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I am home from QuiltCon 2024 in Raleigh and wanted to share some of what I saw.

In this post I’ve collected the quilts relating to the gun violence epidemic [edit: or I would have, if tumblr would cooperate. There will be separate posts]. I am proud of my fellow quilters who are using their gifts and skills to make such profound statements.

This year’s Best in Show. This is one of those works where you admire the quilt top and its design and construction and artistry, then react to the title as though you’ve been punched in the gut.

Unrecorded artist, Moose Hair Tufting, early to mid-20th century, Moose hair, fabric, porcupine quills.

Raclin Murphy Museum

Sashiko inspired hand quilting. Very happy with how this is progressing

Submission from @reptilerex!

so Pacific Knit Company sells what they call 'doodle' deck, which are full or half decks of cards with knitting patterns on them. Every motif is 24 stitches wide, and a variable amount of stitches tall. The cardstock is comparable to playing cards.

You can shuffle the cards to get a randomized pattern, you can pick out the patterns you think would make a neat hat or scarf (or socks or sweaters, if you're willing to do a bit more work), you can mix-and-match the decks.

And each deck comes with three cards of instructions, including how to make a single-sided cowl and an infinity cowl using the cards.

Lydia Morrow has come out with my dream cardigan! It has optional bust and hip shaping, as well as a crop version, with button band or icord closure options. As with all her patterns, there is also a sliding pay scale to make it accessible for all who wish to knit it.

Lydia works really hard to make sure she’s putting out patterns that prioritize fat people—not just fat afab! Her husband tries on all her designs and they’re made so one can have a little, a lot, or no bust room. The project language reflects that, and it is described neutrally.

If you’d like to support her work without even buying anything, follow the ravelry link to the project to help it trend!

If ravelry is inaccessible for you, the pattern is available on her website as well.

This is a long shot but I’m hoping someone out there has an extra skein of this yarn they’re willing to sell or trade to me.

Yarn inspired by the Magnus Archives! An indie dyer no longer in business, Merry and Mae, made this GORGEOUS vast-inspired yarn. It is worsted weight in the colorway Ex Altiora.

I am willing to pay for the yarn and shipping, or the cost of shipping and I will make you a hat or cowl from any other yarn I have in my stash! You can pick the pattern if you want or I have a bunch of patterns you can pick from and then I will also pay shipping to send it back to you.

I’m starting to get desperate here— if you have some you are willing to part with (even just part of a skein leftover!) PLEASE let me know!

Reblogs for visibility GREATLY appreciated, especially within the tma fandom 💙

Oh hey, do you know what time it is? It is highly specific resource time!

Today we have the Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank! There are HUNDREDS of stitch types in the RSN Stitch Bank.

And more added regularly, let’s look at a recent addition

I picked the first one in the 25 recently added Elizabethan stitches, the Elizabethan French Stitch

The stitch bank provides written and photo tutorials as well as a video option to learn to do it yourself. There are examples of the stitch in use, resources, references, everything but a needle and thread!

rsnstitchbank.org

Piecing the next beauty has begun! This is a commission for @anastasiaoftheironwood.

The fabric is The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars by Jason Yenter for In The Beginning fabrics. The pattern is my first curvy log cabin, and will be darks and lights, all neutrals, and no colors will be added.

Guess-stimate for piecing is hard to say because this log cabin technique is new to me. I did, however, buy thr template specifically designed for this. Work smarter, not harder.

fiber arts really is such an insane category of Things in how it can draw you in. like, 6 or 7 years ago i learnt to crochet and made a few terrible hats and scarves. then i learnt to knit because i wanted to knit a scarf for my friend (now fiance :D). then i realized it should be a woven scarf so i picked up weaving instead, but i still really liked knitting so now i was doing 3 crafts. somewhere along the way i started dyeing yarn as part of my kitchen experiments, and then i was like fuck it i wanna make my own yarn ! and that is where the problems happened. in the span of like 5 years ive acquired like $2000 of various tools (spinning wheel, combs, cards, blending board, several looms, etc), bought dozens of fleeces, and now my bedroom is basically a craft room with a bed, i have wool covering every flat surface in there as well as a huge dresser full of wool and several large drawers full of wool, i meticulously scrape every last bit of avocado out of the peel so i can use it to dye fleece, and i don’t go anywhere (including in my own house) without at least 2 knitting projects and a spindle.

im not complaining or anything, but the rapid shift from ‘guy who does stuff, idk’ to ‘guy who is worryingly obsessed with wool and will infodump at length about medieval sheep husbandry and the history of nettle as a textile if you give him half a chance’ is like. extremely funny to me.

With the Wavelength Wrap, I change colors every other row. On the side where I was changing colors, I found my I-cord selvedge was too tight. I believe this is due to the yarn that I am about to use for the next color doesn't have any stitches on the needle to help with tension when I knit that first stitch of the new row.

To resolve this, I am doing a double loop for that first knit stitch. On the return row, I drop one of those loops when I slip that last stitch. In doing this, I am getting a selvedge that will block out better.

Of course, given the colors of the Infinity Fade that I am currently on, I probably should have saved this post for tomorrow. 🍀

been knitting voraciously for about three years and almost never swatch 😬 i’m knitting a sweater for the first time and decided it was worth it based on the amount of effort i’m about to put into this and was wondering how much people actually follow the best practices