Terin Skyweaver (they/them)

@terinskyweaver.bsky.social

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Knitter. Designer. Queer. Disabled. Occasional tarot musings. Tangata Tiriti of Aotearoa New Zealand. https://www.ravelry.com/designers/terin-skyweaver

Photo of some faded denim blue knitting held in a pale hand, with a raglan increase in the centre. One needle at the top of the work on the left, with loose stitches on the right, the other needle a dozen or so rows (who am I kidding, it's sixteen) down, picking up stitches, including stitchmarkers at the raglan increase. In the background, slightly out of focus, is a bright rainbow waves blanket. The pattern I'm working from is free, called the Bad Idea Blouse, using a cotton yarn on 4mm needles.
A photo of the sky, clouds cover it in varying layers, dark in a triangle from lower left to upper right and across. The sun is bright to the middle left, hazy behind the clouds. In the lower part of the photo, silhouetted trees and a couple of roofs line the shot, along with a solitary lamppost. The cloud along the bottom is tinted an orange-ish yellow.
Photo of a golden-yellow knitted and felted cross-body bag (beltbag) with a chunky black zip and a black clasp on the righthand side. The belt part is made in garter stitch and is adjustable in length. The colour is glorious.
A photo of knitting from the Hope Grows Roots Cowl, overlaid with three labelled card outlines at the top, below are three questions: 1. Where di we get our nourishment? 2. What futures are we planting seeds for? 3. What are we pouring our love into?
Author (a pale skinned androgynous person with short-cropped dark hair on one side and chin-length hair on the other, faces the left) wearing a Hope Grows Roots Cowl in two shades of green, made in DK, wide and tall size.
Photo of a pale skinned androgynous person in glasses in a black hoodie wearing a pink and pale yellow cowl in a geometric repetitive design - the Way Home Cowl by me, Terin Skyweaver.
How Grows Roots cowls knit in two colours in fingering and DK weight, laying flat, overlapping. On top is the fingering weight made in pale purple and bold pink. Behind lays the DK made in dark green and yellowy green. The cowl design is made up of ribbing at the top and bottom edges, with stranded colourwork between in a repetitive geometric design reminiscent of leaves and postibly suggestive of flowers if done in the right colours. The pattern is by me, Terin Skyweaver, and is being released soon.
Photo of Hope Grows Roots cowl made in grey, golden brown, and white spread flat and drying on a pale towel. The cowl is a design of ribbing at the top and bottom (grey), and a repetitive geometric design reminiscent of leaves (golden brown) and flowers (white).
Ace of pentacles reversed, ace of swords reversed, ace of torches (wands) reversed, from the Cosmic Slumber Tarot. In the ace of pentacles, an open pale-skinned hand with a red cuff reaches from the bottom of the card towards a yellow-gold coin inscribed with a pentagram in the centre, in front of a leafy green background. There is a tiny figure to the upper right, peeking out of the leaves. In the ace of swords, a dark-skinned hand with a blue cuff clutches a sword which dominates the card, in front of a red cloudy background. Perched on the crossbar of the hilt of the sword is a tiny figure dressed in a blue robe. In the ace of torches, a pale-skinned hand with a dark green cuff comes from the bottom-right, gently clasping a wooden stick with a couple of branching twigs, the top of which is blackened and on fire. The flame is orangey-yellow and red, with whitish smoke rising off the top of the card. Perched on one of the twigs, and clutching the main stick, is a tiny figure dressed in a green robe looking up at the flame. In the background is a purple rocky landscape.
A photo from above of the crown of a blue and white colourwork knitted beanie, the colourwork splaying out from the blue crown in a satisfying star shape.
Photo of the Six of Swords card from the Fifth Spirit Tarot resting on a knitted colourwork cowl on a blanket. The card depicts a row boat on a black sea with rough water behind, smooth water infront, no one is in the boat but there are six giant nails point down in the bow of the boat. Overhead fly six birds (geese?) in a V formation pointing in the same direction as the boat. The sky looks like the sun might be about to rise, with light coming from just below the horizon and a crescent moon in the upper right corner. Beneath the card is a knitted cowl which has a geometric colourwork design with pointed shapes in light pink on a navy blue background, with navy blue ribbing at top and bottom. The shapes are slightly reminiscent of swords. Beneath both the card and cowl is a soft blue blanket.
