#fiber friends

[lazykatecottage]

Meet Peppercorn!

Born 4/5/2024 Peppercorn is a satin x french black angora rabbit. She’s a picky eater with two speeds, chilling or zoomy binky machine. She came to me shorn and I’m so excited to see how her coat grows out.

[shovingdirtinmymouth]

somehow today was the first day that I was able to knit in a rocking chair and let me tell you guys that was a magical moment. I understand old ladies so much better now, like of course I want to sit in a rocking chair outside and watch the neighbors. These grandmothers were light years ahead with their thinking.

[cleverartcollection]

Embroidery project from fuck off ages ago I’ve had sitting in my drafts. Really do like this one, its kind of giving me faerie vibes.

[stitchposts]

This is so obvious it's almost petty to talk about, but it keeps happening so I am increasingly faced with needing to decide to bring it up. Can everyone who advocates for not reposting art and for crediting artists start bringing that same energy to photographs of traditional art? Especially fiber arts and sewing related things, due to very prolific scraping accounts that repost things from elsewhere on the internet here to tumblr and a few years ago stopped crediting the artists at all. They never asked permission, but credit has just dried up entirely and it's galling to see.

I know non fiber artists don't really have the experience to see this, but just like visual arts, fiber artists develop pretty clear styles. So if a blog is posting elaborate pieces of infamously time consuming arts that cover a wide range of styles, once or twice a day, with no credits or discussion of themselves as an artist - that shit's stolen as fuck.

It feels like I'm going insane sometimes because thousands of people who otherwise yell all day about how artists need to be credited, just think that sewing related photographs pop into existence without needing to be linked to the person that made them.

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Cross-stitch really does make you reconsider whether or not you understand basic maths. Like yeah, I know the difference between 4 and 5, definitely. Ignore me as I undo several stitches.

[holdonjiji]

New home for the Hermit Thrush

[amybugz]

forfeit all mortal possessions to the long-nose dogfish....

(he's available to buy in my shop now ! amybugs.bigcartel.com )

[samanthalanetextiles]

crochet carnation flowers in the colours of the trans flag 🏳️‍⚧️

[wifeofwolfman]

this was a lot of work! i think it might be the prettiest & strangest thing i've made yet. fyi it's felted wool on wire armature. the claws, teeth, and beak are painted modeling foam.

id: pictures of a needlefelted wool creature puppet. this creature is a chimera of flamboyant flamingo and majestic leopard. it's built bizarre and it has no apparent eyes. its torso is made of a leopard's face. the chin is its stomach, with a toothy maw yawning in its midsection. the torso-face's upper lip mimics the pecs of a chest, and attached to that is a set of strong arms with large paws. the cheeks of the torso-face mimic an addition chest, and attached to this is a set of wings. the creature has a second face. from the nose ridge of the torso-face stretches the neck, head, and beak of a flamingo, once again apparently eyeless. its coat is all bright pink with a paler pink undercoat and hundreds of purple spots. on the feathery wings, the spots elongate into rows of streaks. below its knees, its legs are purple with light lavender scales, its feet webbed, three-toed, and clawed. its tail is long, terminating in a feathery bouquet.

[fleshia]

“ Rat “ — filet crochet by me

[yarn-chicken]

💀 i made a skirt 💀

💀 inspired by the lost souls shawl 💀

[comfortfrogblog]

so i learned how to embroider

[vinylfoxbooks]

August 27 - Magazine  | @into-the-jeggyverse | wc: 540 Not super Jegulus centered but...

James picked up knitting and crocheting because it's something relatively mindless that occupies their hands. They don't do it at school or outside of the dorms (though it would help them get through their classes) aside from the occasional quidditch game they attend (though they usually get more distracted by the plays) because there's the whole thing where 'masculine people shouldn't do girly things like crocheting' and 'if you knit, you must be an old woman' and they don't want to have that spread around.

That being said, ever since they took up crochet and knitting, their childhood friend Remus has been the subject of many of their projects. Yes, they make things for themself -- especially in later years when they start experimenting with mesh shirts and layered clothing -- but the main person they make for is Remus.

James makes all of Remus's sweaters. They memorised a bunch of patterns that they know he likes, and they work with him to figure out colours that Remus wants. It's to the point where all of the sweaters and sweater vests in Remus' trunk were made by James, with the exception of one or two that friends have bought him, and Remus loves their sweaters. They're comfortable, made of a soft yarn, fit him just right no matter what, and they're more Remus than any store bought ones he can find (not to mention free, good quality sweaters aren't cheap and James lives making them for him).

Needless to say, whenever someone makes fun of Remus' sweaters or him for wearing them, he's always going to James to comfort them because they take any insults to their creations as an insult to them. There have been times when Remus has had to physically force James' hook or needles into their hands for them to pick up the hobby that they love so much again.

James' friends have just come to accept it, cone to understand that James is still paying attention to them even when it seems like they're focused on whatever project they're working on -- Remus and Regulus, after they started dating, will carry around balls of yarn, scissors, and a set of James' favourite sizes of hooks and needles in case they need a breather and they don't have their current WIP.

They make their friends things too, usually fun tank tops and amigurumis for the girls (skirts and dresses after Lily finds an old woman's pattern magazine for them), hair accessories for Sirius, random things that Pete, Barty, and Evan ask for. For Regulus, they've made him a sweater once but decided that they only want to make those for Remus, they'll make crochet flowers and blankets for him (because he's always cold) and Regulus loves it.

It just becomes a fact that James does fiber art, they love making things, and they now have a large audience for them to make for (which was always a struggle, they make things much faster than Remus could need them).

They later find out that Remus still has some of the first things that they made: ill-fitted, wonky things with weird tension that are falling apart both due to use and an inexperienced creator. That fact alone makes their heart swell.

[bearinarockingchair]

Nyanko Sensei

@ kymgardnerdesigns on Instagram helped me make this sweet Nyanko Sensei yarn bowl!! 🧶✨💖

[cozy-ghost-crafting]

I really enjoyed making this one for a coworkers birthday. She told me about how she makes little clay frogs and I knew I had to make this for her!

I was almost done, but I couldn't just leave the background white, so I added in the light blue with a half stitch. It really just pulled it all together for me.

18ct DMC Aida cloth with 2 strand DMC thread. Pattern found on Etsy Here

[lake-lady]

I wanted to document my homemade gifts for loved ones again this year! Top three are applique tapestries I made for 3 childhood friends, bottom left is a cross stitch I made for my partner's mom, and bottom middle/right are macrame tapestries (made identical ones for my mom and aunt)