Sunday, April 30, 2023

Enucleation: the removal of the eye from the orbit and involves the separation of all tissue connections between the globe and the orbit. 🪡 And now you’ve learned a new word, brought to you by child-on-mending crime. 🪡 You can hear all about these projects, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🪡 #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #Repair #BIPOCMaker #Mend #VisibleMending #SubvertFastFashion #TextileRestoration #MakeDoAndMend 🪡 [Image Description: a white patch where there was a group of googly eyes in the mending.] to line break


via Instagram Enucleation: the removal of the eye from the orbit and involves the separation of all tissue connections between the globe and the orbit. 🪡 And now you’ve learned a new word, brought to you by child-on-mending crime. 🪡 You can hear all about these projects, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🪡 #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #Repair #BIPOCMaker #Mend #VisibleMending #SubvertFastFashion #TextileRestoration #MakeDoAndMend 🪡 [Image Description: a white patch where there was a group of googly eyes in the mending.] https://instagr.am/p/CrrC8QhPt_z/

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

This is what it looks like when alllllll of the visible mending inspiration hits at one. 🪡 …and I’m not done yet! 🪡 You can hear all about these projects, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🪡 #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #Repair #BIPOCMaker #Mend #VisibleMending #SubvertFastFashion #TextileRestoration #MakeDoAndMend 🪡 [Image Description: four different visibly mended pieces] to line break


via Instagram This is what it looks like when alllllll of the visible mending inspiration hits at one. 🪡 …and I’m not done yet! 🪡 You can hear all about these projects, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🪡 #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #Repair #BIPOCMaker #Mend #VisibleMending #SubvertFastFashion #TextileRestoration #MakeDoAndMend 🪡 [Image Description: four different visibly mended pieces] https://instagr.am/p/CreP9wYyX7z/

The eyes have it. 👀🪡 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 👀🪡 #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #Repair #BIPOCMaker #Mend #VisibleMending #SubvertFastFashion #TextileRestoration #MakeDoAndMend #GooglyEyes 👀🪡 [Image Description: An exhausted, freckled, and fair-skinned Iranian American woman with a short, bright Easter grass green hairdo looks up at the mended spot on her backrest, as the googly eyes look back at her.]


via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CreO8dHSEF0/ The eyes have it. 👀🪡 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 👀🪡 #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #Repair #BIPOCMaker #Mend #VisibleMending #SubvertFastFashion #TextileRestoration #MakeDoAndMend #GooglyEyes 👀🪡 [Image Description: An exhausted, freckled, and fair-skinned Iranian American woman with a short, bright Easter grass green hairdo looks up at the mended spot on her backrest, as the googly eyes look back at her.]

Sunday, April 23, 2023

We’re going to need a bigger embroidery hoop. 🪡 🦈 This visible mend features leather teeth (practice for Dr. Rex’s full dental replacement) with leather from Tandy Leather, and leftover raw silk scraps. 🪡🦈 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🪡🦈 #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #Repair #BIPOCMaker #Mend #VisibleMending #SubvertFastFashion #TextileRestoration #MakeDoAndMend #GreatWhiteShark #JAWS 🪡🦈 [Image Description: a dark blue blanket with a hole mended to look like the shark from the JAWS movie poster, a great white shark swimming vertically, minus the swimmer. For now.]


via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CrZyxYNrKlL/ We’re going to need a bigger embroidery hoop. 🪡 🦈 This visible mend features leather teeth (practice for Dr. Rex’s full dental replacement) with leather from Tandy Leather, and leftover raw silk scraps. 🪡🦈 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🪡🦈 #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #Repair #BIPOCMaker #Mend #VisibleMending #SubvertFastFashion #TextileRestoration #MakeDoAndMend #GreatWhiteShark #JAWS 🪡🦈 [Image Description: a dark blue blanket with a hole mended to look like the shark from the JAWS movie poster, a great white shark swimming vertically, minus the swimmer. For now.]

Friday, April 21, 2023

It has taken me an *obscene* amount of time to get around to the stuff in my mending pile, but the entire family agrees that the wait has been worth it. 🪡 I need to be inspired, because visible mending is #art, especially when the #artist overthinks EVVVVVVERYTHING. 🪡 Here is the first two of SOOOO much visible mending coming your way: my beloved @lunablankets and Rex’s purple sweatpants. 🪡 (He loves the mend; it makes the adults laugh because of that one line in the Edward Norton Hulk movie.) 🪡 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🪡 #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #Repair #BIPOCMaker #Mend #VisibleMending #SubvertFastFashion #TextileRestoration #Avengers #TheHulk #WeightedBlanket #LunaBlanket #LunaWeightedBlanket #MakeDoAndMend 🪡 [Image Description: on the left, a pale, blue weighted blanket, with metallic jersey patches in blue and blurple. On the right, a well-worn pair of purple child’s sweatpants with a patch of the Incredible Hulk on the knee.] to line break


