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Been really busy over this winter holiday, but I’m getting somewhere with this sock. It’s going to be for my dad! :)

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Working on some socks for my dad! Last socks that I knit were on DPNs, so I’m working on my magic loop technique. The pattern is Simply Ribbed Socks by This Handmade Life. 🧶🧦

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i dropped by my favourite secondhand bookstore and found what is possibly the most incredible knitting book iver ever seen. that teaches you how to knit little gardens and sew them into a massive quilt 3d. the photos i took are atrocious and do NOT do this book justice

thats a PRIORY GARDEN WITH MONKS

IT EVEN TEACHES YOU HOW TO MAKE ALL THE TOOLS ABD BASKETS AND POTS AND PLANTS

LOOK AT THE SOME OF THE FOLIAGE

i have never been more upset to not have $30 ready to buy this. its incredible. i have to find it online somewhere. i knew the moment i saw this i had to share it with EVERYONE

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I’ve finished knitting my Halibut Sweater! This took about three weeks (with a 4 day break in the middle for finals and resting my hands). This was a really fun knit and I’d recommend trying it! 🧶

(Also, meet my cat, Apollo.)

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I knit these bat socks a little bit before Halloween! They were a fun project to do between wanting to tear my hair out over a shirt I was knitting. These are the ‘I’m Batty for Halloween’ socks by Charlotte Stone! They’re from her Charming Colorwork Socks book.

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Working on the Halibut Sweater by Caitlin Hunter! Finished the body earlier this afternoon!

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message to all bitches

please survive

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if your weird enough with the homies you can break all boundaries of platonic/romantic love and make a third, more evil thing

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"-and suddenly, i'm defending grace chasity of all people!" ⭐️

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Fiber arts is just Math in sheep's clothing

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yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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they're done!! my dreams of stardew valley chicken socks have been fulfilled. what a time to be alive

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every time someone says ‘oh, you knit? do you like it?’ i have the marrow-deep urge to tenderly take their face in my hands and press my lips to their eyelids and telepathically transmit the full overwhelming awareness that i carry just beneath my skin every moment of every day of how important fiber crafts and textiles are and historically have been to humanity. every stitch i work is a thousand billion stitches that have already been worked and will be worked in the future, from the farthest reaches of prehistory until time immemorial. every spindle i spin is spun with the same flick of uncountable fingers from ages past, all united across history in the deceptively simple movement that has shaped history, and art, is the context within which every single person on earth has ever lived their life and lives their lives still. everything from our phones to our homes is given shape and form by the overlooked but utterly important textile arts.

‘of fucking course i like knitting, you jackass,’ i say gently. ‘i wouldn’t do it otherwise.’

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there's actually a secret eighth deadly sin and it's exactly like gluttony except for textile projects

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He finally figured out the formula guys (ft normal friend behavior)

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theyre forever to meeee