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what the fuck

druidviolence-deactivated201810

it’s actually inverted out of respect!! - plimbko the elf requested to be hanged from an upside down tree because he felt himself unworthy of a death in the same manner as santa

echoequinox

This is the scariest addition to a post I think I’ve ever seen

todesboten

@apocrypals

vergak

infernal-dinosaur

"Hold on I'll knit you a towel"

henbit-7

That's a VERY complicated crochet pattern called Havana. He's using the post nut clarity

wastelesscrafts

Embroidery 101

Introduction:

Embroidery is a craft that uses thread to decorate fabric (and other materials). It’s a great way to spruce up a garment, customise objects, and to hide mends you’ve made!

Embroidery is usually done with embroidery floss, but depending on the base material you’re working on, you could also use yarn, ribbons, or plain old sewing thread. Don’t be afraid to experiment!

Embroidery is easier to do on taut fabric than limp fabric. That’s why most people use embroidery hoops. While not strictly necessary, a hoop will make your life so much easier.

Using the right needle will help, too. Use a crewel needle if you’re working with embroidery floss, a chenille needle if you’re working with ribbon or yarn, or a tapestry needle if you’re doing cross-stitch embroidery on open-weave fabrics.

While there are many types of embroidery from all over the world, this post will focus on some basic stitches you can use in your own work.

Basic embroidery stitches:

For a more thorough overview of embroidery stitches, check out these embroidery tutorials by Mary Corbet’s Needle ‘n Thread.

The following images show some of the most basic stitches:

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The 16 stitches in the images above can be combined into any shape or form you want. You might recognise some from my hand sewing post: embroidery is a type of hand sewing, after all.

You don’t need to know all of these to be able to make beautiful things. Even just one of these is a great start for a project.

This sampler by Sew Nancy shows how these basic stitches can be used to outline shapes or form flowers, for example.

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Fiorelila used a combination of the stem stitch, satin stitch, lazy daisy, and french knots to spruce up this sweater:

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And this person used lazy daisies to add some flair to their jeans:

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Embroidery for visible mending:

Embroidery is a useful tool to hide mends you’ve made, or to even accentuate them if that’s your style. This is called visible mending. While this is a topic that deserves a post on its own, here are some quick examples:

Like this fix by Redditor Takemythyme who embroidered a rose over a hole in a knit fabric:

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Or like how this person has spruced up their jeans repairs with embroidery:

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In this example, The Woolery Guy chose to use flower embroidery to make a hole in a knit fabric look like it was there by design:

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For more examples, check out Pinterest or VisibleMending.com.

Conclusion:

Embroidery is a useful skill to give new life to your wardrobe. You can use it to give some flair to items you’ve grown bored off, or even to mend your clothes.

Once you’ve got a few basic stitches under your belt, the possibilities are endless. Be creative and have fun with it!

Good luck and feel free to show me your work!

rityrooroo

Crafters Beware!!!

This is the worst thing I've ever discovered. it's going to be so detrimental to me.

http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/

It has every antique hobby I'm interested in, in one place. FOR FREE!!!!

You're welcome

Edit: I’ve noticed they have a donate option but I personally haven’t yet verified that they’re legit/still active since I’m not in the US and idk where to look to verify an NPO over there.

snootyfoxfashion

Halloween Cross Stitch Kits from WitchyStitcher

catchymemes

ottermatopoeia

Sure i’ll reblog that

llovinghome

sosuperawesome

Blue Sun Threads on Instagram

dorkasaurusrexbitch

Hey guys, I rarely every make posts but I'm really in need of help. I recently got a job but it doesn't start for a couple of weeks and I was hoping someone might be generous in sending me a little money to get diapers and wipes for my baby. I get some government assistance where I live but it doesn't cover those items. I lost my previous job during a mental health emergency I was having due to a poor reaction to medication. My mom did help some but she can't afford to help anymore. I start my job at the end of September 2021 (the 25th if it matters). I'm just desperate for any help right now.

My Venmo is korisaurusrex

dorkasaurusrexbitch

Hey guys, I rarely every make posts but I'm really in need of help. I recently got a job but it doesn't start for a couple of weeks and I was hoping someone might be generous in sending me a little money to get diapers and wipes for my baby. I get some government assistance where I live but it doesn't cover those items. I lost my previous job during a mental health emergency I was having due to a poor reaction to medication. My mom did help some but she can't afford to help anymore. I start my job at the end of September 2021 (the 25th if it matters). I'm just desperate for any help right now.

