#fibrecrafts

[hibernation-fibres]

Doodle Set of my chunky hats!! This was probably my favourite set to make. Originally the white band was just to fix the fact that the contrast of other yarns wasn’t stark enough for the doodles to show up, but I love the effect it gave them in the end, especially the jam-jar fruit ones :D

Sadly these hats have have been sold, but many others are available on my etsy and will still arrive in time for Christmas!! Please consider supporting me, and getting a one-of-a-kind hat to warm you or your loved ones’ head!!

My Etsy - HibernationFibres

#Teddys etsy hats #handmade hat #handknit hat #knitters on tumblr #small business #christmas gift #small etsy shop #colourwork #colorwork #chunky knit #handmade #completed projects #knitting #knitblr #fibrecrafts

[dr-ladybird]

i make hat

#Knitting #fibrecrafts #fibercrafts #pride flag #asexual

[bismutharts]

a fibercrafts discord server: funky fibercrafts!

i know fibercrafts should technically be written fibrecrafts but that makes no sense

funky fibercrafts is a server about any and all textile crafts! we've got yarn crafts, we've got fabric crafts, we've got an "other" category, whatever your heart desires! (these categories all have more specific channels as well for the common crafts!)

if you need help we've got helper roles you can ping, as well as a forum channel especially for asking for help (and also for giving tips without a question being asked), which is neat because it allows specific questions to get a lot of attention while also leaving the craft channels open for casual chatting!

we've also got a verification system to keep everyone safe, so if you join the server and see nought but one channel, that's how things should be, your discord isn't broken, just follow the instructions and you'll be verified!

besides those helper roles there's also a bunch of other roles, like pronoun roles, age range roles, dm boundary roles and ofc craft interest roles

link below the cut in case it breaks :)

link to join ^

#textile craft #discord server #craft server #yarn crafts #yarn #crochet #knitting #embroidery #cross stitch #fibrecrafts #fibercrafts #textile art #fabric #spinning

[internutter]

Challenge #04049-K031: The Dawn of Engineering

A kind human teaches Wraithvine and friends how to properly use spinning wheels. Then gifts them enchanted ones that can become pocket sized, or full sized, as needed. -- Lessons

The denizens of Nanogh had never had to make things by hand. They could weave anything they liked out of raw magic. So when the Faekindred invaded the Mortal Plane, they had some difficulty. Setting up magefonts, manafonts, moon pools, and the like had been their priority. They opened doors they should not have opened. Changed the world forever.

It was quite the adjustment phase, to say the very least of it.

Wraithbind was born into the Mortal Plane, and never held with the rights of the strong to punish the weak. Ze was therefore a wandering outcast, seeking to maintain hir oath with what little ze could do.

[Check the source for the rest of the story]

#instant story #just add prompt #wraithvine's wanderings #fibrecrafts #education

[widdlegoblin]

Gonna start posting some of my crochet stuff

Finished today, this is Gava Crochet Love’s Sisi the bunny pattern!

Intended to get through some of my stash of bright colours with this and it turned out great!

#crochet #my art #not my pattern #gavacrochetlove #bunny #fibrecrafts #rainbow

[stevietheghostie]

finished this little cross stitch!

this DMC's Make-A-Wish Swim With Dolphins pattern/kit, i got it secondhand, and i think firsthand versions of this kit are sold out, otherwise i'd link it!

i'll probably turn this into into the centrepiece of a miniture cushion or quilt at some point, but i don't have the right fabrics to match it currently

#cross stitch #dmc cross stitch #finished cross stitch #fibrecrafts #dolphins #ocean #blue

[aliosne]

A family friend’s mom passed, and she had a bunch of fibrecrafting supplies, so chaboy is now the proud owner of a bog-standard wheel! Thank you, Carol, I will think of you fondly when I work❤️

She also had a flax wheel which I was 👀👀👀 about, but I Did Not Enjoy my one Flax Experience and realistically don’t have the dedication to realise my dreams (spinning fine enough to make undergarments like in Ancient Timez)

#spinning #fibrecrafts #I am extremely excited about the lazy kate too!! #aneki has one and I have always been jealous #also sorry about crossposting three ways to the like 2 ppl following me everywhere #god. I can just put. other spools on this thing. #I love my compact wheel dgmw #it is like a horse girl story where we had to learn to trust each other #and sometimes the horse just stops working bc fuck me actually #oooooooooh I want that flax wheel tho

[dr-dendritic-trees]

The Instagram Feed has really outdone itself.

I followed a bunch of weavers and spinners on instagram, in one of my attempts to acquire a useable feed.

So naturally, instagram in its unwisdom has decided to flood me with crochet videos... which would be understandable, except that literally every video (and they're definitely multiple artists) is making the same small set of plush animals out of the same inane acrylic yarn.

Like... please tell me this is instagram and not some sort of bizarre crochet trend.

