Julianna

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Yarn, cats, books, etc.

A hand knitted scrunchie laid on top of a book, which is in turn on top of a sticker bedecked laptop. The scrunchie is knit in rich burgundy yarn that has a shine from the silk content and a halo of mohair, and has an attached bow or tails tied on one side.
A copy of Platform Decay by Martha Wells. The cover of the book is a picture of Murderbot floating in front of a gray background suggesting a space ship or station. Behind the book is an orange tabby cat on a person's lap, and the thumb nail on the hand holding the book is painted shimmery bright green.
A pile of dark teal and purple yarn, a copy of The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin, a paper bag with a picture of an eos moth on it, and a small package containing an enameled needle minder, all on a wooden table. In the top right corner is a bright purple knitting bag, and in the top left, an orange tabby cat sniffs warily at the yarn.
A stack of hand knits on the lap of a person sitting in a car. The bottom layer is a cabled sweater, still in several pieces, one sleeve on the needles, in a tweedy dark red yarn. On top of that is a mostly finished raspberry colored baby sweater with a lacy raglan detail.
An unfinished raspberry colored hand knit baby sweater, draped across an orange and white cat. The sweater is the Norwegian Fir pattern by Oge Knitwear Designs, and the yarn is Cascade 220 Superwash in Razzleberry Heather. The body of the sweater is complete, and a person's hand is holding up the almost complete right sleeve of the sweater. The cat is sleeping soundly.
An unfolded Musselburgh hat dangling from a person's hand. The hat resembles a very long tube with a dome at each end, and the yarn created varying width stripes in shades of lavender, navy, and pale muted green, the colors sometimes solid, sometimes marled. In the background is a large bright window and an old fashioned wooden spinning wheel.
A jumbled pile of yarn and knitting paraphernalia, including multiple large to medium sized project bags, a stack of various skeins of yarn, two different socks, neither of which has a pair, and a variety of needles and hooks.
A ball of raspberry colored yarn next to a tattoo of a fairy tiger kitten munching on a ball of yarn that is nearly a perfect color match to the actual yarn. The yarn is Cascade 220 Superwash in the color Razzleberry Heather.
The first few inches of an in progress knit sweater sleeve. The center of the sleeve features a braided cable flanked by mini alternating cables, all in a deep wine colored tweedy wool. The sleeve is resting on a person's lap, and in the background is a curled up orange cat.
A white skinned hand held to display painted nails. The polishes used are Holo Taco Electrostatic, black with subtle linear holo, and a glitter topper with randomly placed silver star glitter from 10 Over 10. In the background is a car steering wheel.
A bearded dragon named Stripes basking on a rock in his enclosure first thing in the morning. Stripes is facing the camera and has his beard puffed out, a sign of happiness or contentment, almost making him look like he is smiling.
A cozy scene of a cat snuggled up under a gray cable-knit blanket and an in-progress wine-colored knit sweater. Amos, the cat, is an orange tabby with a white face and pale green eyes. Only his head is visible. The left hand of the person knitting is resting on the bundled up sweater holding the silver knitting needles.
A small sample of yarn and unspun wool fiber held in front of a spinning wheel. The fiber and yarn are a murky blue teal color, and match the nail polish on the hand that is holding the sample. The scene is brightly lit from the white snow outside a window in the background.
Three crocheted koroks, small forest spirits from Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The one on the left is swirled blue and brown and has a medium sized, heart shaped green leaf mask. The center korok is swirled pink and burnt orange, has a four-lobed leaf mask in a darker green, and is holding one arm up in a jaunty wave. The right-most korok is swirled peach and brown, and has a yellow, pale green, and bright orange mask shaped somewhat like a maple leaf. Each mask has a suggestion of a face embroidered in black and the korok's nose sticking out of its center.
A white person's arm with their sleeve rolled up to show an illustrative style tattoo of a tiger kitten with butterfly wings enthusiastically chomping a ball of yarn. The kitten is orange with black stripes, their wings are green with black borders and mauve dots, and the ball of yarn is also mauve.
Three incomplete crocheted korok amigurumi on a blue-jeaned lap. The one on the right is pink and orange swirled, the one in the middle is pink and brown, and on the left is blue and brown. The middle one has a yellow, green, and orange leaf mask with several trailing yarn tails sitting on top of it, and a person's hand is holding a green leaf mask in place on the leftmost korok. In the background are a small pair of red scissors, a yellow-handled crochet hook, and a chopstick for pushing stuffing into small areas. Ya ha!
An orange tabby cat stands over three stacks of fabric and sewing notions. Each stack consists of two colors of coordinating fabric, one zipper and one spool of thread, all the materials to make a zippered dopp kit.
A braid of spinning fiber, a cop of singles, and a Turkish spindle sitting on a purple velvet with hat. The spinning fiber is hand dyed with splotches of neon colors on a white background, and a golden moon charm dangles from the tip of the hat.
