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rose-honey-lemonade · 2 years ago
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I can't stop lol.
I've been meaning to mend this hole in my favorite sweatpants for a while now. It's not a big hole but I wanted to practice sachiko stitches/boro mending so 🤷 I did!
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swallowsummer · 2 months ago
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Have been meaning to try this for a while, so have been adding scrap patches to a pair of stained and worn jeans.
Still not certain about the colours and placement and even less certain about the other leg. Current layout is this:
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dumpcraft · 1 month ago
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I finished mending my niece’s work pants. I patched the hole using my @terrorcamp mending workshop skills that @haverkampink taught us. I added a bunch of sashiko/boro inspired stitches to hold the big patch in place inside, because there was a large weak area in the seat from biking a lot. I also darned a little hole in the back pocket where she puts a wrench. She patched the knee herself with my guidance.
This was my second time mending a hole in her work pants. I had previously mended a hole in her khaki pants with a patch and boro stitching too, but the Terror Camp mending workshop helped me do a better job with the black ones. Yay visible mending!
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mamedorilabo · 9 months ago
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Hello, May
Before I knew it, it is already May! I have finished planting summer vegetables in my kitchen garden and they have begun to grow. In Japan, wild vegetables are in season and our family enjoys them every day.
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↑Japanese wild vegetables(Takenoko, Warabi, Mitsuba, Yukinoshita, Watercress)
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I have recently uploaded these pieces to our web store.I still use old Japanese fabrics as materials, and sometimes combine old pieces from different countries in my work. I try to make good use of scraps from the production process. I also try to make clothes in a way that produces as few scraps as possible.
Recently Recently I made this. I made an apron from a vintage tablecloth. It's for me.
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See you next issue!
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marydeemending · 1 year ago
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bloodsadx · 6 months ago
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bloodsad hat #4
featuring machine embroidery, boro mending, acrylic marker on screen printed t fabric, spikes, screws, and distressing by way of box cutter, lighter, and sandpaper
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twosides--samecoin · 10 days ago
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Back in my sewing era because Fallout Fic Research (and also need clothes but it's ya boi No Dolla) thought I'd share a selection of videos from my research files about making & mending clothing without a sewing machine.
Humans clothed ourselves long before the advent of machine assistance. Your average Wastelander might need to take advantage of patchwork & hand- making and mending techniques - sewing machines need maintenance and would probably be a luxury. Textile making is a different problem to tackle that I'll post about later, but for now: Some videos that cover how Wastelanders might make & mend clothing without a sewing machine!
What You ACTUALLY Need to Make Clothes in an Apocalypse - Bernadette Banner please check her out if you love learning through a historical lens! You might know her from bangers such as
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Some mending techniques:
Boro is a textile repair technique that uses patches. Sachiko is often associated with elaborate geometric stitching. Both make use of existing materials and are examples of visible mending that have a low barrier to entry and a high skill ceiling. A Wastelander who takes up mending as a trade would be a much-valued member of a community- not only could you repair clothing this way, but you could make new pieces as well.
"Reflow" No.18 Boro Kimono - Mutsu by Prospective Flow
Basics of Sashiko 1 | Tools, Materials and Alternatives for Beginners - Xiaoxiao Yarn
Sashiko Boro-inspired Quilt Mug Rug Made with Fabric Scraps - Xiaoxiao Yarn
Visible Mending - Scotch Darning - boukhou
A Stitch in Time: 300 Years of Visible Mending - Helen Wyld, National Museums Scotland
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burins · 1 month ago
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I read a LOT of books this year, which is always exciting. I also neglected to do much in the way of write ups during the year proper, so here are little opinions about all 84(!) book-books I read. I love to yap about what I read and I would love to talk about any and all of these. (Graphic novels and comics are gonna be their own post because there are also too many of those.) Bold are my top faves, headphones are things I read as audiobooks.
JAN
Less - Andrew Sean Greer
Shockingly funny book on a writer’s midlife gay crisis. I was a little mid on the end but the prose here was fantastic.
The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future - Ryder Carroll
Beyond Bullets: Creative Journaling Ideas to Customize Your Personal Productivity System - Megan Rutell
Read about a million of these for a program; this was the only one worth recommending if you want to try journaling. (The official guide is Fine but it throws a lot at you at once.)
The 365 Bullet Guide: Organize Your Life Creatively, One Day at a Time - Zennor Compton
Lettering for Planners: A Step- - -Step Guide to Hand Lettering and Modern Calligraphy for Bullet Journals and Beyond - Jordan Truster and Jillian Reece
This should not have been a book.
Afterparties: Stories - Anthony Veasna So
I’ve been meaning to read this for years and years-- So was a friend of a friend-- and it was as excellent as I expected, and also made me tremendously sad that we won’t get more writing from him. 
