#diy work

[eikotheblue]

(source)

having Complicated Feelings (concern, a small but nonzero amount of recognition of the self through the other, admiration, sexual desire,) about this one, lads

#something cw #diy CW #do not try this at home #do not try this anywhere #do not try this while travelling #like #whoever did this is absolutely unhinged #and is uncomfortably cavalier about (read: totally unconcerned with) electrical safety #but like - it works #and it's kinda hot #to me

[trans-axolotl]

would people be interested in a post about DIY hrt from a harm reduction perspective

#personal #funnily enough this is something that the org im starting to work with specializes in #harm reduction #diy hrt #trans #transgender

[stardew-bajablast]

if you haven’t at least tried sewing or crocheting or knitting your own clothes, you really should. even if it’s just one time and you never do it again, i really think everyone should do it at least once

learning how to crochet was what finally made me grasp the abject horror of the fast fashion industry and realize just how laborious and time consuming it is. i have to take a few days off a week so my back/wrists don’t get sore — and i get to do this as a leisure activity in the comfort of my own home, rather than in a sweatshop. it takes dozens of hours to produce a single item. there is just something about trying it yourself that makes you realize just how little the people making our clothes are being paid for retailers to be able to sell clothes at such obscenely low prices.

i understood in the abstract that people were earning literal slave wages to make my clothes, but that concept wasn’t real to me in a way i could understand until i spent 14 hours making something that i myself wouldn’t have even been willing to pay more than $10-20 for if i saw it in a store.

i have not bought any new clothes since learning how to crochet. every time i see clothes at a store (especially obviously handmade items like crochet), and i look at the price tag i feel genuinely sick to my stomach.

i’m not saying everyone needs to make their own clothes in order to be against fast fashion, but what i am saying is if hearing about the conditions and wages secondhand has not been enough to make you stop buying it, if you find yourself becoming desensitized to the suffering of the people who make your things, you should try making something yourself.

you need to see firsthand how physically and mentally demanding it can be and imagine how much worse it would be if you were forced to sit in a sweatshop for 16 hours a day doing it nonstop, earning pennies an hour to do so. you need to spend weeks laboring over something only for it to turn out looking like shit so you realize just how much wisdom and technical skill goes into these supposedly “unskilled” and undervalued jobs. if the abstract concept isn’t enough to get through to you, then you need to get hands on.

#abolish fast fashion #fast fashion #shein #temu #h&m #sustainability #sustainable fashion #sustainable living #diy fashion #sewing #knitting #crochet #anti consumerism #anti capitalism #working class solidarity #sweatshops #ethical fashion #labor rights

[hellenhighwater]

The hellsite is eating my posts again. We'll see what gets through.

Edit: this one made it! You've asked for a house tour, I hope this isn't boring. There's some rooms that I don't include because I'm working on stuff and don't want to show the mess. This is still not that tidy but it's... tolerable mess. The audio is just Clair de Lune, no narration. I can answer questions if you have them; I'm always happy to talk about my million hobbies and the house is...definitely one of them.

I could also do a photo post for anyone who doesn't want to watch the whole thing.

#i dont want this to come across as braggy #i know exactly how lucky i am to have a house to do this kind of nonsense with #but also most of this is just diy after diy and a loooot of facebook marketplace trawling #every few months I get a couple family members in to move an item of furniture I cant get by myself but mostly im just doing things solo. #it's wild how much you can just DO #even if its not done perfectly #i like my house a lot #its not fancy--it is in fact a very simple 1900 american foursquare #and it needs a lot more work still #but im chipping away at it and it pleases me.

[21stc3nturyd1gitalb0y]

i started another pair of patch pants

#i also found this denim jacket at the thrift store im dyeing black #yeah i start too many projects #but sometimes i get hyperfixated and work on diys nonstop for multiple days #i also wanna make a mini battle vest for my service dog at some point #and i need to remake my backpack since it has my deadname on it #this is like the third new project i just started tho #i love diy so much i would just do it nonstop for ever and ever if i didn’t have other responsibilities #capitalism am i right? #diy #punk patches #patches #punk #punk diy #patch inspo #patch pants

[lookninjas]

So yesterday was Spotify Wrapped, and that’s pretty cool.  You know what else is pretty cool?

That’s right!  Tomorrow is Bandcamp Friday, the day that Bandcamp waives its revenue share to put even more money directly into the pockets of your favorite artists.  When you buy music from Bandcamp on Bandcamp Fridays, 93% of the money you spend goes to the artist/label (on average).  This means that tomorrow is a really great day to look at your Spotify Wrapped top 100 playlist and ask yourself if there’s any artists there you need to throw a little cash to.  Me personally, I’m thinking of getting into some more Ginger Root.  But whoever your faves are, whatever your genre personality, whichever -core suits you the best, remember:

Because as useful as Spotify is for us as the listeners, the fact remains that artists don’t get shit.

