Morgan

A filet crochet piece in progress; mostly showcasing a retro flower grid design and one side has the beginning of a mesh tie extending forward.

How it's going 🧶 crocheting a filet collar/shawl thing

Dreaming up new knitwear ideas... This would be a vest with a split standing collar, featuring eyelets and probably i-cord edging... The original thought is a filet lace design, but this could also be 🧶 knitted and use provisional cast-on for lace in both directions??? Hmm

Morgan sits in front of a colorful mural, wearing a new dress she made. It is color blocked with cream fabric, a muted floral print, and has thin cobalt blue ties in the front.

Morgan stands holding a peace sign in front of a blurry bookshelf backdrop. She wears the color blocked summer dress she made- the top is cream, and the skirt is a muted floral print. The straps and ties in the front are bright blue

Made another skyline maxi dress! These have been my summer uniform lately in the hot weather

August Craft & Style Inspiration Filet crochet, Natural fibers, and Summer Bug Motifs

New blog post today! Chatting about filet crochet, WIPs, and other inspiration for the end of summer. Free to read as always; let me know what you think! What inspires you? open.substack.com/pub/stitchri...

Affordable housing, nutritious food, clean water, time off, the internet, breathable air, universal healthcare, quick and clean mass transit, and living wages are not luxuries. They're the baseline of human rights.

Ozzy is the cutest and most photogenic lil buddy

This is good to know! I will have to try it and adjust my tension.

Ursula's Advice Chatting about mental health, movies, and dealing with The Funk.

New #blog post today! Today it's musings about mental health, kindness in an unkind world, and Kiki's Delivery Service. As always, free to read! open.substack.com/pub/stitchri...

What are your fav budget sock yarns? What are we knitting 🧶 socks with to get a sock that fits and doesn't fall off the foot? Or develop holes in two wears? Help lol

a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits on a bus with the words " chuckles i 'm in danger " below him Alt: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits on a bus with the words " chuckles i 'm in danger " below him

2025 as a constant loop of this

A picture of the book The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling, featuring a blurry black cat sitting behind it

This book was phenomenal. I devoured it. It was all the medieval sapphic body horror and eldritch-terror-mistaken-for- religious-ecstasy I could have hoped for and more. I was so engulfed in this story. Fav read of the summer!

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

pundits & strategists advised "allies" not to speak up. here are 21 posts about that.

that's how we get from 2016's gubernatorial race-losing "most anti-LGBTQ law in the US" bathroom ban to "you can deny a kind of people access to medicine" in 9 years.

a phenomenal, expensive, coordinated effort.

Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké Íyímídé- excellent book

DBT Skills for Highly Sensitive People by Emma Lauer, LCSW. Just started and already appreciate it

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily m. Danforth. Good, very fun lesbian gothic horror; does have a dual-POV time jump situation. Almost finished, enjoying it.

I've been in a weird creative rut/low energy period, so I have been doing a lot more reading lately. Finished the first (so good!); Started the second; almost finished the third (which I had dragged ass on for over a year til now)

The Senate reconciliation bill retains the trans healthcare Medicaid/CHIP ban.

Call your Senators, we still have a good shot at killing this provision.

Hundreds of thousands of people rely on this care.

What do you mean by "became psychotic?" Asking as someone who won't touch chatgpt or other gen ai with a ten foot pole if it can be helped, but since I work with information services & with youth I am very concerned...

You know you can just not use AI, right?

You can make a choice not to be part of this.

Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.

You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

Summer Reading Essentials Bookish handmade projects for sunny days

New blog post: Summer Reading Essentials! 🧶Knit, crochet, and sewing project ideas for summertime book lovers. open.substack.com/pub/stitchri...

Book Snake Update: May The Best Reading Buddy

This week's post is an update on my Book Snake! Help me give him a name? There's a poll in the post. I love having a simple and fun ongoing project to 🧶 knit! 🧶
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Book Review: Mamo by Sas Milledge On Family Ties, Obligation, and Magic in the In Between Spaces

I did a bonus blog post this week: It's a book review of Mamo by Sas Milledge. It's a really wonderfully illustrated graphic novel; give it a read and lmk what you think! open.substack.com/pub/stitchri...

Free Retro Flower Crochet Bucket Hat Pattern! One size fits most adults + optional drawstring

New blog post! This week it's my first 🧶 crochet pattern. Let me know if you try it!

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It isn't generally realistic for people to have a completely handmade wardrobe either, without significant time and cost investments too. Sustainability is using what you have/can get with resources available, and mending things you own. Buy what you can't make or trade/gift things with neighbors.

I needed to replace much of my wardrobe after being homeless for 3 years; I didn't have much money but I did have a lot of gifted fabric scraps and a sewing machine I was given when we got back into housing. I bought a pair of jeans and mended them as needed. Made shirts and dresses one at a time.

To be clear, I'm not an "I make all my own clothes" person bc I am that dedicated to environmental sustainability (though it's a nice thought); I make most of my own clothes because it's more accessible for me to expend time and use secondhand scraps than to afford new clothes that fit me right.

I would really love to know more about the conservation and archival efforts of the Costume Institute and other costume museums around the world because this is near and dear to me. Is any of that revenue to be put toward sustainability and ethical labor standards in the fashion industry?

It puts a sour taste in my mouth; I want to appreciate fundraising for the Museum's Costume Institute, but when so much money is involved, and we are operating like the world isn't upside down, and the Institute STILL only does paid admission for the exhibitions in the first place? Idk

I don’t think this is a hot take, but as someone who loves sewing and fashion and design, and who appreciates the theme chosen for this year, I can’t help but have a hard time enjoying the spectacle, excess, and waste of the Met Gala... when average garment workers don't make a living wage.

Good to know! I will be sticking with this. I am differentiating them with parentheses and bolding the font. If I make a PDF version, I think I'll probably use different colors for the annotations.

That's good feedback! I also think making things up is weird!