@kate Thanks for a timely post.

I've been trying to ease my way back into posting more of this sort of stuff, despite the inner voices telling me "it's not that interesting", a good slice of imposter syndrome and discomfort in my own privilege that lets me play at smallholding on land that doesn't belong to me.

But yes, hope is to be found in the doing and in the knowledge sharing.

@kate thank you for sharing such a lovely message; bookmarked it for days when I need an answer to “is it all worth it?”

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WOW.

That hit me hard.

I stopped posting photos because most of them never even get a like. I figured people weren't interested. Of course, over half my posts don't get any interaction, so I shouldn't be surprised.

Anyway, just in case.....Here's an MCU quilt I forgot I made (cut me some slack already -- I've made 140 quilts so far).

#Quilting #SuperheroQuilt #FussyCutQuilting #SewingIsTherapy #ItsAHobbyNotAnAddiction #Crafts #FiberArts

@kate The maker culture can also be full of toxic masculinity and do exactly the opposite of all the good you've listed here. I experienced that first hand for two soul crushing years.

@kate Thanks for posting. Tagging for SolarPunkSunday

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& your post here reminded me that I needed to take a look at my bathroom clock. It's one of those "autoset" jobs, but the last few years it's had...issues with the DST time-change. This time around, pushing the button to reset the time turned the radio on!? Which then wouldn't turn off??

So I took off the case (after spending an hour & a half drilling off the head of a stripped screw—I think that's why I didn't do this last). >

@kate Making toggles has been fun. I mean a short wooden ~dowel on the end of a fixed loop of cord. These can replace rubber bands, velcro fasteners or ~tool-harnesses.

Besides a loop of cord, many kinds of toggles are returned by an iSearch. #knots
#bushcraft

@kate you mean the people that build things are pretty good at building communities?

@kate I can’t agree with you more. Watching what people are doing/making/creating/learning is just wonderful.

The questions and reflections here have taken me back to de Certeau and The Practice of Everyday Life. It’s a text of its time in gender pronoun terms but it’s for our time in thinking about making and making do as the ruses, tactics and surreptitious refusals of the dominant culture that wants us only to sit open-mouthed in front of capitalism’s livestreams.

So making is also the life you make, it’s your survival, the way you shelter yourself and others. It’s your refusal and your gleaning and your showing up and your asking for help. All of it is an irritant to power and profit.

Keep on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Everyday_Life

@kate are there good hash tags to follow for it?

@kate thanks for the reminder, I think I will go find some photos of my latest project 🤓

@kate A fellow I follow here is making his own dye, using oak galls for processing, and then making clothes from the dyed fabric. This place is serious makers’ haven