Julie
@rljulie.bsky.social
Art, books, travel, museums, dollhouses, knitting, fashion history, smashing the patriarchy, cats.
The next Iconic Knit in miniature: this jacket, from an upcycled Hudson Bay point blanket, inspired by a variety of jackets in historical tradition but especially the modern iteration by @kittybadhands. Silk/mohair, 0.8 needles, this version is one I’ve been working on for months, off and on.
June 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The next Iconic Knit in miniature: this jacket, from an upcycled Hudson Bay point blanket, inspired by a variety of jackets in historical tradition but especially the modern iteration by @kittybadhands. Silk/mohair, 0.8 needles, this version is one I’ve been working on for months, off and on.
#ShowMeYourKnits baby stuff! Tiny baby sweaters in 1/12 scale (shown in front of a miniature yarn shop roombox, handy for showing off the tiny knitting in general.) #miniatures #dollhouses #knitting 🧶
March 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
#ShowMeYourKnits baby stuff! Tiny baby sweaters in 1/12 scale (shown in front of a miniature yarn shop roombox, handy for showing off the tiny knitting in general.) #miniatures #dollhouses #knitting 🧶
For anyone needing a little emotional support…there’s a little Emotional Support Chicken. Made using an adapted version of Annette Corsino’s wonderful knitting pattern, adjusted for miniaturization. 🧶🐓♥️
February 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
For anyone needing a little emotional support…there’s a little Emotional Support Chicken. Made using an adapted version of Annette Corsino’s wonderful knitting pattern, adjusted for miniaturization. 🧶🐓♥️
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Some things never change!
A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:
“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂
Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA
#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology
A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:
“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂
Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA
#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology
![The photo shows a Roman iron stylus pen used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The image shows the four lines of inscribed text which read:
‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi
gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’
‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift
with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give)
as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’
Excavated in London by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreidl4tnhxi3qbq6bveq65le2cbfbjty36jsqyncoquqvvgqk42e7ze@jpeg)
January 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Some things never change!
A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:
“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂
Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA
#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology
A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:
“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂
Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA
#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology
Cable day on #showmeyourknits and I just so happen to be revising the cable pattern I wrote for the Taylor Swift “folklore” sweater. Doing the “1989” one next. 🧶
January 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Cable day on #showmeyourknits and I just so happen to be revising the cable pattern I wrote for the Taylor Swift “folklore” sweater. Doing the “1989” one next. 🧶
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Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
April 19, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
I love this profile, especially since it highlights the process pictures…and the process, the messy fragmented part of the whole, is where I personally spend the most time with each piece. 🧶
Miniature Knitter Julie Steiner Reimagines Iconic Sweaters in Itty Bitty Form – PRINT Magazine
We chat with Julie Steiner about her beloved niche art form, why miniatures are so compelling, and her unending urge to knit mini sweaters.
www.printmag.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I love this profile, especially since it highlights the process pictures…and the process, the messy fragmented part of the whole, is where I personally spend the most time with each piece. 🧶
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This is just to say
I have eaten
the democracy
that was your
America
and which
you were probably
saving
for your children
Forget it
it was delicate
it was
for sale
so it sold
I have eaten
the democracy
that was your
America
and which
you were probably
saving
for your children
Forget it
it was delicate
it was
for sale
so it sold
January 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This is just to say
I have eaten
the democracy
that was your
America
and which
you were probably
saving
for your children
Forget it
it was delicate
it was
for sale
so it sold
I have eaten
the democracy
that was your
America
and which
you were probably
saving
for your children
Forget it
it was delicate
it was
for sale
so it sold
As I creak and wobble around the house following gallbladder surgery, taking an arsenal of medication, I am reminded that Andy Warhol died from complications of this same surgery. Sorry about that, Andy: here’s to you. #arthistory
January 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
As I creak and wobble around the house following gallbladder surgery, taking an arsenal of medication, I am reminded that Andy Warhol died from complications of this same surgery. Sorry about that, Andy: here’s to you. #arthistory
“Possibly one of the most impactful art losses ever in America.” www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
‘One of the Most Impactful Art Losses Ever’: Insurers Start to Assess LA Wildfire Damage
As fires raged across Los Angeles this week, numerous artists, collectors, and arts professionals have reported losing their art collections.
www.artnews.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“Possibly one of the most impactful art losses ever in America.” www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Thinking about the @gettymuseum.bsky.social today and all the staff and planning it takes to keep an art collection safe from wildfires. Preserving cultural patrimony isn’t for sissies. (Here, Gustave Caillebotte’s “Young Man at a Window.”)
