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Did y’all know… I’ve managed to extend the pockets of my pants bc they’re women marketed and my mom bought them for me bc she wasn’t thinking. Finally after so long I can have freedom and inventory space. F big corp, I am pro pocket!
And no I haven’t forgotten about my backpack I have been suffering through mental illness 😅
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A Friday that is also an evening of a holiday- the bakery made more than they could sell. The sweet bread might look squashed & unappealing, but that's what happens when you put them in a bag, still warm (that was one good smelling bag!).
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some solarpunk doodles inspired by a little bit by the frutiger aero aesthetic
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Leaf bags!!!! Leaf! Bags! 🌿
These are little drawstring bags I made entirely by hand out of scrap fabric. They both have a brown fabric lining on the inside and the strings are made of braided yarn. I love these to death (I promise they're more green irl the camera I use makes green look more gray)
They were originally for dice but idk what I'll put in them yet. (I was kinda inspired by Orym of the Air Ashari) Also I used a back stitch for the embroidery 🌻
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[Image ID: three images of two small drawstring bags that look almost the exact same. They're both an oval shape that comes down to a point at the bottom to look like leaves, they're both green with a lighter green embroidery on both sides to mimic the lines on a leaf, and they both have brown braided yarn drawstrings that fray at the ends. The bags are about the size of an altiods tin. The first image is of both of them, one is open and the other is pulled closed. The second image is of the open one, and the third image is of the closed one. All images have a black background. End ID]
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i love fur, i love leather, i love wool, i love long lasting materials without plastic in them that will decompose and go back into the ecosystem after serving me well for several decades.
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my patch skirt! a hefty boy. ive been working on this for over two years now!! most of the patches are handmade, and the little brown pouch with the beetle is handsewn as well.
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It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.
It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.
It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.
It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.
It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.
It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.
It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.
It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.
It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.
It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.
It’s labour rights and less work.
It’s science and arts.
It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.
It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.
It’s sailboats and zeppelins.
It’s the speculative and the possible.
It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.
It’s global and local.
It’s me and you.
Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.
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Well it happened. I could no longer fit in my pants as the patches made it too tight. So time to make them bigger and relieve some tightness!
I chose this yellow plaid I found at Jo Ann's (and bought way too much of. Though it's a reversible and has red on the other end. So when I inevitably need to expand them again I can use the red for that
Cutting the pants apart!
I cut straight through patches too. So lots got bifracated.
The left pant leg has so. Many. Layers. In some spots. That's like 6-7 layers there.
And here's the finished product at this point. I know I didn't do this the "right" way. I used the strongest stitches I've learned to stich the plaid to the denim and in some cases, layers of patches. I also used floss just like I have been doing on most of these pants. I did underestimate the amount of space I would want on the plaid strips so they weren't long enough to hem, so got lazy and cut off the bottom of some old jeans and painted them and just sewed them on the bottom there. Good enough. When I do this again I'll give myself a bit more space for those.
A closer look at some patches that got cut in half.
I should also note that I did this all by hand and nonstop for like 3-4 hours. And yes I hate myself and my hands were very sore.
As a result i can finally easily get into these pants (for now) although the left leg is tighter than the right leg but it kind of always has been because the left leg has way more patches.
We get closer and closer to making the Pants of Theseus here!
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This morning I went to a repair cafe and one of my uni tutors helped me sew up my frayed trousers. There were people on sewing machines, mending radios and plugs. There was tea and cake, people chatting, all ages and a bunch of different accents. It felt radical and cool as hell, and now my trousers are fixed! Wins all round
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hi! i love your blog :D do you have any advice to implement low waste and solarpunk aspects into everyday life with a tight budget? keep doing what you do!
Hi!
Thanks for asking - I’ve had this question before and it’s definitely a real problem. Organic, plastic free food is expensive. So is handmade durable clothing, and train fares these days. It can feel like only the rich can be solarpunks, which is pretty counterintuitive given its anticapitalist ideology. But! I’m here to tell you there’s lots you can do to bring solarpunk into your life in a cost-effective way.
To start with, lots of solarpunk spaces are free or cheap. Get a library card and you can borrow as many books and DVDs and other resources as you like. Look up to see if there’s a library of things in your neighbourhood, and join a buy nothing or stuff for free group online. Download TooGoodToGo, which lets you access food from local cafes and restaurants which would otherwise go to waste. See if there’s a repair cafe that operates near you - I managed to get a pair of trousers mended at one of these for free, and I had been thinking I would need to pay a tailor (which is fine if you can afford it! Skilled labour deserves fair wages!). In some places plant-based food is cheaper, so when it is, choose it. But in others it will cost more than animal products so you have to decide on a case by case basis whether saving money or a particular diet is more important to you.
There’s lots else you can do for minimal spending or that actually saves you money. Walking to work or school avoids the expenditure in the petrol for a drive or a bus fare. If you’re within walking distance and able to do so, I’d recommend it. Joining your local chapter of Extinction Rebellion, Friends of The Earth, Greenpeace, The A22 network or any other active climate group in your area is almost always free and just involves a small weekly time commitment. This will introduce you to activists and inform you about protests and public meetings you can attend.
If you have the time in your week and the physical ability, which I acknowledge many people don’t, you can also join some sort of volunteer group looking after a nature reserve or tending a community garden (which might also give you access to free or discounted food). Learning to forage is also a good skill as that really is free food!
Depending on where you are, a green electricity tariff *can* also be less expensive. If this is the case and you have control over your provider, it’s worth switching to it. Buying books and clothes secondhand will also be better for the environment and your bank balance. Teaching yourself about the climate and the natural world with podcasts, YouTube, online free articles and other resources is also free and the knowledge will help you keep solarpunk at the front of your mind. Read good news stories online whenever you can, to remind you that good things are happening already.
If you’re employed, you can also try to influence green policy at your workplace or in your trade union. If you’re at school or university, joining (or setting up!) the environmental society and/or lobbying for change at the SU are both good ideas and shouldn’t necessarily cost you anything. If you can - and I know this is inaccessible for a big swathe of the population - put a very small amount of money aside whenever possible, because the more you save the more you can afford to buy better products, donate to causes, help out the needy in your community, travel in a greener way, and other more expensive choices. It’s all about that dual power.
Hope this helps get you started!
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made a cuff using the hospital bracelet i got during top surgery, wanted to wear it until it fell off but it didnt work with my sensory issues
embroidered the trans and nonbinary symbol on it, im really happy with how it turned out
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New art!!!! I’ve been getting back into graphic design recently! 2024 is going to be my draw whatever I want without stressing era (I will probably stress)
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I'm slowly getting an apartment garden set up, and this is the begining of it!
I'm using an empty milk just as a mini greenhouse to start some garlic! It's way too cold here for anything to be growing outside right now, but once it warms up I'll be planting the garlic and hopefully quite a few other things in this container garden!
I'm really excited to try out these container planters. I got 2 of them for Xmas (unfortunately from Amazon, but being disabled my options are limited). They're the perfect height that I can work on them either on my wheelchair or a stool. Being able to garden has been a huge issue with living in a second story apt + not being able to stand for very long, so this is really exciting!
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My favorite socks (knitted by my mother), finally darned
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