Sometimes I get to test stitch patterns. Sometimes I take cool pictures of those stitches.

This pattern is by @stitch_it_picasso / teenyweenyxstitch, and was a lot of fun to do! I originally started on a black background (the GRIEF it gave me), and I'll (hopefully) finish that one shortly.

Stamp :3

For patches and public walls (lol totally kidding Im a law abiding citizen/j)

Making more patches and spencils about gender affirming healthcare because yk, I live in Florida and still can't access it (Please help)

realizing that sticking to the "do it bad" "do it scared" mentality implies theres also a "do it bored"

BOOP

So I work at a library and about a month ago I helped a little old woman who is legally blind figure out how to listen to our audiobooks on her tablet. We got to chatting and I mentioned that I always listen to audiobooks while I knit, which made her very excited and she told me all about the afghans she used to make when she could still see. She was so sweet and I was so glad to be able to help her figure out a way to still enjoy books without being able to read.

Yesterday I answered the phone at work and when I said my name the woman on the other line got so excited and said “Madeline?? You’re exactly who I wanted to talk to! This is Marie, you helped me about a month ago. How late are you working today?” It was her!! And about an hour later she and her husband showed up, and she was carrying a huge stack of old knitting patterns for me, and her husband brought in a few boxes full of yarn. They couldn’t stay long but I was so touched that she remembered me, and I struggled to not just flat out start crying when she handed me the patterns. When I looked through them later I realized it was her entire personal collection from over the years, including all her personal notes and drawings and even some photographs of her finished pieces. No one in my family knits, and to have someone pass on their legacy to me like that was incredibly moving.

This isn’t what I usually post here, but with life being especially dark lately I wanted to share a moment of happiness and a reminder that a bit of kindness goes a long way ♡

why do I want to quilt this?

The house of Paquius Proculus, Pompeii.

Photo: Luigi Spina.

Jordan Nassar is a Palestinian artist who creates embroidered landscapes which are framed by, and built up through, repeating patterns adapted from traditional Palestinian motifs. 

Fiber arts is just Math in sheep's clothing

My first project completed during The 100 Days Project! I saw this comment in a "vaguely threatening corporate speak" video and couldn't get ot out of my mind. I had to chart it out immediately.

I've decided that (other than this 😅🤞) I'm going to work on WIP from my 100 Days. Hopefully I can work through what I have laying around to make room for other new projects!

[ID: Three cross stitched patches. They say "No cops at pride, no pride in cops", "Faggot", and "Trans pride". End ID]

used 11 count aida and two strands of thread! looks a little white up close but works from a distance

Jordan Nassar is a Palestinian artist who creates embroidered landscapes which are framed by, and built up through, repeating patterns adapted from traditional Palestinian motifs. 

So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:

1) Binary files are 1s and 0s

2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches

You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…

You can knit Doom.

However, after crunching some more numbers:

The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…

3322 square feet

Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.

Let sewing radicalize you against fast fashion

Let your art be flawed.