Sam 🐈‍⬛

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'Cat Burglar' ~ Wooden spoon carved in Maple wood with waxed linen and rhinestones.

Ha! Whooooo could it be 🤣

I really enjoyed the way you ended this!

Ahhh thank you!! 💕

Thank you!! 💕

Thank you so much!!

Ahhh what a cool comment! That’s exactly the vibe I was going for!!

Thank you!

Thank you!! It was a very satisfying one to make! 🐝

Thank you!

(Also I love your profile pic—it’s been ages since I’ve thought of the invader zim universe and seeing gir makes me happy)

It was my first time doing a piece that was mostly line work—much more fun than I expected!

I'm putting a team together! Are you: uk based a book lover a fan of bookshops and interested in helping a new indie bookshop get from notebook to high street? i’ll be in touch via email with questionnaires, idea sharing sessions, and progress updates!

I'm putting a team together!

Let me know if you'd like to be involved as I start research and get excited about taking the first steps towards opening my own book shop. This is something I'm taking deadly seriously so any support from my bookish community will be really helpful!

Cross stitch in wooden hoop featuring a life-sized bee crawling across hexagonal honeycomb. The line work is mesmerizing!!

First cross stitch of 2026 and I am obsessed with it!! 🐝

I tweaked the pattern The Humble Bee by DominionSisters 🧵🪡

I am so sorry to hear that!! Words aren’t enough, but I hope you can find job stability soon ☹️

The texture of this is so delightful!

That is a lot of news to wake up to.

A book intriguingly wrapped in plain brown paper with two folded pockets. One holds a note with a scarlet pimpernel drawn on the end and one holds a beautiful handmade floral bookmark.

An unwrapped book! It’s The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy and features a deep red color and a picture of the main character hiding behind a gloved hand wearing a ring that shows a scarlet pimpernel.

My best friend and I are gifting each other books at the beginning of each month throughout 2026 and I am SO EXCITED!

We added the challenge of only being able to swap books found at used book stores too.

For January I received The Scarlet Pimpernel 📚

Ha! I still have to look up the threading instructions once or twice a year since I mostly use my machine for repairs 😅

Oooh good luck with your hardware related project! 👀

A very satisfying pile of all of the clothes I repaired and tweaked in this thread! There’s a Dalmatian spotted blouse, khakis, several tshirts, floral shorts, a floral skirt, and a pair of basic work shirts.

It’s getting too dark to continue on, but I am so proud of completing ~75% of my to-do pile!

Not to sound too earnest, but I think it’s very cool to tweak clothes when possible to extend their closet life and minimize consumption ✨

A black and a tan shell style shirt.

Close up of the finished hems for the black and tan shirts.

Projects 10-11 feature the same shirt in different colors. These are great to wear under cardigans at work, but hit me juuust too low to look right. So I reduced the body by an inch and it’s wild how much more flattering that makes these shirts!

Dark grey shorts with giant white florals on them. There is a paper bag style waist featuring belt loops and a matching tie.

No paper bag waist! No belt loops! No tie! Only excitement!!

Project 9 was SO SATISFYING!!

I’ve had these paper bag waist shorts for years and I don’t love the way that waist type looks on me. But these shorts are incredibly comfy so I didn’t want to lose them either.

I removed the belt and belt loops, tucked in the paper bag excess, hemmed, and trimmed! 🪡

I love to hear it!! Sending you all of the luck and productivity to knock out your to-do pile!

Three shirts in front of a sewing machine. One is bright red and is from a Juneteenth event, one is a faded blue and is from a biochemistry club I was in, and one is a white tank top featuring a graphic from a movie.

Projects 6-8 were more t-shirt fixes via cutting the bottom. I think that’s all of the shirts done! (Famous last words??)

Dark green shirt with yellow text that says “Dare to be different” with a little four leaf clover next to it.

Same shirt but cropped!

Project 5 was another speedy shirt slash! While out at a book club, the restaurant was promoting a new whiskey and gave us all free shots and shirts. I love taking shirts like this and cropping them into workout tees! 🪡

Dark blue skirt with white floral pattern. At the edge you can see a badly fraying hem and a zipper that won’t zip up all of the way. So sad!

The skirt now looks freshened up with a smooth edge!

Project 4 was very satisfying! The skirt was ROUGH with a brown zipper and fraying hem. I took out the zipper as the fabric is incredibly stretchy and made a new hem. Fits like a dream! 🪡

That makes me so happy to hear! Sending you all of the luck for getting that pile reduced!

A graphic off white t shirt featuring the Attack on Titan logo and Levi in an action pose in the front.

Same shirt but with 4-5 inches chopped off!

Project 3 was speedy! One of my favorite things to do to make a t shirt that doesn’t sit quite right on my body more wearable, is to chop off the end so it hits where I want it to on my hips. Sydney Graham has a great t-shirt hemming YouTube video if you’re interested, but I prefer a raw hem.

Khakis tragically ripped a foot into the side with the hem also falling out

A glorious, repaired pair of khakis!

Project 2 was sewing up a giant rip in the leg and hemming these khakis! 🪡

Off white blouse with black Dalmatian or freckle style spots all over it.

Same blouse as described in the previous picture, but the v shape above the pearlescent buttons has been sewn shut.

Starting easy with Project 1 to get a quick win! The v on top makes this shirt too scandalous for my corporate office environment, so I just sewed it closed.