Knitting - Blog Posts
I have a knitting needle in my hair.
I kinda love it. The only reason I did it at first was cuz I couldn't find my hair pin and I wanted to have my hair up, so I thought that a knitting needle should work just about the same.
It does brooo
it's so weirdly niceeeee.
I'm definitely going to do this more
sooo during this quarantine, i decided to listen to Dracula on audiobook while knitting a scarf because I am not capable of sitting still without my hands doing something lord help me. it was good for the first hour and a half. aaand now we are in the middle of an obscenely long rant about this random harbor and this one ship, and a girl just got proposed to three times on the same day, and yes i am enjoying it thoroughly still but can we get back to the vampires and fear part yet? so confused.
Jazz is Like Glass and Yarn
Cutting quick and deep
Sharp melodies
Sassy tones
At times smoother than cream
In a rich cup of coffee
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Notes, unseen
Cascade down the blank page
Of a musicians mind
Spilling out clear and sweet
Softer than snow blanketing a bungalow
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Chords, a medium to be measured with infinity
Spinning eigth notes like cotton on a spindle
Pricking your eardrums with phat, coordinated rhythms
Low and as thick as molasses
Higher than the moon
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Fuzzy, soft and neat brushes lightly caresss the snare
Chunk, Chunk, Chunk the constant thrum of the guitar
Propelling the group as the bulky anchor, the bass
Crystal tones, loud and bossy, the trumpet commands
The saxophone pleads mournfully to be heard, like a lost colour in an intarsia pattern
More Ellies
James Fitzjames
William Gibson
John Smart Peddie
Today's Ellies: Cornelius Hickey
And Nedward Little (he's little-er than the others!)
So I was calling this ellie John Bridgens, but then I started doing this
Re-naming him Jirv, obviously.
This is Magnus Manson, he's bigger than the others, shown next to Harry Goodsir (who's regular sized)
More ellies: the icemasters
James Reid and Thomas Blanky.
Also everyone's golden boy
Harry Duncan Spens Goodsir.
Been making these little elephants
Decided they're going to be named for Franklin Expedition Personnel.
From top: Graham Gore, John Bridgens, Henry Dundas Le Vesconte (because he's lemony), William Pilkington.
This one is William Orren, of course. (added info in comments)
I made a baby beanie that looks like a pumpkin. I'm getting three new cuzlings (the children of my cousins) this year and so the babies need pumpkin beanies!
Terror brainworms: I had to make a welsh-wig.
I decided not to do the 'curls' as they are on the show because they absolutely *eat* yarn and I didn't have that much left of this grey (that matches my Terror-inspired fingerless gloves). I think these garter-stitched double-ups will be just as effective as curls or bobbles would be for the purpose of a welsh-wig (they stop water dripping down the back of your coat).
I made them by knitting the current row of stitches together with picked up stitches from a row 7 rows previous (basically - pick up a stitch from row 7 rows behind, knit it together with current stitch, pick up new stitch...and so on).
This is in dk-weight (8ply) 100% wool at 6 stitches per inch, like my gloves (not historical as it's not fine enough, but yarn I had on hand, plus some close-but-not-that-close darker yarn when I ran out, which I think they definitely would do in the 1840s). I feel like one (at least) of the Terror boys would have mended their wig with some other yarn!
I've put this on Eric, a stuffed hippo, who is why my tumblr is called 'hippocrafty' - the original plan was for Eric to model my crafts. I'm a) cursed to live in a warm & fairly dry climate & b) have long hair, so I won't get much use out of a welsh-wig for its original purpose, but it's a warm comfy beanie with a bit more to keep my neck & ears warm when I have my hair up so I'm very happy with it.
Had to make myself some grey fingerless gloves. Terror brainworms made me do it.
I noticed when looking for reference pictures to explain to my non-The Terror friends why these gloves were so necessary that the characters whose gloves are closest to this either have full fingers (Crozier) or are fingerless but without ribbed tops (Blanky and Jopson), but I'd already made the ribbed tops of fingers. They're very comfy & utilitarian though, I'd bet money that at least *one* of the guys had ribbed-top fingerless gloves!
They're in 8ply 100% wool, so not completely historical (they would've had finer yarn in the 1840s) but made with what I had (historical in spirit then, since 'use what you've got' is historical). I knit loosely so these are on 2.50mm double point needles at 6 stitches per inch.
I'm cursed to live in a warm climate so I won't get that much use out of them but sometimes I make things for the *vibes*
Omg this is so good
Listening to the Bad Batch season one finale soundtrack while working on my swatches for the Bad Batch cardie I'm planning
Silly scarf hehehe ‼️🗣️ totally not dastardos scarf
Brandishing my needles again. I'm up for the challenge. I haven’t been this excited in a long time.
Hey! I just saw your reply to the post about knitting the national parks. If you haven't tried it yet, ladderback jacquard would probably be a really great option for managing those huge floats. Hope you haven't gotten a million of these, and good luck with your project!
(In reference to this post where I moan about liking the knitting pattern I’m doing, apart from the COLOUR FLOATS)
Oh my GOODNESS look at this:
That is QUIRKY AS HELL. Thank you so much!
However, while I wail and weep and moan, I don’t want to put people off this pattern entirely. “Great Basin” is not actually the WORST pattern in the world, and can be managed by wrapping colour floats every 4 stitches or so, in the Fair Isle method; we won’t die of doing this, nobody has ever died of doing this, and plenty of people with better brains can pull it off more gracefully than I have. Even I can do this, and I’m a hater.
Hang on lemme just curate my life pretentiously real quick, like a proper knitter, so that the parts of my life I reveal on the internet look desirable enough to make you think I’m a good knitter. OK. I’ve - I’ve got some wood grain visible, and a twee swan - I feel comfortable. I could almost do Instagram.
Here’s my messy backside 😌 you can see it’s irregular, and you wouldn’t say I was managing it gracefully, but it won’t kill anybody. I am a massive hater but the pattern IS technically workable and feasible. try Great Basin today!
I LOVE this new technique! thank you so much!
every time i see trad gender roles people being weird about fibercraft i wanna tell them
-medieval and early modern knitting guilds were full of men learning and perfecting fancy knitting techniques to impress rich clients
-in cold, wet climates like the scottish highlands knitting was done by the whole family, in fact it was the perfect activity to do while a man was out on a fishing boat or in the pasture with his sheep and cattle
-men who were away from women for a long time had to know how to knit and sew at least well enough to mend their own clothes. soldiers knitted. sailors knitted. cowboys and frontiersmen knitted. vikings probably knitted (actually they would have been doing a kind of proto knitting called nalbinding, but that's beside the point). all those guys the far right love to treat as ultra masculine heroes were sitting around their barracks and campfires at night darning their socks and knitting themselves little hats
How I weave in ends in advance when starting on a new colour
You ever catch yourself staring at a coworker’s sweater too closely? Like oh man that’s a nice sweater how could I knit that for myself, but you’ve been looking too long counting the rows of rib and the person’s starting to look at you like wtf…
some pics from a hike I took
Featuring that fuck ass lunar moth I made and wear every other day
crochet lunar moth hair clip, plus a keychain sm made for me(≧▽≦)
I such at sewing, but, the crochet is on point😸☝🏿
crochet butterfly bandana
ok so it doesn't look like much of a monarch butterfly, but I just did this off a whim so🤷🏿♀️
crochet earring holder since I high-key have a problem
crochet Rasta hat I mad
some strawberry shortcake inspired leg warmers for my friends birthday 🍓🍰
some wrist warmers I crochet for my great granny
crochet cardigan i made for my mom
made it outta cotton yarn
pattern i used:
love their channel sm