MakeReadGrow
@makereadgrow.bsky.social
Sometimes known as stringthing - into all the fiber arts, books, and plants.
Gluten free rolls are done - it's a double batch of the loopy whisk recipe from the website.
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Gluten free rolls are done - it's a double batch of the loopy whisk recipe from the website.
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~* it’s beginning to look a lot like gay cardinal season *~
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
~* it’s beginning to look a lot like gay cardinal season *~
Made a pie today
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Made a pie today
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As G-d is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
From the Larchives. I guess it's time to post this cartoon for my American friends again :)
November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
As G-d is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Sewing tip upgrade: the original tip is that silicone earplugs are a perfect substitute for expensive thread conditioner, the upgrade I was recently given was to smoosh the containerless silicone putty between two buttons to keep it tidy.
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Sewing tip upgrade: the original tip is that silicone earplugs are a perfect substitute for expensive thread conditioner, the upgrade I was recently given was to smoosh the containerless silicone putty between two buttons to keep it tidy.
Since its once again relevant - you don't need a prescription to re-up your TDAP and the pertussis portion tends to wane after the first 5years.
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Since its once again relevant - you don't need a prescription to re-up your TDAP and the pertussis portion tends to wane after the first 5years.
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There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I don't know what is happening with the barometric pressure but yesterday my ears felt like I was underground and today my knees are screaming and my hands are slathered in voltaren gel. My ankles sound like bubble wrap (more than usual).
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I don't know what is happening with the barometric pressure but yesterday my ears felt like I was underground and today my knees are screaming and my hands are slathered in voltaren gel. My ankles sound like bubble wrap (more than usual).
I read both of the Witch Roads Duology by Kate Elliott over two days. Or three if you count that I stayed up until 1:30am on WEEKNIGHT to finish the second. They were incredible.
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I read both of the Witch Roads Duology by Kate Elliott over two days. Or three if you count that I stayed up until 1:30am on WEEKNIGHT to finish the second. They were incredible.
I hope everyone has as peaceful a sleep and as perfect an eyeliner as this baby girl.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I hope everyone has as peaceful a sleep and as perfect an eyeliner as this baby girl.
Managed to catch the final shreds of daylight to document my new bathrobe. Three solid weekends of sewing in this baby and it's a major upgrade from my ten year old dingy white hotel robe. #sewsky #garmentsewing
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Managed to catch the final shreds of daylight to document my new bathrobe. Three solid weekends of sewing in this baby and it's a major upgrade from my ten year old dingy white hotel robe. #sewsky #garmentsewing
Me: it's time to put on your socks and shoes
Kid: I wish I was a walrus
Me: don't we all
Kid: I wish I was a walrus
Me: don't we all
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Me: it's time to put on your socks and shoes
Kid: I wish I was a walrus
Me: don't we all
Kid: I wish I was a walrus
Me: don't we all
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I have two things I would really like people to internalize about the fashion industry/garment manufacturing, and they are:
1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and;
2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.
1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and;
2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I have two things I would really like people to internalize about the fashion industry/garment manufacturing, and they are:
1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and;
2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.
1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and;
2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.
I've been trying to form a habit of baking on Sundays. This is the gluten free brioche dough from The Elements of Baking with added cinnamon and raisins, cranberries, and currants. Turned out very nice.
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I've been trying to form a habit of baking on Sundays. This is the gluten free brioche dough from The Elements of Baking with added cinnamon and raisins, cranberries, and currants. Turned out very nice.
I am on the very last step of my bathrobe project. This hem may take a good long while but I'm going at a pretty good clip. #sewsky #garmentsewing
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I am on the very last step of my bathrobe project. This hem may take a good long while but I'm going at a pretty good clip. #sewsky #garmentsewing
My spouse and his Dad (and his BIL) are going to a football game next weekend and I believe they are currently on the phone discussing outfits.
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
My spouse and his Dad (and his BIL) are going to a football game next weekend and I believe they are currently on the phone discussing outfits.
Since we got home I've been alternating 15 minutes of adulting with 15 minutes of sewing and sitting. Kitchen is done, sewing is not.
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Since we got home I've been alternating 15 minutes of adulting with 15 minutes of sewing and sitting. Kitchen is done, sewing is not.
Got a whole block done while kiddo swims, he's not tired yet but I am.
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Got a whole block done while kiddo swims, he's not tired yet but I am.
I need to purchase some sort of cards to send school pictures and shopping for them is kind of terrible. I need them to be large enough to hold a 4x6 picture and I want non AI graphics and maybe something seasonal but not overtly Jesusy. Shouldn't be hard to find.
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I need to purchase some sort of cards to send school pictures and shopping for them is kind of terrible. I need them to be large enough to hold a 4x6 picture and I want non AI graphics and maybe something seasonal but not overtly Jesusy. Shouldn't be hard to find.
Stitching at the pool
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Stitching at the pool
My kid won't eat boxed Mac and cheese without the addition of frozen peas and I genuinely don't know if I've failed or won as a parent.
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
My kid won't eat boxed Mac and cheese without the addition of frozen peas and I genuinely don't know if I've failed or won as a parent.
I need to rearrange the office so that I can reach the copier (down the hall) without leaving contact with the heating pad in my chair.
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I need to rearrange the office so that I can reach the copier (down the hall) without leaving contact with the heating pad in my chair.
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We still have a limited inventory of *most* sizes of these. Some sizes just have 1 left, so if you wanna get one, do it soon!
Squidfacts.net
Squidfacts.net
Extremely jazzed about my new t-shirt from @sarahmackattack.bsky.social !!
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
We still have a limited inventory of *most* sizes of these. Some sizes just have 1 left, so if you wanna get one, do it soon!
Squidfacts.net
Squidfacts.net
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This is how "fast fashion" works. This is how it has always worked. There is no such thing as a robot sewing-machine. Only women, and starvation wages. This was true 150 years ago. And it's true now.
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This is how "fast fashion" works. This is how it has always worked. There is no such thing as a robot sewing-machine. Only women, and starvation wages. This was true 150 years ago. And it's true now.