Getting Back On Here Was My Best Idea Yet. I've Been Seeing So Many Upcycling Projects And Been Like

getting back on here was my best idea yet. I've been seeing so many upcycling projects and been like hey thats cool.... WAIT I CAN SEW NOW. I CAN DO THAT

anyway my closet is in danger

Most of my knitting projects from the past year💕

Guys look!!!

I designed an embroidery pattern. And then. fucking. Made it.

And im proud of it so now it's immortalised on the internet hooray!!!

Wake up babe a new open access review about Ice Age fashion just dropped.

Paleolithic eyed needles and the evolution of dress (Science Advances 28 June 2024)

This article uses the spread of bone awls and needles to trace the evolution of clothing from simple, minimally protective coverings to finely tailored, insulating garments across the geography of the Last Glacial Maximum. Not surprisingly, needle use is associated with cold climates and the need for warm, fitted clothing. But the wide variation in needle size, including very small ones for fine, delicate work, along with frequent discovery of shell and bone beads showing use wear consistent with rubbing against clothing, shows the evolution of clothing into dress. Bodily adornment transitioned to clothing to mark identity and status.

Fig. 4. Puncture marks consistent with leather hole punching on a bone fragment at Canyars, Catalonia, dated to 39,600 cal B.P. Scale bars, 1 cm. Photos: L. Doyon, F. d’Errico.

Fig. 5. Morphological variation in the size and shape of Late Pleistocene eyed needles. Scale bar, 1 cm. Modified from d’Errico et al.

Fig. 2. Nassarius kraussianu shell beads from Blombos Cave Still Bay layers, southern Africa, dated to approximately 73,000 to 70,000 years ago. Arrows indicate use-wear facets. Photos: F. d’Errico [modified after d’Errico et al.]

Been playing around with cross stitch patches so I made myself a 911 patch!

I'm really happy with the shape of the numbers! I think if I do it again I'd fill in the background with black, and need some sort of backing. I also hate doing the edge by hand so maybe I'll try again once I have a machine 😅

Left: Fabritius C. (1654) Het puttertje [oil on panel]

Right: Me (2019) The goldfinch [cross stitch]