still have several finished projects I hadn't gotten around to documenting yet, plus some time to kill, so I took a minute to get pix of this tam! The yarn was a souvenir from Maine Fiber Frolic 2023- it's a skein of Bartlett Yarn's Bulky in Mountain Green. The pattern was improvised & took about a day to knit up; I considered felting it but I figured since it turned out exactly how I wanted it that I'll keep it just as is.
Bonus pic of my unicorn pin:
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I finished this the other day (◍•ᴗ•◍)✧*。
it's super fine yarn, size 1 needles. I regret tose middle purls between the cups, they weren't necessary but it does look cute
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A big ol’ smooch to all trans/nonbinary/generally queer knitters and crocheters out there. I love you, you make the world a better place
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The Rippleback Sweater Pattern is Live!!!!
Want a sweet Cardigan pattern?? Want to give an unemployed trans girl some money for pride month?? You can do both!!! Just head over to my ravelry store
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just your average Michaels run
thank you to my father for supplying tye type of anti depressant that actually works for me; yarn
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Remembrance
I started this weave last year, the day after TDOR, and the day of the Pulse nightclub attack. My heart was heavy, and I needed a way to redirect a whole bunch of feelings about a thing I couldn't do anything about.
The warp and weft both came from several balls of a 5 ply acrylic knitting yarn, one that had been given to me in one of those many small "I don't know what else to do with this" moments that happen when people know that 1) you're a knitter and 2) you'll happily collect donations and pass them on to various local organisations if you can't use them yourself.
I'd looked at them and immediately went "that's a trans pride bundle of colours if ever I saw them," then put them in the stash and let them percolate. (I don't knit with 5 ply much, I already had more than enough projects that needed finishing, and I had no idea what pattern would do justice to the vague idea I had. Sometimes things need to compost a while before you can grow anything from them.)
I originally wanted to do a heart twill. After a bit of thought, mostly centred around my lack of experience, I went with a diamond twill instead. This was the first project on my new-to-me floor loom, and the diamond twill was more straightforward. Plus, counterbalance looms don't deal well with unbalanced shafts - the heart twill pattern I had put more of the threads on the back shaft than any of the others, and I didn't have the headspace or the experience to flip the draft so they'd be on the front one instead.
It took me eight days to wind the warp, beam it, thread the heddles, sley the reed, and tie on. (I wasn't tracking project hours back then so I don't know how long those things actually took, all up.) I'd started on the twenty-first, and was threading the heddles by Sunday 27th. On the 30th, I started weaving.
According to my project notes, I only actually wove for eight days between getting the loom warped and cutting the finished fabric off. Given the thickness of the threads, that seems about right - I'd roughly guess at six or seven hours of weaving time over a ~2.3m warp?
After that it was a matter of wet finishing (wool setting in the washing machine), trimming off the loom waste, and doing double folded hems at each end (I am Not A Fan of fringe).
Is it perfect? Hell no; there's at least two threading errors and the beat changes from start to finish. But it's soft, and warm, and it's full of the hope and productive anger that I managed to find after the beat of the loom helped me climb out of the pit of helpless despair.
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hi, I'm looking for more ofmd blogs to follow, do you have any recommendations? <3
ohhhh let me see!! in no particular order:
@blakbonnet @xoxoemynn @aha-my-villainous-thoughts @gentlebeard @darkinerry @saltpepperbeard @sherlockig @stedebonnets @stedesearring @edsbacktattoo @merryfinches @babykittenteach @jaskierx @cahootings @ofmd-ann @ofmdee @dickfuckk @snake-snack-stede @trans-top-stede @bbyteach @gentlebeardsbarngrill @soupbtch @asneakyfox @as-a-creww @forpiratereasons @zstraps @dearpirates @endevouring-to-surprise @spirker @piratecaptainscaptainpirates @midearthling @poisonintopositivity @wastingyourgum @appleteeth @chaotic-neutral-knitter @gaypiratebrainrot @chocolatepot @glamaphonic @amuseoffyre @chestnutwind @edsrosetattoo @edandstede
and i know i'm probably missing some that i also love very much (sorry!) 💗 not all of these are ofmd themed as such but most are!!
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Is a month and a half enough time to knit a long double knit scarf? I want to design and release a pattern for a double knit scarf in trans, nonbinary, or genderqueer pride colors that says "living Plato's allegory of the cave" by the end of pride month but I don't think that's enough time to get test knitters.... idk if I could even knit it in time.
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