#thread of yarn

[badlydrawngcat]

Mew.

[randomfae]

i don't know, magp fellas, but somehow when alice says shit like "i created you and i can destroy you" or "i was born down here and i will die here" i sorta... believe her? like yeah you're obviously joking but are you tho?

lowkey same vibes as gertrude going "of course, gerard! i just happened not to mention the network of sinister tunnels that snake beneath the archive where i keep all my darkest secrets"

[iamacolor]

some behind the scenes footage from a recent mending commission I did to repair the frayed edge of two fine cashmere sweaters that had me doing some micro knitting on sewing needles

(before and after pictures of the edges under the cut because I'm pretty proud of my work)

[mesterspets]

New photos of old mittens! How to turn your wrists inside out.

[allcatsconstitutethesamefamily]

Source details and larger version.

They've had many lives and many ages: cats I've met in my time travels.

[sergle]

the more depressed I get, the more I get into the fiber arts

[milkweedman]

Tiny test knit on size US 8/5mm needles. The cast on was the first part I spun from unprepared cotton, and then you can see it gets increasingly finer as my prep improved. Mostly I did this test to be able to see that progression, but I was also curious how well I'd be able to knit with what is essentially unplied thread.

Answer...bit of a pain. It snapped twice as I was binding off (I know the bind off edge looks so bad--this is why. Also it was hard.) which was not a good sign but also my needle kept just falling out of my work. Definitely need wooden needles if I try this again for a better grip.

I think it's not the right choice though. If I wove with it it would be much more durable then and would create a better fabric.

Issue is, I certainly would not put the weight of warping on this thread. So I will try plying the remains (to see if it's even doable or if it will snap and/or tangle) and then maybe try weaving that. As a 2 ply it should be good enough--it's already pretty strong, it's just snapping at the slubs, which currently seem unavoidable until I am much better at making punis.

[thelibrarian1895]

Veilguard hobbies

Yes there is a book club

However I would like to propose another activity that the Veilguard does for team bonding, decompressing between missions, and passing time when they're not running around with Rook.

Knitting circle/stich 'n' bitch

It starts by accident, Lucanis is in the kitchen and has taken out his knitting, he's making himself a new cardigan, while he's keeping an eye on something he has roasting. The side dishes are all completed or will take only moments to finish. The main dish will take longer. He knows many dishes that take less time, less effort, but roasting is its own art and it's been a year since he's cooked anything. Besides all that, the ingredients available are limited. He'll need to go shopping.

Rook, because of course it is Rook, sees the knitting and does not comment. Instead, they leave for a bit and come back with an embroidery hoop, needles, and a collection of colored thread (Provided by the Lighthouse and unbeknownst to Rook, this is the first thing that the Lighthouse has provided to just Rook, not to Rook being partially overshadowed by the desires of the Dread Wolf in their head). Rook (My Ingellvar at least) embroiders as a hobby (among other hobbies). They take a seat by the fire and begin to place careful stitches. Lucanis watches as wisps begin to crowd around the mage, giving them better light for their needle work. Lucanis and Rook sit calmly together, the only interruption for either of them was Lucanis pausing at times to turn the roast and (in Rook's eyes) perform some sort of magic that made the roasting meat smell even more appetizing.

Lucanis sees the door open from his place in the kitchen and Harding peer inside. Like Rook, the dwarf leaves and returns. Harding arrives with more yarn and their own needles sand silently sat at the table. She chose a spot outside of Lucanis's striking range and had her bow and quiver at her side as she cast loops onto her knitting needles. She's planning on mittens for the team.

Bellara is next, drawn by the smell, and gives a little "oh" of delight at the sight of the three. She leaves and returns with Neve. Bellara is holding a pair of knitting needles and Neve leads her through the basics while the detective's own fingers fly as she knits silk stockings. Neve, Lucanis, and Harding all keep an eye on Bellara's efforts and each offer tips and instruction as Bellara begins to knit a scarf.

Eventually Lucanis finishes making dinner and puts away his knitting. The other four put away their own projects and set the table. Then his new teammates fall upon the meal as though they've never tasted food before. Between the praises for his cooking and the...interesting sounds the other four make, the Crow can only hope that the worst of his blush is hidden by his beard.

