#g/t vibes

[seraphinxxa]

so… @a3th4r_ on tiktok made this video of shallow water mer izuku and 🤩

there’s so many people in the comments finding this concept adorable and im js sitting here quietly like babes if u only knew all the g/t content on tumblr 😭

[fun-littlescribbles]

[giant-tiny-fiber-friends]

Nalbinding in G/T

Fiber Arts | Knitting | Crochet | Sewing

Honestly, this was the post I was most excited to make when I started this blog! I haven't seen many people talking about nalbinding, as it's not as widely known, but I think it could be a dark horse g/t fiber art.

The name nalbinding comes from Danish, literally meaning needle binding. It's a way to produce fabric from short pieces of wool yarn, using a large and blunt sewing needle-shaped tool to create stitches looped through one another. Tension can be kept over the thumb or the needle itself, and when torn or worn down, the fabric will not unravel!

It predates knitting and crochet by many centuries, although in form it is most similar to the latter. One stitch is worked at a time by running the needle through the working loops and the ever-growing fabric. There are many types of stitches with differing densities, tensions, and functions. Like crochet, nalbinding is very good for making things with odd or circular shapes, like socks or mittens or hats.

Nalbinding came into my radar when someone adjacent to my crafting circles asked about it, and I fell down the rabbit hole. It's still a relatively new craft to me, but it's gotten me so excited by the idea of sharing this with the g/t community!

For a brief history and demonstration of nalbinding (mostly to keep this post from being entirely too long) I highly recommend this short video. It certainly piqued my interest when I first heard of nalbinding!

The Potential

Nalbinding would be one of the easiest crafts to maintain by a tiny or a giant, in my opinion! For one thing, it's designed to use shorter amount of yarn at a time compared to knitting or crochet, which could be handy in environments of scarce wool sourcing (like a giant or tiny scavenging for materials). Wool would be ideal, since the fibers at the end of the yarn can easily be felted together in order to join a new strand, but it could likely be done with any fiber available.

The needles would be easy to come by as well since they can be made of wood, antler, or bone. So long as those materials are around, one can make a long, wide, and flat needle to use!

There are also more open-weave forms of nalbinding that could be great for mesh fabrics! Great for hunting/fishing for more outdoorsy giants/tinies, or bags for carrying larger items made with more conservative amounts of materials. Here's a tutorial video of someone using this looping style of nalbinding with plant fibers:

Nalbinding is a newer craft for me, and I'm still taking time to learn more about it! The project I have on the needle right now is going to be a small pouch-style bag; I'm not working from a proper pattern, sort of using the intuition I've learned from crochet to start a circular shape for the base, and now I'm working up the straight sides. It's still in the early stages, so it resembles a shallow bowl more than anything at the moment, but it's coming along!

This is definitely more of a ramble than previous posts at this point, but this is a craft I don't see talked about a ton and I more so wanted to put in on the g/t community radar to hopefully get a conversation started! Let me know if this sparks interest, I'd love to see other ideas for the g/t potential with this fiber art!

[the-borrower1]

G/t feels

[moonbeam-mothling]

Yet another cool oversized item to add to my wish list, the giant bobber cooler ;-;

[smolgloves]

Are there any songs that give you guys G/t vibes or lyrics to a song that make you thing about G/t?

Tell my the lyric or song and tell me why it gives you a g/t vibe, I'm very curious which songs makes us think about gt. 😊

[sugacoco77]

Thinking about g/t things that I grew up with. As a Canadian that grew up in the early 2000s I instantly remembered the house hippo. I wonder if a tiny/borrower could befriend them? or what if a giant found, not only a tiny person living in their house but also a house hippo, how would they react?

[tinylittlepolly]

[okbutwhy-rebooted]

[entomolog-t]

This might be really niche. But I dont care; perfumes with G/t vibes

Innocence - Poesie : Floral Gourmand. Would describe as candied flowers. Very fae/mystical creature. Tiny vibes.

Fresh Cream Warm Cashmere - Philosophy : Cozy gourmand. Smells like comfort. While this one personally gives me "loving and doting Giant vibes" I would describe it as sitting in the pocket of your significant other, you can smell the sweetness of a drink on their breath. It's such a comforting scent.

