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@yarncrafterscorner
Hey, fellow textile art folk, remember to gently straighten your neck, and get a drink before going back to work. It's always for the best to remember that you'll get more frustrated if you're dehydrated, from my experience. Also you're doing good.
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So many fiber arts have difficulty levels that are less about your level of skill than your ability to tolerate extreme multi-step processes.
Truly I hate to do this to you all but; you can watch all the videos and read all the blogs in the world but you cannot learn to sew without at some point picking up a piece of fabric and fucking it up. No tutorial exists that will stop you at some point ruining this poor piece of cloth. The visceral act of holding a project and wondering where you went wrong is the only way to learn sewing; you cannot escape it. I’m sorry
TDF 2026 so far
Been a bit busy but I have been participating in tour de fleece this year. Currently in the midst of spinning some acrylic fiber (about 2 oz) I've had in stash for a bit.
The finished yarn will go into a casual project I have going. I'll probably put pictures up at some point.
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Okay I don't know if there's a correct place to go looking for resources about. Any of this. But Tumblr is as good a place to ask as any for something both specific and very very broad.
I'm really interested in learning more about specifically north american indigenous textiles and textile production because so many resources discussing textile production and textile history completely disregard north america, but I have no idea where to even begin. I'll go haunt my college library and the city's central library at some point soon, but i'm wondering if anyone knows any interesting resources on native textiles, especially those written by native people, off the top of their heads?
I keep seeing fascinating things being mentioned in passing (Textiles: The Whole story... You're a wonderful book but what do you MEAN you don't even have any photos of the garments you mentioned with the porcupine quills used for emboridery and beadwork that you do not cite a direct source for and DOES NOT APPEAR ONLINE under any search terms) and I am looking for a jumping off point.
Book recommendations for Coast Salish textiles:
Salish Blankets: Robes of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth; by Leslie H. Tepper, Janice George, Willard Joseph
The Teachings of Mutton; by Alison Ariss, Andrea Fritz, Chepximiya Siyam Chief Dr. Janice George, Danielle Morsette, Debra Qwasen Sparrow, Eliot White-Hill Kwulasultun, Jared Qwustenuxun Williams, Kerrie Charnley, Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa, Michael Pavel, saꬷamitća Susan Pavel, Senaqwila Wyss, Snumithia’ Violet Elliott, Tuwuxwul’t-hw Tyrone Elliott, Xweliqwiya Rena Point Bolton
If you can find it, the digital book: Coast Salish Weaving by Chepximiya Siyam (Chief Janice George) and Leslie Tepper is supposed to be amazing.
jesus christ i have to actually draw in order for me to be drawing again
whenever people talk about being "too old" to do anything i think about the access to higher education course i did before university- where i was by far the youngest person in my class, because 90% of my classmates were mothers who were going back to school now that their kids had grown up and moved out. if youve ever wondered "why would anyone wait until their 50s to start a new life path?" there could be a lot of reasons but a common one is "because they had kids straight out of highschool and didnt have time to think about it until now." and i think that should be normal even if you dont plan on having kids. fuck it. life is an ever changing river. grab a paddle yo.
fuck it. life is an ever changing river. grab a paddle yo.
@samplerbot
Please I need this one
DMC Color Key: ■ 3750 Antique Blue Very Dark ■ 3840 Lavender Blue Light ■ 3842 Wedgewood Very Dark
Dimensions: 139 by 79 stitches. Font: 'pepminus10.ttf' by Peplum. Border: Adapted from Elizabeth Holland's sampler, 1737.
beep! beep! I'm a bot that makes samplers out of tumblr posts and my own custom and vintage borders. Patterns uploaded here (when my creator has the time).
Seeing a lot of Lego, Warhammer 40k, and fiber arts being referenced in the notes here and I just gotta say, y'all are all valid and making good choices.
If you own a knitpicks yarn ball winder, you need to save these two videos. They show you how to fix the most common issues with these. Either it eats your yarn, or its not winding nicely.
If it ate your yarn, watch this one
If its not winding properly, watch this one.
Hopefully someone else finds this helpful and can extend the lifespan of their ball winder!
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Let go of the idea that diy will inherently look shit. All your clothes are handmade you just don't see the people doing it.
One of the best additions that gets my point across better :)
There's a group that makes clothing with ink stained hands to show each time the fabric was touched with human hands to make the garment. The purpose of the piece is to bring attention to the hidden labor of sewists in the garment industry
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Sooo I picked up needle tatting because I totally don't have a problem... It's totally fine I'm still fiddling around with it. I already shuttle tatt but hey new method.
So I had revisited after a bit of a break from needle tatting. Ended up zooming through this bookmark in like 3 days unintentionally. Do think this had the help of the color hiding some messier bits. Here's the link if you want to make it.
Learn the basics of sashiko, kogin, thread painting, and more embroidery techniques with this ebook bundle! Pay what you want and support Ma
Check out this Humble Bundle!
It's focused on embroidery, decorative stitch work, and sashiko, with a couple others thrown in.
I just got the collection, so let me know if you want a preview of any of the books!
It looks like it just opened, and has all 17 books or 3 books as options. It looks like it will be open until Tues 23 June 1800 GMT.
At least on my phone, the formatting on ePub gets a little screwy, so take note of that!
Leafling Bandana
Find the pattern here
This designer is delightfully fairycore, and should definitely be checked out for whimsy
you have permission to pick that 2 year old "abandoned" project back up. it's not mad at you for setting it aside. and maybe time and distance have helped ease or erase the things that made you put it down in the first place.
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being an everything crafter is great but also sucks. like i want to get my watercolors out but i need to put away my microcrochet first. i want to do some leatherwork but my oil paints are on the table. i want to whittle but i'm using the bucket i catch wood shavings in to hold my papermaking mush. i want to write my book but my hands are too busy knitting a sweater. i want to code another video game but i'm too busy studying nalebinding. do you see my problem. the problem is that i need more hands
'Unraveling AI's 'Knitting Bullshit'
Yesss. Burn it with fire.
So I had all the expected feelings about this (anger, exhaustion, disappointment, grief, etc) and went away to live my life and touch yarn and try not to obsess.
And then I realized two days later that this hits a lot (way, way too many) of the same points that I'm running into with the current state of K-12 science education curriculum in the US.
So now I'm having a whole lot of feelings actually.
Yuuuuuup.
Also, if anyone doesn't recognize the name, Kate Davies is a great knitting pattern designer, most known for those cabled owls patterns. Personally, I recommend the Carbeth:
Also available as a kit from the KDD shop.
The key feature I keep seeing from gen AI evangelists is that they just cannot believe that experts exist. They often do agree that AI isn't all that great at one or two fields they know a lot about, but it can totally do at least the low-level work in others.
But it can't. It regurgitates common prejudices and tropes. It writes samey, boring essays that say nothing. The art it makes might occasionally get the hands right if we tweak it enough...
But it will still think that knitting is only done by a fantasy of 1950s tradwife whiteness.
