#yarn love

[opossumcorn]

Hahahaha

[knithacker]

Designer Spotlight: The Weird, Wonderful and Wacky World of Yarn Bowls: 👉 https://buff.ly/3jORssY

[thebitterknitter]

Made some sunflower keychains as party favors for my upcoming baby shower. 🥰🥰

[thelittlefoxesknits]

BALL GOWWWWWN! Popular is such a fun song, seeing the witches become friends, and seeing all that pink! "Popular" is full of pinks and yellow swirls, and speckles of the same colors!

[jbcrochetwizard]

I hope all have a Happy New Year! 🎊

[ellesyarnbarrell]

Knitty Kitty Clay Pins

[m0rb1dch1ld]

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You’ve been great! This year artistically has been a mix of everything! I definitely posted more traditional art and a lot of my loom knitting than I did last year. I think it was a well balanced mix between digital art , traditional art, and knitting. I also got to upload some speedpaints, which also added more to the mixed bag of posts.

Here’s to 2024! Happy new year!!

[feral-space-faerie]

something I made a while back, gonna crochet tiny flowers of lots of colors to put in the holes so the words are floral! Partially for vibes and partially bc my off-white walls don't make the banner bold enough

[crochetmelovely]

Keep calm and wind some yarn! 😊💕👏

Link to my blog/website: https://crochetml.com/

https://crochetml.com/free-crochet-patterns/

Check out the tiktok here!

[atlantisknits]

4- Feeling tangled, casting on the Weekend Slipover V-Neck Edition

Hi hello

So, life has been kinda crazy lately…

But, when isn’t it?

I feel like life is forever throwing things at me that I have to try and bat away somehow. However, usually I wind up turning to the same repetitive behaviours. Honestly, knitting probably counts as one of these behaviours- it’s something I can do even when I’m stressed or there’s a lot going on and I don’t need to focus too much of my energy on it and the repetitive motion helps to distract my mind…or allows it to carry on overthinking, but makes me feel better because at least I’m doing something ‘productive’. 

I often find myself feeling guilty or anxious if I’m not doing something ‘productive’ and have found myself boxed in this mindset. However, this is counterproductive as I then overwhelm myself by thinking of all the things I could or should be doing and then just end up avoiding things and procrastinating and this isn’t helping me get anywhere. 

And, I think that’s the thing- I feel so tangled up by everything going on around me I feel trapped in this net and it’s preventing me from moving forward. This also sucks when everyone else around me seems to be moving on with their lives and I’m still trying to find a way out of my parent’s place and into a career that actually suits me and what I want out of my life. 

Even though, yes, it’s possible that knitting has become somewhat of a coping mechanism for me and there’s a chance that perhaps I need to limit time spent knitting to focus on other things. However, knitting has also become a passion and I’m so happy to have stumbled upon this hobby. By ‘passion’, I do not mean to say that I am talented or good at knitting and I want to make a career from it somehow, but if it did ever reach that point I think this would fit in more with my actual dreams and interests to where I’m at currently. As a kid, tween, teen, if I was ever asked what I wanted to do when I grow up my answers would normally consist of artist, fashion designer, writer. Yet, somehow those dreams got undermined and somewhere down the road I had to put them to one side and focus on something more ‘academic’ if I wanted to get myself a decent career.

Well, I studied for four years and now have a degree sat on a shelf doing nothing. I am struggling and find myself turning to creative hobbies in an effort to cope through this and in doing so have re-discovered these old dreams. 

For a while I couldn’t see a future for myself (and I do not mean that to sound as dark as it does but we move lol). The future I had thought out for myself I was basically pulled away from, I then started a new path, that was taken from me and it reached a point where I felt like I had been pushed and pulled in so many different directions that when it came to me actually focusing on myself and what I wanted from my life I couldn’t figure that out- it felt like whatever I would decide on would be the wrong decision. So, I was just left in this tangled mess. 

Yet, as my twenty-seventh birthday looms I realise now more than ever that I must navigate through this and find my way out. It will take some patience with myself as well as my circumstances, but I’m hoping that little by little the more I untangle these knots I will be able to see a future that I want for myself and not a future that has been planned out for me. 

That being said, I believe knitting has taught me a lot of patience. As an anxious person I find myself constantly on edge and this can make me very impatient with pretty much everything. However, I learnt that I couldn’t moan at my own mistakes and errors if I had impatiently rushed through certain parts of a project or skipped over learning certain points properly. I think this has begun to show in the pieces I create and it’s pleasing to see how my work has improved with time. 

I recently cast on the Weekend Slipover V-Neck edition by Petite Knit and since casting it on I’ve noticed how things I have learnt have stuck with me, meaning before I have even finished this project I am feeling a sense of achievement from it and I will take any small wins right now. What’s also great about this project is that it’s an opportunity to finally try out Knitting For Olive yarn! I have been looking to treat myself to some KFO for a while now and after a turbulent couple of weeks I decided I needed a treat. I opted for the Heavy Merino and Soft Silk Mohair both in Plum Clay- the colour is so beautiful, a muted purple colour that looks more brown or purple in certain lighting. I had originally considered a dark brown, but for some reason purple has been on my mind a lot lately and I guess that’s what drew me to this shade. 

There is a rather funny story about this yarn, however. The yarn was shipped from Denmark and then once in the UK I was informed it would be delivered through Royal Mail. I instantly knew that something was going to happen to this parcel and of course I was correct. 

I had gone to the hairdresser’s and returned home to an email that my parcel had been delivered. My dad was home, but there was no parcel in sight and no note to say it had been left next door. I scrolled through the email and all I was offered was an image of my parcel stuffed behind someone’s planter…we don’t have planters nor do our neighbours. So, I had to wander around the block to see if I could spot a planter that looked like the one in the image. After a couple of hours of some questionable detective skills I finally tracked down my parcel- the yarn was found safe and sound thanks to a very nice lady. 

On that note I think I will leave my incoherent ramblings there for today. To whoever is reading this, I hope you are well and if you are also feeling a little caught up in life right now I hope things ease for you soon also.

Happy knitting xo

Images originally featured on my Instagram: atlantis.knits 

[opossumcorn]

Guilty as charged 😁✌️

[knithacker]

Handspun Recycled Newspaper Yarn - FREE Tutorial Alert! 👉 https://buff.ly/3pVJCSy - I've also included some options to buy newspaper yarn that's already made ... the purple set is so cool! 💜

[thebitterknitter]

I made a little drawstring bag with cute little strawberries! 🥰🥰

[hookedatweiss]

I wanna show ya this amazeballs yarn that my bestie @shesanearthgirl gifted me ..... 1,181 yards of pure awesomeness. 😍🧶 I love it sooo much! ❤🧞‍♂️

[glamstitchez]

Goku Ultra Instinct amigurumi

Pattern: siennahandmade_

[thelittlefoxesknits]

🌺AERITH🪐

When anyone talks about Final Fantasy games I think the most memorable one is FFVII. Even if you haven’t played it you’ve probably still heard about it or about the characters from it. I feel like growing up it was the one game that every other RPG was compared against.

“The Flower Seller” is inspired by Aerith who we first meet as she is selling flowers. Deep reddish pink mixed with pale pink and hints of brown, speckled with pink, purple, brown, and yellow.

Fiber Fantasy collection coming June 4th!