#people knitting

[imaginarycircus]

I found all these images under #people knitting ?

Photos are captioned and there is nothing more, but if you find crochet orgies offensive skip this post.

[dandy-daisylion]

every time someone says ‘oh, you knit? do you like it?’ i have the marrow-deep urge to tenderly take their face in my hands and press my lips to their eyelids and telepathically transmit the full overwhelming awareness that i carry just beneath my skin every moment of every day of how important fiber crafts and textiles are and historically have been to humanity. every stitch i work is a thousand billion stitches that have already been worked and will be worked in the future, from the farthest reaches of prehistory until time immemorial. every spindle i spin is spun with the same flick of uncountable fingers from ages past, all united across history in the deceptively simple movement that has shaped history, and art, is the context within which every single person on earth has ever lived their life and lives their lives still. everything from our phones to our homes is given shape and form by the overlooked but utterly important textile arts.

‘of fucking course i like knitting, you jackass,’ i say gently. ‘i wouldn’t do it otherwise.’

[blorbopolis]

"My own city feels new to me, now that I share it with you." "Probably because I make you put down your quill once in a while and enjoy it."

or "get dressed loser we're going to dinner"

[obsob]

happy and proud!!

✷(print shop)✷

[theshadowrealmitself]

*notices I have more stitches than I’m supposed to*

…

……

*knits 2tog and moves on with my life*

[inkskinned]

the rise of AI art isn't surprising to us. for our entire lives, the attitude towards our skills has always been - that's not a real thing. it has been consistently, repeatedly devalued.

people treat art - all forms of it - as if it could exist by accident, by rote. they don't understand how much art is in the world. someone designed your home. someone designed the sign inside of your local grocery store. when you quote a character or line from something in media, that's a line a real person wrote.

"i could do that." sure, but you didn't. there's this joke where a plumber comes over to a house and twists a single knob. charges the guy 10k. the guy, furious, asks how the hell the bill is so high. the plumber says - "turning the knob was a dollar. the knowledge is the rest of the money."

the trouble is that nobody believes artists have knowledge. that we actively study. that we work hard, beyond doing our scales and occasionally writing a poem. the trouble is that unless you are already framed in a museum or have a book on a shelf or some kind of product, you aren't really an artist. hell, because of where i post my work, i'll never be considered a poet.

the thing that makes you an artist is choice. the thing that makes all art is choice. AI art is the fetid belief that art is instead an equation. that it must answer a specific question. Even with machine learning, AI cannot make a choice the way we can - because the choices we make have always been personal, complicated. our skills cannot be confined to "prompt and execution." what we are "solving" isn't just a system of numbers - it is how we process our entire existence. it isn't just "2 and 2 is 4", it's staring hard at the numbers and making the four into an alligator. it's rearranging the letters to say ow and it is the ugly drawing we make in the margin.

at some point, you will be able to write something by feeding my work into a machine. it will be perfectly legible and even might sound like me. but a machine doesn't understand why i do these things. it can be taught preferences, habits, statistical probability. it doesn't know why certain vowels sound good to me. it doesn't know the private rules i keep. it doesn't know how to keep evolving.

"but i want something to exist that doesn't exist yet." great. i'm glad you feel creative. go ahead and pay a fucking artist for it.

this is all saying something we all already knew. the sad fucking truth: we have to die to remind you. only when we're gone do we suddenly finally fucking mean something to you. artists are not replicable. we each genuinely have a skill, talent, and process that makes us unique. and there's actual quiet power in everything we do.

[buumbaby]

its getting cold

[monsterbutch]

[ninoochat]

this came to me in a dream

[the-sea-anemone]

unexpected advantage of working in a senior's residence is that when i wear a sweater that i knit to work, all the little old ladies are very impressed with me

[uncanny-tranny]

Something that amuses me between knitters and crocheters is this... almost humble nature each craft has about the other. I couldn't imagine how one would knit, and I know some of the basics - and yet, I have met so many knitters who say crochet is impossible, and yet I find it to be so simple. There's just something charming about when one recognizes just how much skill, effort, patience, and care go into a craft, and to be humbled by just how incredible human ingenuity and creativity are

[buttercupdemise]

hey. every guy needs his fun little activities

[bebemoon]

look for the name EVIE (requestd by @blubbingbeautifully) | wildfox soft pink angel-wing knit jumper w/ baby pink ruffle-hem midi skirt from the "into the wild" lookbook ("daydream" 2o13 pre-fall collection), free people: we the free "dusty" leather buckle boots in brown, la ma r shell hair barrettes, orris water "kindred" eau de parfum ("a nostalgic vintage leather scent, saffron and amber marry the green notes of vetiver, warmed mossy trees with a hint of tonka bean"), lulie wallace "pleasing poppies" sleeping bag

[sunnylolli]

I've picked up crochetting again and it reminded me I have a half-finished drawing of Alfred stress-knitting in meetings.

But it's only something he picked up during covid, so when meetings are physical again, you can just hear the needles aggressively clacking together and Alfred's expertise is just making very long scarves because he doesn't wanna branch out, he just wants to make angry-scarves and angry-blankets.

[autisknitt]

"Find a local knitting club, get involved in a nearby fiber arts guild!" Everything I've found online hasn't been active since 2020 💀

[enbysiriusblack]

remus sees himself as a wolf in sheep's clothing, and the other marauders see him as a sheep in wolf's clothing