craftycoola
crafty coola
i make things // sometimes a knitting designer, sometimes a knitposter
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DEAR YOUNGER SELF
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traditional chinese crafts ronghua绒花 by 慕容意的手工小记
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(via Meme Stitch 3)
Dedicated to all the well-meaning, ill-informed strangers who see me stitching in the wild
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made more cross stitch patterns ✨ check em out here
#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#if i had more time in my life...#cross stitch#pixel art#craft reblog#signal boost#that's not an accurate tag anymore i should change it lol#craftblr#embroidery#q (15 mm)'s too big
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crafting asks
do you knit, crochet, macramé, sew, etc?
whats your favorite brand of yarn?
when did you begin crafting?
what inspired you to craft?
anything you have made that you hated?
anything you made that you loved?
do you sell your crafts?
what was your first project?
what are you working on right now?
worst thing about [your craft] is?
best thing about [your craft] is?
how long did your longest project take?
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omg and it was 2023 too. 23 stab wounds for caesar this is amazing.
It's my 1 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳
only posting this because I MADE THIS BLOG ON IDES OF MARCH???? how did i not know that but also this is SO PERFECT. my tumblrversary is STAB CAESAR DAY.
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every time i reblog an ides of march post the mutuals inside my head are just like. "et tu brute??? et tu craft blog who hasn't been active recently???"
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be sure to leave out milk and cookies for brutus tonight
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It's my 1 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳
only posting this because I MADE THIS BLOG ON IDES OF MARCH???? how did i not know that but also this is SO PERFECT. my tumblrversary is STAB CAESAR DAY.
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dawn dreaming 💕✨
buy a wallpaper or leave a tip / twitter / instagram / shop
#you did this... with a mouse... as if i wasn't impressed enough already...#op ur amazing#pixel art#gif#flashing warning#digital art#q (15 mm)'s too big
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some of these tags are pretty old but i logged back onto tumblr today to discover new ones so. GUYS STOP ASKING ABOUT THE POTATOES IN MY TAGS. FINGERLINGS. FINGERLINGS. why am i still getting this in my notes it's been SEVEN MONTHS (exactly, incidentally, happy 7 month anniversary to this) i'm sobbing
but ur all also right i am very bad at spelling as evidenced by the fact that i misspelled "misspelled" on the original post so
[lazy ID: a bunch of screenshots of tags asking how i misspelled potato so badly]
do you mean fingering (yarn weight) or fingering (instrument hand position) or fingering (nsfw) or fingering (mispelled potato)
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HAPPY PI DAY!
For this year's celebratory pattern I wanted to tackle a dream project of mine: stitching a functional unit circle. The French knots (all 100 of them!) around the lower circle represent the coordinates of each point (sans radicals and negative signs), and the upper circle shows how sine and cosine can be found by following a point around a circle's circumference.
[pattern here] [previous pi day patterns here]
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The goal: mimic the brushstrokes
Found a pic on a college website that showed the paint and brushstrokes well. There were a lot of colors of paint in those strokes. So my brain was like ok, build up the colors of the paint too. And then later my brain was like what were you thinking building up all that thread. And then when today after the fourth additional color, my brain was like you gotta stop now or you never will. Then when I pulled it off the frame and stepped back, my brain (with a headache today) says see, told you.
Now to take something to make it stop hurting, and then bind and deliver…
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what grinds my gears like nothing else is textiles manufacturers greenwashing bamboo/rayon yarn or fabric as though the fact that it's derived from plant material erases the enormously toxic manufacturing process. like the first thing you think of when you think of bamboo yarn/fabric is 'oh it must be made like any other plant fiber' but no!!! that's a semisynthetic fiber that's usually made with carbon disulfide which is extremely toxic to workers and environment both!
and there ARE less destructive bamboo processing techniques you CAN make bamboo fiber the same way you do any other bast fiber theres EVEN a less common chemical process that doesnt do the same harm that viscose rayon does but NO instead we get ~natural fiber~ greenwashing that hides behind the extremely reasonable assumptions people make about plant fibers
I will never ever in my life begrudge people who buy bamboo yarn or for that matter acrylic because (a) goddamn its fucking rough out here (b) I'd be a massive hypocrite (c) the problem is the manufacturers not the individual and (d) sometimes it IS the yarn for the job but I will never stop beating my drum about this bc we! deserve! to know!
#oh do NOT get me started on the way bamboo yarn is somehow marketed as more green than like. cotton.#yeah cotton is also not wonderful for the environment (then again what is) but at least it's not... you know. RAYON.#absurd. the marketing is absurd. (and obviously there to be deceptive and ig it's succeeding at that but. ABSURD.)#craftblr
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新年快乐! Happy [lunar] new year! To celebrate, I'd like to share this little wire-wrapped necklace I made.
Being diaspora and... really not at all competent at Mandarin or Cantonese, I'm not great with tones. So one of my favorite aspects of Chinese culture is [fun] wordplay based on homophones and sound-alikes! This is one example: the upside-down 福 (fú, meaning blessing/fortune). 倒 (dào, meaning upside-down/fall) sounds the same as 到 (dào, meaning arrive), so "upside-down 福" sounds like "blessings arrive".
So -- wishing you all blessings in the coming year. 恭喜发财
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every time i see trad gender roles people being weird about fibercraft i wanna tell them
-medieval and early modern knitting guilds were full of men learning and perfecting fancy knitting techniques to impress rich clients
-in cold, wet climates like the scottish highlands knitting was done by the whole family, in fact it was the perfect activity to do while a man was out on a fishing boat or in the pasture with his sheep and cattle
-men who were away from women for a long time had to know how to knit and sew at least well enough to mend their own clothes. soldiers knitted. sailors knitted. cowboys and frontiersmen knitted. vikings probably knitted (actually they would have been doing a kind of proto knitting called nalbinding, but that's beside the point). all those guys the far right love to treat as ultra masculine heroes were sitting around their barracks and campfires at night darning their socks and knitting themselves little hats
#i totally get you! i only knew what a kick spindle was because years ago i was looking into them as a cheaper tool than spinning wheels#if i didn't know that “kick spindle” totally sounds like something one might use while walking. like idk dribbling a soccer ball or smth#also! in love with the sentence “my electric meat refuses to overwrite this patently incorrect image/phrase”. gorgeous.#craftblr
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