Stef May
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Stef May
Alt text: text reads: is anyone else on this hill or is it just me and Sisyphus and Kate bush? Username le-sansnom
A digitally drawn illustration of Kate bush and Sisyphus running / pushing a boulder up a hill with a red background
Pumpkin crochet pattern
Small pumpkin: chain 18
Large pumpkin: chain 25
Go into second ch from hook, sc all the way along
Ch 1 to turn, then into 1st st sc back loop only and do this all the way along
Repeat ** until you have 28 or 40 rows,
you should always have 17 or 24 st on every row
To count rows:
First bump after bottom row is 2, next bump is 4, etc.
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Tech optimists keep promising us we’re just one innovation away from magically enhancing our capacity for connection and meaning. Meanwhile, the messy, unoptimisable business of being alive remains stubbornly resistant to algorithmic solutions, reminding us that our limitations are the very features that make our existence worthwhile
-Kai, Dense Dis
... See more“Children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between it and their own selves.” - Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn
Tom Critchlow • LF:13 Family Futures
Craft is contemporary because it is progressive, because creating things by hand yourself proposes an alternative microeconomic of local making, a system of exchange more akin to bartering with its emphasis on trade and tactile connections to supply-and-demand. It is environmentally conscious and respectful of the earth's diminishing resources. Cra
... See moreJulia Bryan-Wilson • Eleven propositions to the question: What is contemporary about craft?
Clothing and
the more we have the confidence and ability to make things from what we already have, the less we feed the capitalist system that doesn’t care about us or the people making our stuff or the planet that our rampant consumerism is actively making uninhabitable.
Redefining "Handy" and Learning How to Make Things
HandMade and Capitalism
"Actually kind of the most anti-consumer thing that you can do is teach a seventh grader how to make their own clothes or dye something from a waste of something else"
- Sasha Duerr on Botanical Colors Feedback Friday: Mapping Color with Sasha Duerr + Maibe Maroccolo
HandMade and
