#mending matters

[mycraftingjourney]

sweater cuff mend

So, I bought a (second hand) sweater and it had a hole in the cuff. Of course I only realised while wearing it for the first time, but in the evening I got to mending it before it got bigger.

Here's some progress pics and thoughts:

as you can see, the hole isn't too big, but definitely visible and already starting to get bigger. Before mending, I cut away the unraveled yarn to get the hole as clean as possible.

My first idea was to swiss darn it, because I wanted to try it for ages but don't really have any sweaters with big enough stitches that are in need of mending. However, it turns out that swiss darning a hole on ribbing that's bigger than only one "rib" is a veeery bad idea for the first try of someone who also has never held a knitting needle in their life. So, in hindsight it's very clear that this try went like this:

(this is also the better, second try. The first time around I was concentrating so hard on the stitches that I forgot to anchor them on the sides at all...)

the main reason I gave up on this really was the fact that the hole was bigger than that rib and to mend it properly I would have had to make more than the two stitches that are the width of the rib. Instead I decided on a classic darn:

I darned from the inside, mainly out of habit, so it's very small from the outside. I also added some running stitches around the hole to help keep it in place, hence why it looks a bit messy.

Here it is from the inside:

the darn itself didn't take long in the end. I used some sashiko thread that had pretty much the same weight as the yarn used in the sweater. the colours are not something i'd usually use but i thought they fitted the sweater quiet welll. I like that it's a bit more interesting with the different colours than a solid coloured thread.

#visible mending #mending #mending matters #mycraftingjourney #diy #sustainability #sustainable fashion #solarpunk #slow fashion #q

[pollyna]

Bradley grows up in the front seat of his mom's car and in the backseat of his uncle Tom's - soon to be called Pops - car. If Mav had a driver's licence, he would probably have sat a little here and a little there. It becomes part of his universe, and Bradley will end up cherishing every single conversation he had with both of them while they were driving. He won't get the chance to drive his mom around, to young to even reach all the pedals, but he is going to be old and capable enough to drive his pops to the hospital and back every time he needs to, and he will confine dad in the back because he made the mistake of having him in the front once and he got this close to stopping and leaving him miles from home.

At some point, it becomes pretty normal for Ice to sit on the back with Mav just so they can have a conversation, all three of them, with Maverick translating Ice's sign language.

#bradley rooster bradshaw #carole bradshaw #tom iceman kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #mav doesn't have a driver's license #idk if this makes sense #but bear with me #domesticity #about growing up with different people and where you get to sit with them #post top gun(1986) #icemav #icemav + baby goose #(who's not so baby anymore) #they're trying to mend things #this is as the mission was in 2016 not 2020 #-> not that matters lol

[spotsupstuff]

If five pebbles was ever built for zephyr the same way he was built for moon, would he ever see her as a mentor?

i imagine that he'd!!! be more open with her than he is with Moon, because their personalities match better. Zephyr isn't really the doting, overprotective kind. She didn't have the chance to learn how to be affectionate and warm even though she wishes she could be and she needs to watch her own systems like a hawk 24/7 so she ain't got the attention to spare to nag at him even if she wanted to. they'd end up bonding over their anger at the injustice of the Iterators' fate, though

Pebs would probably take someone else as Mentor™ (she wouldn't be capable of fullfilling the expectations of that role), but he'd probably still look up to her a lot. she'd be like. a not-the-title mentor in the specific field of being angry at their situation and doing Something about it

#Spot says stuff #rain world #rw #oc tag #oc: abet zephyr #this scenario is such a headscratcher cuz like- zephyr is kept a secret from the public out of shame of the higher ups of her condition #not as a Person mind you but as a waste of resources. girl cant even Iterate because shes so broken. she cant do the One thing shes made- #-to do. oh what a shame. what a stain on our maps. the ancients never put Any effort into fixing her so making an entire Iterator right- #-next to her whos secondary goal is to Help her? unimaginable in canon. shed hate it because she thinks of herself as a lost cause #and now this poor kid has to deal with being Made for this lost cause. no matter what he does he will never be able to help her enough #it will be forever an itch and a heartbreak that cannot be mended #born directly into constant trauma just like her. instead of fixing Her they brought another life into this. she hates it so so much. #but pebbles himself shed fucking Love. hes her little perfectly self-sufficient boy and shed fucking throw hands with Suns for him #srry for the rambling these two combo'd together live rent free in me brain

[frozentothetouch]

“it’s like you’re a stranger.”

