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jamespurvis.bsky.social
Jay Spins Stuff
@jamespurvis.bsky.social
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Handspinner sharing my projects.
Knitting, crochet, and other fibre arts stuff when I’m not spinning 🧶

🏳️‍🌈 queer, sorcerer, AuDHD, coffee enthusiast
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I jwore my regular jeans, and paired them with converse because they felt sort of appropriate and I couldn’t find thrifted cowboy boots. This was a fairly challenging make. The work on the biker vest definitely improved my pattern drafting and sewing skills, so time well spent #RockyHorror
January 18, 2026 at 7:26 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
For the slingshot necklace, I sketched this out and made a replica from fimo. For the skull keyring, I took the skull off a plastic Halloween skeleton toy and added the keyring with a jump ring. I also had painted a black T-shirt with the word “Eddie” in green. I already owned the scarf #RockyHorror
January 18, 2026 at 7:26 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
I bought the hiker vest from Vinted, took it apart, drafted and cut out a new back panel and lapels, and sewed them into the vest. This was difficult, but my sewing machine survived! I then drafted and cut out a felt appliqué design for the back to match the jacket from the film, and added studs.
January 18, 2026 at 7:26 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
Went to a rocky horror showing last night, had the best time with my friends and won a prize for my Eddie costume! It’s not often I get up in front of a crowd and do the time warp, but when I do it I do it in style!
Details on the making in the thread 🧵
#RockyHorror #CosPlay #Crafts
#HandMade 🧶
Close up of the face and upper torso of a man in an Eddie rocky horror costume. He wears a greaser wig, a leather biker jacket with leopard print lapels, a model slingshot necklace, a greaser wig and dark eye makeup A man stands in front of a white wall. He is wearing a costume of Eddie in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. He raises one hand in a rock horns gesture and sticks his tongue out. The costume comprises: a greaser wig, a studded biker vest with leopard print lapels, a white scarf, a slingshot necklace, a black t-shirt with “Eddie” painted on it in green, jeans and black converse. The back of a leather biker vest showing a felt reconstruction of the design on Eddie’s jacket in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It shows a rising sun in red and yellow, and the word baby in a red angular font
January 18, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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Me to my Lazy Kate as I cut small pieces of sellotape and stick them by their edges around her frame in order to wrap presents: Girl, is there anything you can’t do?

#HandSpinning #HandSpunYarn
December 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
Yeah it’s perfect for travel. I did quite a lot of it on various train journeys. Let me know how you get on with yours, when you knit it I’d love to see pictures
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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It’s an amazing pattern - I love that it’s gaugeless as I sometimes just spin what the fibre is telling me to make and then it’s like “what can I do with this?” 😆
December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
Thankyou so much! It’s been my favourite make of all this year - and I’ve been wearing it everywhere since I finished it - thanks for writing the pattern
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
It’s official, I love this and wear it everywhere now 🥰

Pattern is @chaseharpole.bsky.social ‘motorcoach’ made with my handspun yarn

The flat lay photo is taken before blocking and seaming so you can see the colour interactions

#knitsky #knitting #HandSpunYarn 🧶
A triangle of knitted fabric lies on the floor partially on a colourful striped rag rug. The fabric shows three stripes of rich deep colours red, teal and yellow which is mottled with brown. Between each colour stripe there is a fade A man with a dark unkempt beard smiles at the camera wearing a grey hoodie and a hand knitted cowl in teal, red and yellow. In the background we see a fairly busy market street
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
I definitely gave in and made some green bean casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy… worst at being British award incoming 😅🧶
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
Apparently almost all the news on my feed has been replaced by the fact that *checks notes* Americans are consuming a meal today

We’ll ignore the fact that I love green bean casserole, and cornbread dressing 😅🧶
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
Thankyou so much
November 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
Thankyou! 😊
November 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
Not as much knitting time as I wanted this week but I’m making up for it this morning adding my last colour stripe to this cowl. This is all my own handspun and I can’t wait to wear it!

Pattern is @chaseharpole.bsky.social ‘Motorcoach’

#KnitSky #knitting #HandSpinning #HandSpunYarn 🧶
This picture shows garter stitch knitted cowl in progress on the needles. It’s knitted in approximately DK weight handspun yarn and has three colours visible: a deep red, a rich teal and a mustard yellow. The needles are being held in the knitters left hand while the photo is taken and the knitting rests on the knitters jean clothed legs. In the background we can see a bit of a rug and beanbag
November 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
Swiss darning is a technique if you want the repair to match the structure of the knit, it’s a little fiddly but there’s some great you tube tutorials, and you just need yarn, scissors, a large blunt sewing needle and something to stretch the sweater over - sometimes cans are good. Good luck 😊
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
Thankyou! I wore them to choir tonight and I’m very happy with it 😊
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
Great colours - also I was curious where the name came from, good to know!
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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It’s patched, interfaced on the inside and then there’s a lining patch over the top - I took the photo before I ironed it, it looks very flat now 😂
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Elmo: if the landlord can't afford the place without your rent then you are providing housing for the landlord
November 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
Oh I feel you! It’s such a struggle - although I do enjoy getting up early sitting with a cup of tea and saying “I’d better darn them trousers before the light goes” like I’m a character in a play 😂
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
When you own as many black clothes as I do (aging emos die hard 😂) and you live in the UK where there’s currently 9 hours of daylight (and still waning) you sit up in the morning and do your mending #mending 🧶
A mended pair of black jeans with a black fabric patch over the crotch. The iPhone camera colour correction has exaggerated the differences between the fabrics which look closer to one another in real life A pre-mended pair of black jeans with rips and frays in the crotch. In the photo we can see small pair of fabric scissors and a cross-stitch embroidered needle case which says “count once stitch twice, count twice stitch once” in different shades of blue
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
Finished these a week or so ago and forgot to post a picture - this is my standard sock recipe in a self striping 4ply, I just needed another pair of socks for the winter
#knitting 🧶
A pair of socks lie flat on a black and white striped rug. The socks are hand knitted with a ribbed top and a an eye of the partridge texture on the heel, which gives a waffle like texture. The socks are predominantly of white with solid strips of blue, yellow and orange, as well as stripes made of colour blocks of grey red and dark blue
November 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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I did feel very smug that I’d timed the colour change so well lol
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
Post a non-religious image you think of as holy
This is the log lady from Twin Peaks. She stands beside a log cabin wall holding a log. She has shoulder length bob hair, and large red glasses. She is wearing a purple knitted cardigan with patterned detail on the sleeve. Behind her is wallpaper featuring plants. She stares concernedly out of the photo
November 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
jamespurvis.bsky.social
Places you can knit: at the best coffee shop in your hometown, or possibly the world - Darkroom Espresso.
It’s so great to be back here and have a little time to relax, knit and drink great coffee

Pattern is @chaseharpole.bsky.social ‘s ‘Motorcoach’ cowl

#HandSpunYarn #HandSpinning #Knitting 🧶
This picture shows some deep reds garter stitch knitting which has just had some teal contrast rows work in at the edges. The stitches are still live on the needle and the knitter has paused mid row, holding the needles up in one hand. The yarn is hand spun. In the background we can see a white tabletop, a flat white coffee and a some cake with a fork on a small plate
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM