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March 25th, 2025 - 8" x 10", acrylic Original photo taken in Madrid, Spain

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Fish again!!! Here are some of my favourite game fish (+two minnows) embroidered onto my favourite garment so far!

Sturgeon, pike, burbot, trout, perch, silvery minnow, and a fathead minnow.

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Them: I’m coming over you better not be some little Barbie Dream House weavings when I get there

Me:

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corn moment

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Happy Pride month! I have completed or at least put on hiatus my little Pride flag series and here they all are together on one post. Technical details and further thoughts after the pics.

First, the technical: I wove these on an untensioned frame loom at 6 epi using Lettlopi yarn for the weft and cotton seine twine for the warp. They are krokbragds, a Norwegian word which means “crooked path.” Krokbragd is a Norwegian twill weave. All of these are traditional Norwegian motifs, but you can also create figurative motifs using krokbragd. Each of these range in size from 10” x 11” to 12” x 12”.

Now, the design: The colors of each weaving correlate with the colors of a Pride flag: rainbow, transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay men (also heard this flag referred to as the Vincian flag). I didn’t do every Pride flag that exists, mostly because I’ve grown a bit tired of the twill pattern and need to put in some hours on my other tapestry loom to develop my hachure skills. In the future, I may develop more of these, but damn I need a break from over one under three with a pickup stick.

My goal in this work was to weave Pride flags and celebrate my queer community while exploring a weaving practice that connected me to the immigrants in my own family tree. I wrote a long and more indulgent essay about both immigrants and what it means to me as a bisexual cisgender woman to relate to the queer community but I know you are here for the weaving so I’ll just sum it up: Fuck ICE, and these weavings are dedicated to the gentle and grounded queer elders, mostly older gay men, who saw me and mentored me in my early jobs in theater and demonstrated a resilience and kindness I have sought to emulate ever since. If you’re really JUST here for the weaving, understand this: textiles are political and will never not be.

Okay, thanks for reading and looking! I am going to weave some other stuff now, bye!

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I just think they’re neat!!

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fiber arts is really a laundering scheme for mathematics.

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Was racing the clock to try to get this done before midnight. Glanced at my laptop to stop my timer and realized. It’s 10:43. Not 11:43.

Anyway, yeah, this’ll definitely be done before midnight. Just need to weave in my weft end and cut it off the loom.

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Hot off the loom!!! This is a Dolly Madison Star quilt square woven to hang on someone’s wall as a gift. I was vaguely inspired by barn quilts for this one. I can’t decide if it’s funny to reference another textile practice with mine or unimaginative but in any case all my weft interlocks look pretty sharp.

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Question for yarn hobbyists, especially visually impaired ones: between knitting and crochet, which is easier to do by touch? Like, not in the “watching tv rather than looking down at my craftwork” sense, but the “I don’t realistically expect to have vision all my life and want to start an inevitable craft now” sense.

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It is a star but it is also a little guy or maybe a fried egg

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I received a QUESTION in the tags and it was a good question so I’m going to answer it in a post. I do not really know how tumblr works. Anyway: What does the back of the krokbragd weave look like? See below:

The floats are much easier to see when viewed from the back. Additionally, if a color is only repeated once in the twill pattern and goes to the edge, I cut the yarn and weave it back in, which can be seen on the other two posted here. This takes a lot of extra time but it makes my edges look a little crispier. If this process is interesting I will post details about it when I weave my next krokbragd weaving.

Lastly I kind of sew in my weft tails for a color change. I’m not too obsessive about it but I give them a good little tuck in just in case. If I just spliced a butterfly to weave with the same color I don’t worry about it as much.

@batbetbitbotbut I hope this answers your question!

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This weave is done! Another krokbragd wall hanging done in colors from a pride flag, in this case the lesbian pride flag. While I was researching the history behind the colors of this flag, I learned how relatively recently this flag was introduced and about its many predecessor flags.

This one is a little shorter than the others in my series of pride colors woven using traditional krokbragd motifs, which makes it look more flag-like, but I like the gradient and the longer fringe quite a bit. All the pride krokbragds will be posted together when and if I ever finish them :)

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1st repeat down of some funny spirally yardage for a shawl. 50/50 black polyester & multicolor cotton flake, on my 4-shaft jack loom

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Weaving up my next pride flag weaving. Yarn held up so you can see the vision. Let’s go, lesbians!!!

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Truly I hate to do this to you all but; you can watch all the videos and read all the blogs in the world but you cannot learn to sew without at some point picking up a piece of fabric and fucking it up. No tutorial exists that will stop you at some point ruining this poor piece of cloth. The visceral act of holding a project and wondering where you went wrong is the only way to learn sewing; you cannot escape it. I’m sorry

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My entry for the Met Gala 2025 theme: Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

Suit made by me