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I need some help
so. this is hard. here goes:
for the last six-ish weeks, I've had an exceptionally challenging time of things re: my haunted devil body being exceptionally haunted and full of devils, and I have missed a lot of work. a lot of work. might be losing my job soon, in fact, but I'm trying not to think about that.
I'm trying to crawl my way out of the hole, but I have nothing in the bank right now and no money coming in, literally this is a screenshot of my account from today, and it's not showing the insurance payment that put me $50 in the negative this morning.
I have no other savings, my credit card's maxed out, I don't know how I'm going to pay my upcoming rent and my cupboard's down to baking ingredients and canned vegetables, so the sitch is looking pretty gd grim for me right now.
if anyone wants to donate and can afford to be kind, I'm linking my paypal and cashapp below, but I'd prefer to be able to offer something in exchange.
I think most y'all are following me because it is known that I make quilts, but that's mostly a side effect of my true hobby: collecting fabric. (this is a joke. mostly.)
I don't know that I have the energy to commit to making quilts or other complicated goods right now, but I do have a truly massive stash and excellent color sense. I've pulled these curated fat quarter collections as examples of what I have on offer:
this is a very small sample of what I have in my stash; I've been collecting fabrics since 2014, so I have a massive collection of rare & out-of-print fabrics from Moda, Free Spirit, Windham, RKaufman and other brands, a portion of which I've catalogued and uploaded to gdrive here.
that's nowhere near my full collection, it's just a jumping off point of what I've got to work with. I'd put fq bundles on etsy or something similar to make it easier, but the total lack of funds has temporarily kiboshed that idea.
in the meantime, I'm selling individual fat quarters for $2.50 each and curated stash-builder sets of five like the ones above for $15. I'd also be happy to make coordinating pot holders not unlike this one at $35 for a pair.
(pls don't ask me for oven mitts, I don't want to talk about one of my greatest failures)
NOTE: all fabric comes from a smoke, pet and fragrance-free environment, and will not be prewashed. I know that makes a difference to a lot of folks, not just me.
I'm also open to assembling pre-cut quilt & other craft kits, PM me to discuss what you're looking to make and I'll figure out if I can make it happen for you.
I appreciate any and all help more than I have words to communicate, and I know I'm pretty damn wordy! I'm pretty far down in the weeds at the moment, and I need to raise around $1800 in the next ten days in order to pay rent, catch up on my bills and pay for food and medication.
please help out a chronically ill artist and shop my stash!
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#help needed#signal boost#idek how to tag this#fabric destash#I guess?#I cannot overstate how much more awesome stuff I have than is listed in gdrive#that's just the fabric I had at least a yard of#(and had enough of the selvage to record the name and designer)#I also have a ton of unbranded fq's and yardage from joann's#idk how but I'll try to find a way to work some of that into the stash library#it's shockingly hard to photograph fabric tbh#quilting hell#sufferpunk life
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Most of my fabric is unpacked and organized!
I need to like totally overhaul how I store scrap quilting fabric, and I’m not quite sure how I’m going to do that, but most of my fabric is unpacked!
#fabric#the person behind the yarn#it’s more than a little funny to me that my stash#which includes WAIT I FORGOT A BOX#I was going to say my stash is like 75% for plushies despite inheriting my grandma’s destash#but I FORGOT an entire damn box of fabric#I am not as done as I thought I was :(#but on the other hand…more fabric! :D#the scrap overhaul is previously I had a little plastic tote box thing#where I stored scraps smaller than a fat eighth before cutting them to usable sizes#my Scrap Quilt Drawer for the various sized pieces for the Scrap quilt#and then the tiny scraps (less than 2.5 inches) were sorted into my crumb piecing boxes#one color per box#but my pre-sorting scraps are outgrowing the plastic tote#and some of them idk that I really want in this scrap quilt?#I might save them for a slightly less scrappy patchwork#but I need to organize them first
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Hello everyone. Im SEWING
#first thing of the year. in late april#but i pulled a tracksuit knit type fabric feom the destash bag i got from a lady a while back and im making a really chill mockneck top#maybe for work but if its wonky it can also just be for home#ive got enough to make some trackie pants for lounging too if i feel like it later
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Finally finished up the undies I cut out. Now I can move onto something else
I think I’m going to dig into the rib knit and make some stuff for the warmer weather which I’m sure is going to show up any day now …. Any day now…
Baby yoda is bamboo lycra with cotton lyrca for the bands
Bear is bamboo lyrca from rockerbye with yarn dyed stripes for the bands- which is an awful choose it’s looks good but has no recovery but the waistband is lined with cotton lyrca so it’s only the legs that will suffer. I could add some elastic but whatever it’s good enough. Might have to pick some wedgies but I can deal
Grey is bambo lycra from shear madness. I made these high rise to try out and I really shouldn’t have the medium rise is kinda high already. Oh well
The witchy ones are cotton lyrca from dark matter which is a light cotton lyrca with light cotton lycra from tkb for the bands. I got the bands fabric in a mystery box and didn’t think I’d find a use for them because it’s so bright but they go perfect with this fun witchy fabric. This is absolutely my favorite pair out of all the ones I’ve sewn recently
#sewing underwear#sewing clothes#Sinclair patterns#Sinclair bliss#Sinclair Kiki#rockerbye destash#shear madness fabric#tkb prints
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vintage fabric destash sale!
