Banana Stringbean

Just wandering aimlessly through life.

[dungeoncrawlerpuckish]

Half of the Wild fandom: "Clearly any trade worth a damn means trading Gus or Wally."

Me, pointing a gun at Bill Guerin: "Don't even fucking think about it."

[systlin]

"Sys how is your decent into fiber arts hell going"

Glad you asked. I have arrived at 'modern flax is Bullshit compared to what we had in historical textiles, the flax widely available for handspinning is basically the tow that would be discarded from textile creation and used with tar to caulk ships back in the day'

This naturally led me down a hole of 'why is the staple length of this stuff a bullshit 6 inches' and the answer is 'we have bred modern flax more for the oil than the fiber because cotton usurped the place of everyday textile thanks to slavery and the cotton gin'

Anyway, THIS led me to a rabbit hole that culminated in me finding flax seed bred for proper 30 inch tall plants for fiber, sold by some fellow minded nerds on a website that has not been updated since 1998 and you have to email them to buy anything.

Anyway how are all of you doing.

[systlin]

I FAILED YOU ALL here is the site. You can also buy flax fiber from them. The PROPER shit, not the hot garbage ass tow fiber sold as flax top for handspinners.

[systlin]

'machine combing shortens the flax fibers by several inches'

This right here is part of why modern linen is a pale shadow of historical linen. Legitimately it cannot be properly replicated by machines. It HAS to be made by human hands if you want the best quality.

[landofla]

If you are interested in traditional flax and linen and spinning and weaving it - you might want to check out Berta's Flax - https://www.bertas-flachs.at/en/ The organization started here:

"Bertas Story

Berta was a farmers girl from Austria who married in the 1940ies. As it was common, she got a huge trunk full of unspun flax and one full of linnen fabric as a dowry. Both trunks were treasured by her till her death but she never used any of it.

Her son wanted the unspun flax to go to a good home and gave it to me. It being way to much to spin myself I found women all over the world to spin it as well. So we are spinning and weaving a net to each other." (from the original Facebook group) Since then they have been saving flax and linen dowries and growing a guild of flax spinners and weavers.

[yikes-hughes]

don’t you dare take away this goal from Big Sexy

[mumblesplash]

it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

[mumblesplash]

so true there could be any number of undiscovered species down there all of which are none of my business and never will be. peace and love on (the surface of) planet earth 💕

[ezra-starkiller]

“you have to call that all the time” shut the fuck up and punching a guy after the whistle AND punching a linesman is fine though. ohhhhhh got it. got it

[krissywendell]

not penalizing the avs for any of that. of course

[taking-shots]

wild stay out of the sin bin challenge

[castle-gwyn]

wally hugging Brock at the end there was so cute omg

[drpepper-queen]

WE WON THE SERIES AND WE’RE ADVANCING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN LIKE 11YEARS

[cinematicvests]

inspired by this post shane and ilya are the type of people to put on tv to entertain anya when they're going out for a few hours. i think shane insists on putting on pwhl games for her to watch "because she likes it!" and ilya nods along and goes "ah of course. anya must have strong female role models to help her take after her papas". anya is a boston fleet fan

[claypigeonpottery]

didn’t like this one once I finished it, but after taking a break from it I do

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

[yes-perwallstedt]

Moose is just really unfairly handsome

[ablogofwildandfrost]

You know one thing I love about wildblr is that whenever the boys are doing less than great all the posts are like ''could you guys stop sucking. Not you wally you're perfect 💖"

[bekkalynne]

i'm feeling the miss fisher's murder mysteries hyper fixation sneaking back up on me. the siren call of essie davis.

[bananastringbean]

Item: The Couch Rarity: ⏶ Common

Couch co-op or online?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Couch! @brassgeek is the best

[batbetbitbotbut]

Very comforted with old crafts - spinning and weaving, but doubtless applicable to more - that there are no new mistakes I can make. People have done these crafts for millenia and will continue to do them for millenia. I manage to make a special and unique one-time-only mistake? Not likely!

[batbetbitbotbut]

Every project is my own and brings something new into the world, but every fuckup is part of a rich tradition of fuckups by all the crafters who have gone before

[trytogethappy]

would you all like to see. my bird quilt

[trytogethappy]

my bird quilt

[trytogethappy]

bird quilt part 2