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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 14/09/2026

My lunch today is bringing me so much joy. I got to use cucumbers from our neighbor’s garden and bitter melon from the community garden I volunteer at 🥹

Goya Champuru - egg, tofu, bitter melon with Bonito flakes on top

Silken tofu and cucumbers with a sesame garlic chili sauce

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 07/09/2026

I had to beam the warp for the third time but I can finally sit at my loom and weave now 🙌🏼

Arisa sitting at her countermarch loom weaving

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 03/09/2026

@tonjohn.bsky.social is the best weaving assistant 😊 (we had to beam the warp again to fix the tension)

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 18/08/2026

Any countermarch weavers out there? Finally at the last bit of tying up the loom for the first time but so very confused on how to tie lamms to treadles with 2 shafts

Illustration by Arisa on tying up 2 shafts (might be wrong…)

Treadle Tie-Up from the book Tying Up the Countermarch loom by Joanne Hall on

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 14/08/2026

My Big Walk Crochet Doll pattern is out and it’s free!! It’s my second pattern I’ve ever written so let me know if any parts are confusing! Download here: arisamakes.com/patterns/big...

Big Walk crochet dolls in all yellow with a backpack, green and dark purple with a backpack and red object, and all white carrying a flare gun

Zoey the cat with Big Walk crochet doll in white and holding a flare gun

Big Walk crochet doll in green and blue holding a red light and yellow, pink and teal

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 07/08/2026

The museum also has a variety of examples of weaving in different regions — a Thai doll weaving, a Hmong story cloth, a whole loom from Ecuador

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 07/08/2026

They had examples of some natural dyes like huckleberry, Oregon grapes, lobster mushroom

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 07/08/2026

The Woven in Wool exhibit at the Burke Museum was so cool!!! If you’re in the Seattle area, go check it out before it’s gone at the end of this month

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 05/08/2026

I crocheted a shawl to bring to protests but love that I can wear it anywhere— from Flock Fiber Festival to the IGF awards

Arisa wearing a pink shawl with red borders that says ABOLISH ICE at a yarn festival

Arisa wearing a pink shawl with red borders that says ABOLISH ICE at a game awards

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 04/08/2026

Big Walk releasing today got me motivated to finish a prop for my crocheted character

Arisa’s crocheted Big Walk character in yellow, pink, and teal, an iPad with a screenshot of her character in game, and holding an in progress white crocheted square

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 09/07/2026

I cohost a monthly craft night for Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) & multiracial identities in the Seattle area. If you identify as BIPOC or multiracial and enjoy crafts, join us and bring your craft projects!! arisamakes.com/bipoccraftci...

Poster with pink background and a yellow circle and light blue waves that looks like an abstract sun and ocean waves. It says BIPOC craft night Monday July 20 @ 6:30PM, open to Black, Indigenous, people of color & multiracial identities, arisamakes.com/bipoccraftcircle

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 30/06/2026

I found some old sketches of mine from 10+ years ago on some Avatar The Last Airbender pillows I made and sold on Etsy. 20 year old me wanted to be an entrepreneur too hehe

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 26/06/2026

This week was full of creating and being in community ✨ I learned how to make paper with the folks at Indigenous Creatives Collective and earlier this week I got to do a demonstration around fiber arts for some seniors~

Using a damp sponge to get the excess water out of the paper making frame

Some paper made out of cotton pulp and decorated with flowers

Arisa demonstrating fiber arts to some seniors. She’s standing behind a table with some things she’s weaved, crocheted, and knit

Arisa teaching some seniors on fiber arts

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 14/06/2026

I survived my first time getting the warp on my countermarch loom— took 3 tries and may have messed with the tension but looks to be successful so far! 🥳 Thanks @tonjohn.bsky.social for the assistance!!

Warp on beam and reed in the beater of the loom!

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 12/06/2026

I went out to pull some weeds and ended up picking a bunch of strawberries!! 🍓 so manyyyy

Arisa using her sweater to hold a bunch of freshly picked strawberries

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 03/06/2026

I taught my first knitting class for some educators of color yesterday and it was so funnnn. I’m so excited to do more of this 💜

A photo of yarn in variety of colors, knitting needles and example knits that I’ve made!

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 02/06/2026

💜 💜 thanks for so many great games! I was playing DOTM on my train ride back home 😄

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 02/06/2026

Panic made my last day so special thank you and I’ll miss you all 😭

A card with a collage of photos of Arisa and coworkers at Panic with text saying “Arisa, we’re gonna miss ya!” and a Playdate with big red heart “we’ll really miss you.” printed on the back

A meringue cake with berries that says “Arisa is weaving just for fun”

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 12/04/2026

Loom set up day! Who needs a dining table when you can have a loom? 😆

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 22/03/2026

I’ve been shopping for floor looms for a year now and finally went to an estate sale to pick up this beauty 😌

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 26/12/2025

I never know if anyone actually wants handmade knits from me, so I had this very last minute idea of making a variety of accessories for my family to pick from. I successfully made most in only a week but my hands aren’t very happy 😂

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 16/12/2025

All the bagels I tried while in NYC: Popup, Apollo, Brooklyn, and Bob’s. Every place also offered vegan cream cheese and it was tasty!! We ended up buying a dozen from Popup to bring back home 😋

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 20/11/2025

It was a good day at the office 🐱

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 30/10/2025

My little floof Bunny is very happy to be with the rest of the crew

Calicorn Bunny from Herdling, TGYH doll, Time Flies fly, and despelote football

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 28/08/2025

Happy belated one year to this guy! I crocheted him last year and finally wrote a free pattern for anyone that wants to make this little man from Thank Goodness You’re Here: arisamakes.com/patterns/tgy...