#idk angst #atsv #across the spiderverse #mary jane watson #gwen stacy #spider gwen #myart:) #posted this on twt and ig but this is an updated ver #fixed a few things #the girls are fighting wooo #ok have come back to ramble in tags #I feel like their relationship is somewhat like the comics #a weird tension between the two #after the events of itsv Gwen is even more distant and mj feels like she can’t connect #so no matter how much mj cares about gwen there’s this rift between them that gwen doesn’t put any effort into mending #so mj confronts gwen with this line #and I feel like all gwen can muster is a > you wouldn’t understand #they’ve got a lil toxic situationship yknow #I just would love to explore their friendship

[gibaraltar]

as far as social media sites go, even if some people on here are. A Lot. And there's bad corners, as per everywhere... Still, compared to Some Other Large Sites there is an appreciation for the Human here. The experience of being human, the joy of creation, exploration of the reasons we share things and the motivations and experiences of authors. Of reflecting on how works impacted us. How even simple funne posts or whatever impact us.

#in the corner ive pruned for myself at least i feel much surer that we all understand that intention in media matters lol #like. i saw a post by some tech shithead about how “the future could be that we never have to watch or read the same thing twice” #implicitly that thanks to AI we'd never have to consume the same thing twice. #and i just. felt like an alien #bc even though he was obviously being ratioed to fuck #very few people were saying explicitly “that would blow who even wants that” #but i know for a damn fact all my mutuals here who have read the same 3 books on rotation for decades bc they were formative got me lol #personal #text post #People who don't create and have in fact removed the idea that they could ever create are black holes of humanity btw #even if you think you aren't creative most of us have at least some hobby where we make SOMETHING #whether you took to mending your own shoes or DIYing or playing guitar or dnd or woodworking or 3D printing or collecting retro synths #you likely have something you relax with #channel feelings into #these people seem to have never once experienced the human concepts of exploration or creation or play. all they have is consumption. #and its making me even more mental than i already am lol

[spicypussywave]

yay! they got together

#Guy mended the relationship Tew threw away #but ig that don't matter #atleast they communicated #my dear gangster oppa #naomivents

[badnew2005]

the way bitey fixed tomshiv i think it could fix macden

#post north dakota macden i am always thinking of you . There Is a Hole That Can’t Be Filled #trying to just go back to the way it was BUT WE CANT !!!! we can never go back to before north dakota #because it’s not Just north dakota . it’s mac coming out. it’s mac being recognised as gay more frequently by the gang . it’s blatant and #you can’t ignore it . and if mac’s called gay then dennis will be too. if you just stay as you were #but you miss it. subtle static domesticity. everything was nothing and it didn’t matter #but you’re getting old. people are expecting you to Be Someone . there’s less and less excuses #BUT. bitey . it could unlock you #reminiscent of that physical closeness that wouldn’t mark you as cursed #the way it does now #express your deep viscious passionate hatred and all it’s faces #what’s behind the hate. who he really is . who you are. together and separate #mend the bridge. that you once stood on while it was still alight. hoping he could catch alight but all you did was burn yourself #there’s no coming back from north dakota #but maybe bitey will be the unspoken tools to mend your home

[cinnamon-phrog]

Just binged the dhmis webseries and tv show back to back I'm seeing stars

#👄🍝 #🎨🌻 #🦆📋 #🚦🏠 #NO BUT YOU'VE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I LOVE THEM. THEY'RE ONE OF THE REASONS I'M FREE NOW #I HAVE A WHOLE YEAR. NO. THE REST OF MY LIFE TO MYSELF FINALLY. #i was always looking for something to bide my time with and they're the most healthy fulfilling thing i have #i love their flaws. i hope they wouldn't mind mine. #so many awful parts of the last few years have been mended by just the thought of them. them being their silly blunt selves. #i've said this before i think but before ileft Her i felt like them. it's why i felt connected to them. #what i thought of before i left Her was them. they'd be happy for me hopefully. #i'd escape and live a life of freedom even if it scared me. and i'd do it for them. #everytime i'm upset or angry or afraid i think of what they might probably say and i don't feel so bad then. #yessssssss they're not real. but the joy i get is and that's what matters. #i hope to talk more about them even more than i have this year [sorry in advance]

