crouchin' on the outside

certified freak. 10 days a week ✌️ [Thomas: in their 29st year of life]

[tomstoast]

Doc I want you to make it look like I got top surgery with a plastic spoon what is so hard to understand

[galileosballs]

Very few things-that-don't-matter bother me like the concept of 'zero-waste sewing', especially when it's also touted as 'beginner-friendly'.

Using your fabric efficiently? Makes total sense. No objection to that.

But specifically designing patterns such that every single part of a length of fabric is consumed by it? You're setting people up to fail. For one, you can really only do this with patterns made mostly of rectangles and right triangles, which can only make a very narrow range of garments that simply do not play nice with many people's bodies (especially bodies with lots of curvature). For another, a zero-waste pattern is also a zero-error-tolerance pattern. One wrong cut or measurement and the whole thing's toast. The wiggle-room that a more standard pattern allows also allows you to fix problems when they occur.

If you make a zero-waste garment and never wear it because it looks bad on you? That's not actually zero-waste. If you start a zero-waste garment and can't complete it because you made one little mistake? That's not actually zero-waste.

But more importantly, the whole idea of 'zero-waste' as a desireable outcome is antithetical to the methods and traditions of sewing. It's a form of functionless, guilt-driven, aesthetics-first minimalism that has no place in actual sewing practice. The scraps of fabric left over from cutting a pattern are incredibly useful. Larger pieces can become parts of new projects. Smaller pieces can become patchwork. Even really tiny scraps can become stuffing or batting or kindling or any number of other things. Home sewing has always been about not wasting things, but the way to not waste things is not by piously making only garments that suck, it's by repurposing, reusing, and recycling everything you buy. Once that fabric reaches your house, 98% of its environmental impact has already happened.

Use it all, sure, but use it well.

[mrscancelled-1]

[bogleech]

fresno nightslurpler

[nerdstify]

[miamaimania]

“Charlie” ⦿ Lola Dupre — mixed-media collage

[ot3]

its awesome that neither mind reading nor god are real and all of the thoughts inside of your head are completely private and consequenceless forever #myprivacy

[temporalreplicsimile]

🌈rice🌈

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Alright tell me in the tags, what’s Your Poem? That poem you heard once and it has dwelt within you ever since?

[estel-system]

[werewolfmack]

#you can argue about whether or not it’s a poem#but the scrapped presidential speech in the event of a failed moon landing#it haunts me in ways little writing ever has

[tomstoast]

Circled back around on it tbh

[lindleland]

mario's personal information just got leaked onto the internet

[lindleland]

it was a dire dire dox

[geminisee]

x

[cometcrystal]

out of the backyard gang baljeet is one of the worst to make into a coffee table. ferb would also be pretty bad. phineas and isabella would be mid because they have those bigass heads but the skinny bodies. might be worse than baljeet and ferb if you're a person who cares about symmetry. buford would objectively make the best coffee table because his silhouette has the most evenly-spaced surface area. now if you wanna talk about pnf characters in general i think pet mode perry would be the best coffee table out of all of them

[moved-to-orpheyon-deactivated20]

Combine your chinese zodiac and astrology sign to make your true fursona

[eternally-a-dreamer]

i still hate this post so much. i’m an ox and a taurus. i’m a bull bull. i’m so fucking annoyed oh m y go d

[daftpatience]

noticed the two types of people in the tags

[cringe-writing-overlord]

big day for the unemployed

[pikaole]

Pygmy falcons

[fizpup]

Get real.

[pastelpolitoed]

tumblr glitched while loading this, so instead of "dude get real" being the punchline, it was like this cat put on glasses for the first time and their friend was just. a legit dog. and not like them at all.

[fizpup]

This is killing me

[darth--nickels]

19th century AITA only its "Have I been the most dreadful cad?"

Yes you are an abominable bounder/No you behaved as a gentleman should/All parties mentioned seem simply horrid

[silly2tilly]

her big ass paws cant twist the twisty puzzle!!!