#fibrecrafts

[10-dutchies-12-bicycles]

my hunt for line flax Continues 👀👀👀👀

#spinning #fibrecrafts #OK SO FOR CONTEXT: basically for AGES ive been wanting to spin flax. fuck wool go fuck urself. like i rly like wool!!! but flax is my dream #ok background info: flax f.ibers can be as long as the plant. so like more than a meter long. you hackle to separate long and short f.ibers #afaik historically long f.ibers were used to make nice and soft woven fabrics and the (with all due respect) garbage was used to make rope #so i buy some flax roving right. i get it out of the package. THE F.IBERS ARE ALL LIKE FUCKING 5 TO 10 CM LONG??????? GRRRRRRRR #so now im trying to find flax f.ibers that are........ Longer than 10 fucking centimeters Please And Thank You #problem is: hand-hackled Expense AF. factory-hackled apparently shipped off directly to china or sth???? gdndgfjdhfhd #UGH worst case scenario ill just have to awkwardly email factories like 'hiiii... do you also sell to randos with s.pinning wheels? 😬👉👈'

[witcheswhimsy]

Had a sweet little commission and gave them some choices. So many cats! Did you know how difficult it is to stitch tiny black cats? Anyhow the twins on green are taken. The rest here are up for grabs. Slide into my DMs if you'd like to snag yourself a last-minute holiday gift for yourself or a loved one. Images: Six embroidered necklace pendants with cats against colorful backgrounds. Swipe for individual images of each pendant: two small black cats with big eyes against a bright green background, sleeping black cat curled on her side against yellow, black cat loaf against red and white stripes, sleeping tabby cat loaf against green, curled tabby cat against blue, playful black cat looking upward against pink . . . #Cats #SewCrafty #MakeDontBreak #Embroidery #EmbroideredJewelry #FibreJewellery #FibreCrafts #CatJewelry #Joy! #WitchesWhimsy https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl_AsSEMN5F/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#cats #sewcrafty #makedontbreak #embroidery #embroideredjewelry #fibrejewellery #fibrecrafts #catjewelry #joy #witcheswhimsy

[neonlane]

terrible pic but AAAAA I FINISHED MY SHAWL!!!

#lanetxt #knitting #fibrecrafts

[dr-ladybird]

hehehe I made most of a baby cardigan and made the cat model it

is she not fashionable

#personal #fibrecrafts #fiber crafts #knitting #lace knitting #original content

[bismutharts]

say hello to my newest little buddies!

they're made from about 13 grams of scheepjes riverwashed yarn, which is absolutely stunning, although it doesn't really hold up to use. telling you now, do NOT make a sweater out of this. do make very many very pretty plushies

check here for this project's ravlery page, where you'll also find a link to the pattern and a bit more info!

under the read more there's just a bit more pictures, because i like taking them :)

this was my second or third attempt at embroidering a geometric pattern with the orange. it went. badly, because of the way the pattern works

i am not allowed to add any more images! which is frankly homophobic and you shall see me in the reblogs!

#bis arts #art #fibercraft #fibrecrafts #crochet #yarn #artists on tumblr #my art #bis speaks #traditional art #octopus #crafts #scheepjes riverwashed #duality #amigurumi #ami #plushie

[batbetbitbotbut]

ok I think I'm done reblogging on this (current) weaving kick (for now), my apologies to anyone who didn't want to see 1234567 loom photos and videos, there are definitely not 1234567 more to come in future months and years (maybe hopefully)

and if you have weaving/loom thoughts, especially on floor looms as a sensory experience and on weaving in comparison to other fibre arts, please talk at me!

#weaving #loom #floor loom #fibrecrafts

[picadreams]

Popped in to @weaveknititshop yesterday, and these absoute beauties by @ewetreeyarns came home with me. Not sure what project I'll use them for yet, but one will undoubtedly present itself at some point. I just couldn't resist! 💖 There are more gorgeous colourways in the shop which I was sad to leave behind. 😭 Posted @withrepost • @ewetreeyarns *NEW ROLAGS** a set of 12 rolags 'ruby tailed wasp'. These will be added to my online shop in the next few days. #rolags #fibrecrafts #fiberart #felting #woolspinning https://www.instagram.com/p/ClinvhIKpYU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#rolags #fibrecrafts #fiberart #felting #woolspinning

[trashpandacraft]

having sat down and spent a bit of time spinning on all the wheels, i have thoughts on them!

our first contestant: a sheridan scandanavian. kinda.

sheridan was an australian manufacturer in the 70s and early 80s, and this particular model is often mistaken for an ashford traditional. one tell that it isn't is the spokes on the wheel—a traddy has eight, and a scandanavian has six.

another tell is its tension knob, which i actually love—this is a lot easier to get a grip on than the ones that are just balls.

