Cottagecore in College

@wvni ‘a little blog to document his efforts to be as cottagecore/grandmacore as possible throughout college life in a dorm.

[aesungaia]

[emily-e-draws]

a tasty hoard for a tiny beast!🍓🐉✨

[metautske]

@draconym - in memory of your recent strawberry haul

[ieafy]

Oh, the bugs here are much larger than you were expecting. (This month's patreon print💌)

[classicalcanvas]

Summer night on the beach (1903) by Edvard Munch

[classicalcanvas]

Bordighera, Italy (1884) by Claude Monet

[pardalote]

Finished stitching my Oversight series.

12 small embroidered poem-objects in wool, linen, cotton, silk, stitched on canvaswork mesh and edged in glass beads.

[disasterhimbo]

[ID: a series of 12 cross stitch pieces, mostly in neutral colors but some with sepia or blue tones. Each one has four all-caps words. The pieces read,

“They know your name,”

“They scan your face,”

“They time your call,”

“They hide your post,”

“They form your view,”

“They sold your data,”

“They view your work,”

“They note your exit,”

“They mark your test,”

“They flag your card,”

“They read your file,” and

“They lock your cell.”

End ID.]

[robotpoppa]

it’s-friday.avi

[hellenhighwater]

The tent is up!

[gallusrostromegalus]

Hellen, the intensity and success with which you commit to The Aesthetic (TM) is honestly such an inspiration for me. I'm both in awe and inspired.

[lovdecay]

bugposting !! I love isopods of all kinds !!!!

[rederiswrites]

Step one: use hall bathroom instead of master bathroom, notice that Builder Beige switchplate is horrid with lovely new purple walls. Take it down and wash it thoroughly.

Step two: dig out stash of old seed catalogues saved for this purpose. Get super crabby because you can't find the Mod Podge anywhere. Give up, then have daughter find it immediately, in the "glue box" you forgot you created.

Step three: decide on a color scheme, and start cutting. I asked @phantomtheraccoon if we should coordinate or contrast and she cleverly said both.

Step four: collect your flowers and fiddle with layout.

Step five: paint item with Mod Podge, place your images, and paint them again. Leave to dry, which honestly doesn't take long.

Step six: trim edges add cut out holes. I didn't actually cut out the screw holes; I just cut little X's there for the screws to go through. Worked fine to put it up, we'll see someday how it survives taking it apart again.

Step seven: coat everything with Mod Podge at least one more time, paying special attention to edges. Dry elevated on something (say, the top of the Mod Podge bottle) so it doesn't stick down.

Step eight: okay, wow, that's awesomer than expected!

*jazz hands*

[dangerously-human]

Ooh, yes, I should decorate my light switch plates here, even if I can't bring myself to do all the painting. I used to have a Lumos/Nox one I made very hastily when I was first renting and it made me happy every time I used it. Light switch plates are such an easy, cheap way to decorate when your space is temporary (they're like a dollar at home improvement stores and very simple to replace with the original when you move out), highly recommend this kind of craft.

[rederiswrites]

Yes to this addition. They're so cheap! Just do something, and then you will enjoy it every time you use it! Do something crappy! You can redo it later. This is such a low-risk/high reward project.

[rederiswrites]

Reblogging because I still enjoy this switchplate every time.

[dangerphd]

plates: painted green, decoupaged with paper jungle/diluted white glue, waiting for blossoms and sealing.

[dangerphd]

🎶whiiiiiiiite gluuuuuuuuue aaaaaand waaaaaaateeerrrrr and aaaaaaaaaastrobrights!🎵

inspired to just do the thing by @rederiswrites , in context with wall art by @yuumei-art

[rederiswrites]

Oh it's wonderful!

[evil-is-relative]

They had us do this in Girl Scouts! It's such a wonderful activity for kids too, and a great way to have them contribute to the house. My mother still has my sister and mine up and in use.

[cake-drunk-hunter]

@joy-and-whimsy-official this fits, don’t you agree?

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This arts and crafts is joyful and whimsical!

[systlin]

So my sister wants to start sewing more, because

a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

And I, of course, crashed into the group text like “GET A PEN I HAVE WEBSITES FOR U” and honestly I’m thrilled about this

[systlin]

“Where did u get all this”

“Bets, u know I’m a 15th degree blackbelt of buying shit on the internet”

“oh yeah tru”

[hermesmuse]

Op can may we inquire about the website list

[systlin]

Linen; https://www.graylinelinen.com/

cotton and Silk thread; https://redrockthreads.com/

Linen thread and wool fabric; https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/ (they’ve got wool stuffs and worsted wool fabric for $15 a yard! I just got three yards of navy worsted wool I’m making a constellation winter skirt from)

More linen thread and wool; https://wmboothdraper.com/ (just ordered wool broadcloth to make a coat)

Silk fabric (THE best place to get silk lining fabrics and raw silk fabric):https://www.dharmatrading.com/

A varying assortment of wool and silk and cotton and even some leather, use coupon code  spring2020 for 50% off your full order, worked yesterday when I bought some stuff there; https://metrotextilesnyc.com/

Wool. You want wool coating for under $20 a yard? Sure you do. It’s here. Not a huge variety of colors, most are black or brown, but hey https://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/Catalog?refinementIds=4096748&Keyword=wool&pageSize=16

[wingedtyger]

I don’t know a lot about sewing, but I want to make or have my mom make some linen pants & shirts for when I’m watering, because it gets to 105 here and we have mosquitos so I need to be covered. What type of linen do I buy? Also, linen pajama shorts, yes/no?

