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Jane Mistress of time travel Custom tailor Herbalist

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I am mending a pair of pants for a friend. You can see the process I am in quite well here. I like giving new love to broken clothes. The mend will be quite decorative so the pants will be more valuable after I am finnished.

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Oh when a book is so good, that one sentence makes you shut it while screaming

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I thought I made a million granny squares until I laid them on the ground. I mean, a blanket for a sofa doesn’t need to be that big, does it?

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One flower at a time until I have a granny square blanket to keep warm on cold and rainy days.

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I adopted this hexiquilt project from my dear friend. She put a lot of work in it already but I have still some miles to stitch. I love every little bit of it.

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All 13 full moons of 2023

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Every look ICONIC! Our lady can NOT flop!

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It’s okay to not be the same all the time. Change is beautiful

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Hey fiber artists of Tumblr! I would like to ask for your advice.

My glove is starting to unravel. I think it froze on some metal and ripped. I have a very vague idea of how to darn. I think this glove was made with lace weight yarn. All the yarn I have is dk weight or larger.

Can I use a thicker yarn to darn it? Would it be better to use embroidery floss? Should I just sew a patch on?

[just-a-little-belle]

It's a pretty large hole, personally I would put in a life line somewhere below the damage and pull it all out, then reknit the thumb. Preferably same weight yarn if you can manage it

@giantextinctgroundsloth any other advice?

[returnofthemousearmy-deactivate]

I am super amateurish and relatively new to mending things, so given the yarn/tool constraints I’d probably do something half-mad, like pick up the dropped stitches/runs as much as possible, split a ply off the DK yarn, and use that try to weave the hole closed. (It would probably not be very sturdy!) But one thing I can do is reblog to see if people with more experience might want to chime in. So!

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Look up Swiss darning or simply watch this video I found on YouTube it explains the technique. There are other ways as well, I like this one a lot though.

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So this is me. These days I like to hike and cook on top of a hill. I sew my own clothes and if you spend time with me I will make you tea that suits your needs. I express love with food and tea.

So come along if you feel like it. And if we know each other already from tumblr, hello again! I might be back here. Let’s see how it goes.

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thinking about coming back here, it has been a while. I feel like a stranger now but i like tumblr more than other plattforms.

So hi, i am back, maybe. I am sewing a lot more these days and i lost my dreads while I was gone.

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Would you like a cuppa tea with that?!?

I love my 1895 Skirt and West so so much, I want to wear it every day! 

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Thinking about deleting my tumblr

For it gives me no joy anymore...

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I made a Aziraphale outfit ❤️

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My 1895 walking skirt is done. completely done. It took me forever but the process was so enjoyable. 

I got the idea from Bernadette Banner, in specific this video. And the pattern is online for free. 

I am in love with this skirt. 

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practicing patience here

So the parcel Tracking thing tells me, that my new phone shall arive today. I am looking forward to that because I have the mood again to put myself out there, beeing active here again. So this is what I am going to do,beeing patient for now

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I think this is the turning point of my life

Things will happen in the near future

The time of feeling depressed and helpless is hopefully over I have plans now. Good ones. Stay tuned, because I WILL

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The gay ginger paradox

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Is it just me or does that look like @tyleroakley from a couple of years ago