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space - Amanda Leduc 🎧
This is theory for a general audience but I still wished it was more robust-- Leduc’s arguments had about the academic rigor of a tumblr post, which is a shame.
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 - Harald Jähner 🎧
Nation-making and identity formation in the aftermath of fascism. There has been a lot of writing about the German project of the post-Nazi era, but this was a very solid read.
Water and Salt - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
I came across Tuffaha’s gut-punch of a poem, “Running Orders,” online, and while the rest of the collection doesn’t always hit as hard, it’s still fantastic.
Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel 🎧
Reading this and The Mirror and the Light at the beginning of the year really ruined me for all other prose for the entirety of 2024, tbh. Nobody does it like Mantel.
Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels - Josef Benson and Doug Singsen
After reading Birds of Prey in October-December I really wanted to read some writing on whiteness in comics. This didn’t touch on what I was most interested in exploring and I did come away from the book thinking damn. None of that book was nearly as good as Tony Wei Ling’s fantastic piece on Crumb and alt-comics’ self-hagiography in SOLRAD.
Mending with Boro - Harumi Horiuchi
Make and Mend: Sashiko-Inspired Embroidery Projects to Customize and Repair Textiles and Decorate Your Home - Jessica Marquez
Mend!: A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto - Kate Sekules
Mending with Love: Creative Repairs for Your Favorite Things - Noriko Misumi
Mend It, Wear It, Love It!: Stitch Your Way to a Sustainable Wardrobe - Zoe Edwards
Can you tell I taught a visible mending class in February? Honestly any one of these are a good pick if you’re wanting to get into visible mending. This is the best for giving you a whole menu of techniques to choose from and having very accessible instructions.
Modern Mending - Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald
Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More - Katrina Rodabaugh
Creative Mending: Beautiful Darning, Patching and Stitching Techniques - Hikaru Noguchi
This is the best one for getting into the ethos of visible mending. It’s a deeply kind book.
Joyful Mending: Visible Repairs for the Perfectly Imperfect Things We Love! - Noriko Misumi
Visible Mending: A Modern Guide to Darning, Stitching and Patching the Clothes You Love - Arounna Khounnoraj
The Mirror and the Light - Hilary Mantel 🎧
Once again. Nobody is doing it like Hilary Mantel.
FEB
Finna - Nino Cipri 🎧
Anticapitalist multiverse Ikea relationship drama should have been my entire jam but this book was simply quite bad.
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy - Cathy O’Neil 🎧
Are you ready to get depressed about data? This is a great book for your liberal mom. I could wish it were more anticarceral but for what it’s actually covering it does a great job.
Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty - Lisa Mason Ziegler
Garden planning :) 
Flux - Jinwoo Chong 🎧
If you liked Severance (the show) or have ever projected some identity feelings onto a not-very-good TV show, this is a book for you. Imperfect pacing but still gripping, and I’m excited to see what Chong does next-- this is his first book.
Ocean’s Echo - Everina Maxwell
The premise of this book is simply so sexy. And overall the book is too!
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles - Malka Older
Yayyyy Mossa and Pleiti return! I love this series and I loved this book.
A Land with a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism edited - Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, Esther Farmer, & Sarah Sills
I don't really have a write up for this. It's powerful and well written and I would recommend it.
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time - Teju Cole
Best book I read all year, frankly. Teju Cole writes about art and culture and being alive when the world is falling apart like nobody else.
MAR
The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi - Richard Grant 🎧
Oh you hate to see a British guy get sucked in by white Southern niceness. (Richard Grant, in this case, is the British guy.) A lot of the stories in this were excellent but Grant gives way too much credit to folks clinging to the tattered remnants of the Old South.
Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine - Michelle U. Campos
Excellent historical antidote to the idea of perpetual struggle in Palestine. Also interesting read just for looking at how citizens of Jerusalem were using national and imperial identities for their political agendas at the time.
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us - Ed Yong 🎧
Lovely book that resists anthropomorphism and rendered me a font of “hey babe can I tell you a cool snake fact?” for about three weeks. 
The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free - Paulina Bren 🎧
You know I should have expected a book like this to be exactly what it was and yet. In addition to the sort of milquetoast stabs at feminism the structure is bad-- it devolves into Sylvia Plath’s life story and doesn’t really recover. I don’t mind reading a book about Sylvia Plath but I would like to plan to do that going in. 
The Hunter - Tana French
Only Tana can manage to write a book that is mostly just pretty normal conversations for 75% of its runtime and yet made me unbelievably stressed the whole time I was reading. Creeping dread! We love it.
Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde
I last read this in high school when I was so excited to see that the sequel would be coming out any day now. Over a decade later, any day at last arrived! So it was time for a reread. The sexual politics of this book are insane, which I didn’t pick up on in 10th grade, but it is still an extremely clever and enjoyable book.
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus - Bill Wasik 🎧
I learned a lot of fun facts in this book but it was rambling and also I do wish books like this would stop trying to overstate the importance of their topic. Rabies can’t be the source of vampire legends AND zombie legends AND werewolves. (Zombies in particular. We know where those come from and it ain’t rabies!)
The Transcriptionist - Amy Rowland 🎧
As a former transcriptionist the idea of a mystery that revolves around the intrinsic weirdness of being the fly on the wall was very appealing to me! This wasn’t quite the book I thought it was but I still enjoyed it. 
City Editor - Stanley Walker
If you can ignore the amount of name-dropping of people who were certainly famous in 1934 newsrooms but I have certainly never heard of, there are definitely some amusing anecdotes. Walker writes with a dynamism and bombast I would love to see in any kind of writing nowadays. However it is also a book written - a newspaperman in 1934 so it does hit every single -ism like it’s trying to get a pinball high score.
The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism - Adam Nagourney 🎧
This book is exceedingly kind to the NYT and it was wild to read this the month that the Hamas mass rape story very publicly fell apart. However reading it did give me a very clear picture of how that story, and stories like it, happened in the first place. 
Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom - Carl Bernstein 🎧
Of all the “how do newspapers work?” books I read in March-April to prep for a fic I didn’t end up being able to write, this was my favorite. Bernstein is an engaging narrator and this answered my questions about how a story actually happens (particularly pre-internet.)
APR
Beacons in the Darkness: Hope and Transformation Among America's Community Newspapers - Dave Hoekstra
This ping-pongs between case studies in a way that would be totally fine in a feature story and is unforgivable in a book. But the case studies are interesting!
Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life - Margaret Sullivan
This is more memoir than NYT hagiography, and thus I enjoyed it much more.
Ocean’s Godori - Elaine Cho
I’ve got to stop reading SFF that came out this year. Unfortunately, it is part of my job to be aware of SFF that comes out this year. The pacing on this was UNBELIEVABLY sick-- the inciting plot incident only occurred halfway through the book, and the first 60 pages were us being fairly clumsily introduced to too many characters. The author’s end notes effusively thanked her editor and I think she should not have done that because a really solid editing job could have made this into something I really enjoyed. (People who work in publishing I’m sorry about publishing.)
Bombshell - Sarah MacLean
If your whole plot is going to hinge on a Deep Dark Secret, it better be deep and dark. 
Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance - Jeremy Eichler 🎧
I got this for my grandma for Christmas and that was a mistake because this book is so depressing. If I had thought for two seconds I would have known this! However. I did like it! 
MAY
JUN
Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics - Qiana Whitted
Really loved this one. 
Super Bodies: Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact - Jeffrey A. Brown
This book would have been fantastic if the author had a) had any art historical or visual analysis training and b) done research about manga and the ways its styles have been used in the west. As neither of those were true this book mostly made me wish it was another, better book. Good comics recs though. 
Red Side Story - Jasper Fforde
Long-awaited sequel! This is an entirely solid book, though I wish I could have read it when I was a teen because it would have rocked my shit then. 
JULY
The Ladies Rewrite the Rules - Suzanne Allain
Really the only thing you need to know about this Regency #girlboss book is that at the very end of the book, which made almost no pretenses to historical accuracy wrt attitudes about gender roles, the main narrative tension is the love interest’s plans to go off with the East India Company to make his fortune. The other characters have no moral qualms about this; it’s proposed with the same air that a modern book would talk about someone going to college across the country. It made me feel completely insane. 
Escape Velocity - Victor Manibo
You know when you read a book and you say wow, I can’t wait to watch this as a Netflix special, but boy was it not very good as a book? That. Also I really wish we had spent more than about two scenes with the servants on the space hotel, so that I could care about them as people and not as plot devices!
Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia - Emily Hilliard
Engaging stories of modern West Virginia.
Belonging: A Culture of Place - bell hooks
The writing on exile in this did make me cry while I was eating lunch.
AUG
Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People - Erica Adams Locklear
More historical than I expected but solid writing on how perception of food affects perception of people.
What You Are Looking For is in the Library - Michiko Aoyama
I really didn’t expect this to get me but I am not immune to lovely, small-scale stories of people being kind to one another in community. Teared up on desk. 
SEPT
Watercolor Is for Everyone: Simple Lessons to Make Your Creative Practice a Daily Habit - Kateri Ewing
This was for a class and everyone liked the class! 
