Julie

Miniature knitted sweater on a mannequin with green, red, yellow and blue stripes, patch pockets and a fuzzy collar.

A small knitted sweater held in an open hand.

Two young women wearing striped jackets with green, red, yellow and blue stripes.

The next Iconic Knit in miniature: this jacket, from an upcycled Hudson Bay point blanket, inspired by a variety of jackets in historical tradition but especially the modern iteration by @kittybadhands. Silk/mohair, 0.8 needles, this version is one I’ve been working on for months, off and on.

No, Barbie scale is 1/6, so twice as large.

Somewhat: you have to go really slowly and carefully. The hardest part is fixing mistakes, so the trick is not making any. 😆

A miniature pink sweater with a collar and buttons, held in a large hand, in a dollhouse-sized room with shelves of tiny yarn balls and other knit and crochet examples and accessories.

#ShowMeYourKnits baby stuff! Tiny baby sweaters in 1/12 scale (shown in front of a miniature yarn shop roombox, handy for showing off the tiny knitting in general.) #miniatures #dollhouses #knitting 🧶

It’s thread, knit on very fine needles. (I can’t remember which I used for this but probably about 0.8mm.)

Thank you so much! 💗

A tiny knitted chicken made of thread, perched on a gold ruler to show it under 1” in length. Knitted in white thread with a red comb and wattle, and a yellow beak. A human hand is partially shown as well, to emphasize its size as no larger than a fingertip.

For anyone needing a little emotional support…there’s a little Emotional Support Chicken. Made using an adapted version of Annette Corsino’s wonderful knitting pattern, adjusted for miniaturization. 🧶🐓♥️

What a gorgeous motif. Lovely!

The photo shows a Roman iron stylus pen used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The image shows the four lines of inscribed text which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ Excavated in London by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

Some things never change!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA

#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology

Gorgeous! Brioche and colorwork? Be still, my heart. 😍

Small scraps of knitting shown laying on a pattern drawn on graph paper.

A small white cable-knit cardigan displayed on a miniature dress form. A human hand touches one sleeve, revealing it to be only a couple of inches high in size.

Cable day on #showmeyourknits and I just so happen to be revising the cable pattern I wrote for the Taylor Swift “folklore” sweater. Doing the “1989” one next. 🧶

ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

Thank you, it’s a pleasure! I hope you are able to make it to Castine—it’s such a privilege to be able to nurture our creativity that way.

Miniature Knitter Julie Steiner Reimagines Iconic Sweaters in Itty Bitty Form – PRINT Magazine We chat with Julie Steiner about her beloved niche art form, why miniatures are so compelling, and her unending urge to knit mini sweaters.

I love this profile, especially since it highlights the process pictures…and the process, the messy fragmented part of the whole, is where I personally spend the most time with each piece. 🧶

This is just to say

I have eaten
the democracy
that was your
America

and which
you were probably
saving
for your children

Forget it
it was delicate
it was
for sale
so it sold

Andy Warhol Self-Portrait, in which four different photographs of Warhol appear in an off-kilter grid, printed off-register in pink and black over a bright yellow background. His hair is wild, the distortion makes some of the renderings look like cartoons or aliens.

As I creak and wobble around the house following gallbladder surgery, taking an arsenal of medication, I am reminded that Andy Warhol died from complications of this same surgery. Sorry about that, Andy: here’s to you. #arthistory

Um, YES! Be careful, tho…it doesn’t stop at one. 😉

True “chaotic neutral”!! 😂

This is so cool!!!

Yes: and that, too is worthy. 💗

I am old enough to remember a time when we had to know someone who knew how and was willing to show us. Thankfully, we now have the internet, where one can google “learn to crochet” and watch endless free videos, and order the supplies and have them delivered literally overnight. It’s amazing!

‘One of the Most Impactful Art Losses Ever’: Insurers Start to Assess LA Wildfire Damage As fires raged across Los Angeles this week, numerous artists, collectors, and arts professionals have reported losing their art collections.

“Possibly one of the most impactful art losses ever in America.” www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

A 19th-century painting in a gold frame showing a man standing with his back to the viewer, looking out an open window to a typically Parisian street, with buff-colored buildings in Haussmann-style architecture. The room in the foreground and his silhouette are darkened, leading the viewer’s attention to the sunlit street beyond him. The window’s baluster and opened pane of glass dissect the composition.

Thinking about the @gettymuseum.bsky.social today and all the staff and planning it takes to keep an art collection safe from wildfires. Preserving cultural patrimony isn’t for sissies. (Here, Gustave Caillebotte’s “Young Man at a Window.”)

What a cutie!

An image from Yale Medicine that shows how the brain has more dopamine receptors before taking addictive substances. When an addictive substance maxes out our pleasure centers to unhealthy levels, it teaches the brain to reduce the dopamine receptors in order to become less sensitive. The problem is that with fewer dopamine receptors, we now begin to feel numb when exposed to ordinary sources of pleasure and happiness––we literally can’t feel happy with things we used to be able to feel happy about before.

Sensationalism is an addiction akin to junk food. It floods your brain with dopamine––overstimulating it & training it to be less sensitive to natural sources of pleasure.

Here’s a warning: if you want to be happy in 2029, DON'T let sensationalism hijack your neuropathways in 2025. (See alt txt)

Brilliant piece by Elena Kanagy-Loux for @hyperallergic.com back in April! 👇🏽

One of the most heartening aspects for me of teaching a course on craft and design, also earlier this year, was the opportunity to encourage students to look differently at family heirlooms and their own creations ✊🏽

“Forest weave” was a lot of fun! Looking at this list, Iris and Lily both look irresistible.💗

That looks simply heavenly to me. 😍

A dark brown and black tabby cat sitting next to a book with a pretty floral cover, titled “Victorian Housecats to Knit.”

A dark tabby cat sitting behind an open book, on whose pages are a knitting pattern for making a striped cat-shaped toy. The cat’s ears are up sharply and he has a rather astonished expression.

My cat Mo is very interested in my latest book of knitting patterns (by Sara Elizabeth Kellner). I told him if he doesn’t behave himself, I’m going to knit myself a replacement cat. 😉

Wow, this is gorgeous!!