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every time someone says ‘oh, you knit? do you like it?’ i have the marrow-deep urge to tenderly take their face in my hands and press my lips to their eyelids and telepathically transmit the full overwhelming awareness that i carry just beneath my skin every moment of every day of how important fiber crafts and textiles are and historically have been to humanity. every stitch i work is a thousand billion stitches that have already been worked and will be worked in the future, from the farthest reaches of prehistory until time immemorial. every spindle i spin is spun with the same flick of uncountable fingers from ages past, all united across history in the deceptively simple movement that has shaped history, and art, is the context within which every single person on earth has ever lived their life and lives their lives still. everything from our phones to our homes is given shape and form by the overlooked but utterly important textile arts.

‘of fucking course i like knitting, you jackass,’ i say gently. ‘i wouldn’t do it otherwise.’

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PHEW.... just over a month of work but it's done 👏 As usual at the end I feel like a couple colors could have been changed but... I'm not doing this one again lmao

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I FOUND A NEW TOY. Never doubt in the ability to find underpriced, working condition fiber tools at your local antique store!!!

Edit: my schacht shuttle is an end feed, NOT a fly shuttle I misspoke lol

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3d printed start gate

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Jurassic Threads on Etsy

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Arte alucinante

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Quilters. Photographs by Henry Groskinsky (1971)

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mutuals to have arts and crafts time with

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Eugene Quilt Show 2024

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The different styles of Palestinian traditional dress, by location.

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arge octopus floor mosaic at Gumalimba Park, Roatan, Honduras

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Trying to chart out a border element from embroidery in a historical context

Accidentally created Godzilla instead

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After only a year and a half, I finally finished the Lego Titanic set my husband bought me for Christmas