The great 2024 #decluttering has turned up this. It’s a washable colouring in map thingy. I’m very tempted to turn it into a small quilt. Maybe with flags around the outside as a border? Could maybe colour in the critters with embroidery? 🤔
@crochet #crochet #craft #catsofmastadon
So I haven't finished weaving all the ends in yet!!
It's going to be a long haul, as you can probably see it's a huge blanket! Pretty pleased with the end result 😁😁Our bed was made by
Mr DoubleTreble and is almost King size.
Ollie in the background may not be allowed on this blanket as I think she'll just pluck threads 😹😹
Here’s day 1 of #MyCreativeYear. It’s the 20th and I’m starting (unsurprisingly) with January.
I was bought a loom by Mr. CP for Christmas, which I started to play with properly in January. I absolutely love weaving - seems to have the right balance of repetition and concentration for me.
I made a scarf (shocking I know!) and a piece of fabric I later turned into a cushion cover.
Saw this on Instagram and had to track down the pattern. I really love the colours used in this sample.
Think it would be a perfect way to use up all those left-over yarn from old projects.
Found this article through a BBC article on sashiko. Even though it's 6 years old, I think it's quite interesting.
"In terms of Sashiko stitching, she doesn’t have the best skill. Although her Sashiko technique is sufficient to call her artist, her significance is to anticipate the result in Sashiko and Vintage Fabric combination."
Mt. Everest is laden with waste left by climbers — Nepal's Department of Tourism estimates that there are nearly 140,000 tons. Now, some of that material is finding its way to Tharu craftswomen who combine discarded ropes with moonj, a traditionally harvested wild grass, to make boxes and mats. NPR's Tanka Dhakal explains more about how the program works, and how its organizers hope it will grow.
My latest batch of handmade paper is done. There's one sheet on the left that has not been pressed, and a stack on the right that has been pressed and has a very smooth surface. (Ready for more relief prints!)
‘Puan Laisen’, the distinctive mark of the Mizo people. Being one, I’m a bit partial as to how much I love the colors and the combo.
/ Yeah, very similar to the colors of Iraqi flag 🇮🇶 . The colors of the ‘Young Mizo Association‘ flag (an NGO) are also similar. Didn’t like it very much when I first realized it (in the sense, that it’s not so unique…haha).
AI is already creating rampant false information and fake memories. I was looking for images from the 1970s BBC series Space: 1999 and found the images below. Wow, extravagant sets and sharp photography for a TV series from that time. Clicking into it I find it's from a dude who inputs text into an image generator and then sells prints claiming it's both his creative use ("prompt designer" 🤮🤮🤮) and actual sets from the series. #ai#design#history#art#craft
Amazing Perthshire Drystone. Standing for hundreds of years. I love a single-skinned dyke.
'And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’ - Robert Frost
If you would like to learn more drystone terminology, I made a glossary
I tend to discuss:
🎨 Any #craft or 🧶 #crochet project I'm entangled in
🥋 Goings on at #aikido
🐶 Happenings at #dogtraining that I volunteer at as a trainer
🦊 Lots and lots of #corgi spam
There are many ways to survive erasure. One is craft. Artisanship and making are powerful tool to render diverse cultures and identities, those intangible things that imperial colonialism fears and aims to delete for ever.
The #Palestinian Taatreez, is an ancestral embroidery practice, that helps the Palestinian people not just to tell, but especially not to forget, their own story: one stitch at a time
I want to learn how to do #VisibleMending but I suck at teaching myself new #hobbies so I want to take an in person class & the only ones near me start at $100+.
So yeah, got any recommendations for learning how to mend clothing in fun ways? Sigh. I see if I can get a book out from the library.
Folk might be interested to know that across the month of May, Sustainable Fashion Week’s #MendItMay campaign invites people to mend one piece of clothing, celebrating repair as an act of empowerment.
I think I'll have a go at my #mending pile. If anyone wants to share mending projects or #craft pics, that'd be lovely.
The stats for why #repair is great are pretty compelling: