Me on my way to get my bogos binted 🍭👽 lalala

I am entirely obsessed with this person's hand designed/knitted Rothko inspired sweater. I'm going to be thinking about this for days

The artist's instagram is here!

Moon. Fabric and thread. Stitched from a photo my brother took.

[ID: A detailed and textured embroidered half-moon which has been stitched onto black fabric. The moon's dark side is rendered in black thread, while the craters and rocks are distinguished through circles of white and metallic and French knots. End ID]

raaagh help me stay motivated

for every note this gets i will knit a row of my current project

I need to crank this bad boy out asap so I can make silly halloween sweaters

i wish i added ribbing on the bottom of this but anyway here's another vest

ig: zableye_

I don't tend to use a lot of orange or yellow unless they're part of a colour wheel, but wanted something fire-inspired for this. It's another big one, about 43cm (17") across. Blackwork embroidery on 14-count Aida cloth.

Pattern here.

New honkster in progress!

23-29. Mixed fibers.

Finally came back to this one and finished filling it in! An interesting experiment- I love the interplay of colors, but filling in all the space instead of leaving open spots adds a lot of time. It's also hard to focus on simply filling in for so long, which is why I took a break. I do like how it came out, though!

Special interest infodump time [facilitated by an art challenge I'm taking part in over on my instagram] this episode: The Saimaa Ringed Seal! The Saimaa Ringed seal is a subspecies of ringed seal endemic to Lake Saimaa in Finland. They have evolved separately from other species of glacial ringed seals for nearly 10,000 years after being separated in the forming of Lake Saimaa during post glacial rebound at the end of the last ice age. That prolonged and continued period of isolation has caused them to have broken off into their own, incredibly rare geographically specific and small numbered morphology [other animals to exhibit this include the Devil's Hole Pupfish of death valley]. Due to this nature, while they face endangerment due to the same reasons as many other seals [bycatch mortality, hunting, pollution etc] they also face it purely from a rarity angle, isolated species populations in the sub-1,000s are always going to be incredibly delicate by virture of not having the "padding" of large count numbers on their side.

That said! Conservationists in Finland work closely with the government to do their best to make sure these adorable freshwater seals have the best shot they can at sticking around, and Metsähallitus was very excited to report that this year was a record-high year for Saimaa Ringed Seal pups! Noting that their annual census for 2023 counted 100 pups [the highest count they have ever had! And a HUGE number considering the overall population of the species is estimated around 410 total seals] The organization thinks it's possible the continued increase may be caused by recent net fishing bans in certain parts of the lake allowing more seals to survive to reproductive age, and hope the bans can continue to expand to further parts of the lake as well to increase this encouraging and exciting momentum. Onnea teille pikku hyljit!! 🦭🩵🇫🇮

first time doing embroidery!

I added some spiderwebs to the collar of a shirt I thirfted recently. I don't have much embroidery experience so the line work isnt fantastic but I love it.

Finally photographed and listed all the needle booksies!

Available now on my etsy

I really love all the Merchant & Mills sewing accessories, they really fit the vibes here. But also I think it's a cute way to get into sewing/ embroidery/ handiwork. Idk. Just thoughts

fuck you forever sweater vest hand-knit by me

Some of my work from 2017. Inspired by mosaics, and (in the second and third pieces) playing with the idea of iterative tessellation...

People who knit and or crochet, I have a dilemma

I’m floored. I’m flabbergasted. I can’t believe I actually managed to do this. 30 mini dragons. 30!!! Each one totally unique! These are for a product launch at my markets which I’m very excited to do!!

Pattern

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oops. looks like this brushbug found itself caught in a good book.

now it's squashed flat.