My Venmo is korisaurusrex

Hey guys, I rarely every make posts but I'm really in need of help. I recently got a job but it doesn't start for a couple of weeks and I was hoping someone might be generous in sending me a little money to get diapers and wipes for my baby. I get some government assistance where I live but it doesn't cover those items. I lost my previous job during a mental health emergency I was having due to a poor reaction to medication. My mom did help some but she can't afford to help anymore. I start my job at the end of September 2021 (the 25th if it matters). I'm just desperate for any help right now.

My Venmo is korisaurusrex

#beingpoorsucks #helpifyoucan #anythinghelps

thenatalchart

you know that very specific subtle racism that only white people participate in but don’t even know they do because it’s that ingrained. i will scream

dorkasaurusrexbitch

I point it out, the fear in someone's eyes is worth it

thenatalchart

no like they don’t see it also there’s no fear bc they’re white

dorkasaurusrexbitch

No see you missed my entire point. I will call it out every single time wether it's subtle or obvious. I don't care whose feeling get hurt and I damn sure have seen the fear in quite a few peoples eyes over it. You may not because I'm willing to bet you're missing a point someone is trying to make. Instead you just want to shame someone for being a racist twit (which fine). I do it in a way where they realize not only are they wrong but that what they said/did is far from ok. The only reason someone fears you when racism is pointed out is for one of 3 reasons I've found. 1. They honestly can't tell they're being racist, 2. They're trying to be funny, 3. They realized you called them out in front of their boss/coworker. And when white people call out other white people the right way (which needs to happen more) then things can actually be worked on. Unfortunately I see we're gonna be fighting each other because it's too hard to sit the fuck down and talk shit out.

dankmemeuniversity

thenatalchart

you know that very specific subtle racism that only white people participate in but don’t even know they do because it’s that ingrained. i will scream

dorkasaurusrexbitch

I point it out, the fear in someone's eyes is worth it

systlin

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them.

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.”

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just.

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job.

saxifraga-x-urbium

i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok

assasue

One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks can’t get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.

anx1ous-op0ssum

I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.

Then a mother looked at their findings and said “yeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.”

whatevercomestomymind

Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol

pbrim

I remember years ago on a forum (email list, that’s how old) a woman talking about going to a museum, and seeing among the women’s household objects a number of fired clay items referred to as “prayer objects”. (Apparently this sort of labeling is not uncommon when you have something that every house has and appears to be important, but no-one knows what it is.) She found a docent and said, “Excuse me, but I think those are drop spindles.” “Why would you think that, ma’am?” “Because they look just like the ones my husband makes for me. See?” They got all excited, took tons of pictures and video of her spinning with her spindle. When she was back in the area a few years later, they were still on display, but labeled as drop spindles.

catchester

So ancient Roman statues have some really weird hairstyles. Archaeologists just couldn’t figure them out. They didn’t have hairspray or modern hair bands, or elastic at all, but some of these things defied gravity better than Marge Simpson’s beehive.

Eventually they decided, wigs. Must be wigs. Or maybe hats. Definitely not real hair.

A hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, “Yeah, they’re sewn.”

“Don’t be silly!” the archaeologists cry. “How foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!”

So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.

She now works as a hair archaeologist and I believe she has a YouTube channel now where she recreates forgotten hairstyles, using only what they had available at the time.

fixyourwritinghabits

Always question anything labelled as for a ritual or religious purpose without explanation because it’s very often shorthand for ‘we don’t know’ as if humans have not been the same since forever and have either made things for specific purposes or simply because they like making them (aka ART. Some things are simply art yet heaps of old research refuses to recognize this possibility.)

This is changing, but change is slow!

rannadylin

Reblogging to add a link to the hair archaeologist’s channel because it’s amazing to watch!

(And to go directly to her playlist of ancient Roman/Greek hairstyles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1ZRgz-Pdh4&list=PLhacomyGRF2PBSm-ByuuNup6TGB3B8aAI )

acakewalkofcrocodiles

Since I read this I’ve always wondered if “hair pins” were just a sort of mistranslation of “hair needles” because it didn’t make sense to someone and we kept it.