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Karie Ghoulish

@kariebookish.bsky.social

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I do things with wool & words. She/her. Tired. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇰🏳️‍🌈 These are all my personal views and do not represent anyone else. Find my stuff at kariebookish.net

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · Nov 8

Hello! Quite a few new followers. I'm Karie, a Danish woman living in Glasgow, Scotland. I've written a knitting book about Early Modern printing, teach psychogeographical craft workshops, stamp books, make my own jeans, and married someone from Clan Fraser before it was cool.

White middle-aged cos woman with teal hair, fancy eyeliner, a yellow hand-knitted shawl and a green coat is hiding behind a takeaway coffee

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 13h

This has really caught people's imaginations - way more than I was expecting. Very lovely, but a tiny bit overwhelming and a tad surreal, too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Houghton-le-Spring crafters create Houghton Feast fabric map

Houghton Feast's origins stetch as far back as the 12th Century.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 1h

Just as an aside, if a Nobel prize winning scientist can take a vacation and put his phone on airplane mode while he does it, so can you.

He’s absolutely right. That email was not more important than his hike.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 23h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · 11h

students said they weren’t really poetry fans but loved novels, so i wrote down a line they picked out from jane eyre, scanned it, noted the metrical substitutions and internal rhymes. reader, they took pictures of the chalkboard.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 11h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 10h

I use 12oz to 14 oz 100% denim fabric, but it's getting harder to find quality fabric unless it's deadstock or "ex-designer" as it's sometimes called. A lot of denim fabric sold to home sewers is thinner than what I prefer and also contains lycra or other synthetic materials.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 10h

And this is ultimately why I prefer to make my own jeans. They last and age beautifully.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

Have you ever noticed that old clothes online sometimes look better than old clothes in your closet?

Why is that? 🧵

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 15h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 13h

Jeff Bezos might have built a spaceship, but indie bookstores build and nurture whole communities and that is *way* more impressive and valuable.

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 17h

From Parth Kothekar's M.C. Escher-inspired series of papercuts

www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/10/part...

a hand holding a trippy white paper cut to distort perspective

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 17h

Me neither. I feel like it ruined me.

CRUMBS.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 18h

“Knit Hello is a typeface for hand knitting. It was made for beginners: knitters and typographers who love type.” [kottke.org]

Knit Hello, a Simple Typeface for Knitting

Designer Rüdiger Schlömer has created a new typeface for beginning knitters called Knit Hello. Knit Hello is a typeface for hand knitting. It was made for beginners: knitters and typographers who love type. You m

kottke.org

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 17h

Café played Jeff Buckley's Lover You Should've Come Over and JESUS CHRIST ON A BIKE the yearning. I had forgotten the YEARNING.

I fear hearing this song at a formative age ruined me for good. THE YEARNING!

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 19h

Holiday. I had a rotten day yesterday so today I'm treating myself to café coffee and knitting.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 19h

Terry is absolutely perfect!

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So Disappointed @sodisappointed.bsky.social · 21h

For some reason, when @kariebookish.bsky.social suggested Jacques Cousteau - my mind went to diving bell helmets. But, he’s a tad more contemporary than that. It’s wall to wall chambray shirts and beanies for our Jacques.

Who would *you* like to see Terry cosplay as next?

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 22h

Relating to Things: Design, Technology and the Artificial by Heather Wiltse (ed) is available as Open Access via Bloomsbury. I'm esp. interested in "A Design Inquiry Into The Withdrawal Of Things" by Wakkary, Hauser and Oogjes.

www-bloomsburyvisualarts-com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/encyclopedia...

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 23h

Why? Because your readers do. The literary world is full of people wanting to write children’s books, who haven’t looked at a children’s book since the 60s. Or people who want the sales associated with romantasy (or cosy crime, or sci-fi), but don’t actually know the genre, or want to read any.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 23h

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1579: If you’re going to write in any genre (children’s fiction, SFF, romance, etc), you need to read EXTENSIVELY in that genre. You need to read current authors in the genre. You need to know what’s been done; what tropes exist; how the genre has changed.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you all for yesterday's kindness.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 1d

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)

Montgomery Clift has the control to charm—almost to seduce—an audience without ever stepping outside his inflexible, none-too-smart character. Burt Lancaster has a role that's just about perfectly in his range as Sergeant Warden.

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 1d

The little dog looking out at us should be as famous as The Scream 🖤

wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 1d

hello here are some sausage dogs on a rug painted by edvard munch

a painting of a colourful rug with five sausage dogs on it

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 1d

For reasons, I need some kindness in the comments.

And perhaps others will also read these comments of kindness and the words will spread like rings in the water.

Right now, I just need kindness.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 2d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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