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@fatfiberastro
Hello, my name is Astro!!
I'm new to the fiber arts community but I've been crochet and knitting off and on for a few years but lately I've been getting really really into it. I'd love to meet friends in the community and someday I want to join a KAL or CAL :)
I'm fat and always looking for size inclusive patterns (I'm not confident in size adjusting or drafting my own.... yet lol)
You can find my creations #astroknots
Anyway thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a great one!
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Polwarth, spun very fine, chain plyed. The braid was from Kathy's Fibres.
This one drafted out beautifully, a true pleasure to spin.
I am considering submitting this skein to the Bendigo Wool show.
I knit this kerchief! Pattern by tincanknits. It was very fiddly and took me forever but I like how it turned out.
Ball of carbonized thread of linen or nettle dating from the Middle Neolithic (3,900 - 3,300 BC) from the Marin-Epagnier / Préfargier site, France. After Joëlle Bregnard Munier/Romain Pigeaud [2000x1500]
Source: https://reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/fuv8vp/ball_of_carbonized_thread_of_linen_or_nettle/
Naturally dyed (and not carbonized) linen yarn, 2026
NEW PATTERN ✨
This one was outta my comfort zone, but MAN was it fun to stitch.
Get it here: pattern link
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
I found this channel by a nice man who makes up close tutorials
I create videos on YouTube to learn people how to needlebind using two fingers and your thumb. Needlebinding helps people to relax, relieve
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.
what do you mean my disability disables my abilities? what the fuck
wool is so good. shoutout to wool
super insulating biodegradable antimicrobial keeps heat retaining properties when wet and it's even renewable!!!! banger after banger after banger!!!!
and it's flame resistant!! self-extinguishing babey!!!!!! greatest fibre of all time!!!
"Sys how is your decent into fiber arts hell going"
Glad you asked. I have arrived at 'modern flax is Bullshit compared to what we had in historical textiles, the flax widely available for handspinning is basically the tow that would be discarded from textile creation and used with tar to caulk ships back in the day'
This naturally led me down a hole of 'why is the staple length of this stuff a bullshit 6 inches' and the answer is 'we have bred modern flax more for the oil than the fiber because cotton usurped the place of everyday textile thanks to slavery and the cotton gin'
Anyway, THIS led me to a rabbit hole that culminated in me finding flax seed bred for proper 30 inch tall plants for fiber, sold by some fellow minded nerds on a website that has not been updated since 1998 and you have to email them to buy anything.
Anyway how are all of you doing.
It is HERE and PLANTED along with the madder plants I bought see you all from the throne of fiber hell
Also got my longline fiber flax strick and am BITING THE WALLS
Look at the staple length of a few fibers from that I pulled out, as opposed to the flax top commonly sold to spinners, just below it. Fuck Me Sideways no wonder I was having trouble spinning the flax top, it's basically tow that would have been used for sack cloth
How do you get a stretchy and invisible folded hem on a top down sweater? 🧶🌺☕️🫖🧶
I used to seam my folded hems with regular sewing stitches, but that tightens the hem. The 3-needle bind off isn’t ideal either, since it creates a bulky ridge 🤔
Recently, I saw this method of grafting the hem together, and I’m not going back! The result is invisible and as stretchy as the rest of your knitted fabric.
A geeky note: If you work around the purl bumps, your hem will be shifted by half a stitch. To keep my hem lined up neatly, I go up through one purl bump with my needle and down through the next 🤓🙌🧶
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hobbies should not take up this much space. there ought to be a hobby pocket dimension, where I am able to store everything I need in a breadbox that weighs no more than my cat.
"Sys how is your decent into fiber arts hell going"
Glad you asked. I have arrived at 'modern flax is Bullshit compared to what we had in historical textiles, the flax widely available for handspinning is basically the tow that would be discarded from textile creation and used with tar to caulk ships back in the day'
This naturally led me down a hole of 'why is the staple length of this stuff a bullshit 6 inches' and the answer is 'we have bred modern flax more for the oil than the fiber because cotton usurped the place of everyday textile thanks to slavery and the cotton gin'
Anyway, THIS led me to a rabbit hole that culminated in me finding flax seed bred for proper 30 inch tall plants for fiber, sold by some fellow minded nerds on a website that has not been updated since 1998 and you have to email them to buy anything.
Anyway how are all of you doing.
I FAILED YOU ALL here is the site. You can also buy flax fiber from them. The PROPER shit, not the hot garbage ass tow fiber sold as flax top for handspinners.
'machine combing shortens the flax fibers by several inches'
This right here is part of why modern linen is a pale shadow of historical linen. Legitimately it cannot be properly replicated by machines. It HAS to be made by human hands if you want the best quality.
Ok that was a lot of work
What do folks think? Anything missing?
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From top to bottom, left to right:
Rutabaga and Radish
Chestnut
Bramble and Blackberry
Squash and Pumpkin aka the Marglings
i finished the handsome chris pulloever!!!! the end result is so lovely and so worth it but i don't see myself doing allover cables again in a long, long time lol
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"Sys how is your decent into fiber arts hell going"
Glad you asked. I have arrived at 'modern flax is Bullshit compared to what we had in historical textiles, the flax widely available for handspinning is basically the tow that would be discarded from textile creation and used with tar to caulk ships back in the day'
This naturally led me down a hole of 'why is the staple length of this stuff a bullshit 6 inches' and the answer is 'we have bred modern flax more for the oil than the fiber because cotton usurped the place of everyday textile thanks to slavery and the cotton gin'
Anyway, THIS led me to a rabbit hole that culminated in me finding flax seed bred for proper 30 inch tall plants for fiber, sold by some fellow minded nerds on a website that has not been updated since 1998 and you have to email them to buy anything.
Anyway how are all of you doing.
I FAILED YOU ALL here is the site. You can also buy flax fiber from them. The PROPER shit, not the hot garbage ass tow fiber sold as flax top for handspinners.
'machine combing shortens the flax fibers by several inches'
This right here is part of why modern linen is a pale shadow of historical linen. Legitimately it cannot be properly replicated by machines. It HAS to be made by human hands if you want the best quality.
Oh hey update. Don't use this website for flax seed purchasing. It's a failed cult.
This one, however, is a bit more legit.
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Oh damn thanks man good catch.
Reblogging this
I don't know if I would call them a failed cult, honestly. Having grown up near hermitage, they never presented themselves as more than a gay Moravian compound, with some nifty little gnosto-Christian flavors here and there based off some late American folklore.
The negative connotations in that person's comment, at least in my personal, actual experience living in the area, are unfounded.
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