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🧶Needle Fox Arts🧶
@needlefoxarts.bsky.social
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Knitter | Knitwear designer| Knitting instructor | Wife & mother|

Knitting patterns on Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/designers/taylor-rutledge

and PayHip: https://payhip.com/NeedleFoxArts
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Some options from my PayHip shop for the @fastenoffyal.bsky.social ... And this isn't all of them! Just a selection. Link to my shop in the first comment.
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Ready, set, go!! If I am doing time zones right, this is starting now-ish. Maybe talented designers. Discounts on patterns. Games to play. Go to @fastenoffyal.bsky.social for all your questions and sign up needs and come yarn along!
A text graphic with an invitation to join the Fasten Off Yarnalong. Mostly purple and orange. #fastenoffyal #fastenoffyarnalong #fastenoff2025 #knittingpatterns #knitweardesign #knitweardesigner #knittingpatterns #knittingpatterndesigner #knitting #knittingpatternsale
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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🧶I'm so excited to be a designer in the Fasten Off Yarn Along. There are lots of designers involved, lots of pattern options, and it is going to be a lot of fun. More information over at @fastenoffyal.bsky.social for all your questions and sign up needs. 🧶
A graphic with yarn and text announcing that tomorrow we start off the Fasten Off Yarnalong. The Needle Fox Arts logo is in the lower left corner. The graphic is mostly blues and reds on a neutral background. #fastenoffyal #fastenoffyarnalong #fastenoff2025 #knittingpatterns #knitweardesign #knitweardesigner #knittingpatterns #knittingpatterndesigner #knitting #knittingpatternsale
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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If you are at Sacred Sheep tomorrow (Saturday) come find me and get a card with a discount code for the Both Sides Now Cowl! I've got a pocket full of codes and I want to share!

Even better, both recommended yarns are available at Sacred Sheep.
Several business cards rest on a grey, pink, and muted green knitted background. The cards have a fox face and business contact on them for Needle Fox Arts. #needlefoxarts #ravelrydesigner #spincycleyarn #knittingpattern #ravelrypattern #knittingpatterndesigner #knitweardesign #borhsidesnowcowl #sacredsheep #woolfolkyarn
November 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Thanks to you all buying patterns last month, I was able to send a donation to the CLDC today. It's not much, but I know that every donation helps.
Transparency post showing a $53 donation to the CLDC.
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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It’s here! The Both Sides Now Cowl is up on both Ravelry & Payhip and ready for you to cast on. Designed to use one skein of Spincycle Dream State and one skein of Woolfolk TovDK, it’s a knit that has a lot of personality and interest, but easy enough for social knitting.

Links in comments.
An older woman with white hair models a blue & white knitted cowl in front of a brick wall. She's wearing a denim jacket and black shirt. #needlefoxarts #ravelrydesigner #alwaysbekindyarn #knittingpattern #ravelrypattern #knittingpatterndesigner #knitweardesign #borhsidesnowcowl #sacredsheep #spincycledreamstate #woolfolkyarns
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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The Both Sides Now Cowl comes out tomorrow! I'm so excited to share this one and tell you more about it... But I have to go clean the kitchen now. So check back tomorrow and see what's up with this design.
A blue and white mosaic knotted cowl is wrapped over an older woman's hand in front of a brick wall. #needlefoxarts #ravelrydesigner #alwaysbekindyarn #knittingpattern #ravelrypattern #knittingpatterndesigner #knitweardesign #borhsidesnowcowl #sacredsheep
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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🧶 Working up another sample of my Both Sides Now Cowl, coming out next Friday. Will I finish it by Friday? I don't know. Will I have enough yarn? It's stash leftovers, so we will see how long this cowl ends up.
More photos and details coming soon, but you can mark your calendars for next Friday!
Grey and purple-pink mosaic knitting on a light wood background. Two balls of yarn sit above the in progress cowl. #needlefoxarts #ravelrydesigner #alwaysbekindyarn #knittingpattern #ravelrypattern #knittingpatterndesigner #knitweardesign #borhsidesnowcowl #sacredsheep
November 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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I've been busy playing with mosaic knitting. Next Friday, November 7th, I'll release the Both Sides Now Cowl pattern. It's a fun and quick pattern knit flat and grafted. Easy to memorize and my test knitters have given it high marks.

Shown here with Spincycle Dream State and Woolfolk TovDK.
Blue and white mosaic knitting on a wood background. #needlefoxarts #ravelrydesigner #alwaysbekindyarn #knittingpattern #ravelrypattern #knittingpatterndesigner #knitweardesign #borhsidesnowcowl #sacredsheep #spincycledreamstate
October 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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🧶 Swatched some Tumalo Fiber Wildly Wooly DK for the #intothehoodsmkal with Laura Nelkin and I can't wait to get started. This is such gorgeous yarn. The lighting is not doing it justice. 🧶
Two yarn cakes, a gauge swatch, and a neon pink gauge rule sit in a textured white background. The yarn is a greyish purple.
October 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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A finished photo of my felted bag. I wish I could post the feeling of well-felted, squishy handles. This project was just a moment of desire to make something with instant gratification. It is now one of my new favorite things.

