june @june@bananachips.club

Awww i missed #wenbiesday . Do-over today because this outfit is fly and i am feelin it

oh yes

https://webcomicname.com/post/185246584149

Hiiiii! Good morning!! hello dear animals and slimes and chimaerics and cartoons and androids and robots and spaceships and fractals and ghosts and the occasional human - - reminding you that i am mentally swayed by your avatars and i assume you are whatever your avatar is.

omg just watched the larger of the two cat boys jump from the sofa and land in their little tree/basket thing. it’s like a good 4-5 ft / 1.5m. i wish i had got it on video, but if you want to picture it, it had all the grace and majesty of a small orange bathtub hurtling through space...

hey, happy #wenbiesday!
having good hair day

mmm does anyone have any tips about attracting hummingbirds? our friends gave us a feeder and we put it up, but like, i don't think any hummingbirds know about it, or like, know it is here? how do i invite them over? will they just find it someday? i wonder if we also need some hummingbird friendly plants or something...

the boys are watching something interesting

while on the way down from paradise at rainier NPS, we saw this furry friend on the side of the road - i think this is a fox(??)
not sure, i’ve never seen a fox in the park (bears, elk, dear, birds and critters, but never a fox)

anyway it was super woolly with winter coat and very curious 💙💙💙

reading today, Kinetic Garment Construction: remarks on the foundations of pattern cutting, by ricard lindqvist:
https://atacac.com/book/index.php#index

this is fantastically good. like, super interesting on multiple levels: lindqvist’s own personal path is an interesting journey (the notes from being a pattern-cutter for viv westwood are both insightful and entertaining, and there’s other awesome stuff in here too).

the walking through of what is... implied by a given method of pattern generation about our relationships between clothing and bodies is incredible.

i dunno. i think this is an amazing work. it throws into light for me so many things. and granted i am ... at an interesting point because i love sewing and pattern making but was also fantastically frustrated with traditional flat block pattern making, mainly because i am convinced it has patriarchy and gender binary stamped so far into it that it feels irredeemable. so like, this work says nothing about that at all i admit, but the possibilities and the implications when you take this and you intersect it with a bunch of stuff rattling around in my head about patriarchy... whew, sorry.

like... flat block patterns are not made for trans bodies i think, they are not made for non-binary identities. but the ideas and conclusions lindqvist comes to in this about a kinetic source of patterns that grow from the body in motion outwards, _that_ can result in garments and designs that are.

i dunno. i’m probably not making sense and probably none of this makes sense unless you’ve read this, but... it’s made my brain work in a really good way and i’m very happy about that. i’m also overwhelmed by the possibilities into tears, because i’m a mess. ok that’s all 💙

zzzzzz good morning!!

spreading the twin gospels of Arkady Martine and Tamsyn Muir novels to all my irl friends during our zoom calls ⚡️⚡️⚡️

suuuuper cool combos of shibori fabric dying and then manipulation by Amy Nguyen
https://www.amynguyentextiles.com/index.php/collections/category/kintsugi
this one is faboo:
https://www.amynguyentextiles.com/images/photos/collections_kintsugi_15.jpg

good morning and happy weekend!

we got a new fern that lives on top of the refrigerator and Taco’s new favorite spot is up there with it