Little rabbit made from recycled materials, newspaper, wire, homemade glue. Fragility of ecosystems, subject reflecting the medium. IG @thisspeckledwood
the vintage dress i’m hand embroidering in between holiday commissions is coming along nicely 💘☁️ once i’m done filling in the heart i’ll be adding some detail to the handle & it’ll be done!
Someone brought this up on instagram, so now I'm curious how things overlap.
There is no "I just like answering polls" option here because, as a good scientist, I don't want to deal with junk data. Please reblog for a larger sample size!
“I am wearing a vintage Westminster Heritage Burberry trench coat that I up-cycled and wore upside down, a see-through mesh top underneath a micro crop top and shoes from Denizen Fire Island. A headpiece I made and pants from Nasty Pig. My look is inspired by Fashion Futurism and centered around Black beauty.”
So I saw a video on a technique for patching sweater holes, and I really wanted to try it.
Fortunately (unfortunately?) I had an old sweater that got chewed up when it accidentally took an unprotected ride through the laundry. It had PLENTY of holes to practice on, of various sizes.
I decided to start on some of the smaller holes:
It went......okay? I guess? It's a new technique. You can probably see which hole I tried first and what progress I made doing it a second time....
I ended up getting myself a new toy to continue (a latch hook, because my crochet hook was doing well-enough-I-guess but I figured I could neaten it up a little if I was less likely to drop loops). So I decided to go after one of the bigger, more irregular holes:
(this picture actually has the most accurate portrayal of the real-life color of the repair yarn. I don't know why it's so grass-green in the other pictures. It's even a little darker than it looks in this picture, and blends in better with the rest of the sweater colors.)
Which also went....okay........I'm new-technique satisfied......and there are a lot fewer holes in the sweater now, anyway. (I did a weave-darning on the spot on the very right, but that was only to try it out to see how it looked.)
So it got me brave enough to try some of the really big holes:
The first of which went okay:
but I'm still clearly struggling with how much working slack to leave on the loops, which you can see with the increasing tension as I worked from right to left.
But you know what?
This monster is next. We'll see how it goes! Regardless, I'm enjoying the technique and learning a LOT. Plus....I'll be able to wear this sweater again!
I upgraded my altiods tin sewing kit! (More details are in the image ID)
I added more needles, safety pins, thread, and a sharp pair of thread scissors just small enough to fit inside the tin. There's usually two needle threaders in here but one is in use atm. And there's enough stuff inside to fit perfectly so that the lid can close all the way and nothing slides around so that's nice
I am gonna post my little altiods tin emergency chronic pain/migraine kit within the next few days as well so keep an eye out for that if you're intrested
[ID: various pictures of a metal altoids tin, about 3.5 inches by 2 inches, with sewing supplies inside. A little bag of silver safety pins, varying colors of thread on 5 small spools, more colors of thread wrapped around two small rolls of paper and inside a small plastic bag, a folded piece of paper measuring tape, a small pair of orange thread scissors, a needle threader, and some buttons inside a little bag. There are varying sizes and types of sewing needles that are stuck in a small rectangular piece of green felt that fits on top of everything inside the tin. It has sharps, darning needles, embroidery needles and one curved needle.
The colors of thread included are: light pink, a muted rusty orange, white, a few shades of light brown and off white all wrapped around one piece of rolled paper. The other paper rool has more vibrant saturated colors including red, blue, yellow, dark green, and orange. The little bag had extra recycled pieces of thread i salvaged from other projects that are long enough to still be used. And the colors on the 5 small spools are black, dark mossy warm green, dark brown, light brown and white. End ID]
any pictures of your completed/almost completed jackets/vests?
YEAH
I don't feel like explaining every single polish patch so if you have questions just ask
My Crust Pants
Made out of worker pants, so they have 10 pockets. I am seen wearing them whenever its colder than 25'C which is unfortunately rarely these days
My Default Battle Jacket
Made out of a cropped denim shirt bc finding a denim jacket in a polish thrift store is downright impossible, but this way its lighter so it worked out in the end
The Poser Jacket
It's not finished as I need to add the decorative stitching to most of the patches (they're basted in with a sewing machine bc i wanted to make the jacket wearable asap). It's designed to be more functional than my default jacket as it's compatible with a backpack and is overall lighter
My Custom Hand Made Platforms
I'm super proud of these, I made them out of demonia knock-offs i got off a friend which were knee high, too hot and too narrow for me, so I cut them down to be mid-ankle which makes my legs look longer, sewed down the zipper, added spikes to the bottom bands and studs to the top ones (as spikes on the top would interfere with long pants) and a chain on the side. Bc they're knockoffs they're super light and insanely comfortable, I've easly walked 200km in them combined
One red, one black normally laced shoelace means just general punk and antifa in local lace code.
I wanted to have ladder laced light blue shoelaces (code for gay man in central and eastern europe) but i just fucking hate having ladder laced shoes, they just are never tight enough and it's awful
Ive ran out of photo space but lemme know if you want to see my backpack
i’ve just been sewing up the holes on these socks over and over for ages but i COULDNT TAKE IT ANYMORE so i made em into a cool shirt yeah. i pretty much only wear knee high socks so it’s just the leg bits