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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

took a chainsaw course a few weeks ago. learned some chainsaw maintenance. took apart the little chainsaw today and dug all this out of it. should run a little better now

My hand holding a full handful of brown goo.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

anyone know what this symbol is or what it means? Methodist church window

A beautiful stained glass window with a mysterious symbol in the middle.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

gluten free cinnamon rolls, this rules, I'm so excited to eat one

A baking tray of absolutely delicious looking iced cinnamon rolls

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Finished the waistcoat August 13th, 2024, two months early of my goal. It was really fun! I would make some changes to the garment now that I know a smidge more about sewing, taking in the sides a little to reduce the wrinkling and one or two other little things.

A shiny tan waistcoat being worn, it is a little large but pretty.

The back of the waistcoat, it is a nice green color

A person leaning against the tree wearing a red buttonup shirt and the tan waistcoat.

A person is sitting on a picnic table with their forearms resting on their knees, weaving a grey buttonup shirt and the tan waistcoat.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I used the Belvedere Waistcoat pattern from Thread Theory because I had only made two other garments before. I sewed the buttonholes by hand according to Vincent Brigg's youtube tutorial. The buttons were horn.

Mockup of a waistcoat made of tan muslin material with markings all over it.

A pile of wrinkled fabric that is shiny and pretty laying on a crafting table.

A row of buttons and buttonholes sewn into shiny tan fabric. One buttonhole has bartacks on the end.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I decided that I would make a garment from this fleece in a year, with the goal to have it done by Rhinebeck 2024. The fleece was 3 lbs, 10 ounces. I washed the fleece (10/25), combed it (11/11-1/11/24), spun and plyed it (1/24-4/22) and wove it (5/4-6/6)

Seven storage bobbins laying on a mesh table. All of the bobbins are filled with shiny tan singles yarn.

Four large bobbins sitting on a mesh table, most of the bobbins are very full of shiny 2 ply tan yarn, one is half filled.

A bunch of warp chains laying on a board on top of a camping chair.

A closeup of 2x2 twill fabric in shiny tan mohair.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The Waistcoat: Fleece to Garment in a Year (10 months!) I received a beautiful mohair fleece from @colleencricket.bsky.social at Giant Cricket Farm, who raises colored Angora goats, during Rhinebeck 2023. It was from her Angora goat Marla and it was a beautiful tan color.

A beautiful, shiny pile of mohair locks, tan color, incredibly shiny and wavy.

A huge pile of tan fluff in mostly organized way stacked in a basket.

The waistcoat is laying closed on a mesh table. It is tan and shiny, with just a tiny bit of green back showing at the shoulders. The lining is a plaid grey and blue.

The same waistcoat but it has been opened so the grey and blue plaid lining is visible.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

made some stuff with my new stand mixer, had some fun. two types of cookies, two batches of crackers, cheesy cornbread and granola

A baking rack half filled with fork cross hatched peanut butter cookies and half filled with dark chocolate chip cookies

A baking tray with parchment paper filled with light brown crackers that look tasty.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

go niche, then go more niche

The cover of the medieval tailor's assistant by Sarah Thursfield

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I did an all makes christmas including the bags the gifts went into. Also included but not shown is my dad's gift which will be bags for ratchet straps but I just made one as a prototype out of a pair of old jeans and will need to check the size while I'm here and then make five more.

Two hats are sitting on a white bag on a couch. One hat is super squashy and purple. The second is thinner with black and brown colorwork and has a ribbed edge.

A handmade purse with dark blue diamond pattern. It's a little lumpy.

Two small crocheted drawstring bags in teal and red/orange. One is smaller and has the alligator scale stitch, the other is slight larger and has a mosaic crochet stitch, where the colors make a five over, two up pattern.

A small handmade pouch in blue with buttons and a green and blue belt loop.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

also did shortbread, butter has to be really soft but it's all hand work instead of the mixer which I do like in a recipe. I'm going to dip them in chocolate once they cool.

Six by four neat rows of very square shortbread cookies on a sheet tray. The last two are a little lumpy.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I made rosemary crackers from Baked to Perfection and holy shit they are incredible. I mean, absolutely amazing. I'm going to make so many of them in the future. Easy to double or triple batch since they're made in a food processor and easy to roll out

A baking sheet of lightly browned crackers, they don't look like much but they're great.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

christmas gift for my sister, hoping it turns out okay since I'm making it up. I'm going to make two small cords for a drawstring

A badly lit crocheted dice bag with most of the bag in single crochet stitches in blue and two rows of dragon scale stitches in blue and pink at the bottom.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

*tiny choir of angels sing* finally gluten free tortellini. three cheese, the classic. incredible, I'm so glad I found this company

A bowl of tortellini with black pepper sprinkled on top.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

mmmmmmmm. not my most efficient baking but a good day

A lightly browned cheesy cornbread baked in a square pan.

Two three strand braids of delicious looking breads.

A very brown chocolate babka that is in a loaf pan.

