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My Halloween colourway of 2019 'Elphabas Knickers'

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Me: uses straights long after being accustomed to circs

Me: drops the needle at the end of the row

Needle: lands on the floor

Me:

@marybegone

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My Christmas socks all finished,

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Find 'santas boudoir' and other colourways available in my shop now

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‘Aura’ on the super sock base, available now.

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Getting ready to start the toes on these socks!

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Finally photographing the Zip Zap Swoosh scarf designed by easyknits I finished a Month ago.. featuring yarn form both easyknits and myself.

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Enjoying a bit of car knitting on today’s adventure. 🧙‍♂️ 🐑 (at Gifford, East Lothian)

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“The folklore among knitters is that everything handmade should have at least one mistake so an evil sprit will not become trapped in the maze of perfect stitches. A missed increase or decrease, a crooked seam, a place where the tension is uneven - the mistake is a crack left open to let in the light. The evil sprit I want to usher out of my knitting and my life is at once a spirit of laziness and of over-achieving. It’s that little voice in my head that says, I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.”

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Kyoko Mori, ‘Yarn’

That last phrase especially - “I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.” It really is like some kind of all-encompassing evil spirit sometimes.

(via blancheparish)

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First spinning project in well over a year and somehow I forgot how fun it is! This brilliant fibre I won from @littlebeeaccessories at her charity knitting event!

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people have so little appreciation for craftsmanship and it’s frustrating and sad. like i saw this video on facebook of a guy making a small throwing axe by hand, from start to finish, and half the comments were like “or just buy an axe for $15”

the dude didnt just want an axe! he wanted the experience of handwork, he wanted to engage in a tradition of craftsmanship, he wanted to practice skills. the process of making things is about so much more than the thing you make

if i knit a hat, the fact that i’ll have a hat at some point is tertiary to everything else i get out of the experience. it’s meditation, it’s how i interact with a community, it connects me to a history, it mediates my anxiety, it’s a sensory experience, it’s me engaging with my body in a way that is careful and thoughtful and elegant and beautiful

handwork is so devalued for a lot of reasons, and those reasons are almost always socially complex – there’s a lot to be said about how class and gender play out in different hobbies; how cost can become prohibitive in learning skills that were once vital to the poor, how certain kinds of labor have become a luxury, how histories of gendered labor cause that labor to become mocked. all of those things and so many more are difficult to grapple with

automation tends to lead us to believe that making is all about things, but when you practice handwork, you give the process its own kind of value and reap all its intangible rewards. if i could explain one simple thing to anyone who has ever asked me why i don’t just buy a hat, it’s that there’s a lot more involved in a process than just its product.

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Another finished project I forgot to post! This is my #verticesunite shawl designed by @westknits its quickly become a staple in my wardrobe. Mostly my own hand dyed yarn with some hand dyed from @queenofpurls

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Been waiting for good lighting to show off these socks I finished a couple of weeks ago using my own #handdyed yarn. 😍

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When you’re sick of your current knitting project but you need the needles for the other project you’d rather be doing so you have to finish it

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Army Dreamers.

Available now in my store.

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I. C. Waters.

My Etsy store is now live where this yarn and others are available now.