#gifts for people that sew

[tj-crochets]

Beetle bag! Bag of beetles!!!

This might be my favorite one yet, I love how these fabrics look together and this beetle print is just fantastic

[crowwithahotdog]

IM SCREAMING I JUST FINISHED THE QUILT TOP AND IM OVER THE MOOOOOOOOOOON this is the best ever i love patchworking im gonna be a patchwork person now i cannot be stopped

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

love the idea of transhet laios

[because-its-eurovision]

I fully get the anxiety of feeling like you don’t deserve to go to a show. It comes with the whole competetive fandom stuff.

Honestly, as someone who has performed on a lot of stages with varying kinds of crowds, the most important thing isn’t if you’re the biggest fan or if you know the lyrics or some choreography or bring gifts. The thing that is the most valuable is that you go to the show to have a good time. That’s all the artists are generally looking for. That people enjoy their music, enjoy the show, are excited to be there.

Some people may be disappointed that they don’t get a ticket, sure. But it’s not you taking that ticket away from them. Not everyone can have everything. Sometime people don’t get concert tickets. That is not your fault for buying. It is a thing that happens when everyone has the right to buy concert tickets instead of them being raffeled off or gifted. If the show was just for the biggest fans, tickets would be give out as competition prices, not to the person who buys them.

And there is no right way to enjoy the show. Some superfans never learn lyrics because they don’t particularly care. Some people buy tickets to go see random artists just for the experience. Some people just love to give gifts and find that to be the best way of interacting. Your way of doing it is just as valid as all that. You don’t have to earn any right to be there, that is what the tickets are for.

And honestly, you’d be surprised by the number of people who have never even heard of an artist or band who just show up for the show because they had a day off and it could be fun. It’s not about deserving to be there. It’s about wanting to go and getting the chance to actually do that.

I don’t know if this little pep talk eases your mind at all, but I hope it does. Learning to let go of the competetive mindset and attitude when it comes to regular life stuff is a chore and a half. I just want you to know that I would love for you to go to the show.

Thank you for reaching out. I really appreciate it ❤

[bevanne46]

Creative people…

[gardenvarietycrafts]

I wanted to use up the rest of the clips I had so I have some clips already made next time someone asks me for them, so I whipped up the rest of what I had clips for!

[crochetpiece]

DRAGON IS DONE I think that took all of the crochet energy out of me for the next few weeks so this will probably be my last crochet project for the year. Took me 4 days and I kinda wish I gave myself more time especially because the body kinda looks a little wonky when working in continuous rounds. I might go back to working on my needlepoint or sewing projects soon though. Also Niki nui for scale and also all the update photos I posted privately in various discords included him so they feel like a package deal. My coworker will not be getting a Niki nui as part of the gift.

If you want to make this little guy for yourself you can find the pattern here!

[kaleblikesfrogs]

I just realized how cheap my clothes are and I'm kinda upset about it? I know I consciously choose my wardrobe but there's no reason that I should be wearing holes in my sweats, why the thread is ripping in the waistband, why my socks have holes after only a few uses, why my jeans never last longer than a year. It's fucking stupid.

[dummerjan]

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my class is doing secret santa and i am already so stressed about it i do not like christmas i do not like compulsive gift giving i do not like receiving presents and then having to react i do not like doing those things in a group even if i more or less like the people i can barely open up the presents of a very dear friend, who knows me and my anxieties super well and is an excellent gift giver, when she's present i even get anxious about opening up the birthday gifts from my parents

but i also don't want to exclude myself but this is a nightmare for me

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

I really hope my family members appreciate the sacrifice that I made by going out Christmas shopping on my one day off, the only day of the week when I could have spent several hours alone at the house all by myself with absolutely no reason to venture into the hellish domain of retail shopping instillations for a whole day. I hope they understand what I gave up by instead spending most of that time shopping for their Christmas gifts, looking for fun trinkets I think they will enjoy, forcing myself to interact with other humans and be perfectly normal and socially acceptable for a whole 3 hours, instead of spending all of that time in my room with my music playing out loud instead of in my earbuds for once, probably sewing or drawing or otherwise happily engaged all by myself with no one else around.

[melonpond]

I friggin love arts and crafts

[tj-crochets]

Crafting update: -I have abruptly realized I probably should have already started holiday crafting but am ignoring that for now lol - three rows completely sewn together out of fourteen for the new rainbow triangle quilt! One row sewn into a row but it needs one more round of ironing before I sew it to the quilt top. Ten rows to go - I have three coworker's babies (or grandbabies) to make blankets for! I think I'll just go for simple flannel blankets instead of quilts so I can get them all done quickly, but baby blankets!!! :D - I need to mail stuff and if I promised to mail you something recently I swear I still will. I have a pile of packages to mail forming, the local post office just has very restricted hours and the asthma flareup has made leaving the house into a high-spoons activity. So, this weekend? Or early next week at the earliest - oh no oh no holiday crafting

[nerdierholler]

Latest sewing projects are these little fabric bookmarks. I’ve just been using up some of my fabric scraps. Instructions found here

[i-know-how-my-story-ends]

The sheer JOY of teaching someone a life skill and then watching them improve their life with the little human lesson you passed on

[bevanne46]

[meneatyoghurt]

Some crafters really are like "I put hours and hours into making something for someone without stopping to think about whether they'd actually like and appreciate it, and now I'm mad they're not as grateful as I think they should be or treating it like the precious gift I believe it is".