By the Fireplace - Replica : Smokey, woody with slight gourmand notes. This is very much "Lonely Giant who lives in the woods." Comforting and outdoorsy.

Silken Tent - Alkemia : How skin ought to smell. Could not tell you the notes. Sensual and intimate. Giant(ess) vibes. Nuzzled against the bosom of an ethereal being. There's a powerfulness to it. Something about this one is so intimate it feels inappropriate to wear casually. One of my most complicated perfumes.

Twice to Tea - Poesie : Earl Gray/London fog. Smells more sweet and creamy a little while after dry down. Very similar vibes to Fresh Cream Warm Cashmere. Feels very "Giant" with the vibe being snug in the pocket of a Giant while they sip on a drink.

Milk - Commodity : Warm and Spicey Gourmand. Sexy Giant. That's it. It's a flirty and powerful scent. Gives cat and mouse vibes. Like a Giant blurring the lines between flirting and fearplay. This is my street stopper perfume. I've had so many strangers stop me to ask what I'm wearing.

Radiant Nectar - Clean Reserve : Light and Fresh. Could not tell you the precise notes. Tiny vibes. Just an outdoor borrower bathing in the sunlight.

[tiny-brain]

I try to be funny, it normally doesn’t work out

[seraphinxxa]

klance g/t art from a cannibal keith au by @_slvx0 on tiktok !

[a-chaotically-small-lunta]

Okay okay listen

Bug fables

It’s like Paper Mario but with lil insects and the whole world is in a backyard and it’s just so cool

[giant-tiny-fiber-friends]

Crochet in G/T

Fiber Arts in G/T | Knitting in G/T

Unlike knitting, I don't know of any examples of crochet in g/t media, but I am also not all-knowing, so feel free to add to the conversation if there's an example out there! In the meantime, I'll just give a brief overview of the craft, and go straight to how I think it could be used in g/t settings, and real life examples that give me g/t vibes.

Crochet is the art of turning yarn into fabric using a single hooked tool. In contrast to knitting, which involves several live stitches on the needles worked one after another in a row, crochet is worked one stitch at a time. It's a lot younger than knitting, so it's taken a bit to build up to a similar level of popularity, but it's quite versatile!

The Potential

I'm surprised that there aren't more examples of crochet in g/t since one needs only one tool and some yarn! I can see giants carving down some tough wood into a workable tool easily enough. Tinies could be similarly resourceful with building materials, maybe bending some wire into a hook they can use. Depending on the size of the tiny, they might even be able to use the broken-off ends of steel crochet hooks, which are used for exceptionally fine work (more on that later).

It is also possible to crochet even without a tool! This is probably more feasible for tinies than giants, depending on how well they can source yarn, since this skill is easier to achieve when using chunkier-weight yarn. The nature of crochet, working one stitch at a time, makes this much easier to achieve using just your fingers than knitting!

Crochet is also good for odd shapes since they can be achieved using only the same tool as you'd need to make any old rectangle! This is why it's popular to make dolls and toys using crochet, and the relatively more sturdy nature of the knotted stitches makes it good for practical use in baskets as well.

Real Life G/T Vibes

Similarly to knitting, I get tiny vibes from things made with big, chunky yarn. I also love that it's easy to make baskets and bags with crochet; being able to easily create something practical like that seems like an important skill for tinies!

Super Chunky Hexagon Cardigan by Michelle Greenberg via Ravelry.com

And from the giant side of things, there's actually a much bigger micro-crochet trend than there is in knitting! Those extra-fine steel hooks I mentioned earlier come in handy for it, along with thread thin enough to use with them. It's easy enough to use any old crochet pattern and make it super teeny tiny, and plenty of people do!

Please do let me know if there are examples of crochet in g/t media that I'm not aware of! And if you're interested in more conversations like this, please join our discord channel!

[the-borrower1]

How Tilt Shift Photography Works

[moonbeam-mothling]

“I feel like a kitten being cradled by a gorilla” has lived in my mind rent free ever since first seeing this scene in The Office US