I added two new stickers to my Etsy site. Free shipping on all orders and they go out within a day or so. I have PRIDE stickers and bookmarks as well as a few Bigfoot items. They're all priced to go out the door. Every sale helps a little bit!
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I added two new stickers to my Etsy site. Free shipping on all orders and they go out within a day or so. I have PRIDE stickers and bookmarks as well as a few Bigfoot items. They're all priced to go out the door. Every sale helps a little bit!
Indonesian fiber artist Mulyana has taken over the Fisher Museum of Art with colorful, hand-knitted and crocheted aquatic life.
With the duality of life and death as a recurring theme, Mulyana crafts a tactile, mystical world in which fish, whales, and coral reefs coexist with sea monsters and slow states of decay.
Read Renée Reizman’s review of Mulyana: Modular Utopia.
Gorgeous art work. There are more images in the article.
2 rainbow embroideries I made recently 🌈 by vidana_art
Galaxy kitty by cheeserella
Wavy Queer Print by The Laurel Club
Still messing with Stitchrovia’s patterns by Stitchmond
just finished Kitten Cthulhu by KitsBySAstitch on Etsy, it turned out really cute! by Alumid123
So much cute!
Blanket Update!
Hahaha, remember when I said it would be done by Christmas? Yeah, that didn’t happen 😅 Fortunately! My aunt’s birthday is in March and this behemoth will be done then.
I sewed the motifs into panels (left) and then into quadrants (right), working in my tails as I went. (If I told you how many yarn tails I had on this project, I think we would both cry so I’ll refrain.)
Here’s everything sewn together pre-border! The dimensions right now are 6X6 square. I think it’ll cover a queen size bed nicely (pictured is a king).
I’ve vacillated between hating this project and really liking it while it was a WIP, but as it’s gotten to the end, I’m firmly in the love it camp! All that’s left now is the border, more yarn tails 🙃, and giving it a wash!
I have more progress pictures of the seaming process on my Ravelry, but I thought they might be a little confusing here.
Also! Special shout out to @hookedatweiss for calling it a quiltghan. The name has stuck!
😅 @pathetic-pisces happy to share the quiltghan term! I, too, was taken with its genius. 🧶
Oh, I love this pattern! So pretty and quilty looking.
This Valentine's Day Kitty Pillow Designed By Lee Sartori Is Bonkers In The Best Way! 👉 https://buff.ly/2GMjLKq ❤️
"I will not make this."
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Too cute!
Lonely little ghost friend by embroiderythings
Bat Bowtie by Catherine Hope Hastings
Free Crochet Pattern Here (May need to make an account)
I've been not crocheting but I think I need to have this in my life.
There's some company, blackstone, blackwater, something like that, buying up houses that go on sale for 30k above asking price. Immediately outbidding anyone who tries to buy. Corporations are also buying property all across america.
Fuck...
Nobody comes to my tumblr for this, but Americans need to understand that THIS is why my generation can't afford to own a house outside of Smallest-Town USA. THIS is also why people my age in bigger cities struggle to find decent apartments that don't consume half of our monthly income.
Housing Speculation is when rich folk, corporations, and wannabe landlords buy up property and sit on it like dragons hoarding gold. The Dutch have a dragon-adjacent term for this because speculation devastated their housing market in the 70s-80s leading to some gnarly Dutch squatting culture. They let homes sit empty, good as money in the bank and watch the value increase as everyone else competes for the remaining houses. That's value they can borrow against, that's a few hundred-thousand dollars if you need some quick cash, that's a property you can rent out for regular income while charging tenants for repairs or maintenance and fining them for wear and tear. If property values go up and laws prohibit raising the rent by a certain degree, in many places they can find shady ways to evict that tenant, make no changes and charge the next renter more. It's probably illegal but if you rent to people below a certain income, you can be assured most can't afford to take you to court.
I live in Chicago. Many of the properties that used to house students, small families, single parents, older people, low-income folks have been gobbled up by little airbnb barons who colonize previously well-established neighborhoods and price out families who've lived there for generations because they can't keep up with the artificially inflated property values. The airbnbs spread like cancer until a handful of people can dominate the "affordable" housing for an entire neighborhood. It's gentrification on meth, but without the kind of localized money circulation or community improvements you get when people live and work and spend within their neighborhoods. It pushes residents further and further from services and resources until all that's left is the locked-in commodififation of an exploitable renting class.
If that wasn't bad enough, it also means that when large areas of habitable property are being hoarded by investors with portfolios of empty houses and airbnbs, that reduces the number of actual residents, which can spoil legislation on a community level. When all the storefront space in a neighborhood like mine is controlled by 4 people, you find the number of businesses and services that catered to lower income families start to become whiskey bars, boutiques, vintage shops, and upscale chain retail, businesses that bring money into the property owners at the expense of community accessibility, turning a once largely Hispanic neighborhood community into a posh little destination for travelers, tourists, and other aspiring business speculators who see every empty building as their next revinue stream. Gut a block of apartments with attached commercial space and build half as many luxury condos above a combination tapas bar and day spa and you've instantly got half as many tenants on that block to vote against your expansion schemes. Replacing low-income residents with higher-rent folks also bakes in support for future "improvements" that further contribute to the commodification of communities.
Property ownership has always been a tool of the most privileged class to extract value from the working class because the only options become rent, move, or live on the street for all they care. At which point, the police will sweep you further and further into the gutter until they have an excuse to send you to prison. This kind of speculation and consolidation allows people with excess resources to buy up the things the rest of us require to function and sell it back to us forever.
These are the same people that invented the fairy tale about how if we work hard enough and save and spend like smart people, then we can be landlords too! We can own businesses, raise families, chase dreams and be happy if we are smart like they are. But if we can't it's because we're lazy little parasites who need to have our lives portioned out to us lest we waste time that could be earning money for the landlord.
I hate these fuckers so fucking much.
It got so bad in Atlanta that in 2022 they passed a law limiting Airbnb-type operators to two physical addresses, and the owner is required to live in one of them. In addition to that, they are charged an annual permit fee + additional taxes.
It’s an excellent start, but only applies to the city of Atlanta -- not any of the kazillions of Airbnbs in the surrounding greater metro area.
There could be zero Airbnb's around and I still wouldn't be able to afford to buy a house. I would need to save upwards of $30,000 to get into something that would probably need a lot of work and be super small. I'm in rural New Hampshire. The property taxes alone are ridiculous because they pay for everything that the government needs to do.
UPDATED! "The Best Yoda & Baby Yoda Patterns For Makers Who Knit! Hats, Stockings, Amigurumi and More ... " 👉 https://buff.ly/2PZVX6X
Too damn cute!
Crochet a Micro-Miniature Chibi Ghost Amigurumi: 👉 https://buff.ly/3k3K5h6
I have a limited number of 3-inch magnets and stickers with this design. Visit https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheQueerCrafter
It has been a month. 14 more cheery soliders for my Santa Army by mandajeanjellybean