Jay Spins Stuff

I jwore my regular jeans, and paired them with converse because they felt sort of appropriate and I couldn’t find thrifted cowboy boots. This was a fairly challenging make. The work on the biker vest definitely improved my pattern drafting and sewing skills, so time well spent #RockyHorror

For the slingshot necklace, I sketched this out and made a replica from fimo. For the skull keyring, I took the skull off a plastic Halloween skeleton toy and added the keyring with a jump ring. I also had painted a black T-shirt with the word “Eddie” in green. I already owned the scarf #RockyHorror

I bought the hiker vest from Vinted, took it apart, drafted and cut out a new back panel and lapels, and sewed them into the vest. This was difficult, but my sewing machine survived! I then drafted and cut out a felt appliqué design for the back to match the jacket from the film, and added studs.

Close up of the face and upper torso of a man in an Eddie rocky horror costume. He wears a greaser wig, a leather biker jacket with leopard print lapels, a model slingshot necklace, a greaser wig and dark eye makeup

A man stands in front of a white wall. He is wearing a costume of Eddie in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. He raises one hand in a rock horns gesture and sticks his tongue out. The costume comprises: a greaser wig, a studded biker vest with leopard print lapels, a white scarf, a slingshot necklace, a black t-shirt with “Eddie” painted on it in green, jeans and black converse.

The back of a leather biker vest showing a felt reconstruction of the design on Eddie’s jacket in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It shows a rising sun in red and yellow, and the word baby in a red angular font

Went to a rocky horror showing last night, had the best time with my friends and won a prize for my Eddie costume! It’s not often I get up in front of a crowd and do the time warp, but when I do it I do it in style!
Details on the making in the thread 🧵
#RockyHorror #CosPlay #Crafts
#HandMade 🧶

Me to my Lazy Kate as I cut small pieces of sellotape and stick them by their edges around her frame in order to wrap presents: Girl, is there anything you can’t do?

#HandSpinning #HandSpunYarn

Yeah it’s perfect for travel. I did quite a lot of it on various train journeys. Let me know how you get on with yours, when you knit it I’d love to see pictures

It’s an amazing pattern - I love that it’s gaugeless as I sometimes just spin what the fibre is telling me to make and then it’s like “what can I do with this?” 😆

Thankyou so much! It’s been my favourite make of all this year - and I’ve been wearing it everywhere since I finished it - thanks for writing the pattern

A triangle of knitted fabric lies on the floor partially on a colourful striped rag rug. The fabric shows three stripes of rich deep colours red, teal and yellow which is mottled with brown. Between each colour stripe there is a fade

A man with a dark unkempt beard smiles at the camera wearing a grey hoodie and a hand knitted cowl in teal, red and yellow. In the background we see a fairly busy market street

It’s official, I love this and wear it everywhere now 🥰

Pattern is @chaseharpole.bsky.social ‘motorcoach’ made with my handspun yarn

The flat lay photo is taken before blocking and seaming so you can see the colour interactions

#knitsky #knitting #HandSpunYarn 🧶

I definitely gave in and made some green bean casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy… worst at being British award incoming 😅🧶

Apparently almost all the news on my feed has been replaced by the fact that *checks notes* Americans are consuming a meal today

We’ll ignore the fact that I love green bean casserole, and cornbread dressing 😅🧶

Thankyou so much

Thankyou! 😊

This picture shows garter stitch knitted cowl in progress on the needles. It’s knitted in approximately DK weight handspun yarn and has three colours visible: a deep red, a rich teal and a mustard yellow. The needles are being held in the knitters left hand while the photo is taken and the knitting rests on the knitters jean clothed legs. In the background we can see a bit of a rug and beanbag

Not as much knitting time as I wanted this week but I’m making up for it this morning adding my last colour stripe to this cowl. This is all my own handspun and I can’t wait to wear it!