[stardustedknuckles]

I like the idea that studying magic is possible even for those born without a knack for it but it requires so much fucking physics and math. And there's different kinds of intelligence, so even with her headband of intellect Beau struggles and struggles under Caleb's patient tutelage and it all pays off when Beau is able to use prestidigitation to snuff the light out from bed, cool a rag on Yasha's neck when she's feeling ill, flavor a drink when they're out of honey for their tea, and so forth. It's an anniversary present with a lot of uses practical and entirely gratuitous, and it is absolutely the last time Beau wants to find herself anywhere near math full of fucking letters, what the fuck that's not where those go, Caleb.

#My DM gives all players a cantrip as a starting treat #And at this point I just feel like every character has the potential to learn one #Like if magic doesnt have to be innate to be learned #Then it's just a matter of wanting to learn it right? #beauregard lionett #Beauyasha #Yasha #Beau WOULD pick the cantrip with the most applications lol #It probably took months #She keeps mumbling about how she should've gone with mending #For reasons #That mostly involve torn clothes but also at least it's good for doing ONE THING #Overachiever in all things that's Beau

[mycraftingjourney]

mended sock appreciation post

I'm very specific with the kinds of socks I can wear (sensory issues, yay), so it's great to be able to mend them and keep them in rotation for longer. I used to just wear holey sucks but that's not really sensory-friendly either. Mending them with fun colours also gives an extra amount of joy for me.

#mending #mending matters #visible mending #sustainability #sustainable fashion #i guess these also count for halloween / spooky stuff except for the butterflies #darning #tw bats #tw butterflies #tw ghosts #< just in case #mycraftingjourney

[dcforts]

losing my mind over tammy asking patty "what do you want?" and patty saying "not this"

and neil asking patty "what do you want?" and patty saying she wants to sit out there and smoke and not worry about what anybody else needs and that maybe if she could do that she could figure something else out

AND sam saying to allison "i think she'll really want to see you"

and then patty finally sitting out to smoke and saying

"let's die alone together"

that's what she wants!! that's what she wants !!

#kcfh #kcfh spoilers #kevin can f**k himself spoilers #pattison #patty broke my heart and mended it #not the perfect ending - i would have loved to see allison fight kevin's reveng plot - but im not not satisfied either #they are together - that's all it matters #also good job diane !! #and im kinda sorry we don't have the time to see neil grow #kcfh finale #WHAT DO YOU WANT PATTY

[theamazingannie]

I’ve literally had multiple people ask me straight to my face if I was bisexual because they suspected I was and even tho I knew in all three of those situations that the person I was talking to was safe (either queer themself or an ally), it was really scary to be forced in that moment to come out without my consent, or feel forced to lie about it in order to protect myself, regardless of whether I needed to or not. I can’t imagine being a world famous celebrity and having fan pages dedicated to my alleged sexuality, analyzing every behavior I did and whether or not it was queer, calling all of my relationships PR relationships or beards because they are so convinced I am a homosexual. Either erasing my bisexuality to call me a lesbian or forcefully outing me. People who don’t even know me. It’s scary and honestly creepy enough having someone who knows you personally do it, but someone who’s never even met you? And doing it in front of the whole world? I would never feel safe enough to come out, not just because of the risk of homophobic attacks, but because the people who claim to support me are the ones that made me do it

#taylor swift #Gaylors are the worst and nothing will convince me otherwise #also can be applied to those who forced kit Connor to come out #and the people who harrass Shawn Mendes and call him gay #most of not all of the people doing this are queer themselves #how can you be queer and take that autonomy away from your peers? #and this is all implying that the rumors are true #not to mention the harassment of if it’s not and you’re calling a straight person gay simply because you feel like they are #like this is actually horrifying to watch #and i imagine most of these people are young #who grew up in a world that didn’t entirely accept them #but who had it so much easier than older generations did #or people like me who grew up in church towns with Republican parents #no matter how accepting the world gets you do NOT get to take that choice away from someone else #you don’t know what their life is like #you don’t know the horrors of having your secrets splashed on the news front page #tabloids are bad enough but to have tour own fans propel this? #i feel like she doesn’t see all this or if she does it doesn’t affect her cuz she’s not actually queer #cuz I know as a queer woman I would never be okay with this #ESPECIALLY if I was not out #god i hate them so much #and the way they turn around and call US homophobic? #Im not the one forcefully outing someone and fighting with people online swearing that someone they don’t know is gay #despite them saying themself that they are not part of the community #how about let’s trust her and let her figure shit out herself? #no speculation is okay and we really as a whole need to stop it #but this has so much added layers that this in particular needs to be addressed

[blackirishweab]

Woke up this morning and found that both my socks had holes in them, so today was a darning day.

