Garak's Apprentice

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Textile artist, writer, permaculturalist, medieval re-enactor, nerd. I write about fashion history and textile crafts at the intersections of permaculture, sustainability, equitable tech, & neurodivergence. They/them.

A blue greyhound in a purple jumper lying on a dog bed. She's curled up in a huff and looking at the monster who, after twenty straight minutes of doing so, stopped holding her paw and telling her she's the bestest greyhound there ever was.
An in progress re-footable sock. The heel flap has been knit up in garter stitch, and stitches picked up on double pointed needles all around the instep. The sock body is half white, half green and knit with 8 ply. The sock foot is being worked in a marled green 4 ply.
Work in progress embroidery pic of the cartoon character Steven Universe's head and upper torso in 3/4 profile. His face and hair are finished, and his shirt is being worked on. The hair is dark brown, worked in a mix of stitches and very messy. The face is white people colour, his teeth and eyes are white with black pupils and outlines. They're all worked in split stitch. The shirt is being worked in klosterstitch/convent stitch/colcha stitch in a dark watermelon pink.
Two sets of large pink fabric rectangles lie on a table. One set has a small blue memo book on top for scale. They are about 12 inches wide and 16 inches long.
Selfie of a person sitting in a plush armchair. A large brindle dog is sitting behind them and has wrapped around their left side, with his head and front paws resting on the person's lap. He is wearing a look of great suffering that there are no pats forthcoming.
An overhead shot of someone sitting in an armchair with their arm curled around a large brindle dog. The dog is wrapped around the person’s left side and has placed his head on their knee.
A brindle dog sitting on top of neatly laid out panels of quilting cottons. He's looking very noble while he gets chest scritches.
A tub full of sudsy water, soaking a silk obi. The water is tinged yellow. The obi is a dark dusky pink and has a floral/leafy gold brocade design woven into most of its length.
Two large cones of weaving yarn on a table. The left one is a light, bright pink and the right one is a medium reddish purple.
A partially sewn waistcoat lies on a white table. The main fabric is dark blue with yellow moons, stars and suns. Both front pieces have been partially lined with white cotton.
Close up of an inkle band warped in yellow, blue and red on an inkle loom. The first 2 inches have been woven. A ruler behind the band shows that the woven area is approximately half an inch wide.
An in progress gouache painting in a spiral bound sketchbook. The background is washed in blue and green for sky and grass. There is the trunk of a tree in the left foreground and a partially painted cottage in the right background. Sketch lines indicate the tree's leaves and the cottages roof which are yet to be painted.
A MoErgo split ergonomic keyboard sitting on top of its travel case. The key layout has been changed from qwerty to Dvorak.
A wooden folding chair that has been sanded back and primed for painting. The chair seat has started to get painted in a strong orange colour, a couple of shades darker than an aged traffic cone if it wasn't day-glo.
A close up of a warp on an English/Scottish style Inkle Loom. The warp is sewing thread in three colours - red for the background, with yellow and white accent threads.
A weaver's eye view of a backstrap weaving in progress. The warp is made of multiple random stripes in solid colours of white, black, green, blue, grey and purple. It's being woven in two weft colours, at 15 ends per inch, using a 16 inch rigid heddle. There is a boat shuttle holding purple weft and a stick shuttle holding pink weft resting on the woven cloth near the fell line.
The cover of a book titled "Bastard's Honor", by Elizabeth Wheatley. The subtitle reads "A crippled knight. A widowed sorceress. A second chance at love and revenge." The cover features a large dark castle in the middle, and golden curlicues decorating the edges. There are silhouettes of rearing horses and birds in flight between the curlicues, and a sword in each bottom corner.
A clear vacuum bag lies on a lino floor. It's full of balls of yarn in purples and blues, and has been sealed and the air removed. A small white hand pump lies next to it to show how the air is removed.
A brindle dog lies on the floor with his head up on the corner of a folded out futon couch. Behind him is a large plastic tub, partly full of colourful rolls of fabric yardage. There is a large, partly folded, grey piece of fabric on the couch in front of his nose.
A screenshot of a Tumblr post reblogged by user systlin. User we-are-knight says: Live. Laugh. Longsword. User rosslynpaladin replies: now THAT I'd put on my wall
Two different sets of hexagons lie on a wood floor. On the left about a dozen flat, fabric hexagons are scattered loosely. They are sewn of several different fabrics in reds, browns, greens and purple. On the right is three rows of hexagons all nestled next to each other. They are knitted in different shades of blue acrylic yarn and stuffed.
A piece of paper covered in tally marks and crossed out times. Each set of 25 tallies is circled in black. Every four sets of circled marks is crossed out as one unit in red. There are four small squares near the top of the sheet, and one half drawn square, representing each completed set of 100.
A piece of brown scrap fabric with five whole and one half hexagon shape marked on it. The lines are done in a fine black marker.
Several piles of fabric hexagons lie on a wooden table. They are separated by colour and pattern. The largest piles are plain sage green, mottled jewel blue and plain mid purple. There are two smaller piles with pale backgrounds and small flower prints, one blue with larger white flowers, one with a paisley like pattern in purple, one with cartoon zombie heads, and one with brown camo print.
A small black chicken stands on a bright red chair near a corrugated iron fence, looking at the camera.
A round fry pan holds three very tall pancakes of about 3 inches diameter. A teaspoon is being held vertically next to one, showing that the pancakes are almost as tall as the spoon section of the teaspoon.
A packet of Spicy Ramen flavoured Twisties.
The cover of a book titled “Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910” by Noah Riseman. The words “Transgender Australia” are in the colours of the trans pride flag. The subtitle is in dark pink and the author’s name is white. The cover background is bright yellow.
Two wool combs sit on a glass table to the left of a 12 inch long hand distaff. The distaff has been fully loaded with off white, combed alpaca fibre.
Two wool combs, a hand distaff, and a small plastic bag full of beige fibre sit on a glass table.
Four large black chickens are pecking at grain on a sunny lawn.
A close up of a white person's left thumb. There are two short, fresh scratches, with raised red edges, on the side. End ID.