Omgosh Look At The Cute, Chubby Birbs, I Love Them So Much 😍

My first art fair is on Sunday and I’m freaking out 🥲

(P.S. pop by if ur in nyc)

Apparently, some companies now are labeling mass-produced crochet items with "machine crocheted" to justify selling an entire granny square vest for 14 bucks.

1. Machines cannot crochet.

2. Knitting machines, to my knowledge, cannot make granny squares.

3. Even if there was a machine that could crochet, 14 bucks for an entire fucking vest is still too low to be paying people a livable wage basically anywhere in the world.

4. It takes me, a very fast crocheter, about twenty minutes to make one granny square in a single color with five rows. Multi-color granny squares take more time. I'll say 30 minutes. Next time you see a granny square anything in a big box store, count one row of squares and multiply by 20 (for single color squares) or 30 (multicolor squares). Then consider that it's skilled labor which should have an hourly wage you can live on. Then look at the price tag. This is Victorian piece work poor shit going on.

When absolutely 0 of Biden’s accomplishments have made any kind of news, and we’ve been fed a steady diet of fear and panic for 3 years, no one gets to be shocked when he loses the next election to Donald 2.0.

Posting anything positive about the president here will get you called a capitalist bootlicker.

What do we expect to happen?

Anger sells better. Anger feels better, it feels righteous.

It’s easier to protest against a president you don’t like then to actually remain in charge and keep pushing ahead, even if small, consistent accomplishments are all you receive.

Woooow called out on Tumblr tonight! Lol

Fiber Artist: Amanda | Love & Stitch

🚨[FREE PATTERN]🚨

Hello, dear friends! 🤗 While I put the final touches on something really cute and definitely very unusual, I wanted to remind you that I have a FREE crochet pattern for Kawaii Cloud, available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Danish. Browse through gallery to see all the languages! 🥰

Happy crocheting, dear friends! 💛💙

Goodness gracious, how is it August already?? Well, better late than never to post these, I guess.

Pride month and Disability Pride month have both come and gone but that doesn't mean that one's pride or disabilities have just gone away. In fact, one of my invisible disabilities kicked my butt this last week, which is why I haven't been able to do much of anything besides rest. So now that I'm able to work again, it's back to finishing orders and working on Sailor Scouts.

Currently on the docket for August:

One (1) Baby alien

One (1) traditional bee

One (1) woodpecker

Sailor Scout to be determined

Oh, and one super special, super silly goose for a certain vampiric voice actor...

Anyway, here's what's left of the pride buddies!

Fishies $20 + $5 shipping

Turtles and bees $10 or 2 for $15 + $5 shipping

Omgosh tiny phoenix!

I've always made use of dragon iconography, using them to represent resilience and determination. A phoenix rises from the ashes, but a dragon doesn't burn in the first place.

But I can't always be a dragon. Sometimes I do burn. And then I have to get back up again. Right now I need to get back up, so I decided to work on a phoenix pattern. I reckon a lot of y'all need to get back up too, so remember that even a tiny phoenix rises.

I'm crawling out of the sewer to say it again: don't let anyone stop you from writing what you want to write.

Don't let people saying your writing is too 'self indulgent' stop you.

Don't let people saying your writing is 'not original enough' stop you.

Don't let people saying 'you shouldn't write this' stop you.

Write what compels you.

My queers, we really need to put the "no men" thing away. Men are not inherently bad. There are queer men. There are questioning men. There's men that are just plain cool. Denying these men a space at our table is not helping - except the TERFs. I just came off the back of reading a transphobe gleeful rant about the need to have pride without men - They of course mean me. This kind of stuff is damaging to me and I really need us all to take a step back and maybe kill this "men dni, men not allowed" stuff. What you mean is "no men who are going to do mean stuff to me." And frankly those men won't give a shit about that kind of boundary.

But I promise you there's a fleet of good honest men who will see that and be sad they're not allowed in your version of queer spaces.

PATRIARCHY is what you hate. Dni Patriarchs.