via Instagram It has taken me an *obscene* amount of time to get around to the stuff in my mending pile, but the entire family agrees that the wait has been worth it. 🪡 I need to be inspired, because visible mending is #art, especially when the #artist overthinks EVVVVVVERYTHING. 🪡 Here is the first two of SOOOO much visible mending coming your way: my beloved @lunablankets and Rex’s purple sweatpants. 🪡 (He loves the mend; it makes the adults laugh because of that one line in the Edward Norton Hulk movie.) 🪡 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🪡 #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #Repair #BIPOCMaker #Mend #VisibleMending #SubvertFastFashion #TextileRestoration #Avengers #TheHulk #WeightedBlanket #LunaBlanket #LunaWeightedBlanket #MakeDoAndMend 🪡 [Image Description: on the left, a pale, blue weighted blanket, with metallic jersey patches in blue and blurple. On the right, a well-worn pair of purple child’s sweatpants with a patch of the Incredible Hulk on the knee.] https://instagr.am/p/CrTOGIMLMuu/

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Visible mending, weighted blanket edition. 💤 (For interested parties, this is a bamboo weighted blanket from @lunablankets, which is lovely and cool for warm days.) 💤 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 💤 #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #BIPOCMaker #Mend #VisibleMending #MakeDoAndMend #TextileRestoration #WeightedBlanket #Luna #LunaBlanket


via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CrReIxTPBHY/ Visible mending, weighted blanket edition. 💤 (For interested parties, this is a bamboo weighted blanket from @lunablankets, which is lovely and cool for warm days.) 💤 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 💤 #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #BIPOCMaker #Mend #VisibleMending #MakeDoAndMend #TextileRestoration #WeightedBlanket #Luna #LunaBlanket

Monday, April 17, 2023

Last Wednesday night, I saw a play in San Diego! 🎭 The theatre itself was lovely, the play was light and funny, and it was a mere 10 minutes from where we were staying. 🎭 #CygnetTheatre #PresentLaughter #SupportLocalTheatre #Theatre #comedy to line break


via Instagram Last Wednesday night, I saw a play in San Diego! 🎭 The theatre itself was lovely, the play was light and funny, and it was a mere 10 minutes from where we were staying. 🎭 #CygnetTheatre #PresentLaughter #SupportLocalTheatre #Theatre #comedy https://instagr.am/p/CrJ1dVjvUvD/

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Sometimes, when the kids sit on my lap with their bony butts, I call them “Lego children”. (Because they’re all pointy edges.) to line break


via Instagram Sometimes, when the kids sit on my lap with their bony butts, I call them “Lego children”. (Because they’re all pointy edges.) https://instagr.am/p/CrAPxsLOGfN/

Objectively, the cutest boy in the world, on a boat. to line break


via Instagram Objectively, the cutest boy in the world, on a boat. https://instagr.am/p/CrAPdrrOcgE/

I’M KNITTING ON A BOAT! 🛥️ #TheLonelyIsland #ImOnABoat #OnTheRoadWithTheKnitmores


via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/Cq_LkWSSzzc/ I’M KNITTING ON A BOAT! 🛥️ #TheLonelyIsland #ImOnABoat #OnTheRoadWithTheKnitmores

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

This gorilla is a whole mood. (He looked at alllll the people and then VERY DELIBERATELY turned his back. #goals) #Gorilla #GreatApe #SanDiegoZoo to line break


via Instagram This gorilla is a whole mood. (He looked at alllll the people and then VERY DELIBERATELY turned his back. #goals) #Gorilla #GreatApe #SanDiegoZoo https://instagr.am/p/Cq8drljJMCR/

Snek, or by it’s Latin name: tagliatelle periculum. #Snek #Snake #DangerNoodle #Herpetology #SanDiegoZoo to line break


via Instagram Snek, or by it’s Latin name: tagliatelle periculum. #Snek #Snake #DangerNoodle #Herpetology #SanDiegoZoo https://instagr.am/p/Cq8cPAApPkT/

I am Groot? #StickBug #Entomology #SanDiegoZoo to line break


via Instagram I am Groot? #StickBug #Entomology #SanDiegoZoo https://instagr.am/p/Cq8bcoqJ9Gz/

Brag much? #Lion #SanDiegoZoo to line break


via Instagram Brag much? #Lion #SanDiegoZoo https://instagr.am/p/Cq8apbtpTAu/

Rex, friends to all creatures great and small. Except for geese. They’re enormous jerks. #Chameleon #SanDiegoZoo #GeeseAreJerks to line break


via Instagram Rex, friends to all creatures great and small. Except for geese. They’re enormous jerks. #Chameleon #SanDiegoZoo #GeeseAreJerks https://instagr.am/p/Cq8Y1oLpCR8/

Identity thief. #Chameleon #SanDiegoZoo to line break


via Instagram Identity thief. #Chameleon #SanDiegoZoo https://instagr.am/p/Cq8X9AfJUPW/

