#stringcraft

[biologist4ever]

A rainbow captured in geometry! 🌈

[fishthegenderwitch]

I have 19 skulls, and one completed skull square for my spooky sweater. I need 22 more!

[theriu]

@o-lei-o-lai-o-lord with the absolute gold tags again

Don’t mind me…I’m just thinking about how spiders are naturally talented and skilled weavers and they know how to weave their webs and even make functional, stylish homes and nests and whatnot.

So maybe that’s why Spider-Man knows how to sew his suits. He inherited that trait from the spider and just instinctively know how to weave his suits. Maybe. That’s my explanation for it.

[wuxiaphoenix]

On Writing: Clearing Mental Underbrush

Sometimes when you get stuck on your writing, it’s because of stress. Make that more of an “often”, actually....

So how do you get unstuck?

In some cases the answer is (relatively) simple. You need more sleep. You need more alone time. You need more quiet sitting with the research books, and/or a space you can play your own music in so you can forget the rest of the world for a while.

How you get those may be - ahem - complicated. Blackout curtains are a thing. Making sure you switch off the TV, computer, or other monitor screens earlier in the evening is a thing. Laying down the law to your roommate that no, you can’t give them another hour out of your day to watch a TV show because you have a headache and would be really bad company is a thing.

I do advise against committing felonies for peace and quiet. I understand the impulse, believe me, but I hear prison food sucks and is not set up for people with multiple food allergies. Also the roommates are likely worse. Probably.

Other times the answer is more complicated. Stress is often a multi-factored thing that’s accumulated over time, and yanking one stressor out of the pile may not be enough. Still, it’s a place to start.

Look at anything coming up that has a deadline. Taxes, for example, are a major ARGH at this time of year. Especially if you have any self-employed income coming in, and that means most of us creative types. The anticipated stress of doing the taxes can knot your brain up so bad it’s worth taking a day of precious free time to sit down and rough the numbers out as soon as you’ve got them all.

(If you’re a writer getting royalties for the first time last year: 1040, Schedule 1, Schedule 2, Schedule C, Schedule SE, and likely the 1040-V. Yes you need them all. Yes you are going to be bouncing between them like a pinball. Yes it sucks. Especially seeing how large a chunk gets hoovered out.)

Another thing to look at is anything you know you need to get done, but aren’t sure how to do. Anything from an unfamiliar cleaning project (wax car how?) to cooking for a party (how much? Of what?) to interacting with new people - official or otherwise. In this case see if you can grab scratch paper and break the big task into smaller chunks, each of which you can research. Sometimes just the breaking-into-smaller-bites is enough to take the stress off.

And one final thing that gets a lot of creative types is the Pile of Unfinished Works.

Yeah, this is the scary one. As in, “I want to hide under the blankets, noooo!”

I don’t have really good suggestions for this one outside of, try to organize it. And have it somewhere you can pull it out and look at it if (and only if!) you want to. Do not have the folder/beads/stringcraft/whatever where you have to face it every day. That doesn’t work. All it does is intimidate the bunnies into running shrieking away, carrying all your joy and other ideas with them.

Have it where you can sneak up on it, if something occurs to you that will let you finish one off. Or at least get it Done Enough that you can declare it over. Otherwise, try not to think about it. Sometimes a creative project just doesn’t work. Focus on what does.

Then, with enough of the mental underbrush cleared, the writing will come back.

....And probably drag you away like a muse-stampede leaving you battered and bloody, but with words. Heh.

[thetextilealchemist]

Isn't she gorgeous! My #stringcraft #spider #tattoo is finally done! @danacarnegie is a genius.

[pinkfruitgender]

genderstacked

a gender that feels as though it was built out of minecraft blocks. an umbrella term for more specific genderstacked genders relating to specific blocks, such as dirtstacked or stonestacked.

gendercrafted

a gender that feels as though it was crafted using minecraft blocks or items. an umbrella term for more specific gendercrafted genders relating to specific blocks or items, such as stringcrafted or torchcrafted.

coined by me. absolutely no credit required.

