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Lark and Bower / Sarah Ward - 2020

During lock down, without a loom or studio, she started stitching small woven patterns by hand, using leftover yarn and a lot patience. What began as a way to keep going became a way of working.

Now, even with her full studio back, she still creates these tiny, time-consuming pieces. They're not made to be worn or sold fast, they're made to be seen, to remind us that weaving is an art, not just something for clothes. She uses waste yarn, old stock, and plant fibers to avoid adding more to the pile of fast fashion.

via @arthunter.me and @larkandbower

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Thinking about how wild it is that enshittification starts as a way for the rich to squeeze the populace for more money but ends up infecting everything so even luxury products decline in quality. They’ve got more money than fucking God now and for what? Literally they can’t even buy fun nice stuff for themselves because they killed craft.

Anyway this post is about Dhaka muslin but it’s also about everything.

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“Great Tits!”, inspired by the Great Tit, a small insectivorous bird with a black and white head, blue wings and tail, olive green upper body and yellow underparts.

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the oversized joint my bf crocheted …. the cat loves smoking her joint

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truly from the bottom of my heart i hate the level of enshittification etsy has reached because it's still the best place to buy patterns for my hobby and every time i go scrolling through endless ai-generated bullshit to finally dig up a human-designed pattern i like, i'm hit with a deluge of 'popular!! 563 people are looking at this right now!! it's in 134632 baskets!! you must buy immediately!!!' it's a pdf file. it's a fucking pdf file. do you get off on trying to give people fomo over a fucking pdf file. fuck off. get diarrhea forever.

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Crustacean Cocktail Party, interlocking crochet (patterns)

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Before:

After:

I'm very happy with the new binding. Much cleaner and, as Hubby has confirmed, much more difficult to tell which side is the front and which is the back.

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two headed calf filet crochet doily (chart, border) - my work (learn filet crochet)

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its just me and my eight million craft and art supplies against the world

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i just invented a cathedral rose window granny square pattern and i feel insane now

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my dear friend just looked up from the hat she's crocheting for a very large spherical rock we found in the river and said, in a slightly haunted tone that revealed this was the first time she was having this thought, "i should make something for my cousin's real human baby"

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Stolen from reddit where it wasn't being properly appreciated

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Download this easy DIY clothing repair guide (only 10 pages) from Uni of Kentucky

link to PDF

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Betsy Bear's Wardrobe Makeover and Surgery

Betsy Bear's was loved by her first little girl for over 7 years, and had a lot of adventures. So many, that her person's mom put her away for 25 years to keep her safe! Now, Betsy Bear's original little girl is having a baby of her own, and the soon to be grandma wrote to me, asking to rejuvenate Betsy Bear for the next generation. Here are a few of her diagnosis photos:

As you can see, she had had previous repairs, but despite that, her cloth areas (including her inner ears) were falling apart fragile. But her furred areas (hands, feet, head) were all pretty good.

We agreed on a treatment plan which included a spa (important when going to a new generation), recovering her cloth body parts, and preserving some of her original cloth outside and visible.

Betsy Bear's people made travel plans, carefully packing her in a bag and a box for her UPS flight. They warned me before she flew though, "Her clothes continue to unravel with each time she is touched."

She arrived safely and started her spa straightaway. No bubble bath photos, because she was literally in pieces in the bath! But once she was clean, it was time to choose a new fabric for her clothes. Her person opted for a soft pink velour. It would show off her appliques from her old fur, and her surviving lace nicely, and be soft for the baby.

And here is Betsy Bear all better!

You can see we used different parts of her original fabric and old repair fabric for her heart applique and her inner ears.

Betsy Bear flew back to the east coast and her family wrote "She is perfect!"

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he sells his patterns on etsy!!! he’s also on instagram and youtube- his name is marcus and he’s pretty damn cool :)

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WEEPING ANGEL BLANKET IS DONE!

I feel like I say this every time, but I think this one is my favorite

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I like to weave in as many ends as possible as I go.

This is how I do it when I join a new colour.

‼️ For a better result: Fray or break the yarn to taper the end.

Works both for knitting* and crochet.

*Does not work so well if you are knitting in the round or in intarsia or colourwork, as it will distort that first stitch. Saves you loads of time though, if you are knitting a striped scarf or shawl.

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