#stitch witch

[tricia868]

My latest quilt (from the Allison Glass Cozy Quilt Sew-Along)

It's a reverse applique quilt. I designed and pieced a rainbow bargello quilt top, then layered it between pieces of black jersey, stenciled and hand stitched the outlines of shapes, and carefully cut away the top layer of jersey so the rainbow showed through.

Here's what my middle layer looked like on its own!

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

So. Lena as a stitch witch/thread mage. She spends multiple hours-long sessions with Kara's cape in her lap, her fingers slowly moving across the warp and weft, lingering every painstaking millimeter. Kara sees her do it, Lena tells her exactly what she's doing (imbuing the cloth with protection magicks) -- its not a secret by any means.

A couple months/years later, Lena develops the means for laypeople to see magic. (Think one of those magnifying ring lights that scientists and crafters use.) Kara thinks its dope that her girlfriend is so smart. But then she gets bored, and wanders into the lab alone to poke around. She's idly swishing her cape around her, as one does, until she pauses, recalling those days Lena spent with said swath of fabric.

Kara knows what magic looks like by now-- they've used it on a couple of magical items they've found around the city, trying to track down an unknown magic user. It looked like gentle ripples, undulating over the surface of the object.

As Kara takes a handful of her cape, drawing it towards the lens, she wonders what color Lena's magic is.

The fabric shines so bright under the magnifying glass that it sears Kara's retinas, temporarily blinding her.

"Mother of-- Rao!" Rearing back, she slaps her hands over her eyes, now watering, and tries to blink away the newly won shadows from her vision. "What the--"

"Kara?"

The sound of Lena's footsteps rushing to the lab draws Kara's attention.

"What happened--?"

"Jesus-- me being an idiot happened," Kara grumbles, blinking rapidly to try and focus on where Lena should be. All she sees is a large dark blotch. "Hey, what did you calibrate that thing with?"

"One of Nyxly's artifacts," Lena responds. Warm hands take Kara by the elbows and guide her over to a nearby stool. "I wanted to be able to distinguish between fifth dimensional energy and true magic. Here, can you follow my finger?"

"What finger?" Kara quips. The blotch is already beginning to shrink by a fraction, assuring Kara that the damage to her vision isn't permanent. Her mind spiralled.

Nyxly had had magic unlike the world had ever seen. More powerful than Mxy even. None of the artifacts they'd put under that lens had come anywhere close to producing even half that effect.

"Kara, will you please tell me what you were doing--"

"I wanted to see what your magic looked like," she says, bluntly. "My cape..."

"...oh." Lena's voice is quiet. "Yeah, that--"

"Probably wasn't the best idea. Clearly." Kara tries to grin, but she knows it probably comes up flat. "But my god, Lena..."

"Florence says I have an affinity for magic. Like my mother."

"This," Kara gestures towards her eyes, "is more than an affinity."

She hears Lena swallow. "Please don't be scared. I would never do anything to hurt--"

"Scared? Lena, I'm-- I'm in awe of you."

A beat of silence follows, before Lena's hands settle in hers. "Please don't be that either. I'm just me."

Kara blinks, and smiles towards the hazy silhouette of Lena's hair, in its usual gentle waves. She tugs Lena closer, until Lena relaxes towards her and lets her forehead rest on Kara's.

"Just you is amazing."

[stagkingswife]

I’ve been a little bit mad with pain and painkillers that didn’t really help since last Saturday, but in that time I sort of taught myself to knit out of spite…. I have all of this yarn that people have given me that isn’t a high enough wool content for nålebinding, and I refused to be beaten by the “basic bitch of fiber crafts” (no offense meant to all of the incredible knitters out there, but knitting has been in my head as the “I want to learn a fiber craft because I’m cute and quirky” fiber craft since high school, at least until you get incredible at it).

So now I’m almost 30 rows into a simple shawl and had to buy circular needles because it was getting to big for the needles I had, and now I’m transferring onto those…

[goblinknits]

Pumpkin bags are back and for sale starting next week at the St. Louis Renaissance Faire

[firesidetextiles]

Wish I had polls. I’d ask: ⭐ star or 🧵 thread?

[measuredandslow]

Baby’s first CAD project! The original design is from Layers in Green, but I resized them, added the right size hole for a strong magnet, made a cover for the magnet so it’s not gross looking/won’t fall out, and mastered a filament swap! My poor spouse has been hearing my crowing about filament swaps for 3 days lol 😂. And the orange ones glow in the dark!! And when you stick a needle to it (they’re needleminders), the bunny looks like he’s a skelly swordsman. Everything about them makes me so happy 😍.

