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knitting is bad for me actually. I used to be able to shop for clothes, see a nice knit item, and buy it. I can't do that now. I can't. I'll see a perfect looking knit item and instantly get suspicious, then I check the fabric contents and it'll be 69% acrylic 75% polyamide and 1% cotton or wool. and then I can't buy it because I can knit a superior product!!! but it'll take me 5 months to finish it bc I get distracted by more exciting projects!!!!!

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We all know existential dread, but I propose (and please tell be if this is already a thing) existential awe.

Sometimes when I handsew or weave or something I get this immense feeling of connection to humanity. People for thousands of years all over the world have sat down and sewn a garment. Archeologists find needles and awls all the time. When I'm tablet weaving I have the same frustration at the arduous process of threading the tablets as the person 2600 years ago must have felt when they made the bands that were found in a celtic man's burial mount not far from my home. They probably also felt their back after a few hours of this.

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I tend to jam my yarn scraps into a bag because I hate unnecessary waste

Today I ran out of the last of the teal yarn I needed to complete a lil gift ONE INCH before the end

But in my yarn bag? Like a foot and a half left over of the exact yarn from the hat I made out of it in the first place

last inch finished, yarn scrap bag vindicated FOREVER

#same

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Hi! I only discovered hopepunk recently but i think it is one of my new favourite things and a really good way to view life! I was wondering if there was any suggestions for incorporating it into day-to-day life besides mindset of course? be that through actions, items etc

Any ideas would be amazing I really want to feel like i can bring it more into my life beyond just thoughts and posts online

Thank you and i hope you have a lovely day <333

Ooh, that's good question. Oddly enough I hadn't really thought about this before. Here's some ideas though (and I encourage others to add!)

Treat yourself with kindness. Easier said than done sometimes, but a simple place to start is just noticing your own basic needs more. I used to catch myself in thoughts like "I'm really hungry/overwhelmed/stiff, but I need to get this done" and then just working through the discomfort when I had no good reason to put myself through that. Registering when you have a need and responding without resentment or bargaining is a good first step to self-kindness.

When someone compliments you, try to give a compliment in return. If you have trouble accepting compliments, I've found this helps.

When you're buying clothing or furniture or something else that's gonna stick with you for a while, don't be afraid to go for the whimsical and fun (whatever that means to you). You're the one that has to live with it!

If you have the means, volunteer somewhere! Try not to get overwhelmed weighing the moral value of your volunteering options, and pick a cause you're most passionate about.

Sometimes you have to go on your silly little walk for your silly little mental health.

Try picking up a hobby you wanted to try as a kid but couldn't. Or, pick up something you gave up on or convinced yourself you "grew out of" as a kid.

Open your curtains/blinds. Open the windows themselves if the weather is appropriate.

Try a new recipe once and a while.

You don't have to be "the mom friend" that carries every conceivable item, but maybe carry one often-needed item. Even if no one ever needs it, you can use it as a reminder of goodwill towards your fellow humans.

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I like to weave in the first end in advance, by sewing it into the yarn I am going to knit with. This way I can reduce the number of ends I have to weave in at the end.

#OMG GAME CHANGER

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these tags by @seramarias are beautiful. warping is so so tedious and this is such a lovely thing to do for someone 😭

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Found 4 last (mis)prints of the ufo design, so I stitched up another one for either a wall hanging or another patch. The light beams are fun for back stitching!

I redid the art for this design a little bit ago to make it bigger for the glow-in-the-dark sticker version and I also wanted to re-stock the embroidery design with a full color variation. The original hand print above was for 4-inch hoops, but I'm thinking of making the new one for a 6-inch hoop. Do you have a preference size-wise when stitching?

[ID: A very closeup snap shot of a embroidery art piece featuring a small silver ufo lifting up a silver and spotted cow on a black fabric background and surrounded by a moon and stars in matching silver. The light beam coming down from the bottom of the ship and surrounding the cow in a loose cone shape is completely filled in with vertical lines of embroidery thread that shifts across throughout the back stitching from light yellow to bright yellow to a bright green-yellow. The stitching continues where there are lights in the ship with little colonial knots along the disc's side. End.]

#love this

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new tutorial, this time for "fake" medals you can use to decorate your jacket or any stuff really.

give yourself a weird award you yourself came up with, coorperations do it all the time!

stuff you will need:

-scissors

-variation of pliers

-a stencil, the shape you want the fabric part of ur medal to be, make it a bit bigger so youll have room to sew

-piece of fabric two times the size of your stencil

-sewing needle

-sewing thread, i use dental floss

-safety pin

-paperclip, or just iron wire, around 1 mm Ø

-bottlecap

start with cutting out the two pieces of fabric for your medal using a stencil

pin em to eachother, with the sides you want to be on the outside, facing inwards.

sew along the side but keep the top open, so you can flip it inside out.

now you can flip in inside out, and fold the top around the safety pin, and sew it down

make sure the side of the pin that doesnt open is the one being sewn down. the opening part should be on top.

bend the paperclip into something resembling the shapes in the pic below using the pliers, doesnt need to look good, mine sure dont

bend the edges of the bottlecap to the inside, and pin the hook part of the right iron wire thing down under the edge

connect the iron wire hoop you made (left in picture) to the piece of iron wire on the bottlecap. fold the point of the fabric part of the metal around the hoop and sew it down.

should look something like this.

now you can add decorations, you can paint the cap aswell as the fabric part, using patterned fabrics can also make ur medals look nicer.

ive seen people advise using modgepodge to seal the painted cap, instead of nailpolish, i dont have modpodge where i live but use that if youre able to get ur hands on it.

i hope this was clear, let me know if you want tutorials on any other stuff. i like doing them a lot.

#things i want to try

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Rainbows are so much fun to play with!

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knitting/chrocheting while hanging out with friends is so funny like everyone shut up for a few minutes i have to count to 115. twice

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The depth of the global textile supply chain that you get into as you get into increasingly obscure fiber arts is so wild.

You can start with knitting, or crochet, and there are *so* many choices for yarn and materials. Indie dyers with unique colorways, weird fibers from heritage breeds, and patterns for hundreds of lifetimes worth of hobby. You can even dive into spinning! Buy weird fiber from hobbyists and conservationists around the world, and spin things that you can't easily get otherwise.. Just those skills are enough to take a lifetime to hone.

But if you go far enough down the rabbit-hole, you're suddenly googling for how to compare thread weights between crochet thread numbers and weaving numbers, and is flax graded differently than cotton? Oh, I can get 20/2 and 60/2 silk all day long, but suddenly if I need 30/2 silk there are just a handful of results and wow I'll never be able to buy this again, is this a random mill in Turkey just selling cone ends??? And before you know it you have a note file with 10,000 Etsy links and Google translated half functioning corporate websites and you're trying to figure out if it's worth it to just see if you can import from this tiny store in Germany that seems to have a reliable source of *close enough* fiber for what you're going for, and why are you even so into *tablet weaving* of all things, why can't we just be knitting endless socks or something like that???

Love it, wouldn't trade it for the world.

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“no matter how badly you think you’re doing it, someone else has done it a lot worse and been fine” is applicable to a wide, wide range of things and i say it to myself all the time

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half the fun of tea is getting to hold the warm mug

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Traditional Ukrainian embroidery from Poltava Oblast'

Satin stitch, "shtapivka" stitch

Satin stitch, cross stitch

Cross stitch, "shtapivka" stitch

Cross stitch

Nechyporenko, Serhiy. Ukrainian Emboidery, 2010.

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my average experience trying to work when benji is around . it's a good thing he's cute!