#fibre crafts

[rarity-femme]

do NOT get into fibre arts!!!! you try one and then all of a sudden you have 10 hobbies and wanna try 10 more

[prokopetz]

A cursory survey of things which Tumblr assures us are the Devil speaking suggests that the Devil has an inordinate fondness for crochet artists.

[trashpandacraft]

i couldn't figure out why the tension on the rigid heddle was so bad, nor why it seemed worse every time i pick it up.

i think i've cracked the case.

anyhow, my next big-loom project was going to be tea towels, but now i think it's going to be a cat hammock.

[ineffectualdemon]

Princess who likes doing embroidery

She likes it too much

She stayed up all night finishing the embroidery of her gown and then spent the entire ball talking about the techniques she used and how long it took her

She slapped the visiting Prince's hand when he touched her shoulder because "that took me hours and I don't know where your hands have been!"

One of her maids introduced her to weaving and now she's skipping her lessons on statecraft to dye her own wool

She asked for a flock of sheep of her own for her birthday

Her quarters look like a textile goods shop

She hired a new maid to teach her lacemaking

She is the happiest she's ever been and her parents just want to her pay attention in her diplomacy lessons

(she is but she's always doing some kind of fibre craft at the same time and it annoys her tutor)

ETA: Everyone tagging this Sandry from the Circle of Magic books by Tamora Pierce thank you, I am now aware that the books exist, I was unaware of them before. Now; please for the love of god stop fucking tagging it

Also we can do with more fiber arts princesses. I just want more respect for fiber arts in general

[ratatoskrr]

Decrease the kraken!

Here's my embroidered/painted/knitted octopus that's going on the back of the jeans jacket I'm sewing. The original embroidery pattern is by Hook Line Tinker, I just added some extra knitting to the pattern.

By now I've finished all the embroidery for the jacket and started sewing it together! It's all sea-themed

[deafmangoes]

To those enslaved by the fibre arts:

Tirazain is a digital archive of Palestinian weaving and patterns (or tatreez, التطريز, embroidery) for free use. At this time when there's so much death and loss happening in Gaza and beyond, it gladdened me to find people storing the intangible and cultural so that it might survive.

I plan on employing some of these patterns myself, if nothing else then to help me remember what's happened when the news cycle inevitably spins to some other new horror.

[jamiesansible]

I’m reading this book at the moment, and did you know that shepherds had their own counting system in parts of Northern England, Wales and the Scottish Borders?

“… let’s start with a little known, deliciously quirky, remnant called the 'shepherds' score', or Yan Tan Tethera. It’s an ancient way of counting, still used by some shepherds today, in northern England, Wales, parts of the southwest and lowland Scotland. The system is vigesimal, or base-20. It stops at twenty - once a shepherd had counted to this number, he’d mark it in some way (a notch on his crook, perhaps, or a stick placed in the ground) and then start again at one.

Linguistically, its origins are lost, but some scholars believe it may have its roots in Brittonic (or Brythonic) languages, those early versions of Welsh, Cornish and Breton spoken during the Iron Age. Individual words vary slightly from region to region, but they all share remarkable similarities. The Lincolnshire version goes like this:

Yan (1), Tan (2), Tethera (3), Pethera (4), Pimp (5), Sethera (6), Lethera (7), Hovera (8), Covera (9), Dik (10), Yan-a-dik (11), Tan-a-dik (12), Tethera-dik (13), Pethera-dik (14), Bumfit (15), Yan-a-bumfit (16), Tan-a-bumfit (17), Tethera-bumfit (18), Pethera-bumfit (19), Figgot (20).

The numbers above ten use a combination of smaller digits - so eleven is Yan-a-dik (one and ten) - it's brilliant in its simplicity and rhythmic bounce when spoken aloud.”

— A Short History of the World According to Sheep, Sally Coulthard, p. 68

[citrusratz]

Plushie Zafara needle felt deserved better photos!

Shooting to have him and more neos up for sale in spring 2024 💖

[crookedcrowe]

Spring sorrel progress so far!

We've made it through the first chart

And the second chart

And tried it on, and it fits! So now I'm blocking it just to make sure the Malabrigo isn't going to grow exponentially on me, and then it's time to split for the sleeves and knit the body!

[klarion-the-witch-boy]

I finished my first ever crochet blanket! Sure it was made with a 10mm hook (on worsted weight yarn), and sure it's not the tidiest thing ever, but I'm so fucking proud of myself!

Also here's Max again. Isn't she great? I love her.

[sleepyyghostt]

goodtimeswithscar experiences nature!!

[cloudcalm]

a quick guide on how to make yarn!

[wastelesscrafts]

I read somewhere that embroidered clothes need to be washed differently. Is this true? I read that right after getting a bunch of embroidery floss to visibly mend some clothes

Washing embroidered clothes

Yup! Check out my post on securing embroidery thread, which includes laundry instructions. My embroidery tag's also a good resource.

Handmade embroidery tends to be fragile, so it's important to properly secure your thread and take good care of the embroidered item. If you don't, you risk for your threads to come loose.

If you're not careful when washing embroidered items, your embroidery threads could get snagged on things like buttons or zippers in the washer.

Try to either wash them by hand (safest), or use your machine's delicate cycle combined with a laundry bag. Always let the item air-dry.

[trashpandacraft]

knitters and/or crocheters, a poll for you! i'm a long-time knitter and very occasional crocheter; my wife is capable of knitting but very much prefers crochet. i feel like many (maybe most?) people have a strong inclination to one craft or the other, and am wondering how true that is.

i ran out of options in the poll, so this assumes that you're more skilled at the craft you prefer. if you're objectively better at knitting but really love crochet, or vice versa, please accept my apologies, and maybe go with 'prefer [whatever], equally skilled'.

for the 'prefer, but can' options, 'can' is meant to encompass basically any level of skill from 'i can do the most basic stitches' to 'i'm genuinely skilled at this, but clearly not as skilled as i am at the other craft'.

i imagine that this will only have like twelve votes, so it may not tell me much, but i'm interested anyway!

[dekleinekapitein]

Mended a little hole with a flower embroidery.