Hot Summer - Elle Everhart
I am so hit or miss on contemporary romance. This was a messy, delightful reality show romp. Light on drama, but the robust character relationships are the star of the show.
Loving Mountains, Loving Men - Jeff Mann
The poems here are generally better than the prose, which gets a bit repetitive at times. The poems are also generally very good, and a few of them made me cry. 
Second Night Stand - Karelia and Fay Stetz-Waters
I wish I had known going in that the authors were a married couple looking to tell “a story about a healthy queer romance.” All love to them, but I am simply not very interested in reading a story that bills itself that way! And as you might imagine there was a lot of therapy speak and very little narrative tension. Sex scenes were great, though, and if you want a very queer comfort read you might enjoy this. 
You Should Be So Lucky - Cat Sebastian
Very chewy character relationships. Sebastian manages to tell a story that feels of its time (1950s sports/journalism) while not being deeply bleak, which is a balance that many many queer historical romances completely bomb.
Lady Eve's Last Con - Rebecca Fraimow
Delightful lesbian screwball comedy. In space! 
OCT
Slippery Creatures - KJ Charles
The Sugared Game - KJ Charles
Subtle Blood - KJ Charles
Imagine if Lord Peter Wimsey had a passionate love affair with a gruff and tortured soldier recently back from WWI. That’s basically these books and I inhaled them. Shout out to detectorist for the rec!
The No-Show - Beth O’Leary 🎧
About 60% of the way through this book, I said, oh man, I hope that the twist to this book isn’t [redacted]. That would make me so mad. Well, it was, and it did! 
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words - Eddie Robson 🎧
Scratched the itch for sci-fi mystery, and the premise is fantastic. The narrator does a mostly excellent job but her American accents are distractingly bad, so if that will bother you read the book.
Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future edited - Zane McNeill and Rebecca Scott
Most of the essays in this are great! Every so often I get in my head about whether I can claim an Appalachian or Southern identity and whether I should do any writing on the subject. And then I read an essay that makes a lot of claims about “I centralize queer, trans, rural southern voices” and then does not proceed to actually demonstrate how they are doing any of that work, and go oh wait I’m actually fine. 
NOV
Better the Blood - Michael Bennett 🎧
A pretty solid thriller elevated by a very solid conceit: a Maori detective is investigating modern-day killings connected to a 19th century execution of a Maori chief by a group of British soldiers. This suffered a little from being written by a screenwriter who very clearly had certain shots in mind while writing (sometimes that works in prose, sometimes it doesn’t) and also from periodic intercut scenes from the killer’s POV (also a convention that works better in TV) which did undercut whodunit tension. Also the main character is a cop. But I ended up finding her sympathetic, which is a HUGE ask given the subject matter. 
The Stars Too Fondly - Emily Hamilton 🎧
Hated this. I tried to be measured in my initial review but every single part of this book was simply so bad. I wish I had those 11 hours of my life back. If this author is your friend I apologize, and also I hope she didn’t base a character on you, because every character in this book acts like a 15yo.  
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy edited by Meredith McCarroll & Anthony Harkins
I worked my way through my own booklist this fall and this was one of the best books on it. I kept trying to put it on display at the library but our copy was checked out the entire time. Give this to your uncle who won’t shut up about Ohio. 
The Pairing - Casey McQuiston 🎧
First half of this was way more compelling than I expected it to be, and then McQuiston makes the WILD choice to switch POVs entirely and permanently halfway through the book. And I found the second character pretentious and given to fits of purple prose (he describes the first character as a “superbloom” at one point and also won’t shut up about the most art history 101 pieces of art) so I did not particularly enjoy the book as a whole. I will give it points though for having a pretty non-cringey “hi i’m actually nonbinary” conversation, which is astonishingly rare.
Jonny Appleseed - Joshua Whitehead
This was initially a book club pick for a meeting that didn’t end up happening, which is a bummer because I would like to talk about this book with more people! A lot of lines in this are going to stick with me-- Whitehead shifts through time and place with deftness and grace. If you like K-Ming Chang’s Bestiary I think you will enjoy this-- Whitehead revels in the body in a similar way.  
I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition - Lucy Sante 🎧
If you’re not already a little familiar with the NYC art scene in the 70s and 80s you may not enjoy this, because Sante name-drops a lot. I am, and I loved it-- it’s a lovely meditation on growing old and hitting your breaking point. Sante is also a fantastic writer, and this is an excellent counterbalance to the particular type of trans writing that is very very common online. (Nothing wrong with that writing, but you need a balanced diet.)
The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society - CM Waggoner
I loved Waggoner’s previous books and I did end up enjoying this one a lot! It’s an enjoyable send-up of the cozy mystery genre.
Regarding the Pain of Others - Susan Sontag
A reread for my yaoi zine piece! Not only does this still hit but I think it’s a particularly apt piece of writing to be reading right now, when we are daily surrounded - images of suffering. Sontag, as ever, does not have any neat answers for us, but she does make you think more deeply about the world that surrounds you.
DEC
How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom - Johanna Hedva 🎧
I loved parts of this, and I hated other parts, which for me is a good sign about a book of theory. I have more thoughts about disability activism and being online that don’t fit into a quick write-up for a book. 
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia - Stephen Stoll
This took me six months to read, but mostly because I was reading it occasionally on desk and I kept having to return the ebook. It demands a little bit more sustained attention than I was giving it! It’s an excellent overview of the history of land use in Appalachia through the 1930s and it gave me a lot of good context for the mountains I grew up under. 
The Forbidden Book - Sacha Lamb 🎧
Unfortunately, I think I would have liked this a lot more if I hadn’t read When The Angels Left the Old Country first! It’s a perfectly nice YA story-- but it definitely feels YA, and I don’t tend to enjoy reading a lot of YA.
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am - Julia Cooke 🎧
I still don’t really know how I feel about this book. It does avoid some of the pitfalls of #girlboss nonfiction, but also it falls right into others. Mostly I wish it had engaged really at all with the people these women met on their travels, or like. Literally anyone Vietnamese. 
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation - Eli Clare
Oof ouch my bones!!! This hits on a lot and does it with incredible grace.
To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis🎧
I wish my grandma was still alive so I could recommend this to her, because she would have adored it. Delightful time travel Victoriana. 
The Message - Ta-Nehisi Coates 🎧
I really admire the move of making the entire second half of your highly anticipated book about the injustices you saw in Palestine, and I hope it pays off and every NPR listener who loved Between the World and Me picks this up and reads to the end. 
Everyone in this Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
This book reads like a 200-page panic attack, which is not a diss! Really revels in the situational hilarity of anxiety/OCD/something unspecified.
Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
Okay I had to add this one in because I finished it after making my post. This book (contemporary queer Jewish romance with a bit of the supernatural) was so lovely and deeply felt and often laugh out loud funny. The family relationships are the real star although the romance is also very sweet.
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improbable-implosions · 6 months ago
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This one's kinda funny, I went into affixing that patch SO sure that the design of that sword of mine, Arma, would be plenty for that patch, but the longer I stared at it doing other mends for these pants, the longer I felt it needed _something_ else, you know?
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First up, we've got to stitch on the patch itself! I did some nice even straight stitches, because initially, I was planning on a little area of sashiko mending.
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But, in looking at the size of the chunk of dissolvable backing I had cut, there wasn't really any patterns immediately springing to mind that'd work at a scale that small, or, so I thought after seeing how that basketweave pattern came together on an earlier piece. For context, the whole patch is roughly the size of the palm of my hand, at 3.5 inches square.
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So, instead, I decided to try something a bit more complex to render than I'd really tried out before, this art of Arma! (Despite the sword's design being my work, the art in question is by @razzmatazic, who I did ask if I tried to trace, and she had no problems!) And so trace I did, tracing the outlines of the major features of the piece, namely, the outer lines, and the shapes of the gemstones.
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Unfortunately, in my haste (and, admittedly, my focus, since this was much higher detail than I normally tackle around here), I didn't grab any in-progress shots of this. Still, I actually really enjoy how this came out looking, even if it doesn't perfectly evoke the design or detail of the original piece, it certainly emulates the look of Arma well enough I recognize it, and very visibly reads Cool Sword, y'know?
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Next up were a few colorful rims around the edges of the front pockets! They were fraying pretty significantly, so not only does this add a fun splash of color, but it keeps me from picking the edges of these seams apart while I'm not thinking about my hands. Initially, I was going to pick a different set of colors than that turquoise and purple, based on a fun fact about my hometown, but that color scheme was just calling out to me! I decided to lean into the somewhat royal vibes and went for a different, lighter purple, with two little bits of yellow thread, which, fun fact, I actually dyed with some yellow flowers I foraged back in the boston area!
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As for these two little spot-mends, they were really more an exercise in frustration. Really, I'm mostly miffed the thread broke on the original patch in the one place the hole kept trying to expand through, but hopefully that little bit of randa stitching (which looks MUCH more like randa stitching should than my previous efforts, namely on my wallet and that previous pair of pants that we detailed, the ones with the segaihana sashiko) alongside some additional reinforcement along the edge of that original yellow patch, made from some thread I scavenged from a fraying bit of denim, should keep this particular pair of shorts from getting any more fixes right on the edge of the patch that has misbehaved TWICE now!
