Finally finished another in my series of #iconicknitsinminiature: this time a 1/12 scale rendition of a sweater from the Gap, popular in the late 1990’s. The “crazy stripes” sweater! Knit in silk thread from Au ver a soie, on size .8mm needles. 🧶 #knitting #microknitting

The next Iconic Knit in miniature: this jacket, from an upcycled Hudson Bay point blanket, inspired by a variety of jackets in historical tradition but especially the modern iteration by @kittybadhands. Silk/mohair, 0.8 needles, this version is one I’ve been working on for months, off and on.

#ShowMeYourKnits baby stuff! Tiny baby sweaters in 1/12 scale (shown in front of a miniature yarn shop roombox, handy for showing off the tiny knitting in general.) #miniatures #dollhouses #knitting 🧶

For anyone needing a little emotional support…there’s a little Emotional Support Chicken. Made using an adapted version of Annette Corsino’s wonderful knitting pattern, adjusted for miniaturization. 🧶🐓♥️

Some things never change! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology

Cable day on #showmeyourknits and I just so happen to be revising the cable pattern I wrote for the Taylor Swift “folklore” sweater. Doing the “1989” one next. 🧶

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

I love this profile, especially since it highlights the process pictures…and the process, the messy fragmented part of the whole, is where I personally spend the most time with each piece. 🧶

This is just to say I have eaten the democracy that was your America and which you were probably saving for your children Forget it it was delicate it was for sale so it sold

As I creak and wobble around the house following gallbladder surgery, taking an arsenal of medication, I am reminded that Andy Warhol died from complications of this same surgery. Sorry about that, Andy: here’s to you. #arthistory

“Possibly one of the most impactful art losses ever in America.” www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Thinking about the @gettymuseum.bsky.social today and all the staff and planning it takes to keep an art collection safe from wildfires. Preserving cultural patrimony isn’t for sissies. (Here, Gustave Caillebotte’s “Young Man at a Window.”)

Sensationalism is an addiction akin to junk food. It floods your brain with dopamine––overstimulating it & training it to be less sensitive to natural sources of pleasure. Here’s a warning: if you want to be happy in 2029, DON'T let sensationalism hijack your neuropathways in 2025. (See alt txt)

Brilliant piece by Elena Kanagy-Loux for @hyperallergic.com back in April! 👇🏽 One of the most heartening aspects for me of teaching a course on craft and design, also earlier this year, was the opportunity to encourage students to look differently at family heirlooms and their own creations ✊🏽

My cat Mo is very interested in my latest book of knitting patterns (by Sara Elizabeth Kellner). I told him if he doesn’t behave himself, I’m going to knit myself a replacement cat. 😉

Art history is indeed a solace.

“December staggered in like a weary mud-encrusted vagabond who had been on her way to someplace else but whose legs had buckled and now she was here.” This novel caught me from the first sentence and has not let go. One of several Kenyan authors whose books I picked up in Nairobi, for perspective.

“If you outsource your writing, you are outsourcing your thinking.” 🔥🔥🔥

From the category of “things we knew, but it’s nice that someone nailed down the data on it”: looking at real art in museums stimulates our brain in important ways.” #arthistory #museums #vermeer

I’m traveling this weekend to visit this piece, which I made earlier this year, and which is now in the collection of the KSB Miniatures Collection in Maysville, Kentucky. This is a “first” for me: the first time I’ll see something I made displayed in a museum. #fiberarts #knitting #miniatures 🧶🐑♥️

When a woman does it, it’s craft, but when a man does it, it’s art. Miniature knitting inspired by the designs of @crochetingmoonfairy fiber arts. #knitting done on 0.6mm steel needles, with silk sewing thread.

Ready to go shopping: tomorrow is Museum Store Sunday, supporting our communities through supporting non-profits (and the missions they support in turn.) Find the best museum stores near you with this map: museumstoresunday.org/find-a-store/

This beautiful antique cat painting by some Russian great-great-grandfather of our Thanksgiving host looks a lot like my cat Mo. #catsinart 😸

From that time I perched a row of tiny sweaters on my bookshelf to appear in the background of my video meetings. (Nobody noticed them. They’re too small.) I love how tiny they look in the context of “the real world.” Also, I miss them! (These have since gone on to other collections.) 🧶 #knitting

The Stettheimer dollhouse is back on display at the Museum of the City of New York, and with it a series of dolls made for the house in 1976, including this one which represents Carrie Stettheimer herself. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/a...

Isamu Noguchi #art #museums

I read all these books so you don’t have to. This is the stack I built this summer working on my class “Size Does Matter: a History of Miniatures in Art.” If you love miniatures, dollhouses, art history, and the history of miniatures and dollhouses *in* art history, here is a reading list.

“They” say this algorithm is more customizable to each user than other platforms. So I’m feeding it/the world all my default subjects of interest in hopes that it’s so. Next topic: travel. Pics from my recent trip to Nairobi, Amboseli park, Lake Nakuru (Kenya).

From Barbara Kingsolver:

Next default subject: knitting! But in miniature. Make mine small…and with lots of math. #miniatureknitting #dollhouseminiatures

Next default topic: radical, trans-inclusive, intersectional feminism. If my peeps aren’t welcome I don’t want to be there. #paradoxoftolerance #smashthepatriarchy illustration by Devon Blow

Next default subject: #arthistory This Lavinia Fontana portrait of a noblewoman is on display at the Morgan Library, and shows a woman with both fabulous taste in jewelry and a very, very good dog

Default subject: cats. This one is not quite right, and it shows.