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warning: cat helping you weave is adorable

but she will distract you until your geckos looks like they got eaten by a cat

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This sheep tablet woven band might be the cutest thing I ever did. Probably because I don't do cute things often. But now I get the appeal.

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Adventures in Plant Dyeing: Part 4 - Coreopsis

This year I decided I wanted to grow some of my own plant dyes, and after some careful research and consideration I settled on dyer's coreopsis, a pretty yellow flower that produces warm yellows and oranges.

I planted around 15 of them around easter and in late July they started to bloom. I decided to collect the blooms every couple of days and dry them out until I had enough to dye with. I discovered that a 1:2 ratio of dried flowers to fibre was needed, so I kept drying and collecting my flowers until I had roughly 35g of dried flowers. I selected a small 25g skein of wool and 50g of yarn that I had hand spun earlier this year. The 25g skein was going to be modified with an iron afterbath, as I had done before.

Firstly I mordanted my yarn with alum, then I simmered the dried flowers in the dye pot for about an hour. I left them to cool before straining it. The dye bath was now a rich brown, which looked promising.

Then I added the mordanted yarn to the dye bath and left it on low heat for about an hour, before leaving it to cool and rinsing them out.

Weirdly enough, instead of a warm yellow or orange, both yarns were a sort of yellowy-green. This is the colour they were meant to be after using an iron modifier, which is odd. Nevertheless I decided to carry out my original plan anyway, and prepared an iron afterbath for the smaller of the yarns. After 15 minutes, it had turned a lovely dark olive green. I was very confused, however I loved the colours so it didn't really matter. Here's my results compared with what I was expecting to get from it:

This will be my last adventure into plant dyeing for the season, as I am due to start uni very soon. I already have a few plans for next summer, though!

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Tablet weaving pattern from Byzantine Egypt

This is the original band, found in Necropolis D in Antinoöpolis, Egypt. It has been dated to c. 395-641 CE. It is currently held in the Louvre.

This is the threading diagram and turning sequence. The shaded squares indicate the cards should be turned backwards. The pattern is fortunately twist-neutral!

Here's how my reconstruction turned out:

The original weft used was a very fine natural linen thread but I chose to use the same white yarn as in the warp.

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I've been learning how to tablet weave (& create patterns) by attempting to copy designs from totk. I can't be the only one enamored by the idea of having a hateno cheese belt... right?

Btw I'm getting all my tablet weaving pattern design knowledge from Claudia Wollny's amazing book Tablets at Work!

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shrimp socks 🦐🦐

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The Forest Angel Chart (Knitting) by Melanie Nordberg

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Here’s some Great tits

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I know I never post my own stuff but this project took me like three months and I'm so proud of it!!

edit: pattern was found on ravelry!

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henry blake, certified D*I*L*F (sorry)

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look at my spoons boy

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Corroded Coffin are celebrating an album release in Vegas. Eddie gets bored of the VIP area at the club & wanders The Strip. Standing at the Bellagio fountain is the most beautiful man he’s ever seen. Eddie pushes past some douchey looking dudes in business casual to reach him.

Eddie falls to one knee. “Will you marry me?” Steve who is bored with his business man life and hates his friends takes one look at this random proposing man with wild hair and leather pants and says “Yes.”

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Fish drop!

These keychains charmed me immediately after I finished them and now they’re going up on my Etsy!

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Two-handed stranded knitting - Catching floats

This is how to catch the dominant yarn (i.e. the one you are holding to the right) in two-handed knitting.

Remember that the catch is complete only after you have knitted the next stitch.

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oil paintings on wood by Angela Lane (1974-)

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Cats Stealing Food in Paintings

Still Life with Cat (1705) by Desportes, It's no use crying over spilt milk (1880) by Frank Paton, Still Life of the Remnants of a Meal with a Lunging Cat (18th Century) by Alexandre-François Desportes, Fish Still Life with Two Cats (1781) by Martin Ferdinand Quadal, Still Life with a Cat and a Mackerel on a Table Top (18th Century) by Giovanni Rivalta, The Collared Thief (1860) by William James Webbe, Cat Stealing a String of Sausages (17th Century) by Abraham van Beyeren, Still Life with a Cat (1760) by Sebastiano Lazzari, Kitchen Still Life with Fish and Cat (ca. 1650) by Sebastian Stoskopff, An Oyster Supper (1882) by Horatio Henry Couldery, Still Life with an Ebony Chest (17th Century) by Frans Snyders, Still Life with a Cat (1724) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, A Cat Attacking Dead Game (18th Century) by Alexandre-François Desportes, Still Life of Fresh-Water Fish with a Cat (1656) by Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Fruits and Ham with a Cat and a Parrot (18th Century) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, A Cat Holding a Fish in Its Mouth (18th Century) by Sebastiano Lazzari, Still Life with a Cat and a Hare (18th Century) by Desportes, Still Life with Cat and Rayfish (1728) by Jean-Siméon Chardin, A Cat with Dead Game (1711) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, Still Life with Cat and Fish (1728) by Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin

Via James Lucas on X/Twitter