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A skein of grey chenille yarn and a small bobbin of silver thread harvested from an old jumper.

This is just the collar, the chenille yarn is pretty good for a 5+ yr old primark jumper! The silver thread is a bit broken though but it’ll be fine for spinning.

The jacket is a Twig + Tale pattern in summer weight wool with a cotton lining. It draws from 18th century short gowns with fantastic elements like the pixie hood and lace up back.

The skirt it self-drafted and is wool. It draws from petticoats of the 18th and 19th centuries with a bib tie construction and slits for pockets, but has a 1940s look.

I haven't been sewing because of all of *shakes hands around*, but I took Friday off work to finish this jacket that I had in pieces on my sewing table. I ♥️how this outfit draws from many historical periods & makes me feel like I am ready to step into a fantasy novel. Info in alt text.

At this rate that’ll be in my future for sure 😅

Two fast fashion knitted jumpers that are going to be unraveled into yarn

One is the jumpers, seams undone, in a pile. Front, back, two sleeves and a collar.

Don’t have the bandwidth to create, only destroy!

🧶 #Recycling #Upcycling

A large Regency house. Two sisters named Emilia and Charlotte talk on an upper floor. "Mister Blackwell has come to call again." says Emilia as she looks out of the window "Oh, how I despise his uncouth manners and electric bicycle!" Charlotte says "Sister, you will end up a spinster if you insist on a historically accurate suitor." and continues "The romance novel has changed, Emilia, and so must we." Emilia replies "Easy for you to say. You are engaged to the richest werewolf in the county!" They are walking through the house. Charlotte says "Look at Cousin Lucy: She is quite plain, yet made a most advantageous match with the dragon queen of nalthrax." "True." says Emilia opening the door. The tall, solid figure of Miuster Blackwell stands at the door wearing a top hat and tailcoat: "Ladies, I triumphed In my ice hockey match and won ten thousand a year in sponsorship! Miss Emilia, will you be my bride?" he is holding a hockey stick. Emilia swoons into Charlotte's arms.

A romance cartoon for the @theguardian.com

A flat lay image of a pair of hand knitted colourwork mitts with geometric band at the bottom, this is knitted in gold and white, with the images of Egrets at the top, in black and white. The mitts are shown alongside two small ceramic bowls with geometric designs, one black the other yellow

A flat lay image of a pair of hand knitted colourwork mitts with geometric band at the bottom, this is knitted in gold and white, with the images of Egrets at the top, in black and white. The other mitts shows the reverse with a geometric design. The mitts are shown alongside two small ceramic bowls with geometric designs, one black the other yellow

A flat lay image of a pair of hand knitted colourwork mitts with geometric band at the bottom, this is knitted in gold and white, this image shows the reverse of the mitt with a black and white geometric design. The mitts are shown alongside two small ceramic bowls with geometric designs, one black the other yellow

And the mitts are finished!! 😁
🖤💛🤍🪶🪽

So pleased with how these gorgeous egret mitts turned out, the pattern is the Thula mitts by Erica Heusser.
They are knitted in Big Fox yarn perfect sock, and I think they are my favourite pair yet!

#knitting #knitsky #justknitting 🧶

a tiny little 3D printed “ham radio” in the palm of my hand (it looks like a ham with an antenna and radio face)

another angle of my HAM RADIO

yet another angle of my ham radio

the front radio face of my han radio. you can see the tiny details are quite messily painted and need to be adjusted larger in the sculpt

some photos so you can really see how messy my tiny bits are #art

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause

What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

photo of the tapestry hanging on display at museum long vertical composition “Norwegian Revival In the latter part of the 19th century, Norway's artists, writers, composers, and historians looked to their country's medieval past to assert their desire for political independence. Traditional folk tales and Norse mythology inspired a generation of artists to adapt fantastical motifs for silver, furniture, tapestries, and even architecture. Medieval stave churches-timber structures once common in Norway and increasingly rare after the 16th century-often included intricate decoration with interlaced patterns and dragon motifs. These sources inspired a new style that emerged in the 1890s, known as Dragon Style. Lars Kinsarvik, a wood carver and furniture maker, became the style's leading proponent. Similarly, Norwegian painter Gerhard Munthe helped to formulate what he termed a "Norwegian national style,' a modern aesthetic rooted in traditional rural culture. Munthe explored folk tales and mythology in a distinctively bold abstract style that incorporated the influences of Japanese art and European Art Nouveau with inspiration from medieval tapestries and colorful hand-painted folk art. In the 1890s, he began to produce tapestry designs (woven by his wife Sigrun Sandberg and female artisans at Trondheim's Art Weaving School), contributing to a textile renaissance in Norway. His tapestries, critically acclaimed at the 1900 Paris World's Fair, shaped Norway's national identity abroad in the years leading up to its independence in 1905.”