#mine #hobbies #darning #turns out #mending goes much faster when you don’t have to worry about drawing and securing a pattern #I knocked both socks out in the matter of like 3-4 hours

[francesderwent]

one of the weirdest things about *waves hands vaguely in the direction of my relationship* this whole experience. is this time around? there really isn’t a Taylor Swift song that captures it for me.

#even the MOST romantic ones? ones that I DO think capture something of the essence of love. none of them are right somehow! #i will still not be elaborating at this time #closest are probably Everything Has Changed (dust off your highest hopes everything HAS changed) #King of My Heart (is this the end of all the endings? my broken bones are mending) #weirdly State of Grace (love is a ruthless game unless you play it good & right! this is the golden age of something good & right & real!) #but there’s no hearing a song everything snapping into place like oh THIS is what it feels like #because none of those songs are about him you know??? the specificity is missing and the specificity is why I love him #Everything Has Changed is wrong because I knew a whole lot more than his name when everything changed!! #King of My Heart is wrong because it’s not QUIET enough. it’s too triumphant not awed enough #State of Grace is wrong because ‘you were never a saint we learn to live with the pain mosaic broken hearts’ just isn’t the vibe! #and neither of us have blue eyes!!! #and if this was a fictional blorbo song none of that would even matter because I can reach across miles to make a blorbo song work #but apparently not this time?? #and the answer might be ‘well cate Taylor has never written a song about falling in love with an old friend’ #(except for Glitch which lowkey sucks and Mary’s Song and INTHAF which go back TOO far; we didn’t grow up together) #but also…..it might be that this time it’s not primarily in my head and so I can’t twist it to fit a song #they say you know when you’re really in love because all the love songs make sense #but maybe that’s sort of the being in love with love stage?? #maybe you know you’re really in love when none of the love songs can fully cross over into the uniqueness of your experience #anyway. ignore me #or send me song recs for friends-to-lovers lol #in which cate tells stories

[galpalaven]

thinkin cringe anime oc/canon character thoughts tonight like its 2012 and i have my entire life ahead of me

#noriko coming back Wrong after the war with aizen is finally over #and shes trying so hard to be normal and byakuya is doing so much to try and help #but it has been at least a century and she doesnt know him anymore #not like she did. and he doesnt know her #and she knows she's broken and whether she's alive or not doesnt matter #and it comes to a head when she has a flashback and drops a teacup - one he'd bought her before she disappeared #it had been a set she'd loved when in town once #and he'd bought it for her when they were still young and new and kept it all these years #and then she breaks it on accident and she hates herself #and its a few days of avoiding him but eventually he finds her sitting by the koi pond #and he brings her the tea set. and it's been mended with gold #and he gives it to her and says this is you. this is what you are. #every scar and every mark on you physical or otherwise is made of gold #and i will be here to love all of you. to put you back together and turn each new break into gold no matter how many times #no matter what happens. i am just happy to have you back #and im FINE IM FINE IM FINE

[miiracleboys]

Yes I love pjo AUs!!! Will you say more pretty please?

i’m so sorry this sat in my inbox for so long! but yes! i still think about this au; it isn’t dead :) SO:

tendou shows up halfway through sixth grade after an incident at school. he’s tall for his age and skinny with twitchy hands, shifty eyes, and a gap in his front teeth when he smiles. terushima takes a liking to him pretty much the second he shows up, much to his delight, and they are a Nightmare, especially when he joins forces with a few of the hermes kids. his friendship with ushijima is a bit of a slow starter in comparison, but only because they start off as sparring partners and tendou spends the first few weeks of that relationship eating dust after ushijima knocks him off his feet. that said, within two months they’re each other’s most regular sparring partner because ushijima is ruthless in a way that toes the line between “efficient” and “brutal” and tendou’s persistent, a fast learner, and has approximately zero reservations about using everything at his disposal to get a leg up. they have a blast together.

