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As Lion Brand is always working to break the mold, with new yarns, colors and patterns for crafters to love, we appreciate crafters who are breaking the mold, too. To meet some of our favorite creators crafting beyond the stereotype, read on!
Love these kind of articles!
We got my mother a black cat Halloween candy bowl...
It’s no longer hers.
It’s the cat’s now.
@hwaemelec
halloween black cat solidarity <3 <3 <3
I bought one of these too but both cats refuse to get in it. So sad!
Ralph McQuarrie
Except make darth vader throwing a baseball. They’re making up for lost time.
Holiday Gingerbread Castle by Christine McConnell
Almost half of Americans say discrimination against Christians is as big of a problem as discrimination against other groups, including blacks and minorities. Three-quarters of Republicans and Trump supporters said this, and so did nearly eight out of 10 white evangelical Protestants.
A Brookings / PRRI Study Finds Most American Christians Believe They’re Victims of Discrimination - The Atlantic (via brutereason)
This shouldn’t be surprising considering the religion itself teaches that its followers will be persecuted. It’s an integral part of the religion.
Peculiar and well-worn trigger mittens or ‘tumgluttons’ found by archaeologist Helen Devereux while she was working in Newfoundland for the National Museum of Canada during the 1960s.
“ During the 1960s while working in Newfoundland, Helen Devereux came across this pair of knitted trigger mittens or “tumgluttons” on a deserted piece of land….”
Very cool. Wonder if I can find a pattern to make a pair.
4 Seasons Winter Crochet Patterns
Bought this over Thanksgiving weekend. Her written patterns are super detailed with lots of pictures and the little pinecone is my favorite because he has a unique construction.
let’s be honest though, millennial hate is totally a thing rich folks started because they’re pissed that we have really unpredictable consumer habits and it isn’t as easy to get us to buy into stuff, so they’re mad we aren’t just money giving/traditional economy supporting machines like they expected us to be
like look at how much millennial hate articles are things like “millennials aren’t eating cereal and it’s hurting the cereal industry” or “millennials aren’t buying houses and that’s bad” or “millennials #1 utmost priority isn’t trying to make as much money as possible” and rich folks are mad about it, so just posturing our unpredictability/nontraditional values as “laziness” gets everyone else on board the hate train in some weird attempt to collectively subdue us
“You are Doing Capitalism Wrong and it scares me” - bitter Boomers to Millennials who are not buying into their shit (or buying their shit)
Keep in mind that the subprime mortgage crisis was at a pretty pivotal time in Millenial’s lives, and taught them that financial institutions are not on your side, will lie to you, and specifically will lie to you about what you can afford. Like, this isn’t coming from nowhere.
I mean boomers refuse to pay a living wage to anyone and then wonder why those people don’t buy anything? I am sorry but what exactly is the disconnect here?
Millennials value work that has meaning above work that pays well and they hate that as well. It means we can’t be shut up with busy work while they’re made to seem like they’re running a well oiled machine. They come from a generation of a boss being someone who says “do what I say because I told you to” and we come from a generation who values a boss that says “what can I do for you that will help you excel at your job?”
Millennials do not cope well with meaningless busy work so their boss looks better. They don’t cope with being talked down to or not being assisted by their boss when they have a problem. They do not deal well with their innovative ideas being shut down because “that’s not how we do it here.” and I don’t see how any of those things is a problem.
Millennials are also the first generation since the internet was a prominent thing to utilize it as a source of information in a way that is empowering for each other. A single millennial can buy a product and then inform anyone who wants to know about the quality of said product. It only takes a handful of millennials to say “this is a substandard product” to render all the millions of dollars spent on advertising that product completely useless.
Big business has been a blotch on millennials lives since before most of you could even assume a role in adulthood to effect it, so you trust one another more than you trust advertisements or sponsorship, etc.
On the flip side, though, you enthusiastically will push and promote things that you love.
Big business and their baby boomer CEOs and presidents HATE this. Because it means that they can no longer provide a substandard product while making the consumer feel there is nothing better out there.
In the past, if every dish soap was awful, you just had to continue using awful dish soap. Now, you can crowd source an alternative. You can post in a forum, your facebook, a mass text, etc and say “I hate every dish soap, what can I do?” and you will be directed to actual good brands or you will be taught how to brew your own.
You’re a great generation, I’m really proud of you guys.