Crochet doll of Thank Goodness You’re Here little man

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 22/07/2025

We got lots of apricots this year! Anyone have good recipes for a jam or just tips on what to do with them?

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 12/06/2025

We also played Crank Up from yesterday’s Catalog Drop on stream and I made it on the leaderboards!! 🙌🏼

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 27/04/2025

Might as well use up all the space I have to knit

Two skeins of yarn and a sweater project laying on top of Arisa’s dog Dundee

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 08/04/2025

YES! So proud and so well deserved! Rodney here is also very proud

A crochet doll of Rodney watching Thank Goodness You're Here win The British Game Award at the BAFTAs

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 26/03/2025

I went to the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live with zero expectations and it was amazing!! A Sailor Moon musical + concert?! 🌙 ✨ Hell yes

Arisa posing with her friend at The Paramount about to watch the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon The Super Live

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 11/02/2025

Still thinking about the food at Civilize Ayutthaya from our last full day in Thailand

Kaeng Khua (curry) with fried crab, bai cha plu (piper lolot??) and brown rice noodles

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 10/02/2025

We learned about Eri silk, natural dyes, and everything needed to get the loom set up and start weaving. I’ll have the energy one of these days to go through all my videos and share them ♥️

A pot of boiling water and leucaena leucocephala plant (กระถิน)

Arisa warping the thread to prepare the loom

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 10/02/2025

I asked my dad and grandma almost two years ago that I wanted to learn how to weave and thanks to them I was able to learn in Khon Kaen, Isan region of Thailand, where my family is from 🥹

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 09/02/2025

The drawings on the sidewalk were also great 😊

“Trans lives 4 ever” written on the sidewalk in chalk in a variety of colors with flowers and a person with a heart

Variety of lgbtqia+ flags drawn on sidewalk in chalk

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 09/02/2025

We went to support trans kids today and loved that there was a band 🏳️‍⚧️ 🩵🩷🩵🩷

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 30/01/2025

I’ve been sick with a fever and now bronchitis and couldn’t make our weaving class in my family’s hometown in Khon Kaen, Thailand but so proud of @tonjohn.bsky.social for weaving for the first time yesterday!!

A photo of pink, blue and white weave on a table loom in Khon Kaen (Isan region of Thailand) in cotton and eri silk woven here and there with a spool on top

A photo of pink, blue and white weave on a table loom in Khon Kaen (Isan region of Thailand) in cotton and eri silk woven here and there

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 07/01/2025

Animal Friends of Pica Pau has the best amigurumi patterns 🥹 I just finished the Satsuki Cat for a friend’s kid and she’s the cutestttt

A gray cat amigurumi in a brown dress and yellow bow

Unicorn amigurumi in white with blue wings and pink hair

Bear amigurumi in a blue vest, green & blue & white scarf, and pink beanie

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 05/12/2024

Took my dude to get an allergy test today and poor guy is sleeping like this now 😂

Arisa’s dog, Dundee, sleeping with his mouth and eyes slightly open

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 02/12/2024

We’re having our next BIPOC craft night next Monday December 9 6:30pm at Wet Clay Cafe! If you’re BIPOC, like crafts and in the Seattle area, come join other fellow crafters of color and bring your crafts!! Address: Wet Clay Cafe 1109 N 35th St Suite A Seattle, WA 98103

Text says “Join our next BIPOC craft night December 9 at 6:30pm” “Wet Clay Cafe, 1109 N 35th St, Suite A, Seattle, WA 98103”

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 30/11/2024

This week I made wojape and roasted vegetables from the Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen book. I had to tweak the recipe slightly with the ingredients available but it was still delicious!

Arisa holding the cookbook: the Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman

A photo of blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, and cranberries in a pot to make some Wojape

Roasted vegetables in a glass baking dish with turnip, sunchoke, sweet potato, butternut squash, and polenta at the bottom. Seasoned with sage, salt, maple syrup, whole seed mustard and balsamic vinegar

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 23/11/2024

It was wild to see the volcanic eruption while leaving Iceland and knowing that we were just in that Blue Lagoon parking lot last week. Wonder what it would’ve been like evacuating with @tonjohn.bsky.social in crutches 😅

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 22/11/2024

Other tasty things we ate: - Æbleskiver at the Kongen Nytorv Christmas Market - Hidden Dimsum - Gaza Grill - Saffron buns and cookies from Juno the Bakery

Burton and Arisa enjoying some gløgg and æbleskiver

Delicious noodles, stir fry and xiao long baos from Hidden Dimsum

Halloumi bowl and chicken shawarma bowl from Gaza Grill

Buttered cookies in tins from Juno the Bakery

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Arisa อริซ่า @arisamakes.com · 22/11/2024

Goodbye Copenhagen! I’m going to miss all the good bread, especially the bolle med ost from Den Gamle Købmand

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