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I made this mostly as a way to practice as many Tunisian in-the-round stitches as possible. It is a pretty comfy purse though! The yarn is interesting, I found these enormous spools of it at Goodwill. It's very fine, maybe lace weight, except it's slightly fuzzy? It's not very strong but once it's worked up into a reasonably dense fabric, it'll hold up. Gives the finished object a soft and fuzzy feel.

There's no pattern, but it's very simple. Just work the body of the purse in-the-round as one big cylinder, switching types of Tunisian every few rows for coolness. Then separately make a thin, lonnnggg band of flat Tunisian simple stitch. Slip-stitch the band to the bottom of the cylinder to close it off at one end, and then continue stitching it up the sides of the cylinder. The excess band at the top becomes the purse strap. Overlap and stitch together the ends of the band to form a nice thick padding for your shoulder.

Tunisian in-the-round hooks are little harder to find than hooks for working flat. I really love the set I used to make this purse, but the company discontinued it! I've lost a few of them since then too...

This was delicious when it finished. Just pineapple rinds, sugar and wild yeast, mostly. Sorry there's not really much to see here, I just enjoy watching the bubbles go by, and figured others might too.

Also, fingers crossed this video works right! File hosted on a Pixelfed instance, direct-linked to from a PieFed instance, and posted to a Lemmy instance... That's pretty convoluted lol.

This is a little off the beaten track as far as usual foraging posts go, but I had a question. Has anyone tried spinning Eastern Tent Caterpillar webs into a usable thread/yarn? I'm definitely not one of those people who hates them and wants them gone; they're native here and relatively harmless, despite what naysayers would have you believe. However, they sure do make a ton of webs! I'm sure they could probably stand to part with a little here or there right? Like, after they're done with them?

Not sure if it would work, but if it is spinnable, seems like it might be a convenient local source for an ahimsa silk alternative.

This is a very versatile technique in which you use a special tool (a gripfid) to split the plies of a yarn, and then feed other yarns back through. You can do some pretty amazing colorwork and stitch patterns with it. Everything I've made so far has this very pleasant and unusual "squishiness" to it. Most commonly it's done with 4-ply yarns, splitting them in half each time, but there are tons of other variations. Linda Hendrickson's books on the topic have been a huge help! Something I do that I don't think I've seen mentioned elsewhere is dipping the free ends of the yarn segments into hot wax. This keeps them from fraying as you work, makes them easier to insert into the gripfid, and makes them less likely to come loose.

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Bistitchual

c/bistitchual is a hobbyist textile community based on the popular subreddit of the same name. All needlecrafts are welcome, but it has a particular focus on:
- Utilizing multiple techniques in the same project (i.e. knitted sweater with tatted trim).
- Techniques too obscure to sustain their own dedicated community (i.e. nalbinding).

A bag made with interlaced sprang weaving, and a braided drawstring. Sprang weaving is amazing!! My brother abused the heck out of this thing for years and it held up really well. It's perfect for bags (and pants), because it's super stretchy width-wise and completely inflexible height-wise. I learned most of what I know from one of Carol James' books , but there's so much I haven't tried yet.
Basically, the concept is that it's like weaving, but with only warp threads and no weft. You start with a warped loom, but then you twist the warp threads across each other. Each row you (usually) twist the threads across each other in a different way. Like maybe on row one you twist each thread with it's neighbor, and then on row 2 you skip a thread and do it again so the pairs are different, then on row 3 do the original pairs again except twist them the opposite direction, etc.
In yet another example of modern historians wildly misunderstanding/undervaluing the "women's work" of ancient textiles, check out this amazing article on the history of tight-fitting colorful clothes! Spoiler, it was probably sprang.

Hi stitchers! I have a question for you, but I'll provide some examples/context first. So, depending on your crafts of choice, hopefully you'll be familiar with some of these.

First, the structure we most commonly know from (usually accidental) twisted knitting stitches. This same structure can be created through a technique called cross-knit looping, from the larger field of looping in general. And once more, it can also be created through the method of knooking. While the work is in progress, none of these techniques look anything alike, but the resulting structure is exactly the same, as seen here:

Second, the structure we most commonly know from the simplest form of tablet weaving. Each card/tablet holding 4 threads is spun, and in that process those 4 threads are plied into 1 thicker yarn. But at the same time, a weft thread is being fed between these plies, and locking each card's yarn to the next:

Well, this exact same structure can be created in reverse through a form (darning) of ply-spit braiding! Yarns that are already plied have their plies separated by a special tool, and a weft thread is fed through, connecting one to the next:

So finally my question to you: What other examples of this phenomenon have you observed? Textile structures that are generally identical, but created in wildly different ways. I really enjoy these and I'd love to hear about ones you've encountered in your crafting adventures!

As in bi-stitch-ual. I didn't come up with it though, there's a very popular subreddit by that name, and one whose presence I've sorely missed since moving away. While there are already a bunch of needlecraft communities in the fediverse, as far as I could tell, most of them are dedicated to specific popular crafts (knitting/ crochet/ cross-stitch/etc). That leaves a void for folks interested in, say, ply-split braiding. Or combinations of crafts, like knitted garments with tatted trim.

Also, since PieFed isn't exactly a 1-for-1 Lemmy clone, I figured it could use some of it's own versions of communities anyway.