I just took these out from the back of my closet as it is really autumn again and my feet are cold. My socks & my longjohns are in the top when it comes to my most mended items. Also, in the top on the most beloved possession list (cause I really do have one of those). I think those things are always related and that all mendable things are worth the effort. I don’t think that personal consumption habits, slowing down fashion a little bit or us buying a little more second hand is really the way to *save the world* since I am sure it comes down to a way greater effort than that. But I do think that it has great symbolic value to not consume aimlessly and endlessly, to mend things and care for them.
Now I’m off to a Frejs school for a while and then to a seminar at Folkets Hus, about the militarisation of the European Union.
vilka fina yllesockor! såna vill man sätta på bara för att de är so vackra.
Med tanke på att det enda man får uppmärksamhet för här i världen är yta lär det ju dröja ett tag innan den stora massan börjar inse att ägande är stöld. Härligt med ett ekonomiskt system som bygger till stor del på ett bekräftelsebehov som uppstår hos människan i typ samma stund som dess mor nekar dem sin mjölk. Håhå.
Those socks look so sweet all mended! They look so comfortable and loved – much better than rushing off to buy a new pair!
Precis sånadär sockor vill jag ha i mina kängor i vinter. Det ser lite ut som om det växer färgglad mossa på dem. Underbara!
Your socks are so cute but I really love that white dress. Old/second hand clothes are the best.
Katja: Tack!
Johanna: glädje är att se lite Proudhon ibland mina kommentarer!
Amelia: Thank you! :) The reason I started building on them in the first place was that they are two different ones and I wanted them to fit together. Then they started breaking and I kept mending and now I am in love with them..
Ida: Bara att börja laga då! Och så kan man bygga på höjden med garnrester.
Caitlin: Thank you! Though that is my nightgown :)