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transgenders your square
#🪲#augusts yarn adventures#but this is actually embroidery thread#the attachment to the loop for hanging is BAD and i know this bc i accidentally snipped one of the threads but im choosing to ignore it#its on my wall across the room so whos gonna know
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Just a quick photo dump of most of what I’ve crocheted this year!
#crochet#amigurumi#crochet stuffed animal#floret rambles#this isn’t even half tbh#the shawls are still being worked on too#yarn for stuffies is loops and threads sweet snuggles#and loops and threads facets
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Finally blocked the guy i finished the other day plus reblocked two of my other doilies that have gotten scrunchy. Turns out you need to use at least a 1:4 ratio of starch to water to get cotton thread doilies to stay nice for longer than a week.
#knitting#lace knitting#lace rot#Lace doily#blocking#i'll probably have to reblock them all again right before family comes in for hannukah#but even if they get all folded again before then i won't go through the effort lmao#literally the only effort i feel about the winter holidays is making a bunch of white/white and gold frilly bits to add all over the house#blocking removed (most) of my sins#you can still tell which half the doily i tried doing knit into the back loop instead of purls when increases into double yarn overs#doing knit purl while making stitches into double yarn overs hurts my hands but it looks SO much better :(#i've already shopped around for my next doily but i think i might pick one that works nicely with the gold thread (once i grab it)#i really like the white and gold doilies. they're awful to make but jsut so Winter Holidays to behold.
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I made a cowl
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Square #3 progress:
Somehow I messed up one of selvages so that the two sides aren't connected, and the tension on the green side is a mess (Loops & Threads Soft & Shiny is awful to work with: so splitty and fragile), so I'm frogging this and starting again. If I had a different bright green yarn I would use it instead. Gonna have to get some. I'd rather work with Red Heart Super Saver then this stuff.
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here’s a lil granny square blanket!! Making anything out of granny squares is so satisfying when everything starts to come together :))
#crochet#crochetlove#yarn#wool yarn#acrylic yarn#blanket#granny square#granny square blanket#lionbrandyarn#redheartyarn#loops and threads#loopsandthreadsyarn
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😭 tendonitis in my right hand maybe. Everyone says to take a break from knitting.
At least I finished Alan's convertible hand warmers last week... He wanted something that would match his running shoes.
Using this coral yarn from loops & threads
#yarn#yarnaddict#knits#erikalovesknitting#knitting#knitted#erikalovescrafting#knitgifts#handwarmers#knithandwarmers#alanknits#mediumyarn#loops&threadsyarn#loops&threads
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It's a weird middle of the night desireto find myself resisting (not rly) but I am currently fighting the urge to drop ~$40 on equipment that will allow me to start spinning my own yarn
#pgatg#fiber arts have got me firmly in their grasp lately#been back on my cross stitch bullshit#currently making my first hook and loop rug#think it might be fun to spin my own yarn#to weave my own fabric#to do a little cross stitch on#maybe make a chunky yarn and knit a scarf or hat#maybe even make a full sized rug! possibilities are endless#like. i just think itd be so fun and cool to make my own thread/yarn
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Today I am thinking about weaving.
I can knit and crochet, but those crafts didn't exist in Roman times. Any historically accurate Roman cloth must be woven. So when a little potholder loom jumped into my shopping basket for 50 cents, it felt like a sign I should learn.
One potholder that was 50% yarn and 50% weird gaps later, I looked up a tutorial, and realized why the damn thing was 50 cents. I needed a better, more adaptable loom. And, because I am a cheapskate and slightly loony, I decided to make one instead of buying it.
So, how does this thing work?
First, you string the warp threads up and down, around the pegs. Here, I made a zigzag shape. Then, you use a needle or shuttle to weave more yarn over and under the warp, horizontally, back and forth. This produces woven fabric.
Some looms weave from the top, some from the bottom. This Greek urn shows two weavers working from the top. The left weaver uses a rod to compact the woven fabric upward, keeping it even and sturdy. The right weaver is passing an oval-shaped shuttle through the warp threads to form another row.
Most Roman looms would have looked like this, with the finished cloth at the top. Unlike my looms, these are warp-weighted. That means you keep the warp yarns taut by hanging weights at the bottom, rather than through a bottom row of pegs.
Warp-weighted looms also have a big advantage over my little potholder loom: you can easily create multiple sheds.
A "shed" is a temporary gap between lifted strands and non-lifted strands. Instead of having to go over and under each strand individually, you raise the entire shed, then pull the shuttle or needle straight through. This saves lots of time! Then, to weave the next row, you close the shed, lift up a different set of threads to create a new shed, and send the shuttle/needle through the other direction.
On a warp-weighted loom, the sheds are opened by loops called heddles (H), which are attached to a heddle rod (G). When the rod is down, shed (1) is open (middle diagram). When you pull the rod up, shed (1) closes and shed (2) opens instead (right diagram). Most warp-weighted looms also have a pair of forks you can rest the heddle rod on, to free your hands.