[feral-space-faerie]

I published my first pattern on Ravelry and Ribblr! I went with one of my staples, an oversized hood. Meet the Sprightly Hood! (Links below the cut)

IT'S FREE BTW

[taking-thyme]

✨Aesthetics✨ For different Types of Witches

Weather Witch

☔ Accidentally summons weather with their feelings

☔ You or your Storm Deities summon weather at almost every major event 

☔ *Dramatically looks up at the sky* A storm in coming

☔ Has a million different jars on the windowsill for rain water

☔ Saying Hi to your storm deities whenever you hear thunder

☔ Dresses in weather-related motifs for the fun of it

☔ Genuinely annoyed when it’s too hot

☔ Has almost single handedly been keeping their hometown out of drought with all the rain they summon

☔Gets very worried when it snows later in the season

☔ Probably talk too loud

☔ Very protective 

☔ Not afraid to curse people

Stitch Witch

🧵 Sews magic into everything they make (literally)

🧵 Constantly enchanting their clothes and jewelry

🧵 Probably makes the coziest quilts ever

🧵 Will sew a quilt for nightmare free sleep

🧵 Always trying new crochet and sewing projects

🧵 A natural caretaker who loves helping people

🧵 Knows color symbolism like the back of their hand

🧵 Is always looking for meaning prints on fabrics 

🧵 Has correspondences and meaning for every type or fabric they use

🧵 Puts intent into every stitch

🧵 Talking to your clothes to set intentions for them

🧵 Probably has a really lovely, aesthetically-pleasing home

Kitchen/Hearth Witch

🍳 Their Book of Shadows is basically a cookbook

🍳 Thinks cooking is a love language (it is)

🍳 Hates the idea of cleaning but loves it once they actually start

🍳 Probably an incredibly forgetful witch

🍳 Talks to your home and spirits inside

🍳 Always baking

🍳 Stirring intention into your cooking

🍳 Knows what direction to stir to bring things or dispel them

🍳 Saving egg shells and drying orange peels

🍳 Drying and pressing herbs

🍳 Very impressive herb collection

🍳 Owns a mortar and pestle

Fairy Witch

🍄 Stumbled ass-backwards into a faerie contract

🍄 Things constantly go missing around the house

🍄 Has a garden but rarely needs to maintain it (that’s the fairy’s garden)

🍄 Their plants and garden flourish effortlessly 

🍄 Researching plants that fae like

🍄 Has a million different names and aliases for safety

🍄 Definitely liked Fairies as a kid and now it’s come full circle as an adult

🍄 Researching the different types of fae in their area

🍄 Weird dreams

🍄 So many bees, butterflies, birds and insects around their house

🍄 Never harms spiders

🍄 Lowkey scared of the fae

🍄 I feel like they’d enjoy trying out fun hairstyles

🍄 Suddenly smelling floral scents with no explanation

Death Witch

🪦 Always asks spirits before collecting graveyard dirt

🪦 Possibly Chronically Ill

🪦 Wears the same outfit every single day

🪦 Saves the dirt from dead plant pots

🪦 Always looks forward to when Pomegranates are in season

🪦 Knows the deceased will be well cared for by their deities, which brings them comfort

🪦 Really into taxidermy (it’s like goth stuffed animals)

🪦 Not put off by Vulture Culture or roadkill

🪦 Loves making playlists

🪦 Loves oddities and strange happenings 

🪦 Knows all the local graveyards

🪦 Probably has a favorite grave

🪦 Has already designed their headstone

🪦 Doesn’t fear old age as much as everyone else

🪦 Loves their ancestors and keeps in touch with them even after death

[cmarguel]

I got it in my head that the best villain in The Wandering Inn should be drawn by Junji Ito, but since the odds of getting him to read it then make art of it are close to zero, I have striven to come as close as my abilities allow

[craftyintentions]

I imagine this witch bakes. Witch Hat crochet pattern by Crafty Intentions now available.

You can find it here on my website: https://shop.craftyintentions.com/b/c7f0b

Here on Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/witch-hat-32

Or here on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1579123079/witch-hat-crochet-pattern-by-crafty

Hat made by me, modelled by me, photographed by Greg Lapp, photo edited by Lauren Lewis.

[tricia868]

Longmont

Landscape applique quilt of Longs Peak in Colorado

Designed and stitched by me

Inspired by a photo taken by Gerardo Brucker

All of the stitching on here is free motion quilting, the textures added by moving the quilt under the sewing machine needle by hand. (My shoulders were so tired!)

A baby gift for my cousin, who lives in that area! To be used as a floor mat for a few months, and then hung in the nursery as decoration.

[pagan-stitches]

Working with the Morana embroidery over three winters.

[katriniac]

Watching this video and listening to the artist's passion makes my OC Katarina Koser (a stitch witch) SO HAPPY.

Making Lace by Hand

[goblinknits]

My final time sensitive knitting project for the Christmas season is finished! The other glove is wet blocking as I type this.

[brackgiraffe]

knit witch

[pastelispunx]

I swear the world around us is magical.