@hellbentonknitting / hellbentonknitting.tumblr.com
so for the past few weeks I've been streaming myself doing crafts to help my mental health! take a look if you like crochet, knitting, yarn, Star Trek, left politics, being gay, or any of my other various hyperfocuses.
being disabled can be very isolated, so I'm really trying to expand my community. and if you follow me, you can win prizes!
go follow my friend on twitch <3
According to the Monster Manual, a hag coven can craft a magic item called a hag eye, which is made from a real eye coated in varnish. Any hag in the coven can see what the hag eye sees if they are on the same plane of existence. Hag eyes are often given as gifts to people the hags want to spy on, or hidden in key locations near the hags’ lair. This wrap is a representation of the latter: a hag eye hidden in the bark of a tree.
my pattern
just a last lil reminder that my etsy’s sale is running today and tomorrow (13th september at midnight GMT!) good times.
after a long hiatus over the quarantine period, my etsy shop is finally fully open for business! i've stocked it up with winter hats and a few scrunchies, and to celebrate the grand reopening i'm running a 10% off sale from now until september 13th!
Found this on Facebook! BOOST!
Tell Etsy that #ThisIsNotNative
This is why I stopped selling on Etsy. I got really sick and tired of all that nonsense.
To purchase authentic native american artistry, heres a list of indigenous owned businesses you can support:
Please support Native people!!!! In any way!!! Even if its spreading this good message around!!!!
there’s also salwaycc.com!!!
ANOTHER FINISHED SWEATER!!! How do you like them … oranges? 🍊 (Pattern: Quadrat by @beautia818, Yarn: @thedyeproject’s Ecola Worsted in “Painted Lady”, earrings: @aquacherrydesigns.) 🍊 #projectsweaterchest #bipocknitters #knitting #ravelry #knittersofinstagram #knitmoregirlspodcast #knitty #stitcheswest 🍊 [image description: a woman with sunflower blond hair in a vivid orange, cabled sweater, holds a colander of oranges and smirks in front of an orange tree. She is wearing matching eye makeup and bright orange lipstick that compliment the intensity of orange in the sweater.] https://instagr.am/p/B_v_eqmleDK/
I made my spider buddy a spider buddy! Here’s the pattern, below what should hopefully be a read more:
I have plans for the week and they involve a
I think the world will be better for the existence of a crochet spider army and look forward to seeing it! :D Also, in case you want a Spider General to lead your Spider Army (or whatever Spider Army Leaders are called), this pattern works fine with super bulky weight yarn and you get a spider that’s like 5-6″ long instead of the 2-3″ long one in worsted weight! Just use a larger hook size. I guess it could be like the Spider Army equivalent of like those big space whale things from the first Avengers movie? Idk, this metaphor is getting away from me.
Also if you are in Canada, Espace Tricot is owned by a black woman as well although many may not have known. A lot of the yarn companies are indie dyers so please support them especially since a lot of yarn festivals were canceled due to COVID-19
My latest sweater!! It was a request from a friend, and only took 9 days to do!
For everyone selling on Etsy- offsite ads are now up and running which means that Etsy might be advertising your products on Facebook, Bing, etc. If you make a sale from one of these ads, there will be a 15% advertising fee applied to that purchase. That’s on top of Etsy’s regular fees.
Everyone is automatically signed up for this “feature” even if you are not running an ad campaign inside Etsy. If you make less than $10K per year you need to opt out of this program in order to avoid the fees.
This is the link to opt-out, since it isn’t listed anywhere on the regular marketing page.
Etsy announced this a month ago hoping that people would get angry and then forget about it by the time they enabled the option to turn them off. If you know anyone who sells on Etsy, remind them to go opt-out.
Happiness Blanket finished!
❤🧡💛💚💙💜💖🧶🧺
All my love & happiness to remind me of the positive in my life
Inspired by my bf, he's my 🌈.
🌧 or ☀️ 🥰
The team from The Woolery (who are after my heart apparently) went ahead and performed an experiment on what would happen to these gorgeous-looking roving-as-yarn blankets.
Responses from people who have made these, off of r/knitting:
“It was a mess after about a month. Then she tried to wash it and it fell apart.”
“I have to agree with this video 100%! I bought over $500 worth of yarn off Etsy, but when I got it, it looked like a long string of the roving in your video. I hand knit a beautiful queen size blanket. And now it lives in my craft room, behind closed doors. So it doesn’t get destroyed. And because when I use it, the merino fibers tickle my nose. I guess I did something on my bucket list though.”
“Ooof. Wish I’d had this last summer. My aunt begged me knit her one of these and I obliged. $125 price tag even with coupon use and it just pulls right apart. I assumed it was something I could fix and went on and made one for myself. It’s super cozy but boy does it just look awful. Luckily I don’t have any pets to exacerbate this. But thank you for the explanation! I’m going to use this to talk my sister down from asking me for one. ;)”
“Yes! I had a rug made out of this stuff! It was cut like carpet, and looked so cute and cozy/chunky, but it shed like a large dog, and got filthy immediately.”
“I had hundreds of requests to make these. Every single time I said no and my explaination was “They are a prop, at most. They shed, you can’t wash them and it’s like trying to knit a blanket out of cotton candy. It would be a few hundred in just roving.” Most people were happy that I didn’t take their money…..My “competitor” immediately posted that she could make them. She made probably 250+ and sold them at craft shows and made to order for Christmas. $75-$450 each, based on size. By mid January, she was swamped with refund requests…. she didn’t tell anyone that the blankets would fall apart if you look at them. She ended up closing her Etsy/FB shops and noone can find her.”
Sunshine Pillow Case by Topknotch Crochet
Kieran Foley is my favorite designer on Ravelry even though I’ve never attempted one of his patterns. He combines colorwork with lacework and it’s always just so beautiful and his patterns are basically knitting goals for me!!!!
Shawls (top to bottom, left to right)
Everything! Just EVERYTHING here. Omg. Thank you @knit-etc for sharing all of this amazingness.
This is why, after I’m a good crocheter, I now need to learn how to knit.
@lordhellebore Definitely learn continental style! I was a crocheter for 8 years before learning how to knit continental and it only took a couple of hours to pick up well. You’ll already have good tension and everything!
I had to look up what ‘continental knitting’ means and found out it’s the way it’s commonly done where I live ^^ So yes, I’m going to learn it that way. But thanks for the hint - I might have looked up videos in English instead of my language and might have got confused.
It’s also faster way to knit I think, which is good because I’m impatient…
Magnificent Marge Rounded by Colleen O’Neill
The whole gang is here 🎉🎉
#NaKniCroMo Day Twenty-Eight: Newly Learned/Challenging Skill
This last year I took the first little baby steps towards learning how to knit fair isle, even learned to hold a strand to each hand! This upcoming year, I look forward to expanding on that, and/or looking into the first baby steps of two stranded brioche knitting.
