#punch needle -> crochet -> knitting -> quilting??? -> ?????????

[amongthezinnias]

I NEED to learn how to quilt, I need it in my soul…

[notso-daily-six-writing]

Random ass headcanon to get me back into this fandom

- Cathy’s back always hurts because she sits like a shrimp while writing or focusing on stuff.

- Kat, despite being great at baking, cannot fry any food for her LIFE. Like, cakes = amazing results, cookies = so tasty to the point that the cookie jar was empty the next day, bread = succeed the first try. but frying? omlette = scrambled eggs, nuggets = burnt, fried fish = burnt fish.

- Anna have realized she’s gay since the 16th century.

- Jane can crochet, Knit, cross stitch, needle punching, macrame, quilt and any other textile art. And despite barely able to read,she can read knitting and crochet patterns.

- Anne sometimes speaks only in French to bother everyone.

- Lina has a sword collection, both fake and real.

- Mary, despite acting mean to everyone, won’t say nor do anything mean to her mother.

- Elizabeth, when asked why she never married, just answered “why fall in love when you can fall asleep”.

- Edward like to go out and skateboard with Anna and Kat.

[plethomacademia]

this is an invitation to infodump about your hobbies i want to know more about them and what brings you joy about them

Buckle up kids.

There's the one you see: writing. There's the related one: reading. Also the fanfic related one: gaming. Those are the known entities.

I am also really big into what my partner calls "soft works," aka hobbies that involve soft materials like yarn, thread, fabric.

I have been knitting for over 25 years, crocheting for 15.

I cross stitch, I embroider (a little, I am not as good), I do sashiko.

I mend mine and my partner's clothes when I can.

I have a sewing machine and make some of my own clothes because I am now a 2X in US sizing which means nothing except straight sizes tend to exclude me and plus sizes tend to run out of my stuff, so I just make my own now. It also means I think hard about what clothes I actually need.

I have a rigid heddle loom and have just started getting into weaving. I have made nothing successfully but I am taking a couple classes in June. I long term really want to try a floor loom.

I want to learn everything. I have done some needle felting, want to do more. I want to learn enough leather working to make bags. I want to learn punch needle. I want to do some quilting.

The only fabric art I think I do not want to do is dying but there is a dye studio in Philly that I plan to take a class at long term to see if I am wrong actually.

I also never plan to do spinning. My friend does spinning. I have seen how spinners end up with tons of yarn. I pride myself on keeping my craft supplies pretty tight, mostly because I have too many hobbies not to, so I am happy to just buy yarn made by other talented spinners.

I also really want to try pottery but that's another conversation entirely.

[crafty-gamer]

A crafting community for all types of crafty people.

[naturalhistorymuseums]

i want to make art!!!! i want to make woodcuts and linocuts and quilts and large scale soft sculpture and embroidery and knit things and crochet and make clothes and paint and journal and draw and write and learn instruments and cook and bake and sculpt and needle felt and do punch needle and weave and make braided rugs and research and make art!! and make bad art for the sake of making art! i want to find fulfillment through making!

[tofuingho]

No wants any of my craft supplies. Does anyone know where I can donate them?

I have a box of acrylic paints, cheap brushes, and a few small canvases. Some crochet hooks, knitting needles, a set of looms, a loopdeloom, a LOT of yarn, and a book or two.

Oh, and some embroidery stuff. An embroidery punch pen, a couple of bags of embroidery floss, a hoop or two, and a book.

I think that's- oh wait. A bit of fabric from when I was trying to quilt.

I'm still trying to decide if I want to give up my pompom makers and scalloped pinking shears.

[kafashionsofficial]

Fashion Tips: Designing at Home

Sew a patchwork quilt with Next in Fashion’s Daniel Fletcher

Creative director and star of Netflix’s Next in Fashion, Daniel W Fletcher has plenty to get on with while in social isolation, designing a collection for Fiorucci as well as one for his own brand. In his down time, he is taking up a DIY challenge to make a patchwork quilt based on a dress he made during the filming of Next in Fashion, using other designers’ leftover scraps. The design – inspired by concerns over the melting polar ice caps – is an arctic landscape.

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“Ever since the show, I’ve been inundated with requests to make similar quilted items, so I thought this was a good opportunity to show people how they can do so themselves.

“You can make it from any leftover fabrics you have. This time, I used some leftover damaged denim from my studio as the quilt base. I don’t imagine everyone has that lying around so use what you have.

“Heavier is better for the base so it can hold the appliqué – maybe some old curtains or an existing blanket that needs some love. If you don’t have enough to do a blanket, you could use the same technique to make a cushion. For the appliqué, it could be old clothes, tablecloths, tea towels – anything you can get your hands on.

“I went quite abstract with my pattern, but you could come up with a more elaborate design.

