#i knit because i like it

[kittyoverlord]

It's just different skills. This is about knowing the viscosity of the paint, color theory, moving the canvas smoothly, and having the correct set up - which here looks like a handmade jig.

Just because it looks easy doesn't mean it is, and your art is not better/worse because someone else has a different process.

Edit: not to mention the camera set up. Filming things in a way that people will enjoy is another skillset.

[noirandchocolate]

Several weeks ago one of my coworkers called me over into her cubicle and gave me a very unexpected gift. Her mother passed away recently, and she'd been packing stuff up at her condo to give to relatives and sell, so the home could be sold. The mother was an avid knitter and crocheter, and when my coworker came upon her stash of equipment, she told me, she "immediately thought of me as someone who might get some use out of it."

So, I have inherited a varied collection of knitting needles and crochet hooks, cable needles, sewing needles, and, best of all, now-out-of-print pattern books, mostly for blankets, because that was what this lady loved to make most. Plus, I also have a bunch of gauge swatches she made, pinned to little bits of card covered in perfect schoolteacher handwriting setting out the patterns they were made to test.

And also...

My coworker brought another bag, full of yarn and...knitted blanket squares. Her mother's last started project, before she got too sick to continue. And she asked if there was anything I could do with it.

It turned out, there are twelve completed squares, and I quickly located the pattern book they are from amid those given to me. It's a book of 60 patterns, meant to be put together however the maker wishes into blankets of 20 squares. I figured out which of the numbered patterns were already made, and selected eight more that I thought might go well with them.

So now! I am working on completing! My coworker's mother's last knitting project!

And I really am feeling very good about doing it.

[hotcinnamonsunset]

🎣lure me in, baby!

[ministarfruit]

day 10: love is devotion ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

[twoheartsoneclara]

ever since i was a little girl i always knew that i wanted to say to myself “im going to kill myself” whenever dealing with the slightest inconvenience

[uncanny-tranny]

You! Internalize that you do not always need to "improve your art/craft" now! It's great to learn and develop your skills, but you do not need to come from a place of hating where you are now! You certainly do not need to force yourself to improve if it is coming in between you and enjoying the things you do. Improvement for improvements sake does not have to be the only goal, nor the only one that "should matter"

You are allowed to have motifs, enjoyment, ameturism, and "less skill." Kill and devour the capitalist in your head that dictates that you must always improve for everybody else's sake and your "productivity."

[lazylittledragon]

i finally finished the blanket i’ve been knitting since january!!!! obviously the first thing i did was burrito myself in it and lay there for 10 minutes

[fennopunk]

It's kinda funny when someone sees me unravel a fiber project either partially or completely, and gets distressed on my behalf and I have to go "No no no, it's part of the process! You gotta trust the process."

[hoofpeet]

This is so silly but baby satyrs who r furry right up to the neck + have weirdly long arms (for proportional crawling) that they grow into when they get older. And the fur just kind of goes away. Ur baby is fucking shedding. Weird creepy sheep thing with human face. Sorry if this makes no sense it is very late where I am

YEAH that's what I was imagining... Satyr babies should be creepy little thangs.. Mostly b/c I like species having different concepts of what constitutes a Cute thing based on what their babies look like. Like a couple satyrs gathered around cooing over a new lamb and when you look it's a creepy little pink bug-eyed thing

[strawberryteabunny]

finally finished knitting these socks! The cable pattern has bunnies in it 🐇

Yarn is from Juniper Moon Farm, Herriot Fine yarn in the color ‘timber wolf’ (75/25 baby alpaca/nylon). Needles are size 0 wooden needles from lykke. Bunny cables are from ‘Bunny Sock Hop’ by Ann Clark on Ravelry

[icterid-rubus]

I wanted to make some kilt hose for the Highland Games but could only manage a single ho 😔

Guess I could hop.

[sea-changed]

A nominally useful but mostly just-for-fun little project, using wool from the Shetland Islands kindly brought back for me by a family friend this summer. The pattern is Beeswax Mitts by Amy van de Laar on Ravelry.

[genericminecraftpotato]

doing crafty things (knitting, crochet, sewing, etc) is so awesome actually because the other day i was at a craft fair with my friend and this one stall was selling a sweatshirt with granny squares and i casually pointed it out to my friend and the woman running the shop was so excited that i (a young person) even knew what that was and i don’t know where i was going with this but i think it’s really cool when i get to connect with people i don’t know and will never see again over little things like granny squares or sweaters or just the act of creating things to create

[localcoffeeshop]

BACK AGAIN with a variety art dump

[juustozzi]

random headcanon: Aoyama likes to knit but he's pretty self-conscious about it, so for the longest time Ichino was the only one to know about his hobby.

(this was inspired by a sudden need to try to knit some kind of inazuma mittens, colorwork is always a struggle for me but I think they turned out nice! and one person who knows inazuma already recognized them as a fandom design so that's another plus)

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

my OTHER toxic knitting trait is ignoring gauge entirely for plushies and being pleasantly surprised by the creacher's final size when it's done