diy are you ready to break out of the mold?
Fashion is a large spectrum that ranges from vast creativity to severe claustrophobic confinement of one's design sensibilities. Cultural style homogenization occurs so quickly through fads. Everyone starts to look the same -- and it is soo booooring!
The most direct route to escaping these molds? Thrift stores, and personal modification.
Thrift shopping is more fun than browsing a regular retail store because there are so many strange surprises to discover. Thrift style is also far more mindful of the environment, and (generally) far more affordable and unique. Imagination stimulation also comes into play with a question for every new find: "what can I do with this?"
Yes, imagination. Don't tell me you don't have one. Everyone does. Remember when you were little, fearlessly scrawling original imagery with crayon on paper scraps? When raw mistakes made your drawings awesome? It seems most Americans abandon their personal wildernesses of creativity. We choke it down and forget about it in our insecurity and paranoia of what others might think. Anything that could lead to making mistakes is too dangerous to engage. Wouldn't want to risk ones social standing, would we? So we flock to magazines and stores which readily dictate to us what to wear.
The marginalization of creativity into the starving artist realm has taken a huge toll on our society. Creativity is a universal ability that needs to be recognized non-exclusively. Let's wake the collective imagination within us all and take back our culture!
Not everyone has a sewing machine. I don't. A sewing machine would not be able to handle my spontaneous aesthetic. Sewing by hand is easy. If you don't want to sew, thrift shopping still gives you the power to make over your wardrobe, and your creativity can be profoundly engaged in developing fabulous new outfit compilations. But if you do feel like kickin' your designs up a notch, grab some thread you love, various sizes of needles, and some scissors. Go shopping in the depths of your closet, and let your imagination lead the way to create a new look. Then enjoy telling your friends how you made it yourself when they enquire where they can purchase a copy.
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1. tie a loose figure 8 knot
3. continue creating a chain of loops
2. pull a loop of yarn through loop of knot with crochet hook
4. connect loosely around wrist
5-6. make chains however long you want then connect to original chain
9-10. when you are finished, make a couple of independent loops, then pull the thread through the final loop
7-8. there are formulas you can follow but i prefer to improvise like jazz
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