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Fiber artist, on a no buy wardrobe quest
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Nova @nnnova.bsky.social · Oct 17
Thought I’d finally introduce myself:
Hi I’m Nova, (she/her), posting about fiber art, fashion, sustainability etc
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On a personal quest for a 100% handmade wardrobe
Here on Bluesky I make feeds, please check them out!
nnnova.bsky.social
#SewAndTell Repair week is timely - this morning I heard an awful rip when I put on my coat, the armpit seam popped! The fabric was undamaged so it was just a matter of ladder stitching the seam shut again. I used this vintage synthetic silk doubled for extra strength.

🧶 #Sewing #InvisibleMending
Outer armpit of a black winter coat, the armpit seam is popped and the back-side of the lining of visible in the hole. Same armpit seam now completely sewn shut, the hand sewing is invisible. My hand holding a wooden bobbin of vintage synthetic silk (probably polyester) thread. The label says: THE BRITISH THREAD MILLS LTD. LEICESTER SUPERFINE 24 SILK SUBSTITUTE
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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rrhiza.bsky.social
#SewAndTell Week 14 - Repairs
The weekly Sewing Prompt Game
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I don't like black week (mildly speeking).
So instead of buying new stuff, let's repair what we already have.
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I got lucky with these cuffs, just had a pretty good colour match laying around.
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#sewing #Sewsky #Mending #VisibleMending
Before the repair khaki sleeves of a longarmshirt with wristbands that have some wear and tear. After the repair. The same sleeves with new wristbands that aren't a perfect but a pretty close colour match
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
Dale Partridge on Twitter writes: "Feminist media is BIG mad about me saying that women shouldn’t wear underwear (leggings and sports bras) as outerwear. As Pearl says, “It’s amazing how hard women will fight to be naked.” Immodest ladies, read 1 Tim. 2:9, repent, and follow Christ." Attached are two images. Image 1 headline: “Outraged pastor slams worker at quaint coffee shop for wearing ‘sinful’ leggings and sports bra in front of kids” Image 2 headline: “‘Make sin shameful again’: Pastor sparks row after sports bra complaint”
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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berneri.horse
wolf mitosis
#art ✧ #painting ✧ #wolf ✧ #frames ✧ #flowers
Photo of a 30x25cm wide painting with a black wolf in it. There are colorful ornamental frames with different shapes going around the sides. There are squares, dots, stars and flowers. In the middle on a dark cyan background there is black wolf standing whose head is split in half, in a non gory way. There is a tall red flower growing between the halves. The background also has some other similar flowers and stars. The wolf is staring at the viewer with piercing yellow eyes.
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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katestrasdin.bsky.social
Sparkling like a festive bauble, Victor Stiebel’s early #1960s cocktail dress deploys a heap of embellishment not just in the form of beadwork at the bodice but a textured cloqué fabric as well. Sold via #AugustaAuction #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A side by side image that shows the front and back of a pale turquoise sleeveless cocktail dress. It has a blue at neckline at the front and a deep V at the back. The bodice is embellished with a metallic geometric beadwork A close up detail of the centre back of the pale turquoise cocktail dress which shows the zip and the matching silk bow at the back of the bodice. It shows the grid like beadwork. A detail of the embroidered beadwork that embellishes the bodice of the cocktail dress in silver filigree pattern with pearl beads
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
nnnova.bsky.social
Surprise guest! 🦊
A photo of a fox peering in through a glass door
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
nnnova.bsky.social
Fav indie designer is probably Fabel Knitwear.
I’ve knit the Montmartre Jumper and it is very dramatic! I recently got her book, Romantic Knits, and there are a few designs in there I want to knit, time permitting!

🧶 #ShowMeYourKnits
Montmartre Jumper, inspired by Victorian cycling jumpers is tight fitting in the body, wide ribbing at the waist, crew neckline with big voluminous puffed sleeves with long cuffs. My version has purple neckline, cuffs and waist ribbing with the main body and sleeves knit with alternating black and red/white/black yarn stripes. Pattern: Montmartre by Fabel Knitwear Yarn: Mayflower Easy care Merino Wild Atlantic Yarns Grainne 4 ply
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Continuing this WIP for #ShowMeYourKnits; these socks are knit with hand-dyed yarn from Ewe Felty Thing, an excellent LYS in Conwy, Wales. The colourway is called Autumn so it is perfect paired with this pumpkin orange.

🧶 #Knitsky
In progress pic of a pair of socks being knitted on a blanketed lap. The sock underneath is finished, just needs ends weaving in. The one on top is part way through the foot, being knitted toe-up. The toes and heels are orange, there are a couple of orange stripes just above the toe, and the main body of the sock is variegated yarn in orange, green, brown and cream. Pattern: Cirriform Yarns: Ewe Felty Thing and West Yorkshire Spinners
November 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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livrunsfast.bsky.social
I’ve wanted to do designer spotlight 🔦 for a while. In this week of corporate & commercial greed, show me your favourite INDIE DESIGNERS & DYERS! 🎉What r u excited about? #ShowMeYourKnits