[howverychaotic]

Like logically I understand that knitting is just making repeating knots with chopsticks, but emotionally it's entirely beyond me.

People who knit or do any kind of stringcraft are witches and should be held with the same kind of fearful reverence you'd reserve for the ratatouille rat.

[musicmadmamma-blog]

upcyclerecyclerevampUpcycle-Recycle-Revamp: I'm currently doing crafts to sell at a charity event for Phyllis Tuckwell. Thanks too my dads cheese cake addiction l have lots of glass jars. I have decorated them and they can be used as tea light holders, trinket dishes or ashtrays. Used white string (3 balls for £1 Poundland) painted string with silver acrylic paint, made some paper flowers and finished with stuck on gens. #upcycle #recycle #revamp #artsandcrafts #gudesertjars #gudeserts #tealightholders #ashtray #stringcrafts

[fishthegenderwitch]

The light covers in our townhouse are boring ASF. Like, look at this nonsense.

They all look like this. All the same, sad round light covers.

That being said, I can't do much about them barring making another, snazzier light cover, so I've been searching for a good crochet lampshade pattern. (I'm looking at covering the one in my own bedroom right now.)

The main problem is that the best ones I'm finding are being shown in a 2 minute YouTube video that's like "CROCHET LAMPSHADE PATTERN!" and you find out they saved bad super pixel-corrupted jpegs to show as a slideshow and no actual pattern. -seethes-

Anyway, I've found a few patterns that I'm going to power my way through til I want to set them on fire (I hope it doesn't get to that point).

Just as an example, THESE are what I'm talking about, because I can't seem to find anything super pretty in a written pattern.

And this next image, like this is awesome, but finding the pattern? Lolno.

If I can find a sweet enough cuff or lacy border pattern, I can sew them together to make a longer piece to hang down from the light cover itself.

LIKE THIS! I know it's a skirt, but it looks awesome! Also unfortunately it's in a language I don't know. Two, actually.

One of those is "image crochet pattern". I do not know this language. Where do you start?? What's the code here?? I have the crochet legend for these, I just need to get into the nitty gritty of where to start, what direction to follow.

I think I'm going to try the first one, and also poke at cobbling together a round doily pattern with other shapes of decorative crochet. Stay tuned, but not too hard; I'm slow at stuff.

[fishthegenderwitch]

My mother, who acquires craft tools and supplies in the most bizarre random ways, has gifted me some “weird long crochet hooks” that make no sense to her. I have discovered that these are for Tunisian crochet which is GORGEOUS, so sometime in this coming winter I’ll be experimenting with that as well. :>

[fishthegenderwitch]

Praise Brigid, I don’t need macrame tutorials anymore! If I have a photo of it, or can imagine what I want, I can make it! The hardest part is figuring out how much string is needed. Lol.

I LOVE macrame. Current WIP.

[thetextilealchemist]

I have my tattoo consult this week, so it's time for detail studies. #stringcraft #drawing

[tachvintlogic]

[Image Description: tags from @o-lei-o-lai-o-lord that say

Pfft #Spider-Man #Spiderverse #Miguel has to ban knitting during Spider Society meetings #Because the sound of hundreds of needles clacking makes it very hard to hear him #And gives him sensory overload #Also the mental image of Hobi angrily knitting is sending me

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[Image Description: tags from @theriu that say

spiderman #humor #and many types of spiderpeople means many times of stringcraft #so you have the knitters #crocheters #cross stitch #sewing #and one random guy doing impossibly elaborate yoyo tricks

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Pavitr is the one doing yoyo tricks

Don’t mind me…I’m just thinking about how spiders are naturally talented and skilled weavers and they know how to weave their webs and even make functional, stylish homes and nests and whatnot.

So maybe that’s why Spider-Man knows how to sew his suits. He inherited that trait from the spider and just instinctively know how to weave his suits. Maybe. That’s my explanation for it.