#I knit my history

[uncanny-tranny]

Something kind of funny I never anticipated about crocheting with longer hair was pulling out a piece of my own hair out of my project that I somehow crocheted into it

[rubiatinctorum]

Best topics of half hour to hour+ long video to watch while knitting sweaters:

construction megaprojects of disgraced politicians/institutions

corporate fraud and the fallout

scientific fraud and the fallout

academic fraud and the fallout

heist shit

history and subsequent international relations of various nations or even just one nation works fine tbh

scams

the longer the video and the sicker the graphics the better

[coriander-candlesticks]

I realized recently (read: today as I'm writing this) that while I associate certain specific fiber arts with Athena (knitting, weaving, dying, and spinning), I associate crochet specifically with Apollo, though Athena's there too, of course. I think it's because it's more free-flowing: I can freehand something with crochet more easily than I can with knitting, both because I've known it longer and because there are fewer Things To Learn, unlike knitting which has a million different techniques that may seem interchangeable but actually aren't and that all affect the end product in a pretty big way (looking at you decreases & bind-offs). Because I can free-hand crochet more easily, and I grew with it the same way I did with drawing, they have similar vibes. Knitting and weaving, on the other hand, have steeper learning curves imo and are way more structured- and I associate more solid (dare I say rigid) structure with Athena. Embroidery and cross-stitch are kinda in their own floating category, maybe because I do them less and therefore have weaker associations with them over-all. I associate hand-sewing largely with Hestia, though again, Athena is always also there, because I associate it with mending, altering clothing, and making home items (ex the quilted pillowcase I've been mentally turning around in my head for the last few weeks).

Interestingly, I find printmaking specifically to be associated with both Athena and Apollo. It leans into the latter's domain, of course, the same way crochet does Athena's, but the structure you need in order to layer & print properly without hurting yourself, ruining equipment, or fucking up you edition seems reminiscent of Athena. Dyeing, especially making & using natural dyes, feels very much like an Athena thing despite it 1) feeling similar to painting or using inks and 2) being a trial & error process that's honestly pretty free-flowing if you approach it a certain way (especially if you do solar dyeing, which doesn't necessarily need some of the more meticulous processes you need to boil-dye something).

[bucephaly]

Hello ! I am not from the US, so forgive my bad English . I am wondering if you could help me understand something . In my country (France) a show I like has a character who is Oglala Dakota - and Native fans in the US do not like two things about her . One, they do not like that she is not voiced by a Native woman in the English dub . Two, they do not like that she is adopted by a white woman . The first thing I understand completely, it is simple . The second, I do not understand as much . Do white people in the US still not treat Native children well ? I do not understand - if you have adopted someone then they are family and must be loved, that is how families work . But I understand from reading your blog that I don't know much about the history of how the US treats Native people and I must keep reading and learning from Natives about this . So I was hoping you could explain what the problem is with this ? I do not want to ignore problems and go, "oh this show is French, I am French so I will defend it" because that is wrong . I will listen to Native voices . I just need someone to explain why it is wrong beyond "it is" as I do not know enough history to understand it right now . Sorry again for my English .

Hey! So the problem isn't just that the white family won't love them, it's more involved with the history of Turtle Island and the Native culture.

The US and Canada have been trying to destroy native community and culture for centuries now. It's important for a child to grow up within their community in order to learn their culture from a young age, create those ties to their families and community, hear the language, etc. Speaking as someone who is disconnect and didn't grow up around the native community, it's much harder to reconnect later in life.

One way the US and Canada has been trying to undermine native culture is by taking native babies away from their families and adopting them out to white families. This was a big problem around the 60s in Canada, it's called the 60s Scoop. These babies were raised away from their cultures as part of an attempt to destroy the cultures and communities. This is still an issue today, just in the past year or so the US tried to overturn ICWA, the Indian Child Welfare Act, which requires native children to be kept within their communities. They wanted to get rid of that and allow native kids to be given to white families again. It's a serious threat to our culture and sovereignty

I hope that helps! Im not an expert on this so if anyone has any more info / sees something i got wrong, feel free to add.

