#no sewing machine but know how to hand sew

[inkskinned]

there are days that it is hard, and unfair, and some horrible part of me wishes i could have been born in a different world. i love being queer, i hate how others react to it. when i first came out at 15, my mom whispered: please don't say that. your life would be so much harder.

it is harder.

it is also a tuesday, walking my dog. we are both skiving off of work, and yes both of us have dyed hair and pronouns. mine is patchy - it was my first time trying bleach; i didn't have enough. theirs is a resilient toadstool green. a little girl comes up to us and asks um, excuse me? is your hair real? 'cause jason says you're a fairy.

it is sunday brunch, all of us talking over each other, overfull on love. she is trying out a new name today, and we made her a cake with today's name scrawled in shaky purple letters. she laughs so much she cries and then gets frosting in her hair. someone young at a different table keeps giving us these large, wide eyes: the same look we have all been on the other side of. the kind that says, breathless: wait, is that possible?

it is a half-fight in a supermarket because he loves "dance moms" and says abby's tiktok is funny and meanwhile i think the children in that show should be allowed to sue abby lee miller for child abuse. i tell him that it led to the casual acceptance of child harassment for mainly adult views; and then i am standing, suddenly, in someone else's thrown soda. there's a white lady standing there, furious, saying something about hell-on-earth. i had forgotten i was wearing stuff with pride colors. and then it is this: he had just been casually arguing with me - and within an instant, he squares his shoulders and goes after her like i am his sister

on saturday i sat in a circle while beca played with my hair and we were all over 30 and we laughed about how much happier we are being this old, how much more we appreciate our community. 25 minutes from now, we will be on stage to dance in baggy beige clothing, but for now we look on with envy to the dancers in loud-and-bright buttondowns. where are they getting these shirts! i cry, distraught. everyone laughs. one of our friends has a mushroom witch hat. this would have been cringey in high school, probably. instead we are all delighted with each other; happy just to be here and alive and moving

it's that last week my new friends cried with joy for me when they heard i'm getting top surgery. every so often i have the honor of being the first person someone feels comfortable enough to tell. i'm trying to make long fluttery butterfly wings to wear to pride; but i don't know anything about fabric or dye, so my friends have been sending me their personal advice.

i think in a different poem i would talk about how sometimes you walk into a room and put the mask back on. but i'm sleepy and my whole brain is fuzzy so i think in this one, it's a monday, and my dog and i took a nap on a couch, and i had missed texts from friends. i used to wake up lonely. i think this poem is about walking into a room and seeing someone and just knowing, the way you just-know-sometimes, and then giving them that little smile, and seeing them light up with joy and relief. it is how we always seem to be able to find each other in a crowded room. how we always seem to make friends with each other before even we know-it-to-be-true. it is saying: we're very different people; but i belong to you.

it is harder, yes. but it comes with a built-in family.

[tinyperson00]

when your pants have gotten holes in them and you don't have the money to buy new ones, but then remember that you've literally sewn whole dresses and jackets from scratch-

Holes are now patched like nothing even happened :3

[moe-broey]

I've hired this thing to stand there. Menacingly.

Wow, he's so good at tha--

Nevermind.

He also sits very politely though (needs assistance to do so, but hey! He's polite.)

[cartoonrival]

i mean like super basic mending. could you hem a pair of pants as long as no one looked too closely

[grasslandgirl]

uh oh having ideas outside of my realistic ability range (wanting to make a maxi skirt out of an old tapestry I got from a friend)

[loser-user-noaccuser]

I need to get a dress altered but all alteration places are unavailable for alterations or just for fancy clothes which is not what i need so like idk if i should just ask or if i should try find someone locally who could probably help me with it

[kingdom-falls]

Ah the wonders of bag lining

[apuzzledprince]

guys the character hyperfixaction is starting to make me want to hand sew a plushie

[werebutch]

Slowly becoming a textiles artist that never really learned how to sew

[reanimatedgh0ul]

ik this scene was played off as a joke but if i'm being honest this is like one of the few aspects when it comes to sam being alt that the show gets right in that it would make sense for sam to be diy w his fashion

[thefaultinourchickennuggets]

i'm crocheting a bag and wanted to add a fabric lining so i'm looking up how to do it and bitch!! she's got so much shit just to add some fabric to yarn, i don't have an iron!!

[unopenablebox]

emboldened by my.... i won’t call it success at making a project bag. because i have not yet put a drawstring into it so it is not even a bag yet

emboldened by my lack of failure at handsewing two 12″ straight seams, i have.... bought two more yards of fabric...............for some reason

[stealchain]

I feel like im constantly sewing my binder 😩😩

[rainey-day-crafts]

So not only is the sewing project I'm doing being done on a rinky dink mini sewing machine, it's supposed to be hand sewn, and it's not a beginner level pattern.

[toxicrevolver]

What do we do when we’re mending clothing?

We turn on Supernatural for the umpteenth time.

I swear I’ve watched season 1 & 2 like four times, and yet I’ve never actually finished the show.

[nillisaie]

Oh, speaking of cons and cosplays, I also made an Eevee cosplay for my mom :3

I got her to play Let's Go Eevee and she just absolutely adores Eevee now

It wasn't anything too challenging, just some quick ears and tail made out of felt and the neck fluff with some fleece I had lying around

She's super happy with it