Summoning Crafts and Creating Wonder

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[the-eccentric-eclectic]

Hey kid, look at me.

I want you to T-pose. Turn your right thumb up and your left thumb doen and look at your right thumb. Move your arms up and down a bit until you feel a nerve running from your armpit to your palm. Now turn your right thumb down and your left thumb up, and look at your left thumb. Keep your chest facing forward and your shoulders back. Move your arms again until you feel that nerve again. Keep alternating between these two for a minute, or look at each thumb thirty times each.

Now sit down. Put your left hand firmly under your left buttock, palm down. Keep your shoulders back and put your right hand over the crown of your head, very gently pulling it to the right. Do this for thirty seconds, then do it again but with your right hand under your right buttock.

These are stretches for the nerves in your arms, and are very good for people who sit behind a computer a lot, or fibre artists, or you name it. Do them daily. They will hurt in the beginning, but keep doing them, even after the pain has gone, or it will return and you'll have to start all over.

[craftochism]

Reblogged this on both my blogs because nerve pain is so prevalent & I want everyone to feel better. ❤️

[annaplexis]

How I join skeins

[muppetk]

Cleeeeeveeer!

[jeanjauthor]

It's good to learn, remember, and share stuff like this.

[heroineimages]

When my mom or her sisters did crochet growing up, their dickhead older brothers thought it was hilarious to snip the yarn somewhere in the middle of the bundle. I suspect mom would've found a trick like this really handy.

[milkweedman]

if you're proficient at multiple fiber crafts, which one, at its easiest project, takes the least brainpower to work on ? as in, if you had the flu and were mildly hallucinating and very groggy but wanted something to do with your hands, which would be the best for you personally to work on ?

knitting

crochet

weaving (not warping, just the weaving)

spinning

wool dyeing/blending/washing/prep

sewing

embroidery

needlefelting

lacemaking (bobbin, needle, tatting, what have you)

nalbinding

you forgot x ! (other)

I find most or all of them to well-being similarly easy

Voting ended onDec 14, 2023

Edit: the last option should say "I find most or all of them to be similarly easy"

Also, if you're tied between a couple, pick your favorite

Personally spinning is always the easiest to do when my brain isnt working.

[riftwalker-limbro]

yknow these little guys?

little sawgaw floofs? yknow them?

i made fanart of em :)

[riftwalker-limbro]

Warframe Sawgaw Floof pattern by Revukan Fendrenim

A sawgaw floof is a decorative plushie in the game Warframe, based on an ingame creature called a sawgaw. I freehanded this one as gift to

did it

[summoncreations]

I did the same thing with the desert skate floofs

[leonardslee]

So the new Ravelry design launched a week ago. The actual design doesn’t bother me; they can make it look however they want. I think it is a little too childish, but, whatever. This is what bothers me, a lot:

There is no evidence they did any sort of accessibility planning or thought about accessibility at all during the design process

Beta testers say they reported issues regarding the new design causing headaches/nausea and this was clearly ignored

Once the new site was shown to give a significant number of users health problems, some very serious (seizures, migraines, nausea, visual problems) they made a few minor tweaks and let you opt-out of the new design - but you have to navigate to that page through the new design which some people physically can’t do

They have not apologised or explained, at all

You can’t have the first word on your Twitter bio be ‘inclusive’ then be this fucking ableist. I’m disappointed and I’m sad, because I loved Ravelry. I would really never have believed that they would act, and respond, like this.

Yes, they’re a small team and they worked hard on this etc etc etc. But they are MAKING PEOPLE ILL. If they’d immediately rolled back the changes and said ‘we’re so sorry, we fucked up’ then that would be something. But no apology, and only the barest minimum attempt at mitigation. It’s all very, very poor.

Please be advised that the Ravelry website is currently a risk for people who have seizures/migraines/headaches/vertigo and be wary.

[subversivelystitched]

So far on tumblr, I’ve seen next to no discussion about these issues, and they’ve been happening for a solid week now. A quick search of “ravelry” on here shows me petty preference posts (“ooh new yarn emojis!!” or “omg I don’t like the colors, just because”) but people are nearly silent about the legitimate accessibility problems the site’s new contrast and white screen space is causing. I’ve read multiple reports of flare ups, from seizures to migraines to blurry vision, caused by even a couple minutes of exposure to the site.

