Spiderwebs And Lace

It is important to consider the culture of the person who created the piece, absolutely; but the different perspectives offered by the viewers is fascinating in and of itself and does not always detract from the message.

As an example, when I was younger, I watched Schindler's List. This movie is famously shot in black and white except for one section, concerning a little girl in a red coat. The camera follows her until her eventual death.

I am Turtle Island Indigenous and I was always taught that the only color spirits could see was red, because it is the color of life and blood.

So the second the girl in the red jacket came on screen, something inside me chilled with fear.

The only color in the movie was that red. At some point, I, the viewer, had died.

I remember sobbing at the sight of the burning human piles that were shown, convinced I was buried in there somewhere. The reason I had only seen red on the girl was that my death was recent. I was the ash in the air mistaken for snow. I had died before her and had followed her, helplessly, until she followed me.

The message I got for that was maybe not what the creator had intended: that there was no "being clever enough" or "good enough" or "kind enough" that would shield or protect you from such a massive tidal wave of evil.

You are not exempt from tragedy, that red jacket whispered. You are not special.

When I told some of my white friends about my experience with viewing Schindler's List, some were shocked and the rest just out-and-out mocked me for my "media illiteracy".

"it was just a filming trick to make you feel something," I remember one saying, which terrified me. How had he not felt anything even before she showed up?

friend whos always available: i can do whenever

friend whos constantly busy: im sorry i have work and then school and then the labyrinth and then more work :( i can do tuesday at 3:00 am for five minutes tho

friend with the randomly generated sleep schedule: (no response)

friend who went missing in the woods behind their house 12 years ago and hasn't been heard from since: (no response)

I absolutely love these kinds of blank template favourite games but I've never seen HKSS ones, so here's some that I made! I also tried to include some questions that I don't see talked about a lot.

The pattern is noted in the replies as coming from here

and it's intended to look like this

Those illustrations--and the 1940s/50s time frame of when the pattern was published--say to me that these were meant to be made from woven cotton calico

My own pertinent experience is in the other direction:

I used this pattern

to make this plush, using fake fur--which is on a knit base--as the pattern directs

Then I made it again using a woven fabric

and that's when I realized that the original pattern depended on the stretch of the knit to help round out the shape

So! While the vintage kitten pattern probably still won't look quite like the illustration when made from calico, it might look less like a creeper. Maybe.

First, lots of people are saying that sawdust would have been the most likely filling, and they're probably right. Loosely packed sawdust, though, but the idea of packing one of these with enough sawdust to make a pincushion is oddly tempting...

I don't think the shape shown in the illustrations can be achieved from this pattern, though. There need to be more seams and or darts for this to be round where it's supposed to be round.

However, I did try a few easy little changes to try to make it stop being quite so much...that

here it is compared to the first one I made

I'll put what I did under a cut, because I have already managed to make this a very long post

Able to resist the temptation to edit the pattern myself now that you did it, but not resisting the temptation to study other vintage patterns and how they shaped heads. I do like the big ol forehead gusset style.