“Mine took me five hours on a sewing machine. You could hand sew it instead. It’s going to be a much longer process but could be very therapeutic, which is something we could all do with right now.”

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Difficulty level: intermediate Equipment needed: an old blanket (or similar), scraps of fabrics, thread and needle

How to:

“For the nitty-gritty, head over to my Instagram – my wonderful sister captured the whole process.”

A post shared by DANIEL w. FLETCHER (@danielwfletcher) on Mar 27, 2020 at 12:52pm PDT

Crochet a small rug with menswear designer Liam Hodges

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Liam Hodges has recently moved house, so his time in self isolation has been spent unpacking and making rugs.

“I learnt to crochet last October and have found it really relaxing. For our AW20 collection, we crocheted a lot of squares as embellishments. I’ve kept it up and even tried to make a skipping rope when I first went into isolation.

“I had been wanting to make some rag rugs and started working out how to crochet graphics into them. I made the graphic in Photoshop so that each pixel represented each crochet stitch.

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“I thought doormat-size was perfect. I have mine by the door to remind me to keep positive and take the [government] advice about staying in seriously.

“It took me around two and a half hours to complete and is made up of old, shredded T-shirts for the coloured section and yarn made using Wool and the Gang offcuts for the main black areas, so it is entirely made from waste.”

Difficulty level: intermediate Equipment needed: an old T-shirt, a crochet hook, yarn and scissors

How to:

“Use our how-to digital zine on Instagram, which has the pattern as well as instructions on how to crochet.”

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Sew a shark mascot with designer Christopher Raeburn

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Designer Christopher Raeburn’s team are adapting to the current situation by releasing weekly creative tasks via their #RaeburnAtHome initiative.

“This project is to make one of our shark mascots. We have always featured animals in our collections, initially as a way to highlight and support endangered species through our WWF UK partner. The Shark is one of our most popular animals; we keep it in our collections each season, but it always evolves.

“You need no more than one square metre of fabric – even less if you are conscious of pattern placement for waste reduction. Using a variety of smaller cuts of fabric is encouraged though as this adds pops of colour and texture to the final shark.

“Not only is reusing and repurposing old fabric a more interesting way of working, but extending the lifetime of garments is instrumental in reducing planetary impact. When people are spending more time at home than ever before, now is the chance to pull out those bits that we no longer use and give them new life.

“Unless you are an absolute master, it should keep you busy for about 10 hours. We only recommend a sewing machine for ease and speed – top marks for effort go to anyone tackles it by hand.”

Difficulty level: advanced Equipment needed: a sewing machine, fabric, scissors, thread and paper.

How to:

Sew a kimono-inspired garment with designer Edward Crutchley

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Designer Edward Crutchley’s lockdown aim is to set himself a project each day. His first was to cut a pattern for and sew a one-piece kimono-inspired garment. Next up is making miniature sculptures of the kings and queens of England using modelling clay.

“How to make Japanese clothes by John Marshall is a book I have on my shelf that I thought it would be great to lose myself in during isolation.

“I love traditional Japanese clothing and now is the perfect time to study. What I love about kimonos is that they are traditionally dictated by the fabric – they are the width they are because that is how wide the looms could weave. For a fabric geek like me, that’s a dream.

“A traditional kimono pattern looks like some different-length rectangles put together, but nothing is ever that simple and it takes a lot of skill to construct a traditional kimono properly. The one I made is much, much easier.

“I used three metres of fabric left over from the last collection, but you could make it with two metres if it’s 150cm wide, or you can easily add seams to the patterns or patchwork fabrics together. Repurposing old curtains or a bed sheet would be perfect.

“It took me around four hours to complete – there are only three seams and three hems. I tried to make it as simple as possible.”

Difficulty level: advanced Equipment needed: a sewing machine, two to three metres of fabric, thread, scissors, paper and dressmaking pins.

How to:

“The pattern I made is available to download for free here. The step-by-step sewing guide is saved on my Instagram highlights.”

Make a shrunken crisp-packet necklace with Tatty Devine

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While social distancing, Rosie Wolfenden and Harriet Vine, the designers behind Tatty Devine jewellery, are doing daily making challenges.

“It’s amazing for your mental health and the perfect antidote to these strange and unsettling times. This so-called shrinky necklace is something we did as kids. We first made one as Tatty Devine in 2001. It was very early days, when we made jewellery from whatever we could get our hands on. We enjoyed having to eat crisps.”

Difficulty level: beginner Equipment needed: old crisp packets (not foiled or metallic, such as Chipsticks or many supermarket own brands); a chain necklace (whether new or something you already own); greaseproof paper, a baking tray, a damp tea towel (for safety reasons), an old tea towel, a hole punch, a regular jump ring and two pairs of flat-nose pliers.

How to:

Set your grill to medium.