January 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Thinking about the @gettymuseum.bsky.social today and all the staff and planning it takes to keep an art collection safe from wildfires. Preserving cultural patrimony isn’t for sissies. (Here, Gustave Caillebotte’s “Young Man at a Window.”)
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Sensationalism is an addiction akin to junk food. It floods your brain with dopamine––overstimulating it & training it to be less sensitive to natural sources of pleasure.
Here’s a warning: if you want to be happy in 2029, DON'T let sensationalism hijack your neuropathways in 2025. (See alt txt)
Here’s a warning: if you want to be happy in 2029, DON'T let sensationalism hijack your neuropathways in 2025. (See alt txt)
December 12, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Sensationalism is an addiction akin to junk food. It floods your brain with dopamine––overstimulating it & training it to be less sensitive to natural sources of pleasure.
Here’s a warning: if you want to be happy in 2029, DON'T let sensationalism hijack your neuropathways in 2025. (See alt txt)
Here’s a warning: if you want to be happy in 2029, DON'T let sensationalism hijack your neuropathways in 2025. (See alt txt)
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Brilliant piece by Elena Kanagy-Loux for @hyperallergic.com back in April! 👇🏽
One of the most heartening aspects for me of teaching a course on craft and design, also earlier this year, was the opportunity to encourage students to look differently at family heirlooms and their own creations ✊🏽
One of the most heartening aspects for me of teaching a course on craft and design, also earlier this year, was the opportunity to encourage students to look differently at family heirlooms and their own creations ✊🏽
Missed this back in April: “When will art institutions begin to pay respect to the legacies of our foremothers’ artistry? And when will we, as a culture, move beyond rigid hierarchies of value and celebrate domestic crafts in their own right?”
My Grandma's Doilies Are Not a Joke
When will art institutions finally pay respect to our foremothers’ artistry?
hyperallergic.com
December 29, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Brilliant piece by Elena Kanagy-Loux for @hyperallergic.com back in April! 👇🏽
One of the most heartening aspects for me of teaching a course on craft and design, also earlier this year, was the opportunity to encourage students to look differently at family heirlooms and their own creations ✊🏽
One of the most heartening aspects for me of teaching a course on craft and design, also earlier this year, was the opportunity to encourage students to look differently at family heirlooms and their own creations ✊🏽
My cat Mo is very interested in my latest book of knitting patterns (by Sara Elizabeth Kellner). I told him if he doesn’t behave himself, I’m going to knit myself a replacement cat. 😉
December 16, 2024 at 5:33 PM
My cat Mo is very interested in my latest book of knitting patterns (by Sara Elizabeth Kellner). I told him if he doesn’t behave himself, I’m going to knit myself a replacement cat. 😉
Art history is indeed a solace.
I wrote about the bowl and about how joy in a dark time is a candle that must be protected.
Joy in the dark is a candle.
I don’t feel good about our country, and I don’t wish I our country well.
open.substack.com
December 15, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Art history is indeed a solace.
“December staggered in like a weary mud-encrusted vagabond who had been on her way to someplace else but whose legs had buckled and now she was here.” This novel caught me from the first sentence and has not let go. One of several Kenyan authors whose books I picked up in Nairobi, for perspective.
December 15, 2024 at 4:06 AM
“December staggered in like a weary mud-encrusted vagabond who had been on her way to someplace else but whose legs had buckled and now she was here.” This novel caught me from the first sentence and has not let go. One of several Kenyan authors whose books I picked up in Nairobi, for perspective.
