Thank you for @kazinsblog's original artwork, Moko and Yuma dolls are very cute~
*Sorry I can't find the org post in tumblr> <
#Remaking the artwork in your own style.
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Crochet Hem Detail
Today, I'm undoing an earlier make, but I've learned some things worth sharing.
Experience lends perspective. Two summers ago, I liked these blue cargo shorts, but I wanted to femme them up a tad. I made suboptimal choices; thus, they've had about 4 wears, and I'm re-doing them. Here's the good parts, the bad things, and what I learned.
Good:
Made little ink dots at intervals, but on the inside.
Cut little slits with an exacto knife.
First row: bundles of tall single crochets
Second row: stitches of variegated heights to make scallops.
Bad:
Didn't wait for matching yarn. In one day, I forged ahead with what I had, knowing the color difference between the black-blue shorts and the saturated navy blue yarn drives me crazy. I can't match it to anything in my wardrobe without losing my mind a little.
Didn't ask for cotton or rope-like yarn. Acrylic yarn gets fuzzy when washed. I knew I was making a suboptimal choice, but rather than turn to my vast network of people who might have cotton yarn, I let myself get so excited for a look that I put in work for something that wouldn't last.
What I learned:
This is an easy make for someone who crochets and wants to add trim to a garment!
It looks so cute! I bet a dedicated soul could do little flowers, or leaves, or something else that pleases them.
Cutting canvas with an x-acto knife has led to almost no fraying!
Cotton yarn, or another woven cord, is better for this than acrylic.
Maybe think about a project for a couple days before doing it?
Ask for help. So many people in the world want to be helpful.
I'm not quite sure how I'm going to fix this. Step 1 was deciding that I can't keep an unused thing. Step 2 is removing the yarn. The next step is probably posting to my local FB groups about sourcing cotton yarn. Or maybe dyeing the shorts black?
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THE GANG!! I’ve been wanting to do this drawing since 2020 in my sketch book, but the book got ruined 1 and 2 it was so ugly I had to scrape it out and do it on my iPad <:]
The original I was suppose to finish in 2020:
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White Shirts Meet Rit Dye Formulas
The Dress Doctors long held that white blouses were not the most flattering choice save for the select few with perfect complexions. Instead, they counseled their students to select from the many tints or pastels to choose something more flattering. From what they wrote, seeking out such alternatives was not that hard at the time. But the garment industry today seems to insist we must all wear white--maybe it is simply easier for them to make essentially one color?--and most of what is offered in solid blouses are whites.
I inherited this lot of white blouses and decided to experiment. I used formulas found at the Rit Dye website and then added a wee bit more or less based on what I saw going on in the hot water in my top-loading washing machine. The results were very good. The pale peach cotton on the left turned out perfectly and the mother-of-pearl buttons took on the color too. The linen blouse on the right in terra cotta is now my warm autumn weekend shirt worn with khaki, or espresso. Notice that the thread, being polyester, remained white on the top-stitching. The coral cotton shirt in the back bleached a bit too easily while drying in the sun, so it may be I did not keep it in the washer long enough?
Do you have something white or pale in a natural fabric that doesn't work for you? Could you live with the thread staying the same color after dyeing? More than once I have saved a garment I never wear via dye, so now I always ponder the possibilities of dyes before I give away or throw away.
The Rit website has an enormous amount of useful information here: https://www.ritdye.com/
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the improvement is there :)))
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Redesining some European flags because I can
Slovenia
• it serves cunt and you know it
• nobody wants to see another flag on a flag
• reminds me of the Cambodia flag
Slovakia
• same as before but a bit more simple (I'm in love with them both)
• doesn't remind me of the Cambodia flag
Poland
• cmon you guys. cmon.
• the og flag is alright but it's BORINNGGG
• also no more confusion between this, Monaco and Malaysia
France
• the flag of France is already perfect as it is
• if you're gonna represent the king do it right tho 😒
Portugal
• minimalizing the coat of arms was NECESSARY.
• if in the recreation of the flag they couldn't pick between green and blue why didn't they mix it up
Czechia
• things Czechia doesn't deserve: the historic Czechoslovakia flag
• things Czechia DOES deserve: the historic Boemia and Moravia flag
Spain
• BRING THE OLD FLAG BACK.
• was absolutely perfect and changed for a REALLY stupid reason
Germany
• the DISRESPECT. of making a flag for your country and not thinking about who MADE your country
• give Prussia the credits 💔
Netherlands
• Again I feel like there ALWAYS should be correlation to who made your country a country
• I would've kept the old orange-white-blue tricolor but this is kinda cute?
This was so fun I wonder if someone cares
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:salute:
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hi i am remaking!!
follow me @minqhao
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remaking
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Violet Nightshade
My first post here
you can download all her contents in my patreon
love ya
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🥀✒️💀Edgar Chonk💀✒️🥀
🥀🦇✒️
🥀I think about this cat Vs pickles so much. I want him so bad but I can’t buy like 100 packages. So I have to just dream and draw 🥹
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Resident Evil 4 Remake (2023)
Leon S. Kennedy [ 1 / ??? ]
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Make and Mend: Or What to Do with the Hawaiian Shirt?
A friend kindly gave me and my husband two Hawaiian shirts as gifts. Both were sized for men which meant mine, despite being called a size small, was oversized and boxy down through the waist, and then too tight where it hit the hips. What to do?
Reworking men’s clothing into women’s clothing or into children’s clothing dates far back in history. Make and mend was the name of the effort during World War II when the conservation of fabrics was essential to the war effort. Often the idea was to take something like a shirt that was worn out at color and cuffs and use the remaining fabric to make something else. Here, the problem was fit. So I decided to leave the boxy shape, but cut down the length of the shirt and of the sleeves, and I pinned the former and rolled the latter until I liked what I saw. I also added 3 inch slits at the side seams which was tricky as the seam allowances were tiny.
The result is still a boxy shape, but not one that swamps me. It looks fine with skinny pants or skirt underneath which signal that I am not actually built like a box. It also makes for a lot of airflow which is nice in a summer shirt. These simple changes are the easiest way to remake men’s shirts into women’s unless there is a very large difference between the size of the man and the size of the woman, or unless you want to give up the collar. I will explain why soon, with some photos, but it has to do with the cut of the arm scythe, i.e. the shape of the armhole.
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California girls we're unaccountable
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