#spotify wrapped #spotify wrapped 2022 #bandcamp friday #and if you want cool graphics to brag about all your sweet buys that's what glitter text generators are for #seriously though get into ginger root he's a diy icon and everything he does slaps #he has christmas songs and i actually want to listen to them #i work retail i hate christmas songs #for him we make exceptions

[solarpunkani]

"Oh no, someone's attracted to the aesthetics of my -punk movement but doesn't know the praxis and history behind it like I do--"

OK. Tell them. Make it a teaching moment. Everyone who's in your movement learned the background from somewhere at some point, maybe this is that point for that person. Give them a jumping off point that they can dive into later.

"Oh but I shouldn't be responsible for teaching baby -punks about the history and the how-tos and--"

OK. Then don't tell them. You don't have to be responsible for teaching people with a budding interest in your group the ins and outs and how-tos. That's fair and valid! It can be a lot of work. Someone else will handle it

"But I'm annoyed that they would try to claim to be part of/be interested in my community without knowing all the details that I know after being in it for months/years/decades, they're dumb, they're posers, they're--"

OK. Then don't engage with them, if it's that bad. Maybe someone else will come around and tell them the history, maybe they'll pick it up on their own, maybe they'll just enjoy the fashion elements for awhile.

"But they shouldn't claim to be part of the -punk community if they don't know the--"

I feel like we have a few options here. People can either talk to them, share the history, share the values, share the praxis. Or they can just chase off anyone who even thinks about dipping a toe in their community, and then wonder why it's dying off later down the line.

I dunno, maybe I'm too naive and patient or whatever. But if people are entering your -punk spaces without knowing The Rundown of what you feel they need to know, maybe being nice about it and informing people instead of immediately assuming stupidity and malicious intent could help you make a new friend. Even the loudest voices in a space had to learn from somewhere, and not everyone has the luxury of being in the space as the History was Happening--whether it's an age thing or a not being aware of the space thing. Or maybe I just don't see what the big deal is behind people hating people who like the aesthetic of something and don't know the behind the scenes history about it yet.

Because I believe in the word 'yet.' No one comes into this world knowing everything about everything, and we're all constantly learning new things. I'm not gonna degrade someone and call them a poser for not knowing what I know. Because if it were me, interested in a scene but getting chased out and called a poser? I wouldn't hit the books and study up, I'd go 'that fuckin sucks, those people sucked' and then avoid anyone and anything having to do with it.

So chase people off and call them posers if you want. But if your community starts dwindling, don't be fucking shocked.

#out of queue #ani rambles #punks and posers #i cant even call this a 4am hot take because its 7pm but like #idk i keep seeing posts about like 'how DARE people think I bought my punk clothes how DARE they not know the how-tos and DIYs' #or 'ugh people only care about the ~aesthetics~ of my movement if you don't know shit get out of here' and like #maybe I'm just a shy ass introverted nerd whos scared of social rejection! but I avoid that shit like the plague #so if someone were to reject me based on not knowing about something I'd never even heard about? something i was JUST getting into? #there's a high chance I'd just scram and never look back. i don't wanna be the one who causes that emotion in someone else #granted this is coming from someone who STILL doesn't know how to make her own patches or worked up the courage to do direct action praxis #outside of offering neighbors to my tomatoes and trying to talk to people about what I'm passionate about #but still imo unless someone's a malicious intentional bad actor i dont see the point in scaring newbies off #thats how movements die imo #i know this is my solarpunk blog but its not a solarpunk specific thing #i think the main post that inspired this was about store-bought versus self-made spiked leather jackets #which honestly just feels petty to me but who knows. #might delete later

[v4guelyv4mpiric]

battle jacket reveal

im also taking name suggestions because i think she deserves one

Edit: her name is now Florence 💥💥

#ive had her for like... three years? #i know the back is lacking im working on it i promise #punk #diy punk #battle jacket #cripplepunk #anarchist #anarchy #marvel comics #art punk #diy or die #hardcore punk

[wizardnuke]

can't stop thinking about a shadowgast "i'm not looking to fuck do you have a screwdriver my bathroom is flooding" grindr au

#essek's the one with a flooding bathroom because 1. he's a shut-in who wouldn't ever talk to his neighbors and 2. probably has #either extremely reactive experiments going on in his kitchen or classified documents he brought home to work on #but he wouldn't have a screwdriver #and caleb 'diy wizard' widogast would a. check grindr regularly and b. have a full toolkit #caleb sits essek down and shows him how to fix it. you'd think it turns into a porno but between essek's demisexuality and caleb's #all-encompassing excitement over Doing Repairs that I know that nerd would have. they don't get that far and caleb leaves quickly bc he #has papers to grade. a week goes by. essek starts breaking things on purpose. it slowly dawns on caleb that Shitty Pipes Guy doesn't #actually have shitty pipes it's that he's Lonely. and that's endearing. is this mic on #caleb teaches physics at a community college and essek is some skeevy government official with a phd in astrophysics

[dinodaniel]

hello everyone!!

