I've gotten 51 hexapuffs for my sister's blanket done! I only need...*checks calculations again* 507 more for the whole thing, then 26 half-hexapuffs so that it's got a nice finished edge.
this count as fiber arts? twisted a whole bunch of cord out of grass when I was bored at work yesterday, then made it into a turkshead bracelet last night. I just learned how to do both of these things last weekend! for some reason this is much more satisfying to me than knitting ever has been. I want to make more string, out of different things!
You're using raw local plant fibers to make basic cord! It's a very old fiber art :) Also the world of making string out of things is super addictive, welcome
GUYS I HAVE A PROBLEM i forgot a pile of alpaca in the greenhouse when i was washing fleeces, and it was in a container that doesn't fully drain (no holes in bottom, only sides) and there was some kind of anaerobic thing going on and it stinks like sewage. and my back is too hecked up to do anything athletic to fix it, such as multiple rinses in small batches and draining in a colander. frankly i don't think any amount of plain rinsing will remove it, i probs have to wash it again, but oh my back. any suggestions for getting an almighty stank out of a big heavy alpaca fleece without making it brittle or bleaching it? it's a natural brown/gray that i really like and want to overdye with red so it turns burgundy, in the manner of the urumchi mummies' textiles. bleaching would be Bad. and i fear baking soda would soak in such that when i try to use acid dye on it it'll foam up and/or keep the dye from setting.
I've had some success with using vinegar to remove smells in carpeting or upholstery, which is at least a related acid altho it might throw your acid balance off? I've also had a lot of success with vodka on carpets and furniture, but I have no idea what that would do chemically.
vinegar's cheaper than vodka, that's for sure. :D yeah, i'll try soaking it with a few cups of cleaning vinegar, thanks. if i wasted vodka on laundry i'd cry.
besides, if letting this poor fleece get rained on (greenhouse leaks like a sieve ;_;) means it's ruined -- a whole adorable beastie's full year of hair-growing work wasted! -- i'm going to need the vodka for me.
I don’t know much about fiber dying or what would interfere with it, but if there’s still a stank left when you’re done, you could try packing it in cedar chips for a while (or some other aromatic thing, if you don’t like the smell of cedar). wouldn’t so much eliminate the smell as replace and overpower it, but at least it might be preferable?
Ahhhh, that turned out so cool!! I love your color choices and I'm so glad the pattern worked out for you! :D
Not my art, but a wonderful friend of mine crocheted me this gorgeous yarmulke as a present and I need to show it off haha
https://www.knittingmagic.biz/patterns/ribbed-leaf-pattern.html does anyone know where i could find this stitch pattern as a chart? my eyes turn into little swirlies whenever i try to read text-only patterns.
if you give me a day or two I can convert it to a chart do you have any preferred symbols for stitches
...dear god these instructions are really difficult to read http://www.knittingfool.com/StitchIndex/StitchDetail.aspx?StitchID=1641 these are better I'll try and work off of 'em
okay I think this is right?? odd number rows are either knit or purl, depending | = knit \ = left twist / = right twist
talking of patterns, does anyone know where I might find a whole bunch of good decorative knot tutorials? I want to make some my granola mother some grass cord jewelry for christmas.
that's really hard to read, sorry. it's easier than text, but kinda hard to tell the slashes apart when they're all together. it goes all op art on me. maybe use < and > for the twists? thank you for your effort, btw, i don't want to be ungrateful! i'm just getting old and my eyes are going weird. :P
Okay, I don't personally do Outlander, but I am ALL about scots/irish aesthetic, and this Wrapped in Jamie CAL is my jam Spoiler: large These are about 16 inches across, and the three raised rows are Rough on the hands, and this is for a present and not for ME, so this blanket is going to top out at 3x4 squares. But the CAL is releasing a square a week for, uh, thirty weeks. Plus two big squares, triangles if you want to do a shawl, an eventual border, etc. I've been buying the pattern pdfs ($1 each, i think?), which are gr8 and include images at the end to help with the tricky bits. The actual stitching isn't difficult, but the ways things go across rows really adds up to a cool-looking whole. Each pattern also includes an explanation of the inspiration for the different patterns, so the twisty one in the bottom right is based on a carved wooden snake Jamie was given as a child, etc. I'm really enjoying this so far! I'm impatient for the new squares and my hands are le sore, but I like this a lot!
....I may have made the mistake of deleting the page after finishing but lemme see if it got saved somewhere and I can track something down
