Stuff And Things

My personal blog where I put things mostly for myself. Includes mostly diy and now a bit discourse. Basically I am a grandma knitting on a porch and sharing the hot gossip.

[flowercrown-bard]

Inspired by @lacnunga 's adorable dragon embroidery

[maureen-corpse]

One thing they don’t tell you about sewing is that it is actually ironing

[glitterary]

worse still, the bits that aren’t ironing are maths

[bonkalore]

#80% of sewing isnt sewing 😔#do you like washing ironing measuring marking cutting math hand basting troubleshooting draping pinning bc oh boy do i have the hobby for u

[stitchbuggies]

I saw pill bugs on here a few weeks ago and really wanted to make my own! The pattern is a bit rough but I hope it works (I tried to get it perfect for like a week before calling it good enough).

Just print out (or copy from a screen) the first page and cut out the pattern pieces. Hopefully the pictures on page two will help but if not I will do my best to answer any questions!

Hope you enjoy and make your own lil isopod friend!

If anyone makes this, I would love to see pictures 💕

[e-rose]

[theblackparadeisdead]

Shoutout to this customer at work who didn't know the difference between a bolt and a yard of fabric and put in an order for 8 bolts and then freaked out when it got here and said she didn't want it. we have enough burlap to clothe a small village because of you. What the fuck are we supposed to do with this. We could make individual sacks for every fucking potato in Idaho. We could supply table runners to every single rustic themed white lady pinterest wedding in the continental united states and still have enough to become a rice bag manufacturer. I hope you dream in burlap

[theblackparadeisdead]

Every day I wake up and praise god I'm not working at fucking hobby lobby anymore

[omegapossum]

Hey, here’s an idea for y’all: use the fucking metric system. You know, like normal people do.

[theblackparadeisdead]

Do you think that I, former part-time hobby lobby cashier, have the authority to make this call

[actualaster]

Pretty sure using the metric system wouldn't have fixed that, because this lady did the equivalent of ordering 8 "boxes" of a product instead of ordering 8 "individual units" of a product. So, customers like this would still probably end up confusing what they actually want.

[katherineaurora]

not putting my face on this site in case the fae try to steal it but I am proud of this beadwork

[anxiousangerball]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

[boyrot]

boy it's me the textiles speaking to you inside your head. you need the yarn. you need thread. your soul hungers to participate in the act of creation. you must feed it. you must buy so many beads.

[byjove]

vintage pillow belonging to my mother that gets funnier the longer I look at it

[jenrenfieldhandmade]

Please enjoy this shitty meme I made to sum up my last couple of days

[petrodragonicapocalypse]

[person 500 years ago knitting a sock] O Sister Margaret, regale me again with the tale of Vicar Wesley's scandalous elopement with the baker's daughter!

[me today knitting a sock] O Youtuber Hbomberguy, regale me again with the tale of SHERLOCK IS GARBAGE, AND HERE'S WHY

[byjove]

vintage pillow belonging to my mother that gets funnier the longer I look at it

[embroiderycrafts]

Koi fish on jeans by squash_blossom8

[lakevida]

if we all spent just six hours a day working on some kind of complex tapestry in contemplative silence nobody would have the problems they currently have

[arborealgargoyle]

we would have entirely NEW problems. the tapestry discourse would be intense

[embroiderycrafts]

Baba Yaga’s house embroidery I just finished! by holfwaley666_

[blackbearmagic]

So I recently learned how to spin yarn, and I'm enjoying it immensely. But yesterday I was at the craft store before work, and I saw this:

And I thought "that looks enough like roving that I bet I could spin it", so I got it, knowing full well that my one spindle is already engaged in spinning some wool.

Because I also thought "people were spinning fluff into string for thousands of years before they were able to just buy a new spindle, it can't be that hard to make one".

Turns out, it's not.

Is this going to be a good spindle? Almost certainly not, and I can't wait to see how much it sucks and in what ways. But it should at least be a functional spindle, and that's all I really need for this.

[gantirambles]

I’m reblogging this just for the kitty. They look like a good kitty. What’s their name?

[blackbearmagic]

His name is Joseph Joestar, "JoJo" to his friends!

[klingercollection]

well im reblogging it for the handmade spindle and yarn. i love diy thats fueled by "well in the past they didnt just Buy new stuff, they Made it. it cant be That hard to make something functional!" please show us how its going so far?

[blackbearmagic]

@klingercollection I've spun maybe half an ounce of it now. I hate it.

Not because it's a bad fiber (which it is), but because it actually doesn't spin that badly. Even with my unpracticed hands, on my hastily-made and very unbalanced spindle, I'm able to get it to twist into a consistent thread.

I think some part of me wanted this project to be a laughable failure, and the fact that it's actually succeeding is both frustrating and satisfying.

[thatdisasterauthor]

At this point half the reason I still put up with TiKTok is the insane bakers and cooks. I mean LOOK AT THIS.

[tehkusogaki]

[only-tiktoks]