#needlefoxarts #feltedwool #feltedknitting #letsplaywithyarn
A felted wool bag, with an arched handle, sits on a rust and white table in front of a wall. The bag is muted cream with purple, pink, and gold speckles. A book, some pink knitting needles, and brown yarn peek out of the top of the bag.
October 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Buy my knitting patterns and help me donate to the CLDC!
A photo of a No Kings protest with a crown and international symbol for NO in the lower left corner. Text of the image reads: I wasn't able to attend a No Kings protest today. Instead of showing up in body, I want to show up with money. 🧶 I will donate 100% of the proceeds from any Needle Fox Arts pattern that you buy for the rest of October. 🧶 You get a knitting pattern. I send money to the Civil Liberties Defense Center. We continue to generate momentum to celebrate and protect American Democracy. 🧶 Links are, as one might suspect, in my bio. #nokingsprotest #cldcfundraiser #nokings #needlefoxarts #knittingpatterns #protestknitting #knittingisarevolutionaryact
October 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Super proud of my daughter for making signs and getting out there with her friends. The kids are awesome. #nokings
A no kings protest with a young woman center frame holding up a sign that says "Honk if you never drunk texted war plans". A beautiful blue sky adds to the joy of the protest.
October 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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🧶 After finishing a mohair top, I had to do something that was a little more weighty. Last weekend I cast on a bag. This week I finished and felted that bag. I love how it turned out. The before and after of felting is so satisfying.
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A knitted bag, large, loose, and floppy on a background of square inches. The bag is white with browns , purples, pinks, and golds overall. The bag is measuring approximately 17" wide and 20" tall, about the size of a small grocery bag. The same bag, post felting. The colors are muted and muddled. The bag is now 13" wide and 10" tall. It is now a mid-sized handbag.
October 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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First fire of the season. Perfection. 🧶
White and multi colored knitting held up in front of a cozy wood stove with a fire burning.
October 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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🧶 I have been having fun playing with both sides of mosaic knitting. Keep you why on this because it's going to be a pattern soon and it's going to need test knitting. 🧶

#ravelrydesigner #knittingpatterndesigner #knitweardesign #knitweardesigner #spincycledreamstate #mosaicknitting #needlefoxarts
Blue and white mosaic knitting pattern fills the frame. The right side is the "right" side and the left side is the "wrong" side.
September 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Decorated a cake for my 19- year old today instead of knitting. #silksong #hollowknight
Looking down on a cake on a glass cake stand. The cake is so covered in rainbow sprinkles, except for the frosted Hornet figure from Silksong flying across the surface.
September 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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I am sure surprised that I filled every square of my #wipbingo card! I really went into August with low expectations, just hoping to move a few things off my needles. @positivelyyarnie.bsky.social Thanks for another great game!
A WIP Bingo board with all 25 squares colored in with late summer colors.
September 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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🧶 Ineed test knitters for an epic stocking cap - stash busting stripes, lots of options, easy enough to knit during a TTRPG session. Comment your interest and I'll send the link for testing! Please share this post! 🧶
#testknittersneeded #testknit #testknitting #dungeonsanddragonsandknitting
September 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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What if I finished this mesh top this weekend? I think it's possible... If the home chores don't get in the way. I have just split for sleeves and the rest should go pretty quickly.

Pattern is Show Me Your Holes by James Watts.
Yarn is Hue Loco Backyard Chickens: Blue Laced Wyandotte.
A knitting project on needles sits on a printed pattern, waiting to be finished. The project is creams, rusts, and some light blues.
August 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Almost done with #wipbingo for the month. I'm frogging my oldest project and listening to an audible book - The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. I'm already excited for the yarn to turn into something new. @positivelyyarnie.bsky.social Thanks for the inspiration!
On a grey background we see several small balls of yarn in whites and browns. A phone with an audible book on the screen sits center. The small balls of yarn are clear being pulled from a knitting project that is being frogged.
August 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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I fixed it. Also... When I'm really knitting real socks I didn't use flat needles, but that's just knit-picky. 😝 #focusfriend
The Focus Friend bean knitting. A hot pink project has been drawn onto the screen shot because anyone with knitting needles also needs yarn.
August 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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@hankgreen.bsky.social I was excited about a knitting bean...but then I watched my bean knit. What on earth is the bean doing??? How can anyone knit without yarn?? #focusfriend #whereistheyarn?
A screenshot of the bean from Focus Friend allegedly knitting while the app is focusing.
August 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Taking advantage of this extra-warm day to block my new chunky cardigan. It's waiting on buttons from @flair_nw and cooler days... And then I'm going to wear it all the time.

Pattern is Novice Cardigan Chunky by Petit Knits
Yarn is Ecological Wool and Blue Sky Fibers Prairie held double.
A hand knit sweater is spread out on blocking mats, pinned in place. Square blocking pins are in the background. The sweater is a mottled cream and blue cardigan. It waits for buttons.
August 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Knitting cables is so magical. And I am so happy to be done with that six-strand braid! 🧶

#knitting #knittingcables
Off white knitted cables - a six strand braid and cabled rope take the center.
August 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM