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Fiber artist, on a no buy wardrobe quest 🧶🧵🪡🍄🧿 Knit/crochet/spin/weave/sew/embroider (she/her)

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Nova @nnnova.bsky.social · Oct 17

Thought I’d finally introduce myself:
Hi I’m Nova, (she/her), posting about fiber art, fashion, sustainability etc
🇬🇧 based
On a personal quest for a 100% handmade wardrobe
Here on Bluesky I make feeds, please check them out!

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 2h

Jean Dessès originally began to study law as a future career but in 1925 he abandoned the legal path and turned to fashion instead. Mid century design was all the richer for his decision, full of chiffon, pleats and epic drapery, #1950s @christiesinc.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

The front of a sleeveless yellow chiffon dress. It has a rolled draped neckline and a trellis work bodice that fans out into a full layered skirt

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4h

British.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfHalloween #Gothtober

Vintage Halloween card,
‘I pray you bright
flame
Now show to me
Who my future husband may be.’
‘A Jolly Halloween’
The card depicts an old Halloween tradition of divination or fortune-telling. A young woman in a formal, flowing gown is holding a lit candle and looking into an oval, floor-length mirror. Her reflection shows her in the same dress, but a different person, a well-dressed man, is shown standing behind her. The man is meant to be her future husband.
The postcard is also decorated with other Halloween imagery:
A black cat arches its back on the mantle over the mirror.
A crescent moon with an owl on it is in the center of the mantle, flanked by two lit candles and two bats.
Below the text, a carved jack-o'-lantern, a pumpkin, and ears of corn are shown.

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Sarcasm-himé @sarcasm-hime.bsky.social · 4d

It's still warm enough for me to wear this dress and jacket I recently finished! I was inspired by the Korean jogakbo patchwork technique.

Mostly hand sewn, as I was on a family holiday and needed some relaxing hand sewing. 1000 flat-felled seams may not be relaxing to some, but it is to me 😅

Woman with blue hair wearing an organza dress and jacket made of patchwork in shades of blue and purple

Patchwork fabric made of blue and purple organza

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Sammich Stitches @sammichstitches.bsky.social · 5d

Hello crocheters! Welcome to week 37 of #CrochetAway (the weekly crochet prompt game inspired by #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶)

Let’s keep with the autumn vibes and show off anything 🧡orange🧡

🍊🎃🦁🥕🔸🟠

It’s about time to break out my Southern Sunset Cardigan again so it feels like a good time to reshare!

Pattern:
Southern Sunset Cardigan by Jennifer Lovett
Photo shows author lying on her stomach sprawled while wearing a cozy burnt orange crochet cardigan and holding a mug of coffee

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Liv Ross @livrunsfast.bsky.social · 5d

It’s that time, knitters 🦇…show me your 👻 SPOOKY 👻 knits! Does it have bats? Ghosts? Skulls 💀? Is it 🖤💜? Also accepting pumpkins 🎃 , cats 🐈‍⬛, etc… Week 63, we’re getting into the spirit (👻) #ShowMeYourKnits

Atmospheric Musselburgh hat from @ysoldaknits.bsky.social in @edencottageyarns.bsky.social 🧶

Long hand knit oval that is half purple and half black that gets folded into itself to become a double-layer hat.

Double layer hand knit hat in stockinette, current folded as black hat with purple brim.

Double layer hand knit hat in stockinette, current folded as purple hat with black brim.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

Have you ever noticed that old clothes online sometimes look better than old clothes in your closet?

Why is that? 🧵

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 8d

Happy #WorldOctopusDay! 🐙

Fresco from Rome with an octopus clutching a moray eel and a lobster in its tentacles. Dated to the 2nd quarter of the 2nd century AD.
Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.

An octopus on the early 4th-century mosaic floor in the Basilica of Aquileia, Italy.

Mycenaean terracotta stirrup jar with octopus 1200-1100 BC.

An octopus battling with a lobster on a mosaic from Pompeii.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 9d

Joan d'Arc - Marie-Christine d'Orleans, c. 1836

Bronze statue of a woman in armor above the waist and a skirt below. She is holding a sword by its blade just below the hilt and she has her head bowed in prayer.

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MyCupOfTeaLCSW @mycupoftealcsw.bsky.social · 9d

84 squares later and I have a cropped sweater/bolero thing. #crochet 🧶

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 10d

So much of the design of this early #1930s dress is about a trick of the eye - the trompe l’oeil - created in the illusion of pleats from the placement of the beadwork that covers the entire garment. Designed by Jean Patou it shimmers in pink and gold #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Beaded detail of a pink 1930s evening dress by Jean Patou. The photograph focuses on the gold beaded belt and the illusion of pleats

Full length view of the sleeveless pink and gold beaded evening dress with trompe l’oeil pleats and scoop neckline

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Moe @itsmoe.bsky.social · 10d

My box of sox, in 2021. It was 58 pairs, but I've since added 18 more. I could go 2+ months wearing a unique pair each day.😀But I have favorites. I don't have a problem, I just need a bigger box. 📦👍

Not shown, nearly as many that I've knit for others.

#knitting #knitsky #showmeyourknits #boxofsox

A plastic storage bin with one layer of colorful handknit socks inside. Outside the box is the second layer of colorful handknit socks. Light gray fabric background.

Many colorful pairs of handknit socks. Folded in half and displayed on top of a light gray comforter.

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Jurassic Knits @jurassicknits.bsky.social · 10d

This week is #creepycute for #crochetaway, & I have already shared many of my monsters, but not these!

Pattern is Ponysaur by Megan Lapp/Crafty Intentions. These are 2 of the 3 included leg options, and they are wired through the body to be poseable.

