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Woman with blue hair wearing an organza dress and jacket made of patchwork in shades of blue and purple

Woman with blue hair wearing an organza dress and jacket made of patchwork in shades of blue and purple

Patchwork fabric made of blue and purple organza

It's still warm enough for me to wear this dress and jacket I recently finished! I was inspired by the Korean jogakbo patchwork technique.

Mostly hand sewn, as I was on a family holiday and needed some relaxing hand sewing. 1000 flat-felled seams may not be relaxing to some, but it is to me 😅

Pattern: Southern Sunset Cardigan by Jennifer Lovett Photo shows author lying on her stomach sprawled while wearing a cozy burnt orange crochet cardigan and holding a mug of coffee

Hello crocheters! Welcome to week 37 of #CrochetAway (the weekly crochet prompt game inspired by #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶)

Let’s keep with the autumn vibes and show off anything 🧡orange🧡

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It’s about time to break out my Southern Sunset Cardigan again so it feels like a good time to reshare!

Long hand knit oval that is half purple and half black that gets folded into itself to become a double-layer hat.

Double layer hand knit hat in stockinette, current folded as black hat with purple brim.

Double layer hand knit hat in stockinette, current folded as purple hat with black brim.

It’s that time, knitters 🦇…show me your 👻 SPOOKY 👻 knits! Does it have bats? Ghosts? Skulls 💀? Is it 🖤💜? Also accepting pumpkins 🎃 , cats 🐈‍⬛, etc… Week 63, we’re getting into the spirit (👻) #ShowMeYourKnits

Atmospheric Musselburgh hat from @ysoldaknits.bsky.social in @edencottageyarns.bsky.social 🧶

A faded sashiko shirt from Ship John.

Have you ever noticed that old clothes online sometimes look better than old clothes in your closet?

Why is that? 🧵

Fresco from Rome with an octopus clutching a moray eel and a lobster in its tentacles. Dated to the 2nd quarter of the 2nd century AD. Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.

An octopus on the early 4th-century mosaic floor in the Basilica of Aquileia, Italy.

Mycenaean terracotta stirrup jar with octopus 1200-1100 BC.

An octopus battling with a lobster on a mosaic from Pompeii.

Happy #WorldOctopusDay! 🐙

Bronze statue of a woman in armor above the waist and a skirt below. She is holding a sword by its blade just below the hilt and she has her head bowed in prayer.

Joan d'Arc - Marie-Christine d'Orleans, c. 1836

Black crocheted square motif

Black crocheted cropped sweater

84 squares later and I have a cropped sweater/bolero thing. #crochet 🧶

Beaded detail of a pink 1930s evening dress by Jean Patou. The photograph focuses on the gold beaded belt and the illusion of pleats

Full length view of the sleeveless pink and gold beaded evening dress with trompe l’oeil pleats and scoop neckline

So much of the design of this early #1930s dress is about a trick of the eye - the trompe l’oeil - created in the illusion of pleats from the placement of the beadwork that covers the entire garment. Designed by Jean Patou it shimmers in pink and gold #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A plastic storage bin with one layer of colorful handknit socks inside. Outside the box is the second layer of colorful handknit socks. Light gray fabric background.

Many colorful pairs of handknit socks. Folded in half and displayed on top of a light gray comforter.

My box of sox, in 2021. It was 58 pairs, but I've since added 18 more. I could go 2+ months wearing a unique pair each day.😀But I have favorites. I don't have a problem, I just need a bigger box. 📦👍

Not shown, nearly as many that I've knit for others.

#knitting #knitsky #showmeyourknits #boxofsox

Crochet monster called a Ponysaur has a long body with pointed tail, four pointy legs, and a single large eyeball for a head. Body is a turquoise/blue/white speckle yarn, and the eye is a turquoise safety eye.

Crochet monster called a Ponysaur has a long body with pointed tail, four pillar legs, and a single large eyeball for a head. Body is turquoise and teal striped yarn, legs are magenta with turquoise stripes, and it has a turquoise safety eye. In front of the ponysaur are the leftover bits of yarn from failed attempts at yarn chicken.

This week is #creepycute for #crochetaway, & I have already shared many of my monsters, but not these!

Pattern is Ponysaur by Megan Lapp/Crafty Intentions. These are 2 of the 3 included leg options, and they are wired through the body to be poseable.

#amigurumi #crochetsky

Am antique yarn winder. It is made of dark wood, has long, thing legs, and 4 arms. It's sitting next to a red woodstove in a farmhouse living room.

A detail of the mechanism of the yarn winder. When the winder is turned clockwise, a wooden gear on the side of the winder turns counter clockwise. A small wooden peg on the gear passes the arm of a weight once every 40 turns. The peg pushes a lever down, and when it passes by, a wooden knocker strikes the table of the winder. The winder is also designed with a built-in wooden handle at the top.

Spotted this beautiful winder at neighbor's yard sale and had to bring it home. I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but it has an adorable "clicker" design. It's a typical, 2-yard circumference, 80-yard measure.

