you may have answered this before, and if so sorry for bothering you, but where would you recommend going to get sewing supplies (various fabrics, thread, fluffy filling, weighted filling, etc)?
Hi! I can't remember if I've answered this before or not, but either way it's not a bother. All my answers will be pretty US-based, because that's where I live and where I get all my supplies from. Answers below the read more, because this will get a little long
So, first thing: Joanns Fabric. It's a chain store, with decent quality, good selection, and decent prices (that regularly go on sale and regularly have good coupons). I love Joanns, and I get all my fluffy filling and most of my quilt batting from them (but wait for a sale! It's not worth paying full price, it'll go on sale for 40-50% off pretty regularly). I also get most of my thread from Joanns (well, truthfully most of my thread is from various people destashing, but my new thread is from Joanns mostly). Thread goes on sale pretty regularly too. Joanns has a decent but not great minky selection that's on the mid-to-high end of the minky price spectrum, and my local Joanns has an *excellent* faux fur selection that's extremely expensive when not on sale (but also goes on sale for 50% off regularly). Your Joanns' selection may vary, though; my old Joanns back in California had a much better minky selection but a much worse faux fur selection.
Quilting fabrics you *can* get at Joanns, but I'd recommend local quilt shops. The quality of the fabric tends to be better, you support a local small business, and you get to get advice from the inevitable Quilt Shop Grandma who, at least in my experience, will immediately want to help you as soon as you set foot in the shop. Also, sometimes a Quilt Shop Grandma will befriend you and gift you fabrics they are destashing. If you can't afford the higher price point of local quilt shops, Joanns' quilting fabric works just fine for quilting, and the remnants bin at Joanns is my absolute favorite (at least 50% off whatever the current price of the fabric is, and the fabrics are frequently discounted anyway, and sometimes it's 75% off, and you can get a yard of fleece for like a dollar. It's the best!!)
These days, I get almost all of my minky and some of my quilting fabric online. My favorite online quilt shop is CaliQuiltCo Etsy (on the higher end of the pricing scale, but excellent minky selection and they are one of the only online quilt shops I've seen that will let you order minky 1/4 yard at a time instead of 1 or 2 yards at a time), and recently I've gotten some excellent deals from Green Fairy Quilts (a warning: the website is not set up super well, and the receipts look a little weird, but the prices are really good and the fabric is some of the major quilting fabric brands). Side note: Shannon minky is the brand of minky I prefer. There are competitors, but Shannon minky is my favorite - consistently good quality, good colors, and it doesn't like dissolve around the edges when you cut it.
I get my weighted filling (polypellets) from Walmart. I haven't really found them anywhere else?
If you have any more specific questions about a particular kind of fabric/stuffing/supplies, please feel free to ask! I love talking about crafting and I'm happy to share the resources I've found
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could you pretty please add the drawing of shakadolin cuddling/napping in a pile to your INPRNT (this one: https://www.tumblr.com/stivya/631672154331709440/i-miss-them)? I need it in my life and on my wall. I love your art style so much and am so glad you've decided to sell prints!!
Yes! You can find it here
Thank you i really appreciate it!!💖
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the curse of adhd:
i will remember with absolute clarity, when the thought strikes me that i have a text to send someone, that this is the fourth time in three days i've attempted to send this specific text
i will forget, in the time it takes me to pick up my phone, that i picked it up intending to send a text
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Hey, guys? Make peace with yellow teeth. I'm so serious right now.
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Fun game for Pride Month:
When you're at a event, count how many people with mobility aids there are. If it seens low, think about why that might be. Count how many disabled bathrooms. Count how many unavoidable steps. Try and find one accessibility issue at the event and afterwards contact the organisers to ask them to fix it.
Many disabled queer people are left out of the Pride month celebrations due to accessibility issues, so if you're able to be there, you're already in a position to make it better.
Don't forget your disabled siblings this Pride!
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– Noor Unnahar, Instagram account "noor_unnahar"
[TEXT ID: / [Lemons] / My father's mother loved lemons. Years after her passing, / we run out of everything, but never / lemons. / Nothing else shelters grief / better than memory. / It's my father way of saying, / even in your absence, you will be / cared by me. / END ID]
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if there's one thing this last episode has affirmed for me about Alastor it's that he FUCKING HATES being reminded that he's not the most powerful creature in hell.
Like, he hates being ignored by Carmilla when she says she doesn't care why he was gone
He hates Lucifer ON SIGHT
He threatens to KILL Husk when he dares to mention that Alastor is working for someone more powerful than him
and now this.
Alastor freaking out because he almost died. Something almost killed him. He can fucking die. There is something more powerful than him out there. And it's not something he can ignore or brush off because it almost killed him.
Alastor hates the reminder that he's not as powerful as he tells people he is. He isn't indestructible, he isn't invincible. And he fucking hates that.
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