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How liberating it is to pursue wholeness instead of perfection

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we were meant to live slowly!!!! we were meant to savor moments and feel unabashedly lazy and frolic and smell the flowers and laugh with our entire hearts and love with our entire souls!!!!! don’t ever feel guilty for resting!!!!!! don’t ever feel guilty for slowing down!!!!!! enjoying life shouldn’t be something you’re ashamed of

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• Afternoon Dress.

Date: ca. 1905

Dezigner/Maker: Jacques Doucet

Medium: Cotton (lace), silk (chiffon, twill, ribbon).

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Fragment of cotton, katazome dyed, Japan, late 19th century

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Sweater that says "I spent three weeks knitting and all I got was this lousy sweater"

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HE’S GAY AND FRIENDLY!

From: ‘Home-made Toys’ The Australian Women’s Weekly, 1960s approx.

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by niiloi

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It's Autumn, which means if I make a Big Pot of Soup it will Fix Everything. No one fact check me on this. We need to let the soup speak for itself.

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My sweater is finally done!

It has lovingly been named the 'Unicorn Hunt Sweater' and the pattern can be found on both:

Etsy and Ravelry

Very happy with it, i will wear it forever probably.

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Dress

1802-1805

Musée Galliera de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

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Cornish chough with primroses, alexanders and linnea.

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Robert Engels (British, 1866-1926)

The Passer-By, 1897

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I have a new knitting pattern up for sale in my shop!

This pattern is for a knitted lacey kippah around 10 inches across, and is $5 in my shop. Suitable for all occasions, and for Jews of any gender! It is knit in the round, from the center out, and isn’t especially challenging as lace goes. The center section has a spiral design, and the outer edge has a zig-zag-ish design that reminds me of flower petals.

Materials and Tools Used:

5 size 3 double point knitting needles

around 70-90 yards of 21 wpi yarn – I often like to use cotton, but any fiber should work fine

stitch markers – at least one to indicate start/end of round; I also like to have 8 or 9 more on hand to separate the lace sections

row counter (optional)

I'm a disabled artist, so reblogs really help me.

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To the people who are learning to crochet from TikTok, YouTube, to the “crochet girlies”, the ones jumping on the bandwagon because it’s popular, the older ones just picking it up(or back up), and the impatient ones who fling their hooks across the room:

I hope you have fun. I hope you love it. I hope you make as simple or complicated things as you want. I hope it’s easy for you, or that it’s worth the learning.

I hope you’re better at it than I am. I hope your loved ones appreciate what you give them. I hope you love the things you make for yourself.

I hope you don’t plan to get rich from it, because that’s probably not going to happen. But if you try to, I hope you succeed. ❤️

I hope you are happy.

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Fall, 1917 Cover of "The Fashion Book", featuring patterns from the magazine "Pictorial Review" for you to make at home.

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Remember this???? I finished it!! I finished my corset cover yoke!!!! I'm so very proud of it even though it took FOREVER

I've learned I'm too ambitious for my own good but as long as I can keep finishing these projects I'm not going to do anything about it :")

Anyways, onto the actual sewing!

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I love people who craft and I love learning about other people's crafts because every single one is full of little things that non-practitioners wouldn't notice but others in the craft RAVE about.

Like, I'm a knitter, and before I started I couldn't tell a knit fabric from a crocheted one, and I mostly would appreciate pretty color choices and overall patterns. But now I drool over perfectly uniform stockinette or a good stretchy bind off, and don't even start me on neat floats on the back of fair isle!

Quilters will talk about the binding and stitch choice on a finished quilt, ceramics artists will gush over how a glaze turned out, embroiderers will sigh at perfectly smooth satin stitch, and a woodworker can spot a good join from a mile away.

There is so much more beauty and artistry in the world than we can see on our own.