Pattern is @chaseharpole.bsky.social ‘Motorcoach’

#KnitSky #knitting #HandSpinning #HandSpunYarn 🧶

Swiss darning is a technique if you want the repair to match the structure of the knit, it’s a little fiddly but there’s some great you tube tutorials, and you just need yarn, scissors, a large blunt sewing needle and something to stretch the sweater over - sometimes cans are good. Good luck 😊

Thankyou! I wore them to choir tonight and I’m very happy with it 😊

Great colours - also I was curious where the name came from, good to know!

It’s patched, interfaced on the inside and then there’s a lining patch over the top - I took the photo before I ironed it, it looks very flat now 😂

Elmo: if the landlord can't afford the place without your rent then you are providing housing for the landlord

Oh I feel you! It’s such a struggle - although I do enjoy getting up early sitting with a cup of tea and saying “I’d better darn them trousers before the light goes” like I’m a character in a play 😂

A mended pair of black jeans with a black fabric patch over the crotch. The iPhone camera colour correction has exaggerated the differences between the fabrics which look closer to one another in real life

A pre-mended pair of black jeans with rips and frays in the crotch. In the photo we can see small pair of fabric scissors and a cross-stitch embroidered needle case which says “count once stitch twice, count twice stitch once” in different shades of blue

When you own as many black clothes as I do (aging emos die hard 😂) and you live in the UK where there’s currently 9 hours of daylight (and still waning) you sit up in the morning and do your mending #mending 🧶

A pair of socks lie flat on a black and white striped rug. The socks are hand knitted with a ribbed top and a an eye of the partridge texture on the heel, which gives a waffle like texture. The socks are predominantly of white with solid strips of blue, yellow and orange, as well as stripes made of colour blocks of grey red and dark blue

Finished these a week or so ago and forgot to post a picture - this is my standard sock recipe in a self striping 4ply, I just needed another pair of socks for the winter
#knitting 🧶

I did feel very smug that I’d timed the colour change so well lol

Post a non-religious image you think of as holy

This picture shows some deep reds garter stitch knitting which has just had some teal contrast rows work in at the edges. The stitches are still live on the needle and the knitter has paused mid row, holding the needles up in one hand. The yarn is hand spun. In the background we can see a white tabletop, a flat white coffee and a some cake with a fork on a small plate

Places you can knit: at the best coffee shop in your hometown, or possibly the world - Darkroom Espresso.
It’s so great to be back here and have a little time to relax, knit and drink great coffee

Pattern is @chaseharpole.bsky.social ‘s ‘Motorcoach’ cowl

#HandSpunYarn #HandSpinning #Knitting 🧶

Thankyou! And thankyou for writing the pattern! I have a lot of odd skeins I’ve spun to use up, so I really appreciate the gaugeless design, and all the variations 😊

This picture shows a red triangle of knitting that has been worked in a handspun yarn made with different shards of red blended together. The needles are yellow metal knit pro circulars. You can see that ball of yarn is resting on a train tray table and the back of the seat in front is visible

Places you can knit: on the train home. This is is @chaseharpole.bsky.social’s
‘Motorcoach’ cowl using up some of my handspun that was in search of a project. Something gaugeless like this is perfect for those one offs I spin, and I’ll get to wear them too 😊🧶
#knitting #HandSpinning #HandSpunYarn

Why do hate the game so much? The devs are trying so hard. It’s literally early access, be grateful they’re sharing it with us. They can’t just develop 24/7 they have families

POV you ask why a £15 game that’s been out for 2 years doesn’t have a jump button

It’s on the roadmap…

#gaymer #gamer

An image of various autumn leaves gathered from a local park which have been preserved in glycerine and are now drying on parchment paper. There’s are many different shades of yellows oranges red and browns and even a few little pops of green in the leaves, which are all different shapes and sizes

Breaking news: ADHD person may have taken current crafting
hyperfixation too far
All surfaces in his home are covered with preserved autumn leaves… more on this story at 10
#crafting #ADHD #Fall

That’s the one! Thankyou these are great tips