vintage fabric destash sale!
Just a quick heads-up that my vintage fabric destash sale, as mentioned in my previous post, has now commenced over on ebay!
I’ve started by listing vintage bedding and curtains mainly, as most of these are the biggest fabric pieces I own and therefore take up the most space – and making space is what this is all about.
Well, that and raising funds towards my own garden studio, which I am…
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It LOOKS like I did a lot today...
I knew that I would need containers for various things when I started cleaning this year, but I held off until I could make a list and take measurements; this isn't even all of the containers I need, but it's what I could get from Ikea. Container Store will likely provide the rest but again, I'm waiting until I have a fuller idea of what all I need.
Last year I organized my craft stuff and designated a specific drawer for fabric; that worked well but the drawer got a bit disorganized because it was "one cardboard box with no lid, and fabric shoved into and around it". So I measured the drawer and bought a pair of plastic bins for the majority of the fabric, so now I can remove the bins if need be to get a better idea of what's available. I also found out there's a store in Chicago which takes donations of crafting stuff so eventually I'll destash some of this. I've been trying to use up a lot of it on various projects in the meantime.
[ID: Three images; the first shows a bin full of folded squares of fabric, sitting on top of the shelf, while the next shows one bin of fabric and some loose fabric in a drawer, and the third image shows how the two bins fit into the drawer.]
Another bin I bought from Ikea was a metal basket to contain all my seasonings; this worked well, and allowed me to open up a bunch of space on the shelf they used to sit on for stuff that was on the shelf above it, making it easier to see what all I do and don't have.
[ID: Two images of a white two-section basket split by a wooden handle in the middle; in the first it is sitting on the stove, freshly full of jars of spice and herbs (Marylanders take note: that red lid is indeed Old Bay). In the second image it is sitting on the spice shelf surrounded by other stuff like a box of baking soda and a spice grinder, while the shelf above it is noticeably not super cluttered.]
I also sorted through the spices, threw out some old ones, and identified the jars of stuff I hadn't used much and should use soon. I think I'm going to spend the winter making cinnamon rolls and swirl bread with the vanilla sugar, and make a shitload of taco meat with the fajita seasoning. I'll probably use the cheese powder for mac and cheese, and the Greektown for burger seasoning. Or maybe I'll try my hand at making falafel with it.
[ID: A photo of several jars and packets of seasoning, including Spiced Vanilla Sugar, Romano powder, Penzey's "Revolution" seasoning and "Fajita" seasoning, and a seasoning mix called "Greektown".]
Lastly, to get to $35 and get free shipping, I bought some Ikea "cord caddy" thingys, which you stick to a surface and run your charging cords through in order to keep them tidy. I realize neither of these LOOK tidy but compared to what they were, they very much are.
[ID: Two images; one is of a small portable table that I use for working on my laptop, and shows the caddy holding the laptop's charging cord and a phone charging cord so the table feet stop tangling them. The second image shows a caddy attached to one of the slats of my headboard, through which are threaded a power cord to some remote-control lights, another phone charging cord, and the charging cord for my sleep headphones.]
Listened to about the first forty minutes of the latest episode of Just King Things, about Wizard and Glass, and was gratified to hear many of my own complaints about it reiterated by either the hosts or people they've spoken to. I have started that book so many times and never been able to finish it because I Do Not Care about Roland getting laid as a teenager. So it's nice to get the plot and analysis in podcast form, and now I'll never HAVE to read it.