Seriously, tho.
I’d love to buy a house, but I can’t afford a down payment and can’t be certain that I’ll have the same income levels for thirty years and I don’t actually know whether the banks will accept my highly-fluctuating, self-employed-and-seasonal-labor income as stable enough or high enough to be approved for a mortgage.
And also every new housing development I’ve seen in the past five years has been “Executive Housing, Starting At 390K” and the realtor websites are full of last decade’s foreclosed subdivision homes in the $275K region, and there’s legit no one, including the zoning board, that’s going to help me find or make a cute little house on a tenth of an acre in the region of $50-60K, let alone every other millennial who might like to settle down in a place that suits her desires and means.
Oh, and that same zoning means five people aren’t allowed to share that $300K, 5-bedroom McMansion, because fuck us, that’s why.
And what else? The refrigerator that recently conked out on me was manufactured in 1967. That thing lasted almost fifty years, and today if I walk into a big box store’s appliance department to buy a new refrigerator they will tell me I should really buy a warranty to cover the apparently-substantial risk that it will break within two to five years.
Oh, and there’s apparently a $400ish premium to buy one with a convenient configuration because if you want the refrigerator on top and accessible without bending down for anyone taller than your average first grader there aren’t any of those in the entry-level price range. Once again, fuck us.
Then there’s the labor market itself, where “entry level” positions want three-to-five years of experience, and everybody won’t shut up about the trades but even that requires a $5K+ outlay to go to school for it, and every fast-food restaurant out there has a permanent “Now Hiring” sign up because they drive employees away as fast as they can replace them.
And so many food-service jobs involve being forced to throw away loads of food as it expires but if you eat it or take it home it’s viewed as stealing, and retail jobs sometimes require you to smash perfectly good computers with a sledgehammer so nobody can use them, and fuck all of this, yes, I’m gonna make my own goddamn laundry detergent from a recipe I found on the internet, and I’m gonna buy as much of my vegetables as possible in seed form, and I’m gonna fucking read the consumer reviews on shit before I buy it and I’m going to source a refrigerator from Cragislist for approximately the price of the warranty on a new one, and if The Market wants me to buy a house, it can bloody well wait for me to have the money.
Because seriously, with its “Ask not what your economy can do for you, ask what you can do for your economy” mindset and historic, far-reaching fuckery, the business side of the equation has little room to complain about millennials being the selfish ones.
I reblog this every single time it shows up on my dash
I’m on the Gen X/Millennial cusp so to speak, and this post is every fucking thing. Everything.
This whole thing only makes me wonder if we will learn anything about how to treat the generation that comes after us. Time after time, each generation will speak ill of the one that comes next. We’re just at the bottom of the pile now but it won’t always be like this. Every new set of people tends to think of themselves as the best and brightest so I’d love to see this trend stopped.
This Lovecraftian monstrosity may look like an amalgam of dying octopuses, but it’s actually a single creature called a Basket Star, a type of deep sea brittle star. They can reach up to 11 pounds in weight and 70 cm in length!
This is actually all of the poor unfortunate souls from The Little Mermaid.
Happy 100th birthday, Roald Dahl ❤️
This explains my hideousness!
We’re not going to bury the lead here: Bob Ross’ hair was actually straight. Just ask his longtime business partner Annette Kowalski, who knew Ross better than anyone — he had just gotten out of the Air Force, and was unsuccessfully trying to make a living as a painter, she says.
“He got this bright idea that he could save money on haircuts. So he let his hair grow, he got a perm, and decided he would never need a haircut again,” Kowalski explains.
Before he could change it back, though, the perm became his company’s logo — Ross hated it. “He could never, ever, ever change his hair, and he was so mad about that,” Kowalski says. “He got tired of that curly hair.”
But viewers never got tired of Ross or his show The Joy of Painting. With his soft, hypnotic voice, he’d bring his viewers in close as he created 30-minute masterpieces — distant mountain ranges, seascapes, forest scenes, always with those happy little trees. He’d sling his palette around, blend the titanium white paint, whisper about his life in Alaska, then gently tap his fan brush to create a canvas full of fluffy clouds. With his partly unbuttoned chambray shirt, his halo of tight curls and his soothing demeanor, Ross was a fixture on PBS.