Here, there are three heddle rods and sets of forks, the heddles are white, and the warp thread is red. This gives you four different sheds, and the potential to weave very complex patterns indeed. Not bad for a device invented over 6500 years ago!
I liked the multiple heddle-rod design so much, I tried incorporating it into my DIY loom, too. I've tested both yarn and paperclips as heddles:
I actually got both sheds and heddle-rods working, too. Which is pretty cool for a lap loom - every other lap loom I found only has one shed, so you have to go over-under the individual threads on alternate rows.* More time-consuming. However, the sheds here are narrow, and I'll need a smaller and smoother shuttle to pass through them smoothly. This wouldn't be an issue on a warp-weighted loom, where the warp hangs freely downward, and can move more flexibly with the heddles.
Anyway. I may get a "real" loom at some point, but I wanted to build one first, and I think it gave me more appreciation for just how resourceful ancient weavers were. They created technology, clothing, and artwork out of very basic materials, and civilization depended on these skills.
Now, I need to go finish the...whatever the hell it will be. Big thanks to Wikipedia and to the lovely Youtubers who make this craft easier to learn. I think it'll be a lot of fun.
(*Edit - found out a rotating heddle bar can make two sheds on a lap loom! Exciting!!)
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One of the things I like about spinning is that it feels like looking closely. Take a t-shirt from your closet. Look closely. It's probably knitted. You can see the tiny chevrons. You can see the way those interlocking loops stretch when you pull on the fabric. Look closer. Each chevron is made up of fine thread. Look closer. You probably can't even see this level of detail, but each thread is plied from finer strands. Look closer (you would need a microscope). Each strand is twisted from smaller fibers. When I spin, this recursive structure becomes obvious. Each level of structure its own long, slow stage of creation. I work from part to whole. Fiber, spun into a single, plied into a yarn, knitted into a fabric. Now when I'm lying in bed in the morning, I look closely at where the light catches the individual threads in my pillowcase, and instead of a shape, I see a structure.
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A few weeks ago I discovered a thing called "stick weaving", where instead of a warped loom you weave the weft through sticks. The warp threads are looped through the bottom of each stick, and you pull them through your woven weft as you go. As I've been moving around a lot lately and don't have space for an actual loom, portable hand-held methods like this are a lot of fun!
Of course, having never done this before, I decided to pair it with kilim-technique pattern weaving, where you wrap the weft threads around the warp, leaving a gap where the different colours meet and creating sharp geometric patterns (which I've also never tried to do before lol). It looks absolutely baller with a high contrast dark base and bright colours, and of course the red-blue-yellow combo is always a winner XD
I ran out of the red before I ran out of warp and switched to purple, but at this point I'm just using this piece for pattern experiments. I've already ordered a medium weight yarn instead of the fingering-weight jumper yarn, which should compress less once off the sticks, and have ideas of doing several long repeating "panels" that can be sewn together at the selvedge to make something bigger.
The best part, it tucks into a bag and needs no other tools besides a tapestry needle and something to cut the yarn!
#Always tuck your needle into your work when you take it off the yarn#Don't put it down i repeat don't put it down the couch will eat it#Don't put it thru your clothes either i've gone to work at the brewery all day with a needle tucked thru the seam of my pants#From the night BEFORE#ADHD tax means i go thru A LOT of needles 😂#Weaving#Fibre arts#fiber arts#fibre crafts#fiber crafts#Thayle arts#Thayle crafts#yarnblr
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ness & nat doing arts and crafts together...
#to be more specific: they're at ness's place#it's small but cozy#they try to make yarn butterflies (emphasis on try bc natalie inadvertently gets the threading wrong)#& ness laughs and takes her hand and instructs her on how to loop the yarn under the pinkie and over the ring finger#nat'se still comes out a little crooked but ness loves it#& they swap em#you can't see it since she wears the guard uniform but clipped to the side of officer vanessa's ponytail is a small neat pink butterfly 🦋#nessalie
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A lovely knit maple leaf shawl. I like how it makes me feel like some kind of autumn witch when I wear it!
Yarn: Loops & Thread Woolike
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Oh right, I didn't post my Christmas yarn haul:
Lots of acrylic worsted that will be perfect for my double knit blanket!
Also my very own trekking poles! They are AWESOME and will keep me sane this winter.
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Hello there, first post on this blog!! I’m super excited to share all of my crochet projects :) Please comment any critiques, questions, or anything of that variety to help me get better & create more projects!
#crochet#crochetclothing#crochetlove#cardigan#yarn#acrylic yarn#handmade#handcrocheted#patchwork#patchwork cardigan#lionbrandyarn#redheartyarn#loopsandthreadsyarn#loops and threads#crochet pattern
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