SpookyStitch

Hi, I'm Sara! Queer lady, Cosplayer, Costume Technician, Literal Ghost Pokemon

[spookystitch]

Tutorial post doing numbers on here suddenly is inspiring me to post again, so have some Aura pictures, fresh off the press from Tansuratphotography, who understood the assignment "haunted digital child" and nailed it

[funstealer]

Junya Watanabe A/W 1996 Structured Jacket

[saturni-idae]

Down in the dungeon, where hunger resides 🩸

I wanted to make a dungeon meshi fanart for a while, and man, I love Falin, so here we go

I hope you like it :)

[spookystitch]

Finally got some really beautiful pictures of my Vivi cosplay while I was at San Japan. My little guy is real and technically unfinished but I'm very happy with where he's at currently!

📷 yinphoto on ig

[isolarii]

Zoloft: fake german word

Prozac: fake polish word

Lexapro: legal research software

Celexa: pokemon

Geodon: another pokemon

Wellbutrin: online stock exchange thing

Paxil: off-brand pope

Buspar: jumble prompt

Xanax: this one sounds like a medication

[spookystitch]

Been working on Senshi's facial hair! I got two matching wigs for him and frankensteined one into the beard, leaving behind enough wefts to ventilate an extremely dense mustache. I wanted to have a very loose fitting design that I can either choose to glue to my face for a helmet off photoshoot or wear over a face mask at a con!

The beard needs a bit more texture I think because it reads a little more luxurious curls than bushy facial hair, but it's nearly there! I will probably also ventilate some eyebrows for him at some point, but I'm itching to move onto the rest of the costume first

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

there's that post going around that's a short twit thread talking about "the obesity epidemic" as a result of economic oppression and everyone's snapping their little fingers for it but like. you guys know that we achieved socialist utopia tomorrow there would still be fat people right. you guys know that genetics play a bigger role in that than anything else and that some people will just be fat regardless of every other factor in their life right. you guys know that's fine right.

like idk I don't think it comes from a purposefully fatphobic place and like yes it sucks a lot that the demands of capitalism deny people a lot of opportunities to cook or learn to cook and be more engaged and intentional about their food. but it has this flavor of "poverty is bad because it makes people fat," which only holds up as an argument if you agree that being fat is a terrible thing that happens to people rather than being a completely neutral reality about some people's bodies.

anyone pulling any fatphobia on this post is getting blocked on sight I'm not playing.

[lemonesque-2]

this feels like people are genuinely almost onto how capitalism destroys nutrition via food deserts and price gouging, but because people are so obsessed with seeing fatness as something that is caused purely by action and something both can and should be fixed, that they cannot see what the actual problem is, ie not having balanced meals and thus being subject to deteriorating health REGARDLESS of the body's fatness, as well as the obvious economic burden. fatphobia is such a pervasive issue that taints and corrupts so many aspects of society and causes us to demonize our fat comrades instead of turning on the patriarchy or the corporate overlords or the ruling class or what have you

[modelsof-color]

Alton Mason at Met Gala 2024

[spookystitch]

Once again I have made a mascot costume with such restricted leg movement that I have to take silly little waddle steps while walking 💀

[spookystitch]

Today I hosted a dungeon meshi watch party with my tabletop group! It was so great to introduce them to a show I love and make fun themed food! We started with an ep 4 meal for lunch at the beginning and all other foods were served as they came up in the show while we watched

We had a dessert course featuring a bunch of treasure insect stuff, including a holy water mocktail! Some treasure insect "jam" and chocolate coins were left out for snacking, and we ended with the red dragon meal! I timed everything so we ended at dinner time and got through ep 13, and overall it felt very in the spirit of the show to be making a bunch of food for my friends! I had been telling them to read the manga for years, and I am happy to report that I was fucking right and they loved the show (and the food)

[spookystitch]

Vivi is wearable! He'll be getting a bunch of upgrades later this year, but he is cute and fun to wear as is! My son is real!!

[allonsybadwolf]

"crochet can't be made by machines" went from being a cool fun fact to being a call to action of "so if you see mass manufactured crochet in Target, that was made by a person and they were underpaid and you should boycott it" which is true, it was made by a person, but EVERY item of clothing you own (that you did not purchase from a company using ethical labor) was made by a person being underpaid (at *best*.)

Sewing machines are operated by *people*. Knitting machines are operated by *people*. Yes lots of the process is automated but you cannot tell a machine "make me a t-shirt" or "make me a knit cardigan".

Higher awareness of fast fashion, and the true human labor and abuse behind it, is GREAT, but let's not pretend that the crochet hat in target is THE problem. Every article of clothing in target is the problem. "All clothes are made by people" is the jumping off point here into understanding this issue it's not just crochet it's the whole thing ahhhhHHHHHHHHHH

[bigimotikcosplay]

What's this? A tutorial on how to budget for cosplay contest judges using hypothetical contests as examples?

