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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I jwore my regular jeans, and paired them with converse because they felt sort of appropriate and I couldn’t find thrifted cowboy boots. This was a fairly challenging make. The work on the biker vest definitely improved my pattern drafting and sewing skills, so time well spent #RockyHorror

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

For the slingshot necklace, I sketched this out and made a replica from fimo. For the skull keyring, I took the skull off a plastic Halloween skeleton toy and added the keyring with a jump ring. I also had painted a black T-shirt with the word “Eddie” in green. I already owned the scarf #RockyHorror

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I bought the hiker vest from Vinted, took it apart, drafted and cut out a new back panel and lapels, and sewed them into the vest. This was difficult, but my sewing machine survived! I then drafted and cut out a felt appliqué design for the back to match the jacket from the film, and added studs.

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Went to a rocky horror showing last night, had the best time with my friends and won a prize for my Eddie costume! It’s not often I get up in front of a crowd and do the time warp, but when I do it I do it in style! Details on the making in the thread 🧵 #RockyHorror #CosPlay #Crafts #HandMade 🧶

Close up of the face and upper torso of a man in an Eddie rocky horror costume. He wears a greaser wig, a leather biker jacket with leopard print lapels, a model slingshot necklace, a greaser wig and dark eye makeup

A man stands in front of a white wall. He is wearing a costume of Eddie in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. He raises one hand in a rock horns gesture and sticks his tongue out. The costume comprises: a greaser wig, a studded biker vest with leopard print lapels, a white scarf, a slingshot necklace, a black t-shirt with “Eddie” painted on it in green, jeans and black converse.

The back of a leather biker vest showing a felt reconstruction of the design on Eddie’s jacket in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It shows a rising sun in red and yellow, and the word baby in a red angular font

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Me to my Lazy Kate as I cut small pieces of sellotape and stick them by their edges around her frame in order to wrap presents: Girl, is there anything you can’t do? #HandSpinning #HandSpunYarn

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Yeah it’s perfect for travel. I did quite a lot of it on various train journeys. Let me know how you get on with yours, when you knit it I’d love to see pictures

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It’s an amazing pattern - I love that it’s gaugeless as I sometimes just spin what the fibre is telling me to make and then it’s like “what can I do with this?” 😆

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Thankyou so much! It’s been my favourite make of all this year - and I’ve been wearing it everywhere since I finished it - thanks for writing the pattern

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It’s official, I love this and wear it everywhere now 🥰 Pattern is @chaseharpole.bsky.social ‘motorcoach’ made with my handspun yarn The flat lay photo is taken before blocking and seaming so you can see the colour interactions #knitsky #knitting #HandSpunYarn 🧶

A triangle of knitted fabric lies on the floor partially on a colourful striped rag rug. The fabric shows three stripes of rich deep colours red, teal and yellow which is mottled with brown. Between each colour stripe there is a fade

A man with a dark unkempt beard smiles at the camera wearing a grey hoodie and a hand knitted cowl in teal, red and yellow. In the background we see a fairly busy market street

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I definitely gave in and made some green bean casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy… worst at being British award incoming 😅🧶

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Apparently almost all the news on my feed has been replaced by the fact that *checks notes* Americans are consuming a meal today We’ll ignore the fact that I love green bean casserole, and cornbread dressing 😅🧶

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Not as much knitting time as I wanted this week but I’m making up for it this morning adding my last colour stripe to this cowl. This is all my own handspun and I can’t wait to wear it! Pattern is @chaseharpole.bsky.social ‘Motorcoach’ #KnitSky #knitting #HandSpinning #HandSpunYarn 🧶

This picture shows garter stitch knitted cowl in progress on the needles. It’s knitted in approximately DK weight handspun yarn and has three colours visible: a deep red, a rich teal and a mustard yellow. The needles are being held in the knitters left hand while the photo is taken and the knitting rests on the knitters jean clothed legs. In the background we can see a bit of a rug and beanbag

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Swiss darning is a technique if you want the repair to match the structure of the knit, it’s a little fiddly but there’s some great you tube tutorials, and you just need yarn, scissors, a large blunt sewing needle and something to stretch the sweater over - sometimes cans are good. Good luck 😊

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Thankyou! I wore them to choir tonight and I’m very happy with it 😊

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Great colours - also I was curious where the name came from, good to know!

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

It’s patched, interfaced on the inside and then there’s a lining patch over the top - I took the photo before I ironed it, it looks very flat now 😂

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Oh I feel you! It’s such a struggle - although I do enjoy getting up early sitting with a cup of tea and saying “I’d better darn them trousers before the light goes” like I’m a character in a play 😂

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

When you own as many black clothes as I do (aging emos die hard 😂) and you live in the UK where there’s currently 9 hours of daylight (and still waning) you sit up in the morning and do your mending #mending 🧶

A mended pair of black jeans with a black fabric patch over the crotch. The iPhone camera colour correction has exaggerated the differences between the fabrics which look closer to one another in real life

A pre-mended pair of black jeans with rips and frays in the crotch. In the photo we can see small pair of fabric scissors and a cross-stitch embroidered needle case which says “count once stitch twice, count twice stitch once” in different shades of blue

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Finished these a week or so ago and forgot to post a picture - this is my standard sock recipe in a self striping 4ply, I just needed another pair of socks for the winter #knitting 🧶

A pair of socks lie flat on a black and white striped rug. The socks are hand knitted with a ribbed top and a an eye of the partridge texture on the heel, which gives a waffle like texture. The socks are predominantly of white with solid strips of blue, yellow and orange, as well as stripes made of colour blocks of grey red and dark blue

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I did feel very smug that I’d timed the colour change so well lol