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Last but not least, while I was wrangling those pocket rims and the spot mends, I really just had the feeling that Arma would look kinda... lonely, I suppose? Centered in the framing straight stitches like that, so I improvised a little open book next to her! (She's not a sword-girl, promise, it's she/her like you'd she/her a boat) There's actually some really nice dimensionality to the book, too, with some looser stitches to emulate ruffle-able pages, and those two knots along the spine make for a pleasant, crinkled texture to the cover lines! Can you tell I'm pleased with myself for getting that just so, without any guides?
All that said, hopefully that's all the mends my poor poor jean shorts need, I swear, just as I get one set fixed, the other winds up with another hole! Don't get me wrong, I'm starting to enjoy the whole almost boro-like vibe they're developing, with all these overlapping mends, but I'd like them to develop it slower, thanks! (And yes, I do plan to wear these at LEAST until they look like I've quilted them back together, they're comfy!)
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sleeplessdreamer123 · 2 years ago
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Fanfic Idea! (ABO Lucemond, modern, divorce AU)
Their marriage was not out of love, but as a last ditch attempt to mend the bonds of the two families. They both accepted the duty, and both took their vows, but while Lucerys held hope that both he and Aemond would be able to see each other eye to eye (no pun intended), Aemond completely rejected him and the olive leaf he tried to offer, burying himself in work, refusing to come home, going so far as to sleep in his office just to avoid him.
It was like this for the first few months, until they both arrived at a party hosted by Aegon, were they both got drunk and spent the night wrapped in each others' arms. It was an awkward morning, to say the least, but they were at least able to talk, and they were able to reach an understanding. Both of them tried their best to be a good partner, with Aemond coming home for dinner, and Lucerys not pushing certain boundaries. They were cordial, then friendly, then, well, they were sweet to each other, the kind of sweet where even the family members commented, asking if they actually fell in love, with both denying it.
When Lucerys got pregnant, he seemed pretty hesitant and scared, remembering what his mother described birthing was like, how it killed her mother, his grandmother, when Rhaenyra was still young. It was Aemond that promised he would be there all the way, that he couldn't wait to meet their children, and Lucerys, who started to catch feelings for his husband, trusted those words completely.
And then Visery died. And their peaceful little family began to crack.
First it was Alicent, who began to question of the baby was even Aemond's. It has caused stress for Lucerys, dealing with implications of infidelity and bastardy, two things he was forced to deal with all his life. It gave him a panic attack when he could feel Aemond going back to how he used to, leaving for work early, not coming home for days. Then came allegations. Aemond has gone to a fancy restaurant with one of Boros Baratheon's girls, and has been taking her out on multiple occasions. Then pictures, of Aemond placing his hand on her waist, of both of them entering a hotel together, of them leaving restaurants with hands holding each other close. It wasn't just the Baratheon girl either. There were others, from the Lannister omega, to even his not-aunt, Alys.
It broke his heart, and with his pregnancy hormones, he spiralled into depression, refusing to eat, forcing himself to watch the news where it would show either his husband's affair or the fight between the family. He was tired, he was so, so tired of that. Of his genuine emotions getting trampled, of himself being pulled and played with like a little marionette. He wondered if Aemond ever did mean anything he said, or if he only said it so he would stop bothering him. If that were the case, he shouldn't have said anything at all. He shouldn't have treated him with kindness, shouldn't have shown him the sweet, soft part of him that Lucerys had gotten used to. No, he should have just remained cruel. It would have hurt less, so much less if he remained as distant as he had. Now that he was given the taste of how good of a man, how good of a partner Aemond could be, he was turned into a wreck when he couldn't have it anymore.
It was when Aemond stood by with his brother, Aegon II, when they named him CEO, betraying Lucerys' family and stabbing Lucerys in the back for the last time, did it broke him utterly.
He called for a lawyer, and asked for divorce papers. He asked for nothing, he just wanted to return home to Driftmark and to never be bothered again, for him to have the babies in a safe environment without the toxicity that is Aemond and the rest of his family spreading to his children. He packed what he could, called his brothers, and left what once was his home for years, the keys and the signed divorce papers on the table.
They left to Driftmark, where Lucerys was greeted with open arms by his grandparents, Corlys and Rhaenys (well, open arms from Corlys, a gentle smile from Rhaenys). Lucerys would spend his days on the beach of his home, taking in the familiar salt water scent, feeling the sand beneath his hands and the sea between his toes. It was one of the more healing aspects, away from the family drama.
Then Daemon came, and with him, another Alpha by the name of Dalton Greyjoy. He had a lot of omegas and women as saltwives and salthusbands, but he said he would be willing to let them go if he were allowed to take Lucerys as a rock husband. Lucerys felt like he would rather not marry anyone, the scar on his first marriage ran deep. Dalton allowed him to take his time, and the both of them eventually got closer.
