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everyone come look at my son

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His derpy face and cringe fail inability to be a fish have captivated me

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newest food for the craft gremlin is taking apart all these old test swatches and amigurumi and turning them into granny triangles for a shade cloth/ canopy thingy

this is old acrylic yarn I have had for literally half my life and never used because I hate the feel of it. But I also couldn't bring myself to trow away perfectly good yarn. Finally it can have its time

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The twirl in this bad boy is spectacular.

Pattern: honeytoast on Ribblr

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Free sewing resources:

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So I'm trying to make folk linen pants from sowing to sewing.

Second post (here's first)

It's been about 60 days since sowing (it's 22nd of June). It's looking so pretty and started blooming about 55th day. I've been watering it one or two wheelbarrows of every 2 weeks, which I thought would be too little but it's growing pretty good. It's still not that high (about over the knee) and I doubt it'll get much higher sadly. That means lower grade of fibers but whatever. It'll be fine.

Every now and again there are parts laying down and I've been seeing some hares running about so they probably hide in it tramping down the plants. But it gets up no problem so all good. Maybe next time I'll put up a little fence around it.

Also idk when should I harvest it bc all the info is about oil flax, not textile flax, and even then it's contradictory sometimes. But either way it's around 100-120th day, so we're still only halfway.

Next up I need to start thinking about scuthing it, and it requires some equipment. But it's easy enough to build on my own probably. It should be something like this flax-brake:

And then this kind of metal comb, which I'll make just by densly putting nails in a blank:

So yeah, that's the plans for the near future. Here's a bonus flax video if you stayed till the end ❤️

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"Don't just throw ripped jeans away, you can repair them using these 10 cute Visible Mending techniques!!" unfortunately my friend the first point of failure for every single pair of jeans i have owned in my life has been the Crotch and Ass. Knees: fine, cuffs: fine; but 3 years in, and all that stands between the world and my astronaut-patterned taint is 0.5µm of denim worn so thin that every squat threatens to tear it to shreds like wet toilet paper. If the Tiktok craft community could figure out a way to resurrect jeans afflicted in such a way that doesn't involve adding a whole ass buttpatch like some sort of inverse assless chaps situation then that'd be great

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All the spinning I did in like tree hours

I love the colours and after seeing how little material it takes I'm a little concerned about the amount of fibers I have bought online

I got a drop spindle for christmas so obviously the first thing I did was look up a bunch of videos on how to spin and what I need. The second thing was order a bunch of roving online only to realise it will be at least two weeks until it arrives.

Then I went into town today to buy some.

This is my first spinn on a drop spindle. I have done some spinning on a wheel like 3 years ago but back then I could not get the hang of the spindle so I'm pretty happy with how it's going.

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I got a drop spindle for christmas so obviously the first thing I did was look up a bunch of videos on how to spin and what I need. The second thing was order a bunch of roving online only to realise it will be at least two weeks until it arrives.

Then I went into town today to buy some.

This is my first spinn on a drop spindle. I have done some spinning on a wheel like 3 years ago but back then I could not get the hang of the spindle so I'm pretty happy with how it's going.

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breaking open dried milkweed stalks to collect their bast fibers.

i pounded them with a makeshift billet against a smooth surface to break them similar to how ive broken brambles before, and then snapped the pith in order to get only the outer fibers.

At this point i had a bunch of the papery skins attaching all the fibers together, like the image just below. But peeling them off is both inefficient and can lead to breaking

in order to get rid of the outer layer, i rubbed/rolled them vigorously between the palms of my hands, breaking it into flakes that either fell off or can be combed/carded out. it was too difficult to film but basically the same as making a friction fire (although easier for sure).

At this point i had a handful of fibers, still long but in need of combing. I have a fine-toothed comb i use for a lot of fiber stuff, and ran that through it

I'll leave the sound on this one because it's an interesting auditory experience, some might like it some might hate it. Note, be prepared to sweep afterwards!

i used to worry about combing stuff like this too much, and i sort of still am, but its important to remember that what im removing are fibers that would otherwise be too short or fragile to include in a refined long-fiber bundle. What im going for is a line flax/fluff flax-like combo; aka i comb out the short fibers and then i have a bundle of extra long ones to work with!

the result is two bundles of different textures and potential

i made a little test string with the "line" milkweed, but i have yet to do anything more with it

as for the fluff, i carded it out!

i made it into a rolag that i then spun up on my tiny spindle

I quite like it. It definitely reminds me of flax/linen, which makes sense since it's also a bast fiber. Milkweed is often known for being extremely strong; i've heard from a fiber class instructor that you can tow a car with a finger-sized rope of it

I don't know exactly what kind of milkweed this is , but i've heard swamp milkweed is top of the class for fiber. orange butterflyweed is a bit weaker than this one (which might be swamp, might not)

(Also note, if you plant milkweeds, don't plant tropical milkweed outside of its native range! it's not as good as the native ones and can even increase disease in monarchs since it doesnt die back in warm winters)

anyways, have a lil monarch caterpillar!

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fiber arts tutorial links!

I’ve gotten quite a few asks about spinning, fiber prep, and dyeing, and since I’m utterly incapable of answering a question without writing an essay, they often turn into tutorials. I’ve compiled them here for easy perusal ! More will be added as I find and/or write them.

SPINNING

The basics of getting into drop spindles

A comprehensive guide on how to spin on drop spindles

Processing fleece on hair combs to get perfect hand combed top (a cheap fleece processing tool)

How to get your yarn off your spindle

How and why to block handspun yarn before using it

Niddy Noddy sizing

Blocking linen and cotton yarn

How to tell if your handspun yarn is over or undertwisted

Moving from park and draft spinning to suspended spinning

Debugging: roving twists and knots around the edges while spinning

Debugging: compressed roving

The visuals of 2 ply vs. 3 ply

Whittling supported spindles

Very short video-centric guide for supported spinning

FIBER PREP AND/OR DYEING

Steps of fleece processing, including the many methods and tools you can use

What prep to dye in

20 questions of natural dyeing

Dyeing with onion skin

How to clean a blending board

All about mordants

KNITTING

Knitting with chronic pain (more advice from others in notes)

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early may plant dump

I got some of them a nice place on the window still

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Hey, I'm trying to revive this blog and keep it mostly as a personal diary of arts and crafts as well as an collection of inspirations. There will also be pics of my plants and maybe some cooking here and there.

The content on here will probably not be very aesthetic and tagging may be inconsistent. If I reblog stuff on here that isn't related that probably because I forgot to switch between blogs again. Welp

I value any kind of interaction so feel free to shoot me an ask or comment on any post if you want to know anything. I love sharing patterns, tips etc, especially on my crafts.

cheers

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Fuck it. Crochet cartilaginous stingray skeleton

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did froggy hat in the last weeks. It's completely from scratch and I needed to frog (pun totally intended) and redo a lot of it.

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Crochet Video Tutorial - How To Crochet: Mesh Chevron Stitch!

Crochet Video Tutorial – How To Crochet: Mesh Chevron Stitch!

https://crochetml.com/crochet-video-tutorial-how-to-crochet-mesh-chevron-stitch/ Thanks for visiting my page! Here is my newest video on how to make the Mesh Chevron Stitch! I hope you guys enjoy it! 💗😄👏 Like and subscribe to see more videos from me and Please leave me any suggestions for future videos! Also I’d love feedback on my settings/lighting/sound too! ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ ❈ Check out this playlist featuring more Chevron…