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/

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.]

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.]

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/

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

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/

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