#frogging

[fiberfrogshop]

Frogging builds character. Allegedly.

[ghw-archive]

Riding Ensemble • ca. 1820 • Silk • American • Philadelphia Museum of Art (1936-12-3a,b--e) .

[hibernationfibres]

The great new year's FROG!! I love using the new year to take stock of my stash and this year I collected up some things that haven't really been getting any use in the last year, washed them and re-claimed the yarn!! Id love to do the same thing next year 😊

[campgender]

from “Rethinking High Maintenance: The Queer Fat Femme Guide to Not Blaming It on the Fact That You Don’t Like High Femmes” by Bevin Branlandingham

published in Persistence: All Ways Butch & Femme, ed. Ivan E. Coyote & Zena Sharman (2011)

Backstage at a show I was hosting, burlesque legend World Famous *BOB* told me a story about how a (now former) beau had called her high maintenance.

“I called my drag mom and asked if she thought I was high maintenance. She said ‘Of course you are, but you maintain yourself. You’re like a classic car; if someone is going to drive a ’66 Caddy, they will. If they want a Honda, they should drive a Honda.’”

The rhetoric of what is considered “high maintenance” in our community is judgmental and unfairly targets femmes.

The definition of high maintenance I am working from is something, much like the aforementioned classic car, that takes a lot of work to keep in running order. This can be aesthetic work—makeup, hair care, attention to fashion—or emotional, physical, or intellectual expectations that need to be met in order for the person who is high maintenance to be running in top condition.

In the queer community, there seems to be a very negative value judgment on the so-called high-maintenance feminine aesthetic. There are hundreds of stories of femmes coming out of the closet only to be shamed into an androgynous or butch appearance because they wanted to fit into the lesbian or queer community, but femmephobic people called them not queer enough. There is nothing in my lipstick case that prevents me from being queer, and realizing that took an entirely separate coming-out process.

We should remove the value judgment from the phrase high maintenance, since it should have nothing to do with anyone other than the person being maintained. Everyone can be high maintenance in their own ways; it’s all just a matter of whether or not one person’s maintenance is compatible with another person’s.

[your-worst-boy]

[the-fibre-stuff]

When you're running late and grab a sock without checking how long the foot is supposed to be...

I needed the knitting to do at my event, so it's not a huge deal. And it's not like I could have measured the foot and known when to start the toe. But I honestly thought I had more than 11cm of foot to knit. (Yes, I'm aware that's a cowardly way to frog. I also don't care.)

[purplbear]

I have now paid this years knitting mistake tax.

I forgot the two most important rules when bringing knitting to a dimly lit bar.

1. It has to be ok if beer gets spilled on the knitwork.

2. You probably can’t see well so don’t bring anything complicated with lots of increases, decreases, lace, cables, etc that needs you to read the pattern.

I done messed up. Brought the ombré cable cardigan to singing at the bar and …. 24 ROWS LATER remembered that I needed to increase for the hip area!!! Ugh.

And no lifeline. Rip rip rip … then pickup like 300+ stitches that include cables and texture.

🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸

[patrokleos]

The most unrealistic thing in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, hands down, bar none, is the time when Dot frogs an adult sweater and uses the yarn to make a child-sized sweater, all in about two days.

[yuliapigulka]

Guys I drew some frogs for you need your opinion ✌️

[giddyaunt425]

Me when I have to frog a crochet/knitting project I've been working on for hours:

[ghw-archive]

[otherbombdotcom]

I had this machine knit scarf for a really long time but never used it even though I loved the colors and fiber content, so I decided to unravel it to use for something else. Great idea in theory lolololol. Yeah the fiber was painfully small so after I unraveled it I busted out my drop spindle and respun the threads into a more reasonable yarn size. I'm pretty happy with the finished results, James remains unimpressed, but he is a very two dimensional man.

Image Description:

Top right - A colorful orange, pink, yellow, and white striped knit scarf is laying on a wooden table in the process of being unraveled.

Top left - A drop spindle and the now fully disassembled scarf are laying on the wooden table. The colorful threads are arranged in small balls by shade.

Bottom right- A close up detail shot of some of the finished yarn. It is two different color strands spun together and variegated.

Bottom left- A white arm is extended out holding four finished hanks of the previously mentioned yarn. In the background a larger than life cutout of James Dean looks... unimpressed.

[crowwolf]

So I frogged Rolan's foot - not a euphemism, for non-knitters: it means to rip out stitches. Get it? Rip it rip it, which sounds like ribit ribit that a frog would say; frogged knitting. Anyways, so far, I'm preferring the new way I'm doing it with invisible increases. Wondering if I should use smaller needles tho for better stitching. Ah well, I'll see how it goes.

[campgender]

conversation w myself just now like

Q: why do you feel ashamed at the thought of posting kink education excerpts when you don’t feel that way about any other topic, including non-educational quotes about sex?

A: oh damn. i guess probably because of that post i kept seeing everywhere i turned recently like “tumblr is the only place you get posts on bdsm aftercare by virgins.” i mean the majority of people who think virgin is a thing someone can be would not consider me one, but that’s not the point; it’s that (at least in the microculture that is the corners of queer internet i’m exposed to) i can’t go a day without seeing something that tells me to get off the phone & out of the house & have gay sex. the gay sex i am having is irrelevant to the systemic devaluation of both what i could broadly term shut-in knowledges + reading sex rather than (or prior to) doing it more generally.

Q: so am i interpreting correctly that you think such posts are discouraging kink education?

A: i’ve seen that post criticizing sharing aftercare tips more times than i’ve seen posts with aftercare tips. obviously i don’t have a problem with encouraging people to be cautious / skeptical about sources of information, but that’s not the effect here. instead i just feel like a loser every time i consider sharing aftercare tips – shit that i’ve never seen on a listicle before & really could’ve used years ago, personally.

Q: you know what i’m gonna say: are those the kind of people you want to be listening to?

A: no. fuck that. i think i have things to contribute to kink practitioners at large, but even if my experience is useful only for other sexually active shut-ins, we still exist & if they want to find this info it should be out there for them.

[neilsanders]

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