While the grill is warming, fold the greaseproof paper to make it into rough envelope shapes and pop your empty food packets inside – one wrapper per envelope.

Put the envelopes on a baking tray under the grill. The packet will start to shrink and curl up. You don’t want them to burn or blister so watch closely.

As soon as they are shrunken enough, remove the baking tray, quickly place a folded tea towel on top of the envelope and slam your hand down to flatten your “shrinky”.

Use a hole punch to make a hole somewhere on the packet.

Open a regular jump ring with the pliers and thread the packet on to the jump ring, then put the jump ring on to the necklace and close it.

You can stop with one pendant or layer up for a charm effect.

Knit a scarf with dancer Meshach Henry

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Despite having no previous knitting experience, dancer Meshach Henry has made three scarves in as many days, documented on Instagram by his partner, the Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw.

“I always said I would learn a new skill like plumbing or plastering if I ever had a lot of time on my hands. But they aren’t ideal skills to practice in this current situation. So, having seen knitting supplies in a craftshop window recently, I thought, ‘Here’s my new hobby.’

“I purchased a thick wool because it looked easier to use and less fiddly. I bought 10mm knitting needles, which I thought were an average size but later found out are strangely big – but I’m really happy with the chunky effect they produce.

“What I like about knitting is that you can see your physical product. As a dancer, I rarely get to see my own work, so to be able to see and hold this tangible thing is a whole new world for me.

“My intention is to move on to knitting jumpers. I want to create a matching jumper for every scarf, just to keep things interesting.”

Difficulty level: beginner Equipment needed: knitting needles and wool

How to:

“I taught myself by watching an eight-minute Knitting for Total Beginners tutorial on YouTube. The tutorial taught me how to cast on in the first instance. Then there are follow-up links to a second video that teaches you how to change knitting style and how to cast off.”

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Make drinking glasses with former British Vogue fashion director Lucinda Chambers

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Lucinda Chambers is co-founder of fashion brand Colville and online shopping platform Collagerie and was fashion director at British Vogue for 25 years.

“I was in Paris six months ago having a glass of water in the Bon Marché and I noticed the glass looked suspiciously like the end of a wine bottle.” When Chambers investigated she found a world of home crafters making their own tumblers from pre-used wine bottles.

“I found an inexpensive kit on Amazon,” she says. “Each glass is a labour of love as I sand them by hand; it’s strangely therapeutic.”

Difficulty level: medium Equipment needed: empty glass bottles, a glass cutter kit (available online, for instance from Amazon).

How to:

“The kit has everything you need to make the glasses: a stand, saw and markers that you place on the empty bottle at the height you require your finished glass to be. You can make French-style low tumblers or something taller. Once you’ve cut the bottle you need to sand the cut edge smooth.”

The internet is full of videos, such as this one, that show you more details.

This content was originally published here.

[shaebay]

Random Fact Friday

I was tagged by @styro to post 6 random facts about myself - 1. I dream very vividly every night. Many times when I wake up I have to reorient myself into reality because I get so into my dreams and accept them as truth. Sometimes I’ll have a memory and realize it was from a dream and didn’t actually happen. 2. My favorite physical feature is my eyebrows, especially since they require zero work to look good. I used to tweeze them, but I stopped doing any kind of maintenance on them about 3 years ago. On Monday a tinder match’s opening line was to tell me that I had really great eyebrows. 😂 3. I am chronically 15+ minutes early every place I go. The only exception is work, where I only show up 5 minutes early so I can make coffee before I turn on the front lobby and office lights at 7. 4. My favorite hobby is collecting new hobbies. I will try anything and everything under the sun. I have tried so many crafts (cross stitch, quilting, knitting, crochet, punch needle, needle felting, latch hook, sewing, button making, etc). I have never met a craft I didn't want to try. I also delve into other weird hobbies like home brewing, weird fitness things, and so on. 5. I'm okay being alone and always have been. I will gladly go to a movie by myself or out to dinner by myself. It's more rare to be with someone than alone. 6. My ears are uneven, which means when I get new glasses I have to bend one of the arms a lot so they sit even on my face. Tagging: Everyone that hasn't done it. Yes, that means you!

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[tenleys]

Start Here

In my childhood bedroom, tucked away on the top shelf of the closet, sit two tubs of knit and crochet swatches. Somewhere, a skinny blue-green strip is smooshed next to a vibrant variegated hat created by folding a rectangle together, tiny crochet doll coats, and fuzzy squares of fabric created with novelty yarn. This strip, all of 4 inches, was the start of my knitting career. 

 The contents of that jam packed box are all a part of my knitting and crochet beginnings. They mark the phase where I explored texture by using fluffy, muppet-like yarn, the phase where I explored creating doll clothes, and then moved on to creating my own toys, fuzzy rectangular monsters with felt teeth and embroidered eyes. In the beginning, I created rectangles. I moved on to shape, gradually learning to increase and decrease, expanding the scope to curved pieces and hats that went beyond the rectangle folded in half. The boxes hold evidence of my early forays into cables, honeycomb stitch, and eyelet lace.

