Textiles, Fiber Arts, and Needlecrafts

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This community is for all of the above!! However, it has an extra emphasis on:

Projects that incorporate multiple crafts (knitting/weaving/etc) in the same work.
People who do more than one kind of textile.
Questions/discussions that transcend any one specific craft.
Rare forms of textiles (nalbinding/kumihimo/etc) with too small a web presence to flourish in their own dedicated forum.

This is mainly because the more popular textile methods already have their dedicated communities, and we don't want to divide their audience. Here are some of the existing ones:

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Mhhhhm... Something seems wrong with my nålebind project.. 🤔 (pouet.chapril.org)

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Mhhhhm... Something seems wrong with my nålebind project.. 🤔

Must be the colours, i'm sure ! Not at all because I didn't tie the knots tight enough on the first row 😌

Fortunately, the project is to make a headband, so it's not too much of a problem (if it had been socks or something else, a bit more complicated...)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's always that first row that gets me too... 😅 This is awesome though, love to see nalbinding content on the fedi!

Personally, what I've been doing instead is using a thin knitting needle as sort of a stand-in for my thumb, like this. That gets all the stitches nice and tight! Probably kind of a cop-out to just learning the "proper" way to get good tension, but it works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

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Exactly ! For me personally it's always the Oslo stitch that's giving me some difficulties lol more complex ones ? Easy peasy but the Oslo stitch ? 🫥🫥

I will be using that solution for it so thank you for the information 😁 I think I have a needle or crochet somewhere lol