#textile arts

[anxiousangerball]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

[ostensiblynone]

rosecutclothing • Café Brauer Floral Suit for shanemadej and saraerubin's wedding 🌼 They came to me with the idea of incorporating stars, rain and the state flowers of where they were from and met, so we have the California poppy, Connecticut mountain-laurel and Illinois violet. Thanks SO much for trusting me to make this, it was an absolute honor ! All chainstitch embroidery on deep blue wool. Wedding photos by erinhoytphotography 🌼 #rosecutclothing #chainstitchemboridery #californiapoppy #altwedding

source: [rosecutclothing] posted Nov 30, 2023

[ghost-toe]

made my first quilt 👍

pattern is "serenade park avenue" by toby lischko

[ahedderick]

X-ray tetra. Literally the only English-language X name I could find.

A good use for that one little scrap of blue wave fabric from the last quilt. I generally avoid add-ons like buttons or beads for quilts, but in this case a few button eyes are going to be unavoidable.

Lost and Found

More quilt-searching. I'm beginning to think I hallucinated Grandma Morgan's hex quilt. I found one I got nearly done and abandoned, though. Jeez, I had forgotten all about it.

I worked on this in . . the 90s? I think. But it was a cursed project. Everytime I'd start making progress on it, the sewing machine would break. Or the zig-zag stitch would start making horrific snarls of thread under the fabric (a tension issue, I know). Or I'd piece something backwards/upsidedown, and have to rip out the seam and start anew. It got to a point where I had a buffalo-induced breakdown and put the whole damned thing away.

Ant, buffalo,crab,dog,elephant, fish, goat, hippo . . you can see my pattern, here.

Well, dammit. I am going to finish this quilt. Vicuña (or vulture?), x-ray tetra, yak, gett'er-done.

[noballoonsinspace]

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Self-taught one work-in-progress at a time so that there’s some beginner stuff I don’t know and advanced stuff that I do know and I will forever be making silly beginner mistakes in complex projects that I’ll probably never complete :)

[justthreadyall]

boy why you so sadge

[gailyinthedark]

[sidles up to you in a dark parking lot]

Hey. Do you want elbow patches. Yeah I noticed the elbows of your sweater are worn through, I can fix that for you. I got tapestry yarn, loads of it, all different colours. Price? Depends on what you're offering. Homemade cookies? Yeah, I can work with that. Bring 'em tomorrow, same time, same place. Love you too, man. Love you too.

[quiltingwitch]

Swords for a sword lover, finally complete ⚔️

[todayontumblr]

Wednesday, November 29.

You reap what you sew.

Never have truer words been spoken. But they come as good news for Tumblr's sewing community, however, who have been sewing some absolute delights. Some real œuvres d'art. Some winner-winner chicken dinners.

As luck would have it, #sewing is trending. And it's trending right now, so we have reaped a selection of these very dinners for your eyes only. We have then asked ourselves just what did we do to deserve y'all, and your resplendent talents.

[lebakasmadl]

SWIRLY WONKY VEST

My first knitting project and I think it even came out looking wearable!!!

The knitting pattern I was following loosely

(Crochet) Ribbing tutorial

[linsaangs]

pumpkin and spice for @canonkiller

[friedthrice]

Finished back patch!

Quote from Welcome to Nightvale

[kommunistkaitou]

LOOK at this embroidery

stitched by samsquatch1590 on reddit

pattern by NOMADembroideryCo on etsy

[thehaberdasheress]

I got something cool from another Etsy shop recently! Which is, the world's tiniest* weaving heddle:

*probably a slight exaggeration

I've wanted to explore weaving lately, but don't have the money or space that you'd need for a tabletop loom. So I knew I wanted a backstrap loom setup, where you stretch your weaving between a distant anchor point (in this case, it's pinned to my lap desk) and like, well... a strap that goes around your back, basically.

(Normally the perfect solution for this is tablet weaving, which is even easier to get the tools for. Unfortunately, it requires MORE BRAIN. So I'm taking the easy route here.)

So my heddle and shuttle are from TheDancingGoats, an Etsy shop that specializes in reproduction ancient tools.

And what do you know... the shop sponsored Long Thread Media on Youtube, who did a whole tutorial on how to use them:

[saltedsnailstudio]

@gloryhands booth for their first Massachusetts market looked so damn incredible, had to share these shots. I watch them make absolutely wild stuff every day and it looks so pretty all laid out together!!!!!!

[justthreadyall]

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