Lucerys knows he's wrong to do so, but he can't help but compare. While Aemond is cool and aloof, Dalton's expressions were never contained. While Aemond had a hard time communicating what he wants, Dalton was blunt, saying exactly what he thought at the time he thought it. While Aemond was a cold, untouchable beauty, Dalton was a roguish man. It was a change Lucerys is hesitant to experience himself, yet little by little, he began to relax around Dalton, even asking him to enter the room with him when he delivered the twins, one with his coloring, the other with Aemond's. Though not ready to date, Lucerys found a friend in Dalton, and Dalton, again, accepted, saying whether or not Lucerys wish to take their relationship a step further is up to him.
It was one of his younger brothers that decided to post the picture of the twins in social media, and soon, calls from that side of the family came, demanding to see the twins in person. Aemond in particular was quite forceful in his message, but Lucerys couldn't hear his voice without having a panic attack, so he chose to ignore those calls. Lucerys just wants peace, however it was hard to have it with lawyers and the father of his children blowing up his phone, saying they would go to court if they have to.
Lucerys eventually caved, despite his family saying he didn't have to, he still wanted his children to know their biological father, so they set up a meeting, and he asked for Dalton to be there for support. When Aemond saw them together, he went cold. They spoke, and again, Aemond didn't ask for Lucerys, just the children, and though he knew it would happen like that, it still broke Lucerys' heart to be facing the cold unfeeling businessman rather than his old sweet husband.
They agreed to co-parent, with both of them agreeing that if either would date again, they would not introduce their children to their partners unless the other approved. Aemond looked odd at the mention of dating again, but Lucerys forced himself to erase any thought of Aemond still wanting him out of his mind. He has shown that he didn't want him, why would now be any different?
Baelon and Aemon were too young to stay in a different home from Lucerys, so Aemond suggested he moved back to their old home. Lucerys vehemently rejected the idea, but after Aemond assured him that Aemond wouldn't enter the house until it was his turn, in which, Lucerys can leave for somewhere else, or stay in a different room until Aemond leaves again.
It was an odd arrangement, Lucerys could imagine they were still married, that their family was still whole, but he refused to. Being that house reminded him of both good and bad, but the bad far outweighed the good. He could still remember when he cried his heart out in the tub, wondering what was wrong with himself for his husband to beteay him so. It was those memories that kept wishes of reunion safely tucked away in his heart. For now, he would stay for his children, once they were ready, they would go to Driftmark and his boys would travel back and forth from the two of them, and they would never need to interact again except for them.
That was Lucerys' plan. Too bad it clashes with Aemond's. His plan is so much different. It was the reason why he never signed the damn divorce papers Lucerys signed months ago.
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as-i-watch · 2 years ago
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My mom sent me a picture of Sashiko last night and I am now in a rabbit hole that results in Holy Shit, Luffy's Wano Outfit.
Now, Luffy's out doesn't include Sashiko (probably). But it is *definitely* Boro and the Wabi-Sabi is strong here. First of all: our boi
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First of all: his patches are blue. That's because indigo was literally the cheapest clothes die in Japan. Blue doesn't mean royal in Japan, it means practical.
Boro-Boro are "tattered rags." It was generally cheaper to repair clothes and so you'd end up with clothes over a hundred years old that were basically patchwork.
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The kimono Luffy is wearing likely belonged to Tama's parents *and* grandparents before them. (Great-grandparents unlikely for spoiler SBS reasons). You won't see a lot of these left since they're associated with poverty so people destroyed them, but boro as a visible mending style is becoming popular due to Wabi-Sabi.
Wabi-Sabi is hard, debatably impossible to explain. It a deep philosophical idea on aesthetics that's been around a long time. A humble attempt: nothing is perfect, nothing is permanent, and nothing is truly complete. There is beauty in this.
Wabi-Sabi as an aesthetic tends towards asymmetry, roughness, and simplicity. But it's more complicated than that.
Anyway, I'm crying over this damn kimono.
Now im emotional too bc thats just 100% Luffy
The one who would be king being the only one in the tag wearing Boro clothing and what on earth is Luffy if not all you just said about Wabi-Sabi
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swallowsummer · 2 months ago
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Yet more patches on patches.
These burgundy trousers are the fabric equivalent of medical donors. I’m down to the last few remnants.
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dumpcraft · 25 days ago
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I finally mended my favorite pajama pants. They were so soft and worn weak in the seat from my marathon lounging that they ripped like wet paper and had no strength in them in that spot. I inserted a big patch of soft flannel and tacked down the rip on it. I hope it won’t just rip on the other side now.