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Post a non-religious image you think of as holy

This is the log lady from Twin Peaks. She stands beside a log cabin wall holding a log. She has shoulder length bob hair, and large red glasses. She is wearing a purple knitted cardigan with patterned detail on the sleeve. Behind her is wallpaper featuring plants. She stares concernedly out of the photo

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Places you can knit: at the best coffee shop in your hometown, or possibly the world - Darkroom Espresso. It’s so great to be back here and have a little time to relax, knit and drink great coffee Pattern is @chaseharpole.bsky.social ‘s ‘Motorcoach’ cowl #HandSpunYarn #HandSpinning #Knitting 🧶

This picture shows some deep reds garter stitch knitting which has just had some teal contrast rows work in at the edges. The stitches are still live on the needle and the knitter has paused mid row, holding the needles up in one hand. The yarn is hand spun. In the background we can see a white tabletop, a flat white coffee and a some cake with a fork on a small plate

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Thankyou! And thankyou for writing the pattern! I have a lot of odd skeins I’ve spun to use up, so I really appreciate the gaugeless design, and all the variations 😊

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Places you can knit: on the train home. This is is @chaseharpole.bsky.social’s ‘Motorcoach’ cowl using up some of my handspun that was in search of a project. Something gaugeless like this is perfect for those one offs I spin, and I’ll get to wear them too 😊🧶 #knitting #HandSpinning #HandSpunYarn

This picture shows a red triangle of knitting that has been worked in a handspun yarn made with different shards of red blended together. The needles are yellow metal knit pro circulars. You can see that ball of yarn is resting on a train tray table and the back of the seat in front is visible

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Why do hate the game so much? The devs are trying so hard. It’s literally early access, be grateful they’re sharing it with us. They can’t just develop 24/7 they have families POV you ask why a £15 game that’s been out for 2 years doesn’t have a jump button It’s on the roadmap… #gaymer #gamer

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Breaking news: ADHD person may have taken current crafting hyperfixation too far All surfaces in his home are covered with preserved autumn leaves… more on this story at 10 #crafting #ADHD #Fall

An image of various autumn leaves gathered from a local park which have been preserved in glycerine and are now drying on parchment paper. There’s are many different shades of yellows oranges red and browns and even a few little pops of green in the leaves, which are all different shapes and sizes

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

That’s the one! Thankyou these are great tips

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Does anyone else get a sinking feeling when they see a CrossCountry service on their itinerary? Time to get crushed into a carriage where more space is given to lumpy decorative plastic bulkheads than passengers #UKTravel #HandSpinning

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I got myself one of those darning looms as a treat because I’ve always fancied having a go at it. I can already darn with a needle - are they any good and what do I need to know before it gets here? #Darning #VisibleMending #Mending #HandSpunYarn

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

My mum died a few days ago. She was a wonderful Mum who was honest and kind with a fierce sense of justice. She taught me so much. I am lucky to have a great support network around me, but updates will be limited while we are grieving this profound loss #HandSpinning #HandSpinYarn

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

This is my strategy now, as soon as the ends are woven in on the first, cast on the second

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

It’s where you knit a sock and then find it really hard to start (or indeed never make) the second sock

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

How many of you all are in the “haha all this talk of second sock syndrome is totally relatable” to the “shit I have ADHD” pipeline with me? #knitting #HandSpinning #HandSpunYarn #ADHD

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I find it’s like a meditation, I totally relax when I spin

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I love the phrase “vibes spinner”

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

some Sunday spindle making, with a very fine Polwarth top yarn attached. The spindle is so cute, about 15cm long and the whorl is 5cm across #HandSpunYarn #HandSpinning #SpinnersOfBlueSky

A small top whorl drop spindle in a light coloured wood. The top has a hook, and there is a small cop of thin ecru coloured yarn wound below the whorl. The unsoun fibre is attached to the spun yarn and is fluffed out towards the right of the image

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

“Touch fiber” is going to become a phrase around these parts now I think 😆

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Handspun cushions sound wonderful! And this is an excellent point about storage space

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Love this! I end up with quite a bit of my default yarn, and I’m lucky because it aligns with the kind of projects I like to make, although I do feel like this is another nudge to try some weaving

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Starting to organise my yarns and fibres, here’s a few finished skeins that haven’t found a project yet Do you always spin for a specific purpose or do you sometimes spin for the joy of it, and accumulate these extras? #HandSpinning #HandSpunYarn #SpinnersOfBlueSky

A white plastic storage box of hand spun yarn skeins sits on a multicoloured rag rug. The skeins are loosely piled and have an assortment of different colours - we can see bright rainbow coloured skeins, rich teals, multi tonal reds, autumnal colours and greys poking through

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

This is really interesting - I always tension my lazy Kate so maybe there is an effect and I just haven’t noticed! Further research needed

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

You’ve all been so good, I think you deserve another spinning meme Also do you rest or go straight on with the plying? Honestly I’ve done both and don’t see that much difference, but maybe that’s because of the kinds of yarn I usually spin #HandSpinning #HandSpunYarn #SpinnersOfBlueSky

4 panel meme format, Anakin talking to Padme:
Anakin: Next I’ll ply this yarn
Padme: You’re going to rest the singles right?
Anakin: …
Padme: You’re going to rest the singles right?

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Spotted the dragonfly! Also - What gorgeous fibre!

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Absolutely nailed those birch bark vibes, I love this

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Honestly I’d probably make a big shawl out of all the major arcana and use it to lay cards on, or wear during reading as part of a ritual

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Jay Spins Stuff @jamespurvis.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Tourists are welcome! I named him Téodor, and I don’t even know why - it just felt right. I’ve never even known anyone by that name 😅

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