Huzzah! I've finished my first quilt top! Of course as with the previous post regarding this project it's full of mistakes and imperfections, but that's what makes it unique to me, there's no fun in an identical remake. Next up I need to figure out where I put my batting and put it all together, I'm likely just going to do a basic quilting on my machine for this project as it's my first one. The colours and the little birds make me happy.

My mum passed me a lovely thick sleeved blanket she had had for a while but hadn’t used for the start of autumn and *somebody* (who shall remain Cynthia 🐺 😜) had a nom of it last night, so I just patched it.

I’m rather pleased with how it turned out! First time I’ve mended that kind of stretchy towelling before, especially when it’s lined and I wanted to attach it to the batting in between the outer towelling and the inner faux fleece but not go through the fleece itself. It’s come out with a nice kind of shabby chic look (but most importantly it won’t tear any further!)

I would like to know what I should focus on in this time of needing money. I will be adding my Ko-Fi link when I'm next at my computer.

No offense is meant by the broke bitch comment. It how I would describe myself.

being a plus size punk is difficult, cuz finding clothes that fit without breaking the bank is next to impossible, and thrifting it is even more so! i want to thrift a denim jacket that fits me but i also know that i'll likely not find one.

I’ve picked up leatherworking as a means to have fun with a new craft & hopefully make some nice things to sell in addition to my benefits. I now have a handful of wallets & a belt bag up for sale on my website if folks are interested - https://spernendhu.bigcartel.com/

Reblogs are super appreciated 💚

Disabled/chronic illness/chronic pain craftspeople - do you find that knitting is easier on your body than crochet? Im mostly a crocheter, was just watching a video about how crochet machines cant currently exist because crochet stitches and movements are much more complex than knitting. Wondering if that applies to joints and muscles similarly to machines. 

hi everyone, my name is lucy, a 27-year old disabled woman based in australia. i love creating content and knitting. i have these goals that i would love to reach before turning 28, if you would like to support and can support please do so. if you can't, rebloging this post will be super helpful.

the goals:

reach 1,000 subscribers on lucytalksbooks (bookish youtube channel) - currently at five subscribers.

reach 1,000 subscribers on lucysreactions (reactions youtube channel) - currently at eight subscribers.

have between twenty-five and fifty sales of my knitted bookmarks listed on kofi and depop

reach 1,000 followers on lucytalksbooks (bookish tiktok account) - currently at zero followers

reach 1,000 followers on lucysreactions (reactions tiktok account) - currently at thirty four followers

reach 500 followers on lucystitchesaus (crafting and knitting tiktok) - currently at zero followers

thank you for helping me reach my goals, you don't understand how much this will mean to me.

(sidenote): this post will be updated everyday until my birthday on july 23rd.

I follow accts that 1) post original content, or 2) interact w my original content. // I quietly love on accts that reblog content like mine, bc they'll prolly reblog me at some point. // I block accts that post AI art/plagiarize in general, bc eschew bootlickers

Making some progress on my first ever quilt! It's not perfect, full of mistakes, but I'm learning and I like it. There's still more to do before the front panel is finished as this is just the centre bit, but I should have it finished and ready to quilt by the end of the year if I just keep plugging away at it a few times a week.

🐸 (for the ask game)

🐸 What do you wish people who don't craft understood better? That crafting things is not usually cheaper than buying them, and that it takes a lot of time and effort to make things But also, one specific non-crafter pet peeve. Like, literally I have had this problem with one person: making someone a beanie is not a way of asking for some kind of committed relationship. There was this guy I was good friends with in high school, and we lost touch for a year or two afterwards, and then he reached out to me on facebook. We chatted a bunch, and (crucially) this was after I started crocheting but before I figured out what to actually do with the stuff I crocheted. He talked about it being cold where he was living compared to where we both grew up, so I offered to crochet him a beanie, and we'd been talking about pokemon and our favorite eeveelutions a lot, so I offered to send him an amigurumi espeon To me, this was a combo of "I make a LOT of things all the time*", "I have zero use for beanies it never gets below like 60 degrees here", and "hey eeveelutions sound fun to make but I have no desire or space to keep them", which combined with "hey! a person I can give these to! Give him something he likes, get things I've made out of my house so I'm not overrun, win-win!" To him, this was "I am spending a lot of time and effort to make something especially for you, after giving you a nickname important to my culture**, clearly I expect our relationship to progress after this" He stopped talking to me. For years. Because I'd offered to make him a beanie and an espeon. He told me the offer of the beanie made him uncomfortable? Which, like, fair, if it made him uncomfortable I am glad he let me know and drew a boundary, but I am still baffled. So I guess the thing I wish non-crafters understood better is that, while gifting someone something you made can be a big deal, it can also be not a big deal at all. I have literally given more beanies to strangers than I have to people I know (I donate them to a local shelter) OH MY GOSH I just realized I sweater cursed myself but with a beanie with someone I wasn't dating lol. The unsweater unboyfriend curse *I cannot sit still unless I am doing something, and I found making physical objects is very very good for my mental health so I am pretty much always making something and have been since like...2012ish? 2011? Definitely since 2013, but I'm pretty sure it started earlier than that **It wasn't. He gave me a nickname around the same time I briefly interacted with my bio grandpa, who is Russian. The association with my bio grandpa did not last long (like...one visit) but I learned and really liked the word solnyshko (it means "sunshine" but is used like "sweetheart" and I think that's cute). I also really liked the word "chickadee" as a nickname/term of endearment at the time so like...it was 50/50 which one I was going to use? I'd never really been given a nickname before but figured it was the sort of thing I was supposed to reciprocate

Hey Crafty folks

I wear an eyepatch on my right eye. It is for medical and aesthetic reasons I'd rather not detail, but I'd like to get more options of good, well-made patches, and to pay good people fairly for them. The person I used to get my really cool, well-made and good-looking patches from got suddenly popular thanks to a certain Republican Representative from Texas (Dan Crenshaw) and that shut down his business for several years, and now the only thing he's making are "Dan Crenshaw" eyepatches. I very much do not want to wear an eyepatch that makes me look like that guy.

If there is anybody out there with the skills and desire to make something like that, or who knows someone who might, contact me and lets chat? I'd also like something that fits my transitioning aesthetic, but that's... complicated... so is something that deserves a conversation all its own. Anyway, it's something I'd like to talk about with someone who has the expertise to make it happen.

If that's you, let me know. If it's not, feel free to reblog this or otherwise forward it to potentially interested parties, or to your own audience so it gets wider visibility. Or not, that's fine too.

Sometimes I remember Joel’s permanently fucked up right hand and how his craft was with his hands and his protection is by his hands and how they keep bringing it up in the show with how much it still bothers him and I’m like 👍🏻 ouch

New craft! What should I do with them?