@kate are there good hash tags to follow for it?
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@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?”
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
@Oma_Trisha_F oh my goodness look at those colours.
Thanks. The guys LOVE bright stuff. I made these for the twins (now 22).
@Oma_Trisha_F @kate 140!?! Wow!!
Beautifully precise piecing, though I suppose after 140 quilts you can probably piece accurately in your sleep.
@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.
@pussreboots @kate Maker culture as distinct from Crafter or Creative culture, perhaps? I think there's a significant overlap between Maker culture and Programmer culture, which has its own pockets of toxic masculinity. As a female programmer, I've been fortunate in not having run into it a lot, but I have had my unpleasant brushes with unrepentant sexism from male programmers.
@pussreboots Thank you for saying this — it’s really important not to romanticise maker culture in a general way. Toxic is toxic.
(I’m in awe of watercolorists, it’s a difficult medium.)
@kate The thing with watercolor is that the beginner lessons that are done either in school or at fairs are often techniques that don't actually get used. It's really more a balance between doing things quickly (working with the water) and patience (waiting for the water to dry).
@pussreboots This feels like a balance we could all use.
Seriously, thanks for explaining that.
@kate No worries. I am still learning myself. :)
@kate Thanks for this. Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday.
@kate Thanks for posting. Tagging for SolarPunkSunday
& 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). >
No obvious damage, except for one smudge that wasn't anywhere near anything conductive that I could see. Brushed out some pretty mimimal dust. 🤷
Put it back together, figuring it'll be fixed, completely broken, or no change.
Came on okay when I plugged in, but didn't self-set. Well, I can live with a clock I have to set manually in the bathroom. >
@cavyherd oh good luck! Yesterday I mended a pair of glasses that got sat on and broke in a tricky way.
Knock on wood, it seems to be working! 🤞
@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.
@kate “An irritant to power and profit” would be an exceptionally good line in a bio. ❤️
@kfitz Or a t-shirt! Re-reading de Certeau this morning I’ve been reminded all over again of la perruque: the time and resources we recapture from capital (especially from work) to make what we make. Stealthpunk.
@kfitz It’s foodbanks, solidarities, mutual aid, whistles, listening, picking up the slack. It’s using whatever’s at hand, frustrating capital over and over.
@kate are there good hash tags to follow for it?
What a good question. It’s probably about hashtagS, and labelling of what the practice is. Knitters knit etc.
Now I’m curious to know what others find helpful. I follow people more than hashtags, and then when I find someone’s making something I notice if they’re sharing it to a hashtag and I’ll amble in that direction.
#compostodon for people making something of waste is one you might not think of. And I notice the makers of #solarpunk and the #visiblemending community.
@kate @rooster #makershour has lively conversations
@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
@wendinoakland @kate ooh could you share his account please? If he's using plant fibres I'd like to know if he's using anything as a mordant
@koosli That’s fantastic. I’m going to look out for it!