Stronger Than You

(free pattern on Ravelry!)

based on a 2500+ year old libation vessel!

Notebook Paper Crochet Blanket

Leaf Patterns // Lalaf Crochet

Yarn holder

The slurperrr...

10 pounds says terfs start arguing men have an unfair advantage in knitting next

I know im being "that guy" but he's crocheting. He is not knitting. He is holding a hook and crocheting. Look at the fabric. He is not knitting. Wtf has he got in his mouth tho...

I think it's a tapestry needle? Mother fucker might be that one person that sews in ends in as he goes.

That would make sense. Good for him!

The fact that a terf said “taking women jobs in the home” proves my point terfs are just the political branch of the trad wife movement

I went to my local yarn store and bought some 1mm/size 00000 needles today. Witnesses will confirm that I cackled like a madwoman while doing so. I used the needles for two hours tonight. My eyes are in actual pain.

Someone asked me what I was making with my absurdly tiny needles, and tumblr doesn’t seem to want to let me respond, so, an update:

Is bookmark.

I have run across a few Victorian patterns that call for these smaller-than-size-0 needles, and I have been wanting to try them.

I have never seen anything like this nor have I ever thought of it. I wish my grandma was alive to see this, she was an avid knitter/crocheter.

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 “Natalie?? You’re exactly who I wanted to talk to! This is Marnie, 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 ♡

Making a weighted velvet baikal seal plushie :3

Head and tail end are stuffed w ultra plush fiber fill and the bulk of the body is packed full of weighted pellets that have a nice crunchy sound when you squeeze it. Not weighed yet, but it feels between 1.5 - 2lbs?

She doesn't even have her mouth and flippers yet!!!! She's fucking embarrassassed...

Smelling you

Finished! My mom named her Beans this morning lol.. She's around 1.2lbs and soppingly pitiful

everybody loves beans

True facts.

Seattle-based artist Carol Milne knits with glass, or rather, she creates wonderful glass sculptures that make it seem as though she’s either a superhuman glass knitter or in possession of enchanted knitting needles and very specialized gloves. The reality is actually much more complicated, but no less awesome. Milne invented her glass knitting technique back in 2006. It’s a process that involves knitting with wax instead of glass, followed by lost-wax casting, mold-making and kiln-casting.

To check out more of Carol Milne’s extraordinary artwork visit the Glass Art Society, Milne’s Facebook page or her online gallery.

[via Colossal]

I made a baby blanket for a pregnant woman at work and I went back and forth about it like “is this weird? To like hand make something for someone when we’re like friendly acquaintances not like bffs. God why are you so fucking awkward.” Anyway I gave it to her and she said she loved it and in the back of my head I’m like yea she’s nice and probably just humoring the weirdo. Well she texted me a picture this weekend of a scrunchy faced newborn at the hospital wrapped in the blanket I made her. And I’m like. Wow. She loved it so much she took it with her! To the hospital! To give birth! She wrapped her newborn it! I am just so filled with love and joy right now.

People will love the things you make them. Because you thought of them and you cared.

I made a quilt for one of my college professors once. He and his wife had some trouble with the pregnancy and she was on bed rest for a while. He’d mentioned it to us because he might have to leave in the middle of class if something drastic happened. Nothing did happen in the end, but I knew this was a big deal for them so I made a quilt. The first real one I’d ever made.

It was an bilingual alphabet quilt. Both the dad and mom spoke Japanese and that was a big part of their lives so I made a quilt with the English alphabet and a hand embroidered picture of something that matched the letter with both the English and Japanese word for it. I appliquéd the letters and designed all the embroideries myself. It was a lot of work but when I found my professor to give it to him he almost cried when I showed him. They sent me a picture of the baby on the quilt that I still have even though the baby is I think 12 now. For a while they had it hung on the kid’s bedroom wall and they said he would bow to it in the morning to show his gratitude and respect for the work put into it.

If you think someone is worth making something for you should do it! It’s an act of love and care in a world that is so often bereft of it.

@hopepunk-humanity

I made a rabbit for my then-boss's baby, except my sense of scale and my sense of time are twins so like... Giant rabbit.

[Image ID: a soft toy rabbit made of shades of blue, with a heart for a nose, is lying on a small double bed. A pair of large scissors is visible to the left, providing a sense of scale. Including the ears, the rabbit is over a metre tall. End ID.]

I got a polite thank you, of course! It was clearly appreciated!

A year and a half to two years after the baby was born, I got a photo of them with a message like, "the baby is finally big enough to play with it!"

only one in three million tiktoks are this worth watching

I'm just invested in the frog in the background the entire time.

it’s not for sale but I’ve lost myself to the cross stitch hyperfocus rn and im like 70% complete a piece that says “this is a scurvy free household”

@100blueberries oshit wait i got the link to the pattern my friend @sphinxofgrease sent it to me a while back 

AND LO IT IS DONE 

actually i have a question for yall. I took it out of circulation a while ago, but if yall are still interested, would yall want me to rerelease an updated and prettier version of the old Sour Hour print? 

it’d still cost the same about of money (around 12 bucks canadian) I’d just make it look nicer than it used to with a funkier border 

this is the old print btw

MY FIRST REAL HAT

I’ve added some ferns and greenery to my mushroom pin cushion

I saw a thing and thought it seemed like something you might find cool

-This is GENIUS-Systlin-