[unopenablebox]

also thanks to everyone for saying such extremely nice things about my knitting 😳😳😳

[pastelispunx]

I swear the world around us is magical.

[foragerknits]

Reminder to enter your hobbies into the county fair!!! Get that ribbon and an ego boost!

[puppet-purgatory]

i left my tablet stuff at home for the holidays so i couldnt draw them but i needed to so badly i did it by hand in in mspaint. really living up to my new url

[cutemothman]

my parents raised a little nerd so they get books for christmas

[andromedasummer]

secondhand bookshops rule so hard esp my fav one in town. there are such specific sections for everything. in the scifi shelves theyve organized things by space sci-fi, sea sci-fi, dystopia etc. there's a paranormal romance section in the romance section. they have 3 shelves longer than i am tall dedicated to the star trek novelizations organized by series and 3 under that dedicated to dragonlance books. i went to look at their craft section and they had subsections for eras and styles of embroidery. i can look for motorsport books by series or manufacturer without coming across top gear books or car manuals, which have their own sections. i can find poetry by nz poets in their own bookcase and books by māori authors all over the shop because they've been marked by a specific tag on the binding.

[forest-from-the-trees]

why are gifts so fucking difficult oh my godd. starting to look for anniversary gifts for my partner cause weve got about two months to go, and i swear to god anytime theres a holiday where we have to give gifts i panic.

its so difficult cause in theory i know what she likes but i dont feel like we spend enough time around each other to know what style of things she likes yknow? ill send her stuff occasionally that i like and i feel like she has a really good grasp on the things i enjoy cause i have such a distinct style. for her though like i know for a fact that she doesnt dress in the way she wants to, but if she was given the chance i dont know what she would choose to wear. like what she wears now is different than what she would wear if she had the choice to redo and choose her own wardrobe (her words). so like. i always freak out when buying jewelry and stuff like that cause i dont know if its a thing that she would like or not based on how weird that situation is right now.

[kairukitsuneo]

☆May the Fourth be with you☆

[loverboybrightsideghost]

AUTUMN OAK YOU BAD FUCKING BITCH

[microsff]

The patron

The alien came to the library again, shortly before closing time, and quickly found a book.

"May this entity borrow The Complete History of Knitting?"

They always return the book they borrow after five minutes, but the ritual of checking it out seems important to them. 

"Of course. Did you bring your card?"

I looked them up, after the first time I saw them for real. They first registered with us over ninety years ago. The senior librarian who first told me about them said I shouldn't stare, or pry.

"Whatever else they are, they are a patron, and should be treated as such," she said. "If they seek knowledge, it is our duty to help them find it."

There isn't an ancient and secret code of librarians, but that is definitely a core part of it. If such a code existed.

I scan the card and the book. "There you go," I say and hand them over. "Please return it within two weeks."

They tilt their head. "This entity will honour your terms."

"Oh! That reminds me, we have updated the terms since your last visit." I hand them the pamphlet we got from the printers last week. "It's mostly about internet usage, but I'll need you to read them and agree."

They study the pamphlet.

"These are terms this entity can abide by." They pause. "Is there no requirement to keep your existence secret?"

"Of course not," I say, "we always welcome new patrons."

They stand silent, long enough for me to realise the implications of what I have just said. 

"This entity had made an assumption, based on prior experiences on countless worlds, where knowledge is always closely guarded and costly to obtain" they say at last. "You will provide knowledge for free to all who seek it?"

In my mind, I weigh humanity's ignorance of those countless worlds of alien civilisations against the code.

"Yes," I say, "this is a library."

[dandy-daisylion]

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.’

[devilmass]

what if i had a semi dark academia verse where rodrick's 25 living at the seminary for his ordination. new orleans in the quarter and the weather is dark and cloudy and always overcast. your muse meets roddy when he's on his way back from church. bonus points if they're also missionaries/clergy members.