Merrilee

These are lovely! Beautiful loom too.

I've been spinning yarn using all kinds of amazingly cool embroidery threads, like metallics and holo. I got them in a big destash from an embroidery group and I know exactly why. They'd be hell to stitch with, in hand or machine. But... Sparkles!

Your shawl looks amazing! Don't mention mistakes, because no one else will see them.

From the thumbnail it looks like a stump of an epic, ancient rainbow tree.

So no, I don't want to use AI to "save time" because I won't get extra time to be a human. I'll just end up doing other work, but feel crappier because AI will have corroded my brain.

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVd: Spinning Plates This is the fourth thread of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who make up a majority of all of the humans who hav…

We live in a capitalist productivity cult. When the spinning wheel was invented and people could turn fibre into clothes faster than ever before, you know what we did? We started wearing more clothes than ever before. (acoup.blog/2025/09/26/c...).

Ewww, "prompt engineering"? What an overly technical and inflated way of saying "writing". Like tech-bro Sandwich Artists.

The tiny l'il toaster totally makes this piece sing.

A screenshot of an ebook which reads: Think about masking. Elijah is autistic, which I’m sure you know, but he’s been giving a set of rules by his parents about how to act like the allistic they wanted to have. After two decades of that, he’s now able to run a virtual machine of cis-allo normalcy, which is slower and less efficient than using his hardware like it should be used with the default operating system. But he’s been doing it so long, if the VM crashes, he’s thrust into an OS that he has no experience with, so he won’t be using it right and it will stress him out.

This passage is going to live in my brain for a long, long time.

From Gender Uphoria by Yvette Pike (eroticoffee.itch.io/gender-uphoria), talking about a trans character with autism.

Your weaving is utterly beautiful. Do you have plans for this fabric?

At this stage of our post-capitalist hellscape if it's not very gay I'm not interested.

Just a stunning piece of art.

Do you watch Cathy Hay on YouTube? She's been re-creating this coat by hand over the last few years.

This is just stunning. A beautiful birthday gift to yourself.

Also: Toe-up two-at-a-time magic loop don't @ me.

I'm in the "I don't get second sock syndrome because before learning to knit socks researched every sock technique to find the most optimal approh shit I think I'm autistic"

What a sensational fibre blend! Beautiful spinning too.

They do never mention that! Big hugs, because big feelings.

I almost always spin for joy. I let the fibre tell me what it wants to be, and if it's Default Yarn then cool cool. I end up with lots of random skeins. Which is kinda how I got into weaving.

A drawing of a hedgehog sitting next to a tree and knitting a long scarf. The caption reads, "doing what i can to reduce overwhelm today"

I always let my bobbins rest, somewhere between 18 hours and 18 months. I don't tension my lazy kate and find unrested bobbins are more likely to snarl or twist with each other.

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Beautiful spinning! I think that, as people, we will never be able to out-machine machines, but we can definitely out-people them.

But I also like to spin for fine and even consistency... Except when I don't. 😛

Stunning wrap! It almost looks like something out of Weaving with Echo and Iris. Ahhh, the power of a fabulous yarn...

the world is falling apart and we are hurling through time and space, just make the weird art

I am willing to buy direct from authors, and willing to buy from Kobo.

I am willing to buy from Itch. Why are people hesitant? Is it the recent NSFW debacle?

I pretty much only buy fundraiser/limited offer bundles on Itch. All other reading is going through my physical and digital TBR piles, physical and digital library books and online anthologies.

Ngl, when I got the notification that you can save posts on Blusky this account was the first thing I thought of.

Your weaving is stunning! I just finished teaching an introduction to rigid heddle weaving workshop using this yarn. Everyone loved how the colours were so varied.

Gorgeous! I'm definitely getting birch bark vibes.

I love doing this. Thank you to past me for researching and organising all these books for me to read so I don't just scroll endlessly through my ebooks before bed.

I've also recently realised that I've reached my lifetime quota for white cis het romances. I'll make an exception for a compelling case, but overall... No thank you.