The next time he knits in the kitchen instead of the privacy of the pantry, it happens again. First Rook with their embroidery, a garden of flowers blooming from their needle, then Harding with their own knitting and her bow and quiver. Then Bellara with her slowly lengthening scarf and Neve and her stockings.

It happens again. Each of them brings their own project. Bellara is the first to break the silence to question Neve about a case involving a particular magister. Lucanis recognizes the name and he bites the inside of his cheek to keep from smiling. Rook doesn’t recognize the magister's first name but they do recognize the family name. It seems they had a Nevarran ancestor, an ancestor who was and still is very chatty. Rook regales them with stories from the magister's many times great uncle and scandals of the Blessed age that caused the uncle to retreat to Nevarra. Harding offers delicious bits of gossip from the Inquisition.

The next week the magister is dead and Neve's needles click with outrage as she describes what has to have been murder but the magister had been in a locked room and there was no trace of magic or poison. The man had dropped dead in a locked room! Rook offers to try to raise the magister to see if he knew anything about his death and Bellara postulates various outlandish theories that Lucanis makes note of because some of those could be viable. Harding is more curious about who wanted the magister dead rather than the method of death which causes Neve to think out loud and she may end up revealing more magisterial gossip than she intended.

The next week Lucanis will have heard back from Teia and Viago and be able to answer at least some of Neve's endless questions about the case. He can't tell her who paid for the contract or exactly how it was done, that would be unprofessional. But he can confirm for her that it was murder and let her know that the door had not been locked when the Crow entered the room. Her needles still clack loudly as she knits more silk stockings. Rook's garden is finished and now hangs above the stove, lavender and other purple flowers he doesn’t recognize, encircling a phrase in an old Nevarran twist on ancient Tevene that Rook refuses to translate. Rook works now on the heels of the stockings that Neve has finished, embroidering snakes in bright blue and yellow and pink tulips, adding strength, flexibility, and length to the silk stockings as well as a sense of style for the detective. Harding has finished her own mittens and is working on another set in bright yellow. Bellara's scarf continues to grow in length. All of them are trying to guess what Rook's embroidered decoration says, each of them coming up with more outlandish ideas.

Emmrich joins them and he works on cross stitch design on a waistcoat. Manfred serves them all tea and then wields his own needle and thread, deftly working through the mending that they’ve all kept to themselves but now find piled up in a basket by Manfred when they gather. It's the first time they gather when Lucanis isn't cooking something that takes more time than it does attention. Rook is embroidering flowers onto woven bands, lavender and others he doesn’t recognize. Bellara asks Emmrich to translate Rook’s previous project and the older mage nearly spits out his tea when he sees the little circle of purple flowers and Tevinter-Nevarran. He refuses and Harding postulates that it’s something very rude. Bellara counters that’s something scandalous instead. Rook diverts them with gossip she overheard while in Treviso and Lucanis finds himself under interrogation about Antivan merchant princes and their love affairs.

Davrin carves new knitting needles for those who knit, all of them have customized decorations on the ends of their needles so they can be told apart quickly and easily. Bellara proudly leads him through the basics so he can start his own scarf. Assan is given his own ball of yarn to keep him from the yarn being used by the others. He’s also diverted with scritches by those who have paused because of hand cramps and snacks from all of them who can sneak the treats past Davrin’s sharp eyes. Davrin is on Harding’s side that Rook’s project says something rude.

Harding stops bringing her bow and quiver and instead provides her Ma’s apple pie. Rook brings cookies from her favorite Nevarran bakery. Taash brings Rivani fruit.

Taash initially helps Manfred with the mending but the wisp of Curiosity has very high standards for mending and Taash’s stitchwork leaves much to be desired in the eyes of Manfred. Manfred does not tell Taash that Taash’s work is not good enough. Taash does not realize until they see Manfred reinforcing the seams on a shirt that Taash had just finished reinforcing. Taash instead starts to knit hats and complains about idiots in the Lords that have no idea about the difference between different dragons. Their first project is a hat for Harding. Taash is on Bellara’s side that Rook’s first project has something “spicy” on it.

