#craft not crap

[bitchfitch]

I'm teaching myself how to make bobbin lace, rank my set up

(the safety pins on the bottom of the straws are for weight , the ones on the top are to stop it constantly unspooling, yes I did try cutting a slit in the straws it just kept shredding my thread)

[lanatusnebula]

Refsheet I was making based on the few bits of Kraft/Craft art and spriteworks I found.

Will probably never finish it but it came out ok. Was thinking his face looked kinda caved in in the original artworks...

[autumnsvoice87]

New junk journal page I made. I found this quote/ affirmation that I felt was really healing.

Here's the original meme but I can't read who sais/wrote it.

[rjalker]

Crochet cat ear balaclava December 13 2024 happy Friday the 13th

Mine is made with:

5.5mm crochet hook

Presumably worsted weight yarn

It is approximately 9 inches tall. I have a long face so yours will need to be different dimensions

Laid out flat with a ruler:

[ID: A photo from above of a green crochet cat-ear balaclava sitting on a white background, with a wooden ruler showing that the hat is close to 9 inches tall, around 21 centimeters. It is made with double crochet, with 16 total rows. The fourth row has a large section of skipped stitches, creating a narrow opening. End ID.]

And an overlay to show the rows + me wearing it with photoshopped eyes for fun. Ignore the fact that the overlay doesn't match properly in the one of me wearing it lol I forgot I had to separate it for the eye part.

[ID: Two edited photos. The first is the same as the original, but now with black digital handwriting at the top reading, "5.5mm hook, presumably worsted weight yarn". Along the side of the hate opposite the ruler has been added partially transparent stripes of color marking each row of stitches, in a gradient from red to purple, starting at the bottom with 1, and ending after row 16 with a thinner row marked "close". The second photo shows the crocheter wearing the balaclava, with the same rainbow markings for the rows, distorted slightly to try and match the shape of the balaclava now on the person's head. The opening in the center has now been stretched to form an opening for the person's eyes, which are photoshopped to have orange pupils looking off to the side. The person wears glasses, whose lenses distort the view of the balaclava. End ID.]

Made with foundation double crochet:

chain 2. Yarn over, go into 1st chain. Pull through one hoop. Pull through 2 loops. Pull through the last two loops. Repeat this through the base of each new section, until your foundation row is long enough to fit around your head with some slight stretching. (You don't want it to fit without any stretching at all, or it'll actually be a bit too big)

When you connect it to the start to create a big loop, your working yarn should be at the top, and the original tail should be at the bottom, connecting together on a little diagonal line.

Connect with a slip stitch, and then use a separate hook to pull the tail through to the other side and connect that with a slip stitch and then put through the whole thing up to the top so that you can crochet over it to hide it. Kind of hard to convey that through text so I'll put a diagram:

[ID: A simple digital diagram in two parts. The first shows the starting end of a foundation double crochet row, shown in dark green, with a lighter green tail. It is labeled, "U started here", Opposite this, with an orange crochet hook, is the end of the same row, labeled, "ending row here". Both have diagonal ends that will form a perfect match when pressed together. A black arrow points from this diagram to the bottom of the image, where the two ends have been joined, with the crochet hook now in a loop labeled, "Slip stitch", and the lighter green tail going over to connect to the ending point, then back to the front, and then being pulled upward to the top of the row, with numbered instructions of "pull thru here, then back, slip stitch, pull up here, and crochet over to hide". End ID.]

Make two more rows of regular double crochet.

On what would be your fourth total row if you include the foundation row, put it on, and measure with your hands how far apart the outer corners of your eyes are, and mark the corresponding stitches. Count how many stitches are between these marks, and then chain that many, continuing on the other side with regular double crochet.

On the row after this, make the same number of double crochets that you chained before around that chain, and then keep going like normal.

Depending on how tall your head is, make more rows of double crochet, until it fits comfortably on your head with your eyes lined up with the eye gap.

Clothes with a row of single crochet connecting the two at the top to form the cat ears.

shorter version with no descriptions:

Foundation double crochet until long enough to fit around your head (or the head of whoever you're making it for) with some slight stretching. All rows after this except the closing row are just normal double crochet.

One double crochet in each stitch

One double crochet in each stitch

Chain however many stitches is long enough to go from one corner of your eye to the other, and make one double crochet in each of the rest of the stitches.

One double crochet across the chain you made for every stitch you skipped, then keep making one double crochet in each stitch the rest of the way around.

For every row after this, make, you guessed it, one double crochet in each stitch, until the hat is tall enough to fit on your head with the eye space in the correct spot.

Press the top edges together, and single crochet the two together as you go across. Cut yarn, slip stitch to secure, and weave in tail.

[slugass]

ai generated minecraft being weeeird lol isn’t a fucking excuse to mock mentally ill people.

[paulmccartneyexplodingonstage]

I think lots of new artists make the mistake of thinking good art is down to the materials. Lord knows i thought the same when i was younger, but in actuality some of the best art i’ve seen was made with dollar store acrylics and paint brushes.

Don’t get me wrong, having access to high quality materials definitely helps elevate your craft, but it’s really not as important as a lot of people think. If you’re good at what you do, it’ll translate no matter what materials you’re using. Don’t stress so much about having the best or most expensive gear, focus on building skill, technique and conceptual knowledge.

Because if you can make good stuff with $2 paints, when you finally *can* upgrade to more expensive brands you’ll already be miles ahead of everyone else.

[revenantghost]

What if, instead of being a responsible adult, I rewatched Tristamp again. What then.

[citrus-cactus]

Not to sound like a cranky old lady, but I am shocked and appalled every time I venture into the capitalist hellscape known as Michaels Arts and Crafts.

[bitletsanddrabbles]

My Body: Okay, the headache is gone!

Me: Good! Finally! Thank you! I'd really like to be able to get important crap - like, you know, writing? Or even cleaning the house a bit - done on my days off this wee-

My Body: Now your left eye is going to itch and sting like maybe you're coming down with pink eye!

Me: ... ... ... ... OH FUCK YOU!

[rabbitlost]

Check out the pendants that I have made.

I will be making more, so if anyone has any suggestions about what I should make, that would be great.

[loveydive]

cannot fathom how ppl think inquisition is remotely even a good starting spot for newbies

[doofusschweetz]

David Bowie: On fayah on fayah on fahaaa

Female fans: i need a cold shower

[mari-beau]

Chris Carter could've really used some lessons on complex storytelling from J. Michael Straczynski.

[lanatusnebula]

I like their heigh difference a lot.

[creatediana]

"Junho" - an exercise in willow charcoal done 4/22/2024 in about 20 minutes of Lee Junho from 2PM

[readingforaneternity]

So I’m an English major and Idk why I thought I would escape the character arc (forgive me, my brain is half dead right now and I can’t think of the actual word I want to use) where I take a class pertaining to my major and the class and professor nearly kills my love for all things english lit, and writing.

I am struggling so hard to even show up to the class let alone write the bullcrap essays.

I’ve hated nearly everything I’ve written for the class. And all my assignments have been turned in late.

I’m in a drought right now, and I hate it so much bc I miss scribbling ideas in my poetry book. Or daydreaming about characters and making little stories in my head.

I sit in that class and all the creativity that I posses wooshes out of my head like my professor is Ursula and I’m Ariel.

I HATE THIS I HATE THIS I HATE THIS I HATE THIS