#edit: typo in Hirbawi

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[Image Description: a rookie-level embroidered patch made of a light gray gauzy fabric, cut into the shape of an uneven heart. The heart is outlined in black and has a black fishnet pattern unevenly stitched within it. Off center in the heart is a cross-stitched Palestinian flag (three horizontal stripes of black, white, and green, with a red triangle facing right on the left side). The proportions aren't prefect, but it's recognizable for what it is. At the top of the patch is a simple safety pin going through it. End I.D]

Finally finished this patch for @thetabirb that took like three weeks after hospitalizations and headaches kept getting in the way. I wasn't sure about sharing it bc I don't want it to seem like I'm capitalizing likes for doing so, but I've also seen and heard people affirm that support for Palestine needs to be visible, so I figure I'd share. I'm going to paint my own pin later on, as I'm running out of black embroidery floss.

The original plan was to buy kufiyas from Hirbawi, but I missed their last stock before they sold out again, and it didn't feel right to just keep waiting to make our support visible. I did the fishnet background in an attempt to honor the traditional Palestinian kufiya. Hirbawi and a few other sources say the pattern is to honor the fishing community that keeps Palestine–especially Gaza–fed. I hope that's okay, esp since it didn't come out exactly like the fishnet pattern on the kufiya.

(Ignorable complaints on the actual creative proccess: naturally everything went wrong at the very end after three weeks. It wasn't until I had most of the green down that I realized how askew the red triangle is and how it messed with the amount of green relative to the white, so I had to go back and go over some of the white with the green. Nothing I could do to fix the red tho. Then when cutting it down to size the gauzy fabric–part of an old curtain that was too sheer but was the only white fabric I have–started to unravel fast after threatening to fray away the entire time it was in the embroidery hoop, so I had to quickly glue it down to another, studier piece of fabric. But then the glue I used–Arleen's Fabric Fusion–said it would dry clear and just... didn't. The fabric was originally bright white but now it's gray 😮‍💨)

Oh and if anyone's concerned this is just a hollow gesture, both of us have donated repeatedly to buy esims for Gaza.