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the people yearn for nonplastic fabrics
im finally wearjng my flag
wahoo!
It's waterproof. It's windproof. It's lightweight and durable. And it's made from the intestines of two bears, painstakingly cleaned and sew
I really wanted to know more about this, especially how the water proof stitching works. Here's more information on this project, and hopefully more in the future!
This is amazing! I need to make a note to play around with that water proof stitch technology soon.
June Pardue has a video on YouTube demonstrating the waterproof stitch!
This is so damn cool.
being a jack of all trades is dope as fuck honestly. it's like I'm doing crop rotation inside my own brain
holy fuck but that's actually what it feels like though? It's finally cooling down here so soon it will be woodworking season. Just finished a giant stack of mending/alterations and I can't bear to look at the sewing machine for a while, time to get back to the embroidery I put on hold. Knitting for too long makes my wrist hurt so I have to space it out with spinning and inkle weaving. Got reminded markers exist and impulse bought some watercolours, time to get back to practicing art for a while. etc.

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reading an article abt 19th century american magazines' constant plagiarism of fashion plates from french magazines. life is beautiful
this is so funny. ye old terrible art tracing
this is interesting actually, about how they seemingly 'edited' plates together to put more of an emphasis on motherhood:
the french images above ↑ (a woman facing away from her two children; two women), get 'edited' (or rather like. recomposed) into the american ones below ↓ (two images of women facing their children).
from the article (Americanizing French Fashion Plates: "Godey's" and "Peterson's" Cultural and Socio-Economic Translation of "Les Modes Parisiennes" by Karin J. Bohleke):
In contrast, French mothers in Les Modes Parisiennes are frequently completely disengaged from the children depicted with them: they look elsewhere and even turn their backs (see Figures 1-2). Again, this is a function of the contrived poses necessary to depict certain key stylistic features of garments. However, this is one aspect of French fashion plates that American editors found unacceptable: when the French mother is looking at her children, Peterson's frequently re-engraved the plate in its entirety (see Figures 3-6). But when the mother's pose has her ignoring the very objects that give her life its meaning. Peterson's was more likely to re-engrave the children without this unacceptable mother, or another French fashion plate woman whose gaze was basically in the right direction was substituted (see Figures 7-8). Concerned that French plates might send the wrong message regarding a woman's ultimate role, American editors eliminated the unacceptable depiction. There are consequences to this substitution: French plates depicted appropriate garments in a suitable setting, thereby instructing their readers in the social etiquette of dress through context; American substitutions resulted at times in socially absurd juxtapositions, such as a ball gown on a clifftop boardwalk (see Figures 9-10).
^ emphasis mine bc it made me laugh
I finished it!!
And we immediately had a weather day where it was perfect to wear it before returning to winter deep freeze!
I had a similar moleskin jacket that I wore for almost 20 years until it literally was falling apart. I spent the last roughly 10 years (even before the jacket started really disintegrating) trying to find a comparable replacement with limited luck. Finally decided to just make it my damn self. This isn’t perfect but it is close enough and especially for a first jacket.
Husband: I kinda want to try it on Me: go for it H: I am more than a little jealous. It looks so good and fits you so well. I have such a hard time finding coats, especially shorter coats, that are actually long enough for me. Me: do you want me to make you one? H: ...I mean, yes, I would love that, but no, you absolutely do not need to make me a coat. I saw how much work this was and you just finished it and have other stuff you want to do, so no.
Anyway, I have already started looking at fabric because I absolutely need to make him a coat. The way he loves and care for the sweaters I make him and respects the time and skill, he is getting a fucking coat that fits him.
And it begins.
I finally started his jacket on Saturday, it is Tuesday and I just finished it. (Aside from brushing off some chalk marks)
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how people frame crafting as more sustainable/ethical than buying. It can be! But you gotta do it right. The sustainable, ethical part of making is the control one has over the supply chain of the object they make. An object made carelessly by a business and one made carelessly by an individual are essentially the same because the individual often only replaces one step in the supply chain: eg., a crocheter making a hat from new polyester (petroleum) yarn has no control over the mining of the petroleum, the processing of it into fiber, or the labor conditions any step of the way.
All this means that we makers have a responsibility, and a great power to actually know our supply chains! We must make carefully. We have the power to use thrifted, scavenged, or ethically harvested materials, or to make sure the companies that we buy our supplies from are just as passionate about sustainability as we are. We can use newspaper, broken glass, and scrap wood to rebuild our little corners of the world.
I say all this as an artist by the way. A metalsmith, knitter, and illustrator—when I buy metal I have no fucking clue if it’s recycled or if its mining is wrecking some ecosystem on the other side of the world. This year I’ve made a promise to myself not to buy a single new art supply.
Some caveats:
1. I still work a job where I have no control over the materials.
2. I allow thrifting because I honestly don’t see the harm
3. I obviously don’t think this is easy for everyone (I promise I don’t piss on the poor), and
4. I’m also not perfect—I have made exceptions for reusable tools and one commission that allowed me to donate to renter relief in areas hit by ICE.
So far it’s been a lot of reusing junk mail (I looove paper mache), mending, and whittling down my yarn stash. I’m really excited about the spoon I’m carving from the leg of my old wrecked bed frame. If you have a large stash or if you don’t and you really want to challenge yourself, I hope you consider it. It’s opened up worlds of potential and honestly made me more creative.
The biggest upside of making things over buying them is the ability to starve evil corporations of your business, and keep money out of the pockets of the rich. Let every thing you make be something you don’t have to buy, made of things you don’t have to buy, and share your things and the money you saved by making instead of buying with your community to exponentially increase your impact.
Finished rug!
Started: probably sometime around late June 2025
Finished: March 27th (FINALLY)
Yarn: warp is cotton yarn like for crochet lace that I got unlabeled from Goodwill. Weft is cut-up t-shirts.
Pattern: nope.
I am so happy to have this done! It feels like it's been on my loom forever. I don't even care that the edges look like shit! Or the middle! It's cute and recycled and Done 😁
It is off the loom! 3 whole meters of fucking around and finding out!
I already have ideas for like 3 more weaving projects. Like I knew I was going to have fun with this but I did not expect it to be so addicting. Very curious to see how the finished fabric turns out.

