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stringcheeseart.bsky.social
Stella
@stringcheeseart.bsky.social
140 followers 89 following 48 posts
They/them, 25yo
Fiber artist 🧶
Madison, WI
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Someone walked their bird this morning?
A snowy sidewalk. Along the right there is a line of footstep impressions in the snow. On the left there is a line of small bird footprints.
February 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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And why is there a hole here😭😭😭
A close up of knitting showing the live stitches on the cable. In the middle, a larger hole between stitches indicates an accidental yarn over increase.
February 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Sometimes knitting is fun and relaxing.
Sometimes, I keep dropping my god damn stitches! And while doing garter stitch! Agh!
A piece of knit fabric made from a dark brown-grey yarn. A few inches under the live stitches, an orange stitch marker holds a loose stitch to keep it from unraveling.
February 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Obviously the real plan is no govt but please ignore that for my meme
A three panel comic of a dog that is typically captioned "please throw? No take. Only throw." The text has been replaced with "return to office? No office. Only return."
February 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Spent yesterday plying up some handspun yarn and trying to avoid anything else.
Skeins of yarn laid side by side. The yarn has orange, peach and brown sections in each ply, which come together to create a lot of variation in intensity and color A close up of the yarn showing how plying has intermingled the colors.
January 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I've been spinning yarn on my EEW nano e-spinner to convince myself I don't need to buy a treadle spinning wheel. (It's not working)
Two bobbins full of spun singles resting on top of a swirl of unspun fibers. The fiber is dyed in brown, orange, and peach tones.
January 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Cozy late night knitting. I think he appreciates that I'm on a small piece and not flopping a whole cardigan back and forth.
A sleepy brown tabby laying on a blanketed lap. In front of him is a hand holding knitting needles and a cake of black yarn.
December 31, 2024 at 5:57 AM
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Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who remembers this graph from HS bio classes. Humans will (or, quite likely, already have) surpass the carrying capacity of our environment. We should expect population decline, and prepare for it.
Unfortunately we are stuck in the capitalist game instead.
A graph with the x-axis "time/number of generations" and y-axis "population size." The line grows exponentially for a time before reaching a "plateau phase" where it curves repeatedly above and below a dashed line labeled "carrying capacity"
December 26, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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The audacity was right! its done!

Wish I had thought to add some extra length, but overall a very fun knit!
A person wearing a brown, basket weave knit vest over a white collared shirt.
December 25, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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He thinks he's helping
A brown tabby cat sitting on a gridded blocking mat.
December 25, 2024 at 3:10 AM
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I started knitting the Korshavn vest about a week ago.

I currently have the audacity to think I might get it finished and blocked before xmas/hannukah day 1. We shall see.
An in-progress brown wool knit vest, with the body being made of a basket weave texture stitch.
December 24, 2024 at 4:43 AM
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We said "free Luigi." Target said "best we can do is half off."
A Mario toy priced at $19.99 hanging next to a Luigi toy from the same line with a sale tag priced at $9.99
December 22, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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I keep meaning to take cute stylish pictures of my finished woven scarf. Unfortunately it's below freezing and this is how I'm wearing it...
A person bundled up for winter, with a red hat and red and green scarf. The scarf is pulled up so it sits under their glasses and only their eyes are visible.
December 6, 2024 at 3:30 AM
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Third pair of socks off the knitting machine, and my self striping yarn made some wonderful opposites!
Two knit socks in stripes of yellows and oranges alternating with stripes of purples and blues. The socks are lined up to demonstrate that the warm colors on one sock line up with the cool colors of the other.
December 4, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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Today's sock knitting machine adventure: just a tube!

Okay fine, I also stuffed it and sewed it into a little knot throw pillow.
A pillow made of a grey and black striped tube of knit fabric, twisted around itself into a rounded five pointed star shape.
December 3, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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Machine knitting is definitely a unique skill to normal knitting, but I'm happy to report I've successfully made a pair!!
A pair of knit socks, with stripes of pinks, purples, and oranges.
November 28, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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While there is a "normal" method for casting om without a bonnet, I struggles HARD with this. After 10 ish tries, I gave up and did something already in my wheelhouse: crocheted a circle and added some loops. This fake bonnet worked first try.
November 25, 2024 at 5:03 AM
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Day (and a half) 1 of having a circular sock machine progress report: I have successfully knit a cast on bonnet!
November 25, 2024 at 5:03 AM
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Update: she's here
November 23, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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I hear we're doing #Caturday
Sleepy brown tabby with his paws tucked under his chest.
November 23, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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Since he ended up in both my icon and banner photos, I thought I should properly introduce Pumpernickel.

He's about 3.5 years old, a rescue, and he loves to yell for absolutely no reason.
A brown tabby with a white chest, looking and yelling at a piece of weaving in progress. A brown and white tabby balancing on the edge of a table, peaking around the back of a table loom. His tongue is out, flicked up to touch his nose. A cat peeking over a piece of cloth so just his eyes and ears are showing. A brown and white tabby curled up on a bed, back legs outstretched to show off his toe beans.
November 19, 2024 at 2:49 AM
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From concept to (nearly) finished: a strawberry inspired plaid scarf, woven with alpaca.

#weaving #fiberart
A sketchbook page containing a woven sample, yarn wrappings, and watercolor strawberries. Red, yellow, and green threads being measured on a warping board. Fabric in progress, with two shuttles resting on top. The fabric is a primarily red plaid, with stripes in yellow and two shades of green.
November 17, 2024 at 11:54 PM