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i have a couple of hundred pinking sheared 10cm2 fabric samples from two different high end men’s fashion shops (thanks T; she always knows how to dump her destashes on me) and i’m thinking of making a really stupid cottage patchwork out of them
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New list time:
Take serious portfolio pics of commission ✔️
Take fun pics of commission ✔️
Final rotation video and then I'm done I swear ✔️
Package and mail commission ✔️
Set up tentative Streaming schedule...
STREAM ✔️
Debut pngtuber
Stream more (3-4 times until affliate)
Acquire 50 followers on twitch (8 so far)
Get 5 people chatting at once (up to 3.5)
Get that Twitch affiliate status \o/
Finish studying for drivers permit renewal test
Call DMV to set up permit renewal gah
Succeed at permit renewal
Practice driving :B
Is this the Summer of Driver's License??? ❌️ summer basically over d'oh but maybe this fall?? Or winter???
Clean living room carpet, Part 1: The Phantom Poopies ✔️
Clean living room carpet, Part 2: Attack of the Rug Brush ✔️
Clean living room carpet, Part 3: Revenge of the Dust Buster ✔️
Assess The Mountain ✔️
Move coffee table to living room
Address The Mountain
Konmari The Mountain (with the assistance of coffee table and clean carpet allies)
Sewing table and smallest storage shelf swap places
Clear off living room craft shelf B
Move sewing/fabric notions to living room craft shelf B
Tidy living room craft shelf A
Integrate non-sewing B items into A
The Dishes, Part 3: Requiem for a Tupperware Stack
Wash the Stovetop it's gross
Rearrange pantry shelf to be more accessible ✔️
Hang up rest of kitchen wall stuff
Arrange bookcrates to be more *chefs kiss*
The Laundry.....✔️
Clear access to bedroom art supplies ✔️
Draw a thing on actual paper ✔️
Scan some things!!
Update✔️/Queue posts to Patreon
Get ko-fi more up to date with patreon
Enable ko-fi tiers
Photograph stickers ✔️
Edit sticker pics ✔️
List stickers on Fourthwall (&ko-fi maybe??)
Photograph destash stuff
List destash stuff
Tidy MidZel nook :3
Hang up rest of MidZel art!!
Scout location for Lunar collection nook...
Make doll head sealant rig
Spray dolls
Obitsu Ghaleon resurrection
This one is dangerously organized, but hopefully color coding by general area/task family takes off some of the mental load/anxiety.... XD
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It’s time for some quilt posting!
I visited my family in Alberta last week and was determined to spend some quality time not sweating my ass about my inbox. (Being on satellite internet helped a lot.) And come hell or high water I was going to finish something.
I set out to finish handquilting the giant beast I have— thinking I would just post up on the back porch and stare at the ground squirrels while working— but that was not in the cards. Because my mother has been learning to quilt as well.
You see, my mom has been learning quilting in fits and starts over the years. A table runner here, a rag quilt there, but not really a focused effort beyond making someone a gift or destashing the mountain of polar fleece she has on hand from making us kids clothes in the nineties and early aughts.
It wasn’t until my severely burnt out and depressed self came home for Christmas this past year and asked her to teach me to quilt that she also decided to learn conventional piecing quilting. She wasn’t able to teach me, but she shared her craftsy login with me and we stared down a bunch of YouTube videos together. She also drove me through the icy Alberta freeze to the quilt shop in Canmore and gave me two sizeable lengths of fabric she’d taken in from my Oma to bind and back the Frankie and Momo quilt I made in January.
Since then, she’s been motoring along on quilting projects and gifts at the rate that could only be maintained by a retiree determined to destash her, my grandmother and my oma’s lifetimes of built up fabrics. My mom, also being one of the rare people in this world with an honest-to-god pension, learns any new hobby by buying gadgets and toys for the hobby.
This is all to say: My mom has an accuquilt. This is a little crank power fabric die-cutting machine that is very very cool. And after using it to zoom through the cutting for a little sawtooth star block I got it in my head that I could probably do a simple start-to-finish quilt while I was visiting. (I wanted to play with the toy more)
(Yes I know that this is very silly and wiggly, but I was testing things and goofing around so be nice)
So it was off to that Canmore quilt shop again, in much nicer weather. And I dug out some coordinating colours from their sale section for blocks, backing and binding for less than thirty bucks. I then fed all the twoonie priced fat quarters through the diecutter and wound up with more than sixty charm squares in about half an hour.
