Michellemay@pixelfed.social
Michellemay@pixelfed.social
michellemay@pixelfed.social
All kinds of fibre crafts, basically! Main Fedi account at @thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden, this one is specifically for my FOs past and present.
All kinds of fibre crafts, basically! Main Fedi account at @thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden, this one is specifically for my FOs past and present.
My contribution to #HandmadeWardrobe for @FanCityKnits@troet.cafe is my favourite and most-worn make of all time, this gold Lorelei Cardigan (pattern by Deni Sharpe).
I've worn it everywhere for years and it's extremely scruffy and pilled, yet somehow have very few photos of me wearing it so here's a random one of a very early morning outing to Saltburn beach.
Really great pattern, highly recommend all of Deni's stuff. Making a replacement Lorelei in a new colour is currently on my todo list for 2025. But this one did well to last so long!
#Crochet #Cardigan #LoreleiCardigan
In 2021, a friend and I decided to learn "proper" sewing by doing a remote, two-person makealong of simple drawstring bags.
The perfect thing to hold small knitting projects like socks, it turned out!
Sadly her bag didn't work out quite as well due to the sewing machine inexplicably sewing backwards(?) and also a lack of interfacing. Mine was a kerfuffle of its own as the blog post we were following seemed to make less and less sense as it went on.
But we persevered, and we overcame. And now we can *sort of* sew, hooray!
#Sewing #Knitting #ProjectBag #SockKnitting
For #ThrowbackThursday, a slightly failed experiment in shawl knitting.
This was my attempt at "Gaia" from Marie Adeline Boyer, and it's a lovely pattern but mine has just a few too many noticeable mistakes and also turned out smaller than I'd hoped. It seems I was also very bad at joining a new thing of yarn in a tidy way, back then.
It's a very fun blue though, so contemplating whether there's something else the yarn would rather be... 🤔
#Knitting #Shawl #ShawlKnitting
Hello to all the Pixelfed newbies lately! Here's a smol mushroom that I stitched a few years back, to welcome you in.
A couple of tips to help you settle, based on posts and questions I've seen:
- Use hashtags to get your post seen by others, both on Pixelfed and across the wider Fediverse
- You can follow tags too to get your home feed started, again you'll see stuff from all over Fedi which is pretty cool!
- Add alt text to your pics if you want people to share them, we're big on accessibility round here and turns out it's fun too.
- When you've filled in your bio etc, introduce yourself! Use # introduction plus any other relevant tags for reach, and go make some new friends!
#CrossStitch #Pixelfed #Fediverse
The reason I originally got into cross stitch was because I'd read an interview with Jody Rice, the designer behind Satsuma Street patterns, and everything she designed just made me so happy to look at I knew I needed to learn to stitch them!
This was my first complete Satsuma Street project, Garden Cat, and it took a couple of false starts where I'd made terrible colour substitutions but we got there in the end.
Yes, to this day it still needs an iron 😅
(meant to post this last night but hey, it's still #ThrowbackThursday somewhere I'm sure!)
#CrossStitch #GardenCat #SatsumaStreet
Remembering the time I made these "unique" trinket bowls for a secret santa.
I only knew a few facts about the person, but used them to draw and 3d print a stamp representing their interests. Created three somewhat unevenly nesting bowls, stamped them all in different ways and sealed with blue-dyed resin for the final effect.
I'd never done anything with air dry clay before. Made it up as I went, and tbh they didn't really turn out as planned. But the recipient seemed to like them and it was a fun messy project to make, so win/win!
p.s. There's a whole video on the making of, if anyone has that level of interest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GujrjbFJMJM
#Crafts #AirDryClay #Pottery #Bowls
Halloween shirt! 🎃
My husband always wanted a cool Halloween shirt, but he had very specific requirements so this fabric took a lot of finding.
This was the second shirt I've sewn, and first one where the pattern matching on the pocket actually worked! A year later and I'm still very proud of myself.
Pattern is the short-sleeve version of McCalls 6044, and the fabric was from Spoonflower.
(for the record, he was asked to "just stand normally")
#Sewing #Halloween #Shirt #Spoonflower #M6044
Made as a gift for my grandma in 2020, pretty much just on a whim to see what making a doily would be like. It turned out great and was a lot of fun, but our house has extremely limited uses for doilies so I have so far resisted making any more.
...so far.
Pattern is #Kusuma by Skolastika Kusuma Wardani, who has a few other doily designs too so definitely check those out if you like this one :)
#Crochet #Doily
My first EVER knitting, crochet and cross stitch all in one pic. And I still have them, too!
This random sampler rectangle of different knit stitches was February 2013, and the wonky crochet flower (thanks to the enabling and advice of a friend) followed a couple months later. The cross stitch habit didn't start up until 2015, with this random poppy kit from Dimensions.
All small and unimpressive now, but I was so proud of myself at the time. Bless 🥹
#Knitting #Crochet #CrossStitch
From ye olden days when people were still on Facebook, I remember this was called the "Inconceivable SAL" but can now find no trace of it nor any record of who designed it!
This was my first blackwork piece that had a lot of fractional stitches, and taught me never to do another one like that on aida fabric. I do love it though, was just a nightmare of a stitch! 😅
#Embroidery #BlackworkEmbroidery #InconceivableSAL #PrincessBride
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