Allison T

@aratingaz.bsky.social

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Fiber artist (knitting, spinning, etc), dog and bird mom, TTRPG nerd. 🏳️‍🌈 She/her

A metal bowl with a scrunched up cloth and shredded leaves. The cloth is a deep rich teal. My hand is on the side of the bowl, showing where my thumbnail turned the same color from cutting leaves off stems.
An orange and yellow parrot (a sun conure) with dark grey eyes and beak sits on my shoulder. My hand holds a segment of tangerine for her to bite, and the juice has stained my grey T-shirt.
The back of my head, showing my frizzy brown and blonde hair held up by a silver hair piece. The wire is shaped something like two overlapping infinity symbols, but with spirals at each end. Together it looks somewhat like a butterfly. Thinner wires attach glass and semiprecious beads in red, orange, yellow, green, and blue.
A knitted shawl in the shape of a wing drapes over a piano. The hand spun yarn is a gradient from orange to yellow to green. At the top is a wire wrapped shawl pin decorated with beads and feathers.
A knitted shawl shaped like outstretched wings pinned to a foam mat on a bed. The shawl is a gradient from orange to yellow to green at the feather tips. It's probably five feet wide!
A knitted shawl in progress. A gradient from orange at the top to yellow to yellow-green at the bottom. (The remaining yarn, not pictured, transitions to green) The top edge of the shawl is a semicircle, and it spreads out into two half formed wings. The stitches are arranged to look like feathers, but it's still wrinkled and scrunched in texture. The bottom edge is still on a long knitting needle, with a couple dozen stitch markers separating every feather repeat. Some of the markers are shaped like birds, and there is a silver spinning wheel charm and a blue sheep as well.
Six cakes of yarn sitting on a chair. Top row is a gradient from one orange cake, to a yellow orange, to a yellow green, to a green. Bottom left is sock yarn in purple with spots of highlighter yellow orange and pink. Bottom right is chunky yarn in neon rainbow colors with grey in between each repeat.
A piece of weaving in stripes of light green, grey, and blue, still on the loom. The shed is open and a blue plastic shuttle is halfway through it, barely fitting between raised and lowered warp threads. 8/4 cotton for warp and weft, and a 2x2 twill for my pattern. The width of the cloth is a little under 8 inches, while the vintage loom has a weaving width of around 20 inches.
"The fifth annual KNIT FOR FOOD KNIT-A-THON 04-05-25 PROCEEDS WILL NE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THESE FOUR ORGANIZATIONS FEEDING AMERICA World Central Kitchen TEAM NO KID HUNGRY Meals on Wheels America"
A bookshelf with various books, a few DVDs, and some knickknacks. Carpentry clamps affix six sturdy dowels to the shelves. Four along one shelf, and two at either end of the shelf below. A layer of fine cotton yarn in muted shades of green blue and grey is wound around the pegs in a Z pattern, crossing over and under the upper middle pegs.
A vintage four shaft table loom about two feet wide, with a blue plastic shuttle and a heddle hook resting on the front beam. On the table in front is a power drill with an attachment with a shuttle bobbin on it, so I can wind the bobbins quickly.
My hand holds a chunky twisted skein of very fine yarn. The individual strands are about what knitters call light fingering weight, in a three ply. The colors are deep green, blue, burgundy, and pink, all twisted together for a marled/barber pole effect. It is so very soft and squishy.
A wooden lazy Kate holds three plastic bobbins with single ply yarn in shades of green, pink, and red. A tag next to it says: "Home, 4oz. Materials: Fine Polwarth. Thank you and enjoy! For more find us at www.fossilfibers.com" In the background are three of my mother's oil paintings: two of her dogs, and one of the benches and trees in Central Park.
An Ashford blending board loaded with wool in shades of purple. A rolag curled into a spiral rests on top.
Two plastic bobbins of freshly spun yarn singles. The one above shows a long gradient from dark teal to white to dark red. The one below shows shorter stripes in the same colors. The spinning is very fine.
A Majacraft little gem spinning wheel with decals of flowers on the upright and sheep on the treadles. There is finely spun purplish red yarn on the bobbin and more wool top piled above it in shades of teal and blue grey. In the background a basket overflows with dyed top in various colors.
A short video of a parrot sitting on a woman's shoulder. She's a sun conure, about the size of a pear, with orange, yellow, and green feathers. She rubs her black beak against the woman's pale cheek in a clear sign of affection. The woman's face is mostly obscured by the phone she holds up, but she is wearing teal glasses and her long brown hair drapes around the bird.
An embroidery hoop holds part of a sketched map printed on fabric. There is a meandering line of black handspun yarn stitched down on it. At the start of the path is a large green stone bead. An angular reddish stone is stitched an inch to the right. Half an inch below is a tiny golden bead. My hand holds a playing card below the stitching with the text: "A LOCK You cut a lock of hair from your own head, to give to your friend. To remember you by. But, you did not give it to them before they left. WHY DIDN'T YOU GIVE THE LOCK OF HAIR TO YOUR FRIEND? If you have it and can spare it, attach a small lock of your own hair to your map, (or represent it with a few pieces of thread"
Four white lace bookmarks, each finished with beads and a tassel. One gas a tulip motif and red silver and black beads. The next is like a large leaf, with blue beads, and the next is like snow drop flowers with pink beads. The last is another tulip, though smaller, with purple beads. They are on a background of a knitted lace shawl in shades of purple and green.
A tan dog, Chihuahua-like but somewhat larger, with a greying muzzle and cataracts, stares intently just to the left of the camera.
My hand is holding a white, knitted lace bookmark against a dark green monstera leaf. The bookmark tapers to a point at the top, and comes to a more blunt point at the base where a tassel threaded with small blue beads hangs.
Two of my fingers hold a tiny triangle of delicate knitted white lace taut on 1.5 millimeter needles.
A gif of me spinning and swirling in a colorful costume. My long cloak is a deep purple, my blue-green overdress has a laced up bodice and an embroidered belt, and the chemise is light grey with long flowy sleeves.
A hand holds a beautiful wooden support spindle with a hot pink whorl and a dark grey shaft. There is a small amount of purple-grey yarn wound on the shaft, and a bundle of wool top in shades of blue, purple, and pink behind it.
A hardback book: "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman. Off white cover with red and blue foil motifs of the phases of the moon and a moth.
I hold a large skein of marled yarn - hot pink and blue marled with white. The skein is a little messy. To an experienced eye the yarn looks a bit under plied, but very fluffy. My Majacraft little gem spinning wheel is in the background.
My hand holds a pink and grey knitted blankie with zigzag and floral motifs, still on the knitting needles. My grandmother sits in the background, her face not visible.
A tan dog with Chihuahua like features and a green and pink floral collar lies on some blue floral blankets. Her little tongue is doing a blep.
A large blue bobbin full of hand spun yarn in shades of pink and blue marled with a strand of white. A small dog in the background.