Trash Panda DIY

It's cold, and I find myself in need of a butt-warmer. A butt-warmer, much like a leg-warmer or arm-warmer, is a tube of material that covers the butt and butt adjacent areas to keep them warm. You could also call it a mini-skirt. Trash Panda had heard tales of people making such skirts out of shirts, and so the quest began. CraftyCoup, may my cousins never tip over her trash can, made a post with instructions for how to make just such a butt-warmer with a sewing machine . And as she says in her post, it is very, very easy to make. But what if you don't have a sewing machine, or if you've never made a piece of clothing before? Fear not, Trash Panda will guide you. Materials:  T-shirt Scissors, sharper is better Needle and thread Measuring thingy (measuring tape is good, ruler is ok) Elastic for the waistband  Tailor's chalk or pencil, or maybe just normal chalk The Process:  1) Find a shirt that's got:  Some stretch to it: It's a mini-skirt, it needs to be at le...

Trash Panda treats gloves like socks. Buy a bunch of the same kind so I am not sad if one gets lost or worn out, because Trash Panda is constantly losing or wearing out gloves.  This is easy for the normal kind, but harder for the no-fingers hand warmer kind. So this raccoon sought to make their own for cheap. After some thought*, Trash Panda had an epiphany. Treating gloves like socks...what if socks COULD be gloves!  Why not turn old socks INTO gloves?  WHHHHATTTTT IT'S GENIUS! Turns out it really was genius.  I just cut the worn-out footy parts off a pair of old wool socks, then cut the right sized hole for my thumb(s) a little below the sock cuff.  Instant gloves! I made the sock cuff the finger-facing end of the gloves because it was thicker, more fitted, and already hemmed. The looser and thinner ankle side of the sock leg** was good for my larger and less-likely-to get-into things forearms.  Since they're my socks, they're already about the right siz...

In this season of mass consumption, Trash Panda likes to festively push back against the terrible capitalist machine.* I do this by creating alternative narratives for the shiny photos in holiday catalogues and turning them into collage Christmas cards.  It's nice because:  Wow are there a lot of holiday catalogues laying around Hurray, let's make something fun out of media that's trying to sell shit to us Catalogs, post-its, scissors, markers, sticky labels, pretty paper, glue sticks, GO I like to make figuring out the card captions a group activity with some of my more inventive friends since I find it easier and more fun to make alternative picture narratives collaboratively. Your mileage may vary.** Here is a curated selection from the last ten years of me making these weird-ass things:  ============ * Far be it from Trash Panda to shit all over Christmas - this raccoon loves the winter holidays. But unrestrained late-stage capitalism can kick rocks along with 2020. S...