A 9x13 pan of delicious looking brownies that have been sliced.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I can't wait to finish this and show it off, it's a modification of a guernsey from Patterns for Guernseys, Jerseys, and Arans, from a fleece I got at a fiber festival, hand processed, spun, plyed and now knitted

A terribly lit photo of a knitted sweater panel with moss stitch in the center and two cables on either side. The cables are very round and luscious and the moss panel is very well textured

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

starting a new band, going to try and do some bookmarks for the show and sale since I don't think I'll make significant progress on the warp on my loom

A bright red and green tablet woven band with the first section really messy looking, the second section with large red diamonds and the correct section with small red diamonds alternating one and two per section of band.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

made some keychains for the weaver's guild sale

A small pile of keychains with a ring on one end and a tabletwoven band about a handlength long. The bands all have different designs and colors.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

look at this pumpkin snowman my parents made. dad did the stacking, mom did the design

A snowman made of three white pumpkins stacked on top of each other. It has painted on eyes, mouth and buttons and a gourd nose.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

washed a fleece yesterday. 6.5 pounds from Stewart, a romney ram who I met at a fiber festival. It's on the softer end for a Romney and it isn't quite dry yet, but I really like it so far. I spun a little sample straight from locks and it spun up very fine.

A pile of beautiful crinkle fry locks of fleece that are dark grey to light grey in color with sun browned tips.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

Tour de fleece spinning yesterday and today

A wooden bobbin on a spinning wheel, only a third filled with fine white yarn.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

Tour de Fleece days 7-9 (probably)

A wooden supported spindle being held in a hand, with a large cop of cotton yarn on the bottom and a small bump of temporary cotton on the top.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Tour de Fleece days idek, the last couple

A terrible somewhat out of focus photo of a wooden spindle with tan cotton yarn on it.

A wooden wheel bobbin with extremely shiny fine white yarn wound on it.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Also today, I decided to put a new project on the wheel since I finished the last one so long ago (yesterday) and picked a bag of CVM that I got from Clemes & Clemes Good Clean Fiber and hand combed. It is spinning up so fine and beautifully. I picked it because the bag was falling off the shelf

A pile of extremely puffy little loose knots of wool fiber, they look soft and cloud like.

A very fine thread of yarn being held over a finger to show how fine it is. Maybe a mm wide?

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Day 1 of Tour de Fleece, I spindle spun cotton after moving the previous tempoaray cop down to the main part of the spindle and spun what is in the new temporary cop. Day 2, I plyed the mohair I spun from Giant Cricket Farm, hopefully to get it measured and on a cone so I can get weaving.

A wooden spindle filled with white cotton yarn being held in hand. There is a tiny little temporary cop of yarn at the top of the spindle.

A purple bobbin of fiber on an electric wheel. It is a lovely dark grey, very shiny and the bobbin is filled very full.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 01/06/2024

Also got the mohair warped and on the loom, now weaving. Will be yardage for the waistcoat muslin I made with lining and back possibly from cloth I got from a closed tailoring company

A shiny tan piece of cloth with diagonal twill lines as the weave pattern. The unwoven warp stretches away at the top of the photo.

A tan muslin waistcoat laying on a bed. It is very wrinkled and you can see the marks on it from cutting and labeling.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 01/06/2024

Some fiber things I did in May. finished cotton singles, first time spinning cotton. 1oz Egyptian cotton from Hearthside Fibers, definitely learning on hard mode. Finished 4oz of Romney singles Plyed, skeined, washed and wrote out labels for a lot of yarn including the Romney.

A brown wooden spindle loaded with white cotton singles.

A marled brown yarn on a wooden wheel bobbin.

A lot of skeins of yarn laying on a mesh table to dry. There are six total, in order from top to bottom: A fine purple yarn, a mixed black, grey, red and purple yarn, a brown skein, a grey skein, another brown skein and a white skein.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 12/05/2024

Made the bread, realized I needed the oven on to get the bread to rise in a reasonable amount of time, so made chocolate cake with chocolate swiss meringue buttercream, then made the ice cream (haven't churned yet), and had egg whites so made meringue cookies, half vanilla, half mint

Two baking trays of white meringue cookies ready to go in the oven.

Two chocolate cakes with chocolate frosting, one is a single layer, one is two layers.

Cryptid-esque blurry photo of a loaf of bread.

A glass bowl filled with pale yellow ice cream in liquid form with plastic on top.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

Seven sheep sheared this morning! This sheep was an absolutely shit and had to be sheared standing up because she wouldn't stop kicking.

A black and white spotted sheep, just sheared, being held by the horn by the photographer.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

mohair spinning! getting closer to my goal of fleece to garment in a year.

Seven bobbins of shiny tan mohair singles yarn sitting on a metal mesh table.

Four bobbins of two ply, shiny tan mohair yarn sitting on a mesh table.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

much better shearing day today, back held up for all three stops, got good solid practice on technique. got to snuggle two day old lambs while J finished shearing their mom

Two extremely tiny lambs in the corner of a stall below the hay feeder. One is brown and white and the other is grey and white.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

didn't have the best shearing day today. Only managed to shear eight sheep. All of them outweighed me. My back was tired very quickly. This sweetie was a bottle baby a few years ago, could reach up and tap my shoulder with her nose and then tried to steal my wallet.

The face of a large sheep in the center of the screen with their nose inquisitively touching my sleeve.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

It's been months since I worked on this. But I did remember. Tablet weaving = balcony projects when the weather is nice.

A white and purple tablet woven band goes from the bottom of the picture to the top. The visible portion is a triangle of purple and the word "damn". The tablets are at the top of the picture.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Did I spend the extra time winding the yarn on the reel to make it look extra pretty? yes. yes I did.

A vibrant rainbow of yarn fills the photo, running from top to bottom on a reel.

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unicornduke @unicornduke.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

Spinning yarn while laying in bed is nice

a darkly lit photo of an electric wheel with white yarn on it. A blob of roving is in the bottom right corner.

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