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Stranger Things
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Love Begins
One Nice Bug Per Day
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
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@sew-and-serve
used the phrase "i mean, i don't think we're paying enough attention to what the back of that embroidery is going to look like" in a meeting today because if business bros get to throw out meaningless jargon all the time, i! get! to play! too!
oobh i got plany off bobbin thread
Fiber arts is just Math in sheep's clothing
Being a crafty person and making a bunch of things often prompts people to ask "oh wow did you make that?" And like, the short answer is: yes I did, but the long answer is: well, no, the pattern isn't mine, but I did choose and buy the fabric/yarn and sewed it together/crocheted it/knitted it myself. I used a reference for that drawing/painting, I didn't come up with it myself. That ceramic piece was insired by a poem and a painting made by different people. What I'm trying to say is, everything I make requires other people to make their own thing first, and then I get inspired by them to do my own thing. So I can't really call anything truly mine, because really it's just a bunch of inspirations and experiences of others (and me) put together by my hands. Does that answer your question
This yarn came from sheep raised in New Zealand and was spun by a woman in Peru. The pattern was created by someone in Germany. My needles were made by a craftsman in China and my stitchmarkers came from the lady at the local fiber festival.
I may have knit this sweater but it contains the souls of people from around the world.
NONE OF YOU ARE EXEMPT FROM THIS 🫵
I'm developing a curiosity and interest in fiber arts, someone please stop me before it's too late
Girl help the fibercrafters who live in my phone are calling out to me like the sirens of legend, entreating me to dash myself upon the rocks of Having A Yarn Stash
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Heads up if you're a sewing hobbyist...
Buy those patterns you've been thinking about while you still can.
The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidato
This is a motherfuckin' GAME CHANGER
I finished the last constellation tonight. All 40 of them are now done! Went through and double checked and every stitch is in place for them and all the beads are in place. Which just leaves the milky way part to do.
Started stitching the Milky Way in. Slowly making progress on it as I am hiding the travelling thread so the back will look nice.
Looks pretty cool and keeps the readability of the other stitches. Very happy with it. Just a thousand or so to do. As they are in a grid roughly every centimetre apart.
Update on the constellation quilt. I have gotten the last Milky Way stitch done now. Which means the quilting part of this project is done. My next step will be to baste the edges down, remove the pattern, trim the quilt square, and lastly attach the binding.
Progress on the constellation quilt has come along quite a lot now. Finished the binding on the quilt over the weekend. I prefer to machine stitch the binding to the front then hand stitch the back side. It gives such a nice finish to the quilt. Took the time to measure it also and it ended up being 72" by 72" (183cm by 183cm).
With that done I could finally start removing the pattern. Which is taking both less time and more time that I thought it would. As it rips really easily so that goes fast, but the tiny corners and removing it under the beads is slow. You can now see the difference in the glow effect with it against the dark front of the quilt instead of the pattern.
Behold the stars of the constellations of the northern sky! I love how this quilt has turned out. It was a lot of fun to work on and the effect is so cool in person. Overall I would estimate it took about 90-100 hours to complete. Give or take 10 hours if you want to count the time I spent custom dying the fabric.
I made sure to get a nice photo of it in daylight. For once I also remembered to get a quilt label on it. The back really shows the difference in readability of the quilting on the ice dyed fabric compared to the solid front. Thank you everyone that has followed this. I am glad you all found joy in it.
Those that are interested, here is the pattern I used by Haptic Lab. I made the large northern hemisphere version, and plan to make the matching southern hemisphere one next year. I also got your back for the less crafty people. Haptic Lab sells finished quilts in this pattern, both as a large quilt and a small one.
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A simple green onion will rock your world
IRS Free Online Tax Preparation Feedback Survey
IRS Free Online Tax Preparation Feedback Survey
For anyone in the US, the IRS just dropped a survey asking if people would like to file for free. People should take the survey!
this is quick and it is simple, and it looks like something the IRS is putting out so they can say "see, the public wants a free, easy tax filing service! please give us funding for this!"
the questions are basically "if you could file your taxes easily for free online, would you? would you rather do it with the IRS or with a private company? are you ok with the IRS spending $20 on processing your return (you still pay nothing, it is still free)?"
basically they're asking "do you want us to spend your tax dollars on making it easy for you to file your taxes for free?"
This is official and real. US taxpayers: Tell them you want this!
'sorelle fontana evening ensemble, 1954, worn by ava gardner in "the barefoot contessa"' in high style: masterworks from the brooklyn museum costume collection at the metropolitan museum of art - jan glier reeder (2010)
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The slurperrr...
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!
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.
fiber arts is really a laundering scheme for mathematics.
Knitting! Nope gotta untangle string first
Crochet! After I untangle some string
Weaving - untangle lots of string
Cross stitch - hold up, string is tangled and I am full of rage
Sewing: string tangled into tiny knots of hatred
The struggle is real.
I want to draw. I want to paint. I want to sew. I want to quilt. I want to program. I want write. I want to decorate. I want to converse. I want to love. I want to make art. I want everything that humanity can give me. I want to swallow the world whole. I want to love.
i love having the hubris to go 'sure i'll try that, how hard can it be' about every creative skill under the sun. jack of all trades master of shit fuck but who says you have to be a master??? maybe i want to sew a mediocre plushie and code a janky mod and write a bland song. im having fun. im in my lane. im learning and im thriving.
