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This is gonna be so fun and chaotic I cannot wait. Camp counselors Beauyasha, Brennan Lee “LARP Camp” Mulligan playing a teen camper, Sam’s sister at the table for the first time! So many shenanigans on the horizon XD
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I keep seeing the leather/pleather vs denim jacket poll over and over again with all different sorts of discourse about how there is no plastic-free pleather and like, that's TRUE, there isn't, but honestly I DO think people who don't want to use animal products* also deserve to look cool
and so my suggestion is that y'all google "waxed cotton jacket" or "waxed canvas jacket" plus like, "motorcycle" or whatever style you think is cool, because there's a plastic free leather-look material that is strong and durable and waterproof and doesn't use animal products** AND is plastic free already out there and some of the clothes that you can get made out of it look sick as hell.
*ignoring the fact that most leather is meat by-product that would be going to waste anyway
**except beeswax but if you're going to object to that then honestly there's no helping you
waxed cotton looks so good and wears-in to a gorgeous patina and when it loses its finish you can re-wax it and that just makes it look even better and more patinaed instead of flaking off in horrible bits of microplastic leaving you with a ruined piece of clothing
Textiles are amazing! Make the most of them!
I thought I could just quickly make a few pieces of patchwork fabric, using my shiny new equipment and my overflowing scrap box. And I did make them:
But as it turns out, the sewing gods also take tribute in blood from time to time, and these rolling knifes for patchwork (no idea what the actual English name is) are really, really sharp.
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🌿 WIP 🌿
Hello everyone, I hope you're all feeling the spring sunshine! 🌞
I've been working on this Gunne Sax dupe for a week and I'm so pleased with the ribbon! 🎀 Just a few tweaks and it'll be ready for wear :) wish me luck!
Made from my self drafted sundress pattern with vintage green sprig sheets, lace and ribbon from my thrifted stash.
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heyyyy let's talk about this. I don't mean to hate, but trying shit like this has really burned me on a lot of things promoted in permaculture circles.
Like I've actually done this, and am speaking from years of experience. Zone 6/7, temperate climate, on a dry hot slope in the mountains of NC:
- Unless you are CONSTANT and HARDCORE about pruning your fruit trees to keep them the same fucking size for the rest of their lives, they're going to shade out most everything. That's fine if your trees are established I guess but our trees were/are young.
- you can actually strangle and fuck up trees, especially young trees, with comfrey. I regret planting Comfrey SO MUCH. I've been trying to kill it for at least 8 years. It has been trying to kill my Rainier cherry tree, which has been severely stunted, thanks to the insanely aggressive roots of the comfrey. fuck comfrey and I regret ever listening to anyone who suggested it. so many permie people have never actually tried the things they suggest...
- Anything planted under this fruit tree is shaded, so your yields are going to be less. WAY less. Than if you just had a blueberry patch and elsewhere had your fruit trees. I've compared the yields from our food forest which resembles this picture and our friends who have the patches. The have MUCH higher yields, they're growing a lot more food. And it's actually easier to manage pests / diseases when you grow them in little patches. No one is growing in giant monocultures here or on tumblr, it's ok to grow things in little patches. I am now trying to UNDO the above picture, via lots of transplanting.
- Blueberries? You'll have a lot less fruit and wildlife doesn't believe in sharing - you'll never get any (if you're ok with that, that's cool, just know that when investing the time/money/water/soil/etc. in the plants). Lavender not in full sun? Good luck, and also you're likely to see more health issues like powdery mildew, and good luck dealing with that in an edible context. Rosemary is the same story as lavender. Garlic too.
- Basil? Also best in full son. Strawberries? Will get completely run over / shaded out by the other plants because they're little groundcovers.
- The daffodils will be fine though. The alliums can have issues with powdery mildew in shady areas.
- None of this will necessarily be apparent when you're planting. You'll realize it 5, 8 years down the road that you've made a huge mistake.
The real secret is that food forests and complex guilds like above are actually a pretty shitty way to grow food in such a setting, though they are very beautiful.
The critical part is that most food in the garden is actually from ANNUALS. People who insist on food forests are constantly chasing the sunlight, trying to find space for those annuals, and if you read those permie/food forests books closely even the authors admit it.
It's happened to us, we have SO many fruit trees everywhere. I constantly argue with V about their pruning, their location, etc. b/c every year I lose more and more spaces for the annuals. But the annual beds you can get 3 crops a year out of here!
Our friends who have things in cute little patches in a given plant in a raised bed? They outgrow us by a huge, huge amount.