...there's also a nameplate identifying the maker and the model. but that's kinda where things get weird, because this? this is not what a scandanavian is meant to look like.

eagle-eyed readers may have already noticed that it's a double drive wheel, which is weird, because the scandanavian was only ever made as scotch tension. sheridan made a similar wheel, the macarthur, that was a double drive. my understanding is that these wheels were sold as kits, so as best i can guess, someone must have had a scandanavian and a macarthur, and at some point, for some reason, they dropped the macarthur's workings onto the sheridan's stand.

whatever she is, though, she spins nicely—works exactly like you'd expect, even after what was clearly a number of years of neglect. i'd like to get some more oil into the leather bearings, but she's in good shape. this one's a surprisingly slow wheel, even on the highest ratio, but will be great for plying and—more importantly—for @binchickencrafts to learn to spin on.

next up is the tarra...something. maybe the evelyn, but maybe the agnes?

she's beautiful, right? another tilt tension, too, which i like. lovely matching orifice hook with a little storage hole, and integrated bobbin storage, which i absolutely love.

so why's she weird? well. the evelyn was the evolution of the agnes, basically. agnes had a block for a mother of all, evelyn was shaped. agnes had a four-part drive wheel, evelyn had six. agnes had eight spokes on the drive wheel, evelyn had six.

this wheel, though. she has a shaped mother of all, an eight-part drive wheel, and eight spokes.

she also has a really neat flyer.

the flyer is part of what attracted me, to be honest, and no regrets. it needs shined up some more—i was eager enough to try her out that i cleaned off the worst of the rust with some vinegar, but it needs some more attention. those hooks, though, are fantastic. i think that they're a curse for a lot of people, because if one's lost, replacements are almost impossible to come by, but if you have them, they're so good. the screw loosens the hook and lets you slide it as needed, and you can get very close to either end of the bobbin—you can use the stationary hook to wind on right at the front, and the movable hook covers the rest of the bobbin easily. all my treadle wheels have been fixed hooks, so this was a new adventure.

this is the wheel in the worst shape, i think. she needs oiled up, but also needs to have the rear maiden reseated—it's loosened and has a fair amount of horizontal play, which doesn't give the best experience. i feel like when that's fixed, which won't take more than a couple hours and some wood glue, she's going to be a sweet spot of a wheel. even with the movement in that back maiden, i can get from worsted down to cobweb on her, so i'm really looking forward to seeing what she's like when she's been patched up.

finally: the pipy saxony.

please clap.

i can't overstate how small this wheel is. she weighs less than five kilos. that's like. a cat. that's a cat of weight. that's how much this wheel weighs. i knew when i bought her that she was a small wheel, but i hadn't realised how small, so i was a little concerned that she wasn't going to be very effective.

turns out joke's on me, because this teeny tiny wheel is an absolute powerhouse—as long as you want to spin finely. which is perfect for me, because i almost never use or spin yarn that's thicker than a light worsted, and even that's kinda pushing it. i'm the kind of person who knits jumpers out of sock yarn and owns multiple pairs of 1.5mm (size 000) circular needles.

this wheel wants to spin fast and wants to spin thin, and I *love* her. the wheel is weighted so it always stops ready to turn clockwise, and it's a string footman, and something about the combination of the two makes this an absolutely amazing experience. i spun for several hours, and my breaking point wasn't knee or ankle pain, but hip pain from sitting in that position too long.

how the heck does a wheel that—again!—weighs like ten pounds manage to weight anything?

it's easy to miss, but in that first picture, there's integrated bobbin storage again, with room for one on each side of the wheel.

the tension system isn't like anything i've used, and can be adjusted both vertically and horizontally. the tension peg does what you'd expect and moves the slider block (and the mother of all on it) closer or further from the wheel, but you can also move the mother of all towards you or away from you to better align it with the wheel.

she's just really nicely designed. look at this incredibly tidy bobbin release!

for the specific things that i spin most frequently, i'm pretty sure that the pipy is going to be my go-to treadle wheel, though i expect the others will see plenty of use, as well. and my eel wheel certainly isn't getting retired—my somewhat broken body is never going to let me use a treadle as often as i'd like, and there's a lot to be said for the ability to spin while watching television in bed. but i'm really excited to have these, and to use them when i can, even if it's not as often as i'd like.

i know that a lot of people are really dubious about buying used (especially vintage used) wheels, but i feel like they're often underrated. there's a lot of cool wheels out there that are as good or better than what you can buy in a store, and it's worth investigating it, if you're able to. (it's also worth noting that buying all three of these cost us less than half of what buying a single new ashford traditional would cost.)

finally, you want to see my favourite thing about the pipy? i saw someone complaining about this the other day, that their wheel's prior owner had 'gouged' it. but look.

that little gouge means someone else loved this wheel so much that their yarn wore a channel into the wood. and as soon as i stop holding my yarn back, it slots straight into place.

right where it's meant to be.

this wheel is older than i am—they're dated, on the bottom, and she was made in july 1972. she's only had one owner, a woman who used to teach spinning, but is elderly now and can't spin anymore. her daughter delivered it to me, and told me that this was her mother's last wheel—she'd gotten rid of the others, slowly, but held on to this until she was physically unable to treadle. fifty years! that woman spun on this wheel for fifty years.

i'm old enough that i don't imagine i'm going to get fifty years with it, but maybe i'll get lucky. either way, hopefully in another fifty years, someone new will be taking their turn, weirdly touched by the idea that this wheel has been so loved.

#spinning #hand spinning #spinning wheels #vintage #crafts #fibercraft #fibrecraft #i dunno why this makes me so happy #but it does #anyhow these are stunningly beautiful wheels #and they deserve a better end than rotting away in someone's attic #smartest raccoon i know