closeup of the “red rooster” in upper right

closeup of bear trio in lower right

Gerhard Munthe (Norwegian, 1849-1929), designer
(woven by Munthe’s wife Sigrun Sandberg & female artisans at Trondheim's Art Weaving School)
The Red #Rooster, 1890
Wool & cotton tapestry
On display at “The Scandinavian Home: Art and Identity, 1880-1920” at Washington County MFA

a digital redraw of gustav klimt's "the kiss" where a green wireframe man embraces a demure android woman, kissing her cheek. classic windows 98 UI styled patterns adorn their clothes. the man's drapery features a bunch of overlapping windows, all with gibberish text and inverted colors. the woman's dress is filled with lots of different desktop icons in varying sizes. there's a faint glitchy cloud texture over the background, and the hill they kneel on is covered in circuit patterns and loose plugs.

happy valentine's day! 💖

A 3-D framed picture of the Mona Lisa that is actually a cat house. When the cat sits in it, it looks like it’s resting in her arms.

A beautiful long-haired black cat with green eyes sitting in his new framed Mona Lisa cat scratcher. He immediately went in it like he knows it’s his.

The view from a few feet, back of the long haired black cat with green eyes sitting in his framed Mona Lisa cat scratcher. It looks like the Mona Lisa is holding him in her arms. Around him, our various other cat houses, including a café and a retro TV.

Long-haired black cat sits in his framed Mona Lisa cat scratcher, looking to the side. It’s a profile view, and his eyes are bright green in the sunlight.

Announcement of Scrap Along 2026's opening day on Valentines Day and a list of the benefits of yarn craft. Details included in the post itself.

Hello! Scrap Along 2026 begins today, February 14, and runs 30 days through the Ides of March (March 15). Just make something from leftover yarn and post it on social media with the tag #ScrapAlong2026

Wow 😮

A pair of handknit socks in pink and red zigzag stripes with light purple heels, toes, and cuffs. A tiny bit of leftover yarn is next to them, with a heart-shaped Love Hearts candy tin.

💕Happy Valentine’s Day phone friends 💕! A nice reminder to tell your people that you love them 💖!

#ShowMeYourKnits week 81: show me your REDS ❤️ & PINKS 🩷!

Jaywalker socks, unblocked, off the needles about 5 min ago 😬…I made it…barely! Valentine’s socks in Lyl merino sock set ‘True Love v2’ 🧶

A gray jersey dress on a dress form, from the waist up, made of many panels with rows of serged gray stitching. My serger is in the background. #sewingsky #textileartist

Work in progress, with real afternoon sunbeams.

There is the word “darning” in the alt text and that is one of the keywords the feed uses. This is also why dragonflies (darning needles) and that one American football player called darning pop up in the feed. Can’t really do anything about that without losing a lot of good mending posts though 🤷

Good question, I’ll take a look.

A sterling silver Europa Clipper Vault Plate pendant held over a wooden bench pin, featuring engraved waveforms radiating from the center.

[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes]

Somewhere between here and Jupiter, #EuropaClipper is carrying an engraved plate with the waveforms of "water" in 103 languages. And here I am in the studio, putting those same waveforms onto a sterling silver pendant 😎

🔭🐡🧪🎨

The deadline for responding to this consultation (about whether we should shovel even greater heaps of bureaucratic misery onto immigrants in the hope of pacifying racists) is midnight on Thursday 12th:

Toji-in's 'Seiren-tei' teahouse in the snow.

The dry landscape garden at Toji-in covered in snow.

The garden and pond at Toji-in become a winter wonderland after snowfall.

Looking down at the main hall of Toji-in in the snow. Clipped azalea bushes look like the beginnings of snowmen.

