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Photo of a hand-carved crochet hook made from elm wood sitting on a dark surface next to a gree crochet star.

🧶 Elm is also a nice wood for some lovely grain patterns. I used to have an elm in the garden, which sadly succumbed to Dutch Elm Disease, but it left behind a number of badly placed and apparently unkillable offspring, which provide the material 😅

#crochet #yarncrafts #woodcarving #whittling

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Photo of a crochet hook made from oak sitting on a dark surface. The handle of the hook has a very elegant curve and is still covered in the original grey/green bark with dark bands around it.

Photo of the bottom end of the crochet hook which shows a very pretty ring pattern.

🧶 The very first crochet hook I ever carved, oh, back in the summer of 2019, was this little number from an oak branch I found while hiking. It's aged beautifully and I'll never get tired of looking at the pretty, pretty end grain pattern.

#crochet #yarncrafts #woodcarving #whittling

No, not overly, but it is very slippery to work with.

... only it wasn't so frustratingly unpredictable!

#crochet #yarncrafts #woodcarving #whittling

Photo of two crochet hooks sitting on a dark background above some greenery. The hooks are made from fuchsia wood and have bent and twisted as they dried out.

🧶 By far the weirdest wood I've ever worked with is fuchsia. It's unbelievably wet (= impossible to sand) when green, and unbelievably hard (= impossible to carve) when dry, and has the most unfortunate way of shrivelling and twisting as it dries out. It could be perfect for smaller hooks, if... 1/2

Photo of a hand-carved crochet hook made from cherry wood sitting on a dark surface next to a bright yellow unfinished piece of crochet lace.

🧶 The other good thing about cherry wood is that it will stay stable even at a smaller size - not all types of wood will. The smallest size crochet hook I've made is 2mm. Not quite small enough for the teeniest tiniest of laces, but hey...

#crochet #yarncrafts #woodcarving #whittling

It’s so weird that not so long ago, like, less than 20 years, the progressive feminist position was gender de-segregation in sport and other male dominated spaces. Then the terfs came along and convinced the mainstream that the most progressive feminist position is that women are weak and feeble.

Photo of a crochet hook made from cherry wood sitting ona dark surface next to a crochet star made from bright pink and orange yarn. The handle of the hook is slightly bent and still has its natural bark on.

🧶Most commonly I use cherry wood for my crochet hooks, because it's easiest to find around here. It's also got some really nice colours.

#crochet #yarncrafts #woodcarving #whittling

Photo of a crochet hook made from rosemary wood. It's sitting on a dark surface, next to a crochet star made from natural white wool and a rosemary sprig.

Photo of a rosemary beetle sitting on some twigs. It's a shiny metallic green with purple stripes.

🧶 For wood, I use anything I can get my filthy paws on, really. This crochet hook was made from a rosemary bush in my garden, that I had to cut back because it was blocking a path.

(That was also when I learned about the existence of rosemary beetles.)

#crochet #yarncrafts #woodcarving #whittling

Photo of a hand-carved crochet hook made from larch wood. It's sitting on a dark surface, between a crochet star made from natural white wool, and a cranesbill leaf.

Did you know that the labels hardwood and softwood say nothing about how hard or soft a wood is? It's just about whether a tree has leaves (hard) or needles (soft).

This #crochet hook is made from larch, which is one of the hardest woods we have, despite being classed as a softwood.

Photo of a hand-carved crochet hook made from lilac wood. The bottom of the handle still has the natural bark and some lichen. It sits on a dark background, next to a pink crochet star, a purple fireweed blossom and some honeysuckle greens.

Have I mentioned I also make #crochet hooks? Let's have a look!

Sometimes in the summer I get to spend a few days at my grandparents' cottage all by myself, which is blissfully boring, and usually ends with me finding some new wood to try out. This one's lilac, which turned out to be super-smooth.

I had genuinely thought ai had progressed beyond this... Why are these pictures so bad???

9. März 2026: Frauen*streik intersektional - feministisch - solidarisch #ohneunsstehtallesstill Gera, vor dem KUK ab 16 Uhr

Am 9. März streiken wir. Wer kommt mit?

#ohneunsstehtallesstill #omasgegenrechtsgera

Ye, that sounds like a good plan.

It depends on the garment, but if we're talking jumper, I think with only one stitch and three rows difference I'd just go for it. Unless you're going for a skin-tight fit, a few extra stitches per row shouldn't make that much difference on such a thin yarn.

Ooh, that's such a cool way to do the antennae. Very pretty! 😍

Watercolour painting of a little green and yellow bird sitting on a branch covered in pink blossom

Watercolour painting of a little pink and purple bird sitting on a leafy branch with yellow blossoms

To avoid drowning myself in birb paintings, I've added a couple to my shop. Come treat yourself (or someone else) to some cheap art!

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#birdart #birds #watercolour #painting

Small acrylic painting of a little brown bird sitting on a branch

Small watercolour painting of a little orange and green bird with black wings, sitting on a branch surrounded by leaves and berries

Small watercolour painting of a red, orange and pink bird with blue/grey wings sitting on a branch with white blossoms

Small watercolour painting of a green bird sitting on a branch covered in pink blossoms

More birbs!

#Illustration #sketchbook #birds #birdart

being an artist is just decades of going "ugh I wish I knew how to draw" over and over again until you die

Digital illustration of a soft round face in grey monochrome

This year I decided to do something about my drawing skills, so I signed up to Loish's patreon, and a couple of tutorials in, it already feels like I'm making progress... Though it's hard now to look at people without analysing their facial planes...

#illustration #sketchbook

I like how the bee brooch looks like a menacing face glowing in the dark.

A Return to the Box A couple of years ago, you may remember, I discovered both some history of my hometown, and a way to make quite pretty boxes, and blogged about it at length here. At that time, I was still using PV…

I managed to rescue/ finish my little box and have blogged about it here:

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#crafts #boxmaking #birds #painting #history

Don't skimp on your art materials, folks!

Photo of an oval box lid with a ruined, half melted painting of a blue bird on a brown background

Arrgh I painted the cutest bird on this box lid but trying to seal it melted the cheapass acrylic paint underneath 😭😭😭

#painting #acrylic #fail

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

And yet, that's exactly what I expect will happen.

Photo of an acrylic painting of a little blue bird with an orange berry in its beak

The birds never stop around here, really. Here's a little test bird for an upcoming new box.

#illustration #sketchbook #birds

Saw this and thought 'what a brilliant way to think about cows', then figured you might have meant the car, then decided, no. Cows it is.