Merrilee
@merrileemakes.bsky.social
I make stuff, think too much and am trying to distract myself from the shitshow of everything.
she/her/they/them | 🏳️🌈 | 🧶 | 🐱| so-called 🇦🇺 | soft, yes. weak, no.
she/her/they/them | 🏳️🌈 | 🧶 | 🐱| so-called 🇦🇺 | soft, yes. weak, no.
This is just breathtaking! I hope to one day be able to knit this. I've done a few brioche hats and cowls and about to start my first shawl.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This is just breathtaking! I hope to one day be able to knit this. I've done a few brioche hats and cowls and about to start my first shawl.
Lol, is it AI slop or Scottish slang? In this case "pure dead brilliant" is slang.
I'm watching this at the moment and half of my enjoyment is from the accents.
I'm watching this at the moment and half of my enjoyment is from the accents.
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Lol, is it AI slop or Scottish slang? In this case "pure dead brilliant" is slang.
I'm watching this at the moment and half of my enjoyment is from the accents.
I'm watching this at the moment and half of my enjoyment is from the accents.
These are lovely! Beautiful loom too.
November 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
These are lovely! Beautiful loom too.
I've been spinning yarn using all kinds of amazingly cool embroidery threads, like metallics and holo. I got them in a big destash from an embroidery group and I know exactly why. They'd be hell to stitch with, in hand or machine. But... Sparkles!
October 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I've been spinning yarn using all kinds of amazingly cool embroidery threads, like metallics and holo. I got them in a big destash from an embroidery group and I know exactly why. They'd be hell to stitch with, in hand or machine. But... Sparkles!
Your shawl looks amazing! Don't mention mistakes, because no one else will see them.
From the thumbnail it looks like a stump of an epic, ancient rainbow tree.
From the thumbnail it looks like a stump of an epic, ancient rainbow tree.
October 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Your shawl looks amazing! Don't mention mistakes, because no one else will see them.
From the thumbnail it looks like a stump of an epic, ancient rainbow tree.
From the thumbnail it looks like a stump of an epic, ancient rainbow tree.
So no, I don't want to use AI to "save time" because I won't get extra time to be a human. I'll just end up doing other work, but feel crappier because AI will have corroded my brain.
October 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
So no, I don't want to use AI to "save time" because I won't get extra time to be a human. I'll just end up doing other work, but feel crappier because AI will have corroded my brain.
We live in a capitalist productivity cult. When the spinning wheel was invented and people could turn fibre into clothes faster than ever before, you know what we did? We started wearing more clothes than ever before. (acoup.blog/2025/09/26/c...).
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVd: Spinning Plates
This is the fourth thread of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who make up a majority of all of the humans who hav…
acoup.blog
October 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We live in a capitalist productivity cult. When the spinning wheel was invented and people could turn fibre into clothes faster than ever before, you know what we did? We started wearing more clothes than ever before. (acoup.blog/2025/09/26/c...).
Ewww, "prompt engineering"? What an overly technical and inflated way of saying "writing". Like tech-bro Sandwich Artists.
October 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Ewww, "prompt engineering"? What an overly technical and inflated way of saying "writing". Like tech-bro Sandwich Artists.
The tiny l'il toaster totally makes this piece sing.
October 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The tiny l'il toaster totally makes this piece sing.
Your weaving is utterly beautiful. Do you have plans for this fabric?
October 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Your weaving is utterly beautiful. Do you have plans for this fabric?
At this stage of our post-capitalist hellscape if it's not very gay I'm not interested.
October 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
At this stage of our post-capitalist hellscape if it's not very gay I'm not interested.
Just a stunning piece of art.
Do you watch Cathy Hay on YouTube? She's been re-creating this coat by hand over the last few years.
Do you watch Cathy Hay on YouTube? She's been re-creating this coat by hand over the last few years.
October 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Just a stunning piece of art.
Do you watch Cathy Hay on YouTube? She's been re-creating this coat by hand over the last few years.
Do you watch Cathy Hay on YouTube? She's been re-creating this coat by hand over the last few years.
This is just stunning. A beautiful birthday gift to yourself.
October 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
This is just stunning. A beautiful birthday gift to yourself.
Also: Toe-up two-at-a-time magic loop don't @ me.
September 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Also: Toe-up two-at-a-time magic loop don't @ me.
I'm in the "I don't get second sock syndrome because before learning to knit socks researched every sock technique to find the most optimal approh shit I think I'm autistic"
September 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I'm in the "I don't get second sock syndrome because before learning to knit socks researched every sock technique to find the most optimal approh shit I think I'm autistic"
What a sensational fibre blend! Beautiful spinning too.
September 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
What a sensational fibre blend! Beautiful spinning too.
They do never mention that! Big hugs, because big feelings.
September 26, 2025 at 2:18 AM
They do never mention that! Big hugs, because big feelings.
I almost always spin for joy. I let the fibre tell me what it wants to be, and if it's Default Yarn then cool cool. I end up with lots of random skeins. Which is kinda how I got into weaving.
September 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I almost always spin for joy. I let the fibre tell me what it wants to be, and if it's Default Yarn then cool cool. I end up with lots of random skeins. Which is kinda how I got into weaving.
I always let my bobbins rest, somewhere between 18 hours and 18 months. I don't tension my lazy kate and find unrested bobbins are more likely to snarl or twist with each other.
September 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I always let my bobbins rest, somewhere between 18 hours and 18 months. I don't tension my lazy kate and find unrested bobbins are more likely to snarl or twist with each other.
Beautiful spinning! I think that, as people, we will never be able to out-machine machines, but we can definitely out-people them.
But I also like to spin for fine and even consistency... Except when I don't. 😛
But I also like to spin for fine and even consistency... Except when I don't. 😛
September 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Beautiful spinning! I think that, as people, we will never be able to out-machine machines, but we can definitely out-people them.
But I also like to spin for fine and even consistency... Except when I don't. 😛
But I also like to spin for fine and even consistency... Except when I don't. 😛
Stunning wrap! It almost looks like something out of Weaving with Echo and Iris. Ahhh, the power of a fabulous yarn...
September 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Stunning wrap! It almost looks like something out of Weaving with Echo and Iris. Ahhh, the power of a fabulous yarn...
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the world is falling apart and we are hurling through time and space, just make the weird art
September 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
the world is falling apart and we are hurling through time and space, just make the weird art