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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · Jul 31

"I Noticed That You Mentioned Silent Films So I Wanted to Come Over and Explain a Film I am Sure You Have Never Seen Called METROPOLIS" by Berthold Woltze

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 12m

It feels so odd against the skin, though. I made a few scarves of it and they kind of stuck to the neck

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 17m

I had forgotten about them and then one showed up in an old concert performance (FULL PULLOVER) and it all came flooding back

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 17m

Wallace Reid tries a new flirting technique in HAWTHORNE OF THE USA

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 21m

Remember ribbon yarn? I wasn't crocheting then but knitting it was AWFUL. You constantly had to be untwisting it or you would lose the ribbonyness and end up with a tight twisted cord.

It was cute for little bags and such, though.

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 24m

Lovely!

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I love it!

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Archmage's Apothecary ✨ @archmagesapoth.bsky.social · 27m

Done

A sketch of a cockroach wearing a granny square jacket

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 29m

My prediction is that chenille doodads will be remembered the same way we remember ribbon and eyelash/slub Y2K sweaters.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 32m

Yeah, your gauge has to be juuuuuust so and I cannot guarantee that. I would rather just plunge in with color changes and woven ends.

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 33m

When I was learning to knit, there was a whole type of yarn designed to look cute on the shelf and not in an actual project. Now with social media, same thing but yarns designed to look cute on social media and not meant for actual use.

Unsure? Buy a skein, make a skinny scarf, see how you feel.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 35m

My default go-to yarn for sweaters is a cotton-acrylic blend (RIP GGH Goa, the yarn of my first ever sweater) or a cotton-wool blend (Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece ftw!) or a wool/alpaca-acrylic blend (the pure stuff is itchy). I also love a nice bamboo yarn.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 38m

For you keeping score at home, the yarns I slander:

Chenille
Shoelace yarn (it's circular knitted chunky yarn?)
Mohair (same issues as chenille and also matting and scratchy!)
Eyelash yarn (unless you are a muppet)
Self-striping, self-patterning, one-skein granny square yarn (hell on earth)

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 41m

Shoelace yarn (I don't know what the marketing name is) is likewise invited to take a seat. Working with it will give you the hands of a 18th century Irish seaman but no selkies. Boo!

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 43m

(Someone please draw little roaches in cute knitted and crocheted attire plz thx)

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 44m

The kids are sniffing at acrylic but it exists because it's dead reliable and will survive a nuclear blast. Ideal for toys, blankets and some outerwear. When the Bomb drops, all the cockroaches will be attired in little granny square cardigans and good for them.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 46m

You get only one shot. You rip back, it goes bald!

a drag queen with a very large wig on

ALT: a drag queen with a very large wig on

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 49m

Seeing the new generation of fiber arts practitioners struggling with the suddenly-back-in-style chenille...

IT WAS ALWAYS LIKE THAT!!! CHENILLE IS A LIE!!!! So soft, so sumptuous, so velvety-- on the skein. In practice, it's a shedding nightmare that makes Labradors look like Sphinx cats.