Amber Newt

Happy international wolf day! 🐺 Here's a few favorite wolf art pieces I've made the past few years. AWOOOO!

[ID: a drawing of a blue bird flying over a barbed wire fence, with the words "love thy neighbor, not thy border". it is signed "featherbone - fuck ice". end.]

If you have the means:

LA Community Defense Coalition

Sudanfunds.com

Two Deer

Horse with Colt

I made a hat!

Rainbow Pride Shetland braid from @littlebirdinagarden, split lengthways to prevent too much drafting and so preserve colour intensity. 2ply, aiming for minimal barber polling, but not a chain ply so that the colours blend and fade rather than changing abruptly.

Matched with a north country cheviot for contrast. Rhombus mittens (Inna M on Ravlery) knitting pattern gave inspiration for the disappearing rhomboids; drafted pattern to fit a hat. Eight repeats of ten stitches. 6mm needles for colour work; 5.5mm for ribbing. Provisional cast on where colorwork starts so as to allow adjustments (hat up, rib down).

The brim turns up and covers the very bottom bit of yellow/orange, which I think I prefer - illusion of one colour fade through the hat.

pictures in order: regular heel / boomerang heel diamond heel / afterthought heel

aesthetically (best to worst)

boomerang heel

afterthought heel

regular heel

diamond heel

difficulty (easiest to hardest)

diamond heel

afterthought heel

regular heel

boomerang heel

Now that my mom has worn the afterthought heel socks for a while they look even better

This might become my go-to ngl

But what should I name him???

I might go ahead and make him a friend, because there are things I wish I had done differently, but I have to say that for a first try, he's really wonderful!

I was commissioned to make an art quilt inspired by a photo of the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's antarctic exploration vessel.

Here are my reference photo (taken by Frank Hurley on August 27, 1915) and some process pictures!

I printed a scale copy of the image, then used it to create an applique pattern and to trace the rigging onto water soluble fabric so I could free motion quilt over all the lines. (FMQ is essentially freehand sketching with your sewing machine by manually moving the quilt under your needle in whatever patterns you want to create with thread.)

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.

you think you’re going to have a normal field trip and she shows up wyd (cw *slight* flashing images)

This is Hayley Tsang Heather's Peony – Pfingstrose Shawl. I made this shawl out of Fyberspates Gleem Lace in the colorway 733 Everglade, and used 896 6/0 Miyuki Rocailles in the color: transparent silver-lined dark gold (RR-4).

It's warm... it's fashionable.... it's hot coo-ture!

i made a the pigeon sweater (by Michelle Tsai) for my friend! i've been wanting to make another top for ages, but I have way too many sweaters already, so when she mentioned seeing a sweater she really wanted it was like serendipity 🕊️

i'm so psyched with how this turned out; she lives over a thousand miles from me so i had nothing but some measurements, math, and a lot of faith that this would fit properly (and it does!! perfectly!!)

dragon pattern to take the edge off