Never will I ever understand those folks on the socials whose output is mostly doom and outrage.

While anger can be empowering, the soul needs hope and joy to carry on in scary times.

These #FourPanelJeans are happening!

✅ Step 1: deconstruct two pairs of otherwise worn out jeans. #sewing #ElfkinCollection

I’m clacking right along with these corduroys. Yokes are on, and all pockets are attached and finished. #sewing

Special addendum for folks living in suburban and rural areas: that Pride bumper sticker makes you really easy to follow.

I came out in 1993 and have never passed as hetero. My personal rules for staying alive in the bad old days included, but were not limited to:
- keep your head up in public
- don't trust cops
- never travel alone
- unless proven otherwise, assume any hetero you encounter, including family, will always choose their comfort over your rights
- beware groups of white boys
- don't let the bastards get you down

To all U.S.-based GenX and older #lgbtq folks, prepare to revert to 1995 settings.

Once you've got your wisdom from the bad old days locked in, start sharing it with the young 'uns. This is all new and terrifying to them, and they need our strength.

Moving along with the patterns for the upcoming #ElfkinCollection trunk show, and I've come to the #DragonScaleKilt.

Womenswear formulas were rendering nonsense shapes for a skirt block based on my measurements*. So I just rotated my existing pants block a bit and redrew the waist.

*obs I'm modeling this one myself

My usual procedure for *topstitching* (edit) seams with bulky transitions (e.g. crotch seam crossing yokes on jeans):

1. Grade and hammer seam.
2. Make offering to ancestors.
3. Ready shims.
4. Cleansing breaths.
5. Turn on machine.
6. Sew.
7. Agonize over the quality of the stitches and redo at least one section.

Revised procedure for new walking foot industrial machine:
1. Turn on machine.
2. Sew.

My only regret is that I waited so long to add one of these beasts to my arsenal.

Dear #sewing hive mind,

I am looking for an experienced pattern drafter to assist me with adapting Elfkin customers' blocks into production patterns. Your skills should be at a level where you're able to create patterns based on technical sketches. So that the work may be done from anywhere, I’m specifically looking for someone(s) who uses computer-based methods.

If you have these skills, live on planet earth, and would like to earn some extra money, I very much want to hear from you!

Pugsley is hard at work this morning performing quality control on my embroidery stitches. #sewing #cats

@jacklaridian ‘Twas you, not I, who brought your moms into this poorly considered, straight-privileged argument of yours. Have you noticed how it has received so much criticism and so little defense? That should be a sign for you to pause and reconsider whether you’re being the ally who you think you are.

@jacklaridian Sooooo never mind the uplifting, you’re just here to scold. Noted. I simply cannot wait for your hot takes on Juneteenth.

@jacklaridian No doubt your moms are rightfully proud of the son they raised. You are clearly a fierce ally of the queer community.

What I do wonder is how proud your moms would be of you arguing with #lgbtq folks on Mastodon and repeatedly trying to explain how to Pride to us.

Good allies uplift the community that they claim to support.

This post is not uplifting. It is scolding a community long since tired of being told how to act by straight folks.

Untitled #21 (2011) from the street #portrait series #WeHoPride2011.

Sisters *are* doing it for themselves.

#lgbtq #photography #drag

My caftan beading adventure is at the half way point. Hooooo boy, what a slog! I’ll be trying the tambour beading technique next time I get a notion to do this. #sewing