The Stitchess

ooooooh cold brew actually IS the way

got it

dearly miss when watermelons had seeds and actually tasted like something

I love how lawmakers/politicians/pta moms literally just don’t seem to understand that saying “we don’t want kids and teens reading these books” is probably the only 100% surefire way to make kids and teens interested in reading a book

when the peach is so ripe it practically dissolves in your mouth >>>>

one of those haunted house rides but it’s people in restaurant uniforms poorly explaining how to do mildly dangerous tasks with a background ambiance of screaming children and beeping machinery and they keep telling you to “go faster, there’s customers waiting in line”

The Waffle House of Horrors

the fact that there are STILL people who think midsommar had a happy ending is WILD

I’m so out of the loop that the only reason I know prime day is coming up is from all the posts urging people not to buy anything on prime day lol

You can pry my em-dashes and my Oxford commas from my cold, dead hands.

GIRL mini zine advertisement

“Raised a Duck, Born a Swan” swan design sticker advertisement

some more little adverts I made for my shop items 🤍🩶🖤

(part 2)

“My Family Eats Dinner at the Dining Room Table” zine advertisement

Mini waterproof vinyl sticker with a knife design advertisement

some little adverts I made for my shop items 🤍🩶🖤

(part 1)

a photo of a black crochet beanie with small bunny ears superimposed over a background derived from a scanned security envelope pattern

slightly easier to style version of the bunny ear beanie 🖤

YouTube video by The Stitchess ~finally~ re-opening the shop

my shop is finally open again, so here’s a little vlog of me getting everything ready for re-launch

a screenshot of a website. in the top left corner is a logo that says “soft sugar”. in the center of the screenshot is a black and white piece of art depicting a swan done in digital ink wash. above the swan is red text in a handwritten font that says welcome. below it is a red rectangular “shop now” button.

just wanted to pop in real quick to say that my little shop is back open 🖤🩶🤍

softsugar.shop

Red and black striped crochet beanie with extra long bunny ears, adorned with safety pins and patches.

Close up of the beanie portion of the hat.

Close up of the ears, which has two small patches on it, one stating “end animal testing” and the other stating “don’t touch”.

Close up of the other ear, which has an “X” made from safety pins and a patch which features a heart with the word “zines” in the middle.

Just a little bunny ear hat I crocheted recently-ish 🖤❤️🖤

I started leaving out the egg in my banana bread recipe and just added and extra banana because they’re used as a common substitution anyway (when egg prices hit $7.50 a dozen I just stopped buying them altogether) and I am NEVER going back omg it is so much softer and fluffier without the egg

Back inside cover of a novel with Anne Rice’s signature under her author portrait.

god tier thrift find

my life improved tenfold after I discovered that you can roast your vegetables with garlic and herbs instead of eating them raw or boiled

10 year old me would be so amazed

was craving arroz rojo so I had to unearth the 10 year old youtube video that taught me the recipe from the depths of my likes

I think it’s finally time to write this one down lol

sometimes I feel really low but then I remember that I can literally just fry some potatoes

it does nothing to cure my depression, but at least I’ll have some potatoes

I swear the *second* I turned 30, my back decided to become my mortal enemy.

Photo of a calico tortie cat who looks mildly peeved.

the face of RAGE

I see bluesky has inherited twitter’s terrible photo cropping

upwards angle of a three tiered ruffle skirt made from ivory chiffon displayed on a dressform

head-on angle of a three tiered ruffle skirt made from ivory chiffon displayed on a dressform

closer shot of a three tiered ruffle skirt made from ivory chiffon displayed on a dressform

new skirt made from vintage drapery chiffon I got from a relative a decade and a half ago

no petticoat needed

I don’t care how good of a chef you claim to be, if you choose to roast russet potatoes in olive oil instead of peanut oil you are simply doing it wrong.

I’ve been pretty quiet about this on bluesky, but the sale will end and the shop will close on March 2nd. It shouldn’t take me more than 2-3 weeks to re-open, but I don’t have a clear date quite yet.

decided I’m no longer going to internally cringe at myself for feeling the instinctual need to include a ^-^ in my posts, because I just received a professional email that included a quick :)

Dante was wrong. There is a tenth circle of hell, where those who have the hubris and the audacity to start a small business on their own are required to package all orders exclusively using dollar store packing tape.

I wanted to learn to make bobbin lace when I was in high school but I literally couldn’t find supplies, even online, so I picked up crochet lace making instead

now you can buy a set of bobbins at michael’s

nature (the fiber arts) is healing

you have no idea how much of a relief it is whenever I see videos of anyone under the age of 60 making bobbin lace

prior to the recent surge of interest in fiber arts, bobbin lace making was practically a dead craft, and now it seems to be slowly coming back

watching a rip of a rip of a fansubbed anime uploaded to youtube in 240p like god intended