New to me this yr👇
I’ve got Renaissance, Golden Poppy & Art Deko on the list 😬!
www.ravelry.com/designers/el...
Ravelry: Designs by Elenor Mortensen
www.ravelry.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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katestrasdin.bsky.social
I have always imagined this #1920s Callot Soeurs gown as some beautiful ornament or a piece of stained glass, the jewelled colours framed in gold feel like a precious stone rather than a woven garment @drexeluniversity.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A tubular 1920s evening dress made of velvet in tones of blue and aqua embossed with gold motifs
November 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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davis.social
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h • •• Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
nnnova.bsky.social
@jillianeve.bsky.social’s spinning frolic this month is to make a yarn inspired by falling leaves 🍂. Luckily I already had some appropriate fibre in my stash.
Bobbin of my Louet Victoria seen from above. On the bobbin is a fine orange merino single with occasional fat slubs of brown wool 3 bumps of fibre on my lap. I am wearing a plaid skirt. The bumps are: One mega rolag of brown wool with yellow and green combed yarn ends blended in 3 rolags of brown wool with cream yarn ends and brown alpaca blended in A nest of orange, yellow, red and brown commercially blended merino
November 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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edmorrish.bsky.social
A photo of a squirrel, with a speech bubble to make it look like it’s saying the post below.
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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rrhiza.bsky.social
#SewAndTell Week 13 - Everyday Heros
The weekly Sewing Prompt Game
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Let's shine a light on these functional pieces.
The one used daily or worn to death. The ones making life a bit easier.
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#sewing #SewSky #SewingTools #GarmentSewing #QuiltSky
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A open roll up pouch filled with sewing tools (multiple scissors, a seam ripper, textile markers, pin needles, a rotary cutter etc.) The pouch is made from black jeans with a light coloured edge binding
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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shaunvids.bsky.social
don't give labour a single vote under any circumstances
November 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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livrunsfast.bsky.social
What the FLUFF?!? Mohair, kid silk, angora can add gorgeous texture, but can be huge pain to work with! I love it when it’s finished… #ShowMeYourKnits week 68: show me your FLOOF/ held together with floof knits.

Newly finished ✨ Field Sweater in Katia Concept Cotton Yak held w/ Lamana mohair silk 🧶
A cream, oatmeal-ish coloured sweater hanging on a wooden hanger against a cream coloured door. The sweater has a textured yoke in darker yarn with a pattern that looks like wheat stalks and long ribbed cuffs and hem. Close up of the yoke of a hand knit sweater to show the grains of the wheat-like textured pattern. A cream, oatmeal-ish coloured sweater folded to display the textured yoke that is in darker yarn with a pattern that looks like wheat stalks.
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
nnnova.bsky.social
WIP for #ShowMeYourKnits. This is the second sock of the Cirriform socks I’m making for my husband. Getting in some quality cosy time with the pups as I do so.

🧶 #Knitting #CraftyCompanion
Close up shot of a sock being knitted, toe up, from orange yarn laying on my knees. Over my legs is a blanket and peeking out of the right side is Ada, bedlington terrier, fast asleep and snoring with legs outstretched.
November 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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kateatherley.bsky.social
And also because you'd be disappointed if I hadn't.... 🧶
"Just make a swatch for the love of god" in the Zohran sign style
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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livrunsfast.bsky.social
It’s been a minute, but What’s On Your Needles? Week 67 of #ShowMeYourKnits; I wanna see WIPs 🚧, to-be-finished 🪡, maybe even the Naughty Basket™️.
Loving it? Not sure? Need a boost to finish? Let’s see ‘em! 🧶

I’m having a reckoning this week 😳: 3 jumpers, 5 pairs 🧦, 2 hats, 1 shawl, 1 👶, 1🧣!
A messy pile of in progress knits. Grey jumper, cream jumper, olive hood, stripey shawl, stripey hat, stripey baby pants, 5 different socks without mates, a little scarf. And their associated balls of unknit yarn.
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
nnnova.bsky.social
Feeling pretty justified in my decision not to watch this show
joolia.bsky.social Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 17d
The member of the Scottish parliament for Shetland has lodged a complaint in Holyrood over the depiction of fair isle knitting in the UK’s new competitive knitting show, which debuted this week with a controversial tank top challenge and steek-related dismissal.
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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bluehaironbluesky.bsky.social
#showmeyourknits 🧶 #knitting #knitsky #craftsky
Some non typical cables. But yes, these are cables. Swerving movement dimension and little peekaboo pockets tucked under.
A hand knit scarf in closeup on an angle, flat on a black background. Tealish green blue with large swerving ripples that stand up from the fabric, with ridges of slipped ribs between A hand knit scarf in closeup on an angle, flat on a black background. It is pale dusty blue with large swerving ripples running down the length which stand up from the fabric, with ridges of slipped ribs between. Has a dna helix 🧬 visual effect
November 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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roryblank.bsky.social
The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow. A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk. It crashes into a rental scooter. It backs up. It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles. The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again. A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
nnnova.bsky.social
Some Questions for you all: Is this art?

If yes, why? If no, why not?

Is a pair of hand knit socks art?

If someone follows a pattern exactly and uses the suggested yarn, is that art?

Does art have to be useless? Thought provoking? Beautiful?
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🧶 #Crochet #FiberArt
Crochet bonnet on a wood countertop. The bonnet has a motif at the back made from handspun yarn and shells of purple yarn with two ties at the front to tie under the chin. A close up of the handspun yarn motif. The yarn is 3ply with 2 plys of wool and 1 glitter thread. It shifts between blue, pink and yellow
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM