry..

I hope this somewhat makes sense!

dangerphd

totally inspired, I am now on my own kick.

I have been stitching a bunch this week, using pliers to pull my needle through doubled up denim, thinking about a thimble-but-not-a-fingertip-thimble:

am two books (both in japanese but both easy to follow along without reading any of by the numbers 😁) and one photo/written tutorial (god bless the blogspot-o-sphere of 2013) in and about to begin stitching!

if (when) I love it I will actually dedicate some of my precious japanese silk thread stash (market souvenir from Tokyo visit) and make a complex one (or twelve 😂)

ilookattextile

Beautiful plain weave under magnification

scrixels

My summer project for myself is to make a collection of 16 of these embroidered thimble rings (called kaga yubinuki), these are my first 2 ^^

scrixels

using this as an opportunity to add this link to this post too:

Thank you for coming back to my blog after so long a leave (again). I plan to update my blog at least once a month but as you see it has be

really clear, written instructions that explain the why as well as the how. there's a lot of beautiful, simple designs on her blog as well!

kernalphage

You know what? I'm posting it again as it's own post to brag.

Look at her!!

tiuhtaviuhta

I'm now officially a Master of Arts 🫡

damage-ko

Hey, remember 2 years ago when I said "I bet I could teach myself to weave?" Well, this is how it's going now.

I wove some scarves.

Experimented with tapestry weaving (to mixed success).

And am still tablet weaving!

Huzzah! Here's to the next cool weaving project 😊

dangerphd

yoooooooo. @scrixels may have created a monster with this post. 😄🤘

for anyone worried about language barrier, I found* both of these books super clear and easy to understand without being able to read any japanese.

por ejemple

I also read this blog tutorial, and am looking forward to more complex designs once I've gotten it down.

about to switch colors! 🤩🤗

dangerphd

denim / cotton thread and denim / polyester thread, not the classic silk...but in keeping with the original notion of using up scraps to make something pretty and useful, and I like the triple thick denim for pushing needles with these utilitarian devices.

now, back to patching and mending and darning and whatever...