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Jef Bourgeau, 1950 Post-conceptual painter 

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Emilia Cantor

'The Luminous Cattle (El Ganado Luminoso)'

Oil, 51”x 51"

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this messed up vintage cat sewing pattern has tormented me since i saw it & like some other folks have done in that post - i tried my hand at tweaking the pattern to resemble the illustration (and my personal tastes) a little more. i've ended up with this, which i have only tested at a small scale and not this final version exactly (where i have done such things as further widening the cheeks and finalizing the leg shapes.) i bestow it upon you nice folks now 👐

(IVE UPDATED IT WITH A FIX!!)

go forth and make weird little beanbag kittens! pls show me if you do!

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Oh hey! Same quilt!

tweet tweet! a cute little quilt made with a kit featuring Moda's Home Tweet Home pattern 🐦

this was my first attempt at paper piecing, which i learned how to do at my fave quilt shop's annual customer party! surprisingly fun once you get into the groove of it

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Fort Rock Sandals, 7300 BCE, Klamath and Paiute land

1. 19th century sealskin thong, Greenland

2. Pazyryk swan made of felted reindeer wool, circa 400 BCE, Siberia

3. Child’s hat with bird, nalbound cotton and wool, 1000–1476 CE, Chancay culture, Peru

4. Knitted cotton sock from Egypt, 1000-1200 CE

5. Sidonian flask shaped like a date, 1st-2nd century CE, Syria or Palestine

6. World’s oldest surviving pants, woven wool, circa 1300-1000 BCE, China

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When Harry Met Lucy pattern update! WHEW there’s a few real big mistakes in there. I count 5. Can you spot em?

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Chair pads/mandalas! Pattern by Lilly Bjorn on Ravelry (brioche crochet masterclass is the pattern name: comes with another smaller pattern I believe).

I LOVE these. I made them several years ago and would happily make another few. They’re worked in FPDCs, with colors in alternating rows.

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a whale of a good time🐋

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IT IS DONE

pattern is based on Andrea Cull’s DNA Pullover, and the double helix cable pattern was charted by @ub-sessed, which can be found here

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Soap caddy for Ruthy! Pattern amalgamated from different freebies on ravelry.

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Thinking about how wild it is that enshittification starts as a way for the rich to squeeze the populace for more money but ends up infecting everything so even luxury products decline in quality. They’ve got more money than fucking God now and for what? Literally they can’t even buy fun nice stuff for themselves because they killed craft.

Anyway this post is about Dhaka muslin but it’s also about everything.

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Huichol (Wixáritari); yarn paintings. Mexico. 20th through 21st century.

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My second knitting project: a whole sweater!

So far my impression is that knitting is much easier on the hands than crochet (besides one of my fingers clicking every time I make a stitch), I keep being surprised by how slowly my yarn is disappearing in comparison to crochet, and I like how fine and flat stockinette is in comparison: although I think crochet can be just as flat (with moss or granite stitch). I was worried knitting would be more finicky than crochet—it’s so much easier to take out a whole row w crochet—but I think the trade off is that with knitting, I can fix stitches I did in the row previous. Can’t go back and fix that massive error in one of my cables that I didn’t see until I understood the pattern, but… say la vie.

I’ll link to the pattern for this sweater when I have more to show. It’s on Ravelry, I believe as “when Harry met Lucy.”

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How to tell people that saying, 'This is so good! You should sell this stuff!' is not the compliment they think it is

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Ralph Fleck (German, 1951), Stapel 27/VII [Stack 27/VII], 2013. Oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm.

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Quilt show pt 2! This was such a gorgeous show, I was so glad to go