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mamedorilabo · 11 months ago
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Spring has just around the corner.
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The sunlight has started to reach my studio. It is proof that the sun is getting higher. I love my house & studio surrounded by trees.
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Accordingly, I feel like creating with spring-like colors. There are a lot of color varietions of plaid patterns in Japan. I made these from old Japanese fabrics.
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There are This white cloth is made by a weaving technique called shijira-ori. It is wavy and used mainly for summer kimonos.
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I recently gave a workshop on visible mending. I will have two more workshops this month. I will report on them in the next issue. See you soon!
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mybeingthere · 2 years ago
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Our times of excesses and overproduction elevated Japanese boro style and sashiko stitch into desirable art forms.  
"Central to boro is the concept of finding beauty in mending—that nothing should ever be wasted, and that imperfections have their own subtle and simple appeal.‘Boro’ more or less translates as ‘ragged’ or ‘tattered’. 
For Japanese peasants of the Edo period, it was utterly necessary to get the maximum wear and use out of their textiles, so no scrap of fabric was ever thrown away. At the time, Japanese peasants (particularly in the north) didn’t have access to durable cotton fabric and had to make do with homespun hemp fabric, which would typically show signs of wear more quickly.
"Using fabric scraps dyed with indigo or brown earthy tones, garments were continually mended and passed down over generations. Each additional scrap of fabric—with its own unique story—would come to map the family’s history and heritage. The evolution of patterns and motifs in the reinforcement stitching (sashiko) added beautiful decorative touches to these garments."
https://indigoniche.com/.../boro-stitching-introduction.../
http://www.amusemuseum.com/english/boro/index.html
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glyphreader · 1 year ago
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Veiled Ascension (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander No. 18, Illus. Domenico Cava)
The afterlife is an area of Ravnican afterlife is an area that's surprisingly unexplored. Sure, we all know that the souls of many people get bound to the Orzhov and continue to hang around as indebted ghosts. And in the past, there used to be the pocket plane of Agyrem (also known as the Ghost Quarter), which led to even more ghosts being around (since the Mending, this has since been resolved).
However, beyond all the ghost-related stuff, the lore is pretty vague. Is there an underworld or heavenly realm that people go to after they die? There are angels on Ravnica - but then again, in Magic, angels are first and foremost constructs of pure white mana and not necessarily messengers of some kind of god.
So what is happening in the art in Veiled Ascension? The people depicted here don't seem to be ghosts - they're very much made of flesh and blood, not wispy smoke or bright glowing spirit energy. Considering this, the illustration seems to show some kind of rapture event, where people are literally (and also metaphorically?) lifted into heaven. However, since it is shown on only one card and happenings like this don't get mentioned in the story or anywhere else, it can't be that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things.
The card doesn't have any flavor text, but maybe we can extrapolate from the rules text a bit. The mechanics care about disguised and cloaked creatures. Aside from disguised criminals, face-down creatures in MKM are also flavored as regular people/nobodies. So the people depicted here are probably guildless commoners.
Another point worth noting is that the rules text doesn't mention the graveyard. The name and the imagery make it feel very afterlife-y. But there's also the possibility that this ascension isn't related to death. Based on these observations, I think there are two possibilities:
The card depicts living commoners that are being given wings as some sort of magical favor.
The card depicts the dead bodies of commoners being exalted and lifted into some sort of heavenly afterlife.
Either way, it seems like this event is not connected to any kind of guild activity. It's too benevolent / non-profit oriented for the Orzhov, and too peaceful for the Boros. Given the absence of "celestial gods" on Ravnica (opposed to the Old Gods of the earth associated with the Gruul), my conclusion for now is that Veiled Ascension represents the white mana of Ravnica acting on its own, as an ambient natural force, to reward the good deeds of commoners who have gone unrecognized. If they are dead, maybe they are lifted towards the sun and merged with the white mana of the plane. If they are living, maybe a flight on magical wings represents the turning point in their life, when they are freed from their hardships.
White mana "erratically" acting on its own, without any focus or agent, would also explain why the cloaks-turned-wings are so unsymmetrical and messy. White mana is manifesting, just like it does when angels are created - but in an uncontrolled, imperfect way. Going by this interpretation, it couls also mean that the artificialness of the plane has warped and transformed its mana flow, which has limited its abilities to affect the world "naturally."
Random side note at the end: While a lot less scary, the figures in this art strongly remind me of the Pilgrim Butterflies in the Dark Souls games. Not only are there some visual similarities - similar to the butterflies, they're also not explained and left open to interpretation. I think Fromsoft-style indirect worldbuilding works really well in Magic.
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