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knittingstuff · 1 year

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and a new sweater in progress

#knitting #crafts #yarn #handmade #knit #sweater #purple #leafs #knitting for olive #pattern

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atlantisknits · 1 year

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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

#knit #knitting #knitter #knitblr #knittersgonnaknit #knitters of tumblr #knittersofinstagram #knitterslife #knittersoftheworld #never not knitting #yarn #yarn love #petite knit #knitting for olive #blog #knit blog #slow fashion

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notice-toward-test-scene · 19 days

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#yamikawaii #retro gaming #anime cosplay #oliver sykes #scripture #kardashians #switzerland #ashley marie dickerson #lol memes #azur lane #knitting #motionless in white #teyana taylor

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cupid-ghoul · 1 month

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I'm completely normal about ghost

so normal that I saw a sweater in a store, thought 'omg mountain would wear this', and then bought the sweater

it's huge on me so I wear it as a dress, it adds to the charm but like ... I'm so normal

I also have a scrunchie that's rain ghoul coded

my boyfriend got it for me bcs it reminded him of rain so I could add it to my collection

so very normal

#mountain ghoul #nameless ghouls #ghost ghouls #the band ghost #shitghosting #its a really cute knit sweater with olive green white orange and a soft petrol colour #normalise buying clothing that reminds you of fictional characters #rain ghoul

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vestrix · 2 months

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Introducing Bea! She’s a Bluefairy Olive and is a soft, sweet girl. A bit dark academia, a bit cottage core. Featuring a hand knitted jumper I made and span the wool for on my spinning wheel, and a walking skirt I made from brown wool.

#bjd #abjd #blue fairy #Bluefairy #Bluefairy olive #bf olive #blue fairy olive #msd #Bea #hand spun #knitting #fiber art #doll

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slimeystimboards · 1 month

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could you make an oliver swift stimboard with some soft things? i love your stuff!! thank you!!!

Oliver Swift Stimboard !!

with soft things!

x | x | x

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redlenai · 4 months

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So, this time playing Strangetown I had Nervous interact with Olive while he was at the Beaker house.

(Pardon I have a terrible habit of not taking screenshot at all of my gameplays)

Their exchanges were mostly chatting through the computer and sending emails. Yet they developed a friendship, Olive tried to call some times but Loki and Circe didn't allow Nervous to receive calls, they even lectured him for that!

As time went on, Nervous continued to be experimented on. One day he went outside the Beaker Castle and stargazed to forget the events of the day, the SensoTwitch Lie Finder more than anything.

He had the horrible luck of being struck by a satellite.

When I went to the Specter house, Olive rolled a want to resurrect Nervous, of course this was a little bit of cheating but I let her retire, then made her work at the Paranormal career to gave her the Resurrect-O-Nomitron to do so, and oh boy she did resurrect him.

The days went by, Ophelia became friends with Nervous, Olive sent all tombstones to Dead End Cemetery. So no ghosts to scare Ophelia and Nervous, they already struggled enough.

Ophelia went to College then it was just Nervous and Olive on her last days. With such a high aspiration level, Olive died of old age, Grim took her by his side.

Then I built this little altar for her.

My Nervous is currently engaged to Pascal and the house was redecorated a bit so it was more child-friendly.

Tycho now has a pool, lots of toys scattered around the house, some even handmade by Nervous and there is one extra room in case they adopt / Pascal ends up abducted again.

#Nervous Subject #Olive Specter #Ophelia Nigmos #Strangetown #Red rambles #pascal curious #tycho curious #Olive's altar #Idk but the little grim knitted toy is cute #As well the little detail of having now the blue flowers #I headcanon that Pascal (Or even Vidcund when he visited!) put them there #Tycho is spoiled af and I like that this time around all three older Curious taugh him all toddler skills #Tho my Vidcund didn't get abducted this time >:c #The Sims 2

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rannadylin · 5 months

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It's been so long since I did a Daily Tea & Knit post but yesterday as I was getting this pair of socks ready for photos I happened to have just brewed my tea so I tossed it in there!

...and then forgot to post the pics yesterday; so now I'm not quite sure which tea I had then. XD I think it was Candy Cane though, which is one of my favorites when I just need a bit of mint or sweetness in my tea!

The socks are my basic feather & fan recipe, with eye of partridge heels, in Knit Picks Felici (I love self-striping yarn for wavy-ripply lace patterns like this!), Olive Juice colorway.

#ranna knits #ranna's daily knit and tea #knitting #knitblr #teablr #tea #adagio teas #olive juice feather and fan socks

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justineportraits · 3 days

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William Oliver Emma Eburne Knitting a Sweater

#william oliver #knitting

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meadowyarns · 4 months

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will 2024 finally be the year i conquer colorwork? it better be

#knitting the bean and olive sweater for my cousin #god i love kid knits #and its sooo sooo sooo cute

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sweater-guys · 7 months

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Oliver Jackson Cohen

#oliver jackson cohen #handsome #sweater #knitted #scruff

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foxglenstudio · 1 month

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Olive Moss Cowl

Mossy and cozy! Wool/silk blend cowl (infinity scarf) knit in a horizontal lace pattern and seamed together to make a loop.

Yarn: Cascade Roslyn (wool/silk)

Measures ~8" tall by 44" circumference.

Etsy link <-

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victorian-cat-lady · 7 months

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Saturday in the park

#self care #knitting #poetry #mary oliver #journal

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babygirlgiles · 5 months

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2023 really was the year of geese for me, wasn’t it

#first me sitting by the river drawing geese for hours on end #then me carrying around that book with wild geese by Mary Oliver in it everywhere I went like it was a security blanket #then the goose themed haymitch breakdown of late autumn #and now I’m knitting a goose sweater. to commemorate it all.

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chasingrainbowsforever · 1 year

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~ Teal and Olive Green ~

#sweaters #fashion #knitting #teal #teal olive

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livingfossilknits · 2 years

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THE TAM THAT WAITS FOR ALL AND WILL NOT BE IGNORED

The sixth in my series of tams inspired by The Magnus Archives, one for each of Smirke’s 15 fears! This time: The End

I had a lot of fun with this one, I was aiming for something subtle and elegant, and I think it turned out well! This tam is simpler than my usual work (The End is a pretty straightforward fear!), with a bone, skull and root motif.

I’ve included a picture of the pattern around the brim under the readmore!

#the magnus archives #the magnus archive #the magnus archives fanart #tma fanart #tma #rusty quill tma #the end #Oliver Banks #original knitting pattern

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