That’s pretty fast— all my cutting at home happens on a coffee table and wrecks my back. She’s also got one of those fancy Stripology rulers so I was able to cut my entire binding in literal seconds. It’s witchcraft.
Put together a simple repeating layout and we were off to the races!
My mother also has a fancy new sewing machine with a start-stop button, thread cutter and more feed dogs than god. So I was able to zip through assembly WAY faster than on my ancient hand-me-down brother machine from the eighties. (Who I still love)
The whole quilt top was together before I knew it, and I’m getting less and less clumsy with my corners every time I do this so I was really happy. Used a Hera marker to make guides for the quilting, which surprised me by how well it held up to handling. I can probably recreate the effect with a clean butter knife at home!
Quilted the whole thing in rush and sewed the binding on in the car on our way to and from dinner. I somehow managed to not get carsick doing it too, it’s astounding. Im really happy with the results even though it’s a very simple design. This is the fastest I’ve done a whole little blanket like this and I’m glad I got so lucky with the sale fabrics available.
(Lucy also gave her approval once we got home yesterday, even though she wasn’t there to supervise.)
#quilting#beginner#trying to do some longer form blogging to see if I like it?#anyway this quilt will hopefully be something I can sit with when I’m wishing for a vacation#a happy place
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WIP whenever!
@deputyash @strangefable @cassietrn & @inafieldofdaisies all tagged me to do WIP Wednesday over the past few weeks 😬 but it's 10 minutes into Friday for me so it's a whenever with apologies for the somewhat giant delays! 💙💙💙
This WIP isn't art or writing it's cosplay cause that's what I'm working on! I do have a little written thing coming together but it's all in my head, almost fully formed but I haven't done any typing. Oop.
Anyway! I'm working on a Gale BG3 cosplay & wizard robes for my Dark Urge wizard Mercy. At the same time cause they're the same robes, Mercy was a test of the pattern & it turned out fantastically so it's time to start on Gale. I like to cosplay my video game boyfriends. Don't judge me.
My girl - my boy (who gets a reference photo instead of a glamour shot)
Bunch of WIP photos with commentary below the cut!
Patterning this belt made me want to cry so many times but Gale's is now done except the press studs to close it & Mercy's is ready to be riveted together tomorrow.
Front & back view of Mercy's robes! They were supposed to be a practice really but I went a bit nuts, overlayed a floral black lace over a colour shift purple for the sleeves, same purple for the little sash-y thing on the front. Metallic copper for the back panel/belt & gauntlets (which are nowhere in any photos cause I haven't patterned them yet)
Mercy is a necromancy wizard so I wanted dark & a bit creepy, so the purple/green shift was perfect. It's curtains I picked up from Savers a while ago. The lace was also thrifted yeeeears ago from a theatre sale, black was destined for some forgotten project, Jedi robes maybe? I only bought the copper leatherette for these robes, very good job if I may congratulate myself a little. ☺️
Closer view mostly cause I love how this shows the colour shift in the purple. The gold buttons are temporary placeholders til the actual fastenings arrive, ordered them from an Etsy store called IllustrisModels! 2 sets one for her, one for him.
Finally, & I know this one is boring, fabric choices for Gale! It's a purple linen, a red velvet & 2 brown suedes, the darker one the belt & gauntlets are made of & a lighter brown for the shoulder/back piece. I did have to buy the linen for this & linen is expensive but it was on sale. I realise I'm talking a lot about purchases for seemingly no reason, I had a goal this year to destash as much fabric as I could instead of buying fabric but I did give myself allowance to buy some cause specific projects need specific things sometimes!
That's it! That's my current project! With a lot of rambling. I'm excited to get them done & have nowhere to wear them. But I might wear the black robes out to lunch or something if we go somewhere fancy. Technically *not* cosplay. Just *inspired* and therefore acceptable. Says me.
#wip whenever#tag game#mel eficent rambles#cosplay wip#baldur's gate 3#gale of waterdeep cosplay#oc cosplay#mel-eficent cosplay
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A person on my quilting discord was trying to destash some fabric for the price of shipping. I made this from one piece I got from them plus some tiny little bits of another one. I've had the lining fabric for... More than a decade and have only used it in one quilt (the one I bought it for). Pretty happy how it turned out even if the poinsettia side was distorted so some of my top stitching ended up over the corner of the design.