So far Ravelry has “pulled a tumblr.com” by acting like the change is irreversible, and they’re using silence in response to pushback as a professional facade.

There’s more active discussion mostly on instagram and twitter, so finding your fiber craft circles there can help you see the broader scope of the issue. Better yet, make some noise on here and don’t let this become a haven for people whose only concern is aesthetics.

[roboticchibitan]

Actual friends of mine have been affected by this.

[subversivelystitched]

Reblogging again bc I rediscovered something from instagram. User evanitaewm has ravelry theme fixes in their linktr.ee (in their bio near top of page) that may be helpful

[afewdroppedstitches]

I have to admit that I’ve been pretty silent here on tumblr….because I’ve been dealing with things going on Instagram but @subversivelystitched is totally correct-we need to talk about it here.

The redesign has sent several people into full blown seizures. Has sent people to the hospital (which is bad enough on it’s own) but is even worse right now as hospitals are epicenters for Covid19.

Ravelry took forever to respond to any of these (100% legitimate concerns) and when they did respond, it was with a half-assed non-apology that pointed out how “good everything was for 92% of their users”. Which is crap.

And before anyone comes on here and says “but it’s a free website, you can’t expect them to hite someone for accessibility programing”. The website makes revenue- they get a percentage of sales from the patterns that designers sell on their platform. People have always donated to website as they loved the Ravelry team and the community they have built on there.

So yes. I will hold Ravelry up to the higher standard. Even as they continue to fail. There is no excuse to continue to cause pain and harm when literally hundreds and thousands of people have been publicly voicing how it’s hurting and the very easy way to fix it : roll back to the old design until the new one is fixed.

Additionally, the Ravelry team has made it increasingly difficult to give proper feedback and have shut down the thread on Ravelry, even has gone so far to block and delete certain vocal people on there. That is a clear sign of them not wanting to listen.

[dsfjhd34jb2ibd-deactivated20210]

people on tumblr tend to be pretty good about the whole “you should pay artists thing” but i just want to put out there: that includes fibre artists

i can’t count the number of times i’ve been knitting or embroidering something and someone is like “oh can you make me one?” and then they get offended when i tell them they’d have to pay me.

real talk: nice yarn/wool is expensive. sewing machines are expensive. for every handmade skirt or stuffed animal you see online there are at least a half-dozen prototypes in the creator’s closet that can’t be sold.

and that’s not even getting into the time spent on these projects. i have some things i’ve probably spent in excess of 100 hours on. i can’t even fathom making a living wage knitting stuff, because nobody would ever pay that much.

tl:dr; fibre artists deserve to be paid for their time and skill just like visual artists and if you can “buy something just like that at walmart for $5″ please just do that and stop wasting our time

[dsfjhd34jb2ibd-deactivated20210]

people on tumblr tend to be pretty good about the whole “you should pay artists thing” but i just want to put out there: that includes fibre artists

i can’t count the number of times i’ve been knitting or embroidering something and someone is like “oh can you make me one?” and then they get offended when i tell them they’d have to pay me.

real talk: nice yarn/wool is expensive. sewing machines are expensive. for every handmade skirt or stuffed animal you see online there are at least a half-dozen prototypes in the creator’s closet that can’t be sold.

and that’s not even getting into the time spent on these projects. i have some things i’ve probably spent in excess of 100 hours on. i can’t even fathom making a living wage knitting stuff, because nobody would ever pay that much.

tl:dr; fibre artists deserve to be paid for their time and skill just like visual artists and if you can “buy something just like that at walmart for $5″ please just do that and stop wasting our time

[crochetmelovely]

You all know I love bright colors! What about you!? 🤣💕😜 

https://crochetml.com/

[crochetmelovely]

🤣😂🙌 

[stimman4000]

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[the-dracologist]

Just stab the wool into shape

[marsupials-of-mars]

Is that what needle felting is? I though you needed some sort of base?

[brbjellyfishing]

[conversationswithtv]

This is what felting is.  It’s a very good hobby for somebody who enjoys stabbing ^u^  what do you think I do all day?

[molothoo]

Really thought he was gonna get a giant great wig….hoping actually

[coyotesmokebreak]

Wanna know how it works?

Those needles have barbs that catch and tangle the fibers of the roving (the term for that loose wool) together. The more you stab it the more tightly-packed and the more firm the object becomes. It takes a lot of little stabs to smooth out the texture on the surface and is best done with a single fine gauge needle.

