Butch crafts

So my goal for this year is to pick that up a bit, and luckily I managed to take some time today to make this print. I don't have any blue lino paint so I can't print it right now, but the test print looks nice! Lino print is fun that way, when you're making the print it can be easy to stress about making mistakes, but after printing it usually isn't so noticeable :)

I'm unsure if whether i should make a pattern for this on Ravelry. I feel that it would maybe be a bit too niche? But if you'd like to knit this, please let me know and I might write up a pattern :)

I am OBSESSED with this stitch pattern. I'm making a vest for myself using the fancy colour-changing yarn I got in New York last summer. To make sure I had enough yarn I started by using bigger needles and little stitches, but after realising i would have more than enough yarn I frogged it last night to make it a little bigger. This knits up super fast and I love working on it so it's going quite quickly.

This blanket I made in september/october when I learned that my cousin and his wife were expecting their first child. It's a patchwork blanket which has reminded me how much I hate attaching little squares and weaving in 200+ little ends. I could have (and should have) joined as I go, but I didn't and definitely regretted it. Happy it is done :) my cousin's wife gave birth 2 weeks ago and I'll try to see them soon to give the blanket. In the meantime my cat is using it :)

Hi all, it's been a while! I had a very hectic summer and made many things, but have been very much into my own little bubble. I went to the US for work for the first time which was really cool. I've also just been spending time with myself, sometimes you have those periods of self-reflection and introspection, and I guess I'm in one now. Anyway, this is a sketch of a statue in the MET that caught my eye.

One thing about being in your twenties is that people around you will be having babies. Even though I mostly hang with other childfree lesbians, I cannot escape this development. So every time I get a text with an ultrasound picture, I jump at the opportunity to make some cute baby stuff. This is a blanket for the baby of a good colleague of mine, who has been wanting a child for a really long time. In hindsight I should have picked different yarn, different gauge and a different pattern, because this is taking a really long time. But in the end it's nice to make new parents happy :)

But still pretty cute :) I'm desiging this polo shirt for when I go on holiday in a few weeks. I'm very happy with the collar and neck, but the body is a little tight which I hope will stretch out when blocking. I really like the faux cable running along the sides and the raglan increases. It's a cotton and silk blend so I'm quite confident it will be really comfy this summer ☀️

Ok, I realise I have not posted anything about this jacket yet, but it has been in the works for about a month already! This jacket is an all over slip stitch colourwork design, meaning you get all the benefits of using multiple colours without any of the drawbacks. I designed this myself so it was a real trial and error process! The jacket has a big boxy fit, drop shoulder sleeves and a collar. I'm right now finalising the pattern which I will upload to Ravelry when it's finished.

I mean, how nice are these colours? I am working on many projects that I would love to show, but I haven't gotten any nice pictures of them yet. I very spontaneously decided to throw most of my cotton scraps together to make a striped tee. I'm going to random, just grabbing around in my bag of scraps to pick out a new colour. It's very nice to have such a thoughtless project going :)

Before I was involved in fibre arts, I mainly drew (a lot!). Over the past years as I've started knitting more, I've started drawing less. My life is different now, I used to spend most of my free time at my desk with my laptop when I was a student: a great place and opportunity to draw. Now, I live with my girlfriend and in our free time we sit on the couch and watch TV. I've also found that being exhausted after a long day at work, drawing something very intricate is just too tiring. I've felt a little bad about not drawing so much lately, since it was kind of my first love in terms of art. But I believe that your lost hobbies can come back to you at later times in your life. So you can imagine how happy I am to be working on this! It's a deer with coral antlers, I've added some kelp and am thinking of adding some fishies to really sell it. It's my first full-sized drawing in a while, and I hope I will be able to keep this up and make many more beautiful things :)

I'm letting the fleece air-dry and then I will store it somewhere airtight so I can leave it for a bit. It will give me enough time to prepare my future steps in creating this blanket. It is still drying at the moment, but it's already so soft! I am going to spin everything up and then dye half of the skeins using natural dye. Then create a mosaic blanket from it.

After I did the yoke I started researching more about tension and decided to tighten my tension by quite a lot, which isn't great to do halfway throughout a project ':) the rest of the sweater came out a lot smaller compared to the yoke! But nothing some half-and-half blocking magic couldn't fix luckily :)