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Howdy! You can call me red. I used to be redteeth-fr. I'm 22 - queer - He/They/It/She - flight rising: RedTeeth - made a new blog cuz' I hated the old one - if we where mutuals on my old blog, im sorry - there will be bugs, fiber crafts, art, horror, and more - header and icon by me

[cheddar-the-sharp]

*dragging myself forward on the ground by my hands, bleeding, sobbing* cna someone please buy me a fuckinf pizza

[dogpuppy]

[bugthingsdaily]

Today's bug thing is this pair of ladybug mittens!

[unteriors]

Fort Totten, Washington, D.C.

[sugarspiders]

*through gritted teeth*: I love coloring so much! *keels over*

Anyways i decided to color a sketch of Ghoul. Please click for better quality. ID in alt text.

Edit: forgot my signature-_-

[sugarspiders]

Sketches of Quazar (top/top left) and Ghoul (bottom). I like spirals and their vaguely snake likeness but also there's some mammal in there too. Also that headband is so weird, I dont want to draw it ever again.

ID in alt text. Please click for better quality

[ieafy]

Midnight mantis 🌷

[gunslingerstyle]

:D

[vangoghcore]

by johns_plant_adventures

[sugarspiders]

Scarf. I have some left over yarn from previous projects but not really enough for a larger project. So I figured I would just crochet some simple scarfs with the left overs. Almost done with this one. Sorry for the crappy photo.

[redxliner]

sleepy fella

[calamitys-child]

What's everyone's favourite flowers that aren't like. The normal ones. Like everyone's a fan of roses and sunflowers what's a more niche one. One you don't get in gift sets. Mine's sweet peas

[skippylynn]

Outside time sketching today 🦄

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m kinda surprised that nalbinding isn’t as popular as crochet and knitting tbh because it has an even lower barrier of entry tools wise and unlike crochet and knitting it makes fabric that you can cut.

I guess it’s because it’s slower or something.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Nalbinding aka needle binding is when you use yarn and a big sewing needle to make fabric btw

It also has a lot of different kinds of stitches you can do that make different densities of fabric.

Some people even make rugs.

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

I feel like part of it might be casual people are generally aware of the existence of crochet and knitting, even if they don’t know very much about either, but have never heard of nalbinding

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah I hadn’t heard of it until recently and I ordered a big bone needle for myself to try it out and that should be arriving soon.

I was surprised that I’d never heard of it though. It’s older than knitting and crocheting and even though it’s been done all over the world it’s super relevant to Nordic culture and my grandmother and I are both into keeping in touch with our roots a bit so I’m surprised I’ve never heard of it.

It seems like the sort of thing that would be popular even if not as popular as crocheting and knitting, considering the low barrier of entry.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You also don’t need a bunch of different sized needles for nalbinding or whatever. The size of the stitch is controlled either completely freehand or by pulling it against one of your fingers. Most people who have a lot of nalbinding needles seem to either have tried out wood, bone, and metal ones to see which kind they liked or they enjoy carving wood or bone and like making their own needles as an extra hobby.

It’s also a lot easier to freehand and adjust as you go than crochet or knitting and you mostly go by inches instead of rows and number of stitches so a large number of accessories like stitch markers or whatever isn’t really necessary.

Maybe the lack of accessories also makes it unpopular idk. People do like collecting things in their nests.

[the-color-of-sound-is-space]

I've been wanting to do so, I cannot find anyone who can teach me, and any books I can find on it are Ass in the Visual Learning department. Otherwise I'd be making the hell outta some nalbinded fabric

[what-even-is-thiss]

I found this channel by a nice man who makes up close tutorials

Happy Needlebinding

I create videos on YouTube to learn people how to needlebind using two fingers and your thumb. Needlebinding helps people to relax, relieve

[what-even-is-thiss]

I thought this would be kind of a niche post to make but I was quickly reminded that I’m on tumblr, the website full of gay people with one billion hobbies.

[weekendviking]

Nalebinding Represent!

We have nalebound early medieval socks for our reenactment kit. You can make the needle out of any old bit of wood with a knife. Popsicle sticks work! (when running classes, I make up a whole lot of quick and easy needles out of popsicle sticks. If I'm been arty-reenactory, I make them from antler, bone, boxwood or hard fruit tree wood). You can do hats, scarves, mittens, or just any old stuff that you can make by going round and round and round, and build up elements by then sewing the different pieces together. The most basic stitch is just an overhand knot.

Hats by my partner in stuff, J.

Or, given J. is somewhat prone to mathematical things, nalebind yourself some hyperbolic plane brain corals and then a sea slug to go on them, just because:

The brain coral just starts as a circle, but each time you go round, you increase the number of stitches by putting 2 into every one from the previous iteration, so it's a hyperbolic plane, basically.

[zahlibeth]

✨🍋🍍lemonineapple socks🍍🍋✨

they were supposed to be lemon socks but i think maybe they came out as pineapple socks???

but they're done and i'm happy with them, which is what counts!

yarn is cascade heritage in primavera (green), gold fusion (bright yellow) and lemon (pale yellow, perfectly named!)

pattern is an amalgamation of things from my brain:

68 stitches at cuff, split 32/36, body of foot is 32/32

frill is 4x4 ribbing for 4 rounds, decrease round, 3x3 ribbing round, decrease round, 2x2 ribbing round, 2 plain rounds

12 rounds for a rolled stockinette cuff, then k2tog the two together

start helix broken seed stitching

additional increases on heel side and a contrast sweet tomato heel over the increased half, with 2 rest rounds to look like little lemon wedges (the eagle eyed will spot three equal wedges on one sock and 2.5 on the other because i tried to mess with something that was already working)

after the heel, stockinette on sole and as the arch of the foot starts to resolve, a decrease every third round to come down to 32 stitches

switch to plain for contrast toes, and then a rounded short row toe and the finchley graft to finish it off

phew!

[the-prophesied-disco-gay]

A friend stopped by

[mellifexfarm]

his spurs are longer than his legs 😭