crafting will surely fix me

previously knittingisbeautiful. Knitting, crochet, embroidery, paper crafting are what I am interested in! In theory I'll post works-in-progress here, if I can ever make any progress on them.

[justkeepstitching]

Starry Night

Pattern Time!

[knithacker]

Knit a Butterfly Kimono Cardigan Designed By MONM Knitting: 👉 https://knithacker.com/2022/05/knit-a-butterfly-kimono-cardigan-designed-by-monm-knitting/

[urbean]

these embroidered suns are everything

[ophelie-trichereau]

“Madeleine Silarjuangat” This is the last large solar system I made. I created it for a custom order so I personalised it with my client who offered it to his wife for her birthday last year ♥️ This embroidery is called “Madeleine Silarjuangat”, which means “Madeleine’s world” in Inuit. My client lives in Canada, he wanted to name his embroidery after his wife, the Inuit language has a rich history of stars and legends about life above. Thank you again Kirt! I hope to have more opportunities like this to create more unique and custom orders, it is always very interesting and challenging for me to have to work directly for a client. “Madeleine Silarjuangat” Hand embroidery. Unique piece. Custom order. 32 cm diameter. DMC embroidery thread, cannetille, Swarovski crystal beads, 24kt gold-plated beads, stone beads and glass beads on linen. Wooden frame. https://www.etsy.com/fr/shop/OphelieTrichereau I take custom orders. #embroidery #broderie #planets #solarsystem #universe #scienceart #spaceart #embroiderer #theearth #thesun #sun #mars #jupiter #saturn #cosmosartwork #handembroidery #ophelietrichereau #solarsystemembroidery #sunartwork #soleilart #planetembroidery #universeartwork #astronomyart #dmcembroidery #astroembroidery #astronomylovers #spaceembroidery #cosmicart #outerspaceart #galaxyembroidery

[theinternetarchive]

from 'kaffe's classics: 25 favorite knitting patterns for sweaters, jackets, vests, and more' kaffe fassett, pub. 1993.

[fallofrome]

Finally finished the monstera plant so that it can join the orchid in my office.

Both patterns are from https://www.etsy.com/shop/PippaPatternsCrochet.

[queermaddscientist]

Get yourself a fabric store that will light your fabric on fire for you

No but legit I asked what the fiber content of something was and the guy didn’t know so he cut a chunk off and lit it on fire and felt the ashes and was like. Yeah this is mostly cotton with a lil bit of silk. And that was the moment I knew. This is it. This is the fabric store for me. Also that guy is marriage material. Not for me but damn some person is gonna be so happy with him.

[rawringthroughthetwenties]

Ok but this is actually one of the easiest ways to tell what something is made of! I did a textiles degree and one day as part of a class we all went outside with a pile of scrap fabric and set fire to the little pieces and recorded how they burned. We were given a chart that looked something like this to tell what each fabric was (it gets a little tricky is it’s a mix of fabrics though). Why did we do this? There is very little regulation in the textiles industry so a lot of materials are mislabelled as something they aren’t and sold for more than they should be, also sometimes people buy fabric second hand or discounted which doesn’t have any label at all. If you have a fabric you are having doubts about, cut a tiny piece off and do the burn test and you should know pretty fast what you are dealing with. Anyways your fabric store should be lighting things on fire because this means that they are actually checking what the fabrics are and aren’t trying to pass cheap stuff off as more expensive than it is.

[queermaddscientist]

Ooh! I knew it was a standard test but I hadn’t seen a chart as detailed as this thank you!

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

@capabletrinket

[elisamaza]

here’s the link to the bigger version

[these-crafts-will-fix-me]

"I like knitting," I say through gritted teeth

[snootyfoxfashion]

Hand Knit LGBTQ+ Infinity Scarves from Knittherainbow

x / x x / x x / x x / x x / x

[eleilinnrallin]

This is a reminder for those who handmake Christmas presents that now is not too early to start. It may in fact be a good time to start if you have a lot to make/your craft takes a long time. You should maybe start it now, whether that's brainstorming or actually doing the crafts!

[thomforsyth]

MOVING IMAGES CMYK Embroidery | Evelin Kasikov

[tomkatsumi]

Happy pride month - I made this Stonewall 50th anniversary comemmorative cross stitch pattern available to all.

You can find the pattern for the badges in the ‘Love’ issue of xstitch magazine

[allegorechoquilts]

An appliqué heavy quilt in my MILS house :)

[macbethheadband]

I can tell youre knitting with no love in your heart i can see the hateful intentions in every stitch.

[macbethheadband]

[deardiary17]

...and done!

My jeans are a bit more flowery now 🌸🌸🌸

[carfuckerlynch]

if you love downloading pdfs you are likely to never use again you have GOT to get into knitting

[carfuckerlynch]

if you like opening tabs and downloading files. by god is ravelry the website for you

[my-wife-doesnt-approve]

My wife sent me this and honestly, brutal. But fair.

[ashlgcostumes]

Truly I hate to do this to you all but; you can watch all the videos and read all the blogs in the world but you cannot learn to sew without at some point picking up a piece of fabric and fucking it up. No tutorial exists that will stop you at some point ruining this poor piece of cloth. The visceral act of holding a project and wondering where you went wrong is the only way to learn sewing; you cannot escape it. I’m sorry