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Some progress of everyone's favourite dictator💋
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My huck lace scarf is complete! It has amazing iridescence - really hard to capture on camera but I tried my best. It mostly looks green with a hint of gold shimmer from the orange warp. Now I just need to twist the fringe and wash.
In other news my warping wheel arrived, and it is so nice to warp on! I have already warped my next warp, for a weft-faced rug.
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I saw a post you made where you used the term “sewing practice” and I really loved that term. Do you have any advice for starting a sewing practice? I really want to start but I keep getting so intimidated. I have a machine and thread and fabric and patterns and everything I need but I’m so nervous to start. Im not sure why sewing specifically is so intimidating to me. I have been getting quite good at being a beginner/not great at things but sewing continues to be too scary
This is an interesting question! It had never occurred to me to think through what that would look like for someone who wasn't raised in one, since I've been sewing since I was a child. Let me try now. (edit: let me try now, then forget about this nearly-complete draft for ages. Sorry! Hope it's still useful, @deathcabforbooty)
My main gig is actually academic philosophy of science. In that field, we use the term 'scientific practice' to refer to the whole set of procedures, materials, and labour that goes into the making of scientific knowledge. The guy in a white lab coat dripping liquids into beakers is part of the scientific practice, but so is the person who cleans the beakers, the person who tracks and maintains the inventory of the lab, the contents of that inventory, the data processing methods that come after the scientist has dripped the liquid into the beaker, the funding scheme that determined that this is the experiment the scientist would conduct and what their budget would be, and all the techniques that everyone involved in this process use. If you want to read more about this in the context of science, I'd highly recommend the work of Hasok Chang. He's great.
In the context of sewing, the way to think of this is as a kind of ecosystem. The ecosystem has an output - whatever finished objects you intend to produce - but it also has a whole network of inputs, processes, and standards that define it. To successfully Do Sewing over a long period of time, you can't just think about one project at a time, you need to think about the whole system. This isn't an 'everything from scratch' kind of thought. The point is not to send you on a penitent tracing of the whole history of every ruler and pair of scissors. It's simply how to set up a system that works. As in the case of the scientist, there's a lot you can't make in-house. The scientist needs to buy their beakers and chemicals from somewhere, too, and they can't start doing science until they've got the right ones. And they can't know which are the right ones until they know what they're doing and why.
I'm going to break this down into three categories: Supplies, Equipment, Methods, and Goals.
This got really long, so the rest will be beneath this cut.
Supplies
A lot of new sewists try to do things one project at a time. Pick out a pattern, pick out a fabric, buy as much of it as the pattern says, get the notions, use all of it, and then hey presto, one garment. That's not how a laboratory operates. If you're committed to the idea that you're going to do this a whole bunch, you need supplies. You need supply lines. You need to know what to spend money on and what to not spend money on. You need to know where the good deals are.
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tome…. she consumes my brain
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riza hawkeye is the smartest fucking character in fma because she looked at herself, a shy sheltered daughter of landed gentry, and she looked at roy, an arsehole with a heart of gold desperately in need of a tragic backstory, and she saw the genre they were in, shōnen anime, and then CLAWED her way out of fridged wife-hood thru sheer grit and long-distance murder and we salute
meanwhile
roy: so if I'm the one who actually conspires to take down the main villain and successfully coups the government and who is in charge of the country afterwards
scar: and if i'm the one trying to avenge my people and who pieces together my brother's plans and gets revenge
al: and if I'm the one who actually lost the most from human transformation with a likable personality and a unique design
all of them: why are YOU the protagonist
Edward, cackling like a Disney villain: BECAUSE I DRESS LIKE ONE! *high fives riza*
wow
I SAID WHAT I SAID
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I just think it's crazy when something has an objectively amazing story and it's hitting all the right buttons but there are just. So few women. It's crazy. It's crazy to me that STILL we are in a place where women are not equally represented in media. Like. It's really normal to have a cast where there's only a few women and they never really speak to one another. That's NORMAL. it's wild I'm going insane how are we letting all these amazing stories exist without WOMEN
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please consider these my first offerings to the mp100 fandom 🫶 this show changed my brain chemistry n im so happy theres a big fandom presence here
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If you enjoyed this book you should read every other book in the world for extra textual context. All things are intricately related to one another.
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I don't have the space or energy to fall down the "what if I grew my own flax" or "what if I raised my own sheep" rabbitholes so I thought I was safe from that particular brand of fiber arts madness.
however. silkworms.
Silkworms are great and I love them but unless you have either:
-a large ventilated room to dedicate to silkworms + a mulberry tree you dont mind defoliating
Or
-several hundred dollars to spend on artificial chow and creating a large ventilated indoors environment
Then Don't.
Silkworms are super easy to raise to the degree of like... a couple dozen at a time, but it takes hundreds of worms to make a decent volume of silk. And speaking from firsthand experience, raising them in the hundreds can turn disastrous.
They are super super prone to disease, is the issue. If you keep them in an environment too crowded with not enough airflow, then a viral disease known as pebrine will rip through the colony and kill a lot of worms. It can be passed from mother to egg as well. Artificial chow cost adds up as well, on my last batch of 200 worms I spent a total of $600 on food. It is really really not worth it if you do not have the time, money, and space to dedicate to them!
Fair enough, I appreciate the words of warning! I am more interested in the materiality and the process than creating large volumes of silk, so good to know that if I do look into it further I probably just want to raise a few worms as a curiosity instead of trying anything at scale.