(I’ve been wearing my renfaire pants which are a linen mix, I think. But the frikking mosquitos that hide in the tomatoes get my arms)

[systlin]

Medium weight is what I’d go with.

And linen pajama shorts is a HARD yes.

[beggars-opera]

Renaissance Fabrics is good for all sorts of things

Mood doesn’t specialize in natural fabrics but they do have basically every fabric ever made so

[the-merry-otter]

For wools, I cannot recommend Woolsome enough! They’re a bit more expensive then the above links, but they have a spectacular range of colours and weights, as well as diamond pattern and herringbone weaves. They also have a range of linens, though not as extensive.

Woolsome

Historical fabrics for re-enactors

[justgarb]

Tiedtohistory.com has sheer voile linen

The Linen Lab has a variety of weaves, weights, and colors available

Period Fabric has a variety of wools, but switch to the full website if you’re on mobile

[elfwreck]

She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

I hate synthetic fibers and it’s difficult to find natural-fiber clothes that are made of cotton if you’re not looking for t-shirts.

It’s. It’s really really hard to find denim jeans that aren’t at least 5% spandex. It’s hard to find cotton shirts. It’s hard to find socks or underwear that aren’t poly-blends. Vests? Blazer? Sweater? Hahahaha. Oh, and many clothing websites won’t let you filter by fabric material, or at least won’t let you filter by “ONLY show me stuff that’s 100% cotton, or at least has no polyester.” (If you search amazon and try to filter for cotton, you will get clothes that have “cotton-like feel” in their descriptions.) (Don’t get me started on looking for silk.)

I need to dig out my sewing machine (or get a new one; it’s been buried in the Misc Whatever pile long enough that there’s a chance something’s been damaged) because I am 5'2" and I can never find off-the-rack clothes that fit right.

aaaand now that you’ve got places to get good fabric, you need something to make with it:

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Looking for free sewing patterns? Download patterns for dresses, tops, bags, and accessories. Start creating today!

Note: Ordering the patterns involves them trying to sell you the parts you need to make the thing; just unclick all of those.

[antcomrade]

“Leave the Leaves” editorial illustration I neglected to post

[feefal]

Oyster mermaid~

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[xanaxfarts]

Assortment of whimsy window grates

[queenlua]

btw did you know Seattle now has a zine store

...b/c it totally does & it whips

some of my fave pickups from opening weekend:

94 feet and a peach basket by jeremiah wistrom: did a DOUBLE TAKE when i opened this one & was like holy shit i know that basketball court!!! i've BEEN IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD!!!  and the accompanying writeup was like "yeah i was eating a sandwich in boston's north end & did a double take when i turned a corner and there was a basketball court shoved right up in there?" and i'm like I KNOW THE SANDWICH YOU ATE haha

but yeah—beyond that initial shock of startled & delighted recognition, it turns out this whole book is a photomemoir of sorts, in which the author's taken all these (cool/interesting/from-unusual-angles/etc) photographs of random basketball courts in all these places he's visited, all across the country, and written up a little bit about the history/context/etc of each one, what it was like to shoot some hoops there, what brought them there, etc, and... just a lot of love & interest & local color in it, i really adored reading through the thing

it reminded me a lot of what i love about birding: like birding, i guess you can in fact do basketball Everywhere and just by doing it you learn a little bit about Everywhere in the process.

weird tigers by kiriska: AS ADVERTISED. 10/10 delightful. i love every weird-ass tiger in these pages

what horse are you? by aya borucki: i'm a friesian :)

ἄγχω (ankhō) by s. barnes: i love it when things are claustrophobic & paranoid & bad!  spend the Night Before Battle inside the trojan horse with Odysseus, in glorious black & orange :)))))

i picked up a bunch of other zines too and spent too much money ahlgiehalgie... no time to photograph them all, but, there's unsettlingly-illustrated toxic fish!  there's traumatized geese!  there's surprisingly-affecting poetry!  it's all good shit

so yeah!!! go check out the Paper Pusher's Print Shop if you're in the area, it's a cool spot

[wrdnrd]

I met one of the organizers this past weekend at the Seattle Art Book Fair, so i want to add a little more info about this cool shop! It's a pop-up shop as part of a Seattle vacant storefront project.

Address

1200 5th Avenue Seattle, WA 98101

Hours

Monday: Closed

Tuesday: Closed

Wednesday: 11 am – 6 pm

Thursday: 11 am – 6 pm

Friday: 11 am – 6 pm

Saturday: 11 am – 5 pm

Sunday: 11 am – 5 pm

Because it's a pop-up shop, sadly this cute little store has an end date. 😥 Visit it before...

September 15, 2026

[mollybeenoel]