Re-watching the show decades later — it’s now streaming on Netflix — The Joy of Painting still feels like a personal art lesson. And yet the oil painter we spent so many hours with remains a mystery. Ross led a private life and did only a few interviews during his career.
The Real Bob Ross: Meet The Meticulous Artist Behind Those Happy Trees
Photos: Bob Ross Inc.
WHAT
I think we all just got Rick Rolled in the second photo there.
BURNNNNNNNNNNNNN
Love how some sad man made this obviously faked chat to show how ‘women are bitches’. You want to buy a phone from a stranger yet your first two messages sound like a religious solicitor coming to the door? Fake.
Women’s Work: The First 20,000 years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber, 1996
This is a great book, all about the work of spinning and weaving, how it developed, and how and why it was women’s work. It makes the great point that women’s work is ephemeral - food, cloth, it’s all things that don’t survive archaeologically, so that it’s something that gets overlooked. The author also knows how to weave herself, and has tried out weaving some ancient cloths, pointing out that it’s only by doing something like that that you can work out practical issues.
One of the things that was really great was the author pointing out that the most plausible reconstruction for the Venus de Milo is of her spinning:
Even better, is that since the book has been written, an artist who makes 3D printed sculpture has made a 3D model of what she would have looked like - and you can buy one for yourself:
I love this concept
OKAY Tumblr, I’m gonna try this one more time. The tags for this post haven’t been working properly and more people need to see this, darn it!
Let’s try linking some good people in and see if that makes it play along.
@weekendknitter @makinguselessthings @kaynoxxcrafts @youngyarns
Oh I love this! I would 100% want a spinning venus in my life….
Thanks for the tag!
It’s pretty obvious she was flipping the double bird. Someone render that for me.
SETH ROGEN’S Sausage Party animators were told to work overtime for free with threats of blacklisting at Nitrogen Studios.
I think this is more shocking than any orgy scene.
So yeah if any of you were thinking of seeing this movie….
If this bothers you, you might not want to watch any animated movies now days - or play any games. This is the norm.
Beautiful!
Hi! I know you do cross stitch stuff, I was wondering if you had any tips or tricks that you use? Something to help a beginner out? Aheh
Start with a knot. Use tapestry needles to save your fingers. ALWAYS DOUBLE COUNT. Make sure your hands are super clean before you touch your fabric (I’ve ruined so many projects because of this, RIP.) Metallic thread is pretty but IT IS THE DEVIL TO WORK WITH. Leave yourself enough thread to tie a knot. Try to start with the middle of your project. Use a calculator to make sure your project is gonna fit on the fabric. Work in rows, not individual x’s: Come up through the bottom left hole, go down through the top right. Do that for every stitch of that color in the row. When you reach the end, finish the stitches by coming up through the bottom right hole and going down through the top left. This method makes it so much easier if you need to remove stitches or you count wrong. Don’t be afraid to use a pattern. Don’t be afraid to draft your own pattern. Stick with aida at first and graduate to linen and evenweave when you’re a bit better if you want. DMC floss is the best; the dyes are consistent, the colors don’t bleed, and it doesn’t fuzz or break like the bargain brand stuff in the bags. Also, if you run out of a color you know exactly which shade to buy because they are numbered. Have fun and create some beautiful things!
All good advice! I can’t stress enough the importance of counting and making sure the fabric is big enough before you begin a project! Both of those things have came back to haunt me before.
Best tip is to be consistent. All your stitches need to go in the same direction. Otherwise it will look clumpy and uneven. YouTube some tutorials and try something simple with only one or two colours at first.
Again, Practice! Practice! Practice!
THE METAL THREAD!!!!!! I would say I’m a really experienced cross stitcher so when my recent project required metal thread I was shrugging my shoulders and like…hmn ok pretty, no big deal. NOW I WISH I HAD SUBSTITUDED WITH A YELLOW GOLD SIMILAR COLOR. I’m cursing so much over the fucking metal thread!!!!!
Tell me about it! It shreds, it snaps, it stretches out as you use it, it unravels, and it doesn’t play well with thread conditioner so you can’t even use that. It is so frustrating. The project I’m currently working on has me using it and I’m about to throw it at a wall.
“ Start with a knot.” Nooooooooooo!!!
EVERYBODY PANIC
When you use up all the downvotes, someone has to go in and manually refill the tank. People are pretty irresponsible about it and then get all up in arms when reddit is down. Wake up, people sheesh.
