#Stitchery Pins

[roki-roki-roll]

Ah yes tragic siblings my favorite

Excerpt from Hello From the Hallowoods Episode 140

I wanted to finish this before Season 4 started but I didn’t

[origami-butterfly]

I think we as a fandom forget how unhinged the Mendies all are (especially Huntington):

(Cookery talking to Solomon)

Convinced this is Mendy-language for "You look like shit"

I'm never getting over Bern calling Stitchery "an evil advisor"

*Huntington casually suggests extinction*

[thebeesteeth]

Needles meeting Stitchery Pins and subsequent getting adopted by the other Mends

[roguecanoe]

I was screaming when they showed up!! (Hope more mendies show up soon!!)

[hellofromthehallowoods]

hello mx wellman! i will preface this by saying i’ve never personally listened to hfth, but via my best friend i’ve been vaguely aware of it for the better part of two years now. and it has just now, about 10 minutes ago, occurred to me that ‘diggory graves’ is a pun.

upon me realising this, my aforementioned friend informed me of the existence of stitchery pins.

i’m not sure whether i’m deeply upset or incredibly amused. thank you.

Just wait until you meet the rest of ‘em

[red-velvet-0w0]

im so Stitchery Pins core

[calamity-bean]

wait, do you have advice/resources for beginning to sew clothes? i self drafted a totebag and have made a few small bags, but am hoping to branch out

Make mockups; do lots of test fittings throughout the process; finish your seams; clip your corners and curves; stitch the most visible and trickiest bits by hand, not machine (unless you're good enough with a machine!); learn the main properties of different fabrics; when you really wanna hold your fabric in place nicely, baste rather than pin; adjust the fit via triangles and curves; it's only fabric; it's okay to fuck up; accept that you WILL fuck-up and WILL have to undo and redo things and that that is OKAY.

^ Some things I personally have benefited from and wish I'd learned earlier!

Seriously, though — I should preface by saying that I myself am also a beginner. I follow some really brilliant costumers and cosplayers here on tumblr, and I am nowhere NEAR their level. (And I would welcome any advice/resources more experienced clothes-makers would like to share!) It's only in the last few years that I've gotten more into sewing, starting mainly with alterations of existing clothes and then moving into making things from scratch. I've figured out a lot just via trial and error — as well as by taking existing garments apart and looking at how they're made.

But, honestly, my main resource has been YouTube. There are tons of tutorials on there for specific techniques and garments, of course, and I do watch those. But I've also learned a LOT from the more entertainment-focused sewing content — the ones where the sewist isn't really trying to teach you how to make something, just making something cool and showing how they made it. There's so much knowledge to be gleaned just from watching them work and listening to them talk about why they used a certain stitch, how they resolved a fit issue, etc.

Some favorite creators include:

TheClosetHistorian: Makes stunning vintage and high-end fashion; big proponent of drafting your own patterns, and has tutorials on how to do so as well as on things like darts and seam finishing. Plus I find her voice and aesthetic very soothing.

Bernadette Banner: Focuses on using period-appropriate methods to create her garments (mainly 19th and early 20th c.), which means a lot of hand sewing. I've picked up a lot of hand-sewing tips and tricks from watching her work.

Vincent Briggs: Mainly 18th century garments, with very excellent tutorials on decorative buttons and buttonholes in particular. And how to make an adorable leaf-kerchief!

Morgan Donner: All-around crafter with a particular focus on medieval garments and other aspects of medieval culture. Does lots of non-sewing craft content I enjoy as well.

Rachel Maksy: Less focused on technical sewing skills and more so on costume making and other crafting, but she's very inventive and fun to watch and shows a lot of creative problem solving.

And a few specific tutorials:

Circle skirt drafting by Mariah Pattie

Making a split-side adjustable skirt by Ash L G

Seam finishing by Evelyn Wood

There are honestly too many good channels to list... Sewstine; The Stitchery; Nicole Rudolph; Shannon Makes...... Beyond the sheer entertainment value, what I really love about watching all of these creators is that each of them has their own particular specialties, preferred ways of doing things, etc. Some of them went to fashion school, some are self-taught. Some are very technical and precise, some of them work organically and messily. And I think that just as the measured, detail-oriented approach of someone like Bernadette Banner offers much instruction, so too (in a very different way) does the chaotic approach of someone like Micarah Tewers, who perhaps can make garment construction seem less intimidating by demonstrating that you don't have to precisely follow a step-by-step guide.

