People are always surprised when I tell them I embroider on my walk to work, but it helps me pass the time and I’ve only run into a lamppost once!
Pattern is September from “A Year of Embroidery” by Yumiko Higuchi: A Year of Embroidery
Needle minder is from Red Gate Stitchery: Red Gate Stitchery
>Have you tried Crafting with Cat Hair? What is the oddest fiber art you've tried?
[laughs] I haven't tried cat hair as a material, no! I've used wool, cotton, silk, linen, alpaca, llama, cashmere, and angora as raw fibers, though! Oddest fiber art--"odd" has a lot of meanings, so I'm going to use interpret this as "obscure": nalbinding! It's a bit like knitting or crochet, but it's thousands and thousands of years old, all the way back to ancient Egypt. The cool thing about nalbinding is that it uses shortish lengths of thread, so when you weave fabric on a loom, you can use all the cut-off trash ends that you end up with after you take the fabric off the loom (hundreds of them, sometimes each a foot long or longer) and make socks or hats. This is great for pre-industrial folks, because making yarn and thread is time consuming and expensive, and you don't want to waste anything that could be put to use.
>If you could spend a day with one of your characters, who would you choose and why? What would the two of you do?
Whats-her-name, the cook from the inn that Ylfing's staying at in Choir of Lies -- the one who claims she can cook nearly anything from anywhere and has Opinions about it. We'd just hang out in her kitchen and she'd feed me. :D
Thanks for taking the time to do an AMA!
> I've tried out every single fiber art you can think of, and some that you can't
Have you tried Crafting with Cat Hair? What is the oddest fiber art you've tried?
If you could spend a day with one of your characters, who would you choose and why? What would the two of you do?
Overly expensive suggestion: this book is awesome. Somebody here us piecing every single block (sorry! I don’t remember who.). I am not that ambitious.
Or! Take it slow and participate in the new r/quilting block/theme of the month thing that just started.
Whatever you do, even the same thing lots of times, will improve your skills. Look forward to seeing what you do!
When you copy and paste directly from Amazon, they tend to collapse something that looks like this—>https://www.amazon.com/dp/1632506963/ref=cm_sw_r_apa_i_0RGAN5HSHNMTKCK28TVT_0
Into something like a(dot)co plus a lot of letters and numbers that enable huge amounts of tracking and can be misused
Reddit blocks these links.
Your best bet is to say “I found a book to be quite helpful, it’s called Operation Sock Drawer and you can find it at (name of bookstore or website)
Link to Tulsa’s book, because I thought of that one too!
I’m still new to socks so the most “complex” I’ve done is Vanilla is the New Black. I have saved Operation Sock Drawer for when I feel more confident to do more complex sock patterns.
Yep! It’s from this book by Susan Briscoe.. Interesting how different it actually looks, at least in the left.
Japanese Quilt Blocks to Mix and Match by Susan Briscoe. It has quite a bit of appliqué and sashiko patterns too. It’s a great book. Lots of inspiration.
I bought a few kits and just dove in. This kit is cheap ($12.99) and a great first felting project to get you started! Comes with all the supplies and a book, and the needle is actually really nice, a lot nicer then ones I’ve gotten in other kits!
You can also find kits for small “starter” projects on Etsy but you can also buy a basic starting kit on amazon that’s got wool and needles and just go for it!
Etsy and amazon also have lots of cheap, easy beginner kits.
This was my first one!
If you look on Etsy and search “hamanaka felting Kit” they have a ton of super cute ones for just under $10 - $15
Also I’ve found felting kits at hobby stores like Michaels and Joanns, they’re a bit pricier then the ones I find online but if you use a store coupon (which you can almost always find a “50% off one item!” or similar type coupon) they’re a decent deal.
And I second the YouTube tutorials - they’re super helpful.
Wool buddies are great! They are on amazon too. The kits are great for beginners. :)
I have Doris Chan's Convertible Crochet. It's a reasonably advanced book on how to take different lace motifs and combine them to make your own unique articles of clothing.