Bellara will end up with a scarf that could be wrapped around the neck of a giant. All of them will have knitted hats that match their personalized mittens. All of them have stylish silks stockings with clocked heels and embroidered bands on the hems of their sleeves and collars. And all of them will have all the good gossip.

Lucanis will learn what Rook’s project said.

Notes: Yes Neve could buy socks but before machine industry, most people made their socks. The "clocking" was a way to show style as well as help make stockings fit better. Among the people in Dock town we mostly see people who are barefoot or in sandals. Those implied to be upper class have clothes long enough and shoes tall enough that socks are not necessarily immediately noticeable but are likely for people able to afford nicer clothing. Neve is not rich but Neve is very stylish. She can make socks, though she'll probably take socks and mending as her fee from some of her clients in the past. Taash is okay at mending, Manfred just has higher standards. This is taken from my great grandma's attitude towards sewing. If your work did not meet your standards, she would wait until you were gone and then unpick your threads and redo them herself. For Rook's embroidery and Emmrich's cross stitch, a relatively easy way for a mage of limited means to make themselves look more prosperous and thus like a mage who has connections or a patron that make them unsafe to mess with is to add fancy thread work, threadwork that looks fancy enough to have to have been expensive to commission, to their clothes until they have the means to be more obviously the sort not to mess with due to Connections and Political Power. Some mages learn to make lace for the same purposes. And some Southern mages learned fancy work like that in the hopes that they could use the not magical skills to support themselves if they ever managed to destroy their phylactery and get away from the Circle.

[copper-skulls]

*slides in* HI. commissions are open :) (I will update this post if they're closed)

Will do:

OCs: animals, creatures, dragons, monsters, most humanoids..

fanart for fandoms i'm at least somewhat familiar with

for fullbodies: small props (necklaces, spears, swords..)

minor amounts of blood

Won't do:

highly complex designs

characters without a visual reference

closed species

Artwork is for personal use only and cannot be used for commercial products, AI or NFTs.

If you're unsure, please ask :) If you're interested in something a bit different, also please ask, we might work something out.

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[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Handspun Yarn ~

[theenbyroiderer]

Evaluating my crochet thread collection, most of it anyway. I'm sure there are balls squirreled away here and there... and some skeins. Also picking out some mushroom color combos. Want to challenge myself to make more colorful mushrooms without any white.

[ididntknowwhattocallthis]

I successfully made yarn

Not very good yarn, but it's yarn!

Made the spindle too

[givemethedamnflowers]

Brand new craft project starting tomorrow : an aftg pillowcase, with all the covers embroidered

[densewentz]

wanted to sew the stupid little face onto this gudetama Unlicensed Egg bucket hat I'm making for my aunt only to be thwarted by somehow having every single possible color of thread except black

(Ignore how sad the felt is, I got sick of trying to clean up the edges ☠️)

[milkweedman]

In my excitement to ply this cotton thread I forgot that it means im now chained to this ply bracelet for the next Long While because im too afraid to take it off and ruin it

In my defense the thread is very fine.

I had actually planned to keep spinning on this one and see how much it will hold but I uh. Spilled some mulled wine on it. So now I need to clean it off and also definitely oil it again. So I figured I might as well see my new WPI.

Also finished up spinning this pink cotton sliver. Dyed... I suppose technically by me ? I bought this red flax several years ago and was so disgusted by how much the color came off that I decided to put some white cotton sliver in (after several rinses and drains of a small sample of the linen) for 20 minutes or so, and this was the result. And then I didn't do anything with it for ages because I've only recently begun to understand cotton spinning.

But now it's done (except for blocking). Approximately 22 yards, and now I once again have my favorite long spindle back.

From that spin I learnt that cotton sliver is just terrible and I should always prep it another way, because ugh. Result is nice though.

[tj-crochets]

I have sewed a few more blocks from the beach quilt, and I repaired a stuffed animal for a neighbor (no pictures because it's not my stuffed animal), but crafting updates might be a little sparse for the next week or so? I have a short week at work this week, a lot of work to get done, and I am getting my covid booster this week (we'll see how that goes lol)