#amigurumi #crochetsky

Crochet monster called a Ponysaur has a long body with pointed tail, four pointy legs, and a single large eyeball for a head. Body is a turquoise/blue/white speckle yarn, and the eye is a turquoise safety eye.

Crochet monster called a Ponysaur has a long body with pointed tail, four pillar legs, and a single large eyeball for a head. Body is turquoise and teal striped yarn, legs are magenta with turquoise stripes, and it has a turquoise safety eye.

In front of the ponysaur are the leftover bits of yarn from failed attempts at yarn chicken.

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Andrea Myklebust @mountainheartvt.bsky.social · 10d

Spotted this beautiful winder at neighbor's yard sale and had to bring it home. I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but it has an adorable "clicker" design. It's a typical, 2-yard circumference, 80-yard measure.

#handspinning #reel #weasle

Am antique yarn winder. It is made of dark wood, has long, thing legs, and 4 arms. It's sitting next to a red woodstove in a farmhouse living room.

A detail of the mechanism of the yarn winder. When the winder is turned clockwise, a wooden gear on the side of the winder turns counter clockwise. A small wooden peg on the gear passes the arm of a weight once every 40 turns. The peg pushes a lever down, and when it passes by, a wooden knocker strikes the table of the winder. The winder is also designed with a built-in wooden handle at the top.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 11d

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm.

Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.

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Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 11d

Finished the inkle band I've been working on!

This is wool yarn, Koigu KPPM (colorway P375), it compressed quite a bit with lovely little sparks of color! With the variegated yarn doing all of the work for the pattern, this one was relaxing after the complicated pickup band of the last one I made!

Close up of a black handwoven band with small dashes of pink, orange, and blue throughout

Band laid out to its full length beside tools: a band shuttle, a small weaving sword, stork scissors, and Ashford Inklette loom

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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 12d

The Battle of Cable Street.

A thread 🧵 with pictures and ALT text.

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On this day in 1936, the East End of London rose up against fascism. The Battle of Cable Street.

#TheyShallNotPass #NoPasaran

A packed East End street in 1936: thousands of anti-fascist residents filling the road and pavements, shopfronts behind them.

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Kathy Reid 🇨🇦🧶🚴‍♀️🏊‍♀️ @kathyreidknitter.bsky.social · 12d

For #showmeyourknits sock week - here’s a pair of shark socks I knit for a friend! 🧶🦈

Grey and white socks that look like sharks eating my legs

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Liv Ross @livrunsfast.bsky.social · 12d

Happy #SOCKTOBER knitters 🧦🧶! Surely everyone guessed this week’s theme!? #ShowMeYourKnits week 62: show me your SOCKS!

In honour of the occasion, I am ignoring all other socks in progress & starting a fancy pair of colourwork/ cable socks for myself 💅! Seward Socks by Caitlin Hunter in Exmoor Sock

About 1.5 inches of 1x1 ribbed cuff of a hand knit sock in green wool. The unknit balls of green and light grey yarn are next to it, along with an unwound skein of dusty pink yarn.

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Charlie Makes Stuff @charliemakesstuff.bsky.social · 13d

New favourite thing I've made! Wasn't getting on with the 70's western shirt, so decided to use this McCalls pattern I've made before & drafted my own yoke. Fabric was a remnant, so happy I was able to get the cowgirl on both sleeves. Brain on collar=happy accident #sewing #garmentsewing #sewsky

Black shirt with zombie pin-up style girls in various poses. Cowboy shirt style yoke in a dusky pink

Close up of shirt sleeve with zombie cowgirl

Close up of pink shirt yoke and collar. Collar has an image of a hand holding a brain

Front of sewing pattern. McCalls M6426 used for the shirt base, minus the yoke.

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Tami Wicinas @tamiwicinas.bsky.social · 15d

More 🐸 bound for the kiln 🔥
#ceramics #frogart

Ceramic frogs of different sizes and colors. There’s one on an oak leaf and one on a mushroom.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 18d

Tied up with little bows in an emerald parcel, a late #1950s Balenciaga gown for a weekend celebration, just the hint of a bustle at the back. Sold via #kerrytaylorauctions #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Front and back view of an emerald green sleeveless dress with a fitted bodice and full skirt. It is decorated with small self coloured bows

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 19d

For #InternationalRabbitDay 🐰🐇:
Love the facial expression on this blue bunny, it just keeps getting funnier the longer you stare back at it😂
China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1654-1722), porcelain w/ blue glaze, Newfields collection: collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/23070/

blue porcelain rabbit figure on white background, front view - bunny is looking at us head on with a smirking expression on its face

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Liv Ross @livrunsfast.bsky.social · 19d

It’s been a week 😮‍💨! Reminder that creating & making are important as is building & protecting community.
Week 61: show me something that brings you JOY 🎉 or that you have #knit to CARE 💕 for others.
Surf Wax socks in Coop Knits Socks Yeah! for my bestie, who is visiting tomorrow ☺️🥰. #ShowMeYourKnits

A pair of light blue hand knit socks with a chevron stitch pattern on the legs and feet. They have coral accent toes and stripes on the ribbed cuff.

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Sammich Stitches @sammichstitches.bsky.social · 25d

Hi friends! Week 34 of #CrochetAway (the crochet prompt game inspired by #ShowMeYourKnits) is here!

Let’s revisit the OG of crochet, the versatile granny square

I love these mitts that’s use a granny square in a way I hadn’t seen before.

Pattern: Not Your Granny’s Mitts by Erika Loftin

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Fingerless crochet mitts made with granny squares in inverted colors. The left is green with a grey middle motif, the right is grey with a green middle motif

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