#the flax

[freckleslikestars]

FARSCAPE | 1.13 The Flax

[trippingthemoonlightfantastic]

Just The Flax, Ma'am

Watercolor on Black Cotton Paper

2022, 25"x 33"

Blue Flax Flowers

Private Collection

[creekfiend]

when items which claim to be made of linen are like "hand wash gentle only do not use machines" it's soooo. guys linen is like. the durable fiber. I should be able to fucking boil this and hit it with rocks biweekly. you are doing something wrong

[ye-olde-cider]

So I'm trying to make folk linen pants from sowing to sewing.

Second post (here's first)

It's been about 60 days since sowing (it's 22nd of June). It's looking so pretty and started blooming about 55th day. I've been watering it one or two wheelbarrows of every 2 weeks, which I thought would be too little but it's growing pretty good. It's still not that high (about over the knee) and I doubt it'll get much higher sadly. That means lower grade of fibers but whatever. It'll be fine.

Every now and again there are parts laying down and I've been seeing some hares running about so they probably hide in it tramping down the plants. But it gets up no problem so all good. Maybe next time I'll put up a little fence around it.

Also idk when should I harvest it bc all the info is about oil flax, not textile flax, and even then it's contradictory sometimes. But either way it's around 100-120th day, so we're still only halfway.

Next up I need to start thinking about scuthing it, and it requires some equipment. But it's easy enough to build on my own probably. It should be something like this flax-brake:

And then this kind of metal comb, which I'll make just by densly putting nails in a blank:

So yeah, that's the plans for the near future. Here's a bonus flax video if you stayed till the end ❤️

[beggars-opera]

Welcome to the niche corner I’m learning how to make thread today

[fullcravings]

Vegan Brownie Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookies

[omelevateart]

Making pancakes sure can be fun!

[elodieunderglass]

When does Tolkien start entering the public domain?

(In reference to this poll https://www.tumblr.com/elodieunderglass/730451774219190272 where I tagged it supporting my own personal theory and added that when Tolkien enters the public domain WATCH OUT)

Tolkien’s works enter the public domain in the USA, uk and Canada 70 years after his death - so 2043 with open season starting 2044.

If we’re all still around in 20 years’ time, make a note of it! I’ll write you a story with unhinged hobbit family structures, the Shire being a place that dampens magic, and the unauthorised yet strangely canonical adventures of Belladonna Took and the Silmarils. It will be 200,000 words long and written in the correct tone, and I promise to do completely immersive research to colour in the background: every linguistic reference, Anglo-Saxon folkway, Icelandic influence, weirdly deep dives into topics like kinship moiety and subtle mischief that characterises Tolkien’s work. This would be so funny to me.

Everyone will be racing to publish basic porn and games; the d&d franchise which will be world-eating in 20 years will finally get to drop the pretense of “halflings,” Witcher and other franchises ditto; all the fantasy writers who have tugged at the tit for so many generations will finally be able to do it openly, and the films will be constant and abysmal. But we, we alone, we happy few alone and free; we will be giggling together, like playing dolls, over what the people REALLY want: constructing elaborate conlang puns with a 200k textual payoff.

It will be my honor to work on this for no reason at all, and I will ceremoniously give it to you in exchange for £7.99. And we will laugh and laugh and laugh

[crookedtines]

So... I finally took a drop spindle spinning class after going back and forth about it for weeks.

The white yarn's what I spun in class. It's pretty lumpy, but it's got personality. I had a bunch of wool left over, so of course it got dyed a fun color the second I got home. In the meantime I watched a ton of spinning videos, which seemed to magically enable me to spin a finer yarn on my second attempt. Watching other people work really makes things click into place!

Here they are freshly plied! The difference between them is wild (to me). I have no idea what to use them for, but that probably won't stop me from making more.

[rhythm-the-raptor-creations]

A ref sheet for my WoF sona! He's a Leaf/Silk hybrid; while his looks come mainly from the Leaf side, his skills are more Silk-leaning - he is quite good at fiber crafts, and woefully bad at taking care of plants lol

[freckleslikestars]

Did you see the thing humans believe? The light. Friends. No. No, I didn't. All I saw was black. I don't know, maybe Sebaceans are right. Maybe there's nothing after this, maybe... Maybe I wasn't supposed to die that time. Well... maybe you'll find out for certain this time.

FARSCAPE | 1.13 The Flax

BONUS

[trippingthemoonlightfantastic]

The Flax Of Life

Watercolor On Wood Panel

2024, 16"x 20"

Blue Flax Flowers

Private Collection

[flaxen-kittie]

HELLP

@wh1msyr4t dissing my boy 😡

[jumpingpuddles]

Farscape: The Flax

[theladyeowyn]

The Office - “Ultimatum”

[fullcravings]

Blueberry Baked Oatmeal