Swatch of lime green knitting help by a pale hand in front of an out-of-focus messy living room. The top of the swatch has been brushed until it has fluffed up, with tall wisps about 2cm above the knitted fabric in the main bulk and some even taller
Two lime green wristwarmers lie before you, one fluffy, one not. A slicker brush lies above them, ready to go to work. The unfluffed wristwarmer shows that they are made in a simple ribbed stitch, with a hole for the thumb part way down from the top.
Photo of a knitted cowl work in progress in stranded colourwork made of lilac-purple and bright almost-orangey-pink. Ribbing at the bottom is in the purple. A thumb and finger are visible at the left top holding the needles. The colourwork pattern is repetitive geometric-ish and sort of leafy. It is from an upcoming design by me called 'hope grows roots', this is a sample made in fingering weight yarn, but it will also be available for DK weight yarn.
Photo of a haphazard pile of small knitted rectangles on a white windowsill in bright colours - blue, pink, yellow, pastel pink, with a fuzzy lime green one on top. They all have tails of yarn hanging off. Green trees are visible out of focus beyond the window.
A small thin crescent moon is seen in a clear blue morning sky beyond a roof edge, shaped like a smile.
Stranded colourwork knitting of the Way Home Cowl in navy blue and variegated bright colour in geometric shapes, held in front of black clothing, with the wire of a circular knitting needle visible at the top of the knitting, ribbing in the navy at the bottom.
A photo of a fluffy husky seen through a windowed door. The husky is lying down looking away from the camera, ears up. The husky is mostly black from this angle, with white visible at the lower edges and the inside of the ear. She looks very soft. Behind the husky is visible a vertical post and some green bushes
An incredibly blurry photo of the blood moon from 14 March 2025, showing a wobbly blurry circle with a bright white crescent on the lower right and the upper left filled with darker red, all very unsharp and out of focus. The sky is probably out of focus too, but as it is just black, it is hard to tell.
A pile of pink and white yarn noodles haphazardly on top of the back of pink and white stranded colourwork knitting. It's a big and messy pile. If you could see the face of the photographer, it would not be a pleased face.
A close-up photo of some knitting on it's needles, blue stitches at the bottom of the photo give way to geometric blue and black patterning halfway up, with odd coloured flecks in the black. A couple of stitch markers are visible on the needles.
A square of colourwork knitting, the front of a coin purse, lies on a black background. It is made of peachy-pink leafy shapes on a purple background. The peachy-pink yarn has been felted. The purple stitches remain defined and unfelted, with some looseness where the purple top edge has not shrunk with felting, but the lower colourwork has. The colourwork pattern is currently called, 'May your hope grow roots', and is a forthcoming design.
A half-made knitting project draped over balls of yarn on a pale grey couch. It is colourwork in two shades of green, the lighter and yellower shade slightly reminiscent of leaf patterns against the darker green which also forms ribbing at the bottom of the knitting. Some of the back of the knitting, with floats, is visible at the bottom of the photo.
A half-knitted blue garment is scrunched up on circular needles, forming waves and undulations of soft fabric. The ends of the needles and a stitch marker and visible in the foreground.
Bright pink knitting on a straight knitting needle, with some white colourwork at the top, lies diagonally across a black-clothed lap. A few lightbulb stitch markers are visible along the needle. The bottom of the knitting has rolled up a bet, showing the reverse side at the bottom right of the picture.
A blue half-knitting garment on it's needles rests in a black-clothed lap. A heart-shaped stitch marker with blue flowery splotches hangs from the left needle, just to the left of where the two needles meet. A cake of yarn is tucked behind the knitting, mostly out of sight to the left. About 2cm of knitting has been done past the underarm join.
Photo of pink and pale yellow patterned stranded colourwork knitting with a darning needle inserted at the top into some pink rib stitching. A black and white husky sleeps in the background.
The smiling lower half of the face and shoulders of a pale skinned person are shown with a partly-knitted blue top worn over a t-shirt with a hand holding the bottom of it down to show the shape of the V neckline. Stitch markers dot the neckline to mark increases, and the knitting needle curls it up at the edges of the shot.
A swatch of patterned colourwork knitting in bright pink and lemon yellow, still on the needles, lies on top of a background of the same pattern but in a larger weight of yarn in a navy blue and pale pink.