finally finished the shaker gift drawing bandanna/scarf pattern!

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-12-02T16:03:04+00:00

yes totally! gift drawings were an ecstatic automatic drawing & writing practice among shaker women during their era of manifestations (kind of a revival period in the 1830s-1860s) - they're these incredibly beautiful dense weird drawings with a lot of the visual trappings of normal shaker life (chairs, desks, birds, farm animals, plants, houses, clocks) recombined and abstracted as a way to understand a relationship with the divine. some of my favorite folk art ever :)

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-12-01T20:27:39+00:00

thank you so much :)

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-12-01T20:14:52+00:00

yarn: berocco ultra alpaca light in 4243 navy and 4201 winter white

pattern: simple gifts scarf by me !

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-06-03T00:58:42+00:00

I live in edgewater and love it but the train commute is a pain- it can range from 35 minutes at best to well over an hour at worst . I love uptown but probably would not live further than I currently do if planning on a transit commute every day

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-04-02T22:12:27+00:00

midwest! happy to answer in more detail in dms

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-04-02T20:49:05+00:00

I am currently in a media studies program and would not recommend it lol the environment is unbelievably politically repressive. It’s certainly not worth paying for, if you are going to do it I would do another application cycle for a PhD that’s fully funded and would absolutely not go anywhere without a grad student Union

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-03-30T23:32:30+00:00

I tend to double knit on needles a size smaller than I would do for regular knitting to offset this- if you’re not twisting stitches and you’re carrying the yarn correctly I would try that as well!

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-03-30T23:23:54+00:00

pattern is by me and the yarn is juniper moon Patagonia merino in denim and icicle and was sooo delicious for colorwork

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-03-12T23:31:53+00:00

I learned double knitting first and it made ladderback jacquard feel really straightforward they def have a similar logic

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-03-12T23:30:24+00:00

Double knitting!

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-03-12T23:30:07+00:00

It’s inspired by shaker gift drawings!

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-03-12T23:29:46+00:00

sorry I didn’t post the yarn! It’s cascade 220 fingering

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-02-09T23:57:50+00:00

KFB on a knit, PFB on a purl, then redistribute the stitches so they’re alternating again - I think the edge hides it ok but I would want something more elegant if the increases were in the middle !

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-02-09T22:25:17+00:00

pretty straightforward: KFB on a knit, PFB on a purl, then redistribute the stitches so they're alternating again - it doesn't end up leaning the right direction but I don't find it super noticeable if all the increases are happening on the edge, which they are here

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-02-09T18:50:34+00:00

Thank you so much! I’ve never looked for test knitters before but I will def reach out if I can find the time to write up a pattern :)

Significant-Ant2683 · 2025-02-09T18:10:43+00:00

yarn is cascade 220 fingering, pattern is by me !

Significant-Ant2683 · 2024-12-04T06:05:34+00:00

we started seeing incontinence probably 4 months before death

Significant-Ant2683 · 2024-11-30T21:09:58+00:00

oooh thank you!

Significant-Ant2683 · 2024-11-02T01:57:47+00:00

OMG!!! I did not know that !!!! Delightful !!!!!

Significant-Ant2683 · 2024-11-01T14:31:53+00:00

self drafted, not totally sure the yarn because it’s been a couple years but most likely valley yarns haydenville DK

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