Playing around with knotwork as directly inspired by @welshpixie
I'm not an artist by any means but the #fibrearts person in me is fascinated by how the loops change when you add the barriers.
Playing around with knotwork as directly inspired by @welshpixie
I'm not an artist by any means but the #fibrearts person in me is fascinated by how the loops change when you add the barriers.
@randahl There are also a fair few spinners, but I'm not sure which hashtag is the best one to follow for that: #textilearts or #fiberarts or #fibrearts - maybe we all ought to switch to #textilearts simply because it avoids the confusion of US versus non-US spelling.
@randahl There are also a fair few spinners, but I'm not sure which hashtag is the best one to follow for that: #textilearts or #fiberarts or #fibrearts - maybe we all ought to switch to #textilearts simply because it avoids the confusion of US versus non-US spelling.
🧶🧶🧶 FINALLY back in the saddle with knitting. Nasty old shoulder injury cropped up about a month ago. Ugh, soooo painful.
Started this new Stephen West shawl, #Icelandscape, only to realize I don't have enough yardage of colors, so am subbing in some solid sections which should work fine. It's good to have needles back in my hands, and to be back with all y'all!!
#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator @Crafters #Crafts #HandMade #SurfFeeds
🧶🧶🧶 FINALLY back in the saddle with knitting. Nasty old shoulder injury cropped up about a month ago. Ugh, soooo painful.
Started this new Stephen West shawl, #Icelandscape, only to realize I don't have enough yardage of colors, so am subbing in some solid sections which should work fine. It's good to have needles back in my hands, and to be back with all y'all!!
#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator @Crafters #Crafts #HandMade #SurfFeeds
I've been wrestling with this yarn: Ice Yarns Violino, in blue/green/red/orange.
This yarn is not easy to needle-knit with. The 'ribbon' of this ribbon yarn is a flattened i-cord made out of thread. The stitch-holes in the i-cord are big enough to catch the point of any knitting needle. With the current project I'm knitting I've often had to re-do a stitch over and over before I got a stitch where the threads didn't catch on the needle.
This yarn is fine for machine-knitting and crochet, because there are no pointy tools involved. Unfortunately, the colour sections are so short that the longest sequence of one colour with 4mm needles is four knit stitches, but most of the time the colour-sequences are two stitches wide. This means that doing crochet with this yarn looks like someone vomited confetti. Machine-knitting gives a similar result, because the gauge of my knitting machine is more like 8mm than 4mm.
So I felt I HAD to needle-knit this, in order to do the colours justice. I'm making an octopus soft toy; and I've come too far to back out now. The body is done, and I've just started the first leg.
But it is DRIVING ME BONKERS!
One thing that is keeping me going is the thought that this project may use up all the yarn and I'll never have to deal with it again.
@knitting #knitting @crochet #crochet #textilearts #fibrearts #fiberarts
I've been wrestling with this yarn: Ice Yarns Violino, in blue/green/red/orange.
This yarn is not easy to needle-knit with. The 'ribbon' of this ribbon yarn is a flattened i-cord made out of thread. The stitch-holes in the i-cord are big enough to catch the point of any knitting needle. With the current project I'm knitting I've often had to re-do a stitch over and over before I got a stitch where the threads didn't catch on the needle.
This yarn is fine for machine-knitting and crochet, because there are no pointy tools involved. Unfortunately, the colour sections are so short that the longest sequence of one colour with 4mm needles is four knit stitches, but most of the time the colour-sequences are two stitches wide. This means that doing crochet with this yarn looks like someone vomited confetti. Machine-knitting gives a similar result, because the gauge of my knitting machine is more like 8mm than 4mm.
So I felt I HAD to needle-knit this, in order to do the colours justice. I'm making an octopus soft toy; and I've come too far to back out now. The body is done, and I've just started the first leg.
But it is DRIVING ME BONKERS!
One thing that is keeping me going is the thought that this project may use up all the yarn and I'll never have to deal with it again.
