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.
i started this battle jacket before i got medicated for my adhd and it's literally been hanging in my closet with the patches pinned to it for two years + a move. and now that i am medicated, i had the ability to ask myself why exactly the hand stitching was giving me such an issue to begin with, and then i was able to carry that into searching up solutions to the problem. it hurt my hands! and using an embroidery hoop, sewing with a thimble, and using pliers to pull the needle through the really thick patches solved all those problems!
and look, it's not mad at me! it's like i never abandoned it in the first place!
Hello Lovelies, PUNK FibRRRe Zine is back for our 3rd and most special issue yet!!! It is our anniversary (and also Pride, also my bday) so we wanted to do something extra special. Just show us what being a queer fibre artist means to you.
Basically all mediums are welcome. From photography to quilting to comics. Just include your name, title of the piece and an optional artist statement if you’d like.
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Also if you’d like to be featured/interviewed, send a separate email indicating your interest.
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There are a lot of people in the notes saying, basically, "Yeah, that's polyester for ya!"
but, the thing is
even polyester fabric was higher quality in the past
yes, not all of it, but, still, a noticeable amount of older polyester was...nicer.
yeah, it would still get picks and hold on to every bit of underarm odor, and that's on top of no-one knowing about microplastic shedding
but a 1950s Wash'n'Wear shirt, or 1970s double knit pantsuit, or 1980s neon sweatshirt, or a 1990s slinky knit or crushed velour mock turtleneck...so many of them would have been significantly higher quality than the fast fashion of today.
i work in historical costume. i work in a big-ass warehouse, with hundreds of thousands articles of clothing dating back over 100 years (for original pieces).
the BLINDING difference in clothing quality between even the 1990s and the mid-2000s...not even going in to the decline in quality of clothing made in natural fibers (jeans with elastane, i'm looking at you), I've got faux-leather trousers from 1980s that are in near-mint condition, even after being hired and worn repeatedly for the past 40 years. we get donations of clothing that shows and films have bought online for contemporary shows that are disintegrating after being used on one show, for like....10 days, max.
don't even get me started on the seam allowances we used to get in clothes, because the assumption was you'd alter it at some point...
they hate you. they hate the planet. they have drip fed you worse and worse quality clothing until you don't even realize you're being sold Garbage
I went to my lys today (which is actually one and a half towns over...) and it was beautiful and amazing I found tools I've needed for years but couldn't justify the shipping price for them. Beautiful amazing immaculate
The instagram post linked above mentions this quilt is part of an exhibition on the Fredom Quilting Bee, shown alongside a Gee's Bend quilting exhibit.
I just wanted to mention that Pettway is a family name common to Gee's Bend!