Fun fact: the longer you use a felting needle the sharper it becomes, as the wool polishes the point.

This doesn’t bode well for your fingers but hey. It’s a fun art filled with cute projects, lots of stabbing, blood, and swearing.

[summoncreations]

Here is the finished opossum! Thank you to everyone who could stop in to watch the stream! The pattern and videos will be available for one week, then will only be available to patrons on my patreon. I will try to have materials up for tomorrows stream on my patreon for everyone if anyone wants to join tomorrow at 5 for a quick project!

[herdreadsrock-deactivated202401]

Reblog. This could really help someone out.

[briswayze]

Reblogging because I remember the days I had to do this so my baby girl could eat

[nudiemuse]

Feed the babies

[its-a-different-world]

#FeedtheBabies

[richardgoranski]

Ihop has kids eat free every day with the purchase of an adult meal 4-10pm!

[summoncreations]

Please make sure to check coditions with local stores, too. Sometimes they dont always match up to something like this.

[retrogamingblog]

Artist KHook completed her goal of crocheting all 151 original Pokemon

[somepretty-things]

Ravelry, a knitting/crochet social media site, has banned support of Donald Trump

[voidvelociraptor]

Screenshots of my crochet app! It keeps track of how much time I’ve spent crocheting, and even calculates a suggested price! I’ve set it at $7/hour, just short of minimum wage. I’m only 2/3 done the 12 point star blanket I’ve been working on, I’ve got another yarn cake left. 14.5 hours, 2/3 done, keep that in mind when buying hand crafted items and thinking the price is ridiculous. It’s almost 5 feet across and will be larger when I’m done. Handicrafters and artists deserve a wage too. People put a lot of time and effort into “just a blanket”.

As an aside, the reason the price is higher than materials+labor is the app has suggested multipliers for how you’re selling, like retail vs wholesale price. 1.4 is the suggestion for direct marketing, ie you reach out through DMs and I sell to you. Through a platform like Etsy, or through a boutique, there’s a different multiplier.

The app is called Crochet.land and it’s an android app. No clue if it’s available for iPhone as I am anti Apple tech.

[katwylder]

Hey, y'all– Facebook recently announced they’re launching a “Patreon killer” service.

And it. is. awful.

https://boingboing.net/2019/02/26/facebook-patreon.html

Regardless of your thoughts on Patreon, FB’s alternative is terrible for creators! Here are some of the highlights of this “““service”““

A 30% gross revenue fee (compare patreon’s 5%)

Automatic LIFETIME IP rights to ANYTHING you put on the service–even if you quit!

FB wants to give discounts and freebies whenever they like, without creator approval, and then deduct it from creator revenue

Please love yourselves and stay faaaaaar away from this bullshit.

[sworntovalor]

Here’s a “life-hack” for you. Apparently concentrated Kool-Aid can be used as a pretty effective leather dye. I was making a drink while cutting the snaps off some new straps for my pauldrons and I got curious, so I tried it, thinking, “ok even if this works, it will just wash out.” Nope. It took the “dye” (undiluted) in about 3 seconds. After drying for about an hour and a half, it would not wash off in the hottest tap-water. It would not wash out after soaking for 30 minutes. It did not wash out until I BOILED it, and even then, only by a tiny bit and it gave it a weathered look that was kind of cool. Add some waterproofing and I’d wager it would survive even that. That rich red is only one application too. Plus it smells great, lol. So there you go, cheap, fruity smelling leather dye in all the colors Kool-Aid has to offer.

[hammerhide]

WELL THEN!

[pomegranateandivy-deactivated20]

this may be important to some of my followers *and certainly not just getting reblogged because of my costuming and my boyfriends desire for leather armor*

[armeleia]

When I was in middle school we used to use it to dye our hair.  Potent stuff.

[baedlyweathered]

If you’re dying anything with kool-aid it’s best to use SUGAR-FREE ones otherwise the thing you’re dying might get all sticky

[samthor]

the flavor only packets where you are supposed add sugar are the best.  they will dye any natural fiber: leather, wool, cotton, hair,  flax, jute, silk and so forth.  heat the dye water so it is more potent.  let dry then rinse excess out in cold water.  there’s  a whole system to this. 

[mittensmcgee-deactivated2018033]

Oh my god

[triforceofdoom]

This will prove very useful for any future cosplays I wanna do.