@knitting #knitting @crochet #crochet #textilearts #fibrearts #fiberarts
My first delightful discovery of 2026 is that the fediverse is a strange and fascinating and kind space. Second delightful discovery is that spinning in a dark living room with the only light source being a neck reading light/book light is a whimsical experience I shall repeat most often this year.
Side note: there is something to be said here, about how a Vietnamese crafter is spinning on Dharawal country in Australia, using a wheel made in Aoteroa NZ, working with a fibre from a German sheep breed that has been dyed by a French artist, and wearing an apron bought by said crafter's husband from a vintage market in the Netherlands.
My first delightful discovery of 2026 is that the fediverse is a strange and fascinating and kind space. Second delightful discovery is that spinning in a dark living room with the only light source being a neck reading light/book light is a whimsical experience I shall repeat most often this year.
Side note: there is something to be said here, about how a Vietnamese crafter is spinning on Dharawal country in Australia, using a wheel made in Aoteroa NZ, working with a fibre from a German sheep breed that has been dyed by a French artist, and wearing an apron bought by said crafter's husband from a vintage market in the Netherlands.
💞🐑💞 BRIEF PLEA + NAVAJO WORLD 💞🐑💞
Resending bc got lost in the holiday shuffle. Merry Christmas & Happy Solstice, everyone! Also late due to an intense but worthy medical procedure (wound debridement, ouch).
Your help is especially appreciated this holiday season. 🙏🙏 Contribute here, or another option is Zelle. Read on for tales of the Navajo. In deepest gratitude ~ Karen
#Diné #Healthcare #Law #Knitting @Knitting #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #SurfFeeds
💞🐑💞 BRIEF PLEA + NAVAJO WORLD 💞🐑💞
Resending bc got lost in the holiday shuffle. Merry Christmas & Happy Solstice, everyone! Also late due to an intense but worthy medical procedure (wound debridement, ouch).
Your help is especially appreciated this holiday season. 🙏🙏 Contribute here, or another option is Zelle. Read on for tales of the Navajo. In deepest gratitude ~ Karen
#Diné #Healthcare #Law #Knitting @Knitting #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #SurfFeeds
Knitting memes, for fun!
#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator @Crafters #Crafts #HandMade #SurfFeeds
Knitting memes, for fun!
#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator @Crafters #Crafts #HandMade #SurfFeeds
BBC: The Wisbech embroiderer racing to recreate the Bayeux Tapestry
As the British Museum prepares to put the #Bayeux Tapestry on display in London next September, the Cambridgeshire-based artist is furiously working away on her own full-size replica.
The original, nearly 1,000 years old and 70m (230ft) in length, tells the story of the 1066 Norman conquest of England and the Battle of Hastings.
#art #FibreArts #FibreArt #FiberArt #FiberArts
BBC: The Wisbech embroiderer racing to recreate the Bayeux Tapestry
As the British Museum prepares to put the #Bayeux Tapestry on display in London next September, the Cambridgeshire-based artist is furiously working away on her own full-size replica.
The original, nearly 1,000 years old and 70m (230ft) in length, tells the story of the 1066 Norman conquest of England and the Battle of Hastings.
#art #FibreArts #FibreArt #FiberArt #FiberArts
🐑⚓️🐑 NAVAJO CHURRO SHEEP 🐑⚓️🐑
"Across high seas in wooden galleons, each introduced a genetically distinct breed with origins in various regions of Old Spain. Together, these four distinct breed lines merged to become the renowned Navajo Churro of the southwest."
#DisabilityMatters #Navajo #Diné #GoFundMe #Healthcare #Law #Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator @Crafters #Crafts #HandMade #SurfFeeds
🐑⚓️🐑 NAVAJO CHURRO SHEEP 🐑⚓️🐑
"Across high seas in wooden galleons, each introduced a genetically distinct breed with origins in various regions of Old Spain. Together, these four distinct breed lines merged to become the renowned Navajo Churro of the southwest."
#DisabilityMatters #Navajo #Diné #GoFundMe #Healthcare #Law #Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator @Crafters #Crafts #HandMade #SurfFeeds
AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here's why that's happening and what can be done about it.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/the-ai-invasion-of-knitting-and-crochet/