@clownpalette came over to my house and I made a t-shirt for them!! 🤩😍

Don't mind the dinosaur betsheets pls :DD

Yepeee I like how it turned out

#art #art style #artwork #digital art #my art #ocs #artists on tumblr #not my art #tshirt #painting #Painting on textil #digital drawing #sona #my sona #Pal #clownpalette #shirt design #homemade #diy #diy shirt #My work #my work

[hookedatweiss]

Sharing my 2023 wellness project, please, and wishing a Happy New Year, All! 🧶🎉

Wonky as it be, this stashghan helped me manage some fairly blah times. ❤

The project was inspired by a notoriously uncredited pinterest pic (below left*) which - somehow - led me to recall a long ago dream project (right) and was then encouraged by my precious friend @shesanearthgirl 🦋

I found some crochet charts and tutorials to lead me with making a granny square ripple. Next, I sorted yarn stash color groups to have five shades in each: four colors for a mix of 3-round squares; and a fifth color to use for a fourth jayg (join-as-you-go) round connecting the squares point-to-point.

Each 'diamond' band of squares was edged on either side with a row of white granny stitch ripple followed by a couple random colors from the squares, and then finished with a black row.**

I made a couple color bands and then tested my plan to connect them with a black-edged white diamond. THIS (above right) was my pure happy moment for sure! 😁🧶

Next step was making 3-round granny squares in white and connecting them with a fourth row in black jayg.

The real beauty of this overall project turned out being the ability to lay the color bands and adjust with a visual before committing to the stitched sequence.

Ideally, I would have made six color bands. As it happened with five bands, the throw ended a bit short so I needed to add white diamond bands to either end. It's not awful, but I think it would have been better to cap the ends in the larger color blocks.

The End... and happy forever! 🎉🧶🍻

* if you are able to track the rightful maker of this crochet, please share so I can credit as due

** I realized in hindsight that it was better to make the color bands WITHOUT the final row of black, and rather make that final black row of the color bands in jayg connecting to the black row of the white diamond bands.

#crochet #my crochet #stashghan 2023 #HookedAtWeiss #diy crochet #regrets for not having credit to the original inspiration pic #the maker deserves sooo much credit for the work #and my li'l bestie always going above and beyond to help me from my maker voids

[things-from-strings]

✨️🪡🧵👖✨️

#work pants #visible mending #embroidery #darning #diy punk #slow fashion #spiral

[deargodholdme]

So I made my guinea pig out of polymer clay and she is the most precious little poop (in real life as well as in clay form)

#i love her so much #absolute work of art #guinea pig #pets #clay #polymer clay #diy #precious #cute #cute animals

[aropride]

i do not trust people who shop at shein i'm sorry like there's no excuse for it. i can understand amazon, i can understand a lot of fast fashion, but shein is uniquely awful. and their clothes fall apart in a week so you can't even keep them and mend them. "but i'm poor" okay and you don't need to buy from shein about it. "they sell shirts for $3" so does michael's check ur local craft store and make a design urself if u want. you cannot seriously tell me that you had no other option other than shein

#text #i UNDERSTSAND a lot of companies dont stock larger sizes i UNDERSTAND that its super fucking cheap #but there are other options . thrift store for instance. the goodwill i worked at sold jeans for $7 a pair #and shirts for $3/5 at the lowest depending on if they had a side seam #theres also borrowing from ur friends. u can ask a homeless shelter if u need/if u r eligible to. there's diy there's mending #there are other fast fashion stores that are much less harmful (despite still being immensely harmful of course) #like there are other options. i prommy #sorry im on a fast fashion hating kick rn ive been thinking abt it for 3 days straight

[grokebaby]

I felt that this meat / flesh themed bracelet would be appreciated here on Tumblr. 90% of the beads, including that meat slab charm, are made by me.

[Liha Is finnish For Meat]

#Morsos bead works #Bracelets #diy jewelry #diy bracelet #self made #(I still don't know all the right tags for this stuff) #crafters of tumblr #fimo clay #fimoart #meatcore #fleshcore #meat aesthetic

[lithyena]

I made a belt pouch from old jeans and scrap fabric today c: very much inspired by @coveredinredpaint bc the second I saw their pouch (in this post) I was so motivated to make my own 🦇

#it's so cool how many things you can make with old scrappy stuff #i also figured the back pocket would work nicely as a little extra pocket #only the flap turned out shorter than i would like. but other than that I'm v pleased #excited to wear this on a belt when I'm wearing a dress or skirt without pockets #mine #diy #handmade #crafts