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I finally made my first yarn wig after 10+ years of crocheting my cosplays...
Props to OP for making a wig out of yarn! That must take true skill and dedication! Bravo @scarletstitchstudios 👏🏻
princess-unipeg reblogged
I feel like something that doesnt get talked about enough is how fast fashion is coming to hobbies as well. Sure, you can sew, knit, and crochet something better than youd buy in store, but good luck finding quality materials
Want a fabric that doesnt fray from being gently caressed? Want yarn thats not 100% plastic and splits if you touch it wrong? Good luck finding that if you dont have a genuinely good crafts store near you.
Go on any thread where people are trying to figure out where to buy fabric. 50% of it is people saying big stores are servicable, online stores work, or the like, and the other 50% are talking about how bad the quality is or how the quality of a website dropped because it was bought out
Were running into a problem where fast fashiob is so integrated into society that even the ability to make your own, comfortable and long lasting, clothes is being threatened by capitalism
facts. joann’s hasn’t been the paragon of garment fabrics lately anyway, but they just filed for bankruptcy.
I buy a lot of garment fabric online. even deadstock, which is meant to be an environmentally friendly option (the manufacturer isn’t using it all up so you get designer fabrics at a discount!) even that fabric can be… less than optimal
and don’t get me started on yarn and the decimation of the fiber milling industry (or just read vanishing fleece by clara parkes)
princess-unipeg reblogged
Gonna tell ya right now that as long as you put lifelines in your work that's a boldface lie. If you lose count in knitting you can just put the needles down and come back to it later and count out where you are. Crochet is practically unreadable. Plus if you put a purl where a knit should be you can drop one stitch and unravel to the mistake and ravel it back up.
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Realized I never posted this here!
It took two years, but I made the Annie's Cathedral Rose Window Afghan! First time I made a full blanket, really love it!
Well if this isn’t the most GORGEOUS thing ever 💜🖤💜
princess-unipeg reblogged
Had a revelation recently and thought it might help other people too.
There is absolutely NO shame in having a ton of projects on the go and switching between or even dropping them on a whim.
Hobbies are meant to be FUN.
You can have 20 writing projects, or knitting, or whatever your thing is, and putting them down for a bit or abandoning them is a-okay.
I personally would never think that someone who started playing a video game and then decided to play another before it was finished was a quitter, so why am I so judgemental towards myself?
Doing your hobbies in a way that brings you joy isn't selfish or weak, it's...literally the whole point of them. Go nuts!
princess-unipeg reblogged
My good froggy!!
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1. This is awesome and amazing and should be celebrated
2. This person looks SO HAPPY and I love that for them
3. That Snorlax is crocheted. Crochet cannot be replicated by machine. It physically cannot... So someone, a human, made that thing, by HAND. As a crocheter myself, that is incredible and should also be celebrated.
I want to cry. I am a crocheter and it takes me an hour, an hOUR. To make a single octopus! And said octopus (right) is only maybe 3-4 inches tall. The jellyfish (left) takes me a little over and hour because it’s a little bigger, but still.
It’s also a lot of mind numbing repetition over and over and over. My hand starts to cramp after consistent crocheting for three or more hours. So just the fact that someone has the time, patience, materials, and creativity to be able to do something like the Snorlax? Damn, you have all my respect.
princess-unipeg reblogged
Winter + star-themed witch's hat I made for Halloween! ⭐❄️🌙
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Finished this a while ago, only took a year and a half of procrastinating