If you're interested food production, skip the above picture.
Another part that gets left out is that the concept that the permaculture food forest evolved from came from the TROPICS. Where the light is much more direct and thus more intense and you actually want some shade for that reason!
They say they got the idea from looking at the forest, and seeing seven(7!) layers of vegetation (iirc). Well, I went out to my forest, and you know how many layers I have?
Three. Trees, shade loving shrubs, and very shade tolerant low growing herbaceous perennials. Like moss.
So, to illustrate the point further, proper farms in the tropics sometimes do a form of what you could call a forest garden, like how cocoa beans are grown- as the understory in a tropical rainforest. But even there in the information I've seen, they don't approach even five layers of vegetation, aside from those doing it to prove a point rather than to grow food and make a living.
Meanwhile, here at 47 degrees north (roughly half way between the equater and the pole) blueberries are grown in full sun. Traditionally, the native peoples of this area used fire to encourage open woodland-prairies over closed-canopy forests, and the major food crops all come from sunny areas- and they do bare more fruit with more sun.
One of the major issues in American culture and permaculture is that people hear of an idea, get real excited, and forget about all the nuance and details that make the idea work, instead treating it as a one-size-fits-all solution.
So, yeah, I could see a version of this idea working if you live somewhere where the light is so intense that plants like tomatoes get sun burn without at least some shade (this is a thing that people have told me happens, I've never actually seen it), but it's not as broadly applicable as a lot of people would like.
And yeah, never plant comfrey unless you're 100% sure you will want it in that spot forever, and certainly don't plant more than one per family, unless you have goats or something that will happily eat it. It is robust, vigorous, and I've yet to see someone successfully remove an established plant.
All of this.
I personally am fine with not having high-yield annuals like....almost all vegetables, because I get hit by periods of increased disability that make annuals hard. I'd rather grow absurd quantities of fruit to eat, store, and donate to the shelter nearby.
But almost everything they say to plant under my lovely fruit trees that aren't just there to shade the roots and hold in moisture (outside the ring of mulch!) are just gonna get shaded out.
I can put my currants in some shade, but I wouldn't put them under a fruit tree because I don't want them competing for water.
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The line movement on this garment never ceases to amaze me. The swoop at the waist with the embroidery! The way the tendrils fade out at the shoulders! (The secret darts for shaping!)
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Ugh. I am a disgrace. Have a project to sew and I could/should really use it as an opportunity to practice and use my machine and another part of me is like 'oh but you could just hand sew it sitting in bed'.
(Also, i am afraid of the machine. It is a creature I barely comprehend.)
I recommend talking to it, maybe give it a cute name, some stickers, etc. It always helps me when I need to use big, loud machines.
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if you love downloading pdfs you are likely to never use again you have GOT to get into knitting
if you like opening tabs and downloading files. by god is ravelry the website for you
But beware. There is a danger you will unlock a new troubling issue: buying loads of yarn you're never going to use.
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I got my sewing machine back on Wednesday, and I've been busy. Have a look:
Both are made from bedsheets I found on the street, and the yellow-black cuffs and waistband were an old top a friend gave me. The only new thing in all of this is the thread, and the elastic in the waistband of the trousers.
I'm happy with my first attempts at both, and will now be altering the dress pattern to fit better. The most difficult thing was the hemline on the dress. I do not have anything I can put it on except myself, and no other person to help either.
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Video captions: And stop trying to show your ex what they missed out on! Stop trying to teach your family a lesson for not believing in you! Stop trying to shit on your haters! Do it for you! Do it because you deserve it! Do it for YOU! Water your dreams with love! Don’t put no hate and resentment, and try to — “oh Imma fucking show them, Imma show” — FUCK THEM! Fuck them, do it for you! They don’t matter! They NEVER mattered.
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Had to do a double take when I first saw this; I thought the peel was a creature. May I gift you: pineapple dragon?
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Diy doesn't have to be Make A New Jacket From Scratch btw, it can be turning Jacket You Don't Wear into Jacket You DO Wear by adding a simple patch, adding a cool charm to your zipper, or dying it a new color! :) diy is about doing whatever you can do, with what you have, however you feel comfortable.
Don't psyche yourself out of a good thing! It takes time and practice but you can Get There!! what the practiced diy-ers with all the coolest projects don't tell you is they were beginners too once upon a time!
I started with putting a patch on my skirt to mend a tear a year ago, now I'm trying to sew my first shirt and my first dress. It's a journey, and you decide for yourself what it looks like.