noxx's notions

Learning to knit turned out to be an early step in remembering my own small powers.

No good sweater options? I'll knit my own. Pants don't fit quite right? I'll alter them. Hole worn in my favorite pajamas? I'll patch it. Shoes don't match my clothes? I'll dye them. Cabinet not exactly what I hoped for? Paint.

As much as these are small things, I think it's genuinely transformative to take ownership of your space and your things in this way.

Maybe next I can work to transform my relationships, my gatherings, my communities.

Prom night!

Here are some pictures of the finished dress and her hair. She looked amazing!

I made a little reticule for her phone, and she had the idea of adding a hook to her skirt for it - perfect!

She looked absolutely amazing and I'm so proud of the work we did on this dress!

Always have to do a double take when this shows up on my dash, because I can't believe I made that. Also hard to believe that was almost a year ago.

Here is a twirl to celebrate

Devastating: local lace maker realizes she made a mistake 2 diamonds ago and the bobbins with extra thread on them haven’t been the workers this entire time

Hey i’m a fashion design student so i have tons and tons of pdfs and docs with basic sewing techniques, pattern how-tos, and resources for fabric and trims. I’ve compiled it all into a shareable folder for anyone who wants to look into sewing and making their own clothing. I’ll be adding to this folder whenever i come across new resources

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16uhmMb8kE4P_vOSycr6XSa9zpmDijZSd?usp=sharing

Updated just now with new hand sewing resources (mainly buttonholes) and textbook pdfs on fashion history, fashion illustration, and thinking through designs!

OP I owe you my life

OP you are the greatest person currently in my life. You beautiful, thoughtful creature.

You are a saint thank you so much

@thiamma look!

My terrible H&M jeans live to see another day! This fix: the inexplicably worn out outer seam on the right leg!

And my sketch, which better demonstrates how shredded that section of the pants seam really was.

Someday your hands will be old and wrinkled, the skin spotted and bunching over your knuckles. And a child will watch you make something. It's a simple task, you'll have done it a thousand times before. But to that child, the smooth, confident way your hands move will seem like impossible magic. You have to keep living.

prev these tags have me crying. this is absolutely what it's all about

This time came out way better than the first few tries!

Partly the change of thread, I think, I could better see what was happening, but also what I was doing started to make sense to me.

The end instructions confused me though, I think that's obvious, lol

Still, I'm really pleased with how it came out.

Finally turned the corner, which means pins out! Much happier with it this time, though I am noticing I am much better at the hearts which start at the top than the bottom up ones. For some reason in that specific case my plaits are rubbish.

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

I am in love with you /p

Adding Faceblind Prince Charming and Cinderella

21. The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

22. The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

adding the Doctors Without Borders one

I LOVE tumblr storytime, so here’s a bunch more your weekend reading. Enjoy!

24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children

25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard

26. Haunted house

27. Shark hero was about to go rogue

28. Grandma lives in the woods comic

29. A Different Aftermath comic

30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)

31. It’s A Date comic

32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay

33. Narrative Town

34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic

35. Robot Apocalypse

36. The Statues That Do Not Weather

37. Kushiel

38. Tooth Fairy

39. Alien abduction

40. Felonious wish-granting

41. When humans met actual space orcs

42. Space cousins

Curate everything.

Curate your hygiene routine, curate your clothing items, curate your home, curate your habits, curate your nutrition, curate your environment, curate your circles, curate you socials, curate the content you consume, curate your social skills, curate your financial situation, curate your emotions, curate the version of you that shows up in public, curate your hobbies, curate your knowledge.

Live with intention, it’s too easy to get distracted and it’s harder to come back each time.

It's wild seeing the people hating on this, who will then reblog Hit Da Bricks or "eat off the good china" memes with no self-awareness.

I think some folks are conflating lifestyle curation with presenting a capital-L Lifestyle for others to consume.

This isn't about neatly capturing, tagging, and running filters on every facet of your life. It's about being mindful of who and what you choose to let into your life.

I'm willing to bet we all have things in our lives that cause pain/frustration that we could let go of or otherwise change, from toxic "friends" to that coffee mug you never use that takes up space in your cabinet.

These are all examples of questions I have asked myself that led to more mindful curation in my life (ymmv):

It really helps to have a little voice in your head that pipes up when you make decisions on autopilot, especially when the reason is "that's just how it's always been".

There's a lot we don't have control of in our lives, and a lot we where do have control, but are either afraid to exercise that control, or have never even *considered* we have control.

Sometimes, curation is changing your gender presentation. Sometimes, it is buying duplicate cleaning supplies because you know you won't ever bother to go downstairs to get Windex to clean the upstairs bathroom mirror. It can be as radical as makes sense for you. But it should be mindful, and ultimately, honest.

one of my favorite things about being a fiber artist in this day and age is that everything is still mine.

patterns are still being made in physical books.

paying for a pattern on ravelry gives me a PDF file, not a link or a subscription or some stupid NFT style thing.

anything i make by hand with a fancy pattern, any stephen west pattern I put together- no AI can replicate that.

sure, you can try to use it to write a pattern, but it’s going to make even less sense than whatever other AI “art” slop is being put out.

sure, maybe it’s because what we do has already been “replaced” by easy textiles and fast fashion and big brands. but a hand knit object will live longer and look better and has far more care put into it, just like any other hand-created piece of art.

i just. feel really blessed as an artist that this is the community that i have. support your LYS, get involved in your community, make your friends’ wardrobes a little more sustainable.

what if (hear me out) buying more books will heal me?

planning to start birdwatching soon cause all of my hobbies go like this

and I need a hobby that goes like this

to try and fix my back ya know?

GUYS GUESS WHAT

I HAVE SEEN A BIRD