“If you outsource your writing, you are outsourcing your thinking.” 🔥🔥🔥
AI is ruining my life. I am so tired of having conversations with students about their AI use, which is not allowed in my writing classroom. Writing and thinking cannot be disentangled. If you outsource your writing, you are outsourcing your thinking. I am so tired.
December 8, 2024 at 3:57 AM
“If you outsource your writing, you are outsourcing your thinking.” 🔥🔥🔥
From the category of “things we knew, but it’s nice that someone nailed down the data on it”: looking at real art in museums stimulates our brain in important ways.” #arthistory #museums #vermeer
Just Why Is 'Girl With Pearl Earring' So Captivating?
The Mauritshuis Museum has teamed up with Dutch researchers to probe emotional responses to Vermeer's "Girl With Pearl Earring."
news.artnet.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:53 AM
From the category of “things we knew, but it’s nice that someone nailed down the data on it”: looking at real art in museums stimulates our brain in important ways.” #arthistory #museums #vermeer
I’m traveling this weekend to visit this piece, which I made earlier this year, and which is now in the collection of the KSB Miniatures Collection in Maysville, Kentucky. This is a “first” for me: the first time I’ll see something I made displayed in a museum. #fiberarts #knitting #miniatures 🧶🐑♥️
December 6, 2024 at 12:57 AM
I’m traveling this weekend to visit this piece, which I made earlier this year, and which is now in the collection of the KSB Miniatures Collection in Maysville, Kentucky. This is a “first” for me: the first time I’ll see something I made displayed in a museum. #fiberarts #knitting #miniatures 🧶🐑♥️
When a woman does it, it’s craft, but when a man does it, it’s art. Miniature knitting inspired by the designs of @crochetingmoonfairy fiber arts. #knitting done on 0.6mm steel needles, with silk sewing thread.
December 2, 2024 at 9:59 PM
When a woman does it, it’s craft, but when a man does it, it’s art. Miniature knitting inspired by the designs of @crochetingmoonfairy fiber arts. #knitting done on 0.6mm steel needles, with silk sewing thread.
Ready to go shopping: tomorrow is Museum Store Sunday, supporting our communities through supporting non-profits (and the missions they support in turn.) Find the best museum stores near you with this map: museumstoresunday.org/find-a-store/
Find a Store | Museum Store Sunday
Museum stores perform integral and multifaceted work for their institutions - from earning income and extending mission-related programs, to visitor engagem ...
museumstoresunday.org
November 30, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Ready to go shopping: tomorrow is Museum Store Sunday, supporting our communities through supporting non-profits (and the missions they support in turn.) Find the best museum stores near you with this map: museumstoresunday.org/find-a-store/
This beautiful antique cat painting by some Russian great-great-grandfather of our Thanksgiving host looks a lot like my cat Mo. #catsinart 😸
November 29, 2024 at 3:42 PM
This beautiful antique cat painting by some Russian great-great-grandfather of our Thanksgiving host looks a lot like my cat Mo. #catsinart 😸
From that time I perched a row of tiny sweaters on my bookshelf to appear in the background of my video meetings. (Nobody noticed them. They’re too small.) I love how tiny they look in the context of “the real world.” Also, I miss them! (These have since gone on to other collections.) 🧶 #knitting
November 26, 2024 at 2:36 PM
From that time I perched a row of tiny sweaters on my bookshelf to appear in the background of my video meetings. (Nobody noticed them. They’re too small.) I love how tiny they look in the context of “the real world.” Also, I miss them! (These have since gone on to other collections.) 🧶 #knitting
The Stettheimer dollhouse is back on display at the Museum of the City of New York, and with it a series of dolls made for the house in 1976, including this one which represents Carrie Stettheimer herself. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/a...
November 24, 2024 at 3:47 PM
The Stettheimer dollhouse is back on display at the Museum of the City of New York, and with it a series of dolls made for the house in 1976, including this one which represents Carrie Stettheimer herself. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/a...