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Are antique sewing machine bobbins hard to come by? I acquired a bunch of sewing stuff from a late relative and almost chucked them out before I realized that they might not be easy to find for people who love and use vintage machines. (they're the ones that look like mini barbells)
As the only person that I know of that uses antique machines I thought you'd be the one to ask!
The little barbell ones are for vibrating shuttle machines, and yeah they can be pretty hard to come by! Do you know what specific make of machine they're from? Have they got any brand names engraved on them, or any other clues in the box they're in? If you know for sure which machine they work for you can probably sell them on ebay or something.
Here are the ones I've got that came with my 1885 White VS2, and they're Very Very Precious because there is no way I could realistically find replacements if anything happened to them.
(Though I think you can get replacements for more common vibrating shuttle machines fairly easily, like the ubiquitous Singer 27 and 127. Still great to have more antique ones out there for people who need them!)
This week’s shelf life examines a bespoke embroidered book from 1886 held at Sutro Library. Can you guess what the cover is made out of?
I. Love. This.
*Glances at the calendar* uh oh
Shit fuck ass fuck shit balls
Six new bird FPP patterns just landed in my Etsy shop. Blue Heron, Bald Eagle, Canada Goose, Barn Owl, Wild Turkey, Red-tailed Hawk.
Which bird matches your quilting personality? I'm a Barn Owl. Quiet, focused, slightly unhinged after dark
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these are *so cool*.
Do you have an updated post with the forest floor waistcoat embroidery? I do not trust Tumblr’s search feature
Alas, I do not! The last time I posted about that was in 2020 and I'm pretty sure I haven't touched it since. I know for sure I haven't worked on it since moving, and that was over 2 years ago now, so it's still on my embroidery frame and still only about half done.
But! I will definitely finish it at some point! I've been steadily working through The Pile for the last 2 years, and it's down from 25 unfinished garments to 5. I'm currently actively working on a jacket project that I started in 2024. I don't know if the waistcoat will be the very last Pile thing I finish, but I will get to it.
This is already gorgeous so clearly the finished waistcoat is going to be *absolutely stunning*.

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The quilt top is finally done! Took another six month break with only three seams left to go, because that's just how we roll I guess. It's roughly the size of a double bed, and a total pain to try and take a full picture of.
Really pleased with how it's turning out! It's a little in your face, but in a cool way.
It's gorgeous!
Got all 784 threads of this 16/2 cotton on my loom finally. Unfortunately, my shuttle boat does not agree with it. I think this will only work with a shuttle race That ain’t in the budget and won’t be for some time. Now I have this long project on my loom until further notice 😓
Special shoutout to @smarttalker !!!
OK, that's genius. Definitely going to have to try that with my current project.