👋🌿WELCOMING SPRING🐦🎶

In the traditional calendar spring has arrived.
During 'Risshun' (立春) the 'east wind melts the ice' (東風解凍 Feb 4th-8th), 'bush warblers begin singing in the mountains' (黄鶯睍睆 9-13th), and mysteriously 'fish emerge from the ice' (魚上氷 14-18th).

#snow #spring #Kyoto #Tojiin

a sleeping figure with enamel prosthetics. he is surrounded by floral motifs that mimic cloisonné

The Dancer and the Cloisonné Dream

YouTube video by steelels1 American Woodcock Shine

The woodcock is also the star of this video that is etched deep into the face of my brain m.youtube.com/watch?v=bY43...

Laid out against a dark grey background are ten biscuits that resemble aged, chipped mudlarking finds. An oval biscuit in a rich, dark green looks like the seal of a glass bottle, and features a raised characterful face at its centre. Next to it is an unevenly shaped black biscuit with grey chips and the raised shape of a hare’s face, ears, and upper legs. There are two large biscuits with jagged edges, each decorated in blue and white to look like broken pieces of delftware plates. One features the shape of a small bird surrounded by swirling lines, the other has a series of concentric circles and curved shapes. A small biscuit with a multifaceted texture replicates a knapped flint arrowhead. Next to it are a tiny hammer-shaped biscuit in pewter with delicate cross markings, and a very small gold biscuit button etched with lines, circles, and a rough star shape. The smallest biscuit is made to look like a yellow glass cufflink with decorative circles in blue, white, and red. Another small biscuit has the appearance of an aged metal button edged with decorative white and turquoise dots. Finally, there is a small angular biscuit in a terracotta colour with raised lines roughly in the shape of two intwined figures.

Some mudlarking finds survived for centuries in the muddy banks of the River Thames. Others are freshly baked tasty snacks. 🍪

This biscuit (cookie) set recreates ten of the 350+ mudlarked objects in London Museum's Secrets of the Thames exhibition.

The exhibition closes on 1 March. Don’t miss it!

A needle felted green tree frog on an orange sweater.

A needle felted fly on an orange sweater.

A needle felted frog and fly on an orange sweater.

Fixed a friend's sweater with needle felting! Visible mending for the win!

The same ceramic sphinx in the last post now digitally illustrated. In the top panel it sits with a giant grin, speaking. The text reads "A man in a car saw a golden door, a silver door, and a bronze door. Which door did he open first? The car door!" Bottom left it goes flying through the air, mouth open in a snarl. The text reads "Riddle failed! (Mind you they are the size of a kitten, don't worry about it). Bottom right shows them curled up on their back, blissfully relaxed, eyes closed for a nap. The text reads "Two minutes later". Scattered throughout the illusration are three small, simple doodles, looking up in wonder at a flowering plant, on its back, legs sticking straight up with a frustrated expression, and the last one; tail high with a happy smile.

I've been so tickled after making the ceramic sphinx in my last post that I couldn't help but draw them for some fun this weekend :)

Flat lay photo of the back piece of a hand-knit raglan sweater. The sweater base is pink and has psychedelic banana motifs all over in bright pink, orange, red, turquoise and black.

Flat lay photo of the reverse side of the piece of a hand-knit raglan sweater. The sweater is intarsia knit so you can see the clipped ends of woven-in coloured yarn tails.

Backnanas is done! 😀

Yarn 🧶: Cascade Yarns Heritage + silk mohair lace held together
Pattern 📐 : my own charts, based off the RTW Colourful Bananas Cardigan by Farm Rio 🍌, knitted according to the Cline Sweater pattern by Julie Hoover

#knitsky #bananasweater

Here’s our little fibre art community!

I was looking forward to doing finish it February but instead I am practicing compassionate goals - finishing things is mentally exhausting to me right now. I started doing a little spinning sheep breed study as it is mindful enough to keep me distracted without being taxing.

I haven’t posted for a week… that’s because last Sunday we said goodbye to our beloved dog Ada. It was very sudden and unexpected and has left us heartbroken. She was our very best friend.

Small knit red hat for wearing as a pin/badge based on the Norwegian protest hats against Nazi occupation.

Small knit red hat for wearing as a pin/badge based on the Norwegian protest hats against Nazi occupation.

#knitsky 🧶💙 Working through some of my feelings by knitting these lil' Melt 🧊 hat pins/badges.