#knitting guilds

[cindycintn]

Weaving Together Faith, History, and Community: A Journey Through With The Prayer Shawl Chronicles Series

Knitting, like faith, is about connection—binding threads together into something purposeful and lasting. In my series, The Prayer Shawl Chronicles, I’ve sought to link the threads of faith, fellowship, and ministry to others.

Knitting, like faith, is about connection—binding threads together into something purposeful and lasting. In my series, The Prayer Shawl Chronicles, I’ve sought to reflect that deep spiritual truth: that the threads of our lives, intertwined with faith and fellowship, create something beautiful and enduring. Each book in the series stands alone, much like the individual strands of yarn we use to…

[kottkrig]

"I enjoy playing the MMORPG called World of Warcraft" *immediately turns off trade chat, blocks guild invites, sets status as invisible, never enters voice chat, avoids group content as much as possible*

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Remember my TDF spin ?

She's turning into a shawl!

Bad Picture is Bad but I'm blaming the horrid red of the table for that

Pattern: Siren Shawl

[scarletstitchstudios]

Awkwardly posting this here knowing full well I didn't make a Tumblr. (Are there really any people online exclusively on this app and none of the other socials I made accounts for???)

https://campsite.bio/yarncosplayguild

[the-fibre-stuff]

Double teaching joys today!

A couple of the boys were watching me cast on for someone and decided that they needed to learn the cast on I used, because it was so fast. (I do the long tail cast on, the version where you hold the yarn in one hand and most of the motion is with the needle). I got the "wait, look what I just did, that's so cool" look TWICE from one of them as he figured it out.

And I had pulled up Ravelry to help one of the students look for something to make. (This kid has TAKEN to knitting, and was looking for a bit more of a challenge, and I goofed and returned the book with the pattern they were interested in to the library). I realised afterwards that I had been less clear than I probably ought to have about the fact that that wasn't a site for 12-year-olds. Given that I had an e-mail address for their mom, I dropped her a line to clarify and apologise. She replied with a huge thank you for teaching her kid to knit. They have taught her now, and the both of them knit together. (This kid really needed something productive and positive to do too, last I heard from the mom she was a bit worried about some of the decisions they were making.) I'm still smiling over this.

[mylittleredgirl]

my friend is obsessed with knitting gnomes and has knit up a whole gnome army by now. i texted her "you should call it gnitting" and she has left me on read for three weeks.

[unfinishedsweaters]

transgression!

[ongreenergrasses]

they have a knitting conference in my city and i am so tempted…

[rhydart]

Patchwork

An attack on Wattsy’s character, Granny Matthews

[gardenvarietycrafts]

NaKniCroMo Day 2: Goals

I've been putting a lot of thought into this, but I still don't really have a clear idea for what I want my goals for this month to be. O do, however, have some projects in mind for the somewhat immediate future, so I think my goal this month will be to make progress towards those. I'm trying to be reasonable for expectations for one month of crafting, so I'm keeping the list rather short, and just the things I have been actively planning/thinking of starting relatively soon.

Projects List:

Finish the sweater for my aprents' dog, Archie.

Weave a collar for Archie and possibly a leash to match.

Baby blanket (pink stash yarn, Southern Star tentatively chosen as the pattern)

Make some progress on the mitered square blanket

Of this list, I'm making the sweater for Archie non-optional, I will be finishing that this month.

Anyways, feel free to share your goals too! I'd love to hear what you all are working on this month!

[vaguegrant]

Going to my first knitting guild meeting tonight and I am surprisingly nervous about this. Despite having been invited by two very nice retired ladies in my church, and knowing I'm a new knitter who needs advice. Go figure.

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

I really hate crying. Easily one of the most annoying things my body when I have too much emotion and it spills over.

i made a little quiz. it has gentle wisdom to take with you. whatever i can give you is yours. love u. take the wisdom & run.

[nunchler]

every time i see trad gender roles people being weird about fibercraft i wanna tell them

-medieval and early modern knitting guilds were full of men learning and perfecting fancy knitting techniques to impress rich clients

-in cold, wet climates like the scottish highlands knitting was done by the whole family, in fact it was the perfect activity to do while a man was out on a fishing boat or in the pasture with his sheep and cattle

-men who were away from women for a long time had to know how to knit and sew at least well enough to mend their own clothes. soldiers knitted. sailors knitted. cowboys and frontiersmen knitted. vikings probably knitted (actually they would have been doing a kind of proto knitting called nalbinding, but that's beside the point). all those guys the far right love to treat as ultra masculine heroes were sitting around their barracks and campfires at night darning their socks and knitting themselves little hats

[botchallthethings]

dear adhd crafter friends

It can be good to make a list of all of your mostly-immediate craft projects because you may not realize that you have 15 things you are equally intending to finish next until you count them and realize there are 15 of those things, and that's why things are piling up and you feel like you're not getting anywhere

anyways those are just the projects that live three feet from my desk or less, so wish me luck as I embark on a project to finish the dang projects i already have instead of spending more money on acquiring a new hobby (supported spinning or wheel-spinning or natural dyeing). hopefully I can delay the hobbies on the wish list until at least Christmas

[sunsrefuge]

consider this the notification post (/joke) but im uhh gonna make a new guild eventually uvu

[ace-baker-rae]

Every time I go to a meetup for my fiber guild, they tell me how excited they are to have a young person. Every. Single. Time. And I'm not all that young (30's).

And they want to teach me everything. There are people who teach classes that cost hundreds of dollars at the local yarn shop, that have all but pinned me down to teach me the thing. I get first dibs on equipment they don't want anymore, at a discount, sometimes even free.

Every crafting type guild/group I've met is like this. Blacksmiths, fiber, quilting, hobby farming, the list goes on. And I get it, because now I feel the same way. I love when new people show up and say 'I don't know what I'm doing'.

Don't be afraid to go to these things, they will be thrilled to have you. And if they're not, they are an outlier adn should not be counted.

AJSJJDKSJD THE QUILTING SHOW MY GMA WANTS TO GO TO HAS A “FREE TICKET FOR UNDER 30s” IM!!!!! that’s SO funny ?? They wanna encourage young ppl SO much to get into quilting