Free PDF available for download

More tutorials about crafting, performance, and running events available on my website: www.bigimotikcosplay.com.

[howstrangethemusicsoundstome]

Let sewing radicalize you against fast fashion

[spookystitch]

Happy pokemon day, have some obligatory gengar pictures! This shoot still remains my absolute favorite pictures of this costume

📷 Nude Carbon Studios

[aprillikesthings]

“Bamboo is antifungal”

Because it’s rayon

“Eucalyptus fabric is cooling!”

Yeah, because it’s rayon

“We make clothing called seacell out of seaweed!”

Yeah I looked on your website it’s made by the lyocell process, which means-

-wait for it-

It’s fucking rayon!!

Listen. There is a list of actual plant fibers that are directly made into fabric: cotton, linen, ramie, some hemp. I’m sure I’m missing a couple.

But if you’re wondering “huh how did they turn that plant material into fabric,” 99% of the time? It’s RAYON.

All rayon is made by putting plant material in chemical soup, dissolving out everything but the cellulose, and turning the cellulose into filaments/fibers.

The source of the cellulose has zero effect on the eventual fabric.

Rayon made from bamboo or eucalyptus or seaweed is not any better than rayon from any other sources.

Don’t let companies mislead you!

[deliriumcrow]

The only benefit of one kind of rayon over another that i can think of is the relative environmental impact of one plant over another. Pesticides, harvesting methods, how quickly a source grows, square acreage per pound of fiber, etc. (I don't know what those numbers are.)

[blatantescapism]

To be fair,

the lyocell process uses a different chemical soup than the rayon process.

Compared to rayon, lyocell soup is less toxic, more reusable, and more energy efficient.

So lyocell *is* environmentally better, even before you consider the effect of using different plants as the source of cellulose. And in addition to being less harmful to the environment, it’s safer for the factory workers.

So if you’re committed to using a cellulose fiber, it’s better to get lyocell for those reasons.

but, yes! The final material will behave exactly the same, because it’s all cellulose.

You cannot iron or machine-launder seacel or tencel or lyocell, for the same reasons that you can’t use heat on rayon.

But when you see all the advertising saying how lyocell is antifungal, cooling, biodegradable etc. etc.,

(and the exact same thing is true of rayon),

that isn’t really *about* lyocell versus rayon.

It’s about lyocell versus POLYESTER.

because obviously cellulose can never replace natural fibers,

but it CAN do everything polyester does, plus all these things that polyester can’t!

Lyocell could completely replace polyester forever, and the world would be a better place!

But, critically, polyester is

1.) dead cheap

2.) part of the Big Oil empire.

Back when rayon was first invented, people were making the exact same talking points.

But Big Oil was like “well, if you don’t care about the environment, we’re the dramatically cheaper option… and if you DO care about the environment, here’s all these scary facts about the nasty rayon Chemical Soup! And your precious cellulose supports the logging industry! Checkmate, haha!”

and so, nothing changed.

Now we have lyocell, which has the exact same qualities and is more Idealogically Pure.

Right now it isn’t that common or popular, because it hasn’t found its niche. It can’t compete with luxury fibers!

But if we all just looked around and saw how fucking much polyester fiber there still is in the world,

and realized that all of it could be replaced!!! with lyocell, or with something else,

we could just STOP USING POLYESTER FIBER and it would be a major win for the planet.

No more polyester fiber

[aurorajay]

Most of this is true and very worth pointing out because a lot of ppl don't know much about source, manufacturing processes or qualities of different fibers.

However I did want to correct the bit about fabric care for rayon. You absolutely can iron and machine wash it. Hell, you can even dye it. You just need to use the right settings. Rayon shrinks easily and can be damaged by high temperatures, but that's easily avoided with a low iron setting (use a pressing cloth too if you're nervous) and cold water washing to be safe. (I honestly put most of mine in warm and occasionally hot without ill effect, but it depends a lot of the garment, if it's a blend, if it was pre-shrunk, etc)

I promise you, rayon is not that hard to take care of.

Oh and also viscose is the same thing too. Tencel, modal, lyocell, viscose, cupro, triacetate, rayon, bemberg, acetate etc. are all fibers produced via a few different variants on the cellulose soup method. The main difference comes down to branding and what types of fabric the fibres get woven into. (Though I will add that the acetate family of cellulose fibers is distinct enough to be a separate thing from rayon. Basically it's one of the earliest developed forms of the material, and isn't used nearly as often anymore because it's generally just not as good as later generation cellulose fibers.)

[spookystitch]

The proportions on this costume are Normal