Right now, I'm almost done (SO CLOSE TO DONE) making a skirt. It's not a crazy difficult skirt, but it does have pockets, pleats, gathers, a zipper, an attached waistband with elastic, and a plaid pattern to consider the direction and matching of, so it required thought and planning. I had originally been planning to make the whole skirt using a hand-me-down McCalls pattern, but then decided I didn't like the fullness of that skirt, so I took only the pockets from that pattern and drafted the skirt itself using the circle skirt tutorial linked above. I used a quarter-circle with a 175% waist measurement for the front half, which is pleated, and a 150% waist measurement for the back half, which is gathered. I did frequent test fittings and had to take apart and redo a couple things. And whenever I wasn't exactly sure how to do something, I'd just Google it and find lots of help.

Like I said, some of my mutuals on here are far better at this than I am, and I feel a little silly talking about my skirt like it's some grand accomplishment and a little unqualified to offer resources/advice. But I guess I'm hoping that my experience can still be helpful precisely because I am still a beginner and am very much still in the phase of figuring it all out. And my method is basically to take in information and inspiration from a lot of different sources, find the courage to try things out, learn from my mistakes and try try again.

Congrats on your tote bags, anon, and best wishes on your sewing journeys to come!

[sea-glass-and-fire]

if you don't want the mending to be noticeable, it's best to act BEFORE the fabric tears! Cut a patch of denim (or other fabric that matches your pants) slightly larger than the weakened area. Line it up on the inside so the weave is going the same way -- there should be diagonal stripes on the 'wrong' side of the denim that line up. Pin it in place, get the closest matching thread that you can, and start sewing! The goal is to go up and down, following the weave of the fabric (from the right side). If you've got a sewing machine and you can finagle the part you're working on under there, that's ideal. Otherwise, this totally works for hand stitching, it just takes longer. Keep going until the entire patch is secured.

I always feel weird having a bunch of fancy visible mending ONLY on the butt and thighs, since that does tend to draw the eyes. I've found this method to be impressively invisible, but if you want to make it even less noticeable, do some fancy stitching / visible mending somewhere nearby where you DO want people to look. distract 'em with your stitchery razzle dazzle!

(i realize that this still leaves the potential issue of a whole ass buttpatch, but i haven't had too many issues with it feeling weird, and i'm a 'no tags' autistic who ALWAYS wears out the butts of my pants first. it helps to add a patch sooner rather than later!)

"Don't just throw ripped jeans away, you can repair them using these 10 cute Visible Mending techniques!!" unfortunately my friend the first point of failure for every single pair of jeans i have owned in my life has been the Crotch and Ass. Knees: fine, cuffs: fine; but 3 years in, and all that stands between the world and my astronaut-patterned taint is 0.5µm of denim worn so thin that every squat threatens to tear it to shreds like wet toilet paper. If the Tiktok craft community could figure out a way to resurrect jeans afflicted in such a way that doesn't involve adding a whole ass buttpatch like some sort of inverse assless chaps situation then that'd be great

[louiseannbenjamin72]

A little stitching

Morning, my daughter stopped over for a few hours, and we moved the beginning of the stitchery into the house. I dug out my wips and got to work. Fabric pinned to become a zokin. The floss is in, and this is only the beginning of it. The bookmark in progress. I take scraps of Aida cloth, and make bookmarks with my orts. Half square triangles for the back of my patchwork dress, or maybe a…

[roki-roki-roll]

Tell me this isn't how this conversation went.

[origami-butterfly]

*Excluding Diggory because we all know they'd sweep

[pastelsailorr]

And voila! Our cross stitch is ready to frame!