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Get you a bird who’s glamorous and will also stomp heads in. #SecretaryBird #SanDiegoZoo #BirdsOfPrey to line break


via Instagram Get you a bird who’s glamorous and will also stomp heads in. #SecretaryBird #SanDiegoZoo #BirdsOfPrey https://instagr.am/p/Cq7Frk2OWQM/

Yeah? Well, back at’cha, buddy. 🌵 #SanDiegoZoo #Succulent #Cactus to line break


via Instagram Yeah? Well, back at’cha, buddy. 🌵 #SanDiegoZoo #Succulent #Cactus https://instagr.am/p/Cq7ACnNu4MW/

Cats are cats are cats are cats. #Blep #SanDiegoZoo #Jaguar #BigCats to line break


via Instagram Cats are cats are cats are cats. #Blep #SanDiegoZoo #Jaguar #BigCats https://instagr.am/p/Cq68LIvLSzh/

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

I finally put my measurements into @MyBodyModel for a custom croqui. This is the body I see in the mirror, and finally, on ‘Quelle Décolletage (my dress form, which has been customized to my measurements). ✍🏻📏 I’m really excited to work on ideas with a real idea of proportions- and since I have all of my measurements, courtesy of the moulage** that Mom made for me. ✍🏻📏 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. ✍🏻📏 #MyBodyModel #bipocknitters #knitting #BIPOCMaker #KnittersOfInstagram #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #KnitmoreALong #ProjectSweaterChest #handknit #couture #Bespoke #Sewing #SewistsOfInstagram #AndSewOn #Janome #SlowFashion #Sewist ✍🏻📏 **For those playing the “how many times can Gigi say ‘moulage’ game, one point here. ✍🏻📏 [Image Description: A short, shapely croqui on the left, Jasmin’s measurements on the right.]


via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CqrpfF5uBos/ I finally put my measurements into @MyBodyModel for a custom croqui. This is the body I see in the mirror, and finally, on ‘Quelle Décolletage (my dress form, which has been customized to my measurements). ✍🏻📏 I’m really excited to work on ideas with a real idea of proportions- and since I have all of my measurements, courtesy of the moulage** that Mom made for me. ✍🏻📏 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. ✍🏻📏 #MyBodyModel #bipocknitters #knitting #BIPOCMaker #KnittersOfInstagram #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #KnitmoreALong #ProjectSweaterChest #handknit #couture #Bespoke #Sewing #SewistsOfInstagram #AndSewOn #Janome #SlowFashion #Sewist ✍🏻📏 **For those playing the “how many times can Gigi say ‘moulage’ game, one point here. ✍🏻📏 [Image Description: A short, shapely croqui on the left, Jasmin’s measurements on the right.]

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Eight down, three to go. 🪱 All joking aside, I’m really excited about this project. 🪱 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🪱 #bipocknitters #knitting #BIPOCMaker #KnittersOfInstagram #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #KnitmoreALong #handknit #couture #Bespoke #Art #SolarDyed 🪱 [Image Description : Eight bundles of I-cord in 14g increments, most in pastel blues and pinks, one in tonal pinks, set on the remnants of a haftsin.] to line break


via Instagram Eight down, three to go. 🪱 All joking aside, I’m really excited about this project. 🪱 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🪱 #bipocknitters #knitting #BIPOCMaker #KnittersOfInstagram #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #KnitmoreALong #handknit #couture #Bespoke #Art #SolarDyed 🪱 [Image Description : Eight bundles of I-cord in 14g increments, most in pastel blues and pinks, one in tonal pinks, set on the remnants of a haftsin.] https://instagr.am/p/Cqo0Apmppl7/

I know, I know. I said #NeverWillIEver quilt. But, here is the beginnings of a quilt for a very special baby. 🌈 (NO, it is not my baby. I’m not having any more babies; this particular workshop is CLOSED.) 🌈 Pattern: Jelly Roll Twist quilt Fabric: Dr. Seuss Jelly Roll) 🌈 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🌈 #BIPOCMaker #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #couture #Bespoke #Quilting #QuiltersOfInstagram #BIPOCQuilter #Sewist #Quilt #Singer185K 🌈 [Image Description: Dr. Seuss themed quilt strips that have been sewn together and had their seams pressed, draped over the hanging bar of an ironing board.]


via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/Cqo1k-oLBSR/ I know, I know. I said #NeverWillIEver quilt. But, here is the beginnings of a quilt for a very special baby. 🌈 (NO, it is not my baby. I’m not having any more babies; this particular workshop is CLOSED.) 🌈 Pattern: Jelly Roll Twist quilt Fabric: Dr. Seuss Jelly Roll) 🌈 You can hear all about this project, and all the others on The Knitmore Girls Podcast, available on all of your favorite audio platforms. 🌈 #BIPOCMaker #KnitmoregirlsPodcast #couture #Bespoke #Quilting #QuiltersOfInstagram #BIPOCQuilter #Sewist #Quilt #Singer185K 🌈 [Image Description: Dr. Seuss themed quilt strips that have been sewn together and had their seams pressed, draped over the hanging bar of an ironing board.]