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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to make a basket out of dandelion stems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you dry them before you use them, so they’ll be just like any other basket! So probably not great to get it wet etc but it won’t rot. But also I suspect if you used the stems still fresh, they probably would just dry in the shape of the basket? My partner makes baskets out of other materials like tree bark and that just dries out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to make a basket out of dandelion stems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to make a basket out of dandelion stems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  hehehe I’m guessing that didn’t work out super well for you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to make a basket out of dandelion stems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds so cool! Do you have any posts with pictures or talking about how you did it? I learned how to make cordage once from wild materials but I don’t know much about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to make a basket out of dandelion stems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this idea!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to make a basket out of dandelion stems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hehe you might not work with small objects a lot! I have several little baskets, bowls and pottery pots about this size. The ones I can see right now contain my enamel pin collection, my hair accessories (bobby pins, clips, etc), my rings, and my earrings. I also have a little bowl for safety pins and another for wonder clips since I do a lot of sewing. This size could also scale up easily to hold straws, pencils, pipe cleaners, and anything else light, long, and narrow. I have previously used containers of this size to hold cool rocks and stickers too. And the writer of the post explains how you can make different shapes and sizes of basket, too, so you can upscale for your own needs!

  But, as someone else said, sometimes it’s nice to just make a thing for the joy of making a thing c:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things too look at for a sewing machine⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna go against the grain here and give you some of the best advice I’ve received as a sewist: get your machine secondhand.

  Thrift stores are a great place to look, or see if someone’s trying to get rid of a machine (talk to other sewists, we usually have extras), or even free piles on the side of the road. I got a fantastic machine from the 70s on the side of the road. You’re more likely to get an older machine if you go secondhand and older machines are more powerful, but delightfully, most secondhand machines function fine and are CHEAP. You don’t need to spend more than 100 USD on your machine. You probably don’t need to spend more than 50 USD.

  Source: I patch and sew my own clothes as well as make quilts. I do not use an industrial or specialty machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No where to go, but up!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you got this!! Become the pool guy you want to see in the world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨homeassistant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  good on you for moving away from Google!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I resurrected my old Creative Zen Vision W by modding the batteries with new cells.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s cool as hell!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool map of locations to forage for food in the urban areas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  whoa this is so cool!! I didn’t realize I was surrounded by so many natural resources

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to clean laptop?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  seconding makeup brushes!! Fluffy ones are great for delicate things and lightweight dust but a good thin edge brush will work wonders on stuck bits (source: my sewing machine seems to inhale dog hair every chance it gets)