u/247silence

Fiber people, you know how any scrap of fabric/clothes/thread/whatever can theoretically become any functional fabric item/art piece. You can find it all for free & keep everything under the sun and feel justified in your thrifty, scrappy, reuse-y, no-spend-y creativity.

Lately feeling like it is maybe not justified if I'm not using it. Starting to get that guilt from unused stuff. Also seem to have an injury that might mean I can't sit to sew. Pretty sad because I'm good at it & I have beautiful stuff. Anyway, I guess I'm supposed to either use it or lose it, right? I haven't used it. So what would it feel like to lose it?

I am interested in hearing from creatives who pushed past feelings of resistance & majorly got rid of the ✨someday-I-could✨ supplies. How do you feel now that the stuff is gone?

And before anyone mentions container concept, I gotta be honest with you - just doesn't do it for me. I say hey brain, this is our limit. My brain says no it's not, you just made that up

So let's say child has very mild fever, reports feeling unwell, and looks very uncharacteristically down at bedtime. In the morning, child still feels warm and reports throat pain. I give pain meds & send to bed. Within minutes of course the child feels better and looks better and is behaving normally. We still don't go to school because the mild fever is artificially suppressed & fever means no school. Am I doing this correctly?

I'm reading a book that says James Baldwin on the cover along with his PORTRAIT.

I cannot.

Edit: I got an idea for a physical strategy to push past friction (repeating a phrase out loud), and I got a kickass new perspective (I already did something great with this yarn and that's all I was supposed to do). Thank you!

I have yarn that was given to me. It's been here over one year. I haven't done anything with it. Probably because I don't want to crochet or knit anything, and because I did not acquire this yarn with any project in mind. It just ✨appeared✨ for free from the universe so I kept it.

I have asked a public school art teacher if she wants it. She said yes *enthusiastically*! So why is it that when I approach the yarn, I start to think..... maybe I could do this cool not-crochet-or-knit thing with it...... maybe I could use it..... sometimes all I think is "I don't want to" & I just walk away.

This is a "losing potential" issue, right? But this yarn is ugly and acrylic. There's no real potential. This is silly.

I feel like I need someone to put their hand on mine, move my hand to the yarn, extend my fingers and then close them over the yarn, move my hand over the bag, then extend my fingers so the yarn drops down.