nonbinary plant witch

I knitted a pink rat for a friend 🐀🩷

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@jackfrostsdaughter

dyed this bfl wool a couple days ago and I am soooo hyped to spin it once my wheel is clear

this is gorgeous

JUST BECAUSE THE WORLD IS CRUEL DOESNT MEAN I WILL BE!!!!!!! ITS OKAY 2 FEEL!!!!!

Little men!

at my wedding yes i will have a maid of honour but why stop there. ill give all my maids titles. we will have a maid of hope. a maid of horror. a maid of horticulture. a maid of harm. a maid of healing. and of course. a maid of hogs

@solarpunk-0possum

Fuck yeah I’ll be a maid of horticulture

I was thinking about making a rainbow spread based on the pride flag colours, but Interrobang Tarot beat me to it! Not only that, it's part of a free e-book with seven queer inspired spreads! Go check it out

the (trans) seasons

prints at https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/rajamie/

The Month Of June Will Be

⊹ 𐙚 ⋆ full of blessings

⊹ 𐙚 ⋆ full of love

⊹ 𐙚 ⋆ full of happiness

⊹ 𐙚 ⋆ full of good physical health

⊹ 𐙚 ⋆ full of good mental health

⊹ 𐙚 ⋆ full of peace

⊹ 𐙚 ⋆ full of gratitude

⊹ 𐙚 ⋆ full amazing news

“she should be at the club” well i should be in the green house party paintings by salman toor

I want the rat coin purse

Item: Purse Rat, a small metal rat that compulsively seek out coins to fill themselves, returning to their attuned master once full.

@jackfrostsdaughter

@solarpunk-0possum asked for a guide on solar yarn dyeing and I wrote this up because I’m a nutcase. It’s long but hopefully informative.

Its actually really easy and there’s cool things you can do with it. Chemknits on YouTube has some fun projects too, their channel is the ultimate dye channel imo. But I’m going to give you a crash course here because I like doing that.

Let’s start with fiber.

For acid dyes it needs to be a protein based fiber, it can be a blend, so wool and nylon for example but depending on the fiber it may look slightly different. I almost exclusively use Wool2Dye4 platinum sock for my yarn base which is 75% super wash merino wool and 25% nylon but for more environmentally friendly dyeing, as super washing isn’t great, you can go non super wash wool or other natural protein based fiber. Paradise Fibers and KnitPicks also have white yarn bases. There are other companies but most won’t let you buy single skeins as they are geared toward commercial dyers. I buy in bulk cause I do a lot of dyeing.

If you get a non super wash wool yarn it can felt but this process minimizes that risk significantly. Handling it a lot, stirring or squeezing and temp changes are what cause wool to felt. I also dye 100% wool top and roving in many varieties with this same method. This technique is great for that because your felting risk is super low since you aren’t stirring or changing temps until you rinse and even then the temp change is a lot less and your fiber stays together.

If you do a fiber like silk it is going to react a lot differently so you want to play around to get the hue you want. Silk is notoriously tricky but gorgeous.

Plant based fibers need a different totally different dye and mordant though, I’ll get into that later but if you have a hemp, linen, bamboo or viscose or something you can still do this. Even synthetic fibers like white acrylic or nylon can be dyed just needs a different dye and I can’t speak to the efficacy of solar as I’ve never dyed them but nylon blend works so I don’t see why not.

Now to the dyes.

Acid reactive dyes are dyes that react and bind to fiber once acid is introduced to the party. I use white vinegar or citric acid. You can buy acid dyes from companies like Jacquard or Dharma Trading, there are several companies but these are my personal favs. Jacquard has a red, blue and yellow set that is great to start with as you mix your own colors using basic color wheel principles.

You don’t have to buy special dye though!!

You can dye with Kool Aid or Easter egg dyeing pellets or food coloring (gel or liquid), cake sprays, bath bomb colors etc. It just won’t be as color and light fast. But if you are just playing around it’s super fun and safe and I have skeins that kept their colors for years no issue. Also using those food based dyes can be done with children where I wouldn’t with acid dyes.

I haven’t read this yet but THANK YOU stuff like this is why I love tumblr I ask a question and get so much info!!!! Ur such a fucken peach I hope you have a great day I hope u hit every green light and ur bed is especially comfortable

Lovely Mother’s Day where everyone just left me alone to do fiber dyeing experiments and listen to music. About to eat a steak with mushroom and onions and twice baked potatoes and then StarDew Valley until bed.

I haven’t dyed any fiber since Christmas and was trying a new small batch process using canning jars so I made a bunch of dumb mistakes with the first batch. I’m wanting to do 3 values of each of my dyes so I have a full range for punch needle projects but instead accidentally forgot to unwind my skeins so they had a resist and then I just started mixing dyes for fun. I can always over dye the ones that come out bad. But from what I saw most came out very pretty anyway.

After that I changed the plan and decided that since my hot plate was having a hard time getting up to temp (like hours stuck at 160), uses a ton of water and energy and I’m just doing solids anyway to just solar dye them. It was so much better, now I only use enough water to cover the yarn, I can mix in the jar and just let the FL sun handle the temp. I’ll just keep doing that for each dye until I have the whole set done, which will take a few weeks but I’m excited.

Here is a fun shot of Purple Pop dispersing.

This is super cool!!! Do you have a guide for solar dyeing? I live in a place with a lot of sun and I think this would be super cool to try

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Nonbinary vent time - as in I am nonbinary and want to vent about nonbinary things.

I'm running across AFAB nonbinary folks using the term "femme" for themselves when their presentation is not feminine to then talk about issues of being assumed female/feminine.

While I do not agree with the idea that femme can only be used in the cases of butch/femme lesbian dynamics since it also has a long history in the gay community as well - it has generally always referred to people with a feminine presentation.

My guess is that this is a way to avoid saying AFAB. We can debate the pros and cons of AGAB all day - but if avoiding it leads to folks taking language away from already marginalized groups and using them in ways that are basically counter to their meaning that's gonna be a hard pass from me.

There are issues specific to feminine presentation. Let those folks have a word for that - they already face enough bullshit as it is.

If you don't have a feminine presentation want to talk about issues related to being perceived female - that is not the same as being a femme. You can say "being perceived female" when talking about those issues.

If you are literally talking about issues related to your assigned gender, don't be afraid to talk about, you know, your assigned gender. There are issues that come up from these. Its a part of all of our history and it doesn't go away just because we don't identify with it. Use the language.

The aversion to using AGAB seems to largely be rooted in not wanting to let other people categorize us by that means but means that folks are hurting folks in their communities to avoid hurt from people out of their communities.

Let's just not.

Was sending my sister some French memes (we grew up speaking it some) and it hit me how funny it is to watch these people with no feminine presentation who are using femme to avoid using their AGAB because they do not want it to be used to classify them as a woman - when femme means woman in French. It is where we borrowed it from.

Jumping through hoops and coopting language to avoid being classified as a woman while using a word that means woman is...something.

The whole reason why femmes enjoy using that term is because they're, by their nature, transgressive to femininity - either because they're wlw or assigned male - two things often considered incompatible with being feminine.

If you aren't feminine, don't like being labeled as such, don't like being assumed woman, maybe don't take on a label that literally means woman in one language from people who use it precisely because they enjoy those things?

"assumed female" and AGAB are right there.

Anyways. It just cracked me up.

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