#handspinning #reel #weasle

Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm. Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Close up of a black handwoven band with small dashes of pink, orange, and blue throughout

Band laid out to its full length beside tools: a band shuttle, a small weaving sword, stork scissors, and Ashford Inklette loom

Finished the inkle band I've been working on!

This is wool yarn, Koigu KPPM (colorway P375), it compressed quite a bit with lovely little sparks of color! With the variegated yarn doing all of the work for the pattern, this one was relaxing after the complicated pickup band of the last one I made!

The Battle of Cable Street.

A thread 🧵 with pictures and ALT text.

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On this day in 1936, the East End of London rose up against fascism. The Battle of Cable Street.

#TheyShallNotPass #NoPasaran

Grey and white socks that look like sharks eating my legs

For #showmeyourknits sock week - here’s a pair of shark socks I knit for a friend! 🧶🦈

About 1.5 inches of 1x1 ribbed cuff of a hand knit sock in green wool. The unknit balls of green and light grey yarn are next to it, along with an unwound skein of dusty pink yarn.

Happy #SOCKTOBER knitters 🧦🧶! Surely everyone guessed this week’s theme!? #ShowMeYourKnits week 62: show me your SOCKS!

In honour of the occasion, I am ignoring all other socks in progress & starting a fancy pair of colourwork/ cable socks for myself 💅! Seward Socks by Caitlin Hunter in Exmoor Sock

Black shirt with zombie pin-up style girls in various poses. Cowboy shirt style yoke in a dusky pink

Close up of shirt sleeve with zombie cowgirl

Close up of pink shirt yoke and collar. Collar has an image of a hand holding a brain

Front of sewing pattern. McCalls M6426 used for the shirt base, minus the yoke.

New favourite thing I've made! Wasn't getting on with the 70's western shirt, so decided to use this McCalls pattern I've made before & drafted my own yoke. Fabric was a remnant, so happy I was able to get the cowgirl on both sleeves. Brain on collar=happy accident #sewing #garmentsewing #sewsky

Ceramic frogs of different sizes and colors. There’s one on an oak leaf and one on a mushroom.

More 🐸 bound for the kiln 🔥
#ceramics #frogart

Front and back view of an emerald green sleeveless dress with a fitted bodice and full skirt. It is decorated with small self coloured bows

Tied up with little bows in an emerald parcel, a late #1950s Balenciaga gown for a weekend celebration, just the hint of a bustle at the back. Sold via #kerrytaylorauctions #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

blue porcelain rabbit figure on white background, front view - bunny is looking at us head on with a smirking expression on its face

For #InternationalRabbitDay 🐰🐇:
Love the facial expression on this blue bunny, it just keeps getting funnier the longer you stare back at it😂
China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1654-1722), porcelain w/ blue glaze, Newfields collection: collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/23070/

A pair of light blue hand knit socks with a chevron stitch pattern on the legs and feet. They have coral accent toes and stripes on the ribbed cuff.

It’s been a week 😮‍💨! Reminder that creating & making are important as is building & protecting community.
Week 61: show me something that brings you JOY 🎉 or that you have #knit to CARE 💕 for others.
Surf Wax socks in Coop Knits Socks Yeah! for my bestie, who is visiting tomorrow ☺️🥰. #ShowMeYourKnits

Fingerless crochet mitts made with granny squares in inverted colors. The left is green with a grey middle motif, the right is grey with a green middle motif

Hi friends! Week 34 of #CrochetAway (the crochet prompt game inspired by #ShowMeYourKnits) is here!

Let’s revisit the OG of crochet, the versatile granny square

I love these mitts that’s use a granny square in a way I hadn’t seen before.

Pattern: Not Your Granny’s Mitts by Erika Loftin

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miguel bain (antonio banderas) expressing relief in Assassins (1995)

me coming across a good post to repost and finding out it's accessible because it has alt text

Sgt Peppers album cover consisting of things that only made it because of immigration in to the UK, either immigrants themselves, the children of or as a result of someone else coming here.

Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.

New petition: Legally recognise non-binary as a gender Non-binary isn’t a legally recognised gender in the UK. We urge the Government to legally recognise non-binary as a gender and people who identify as non-binary in the UK. This proposal would include an X marker on UK passports for non-binary people.

New petition: "Legally recognise non-binary as a gender"

Deadline 24 March 2026, created by Leah Davis

#NewPetition

A side by side photograph of a mannequin dressed in an 1890s ensemble. It is bright red with black detailing on the bodice, sleeves and hem. She is wearing a black hat and gloves

This is an ensemble that I love because it is just so unflinchingly bold. As if the mid #1890s didn’t have enough going on with the proportion of its sleeves, this gal decided to go all out in scarlet as well #fidmmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

A dark yellow sweater dress on a tailor's dummy

#SewAndTell Week 5 - Cozy
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It starts to feel like autumn in the nothern hemisphere.
Let's show some of your cozy sewing projects.
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This sweater dress, was a quick win. A very simple shape, didn't even use a pattern.
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#sewing #sewsky #garmentsewing #quiltsky #cozy #autumn

Looks lovely and squidgy!

UK recognises Palestine as an independent state Deeply symbolic move comes seven decades after end of UK mandate in Palestine and formation of state of Israel

Done.