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user-inactivated  ·  1540 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Craft Fair v1.25 - January 8, 2020

I'd have more done, but I recently fell victim to the siren's song that is videogames.

I've been mulling over, for a while, ideas about how to make an American Bald Gryphon flag for my friend and I think this is the general layout I'm gonna go with. Basically, I'm gonna sew together three pieces, blue denim, red denim, and cream colored denim, and then embroider a gryphon onto the star. I think in the final layout, the star will be a bit bigger, but this is just a visual idea with what I'm gonna be working with here.

I had more elaborate ideas in mind, but I decided to keep it overly simple for two reasons. The biggest of which is, if I'm gonna actually sew pieces of fabric together this time, instead of doing the collage type sewing I usually do, I need to keep it simple because I'm not that good yet and an 8"x10" little flag is gonna be a bit to work with. The other reason is, as much as I love my country and my neighbors, where I'm at at the very least the lines between iconic Americanism, Patriotism, and Jingoism are unfortunately really blurry right now and it's making me all sorts of uncomfortable. The way I see it, if my working on crafts is supposed to be my escapism and sense of relief from the world, I don't want to bring discomfort into it.

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