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Here is what the backside looks like. OP notes this takes more fabric than paper piecing, but that excess fabric makes it already triple-layered. Besides not needing backing fabric, I don't think you'd need batting for this quilt at all. It's already thick and soft just from folding all that fabric into a hexagon.

Each hexagon begins as a 6" circle. camelscrafts does this by creating a paper template using a compass. According to the video, a 6" circle will create a hexagon that is 2.5 inches tall.

These hexagons are hand-sewn. Thread the needle.

With the fabric right side facing, find the center of the circle by folding it in half right sides together, then folding it in half again (wrong sides are facing). The top of the triangle shape is the center of the fabric circle.

Make a small stitch into the center of the fabric. The wrong side is still facing.

Unfold the circle. There will be a small stitch in the center.

Now the hexagon is created by folding the circle into itself: Take the needle to one of the edges of the fabric (it doesn't matter which one). Pull the needle through and pull the thread tight. This will fold down the fabric and create an edge of the hexagon. Crease the fold with your finger.

This fold has two corners, one at the top and one at the bottom. Put the needle into one of the corners and pull the thread taut. This will create another fold.

Continue this going around the circle until all of it is folded down, creating the hexagon. camelscrafts notes that the last corner pulled in may be a little bit "wonky" (no precise point in the corner) if the corners were not done precisely. However, that corner is pulled into the back, so is not visible from the front.

The hexagon is now formed. Sew around the folds in the middle of the circle to hold the folds in place. Tie off and cut the thread.

Single-pass brioche

Two-coloured brioche is a 4-row pattern, but it can be worked in 2 rows if you work both colours at the same time 🧶🧶🧶

Light side and dark side rows are confusingly similar, but it helps me to think that if I work a single stitch I should also end up with a single stitch and if I work a double stitch, I should end up with a double stitch.

Happy pride.

Lost my mind a little and added (if my math is correct) 5,615 beads to Nim Teasdale's Odenwald pattern. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!

The goal was “soothingly weighted but not uncomfortable to wear, even as someone with chronic pain.” It could have been a little heavier, so maybe I’ll make a shawl with larger beads another time, but I’m very pleased with this one. I used size 6/0 seed beads, applied as I go with a .6mm crochet hook.

Yarn-wise, used 2 cakes of YarnArt Flowers. I knitted the fully purple sections from both, then knitted all the way through the yellow-oranges with a single ball. When I hit the beginning of red-oranges, I used yarn from both cakes, alternating between them. (Not the entirety of both, I played it by ear to make sure I made it through the full rainbow.)

I do have edited charts with bead placements. I will only share them with Nim's permission.

playing around with some more radial-symmetry socks and man i'm so happy with how these turned out :D might do some more tweaking but i think i've got the basic structure ironed out!

My latest experiment has been spinning silk for embroidery threads!

The threads were certainly not perfect - I'm still pretty new to the supported spindle, so they were quite unevenly spun and plied. There were a few sections that I just had to cut out. Also, because it's silk top rather than reeled silk, the threads were slightly fuzzy with the ends of the staples floating around.

But - it turned out that none of that mattered very much? The big holes in aida cloth were very forgiving of variable thickness, but at the same time the stitches on the right side are small enough that the fuzz is mostly trapped down.

The final design has a really nice sheen to it. Compared the standard mercerised cotton in the final pic, there's a huge difference in how they reflect the light.

I’m still very slowly but steadily working through sampler after sampler with pleasing results. Also frustrating just bc I have so little time and so much fatigue.

This is one sampler from about 6 weeks ago that I think is particularly pretty, and a nice break from regular fans and footsides. There are some tensions issues; i’m working on that.

Pricking from Ulrike Voelcker Discover Torchon

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Tsosgohine dehaluyi ta'li iyagayvli talsgohi sudal

June 30th 2026

🏃 barely made it but I made it 🩷💜💙

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Champ de Tulipes, on size 3 needles, in warp twist cotton 10/2. painted with dye-na-flow

i had a lot of fun with this one! (ok, i have a lot of fun with all of them - i am really enjoying painting lace!)

I did the colors first, then came in and painted the black over them. i admit was hoping for a teeny bit more color showing through, but that's ok.