The early projects are crammed in a box because they no longer have immediate use. I don’t need a bright turquoise doll coat with faux-fur trim in my dorm room, but it stays in my possession as a reminder. I went through a phase where I treated these boxes as the skeleton in my closet, embarrassing attempts at something that I was far better at now. I scorned the fluffy yarns, the synthetic fiber, and the hats so large, no one could wear them. Now that I knew better, I reasoned, the rectangle-based curriculum of the early years was something to avoid.

And so I knitted on, growing in skill until I forgot what it was like to begin, laughing at that beginner self. But eventually, I came around. I’d pull out the boxes every so often and remember my intentions for the swatches, the blanket I’d wanted to start, the joy I found in that ridiculous variegated blue-green-yellow rectangle hat. Instead of seeing the mistakes, I recalled the excitement of doing a new thing. Even though I moved on to learn two color stranded knitting, rather than how to hold one strand of yarn with two needles, I began to appreciate the younger me that made mistakes and ugly things with oblivion, excited, rather than ashamed, of the puffy scarves and endless, endless rectangles. I used to blithely knit with whatever crunchy acrylic yarn that I could find, rather than worry about using something more prestigious, like 100% wool.

Now, even further removed from my periods of beginning, rejecting old work, and then appreciating it more, I see that creating anything requires a start, and sometimes a willfully bad one. Or at least, a bit of embracing the act of putting on blinders to perfection. I am older and more self conscious now, and rather than laugh at little, eager me, I admire that trial and error. I had no fear, I didn’t see any difference in what I was knitting with my burgundy acrylic with what the authors of knitting books were creating with silk and mohair. I have realized that recently, my creative output has been stifled, and a lot of that has to do with fear of beginning. I want to share my artwork with others, and I want to try new artistic mediums. A couple of takeaways from my early start with knitting stand out:

1.Get unstuck from the need for perfection. If I wait until my work is perfect to share it, I will wait forever.

2.Firsts will look (or sound) like firsts. There will be mistakes, there will be established conventions that I break because I either don’t know about them, or don’t think they apply.

3. Be excited. I don’t need to downplay how thrilled I am with a project. Just because my first quilt doesn’t look like someone’s 43rd quilt doesn’t mean my work is less valuable.

4. Be nice to yourself. This means no going back and laughing at first blog posts, first paintings, or first projects. It can mean admiring how much I’ve grown, though.

5. Try weird stuff. The whole “Do things like nobody's watching” phrase is so overused, and I have conflicting feelings. It is fun to have people watch sometimes, it’s motivating and gives me a sense of accountability. But when the audience becomes more important than the actual making, the making suffers from repetitiveness. So throw the weird beginnings out into the world alongside the polished work.

6. Don’t apologize for trying. The things I make and the thoughts I share are valid. There is a difference between being critical of my work so that I can improve it, and being critical of my work so that I can beat others to the punch. Rejection of my favorite painting might feel easier if I throw the first jab (“I messed up the left leaning stripes and hate these colors”), but if I am making critical remarks to my audience, they will be more prone to pick out things they don’t like, leading to a critique session that I really don’t need.

7. You are not aspiring. The term “aspiring artist” bothers me. If I make art, I’m an artist. If I used to make things, but don’t anymore, maybe I’m a “hibernating artist”. Aspiring connotes that I must reach some pinnacle to be a real artist. I don’t. If I make art, I am a real live artist.

8. Do what you want right now. As I learned to knit, nothing was too scary or too hard. If I wanted to learn to cable, I tried it. If I really wanted a pair of mittens, I learned how. The same “go for it!” attitude applies now. I want to start a blog, so here it is! Waiting until I’ve learned everything that goes into a perfect blog will just scare me away from ever starting. If I had delayed learning to knit because I didn’t have the ideal supplies or chair or anything, I would never have the huge output that grew from trying.

9. The goal is progress, but you don’t need to know what the progress is for. Did I know that someday I would knit a pair of mittens that would be the most coveted item at a White Elephant gift swap? No, of course not! I just got better at the process, and my work went from fingerless gloves that only a mother could love, to mittens that everyone and their mother wished they owned.

10. Opportunities pop up that coincide with (and sometimes challenge) your skill level. I don’t need to prepare myself for creating huge wholesale orders, because my making isn’t at that level right now. I can afford to let things happen organically, and this is a time where I get to set all the rules. If I move to work on creating profit with my art, having a base of work that I loved creating is a whole lot stronger than having a wishy-washy base of “well, I was trying to please you” type work. (Though having a specific target in mind can be helpful at some points, that is not my goal with my personal website and artwork).