Knitting In Progress!

My summer project for myself is to make a collection of 16 of these embroidered thimble rings (called kaga yubinuki), these are my first 2 ^^

using this as an opportunity to add this link to this post too:

so there are a lot of patterns for soft prosthetic breasts for breast cancer survivors, but there's no reason you cant make yourself some boobs:

Ravelry: Knitted Knockers Double pointed needles pattern by KnittedKnockers.org

Ravelry: Knockers (Crochet) pattern by Claudia Barbo

Ravelry: Tit Bits pattern by Beryl Tsang

Ravelry: Quick & Easy Round Knocker pattern by Janet Dawson

patterns for packers:

Ravelry: Perfectly Reasonable Packer pattern by Janet Dawson - this is a pattern i have actually made. i found it really easy to make and to customize/adapt for different yarns.

Ravelry: Soft Packer pattern by Marian Fournier

Ravelry: Trans Masc Packer pattern by Marcy Fank

Ravelry: Knit Packer pattern by Finn Beaton

fun pride themed patterns:

Ravelry: Progress Pride Flag Cutie pattern by Nicola Newt

Ravelry: Transgender Symbol pattern by Sara Allen

Ravelry: LGBTQ+Equality for Shawl pattern by nycraft craftivist

Ravelry: Pride & Trans Pride Flipsy pattern by kawaiicuddlebug

Ravelry: Transitions Trans Pride Cowl pattern by Elizabeth L. Schell

Ravelry: Trans Pride flag handwarmers pattern by Cassian Lotte Lodge

Ravelry: Protect Trans Folks Tapestry pattern by Ashley Gorecki

Pride Flag Knitting Chart! — TINA TSE KNITS

Ravelry: Pride Flag Hearts pattern by Grace Grommes

Ravelry: Pride Headband pattern by Indie Child

Mini Pride Progress Flag Free Crochet Pattern – Unicorn Hideout

Free patterns: Bi Bee, Enbee, Lesbeean – With Love, Feli

The noble suitors, who have never sewn a thing in their lives, sabotage themselves by their own ambitions: they choose difficult fabrics to work with and cut huge, elaborate patterns and select gems and pearls and beads to sew onto it, and snip such long bits of thread that they lose time detangling their stitches, and ultimately resort to pinning bits together as they run out of time, so that their offerings initially look beautiful and flashy, but when the princess tries them on they stick her with pin ends and fall apart as she moves.

The humble protagonist uses a very simple pattern without embellishments and sews using short lengths of thread (snipped off and threaded for him by little birds of course) which don't tangle and therefore save time. His dress is plain by contrast, but holds together and the princess is able to move freely in it, and so he wins the contest and her hand.

I particularly think about the bit about threading the needle with shorter lengths of thread, needing to tie off more often but avoiding tangles and thereby saving time.

It also has a lot of different kinds of stitches you can do that make different densities of fabric.

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’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.

Fine Embroidered Delhi Long Stole, Indian, 1815-25

A free pixel pattern for any craft that requires a grid!

Based on the absolutely beautiful photo of the dark side of the moon and crescent Earth taken by the crew of Artemis II on April 6th, 2026, lovingly titled "Earthset".

Here's also a version with a grid overlay, it's a bit hard to see unfortunately as the image itself is quite large. :,D

Original photo here:

Finally trying this stupid* pattern called Roundabout from Jordan Fabrics.

I had a bunch of Kaffe Fassett fat quarters and some 6+ meters of white on white that I got on sale at half price.

I’m pretty happy with my points so far, but we’ll see how they do as I get more blocks done LMAO

I don’t typically bind in white because it shows dirt and dust more than darker colours, but I think this will look good framed in the white.

Still don’t like making it.

Didn’t like the white, went with the left over blue from the backing, which I very much do like.

Had to do a floral quilting pattern to match both the floral background and the floral prints. I used light blue thread instead of white so it would just barely show up.

I was, of course, interrupted from taking photos by Mike&Ike and Jelly Bean. Mike was very cute about it.

My mother told me to delete Jelly’s picture because she isn’t cute in it.

I will not, I love her.

Rows D and E have officially been joined via my longest-ever whipstitch seam (though the newly-joined windows have yet to be filled in in color). Starting to get a sense of how big this thing will be—there are 9 of these rows 😬— but I’m loving how the circle shapes and the color gradient are coming through!