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Crafting update! I finished one of my six MTH 2023 auction fill plushies, but (at the winner's request) won't post it until it's made it to its final destination. I also finished another of the bear ear beanies, bringing the total to 3/6, and did a bunch more cleaning and reorganizing of my craft space! I got so much fabric out of vacuum bags in my closet and onto shelves where I can actually see and use it, it's a little ridiculous, and I got some more batting scraps cut down to the right size for baskets. I think I've got like half a basket's worth so far?
Also I want to make a pig now because there's a pink fabric I found in a bag that I know went in the bag because I bought it before I knew what I was doing and hate working with it, but it's absolutely perfect for a pig. It needs to be a pig plushie
#the person behind the yarn#crafting update#I might also make a green giant octopus?#I unpacked my dot minky#and I don't have much of it because all of it is from someone else's destash#and the only colors I have enough of to use for the bottom of a giant octopus#are green brown and tan#oh man I want to make that pig so much but I also hate that fabric so much#it's a mutual antipathy the fabric hates me too#like. I am not bothered by stretchy fabrics. Pretty much everything I sewed for years was stretchy fabrics#but this Joann's home brand not-minky? absolutely ridiculous#manages to fray despite being knit#worms its way inside the sewing machine more than any other fabric I've ever used
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Today I practiced shell stitch, had to redo the swatch several times as the tutorial video didn't specify to always start/end a row with either a single crochet or 3 double crochets. I like the shape much more than the 3 of a granny stitch, it somehow looks more polished. Video tutorials are really helpful but I'm just not yet at a point where the stitches are neat and easy to count and 'spaces' aren't really obvious. Being limited to 45 minute sessions means that it's over right as I'm starting to get into the groove. You know when it starts to seem intuitive?
I've had crochet stitching appear in my dreams so at least you know some of it is getting written to the hard drive. 😁
Fixed a cute red top (beads had been ripped off around the v-neck and I had just the right amount of ric-rac in silver) and I'm wearing that now. Accepting that a wardrobe change is inevitable would be easier if mail order clothes shopping wasn't full of really ugly tops. The moment you're XL in France, which for me was at 16 when I was just curvy not overweight, you're cut off from anything nice. You can get the brown-grey 'taupe' , the leopard print or shapeless sack of business carpet print. 🙃 I really want basics: 95% cotton, some stretch, long torso, v-necks in black white and blue. Seriously considering ebay UK and its import fees for some M&S classics. Maybe even the infamous Shein.
Finally got my bloods done! There was a backlog over the holidays. Must have been a mug full. We're looking for another intestinal opportunist and checking on the anemia and diabetes. The anti-fungal in december did something, I was able to actually taste christmas dinner and that was amazing. The cotton mouth isn't pain but it's been months of eating what feels like cardboard in varying textures. 😑
I've been busy sorting files: dumping stuff in folders instead of naming it properly came back to bite me. I used to have multiple freeware programs for renaming & making thumbnails and they got lost in the windows reinstall or just don't work any more. *Rename Master* is a freeware gem (all sorts of insert, replace and numbering options) . I really need to find a right click to autogenerate thumbnails program again.
Also been sorting out the to-do lists, gradually working down my massive 'keep' notes and bookmarks to create a document of things I'd like to watch, tagged all the 'reading' and 'listening' notes.
I'm putting together just pay postage bundles. $8 for A5 letter size, $30 for a big shoe box kilogram. Less in the EU. Stuff's on the website: the vintage heads, reroots that need paint, a bunch of incomplete imperfect monsters. Just let me know. I can also include fur wigs, glittery stretch fabrics and various small findings.
The plan is to wait for test results and go from there, continue slowly tidying and destashing, try size 46 tops for size, with doll projects to look forward to. Try to stay sane. 😂😘
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I was able to find the strength to destash all of my fabric bc there simply isn't space in this house for me to sew.
I was not able to get rid of my painting supplies despite the same issue.
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Hello!
First off, your quilts are absolutely beautiful.
Second, a question for you - I absolutely love the background fabric you used on the cat butts quilt, the fabric with the origami cats, and I was wondering if you possibly remembered where you got it or what it was called? I’d love to buy some for my own projects, is why I ask. It’s just so cute!
I don’t remember what it’s called but it’s from the Moda line Meow or Never. I bought it off a destash on Instagram. I bought all they had. With the name of the line though you may be able to find it. Good Luck! I hope you can find it. ❤️
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