1/2 Next time in our cultural heritage centre: Pomme Fripe.Just delicious! 🍎 🍟
You bring six good used clothes and can exchange them for up to six other pieces. Or you just give your used clothes and drink a coffee, talk with others.
2/2 BTW, the idea is not new - nowadays, you find it in most cities. What's new: We bring it from the European capital #Strasbourg to a very rural region in a nature park, into a village with only 920 inhabitants. https://www.maison-rurale.fr/events/pomme-fripe-club-echange-de-vetements/
It's perfect for our farm museum: In earlier times people repaired things and clothes as long as possible. We want to revive this spirit!
@NatureMC I'm intrigued to see that this site on global trade data, potentially very useful, is open source & developed from a student project: https://oec.world/en/resources/about
My spouse has a bunch of workshops coming this summer covering a lot of cool DIY sewing skills!
Patternmaking, design, and sewing classes for a bunch of skill and price levels! You should definitely come take some! Ruby is a great teacher and will help you look good and have fun doing it!
#VisibleMending is not only for #clothes. This #colourful#handbag with abstract roses helped me against dark winter days. Suddenly I discovered this terrible hole and decided to mend it. It was not easy to find the fabric (more in the Alt texts) but I saved my handbag! 😊 And now it's a unique piece of individual design! @visiblemending@sewing
Jeden zweiten Dienstag im Monat trifft sich die Gruppe "Freising nadelt" im Gasthaus "Lerner". Von jung bis alt sind hier alle vertreten, stricken Socken, Mützen und Pullis. Auch Männer sind dabei.
I was rummaging through old photos and found this testimony of how I started (and then got hooked on) #VisibleMending. Moths had eaten holes in my favourite jumper. I was furious and swore revenge with a needle. Since I couldn't embroider properly or be accurate, I "needle-painted" yarn moths. Today, everyone thinks the jumper is an expensive designer piece. 🤭
Finally finished... the Georgia O'Keeffe/organs jacket. Mostly merino/nylon from independent dyers. Spot the eyes, lungs, brain and hearts. The Georgia O'Keeffe references include the goat skull/flower, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, grey charcoal spirals and abstract flower close-ups (that's what I'm calling them).
That's a top down (more or less) raglan construction, about 10 cm below the separation of body and arms.
According to the order confirmation I should have 5 cones of the yarn, though I can't find one of them at the moment. But with 500 m / 100 g I should be fine, even if that cone really doesn't reappear again.
It started to be a problem when I was 45 or so. Larger needles require larger movements. Then there's also the additional weight. With such fine yarns I will not have more than 400 g or so on the needles, while worsted or heavier can get to double or more.
🧵 1/ My new #VisibleMending project: This linen-yarn T-shirt is a memento of my dog, who once got stuck at the bottom with his claw and tore a hole. It's darned in the shape of a yellow beetle. To make the whole thing more harmonious, I'm going to do a few small appliqués elsewhere today. @visiblemending
My #knitting project of the day. Or of these days.
But I'm getting close to finishing it. It's a top down worked short sleeve top and I'm adding a border similar to the one around the neckline / on the sleeves at the bottom of the shirt, 5 or 6 repeats of the lace row.
And one of them is already done.
Next decisions: how to finish the neckline and whether I need a finish around sleeve ends.