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[yarnbabey]

reading the art of embroidered butterflies by jane hall and you know it's gonna be good because she has a section of her studio dedicated to butterfly specimens and paragraphs about her fascination with them

#bik.txt #meta #when they start complaining about the absence of one minute detail in current literature you know its gonna be good

[yarnbabey]

Another smaller chunk repost. Usual disclaimer If you use them for anything please give design credit (and also @ me because I would like to see). Intended for personal use only. In this batch: Aromantic, Polyamorous, Omnisexual Genderqueer, Demisexual, Demiromantic Polysexual, Aroace, Maverique Bigender, Abrosexual, Xenogender

#cross stitch #cross stitch patterns #the omnisexual one look so cute!

[yarnbabey]

I thought it might be nice to make smaller/simpler patterns for people who don’t have a ton of time and/or experience. Mini gridded pride moth/butterfly pixel art part 5. If you use them for anything please give design credit (and also @ me because I would like to see). Intended for personal use only.

#cross stitch #cross stitch patterns

[yarnbabey]

Shameless holiday Etsy store plug!

It's that time of year again! Crafters, if you're looking for leather thimbles, I got you.

I've never been able to use metal thimbles and it was always a source of frustration because needles start to hurt your finger pretty quickly. A couple of years ago I learned how to make leather thimbles and it changed my sewing and embroidery game entirely. When I got a stack of leather offcuts, though, I ended up with way more material than I needed, so I started making extras and selling them. I started having fun with the kinds of leather I worked with and incorporating fun, colorful designs, and now I stock all sorts in my Etsy store:

I only use reclaimed leather scraps from other Etsy sellers who I've built personal relationships with, several of whom also use reclaimed leather before selling their own offcuts to me. Each thimble comes wrapped in tissue paper, packing slips are printed on recycled paper, and shipped in unbleached envelopes with labels made from recycled materials.

Whether these are your thing or not, I hope you'll keep independent artisans in mind when you're buying gifts this season! They work hard, are underpaid, and need your support more than corporations.

(Also, if you see an Etsy ad on google or in the ad space of a website, don't click on it! Search for the Etsy store's name through Etsy instead. When you make a purchase after clicking an advertising link, Etsy takes a percentage and keeps doing so every time you go back to that store. Etsy already takes 25%-33% of sellers' profits in fees, don't help them take more! Links like the above that are embedded in an individual person's post are fine, just look out for ads on the side or bottom of websites, blogs, and social media pages, as well as google ads.)

#THIS IS SO COOL! #sewing #tools #wish list #i have my own leather thimble that i made and its a lifesaver!

[yarnbabey]

I have released the hounds. (patterns here)

#interlocked crochet #crochet patterns #OHMG!!!!!!!!

[yarnbabey]

This floral bat baby is Gerald 🌸����🌺

[yarnbabey]

art critics are so fuckin annoying btw. i went to a fiber art exhibition that was so so good that one of the tapestries made me cry and then i read about it in the newspaper and it was like "the theme was too vague and there was not enough of a shared leitmotif" and "this particular piece felt too busy while the elements did not provide enough visual information" or some bullshit. then i look the critic up and they're like an art history major who teaches at university level but has never made a single thing with their hands in their life. why don't you pick up a brush or a pen or some knitting needles or a loom or some clay or fucking crayons and learn some humility maybe.

#textile art #weaving #tapestries #queer #!!!!!!!!!1

[yarnbabey]

Mona Hatoum (منى حاطوم), Keffieh, (human hair on cotton fabric), 1993-1999 [MoMA, New York, NY. © Mona Hatoum]

#textile arts #mixed media #weaving #embroidery

[yarnbabey]

some Florida wildlife (alligator, manatee, gopher tortoise, anhinga, "palmetto bug"), interlocking crochet

#interlocking crochet #techniques #textile arts #WOAH!!!!!!! #i used to be obsessed with interlocking crochet for a while... im so happy to see it!

[yarnbabey]

One of the things I like about spinning is that it feels like looking closely. Take a t-shirt from your closet. Look closely. It's probably knitted. You can see the tiny chevrons. You can see the way those interlocking loops stretch when you pull on the fabric. Look closer. Each chevron is made up of fine thread. Look closer. You probably can't even see this level of detail, but each thread is plied from finer strands. Look closer (you would need a microscope). Each strand is twisted from smaller fibers. When I spin, this recursive structure becomes obvious. Each level of structure its own long, slow stage of creation. I work from part to whole. Fiber, spun into a single, plied into a yarn, knitted into a fabric. Now when I'm lying in bed in the morning, I look closely at where the light catches the individual threads in my pillowcase, and instead of a shape, I see a structure.

#meta #spinning #i started thinking like this abt clothes ever since i revived my interest in sewing #cant wait to start spinning and start thinking like this too

[yarnbabey]

baby snoopy tapestry <3

#weaving #tapestries #textile art

[yarnbabey]

Rachel DuVall, #1055 Untitled (moss and osage dash), (linen, acrylic), 2020 [Lief Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.© 2021 Rachel DuVall]

#textiles #textile art #weaving

[yarnbabey]

An embroidered masterpiece by Tzip Dagan, it’s done in several stages, some related to a very sad event in Tzip’s life, others - to strength, survival and optimism.

#textile arts #embroidery #tzip dagan #insp

[yarnbabey]

yes yesy yes yes yes yes hell yes ys yes yes

#dream house #!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[yarnbabey]

#cute bag but it looks like a house id make in sims4 #beadwork

[yarnbabey]

*unholy shriek*

#omgggg.... want this

[yarnbabey]

Stray thought activated my latent simmering rage over Amazon closing down fabric.com someone remind me in like 8 hours to go on the rant cuz I have one very specific pet peeve about fabric shopping on Amazon that pisses me off so much that I just plain don't buy fabric on Amazon.

#i hate business sm #im not american but i heard that a popular craft store there is closing down too! and now amazon is just doing this shit #meta