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I knitted a pair of these last year!

Throwback to one of my early patterns that is already 11 years old - Zimtstern Mitts, fingerless gloves started from the thumb with surface crochet added as you go. The free knitting pattern is available from my blog:

https://knitting-and-so-on.blogspot.com/2013/11/zimtstern-mitts.html

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yeah spotify wrapped is cool but rb this and tell me ur blorbo wrapped. whos the character(s) you spent the most time thinking about. for me its the angel from oumen mokushiroku and mafuyu asahina

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spotify said wrapped is cringe

before wrapped 2024 drops, put in the tags your top songs for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023!

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was thinking about knitting a mood blanket next year, but i'm honestly too much of a normal average kinda guy and would knit myself a blanket that was 95% the same colour

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taking out a loan for a very beautiful wooden spoon

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Alternate those skeins kids!

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im developing cataracts in my right eye and ill be getting surgery for it on sunday so art might be paused for a bit next week ...

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Feirefiz is a knight and one of the main characters in the 13th century Middle High German poem “Parzival,” being Parzival’s stepbrother. This is less of a drawing and more of a compilation of “cool stuff” from history that also opposes the idea of Arthurian knights being exclusively Western European. Just like the anachronism and often unrealistic cultural mash-up in European depictions of Arthurian knights, I allowed myself some anachronism here—all parts of his clothing are region-accurate and fairly historically accurate in a broad sense, but aren’t strict in relation to chronology or an association with a single culture.

He is described as a “magpie” knight, the man with what in the modern days we would recognise as vitiligo. His father is Gamuret, a knight at the court of Arthur, and his mother is Belacane, the queen of the imaginary countries of Zassamank (and Assagog, likely). Belacane was described as a Moorish (Muslim) queen and as a woman with dark skin. The real inspirations behind her countries and culture are unknown, but for this picture, the source of the cultural details was Egypt in a broad time period between the 7th and 9th centuries—it seems to fit the best for reference behind the cultures of Zassamank and Assagog, being a region with a diverse population and, by that time, a heavily Muslim one too, which narrows down the number of regions Belacane’s countries could have been inspired by. In the text, I found a mention that one of her lands produced Persian samite, the silk fabric associated with Sassanid Persia, which makes sense in the context of Egyptian history—it was controlled first by the Sassanid Empire, and then by the Abbasid Empire, which was heavily influenced by Persia. The fabric pattern is actual Egyptian samite from the Abbasid period (link). The book mentions Baghdad, which provides another clue for the time period—Baghdad (in modern day Iraq) was founded during the Abbasid Empire in the area that used to be Babylon. An inspiration for his armour is this depiction of a legendary pre-Islamic poet-knight Antarah ibn Shaddad, a character in the Arabic knightly romance. Coincidentally, Antarah was also a person of mixed heritage. This image seems to be coming from an Egyptian source that is close in time to the chosen period (link).

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River of No Return, Laura McPhee

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used to think advertisements were just annoying but harmless but more and more every day i am growing to consider them a great and terrible evil

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somebody stop me from making bad choices (buying an expensive advent calendar)

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in the woods somewhere

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santa put me on the Nuanced list this year

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Josh O'Connor and Alec Secăreanu as Johnny Saxby and Gheorghe Ionescu 

God’s Own Country (2017) dir. Francis Lee

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god i love people

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Crochet Eye Sweater by CarolineMoorenc

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