An orange and white tabby with pale green eyes, sitting calmly and staring straight into the camera, with a tiny knitted orange pumpkin balanced on his head.
A Turkish drop spindle with a carefully wound turtle of neon yellow, orange, pink and purple hand spun yarn. In the background is the unspun wool fiber, which is mostly white with pops of bright colors.
A small clearing in the woods in autumn. The ground is thickly covered with leaf litter, and the leaves left on the trees are a mix of golden yellow and green. To the left is a campsite with a faintly smoking fire pit, and an adult, child, and dog are walking along the trail in the middle distance.
A Turkish drop spindle next to a braid of neon-dyed wool. A small amount of the wool has been spun into singles which are wound into a gods-eye style cop on the spindle, showing off pale neon blues, greens, purples and oranges, with tweedy bits of all different colors. The fiber braid is hand dyed in blotches of the same colors, only brighter and interspersed with white. Barely visible on the arms of the spindle are cutouts in the shape of cars playing.
A shiny teal-blue 3-D printed spinning wheel bobbin held close to the camera, with two more lying on a couch in the background. The bobbins have a small gear on each end, indicating they are for a Woollee Winder device.
A swath of in-progress knitting, still on the needles and swirled into an A-shape, lying on a worn wooden table. The knitted fabric is a deep, rich burgundy with tweedy pops of lighter red, pink, and green, and the surface of the fabric is twisted into a complex cable texture.
A hand holding up a long tubular piece on knitting. The knitting work in progress, which is going to be a hat, is striped in grey, tan, and burgundy and is over a foot long. The person holding the knitting has a tattoo of a tiger fairy kitten holding a ball of purple yarn. In the background is a concrete cemetery wall and a large gnarled tree with a canopy of green leaves
A close up of the button bands of a hand spun, hand knitted sweater. Three of the brown mother-of-pearl buttons are sewn on, and the fourth is in progress with a golden needle and purple thread sticking out of one of the button holes. The sweater is various muted shades of purple, blue, gray, green, and orange in a textured color work pattern. Lying on top of the sweater are a white card with purple and pink embroidery floss wound onto it, and a pair of gold and silver folding scissors.
A knitting work-in-progress in front of a concrete block fire pit. The piece of knitting, which is actually the second sleeve of a sweater, is made of handspun yarn in various shades of purple, green, and tiny bits of orangey brown, and is being held up by a person's hand near the needles. A few flames and wisps of smoke are curling up from the fire pit, and further in the background is the setting sun peeking through out-of-focus pine trees.
A white woman with dark hair taking a selfie in a mirror while wearing an unfinished sweater. The sweater, which is knit out of self striping hand spun yarn, is knit in a simple textured color work pattern. The body of the sweater is complete, the right sleeve is nearly complete, and the left sleeve is still missing. The yarn shifts through many colors, including gray, brown, blue, purple, and green, all in muted dark shades. The woman is holding two balls of yarn in front of her body in her left hand, and her face is hidden behind her phone, which has a purple phone case.
A handknit baby sweater on a wooden table. The sweater has an all over bobble texture and is knit in a soft pastel sea-green color. The table under it is actually an ancient telephone wire reel, and the wood and metal are pleasantly worn and rustic.
A hand holding an in-progress knit hat in front of a weathered deck and blooming hydrangeas. The hat, which is being knit from the top down, is knit in hand dyed yarn that is pooling in uneven stripes of grey, burgundy, and tan. The hydrangeas are pink and white.
A pair of hand spun, hand knit socks laid out on a faded blue deck railing above a blooming hydrangea. The socks have short, rolled cuffs and a traditional heel flap. The yarn is blended shades of bright blue, brown, sea green, red-purple and dark blue, and is spun to create a striped or color blocked effect. The striping on the two socks does not match. The hydrangeas are in full bloom in pink, white, and pale green.
A multi-layered mesh drying rack hanging in a messy garage. The black drying rack, which is meant for herbs, has six levels, each with a bright green zippered opening, and all six levels are full of drying wool which can be glimpsed through the black mesh fabric.
A metal strainer, sitting in a metal sink, full of brightly colored wool. The wool has not been processed besides scouring and dyeing, and is still mostly clumped in wavy locks. It has been dyed shades of turquoise, ocean green, lavender, and lilac.
A top down view of a variety of yarn spinning paraphernalia. On the left is a spinning wheel on the floor, bearing a nearly full bobbin of muted turquoise yarn. On the table to the right is a spread out batt of wool, the same turquoise/gray/lavender/blue as the yarn on the spinning wheel, and there is another bobbin full of yarn sitting on the batt. Also sitting on the batt is a Turkish spindle with a small cop of pale green yarn.
A bobbin of hand spun singles held by a person's hand. The singles are turquoise with hints of lilac and have a woolly, fuzzy texture.
A close up view of a bobbin on a spinning wheel, mostly full of turquoise yarn. The yarn has bits of lavender mixed in, and in the background is a pile of turquoise and purple dyed wool.
