What can you do? Call your senators and tell them to vote “no” on this calamitous tax and budget bill. Congressional switchboard: (202) 224-3121.
Beyond this, help ensure that senators who vote in favor of this monstrosity are booted out of the Senate as soon as they’re up for reelection.
Immediate warning to yarn users!
Knitpicks has recently been sending out yarn infested with carpet beetles. Apparently one of their warehouses has an active infestation.
They have shut the warehouse down for now, but if you have recent yarn from them in your stash in may be infested!
Knitpicks is not currently informing their customer base of this issue (pretty standard for them, unfortunately), so word of mouth is necessary.
this post was inspired by having to explain to a student what a weft is, and then telling a colleague about that occasion and having to explain to another CLASSICIST what a weft is
This is literally why we were born
Not to uh, be a bother, but might you also explain to us what a weft is?
Delighted to! The weft are the threads that go “over-under” (back and forth) in weaving. If you were making a potholder on one of those loop looms, the loops you string across first are the warp and the ones you weave through those loops are the weft.
(We must admit we do not know what a peploi is but we will be going down this rabbit hole shortly)
"peploi" is plural, the singular is "peplos", it's the ancient Greek style of no-cut no-sew turn cloth rectangle into gown
Dj Suede The Remix God ft Pastor Shirley Caesar - You Name It! #UNAMEITC…
When you ask Grandma what we havin for Thanksgiving dinner. 🫛🥬🥔🍅🐑🐏🐕🐖🐓🦃
Happy Thanksgiving, y’all!
I keep forgetting to post here lol. Progress on my manhua Hua Cheng! So much glitter painting to make all the shinies. And 20yds of fabric and counting. Oh boy it's another giant fabric monster lol
Jogless join in the round
For a jogless join in the round: Cast on an extra stitch and pass it over the first stitch of the round, then return the first stitch to the left needle tip.
Let's not forget Big Hen's smaller cousin! This little gal has been working hard on her cookie business. She doesn't go anywhere without her apron and tiny wooden spoon.
mama hen crochet pattern: available here
Yarn: Epic and Favorite by @yarnandcolors
Here's the color layout for I'm going with for my first sweater. These are a bunch of mini skeins of fingering weight yarn (20g per skein) that I'm going to be holding doubled while I knit and slowly fade together as I go. Looking at the top left you can see I casted on and did the set up row
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Inktober Masterpost! - Here is a compilation of all of the works I made for Inktober this year! This is the first time I’ve participated in Inktober and I’m honestly so proud of myself. You can find all the individual posts of these on my Tumblr page.
Week 1 - I tried to keep a consistent style, inking little witch character designs on small bits of multicoloured paper and scanning those in.
Week 2-3 - Experimented with more traditional watercolours, inking first and then applying colour. I tried scanning these at first but the colours came in washed out and oversaturated so I took pictures instead. I like the concept for most of these but the execution was poor and I definitely need more practice.
End week 3 - I started to put a lot more effort into creating finished designs, by transferring traditionally inked drawings to photoshop and then colouring those in. I tried to stick to a Halloween theme so witches are a component again, like in week 1. I was very proud of these designs, so they’re available on my Redbubble and Society6.
Week 4 - Started embroidery for the very first time and created two pieces I’m very proud of. Also transferred my sewing skills to creating plush cactus desk buddies! Finished off the week with another witchy girl who is also available in my store, and by reaching out to people affected by some of the current tensions in the US.
Redbubble Link | Society 6 Link
This compilation was made with the help of the Layout app on IOS, and it’s totally worth downloading.
