Lark's Workroom

a space for the practice of sewing, crafting, and keeping a house. maybe gardening too. firmly feminist, pro-lgbtq, pro-poc. vintage hobbies, not vintage values. Lark, she/they, 30s.

[succubusboyfriend]

you have permission to pick that 2 year old "abandoned" project back up. it's not mad at you for setting it aside. and maybe time and distance have helped ease or erase the things that made you put it down in the first place.

[iamjapanese]

from the book 図案百種 100 designs for kimono and obi 　1917　Japan via

[shamebats]

Tiktok post by @ wynunlimited.

[iamoutofideas]

“heres how to make a pair of pants for yourself”

step 1: have a entire room completely set up just for tailoring

[niceferatu]

it needs an iron, masking tape, a pencil, and see-through paper. you don't need the pins if you're careful about keeping it lined up. you could do that on your floor and hand-sew it after that if you wanted to. the most specialised piece of equipment they used in the video, apart from the sewing machine, was a clear ruler.

[vinceaddams]

Yeah that's a silly complaint, tons of people cut fabric on their kitchen tables or on the floor. I've been sewing since 2011 and didn't have an actual sewing room until the start of 2024. It was frustratingly cramped sewing in my bedroom, but I still sewed lots of things in there.

Most of my fabric is secondhand, and I've gotten a lot of sewing supplies from thrift stores and estate sales. I know not everyone lives somewhere that has those things, but there are still budget options to look into. There are a lot of things that are nice to have but not strictly necessary.

Frieda Leopold did an experiment earlier this year where she bought the minimum sewing supplies necessary for a dress, and kept to a budget of 150 euros for all the tools including the sewing machine.

And this Morning Mercury video about trying to learn weaving without spending any money also feels relevant.

[pigeondyke]

hazariel atelier also has a video about making patterns from clothes you already have

one of the items was made from a second hand bedsheet, so you could do this without even spending much on fabric

[vinceaddams]

Yes, I love thrifted cotton bedsheets! Best fabric ever for nightgowns and pyjama bottoms.

Also I just found the full length video that was mentioned at the end of the tiktok. I haven't watched it yet because it's late and I should go to bed, but there are a lot of comments saying it's clear and easy to understand.

[vinceaddams]

Someone who happens to be filming in a spacious room: "Here's a clear demonstration of how to do this simple sewing technique!"

Some clown in the notes: "Ugh I can't stand these useless tutorials by rich people, not everyone has access to bougie shit like "flat surfaces" and "thread" and "chalk"."

[quilting-is-my-new-hobby]

It’s done! This is my first quilt of my own that I hand quilted and I quite enjoyed it. I chose a variegated thread going in one big spiral and then I went back and did a stitch-in-the ditch to break it up along the eight sections. To save my elbow I only worked for an hour or so at a time but it only took 2-3 weeks of working. Time to wash out the last of the marking lines and then the recipient better be as excited about this one as I am.

See here for the post about the piecing and wonderful pattern.

60” circle, pieced and quilted Feb-Mar 2026

[lisamarie-vee]

[step-off-the-earth]

First ever quilt in a quilt show! Finished very last minute because of a million things. It was a small local quilt show where everyone used the same pattern, it was really fun.

[tru-makes-quilts]

favorites from the 2026 empire quiltfest

[disciplinecottage]

what if I cut out five mini quilts at once. what then

[sleepycatmama]

Seen at the quilt guild meeting tonight. How perfect for her that the meeting was tonight.

[ofrabjousnight]

finished quilt top #3! this pattern is “garden glow,” designed by toad and sew, in the cover colors.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m kinda surprised that nalbinding isn’t as popular as crochet and knitting tbh because it has an even lower barrier of entry tools wise and unlike crochet and knitting it makes fabric that you can cut.

I guess it’s because it’s slower or something.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Nalbinding aka needle binding is when you use yarn and a big sewing needle to make fabric btw

It also has a lot of different kinds of stitches you can do that make different densities of fabric.

Some people even make rugs.

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

I feel like part of it might be casual people are generally aware of the existence of crochet and knitting, even if they don’t know very much about either, but have never heard of nalbinding

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah I hadn’t heard of it until recently and I ordered a big bone needle for myself to try it out and that should be arriving soon.

I was surprised that I’d never heard of it though. It’s older than knitting and crocheting and even though it’s been done all over the world it’s super relevant to Nordic culture and my grandmother and I are both into keeping in touch with our roots a bit so I’m surprised I’ve never heard of it.

It seems like the sort of thing that would be popular even if not as popular as crocheting and knitting, considering the low barrier of entry.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You also don’t need a bunch of different sized needles for nalbinding or whatever. The size of the stitch is controlled either completely freehand or by pulling it against one of your fingers. Most people who have a lot of nalbinding needles seem to either have tried out wood, bone, and metal ones to see which kind they liked or they enjoy carving wood or bone and like making their own needles as an extra hobby.

It’s also a lot easier to freehand and adjust as you go than crochet or knitting and you mostly go by inches instead of rows and number of stitches so a large number of accessories like stitch markers or whatever isn’t really necessary.

Maybe the lack of accessories also makes it unpopular idk. People do like collecting things in their nests.

[the-color-of-sound-is-space]

I've been wanting to do so, I cannot find anyone who can teach me, and any books I can find on it are Ass in the Visual Learning department. Otherwise I'd be making the hell outta some nalbinded fabric

[what-even-is-thiss]

I found this channel by a nice man who makes up close tutorials

Happy Needlebinding

I create videos on YouTube to learn people how to needlebind using two fingers and your thumb. Needlebinding helps people to relax, relieve

[nrobins]

August quilt block for my month sampler quilt

[typhlonectes]

Ouroboros Pie Crust by Danielle Baskin

[disciplinecottage]

mushroom quilt!!!

i found this really cute mushroom print (mushrooms in white by heather ross) and bought solids to match and whipped this up in a few days. the center is from a free pattern and I added the triple border.

[beardedmrbean]

[madragingven]

finally just about finished with our caterpillar bead curtain :3

[dave-matthews-band]

ohhhh yeah it's a pretty big hit with the resident caterpillars