A dog lounging in a patch of sunlight streaming in through a skylight, next to a spinning wheel. Indie, the dog, is light tan, wearing a teal collar, and looks very relaxed. The spinning wheel, a Schacht Matchless, has a small amount of muted blue-green yarn on the bobbin.
A Schacht Matchless spinning wheel with a bobbin partially full of brightly glowing fairy light yarn.
A nearly finished handspun, hand knit sock on a foot. The sock has a short rolled cuff, and shifts in color from blue/red marls at the ankle to turquoise to ocean green to brown to purple back to bright blue again at the toe. The only thing left to do is weave in the tail that dangles off the toe... And knit another sock, of course.
A half finished hand knit sock on a reddish purple background. The sock is being knit from the cuff down, and the yarn is striped and marled in shades of blue, green, brown, and purple. The fabric in the background is printed with stylized black mushrooms.
A pile of fiber and yarn on a pea-green table. In the back is a carded batt in shades of purple and pink, streaked with white and pink silk and sprinkled with tiny bits of multi-colored textile waste. In front of that is a silver 3D printed spinning wheel bobbin, partially filled with pale green and pink corespun yarn. The core is wire, giving the yarn a structural stiffness. In the front is yarn made from the purple and pink batt. It is corespun into a fairly light wire, which shines through the stiff, colorful yarn.
A knitted swatch, still on the needles, on a gray background. The stitches are tiny and even, and subtly striped in purple, green, brown, and turquoise. The loose yarn to the side is energized and twisting back on itself, surprising given how smooth and even the surface of the swatch is.
A multicolored skein of yarn held in a hand in front of a weathered wooden table bearing a digital yardage counter.. The yarn is various dark shades of green, blue, and purple, and the visible fingernails are painted in a matching green shimmer. A tattoo of something yarn-like is partially visible on the person's arm.
A side view of a drum carder clamped to a table. The carder is made of honey-colored wood with metal accents. In the background is a muted blue-turquoise batt of fiber.
A mug of coffee, a peanut butter cookie, and an in-progress hand knit sock arranged on a gray couch. The mug is white and has "Disneyland" printed near the rim, and is decorated with purple and yellow images of various Disney rides and characters. The sock is long and thin, knit in a ribbed pattern, and is black with speckles of neon pink, bright blue, and gray. There is a bite missing from the cookie.
A hand holding up an in-progress knitted sock. The pattern is the Everyday Socks by Andrea Mowry, and the yarn is Knitted Wit Victory Sock in Nasty Woman. Nasty Woman, the color way of the yarn, is black with pops of neon pink, bright blue, and gray and is being knit using the magic loop method. A pale green circular needle loop is in front of the sock, and the visible thumb nail is painted iridescent pink and green. In the background are blue bleachers and an out of focus lacrosse game.
A saxony-style spinning wheel in front of a cabinet full of yarn. The wheel is a medium brown wood and looks like a classic fairy tale spinning wheel, distaff and all.
A woman wearing a hand knit cardigan with a cat motif. The yoke of the sweater is purple with a band of off white repeating cats around the shoulders, and the body and sleeves are dark gray. She is wearing it with a plain black top and a navy and cream patterned skirt, and is standing in front of a glass fronted cabinet full of yarn. The picture is cropped so her face isn't visible.
Two 3-d printed bobbins of yarn on a spinning wheel. The bottom bobbin was just finished and is still on the flyer, and the yarn is a pale purple. The top bobbin is resting on the other bobbin at an angle, and the yarn is a mix of peach, raspberry, and pale yellow.
A skein of hand spun yarn in morning sunlight. The yarn is dyed the colors of the dresses the Sanderson sisters wear in the movie Hocus Pocus - purple, dark red, and green. It has a bouncy, thick and thin texture. The yarn is held in an outstretched hand and part of a tattoo of a tiger tail is visible on the inner arm. In the background is a weathered deck that used to be painted navy and a pair of feet in socks.
A bobbin on a spinning wheel half full of colorful yarn. The yarn is purple, green, pink, and burgundy, and spun in a thick and thin rustic style
An orange and white cat sleeps on a pillow. His paws are stretched out showing his toe beans.
An in-progress hand knit sweater on a person's lap. The knitting is striped and speckled in blues, greys, purples, greens, and oranges. In the background is a weathered deck and a sandaled foot.
An in-progress hand knit cardigan laid flat on a dark wood floor. The yoke of the sweater is purple, with a band of judgey white cats circling the shoulders, and the sleeves and body are dark gray. All of the knitting is complete except for the buttonhole band, and the steel line is marked and ready to be cut.
Three mini skeins of hand spun green art yarn. From left to right, there is a slub/beehive yarn, a spiral yarn plied with silver thread, and a gimp style yarn. All are the same color way of varying shades of green.
A hand holds up a skein of hand spun yarn. The yarn is thin and striped in shades of turquoise, green, purple, and brown.