kyoutani threatened to bite hoshiumi less than three days after meeting him. predictably, this did not go over well.

aran’s biggest strengths lie in his archery and iwaizumi’s in healing, but listening to iwaizumi play guitar and aran accompany with vocals over the campfire is a religious experience.

speaking of iwaizumi and aran, even though iwaizumi is the official apollo counselor due to about ten months’ worth of seniority, he and aran tend to share responsibilities. iwaizumi usually handles the official business, though, because aran, like any sane person, simply does not want to be stuck in the same room as tendou, daishou, oikawa, and semi at the same time.

ikkei was (is? nobody’s seen him in a while, but there’s really no telling for sure) a son of zeus, and while for the most part keishin doesn’t have any superhuman abilities, he knows plenty about demigods, monsters, and camp. he, naoi, takeda, and several others are a part of a network where they try to keep an eye out for young demigods to keep them from being eaten and to get them a satyr so they can be shuttled off to camp.

the interior of the aphrodite cabin gives aone overstimulation headaches, so when they relax, he and futakuchi sit out on the lawn instead. it’s not uncommon for mika to join them.

kai has a pair of charmed sneakers that allow him to be totally silent whenever he wears them—no clothing rustling, no breathing, no footsteps, nothing gets through to be heard. on the downside, it gets inconvenient if he ever wants to talk, so to circumvent this, he establishes a set of hand signals that can be used in a fight or during a game.

kuroo’s older sister satomi is mortal. her parents—kuroo’s dad and her mom—had a messy divorce when she was about four and a half and her mom all but walked out the door and disappeared. demeter came into the picture within a year, and tetsurou showed up when she was six. this was,, reasonably distressing, even more so because demeter only stuck around for about two years before she started going on increasingly lengthy “business trips” before leaving for good, which freaked out both satomi and her dad. he all but drowned himself in work and caring for tetsurou; satomi ended up running away when tetsurou was four and she was ten to go find her mom. no, it was not planned. yes, her dad looked for her. no, he didn’t find her. she did, however, get picked up by the hunters of artemis. she stuck with them for a while, learning about the gods, quietly accepting that she probably wouldn’t find her mom, and eventually putting the pieces together with the whole situation with tetsurou. at first, this information makes her avoid them even harder because good lord would that kind of thing foster resentment, but she gets a little older and realizes that tetsurou probably is a) actively in danger and b) has no idea.

tetsurou doesn’t remember much about satomi. all he knows is that there’s a handful of pictures of her in the hallway and that she left like both of their moms, which is why it doesn’t go great when she just shows up again out of the blue just as he starts middle school. she tells him that she wants to make up for running out and protect him at the same time, but she’s sixteen, he’s eleven, they both have loads of issues with resentment/misplaced guilt and blame/abandonment and The Talk does not go well at all. it’s a very rocky situation for a while, and tetsurou spends a lot of time at kenma’s, who he’d met when he and his dad moved into the area two years prior. however, satomi’s new presence means that when kenma and tetsurou finally get Noticed™️ and attacked on a camping trip, she’s there to kill the monster and get them in contact with camp half-blood.

while satomi and tetsurou’s relationship is still shaky and horribly complicated as they get older, neither of them are angry people by nature and they try really hard. so does their dad.

#pjo au #riko.txt #asks #longish post #kuroo tetsurou #kai nobuyuki #aone takanobu #futakuchi kenji #ukai keishin #ojiro aran #iwaizumi hajime #tendou satori #ushijima wakatoshi #kyoutani kentarou #the kuroos’ dad Means well but. obv that doesn’t translate to good parenting #he and satomi are trying to mend their relationship but it’s a wip on both ends bc personal stuff ain’t his forte #and she reasonably has a hard time with the fact that he basically *shut her out* #also. where is utsui in this au? i have no idea #i’d like to think that he and ushijima’s mom got together soon after she found out she was pregnant #they still got divorced though and ushijima’s aware that he and utsui aren’t technically related but it doesn’t matter #he’s a better dad than ares ever is #also i have more to say on this au but that will be. later