Notes: if the piece you are framing goes edge to edge on your fabric you'll need something called stitchery tape and tape it onto the foam board instead since you won't be able to pull and pin it. Stitchery tape is meant for preservation as well so it won't yellow and damage your artwork

This is one I found on Amazon on a quick search

Second note: use a thumb guard when pushing your pins down bc it can hurt and make sure you iron the back of your piece so you can remove any unnecessary wrinkles

Have fun pinning and framing !

How do you pin a cross stitch?

I'm going to get ready real fast then I will show you how I do them bc they're really easy to do once you understand the premise of it

[cobalt-knave]

I love Stitchery Pins and think they deserve the world

[hallowoodspolls]

Hallowoods Favourite Character shown down: Round Three

[pensiveday]

Subject: Irene Mend/Granny Mend Art: Lizard @whatlizardry Writing: Dev @littlebreadroll

[ID: A page titled ‘Irene Mend’ and ‘Granny Mend.’ An illustration of a wide, void-black eye is labeled ‘Ethereal Eye.’  In the upper-right corner of the page is a sketch of an old woman with light cast over half her face and the rest of her in shadow. The eye in the light is closed, and the one in shadow is open and staring at the viewer.  The eye is alarmingly sharp against the softness of the drawing.  She wears a simple, old-fashioned black dress with a white collar, and has her hair pulled back and severely parted. In the lower-left corner of the page is a ghostly illustration of an old woman from the waist up, eerily shaded against a halo of shadow that deepens towards the bottom of the drawing.  She wears a shawl and an old-fashioned bonnet that shadows her face, leaving only the lower half of her face and the handle of a knife clearly visible.  She holds an embroidery hoop she is stitching on, and her hands are stuck with dozens of needles.  In red ink, the note “Can be summoned by saying her name three (double underlined) times in a mirror” is added, and in different handwriting, “scary but nice?”

The second page is written in blocky, all-caps handwriting on paper with scraps of thread and cloth fibers stuck to it. It is titled ‘Irene Mend (See: Granny Mend)’ and is followed by the below text:

Dangerous? No

Sentient? Full sentience--can be reasoned with

Encounter location: Mend Mansion

Description: An older woman with only one eye; seems to be getting on in years. She’s aged well, but moves slowly.  Arthritis? Just age?  Unsure.  She wears a leather apron when she works, and light clothes or evening wear otherwise.  Always carrying a silver bell and silver scissors.  Enjoys a good dinner, and treats the Mendies well.  Gave them funny names and has them help with housework (see: Mendies, connections).  They seem to be happy, or not mind serving her.  Seems a lovely woman aside from the revenant hobby.  House was empty last time I came through, moved out or moved on? (crossed out)  Killed by the Instrumentalist, after which he stole her bell and the Mendies.  (A note in red adds, “Pins says she was good.”)

Abilities: Creates revenants through unknown magic runes? Never did figure it out.  Only used bodies, never killed to make her Mendies.  Keeps them clean and preserved, filled with cotton and sawdust, and tied to a silver bell.  (A note in red adds, “The bell’s been hidden and buried.”)  

Connections: The Mendies, Townshend Rhodes, Huntington Waites, Cookery Potts, Leyland Blooms, Floris Scrubbs, Stitchery Pins)

The third page is titled ‘Granny Mend,’ and continues: 

Dangerous? Unknown

Sentient? Partial sentience--rudimentary communication

Irene Mend was a living human, Granny Mend seems limited in sentience or language

Non-sentient--entirely instinctual

Encounter location: Haven’t seen her myself, but she’s supposed to appear in mirrors? Say Granny Mend three times.

Description:  An old woman that sits in a rocking chair in the corner of your room and wears a bonnet pulled low over her face while she works on embroidery.  When she hums her lullaby and tucks you into bed, you cannot move even if you want to, and are dragged into sleep.  Supposed to be that her hands are pierced with needles, though not sure I believe she exists at all.  (A note in red adds, “Diggory saw her, says she has a dinner knife through her eye socket under the bonnet. Diggory says she didn’t answer their questions or stop singing except to tell them they were special and kiss their forehead.”)

Abilities: puts people to sleep with her lullaby when they suffer from insomnia.

Connections: Diggory Graves   /end ID]