#i know it's crochet

[gottalovecatss]

[larkiethings]

so today at work one of my coworkers hands me a box

I have no context for this. He’s a 50? 60? Year old plumber who tends to walk into the office, tell a dad joke, and leave. I’ve just arrived at work and am still putting my purse away. So he hands me this box and says it comes with instructions. I open it and unfold this

He says his great grandma probably made it

This pansy is the tiniest pocket in the world

It could use some blocking after who knows how many years in the box but look at these sweet little pansies!

The pattern was clearly typed on a typewriter, several pages of it. I guess this was an apron specifically for having your friends over for tea.

I just happened to be wearing a skirt that kind of goes with it, so I did wear it all day (it’s a @mayakern skirt!) and another friend said I look like I should be living in a shoe. Perhaps as some sort of mouse girl making pastries for the other woodland creatures. But uhhhhh what an incredible heirloom piece to just be handed. It’s probably twice as old as I am. I’m definitely going to bring it to stitch circle this week

[tuesdaygray]

unblocked crochet snoopy by me

[xensilverquill]

Let's offer flowers, pour a cup of libation, split open the skies and start anew on creation.

first draft of a pattern for this sweet little libation vessel i saw in a museum the other weekend

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Apparently, some companies now are labeling mass-produced crochet items with "machine crocheted" to justify selling an entire granny square vest for 14 bucks.

1. Machines cannot crochet.

2. Knitting machines, to my knowledge, cannot make granny squares.

3. Even if there was a machine that could crochet, 14 bucks for an entire fucking vest is still too low to be paying people a livable wage basically anywhere in the world.

4. It takes me, a very fast crocheter, about twenty minutes to make one granny square in a single color with five rows. Multi-color granny squares take more time. I'll say 30 minutes. Next time you see a granny square anything in a big box store, count one row of squares and multiply by 20 (for single color squares) or 30 (multicolor squares). Then consider that it's skilled labor which should have an hourly wage you can live on. Then look at the price tag. This is Victorian piece work poor shit going on.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

he's squeaky toy. to me.

[zivazivc]

Crochet lessons (Who is teaching who?) + Rainbow yarn of fate

[dailypokemoncrochet]

I say this a lot lately but dang this one ended up way bigger than normal, but also this time it's very fitting.

[ancient-art-of-craft]

Quilter's Dilemma

A phenomenon I made up where you have a talent that takes so much time to produce something, that you can't sell it anymore. There's a market for handmade quilts, obviously, they're beautiful and warm and wonderful, but no one would be willing to pay the amount of money that is required to properly compensate the artist.

I don't quilt, but the raw materials to make a couple of pairs of mittens is $70 for some nice wool. But the hours required to make them is roughly two seasons of Criminal Minds, and some Doctor Who episodes with my family. Those are 45 minute episodes. Minimum wage in my state is around $11.

No one is willing to pay several hundred dollars for a couple of pairs of mittens, no matter how warm and detailed they are. Especially if I'm not a master knitter, which I'm not, and they're bound to have mistakes in them.

So we loop back around to giving them as gifts, and instead ask nothing in return.

If someone gives you something they handmade this Christmas, cherish it.

[plusie]

🐈‍⬛ - grey n green cats w/ fire !

[lazylittledragon]

finished the base for my isobel robes but at what cost

[wordfather]

getting into a new hyperfixation unlocks a secret powerful emotion called Autism Rules

[littleulvar]

last year I made crochet plushies of mine and @ronkoza’s dnd characters ✨

(body shape loosely based off of @i-crochet-things’s pattern, the rest was freehanded)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Barnaby from last stream! he's. Yeah <3

[feeling--pink]

I know this isn’t my usual content but I thought some of you might appreciate my Ducky Momo pinafore dress (just finished today!) :)

A little bit of process stuff under the cut!

Here’s my concept! I ended up just using cotton for all the features and haven’t had the chance to add the duck feet pockets yet (and I’m not planning on doing that until October lol I’m done with sewing for a bit)

My pattern piece for the face!! I did a lot of measuring and I know the face ended up a little on the high side but I still like it :)

Here’s some process shots of the face before it was done + before it was attached to the skirt! Adding that line of darker orange thread between the upper and lower beak was EXACTLY what it needed!

And that’s it! I’m not the best at remembering to take process pictures I just go go go skfjdjk

[uncanny-tranny]

Another bonus to learning a fiber art is being able to speak to others in a Lovecraftian language that nobody else understands...

...and also being able to read things like THIS: