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I don’t think I’ve posted on here this late in a long time. We have been temp-fostering for our community cat colony to try and get it to where there aren’t kitten litters back to back year round. In the last week we have lost two of the kittens, one from each litter we currently have in my bathroom.

One of them we took to the emergency vet because her decline was unexpected and sudden. Originally I had posted to some rescue groups looking for help/programs with vets, but we lost her while she was still being worked on at the vet.

I have a gofundme up to try and cover the rest of her vet bill, with anything that might come through over that going to the continued care of the remaining kittens from both litters! We’ve made 175 so far and her final bill was a little over 750

https://gofund.me/903c637db

If you guys could share and check it out I would be so grateful! We lost the other one just last night at home, he was just too far gone before we even got him and his siblings. He’s from the same Momma as my Anakin and was a little mini me of him so I haven’t been able to sleep. Ani’s mom had bolted and not come back after we scooped her first litter and it frustrated me to no end knowing she’d probably have another in the same conditions because we couldn’t get a rescue to come out. We FINALLY got ahold of one in the last couple of weeks that could lend us a trap and we have already caught three adult cats to be spayed/neutered including both moms.

Any help is so, so appreciated so I can make sure we can pay off the vet bill and make sure we have enough food and other supplies for these guys. They deserve so much more than what they’ve started out with.

https://gofund.me/903c637db

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Tw: animal care/sickness/death, no graphic images

I don’t think I’ve posted on here this late in a long time. We have been temp-fostering for our community cat colony to try and get it to where there aren’t kitten litters back to back year round. In the last week we have lost two of the kittens, one from each litter we currently have in my bathroom.

One of them we took to the emergency vet because her decline was unexpected and sudden. Originally I had posted to some rescue groups looking for help/programs with vets, but we lost her while she was still being worked on at the vet.

I have a gofundme up to try and cover the rest of her vet bill, with anything that might come through over that going to the continued care of the remaining kittens from both litters! We’ve made 175 so far and her final bill was a little over 750

https://gofund.me/903c637db

If you guys could share and check it out I would be so grateful! We lost the other one just last night at home, he was just too far gone before we even got him and his siblings. He’s from the same Momma as my Anakin and was a little mini me of him so I haven’t been able to sleep. Ani’s mom had bolted and not come back after we scooped her first litter and it frustrated me to no end knowing she’d probably have another in the same conditions because we couldn’t get a rescue to come out. We FINALLY got ahold of one in the last couple of weeks that could lend us a trap and we have already caught three adult cats to be spayed/neutered including both moms.

Any help is so, so appreciated so I can make sure we can pay off the vet bill and make sure we have enough food and other supplies for these guys. They deserve so much more than what they’ve started out with.

https://gofund.me/903c637db

hsuits:

Hello all! I wanted to share something on the human side today. This is Anakin. I have had him for about 3 weeks now. When i found him he was abandoned and had a pretty serious URI and needed special care.

He was doing so much better with medicine and bottle feeding until today. I woke up to him having a head tilt and a case of the wobbles. I got him into our vet who is pretty sure it is neuro. To say i am crushed is an understatement. There’s not much we can do other than hope he improves since he is so small. And if he doesn’t, possibly get xrays to see if there’s anything they might be able to do for him. They said it was too early to try xrays since we haven’t given him time to try and heal.

He’s been purring like a bug all day and kneading in my lap. It doesn’t even register to him that something is wrong.

When you are looking at my projects and when I share that I am offering handmade items and commissions, and partnering to sell fabrics please know I am an individual, not a big corporation looking to build on top of millions. I take care of my disabled sister, my mom who has a ton of health problems, and my clowder of cats, which includes this guy.

Okay all, so I get to post an Ani update!

I got to start my day mad today after very little sleep. I kept mulling over how the vet treated the situation yesterday and it just didn’t feel right. And later in the evening Anakin started to habe a sickly sweet smell come from his ear.

Dead ringer for an ear infection like I thought originally.

I took him back this morning and tore a diplomatic new one into the vet. The manager was terrific and ran tests for me that weren’t even offered yesterday, and it definitely came back positive for an ear infection. Now there’s still a chance it can be both, but if is much less likely. They did an ear wash and we only paid for his drops that we have to do twice a day for the next ten days.

Hello all! I wanted to share something on the human side today. This is Anakin. I have had him for about 3 weeks now. When i found him he was abandoned and had a pretty serious URI and needed special care.

He was doing so much better with medicine and bottle feeding until today. I woke up to him having a head tilt and a case of the wobbles. I got him into our vet who is pretty sure it is neuro. To say i am crushed is an understatement. There’s not much we can do other than hope he improves since he is so small. And if he doesn’t, possibly get xrays to see if there’s anything they might be able to do for him. They said it was too early to try xrays since we haven’t given him time to try and heal.

He’s been purring like a bug all day and kneading in my lap. It doesn’t even register to him that something is wrong.

When you are looking at my projects and when I share that I am offering handmade items and commissions, and partnering to sell fabrics please know I am an individual, not a big corporation looking to build on top of millions. I take care of my disabled sister, my mom who has a ton of health problems, and my clowder of cats, which includes this guy.

Made to order slots are up on my website for the Commander Snips Light-Up visor! I have had many asks about making this available to order so I did the thing!

These are handmade to order, so will take some time to ship out so please keep that in mind! All pieces are individually cut out, painted, sealed and sewn/glued together.

Order Here!

I have a surprise for you all! My Far Far away Damask designs are available for preorder at KNITorious Fabric ! I’ve put together some new designs and color variants for this release, and they have matching panels! Orders go in once a month, so make sure you place yours before the round closes! Here

A lot of protest artwork going around is AI generated. That money feeds back into the 1% that has directly caused everything being protested. Here is some artist-crafted work you can use instead! All I ask is fair attribution, and to please be safe.

I present this year’s halloween project! This was deeply clearanced because of damage. I wasn’t big into the base but really wanted a halloween bowl stand and looked too last minute so this is what I gotBeforeIn progressAfter!It is now a witchy whimsical piece!

A new fabric pattern from HSuits Productions! A beautiful damask inspired by the Queen of the Underworld and the Goddess of Spring, Persephone!
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since microplastics have now been found in plACENTAS allow me to reiterate: 

faux fur is plastic

pleather literally has plastic in the name

synthetic wool is plastic

stop implying that plastic is good for anything.

“Vegan” fabrics? Yeah that shit is just plastic rebranded

not supporting the fur industry - but remember, vintage furs from thrift stores do not contribute to killing animals and are actually better for the environment than faux fur.

You can also buy fur new if you want. That is not a crime unless you are buying endangered animal furs. It’s also not really worse for the environment or the animals than buying regular meat or eggs from the grocery store, because all those animals are factory farmed, whether for fur, meat, or eggs. Factory farming isn’t solely a problem with fur, and anyway if you want to stop it then you’re better off calling or writing your politicians and getting involved with the larger movement that is trying to end big agra monopolies than only shopping at ‘pure’ retailers. You can’t change the world with your pocketbook, that’s a lie capitalism fed us.

The best furs to buy for warmth are coyote and raccoon, anyway, not mink and such. Sheepskin is also good. Stuff like mink, ermine, and sable aren’t actually very useful in terms of keeping you warm. Vintage bear and beaver are also pretty warm. Rabbit is useless, it sheds and goes bare quickly and isn’t very warm at all. Soft though.

Wool is the only fibre in the world that keeps you warm even when the wool is wet, and silk is among the best baselayers for warmth. Linen is the coolest fibre in the world, better than cotton, has been used for centuries and is a lot less costly in effort and water to produce–cotton is only cheaper artificially.

Down is the warmest and most breathable stuffing for blankets and pillows and it lasts a really long time. Cotton or wool stuffing is available also, but it doesn’t get the loft that down does, nor is it as warm (cotton isn’t warm at all). Remember that stuffing is also made of plastic!

Leather is great stuff, if you take care of it properly. It needs regular care and maintaining, but it will last a really long time if you do, and just get softer and softer over the years. And yes, you can clean it! You use something called saddle soap to clean it with. Patent leather has a plastic coating and may not even be leather these days, unfortunately. Deerskin is very nice, very soft but not very warm.

There’s a movement I first heard about in the historical costuming community, from Pinsent Tailoring: Slow Fashion. It’s a response to fast fashion, and the goals are to have a wardrobe that is more about longevity and quality of the clothing, and also about the clothing being made so that in a hundred years, all that would be left are the metal/horn/bone/shell/wood buttons. It’s very hard to do that with modern shoe soles, but if the heel or insole of your shoe is the only plastic you leave, you’re still doing better than an outfit from Target or something. Making your own clothes is actually not extremely difficult, you can start with extremely simple things, including the Bisexual Shirt (poet shirt), a pair of comfy pajama-style pants, and so on.

Make friends with your local vultures, costume historians, and leatherworkers (which are all, sometimes, also cosplayers)! They’re going to have oodles of resources for where to find natural materials.

Also, support Indigenous businesses!

It was always friggin weird to me that real fur became so controversial and socially offensive among people who still eat meat, like PETA activism actually successfully changed our entire culture and tricked people into thinking that wearing an animal’s skin is Exceptionally Wrong, except I guess cow leather because that’s not from like, a fox, which is like, a dog, and therefore special or something

ALSO

I’m gonna say this as a pro-real-leather person:

The way modern leather is mass-produced involves toxic chemicals and is not great for the planet. At all.

“But if our choices are plastic or terrible chemicals, then what?”

Then you can help people and the planet at the same time, because….

……THERE ARE MANY NATIVE AMERICAN SHOPS ON THE INTERNET THAT SELL TRADITIONALLY-TANNED LEATHER.

It will cost more. But it will also last much longer. I met a dude recently wearing a falling-apart leather jacket. He said he figured he’d have to replace it in the next year or two. Kinderlach, HE BOUGHT IT BEFORE I WAS BORN. I’M THIRTY-TWO. IT LASTED HIM ALMOST FORTY YEARS.

Please consider purchasing from Native-owned traditional leather shops. They would love your business and you will get high-quality, low-impact goods.

Does anyone have a list they could drop of good places to buy leather, skins, furs, and wool from?

To start with if it’s based in the US iguana, feral pig, or python is good no matter what. Those are invasive species that should be eaten and used however possible. I would also recommend looking for places that are as local as possible as you can help neighbors, prevent the byproducts of shipping long distance, and it’s easier to check the actual processes that they use. 

 Note: A lot of these things are expensive, as is the nature of many animal products.

https://www.thetallis.com/collections/all-products Furs

https://www.lochcarron.co.uk Wool

https://www.thehonestconsumer.com/blog/ethical-leather-brands Leather

just reblogging to add the Shave Em to Save Em campaign to this list. Lots of small rancher vendors on there selling skins, fleeces, and even bones directly to the public.

There is a long history on this.

Two ways to tell the origin of medieval books are: What wood are the boards made of and what leather is it covered in? It is very region-specific.

Leather can also be good for durable cosplay armor! It can be painted with acrylic added to a fabric medium, including metallics. Eva foam and worbla are both plastic and do not hold up to very many wears. Cowhide comes in multiple thicknesses and large sizes and can be wet formed to the shape you need, and it is already a byproduct of farming so it ensures no part of the animal you are already eating will go to waste.

I actually have been remaking my ahsoka siege of mandalore armor in leather because the original fell apart after one wear in the hot california sun at disneyland.