I don't mean any disrespect by this, but I'm so sick of the term "no waste", I wish people in the industry would stop using it. It is false if you really think about the process of creating anything from beginning to end, and it comes off sounding so pretentious. The process of creating any fabric material is inherently wasteful, and its become this popular term by the so called environmentally aware who want to seem like not wasting a single thread makes them good people and feel better about themselves. I'm a professional sewist with a studio full of scraps. It's impossible to NOT have some waste, even if it's just the trimming of threads. And scraps can be used for any number of things or donated. So can we please stop using this asinine term "no waste".

An absolute delight as usual! Love hearing your thoughts on, like, things, especially LARP things.

What is "linear" in this context? Perhaps it's a UK usage I haven't come across in US larps.

WOAH The Drowning Girl takes me back. I related wayyy too much to that book.

My pocketses generally hold a cleaning cloth for my glasses, tissues, lip balm, and often a pen and/or cough drop. A lot of times I also leave a safety pin inside where it is invisible and there for emergency use.

4:01 Channeling Rachel Maksy in the most charming way while still managing to totally be yourself is unbelievably impressive

Is it weird that I've never sewn a thing but I love watching these videos? I don't think I'd even know how to turn a sewing machine on.😅

Oooft, some of these hit like psychic damage. I always start drifting in the direction of cat herding, one of my new characters this year is deliberately terrible, so I cannot do that even a little bit, and hopefully, I will get some rest

As someone who can only be described as LARPcurious at this stage, this is a super handy guide of things to look out for should I ever found myself brave enough - thank you!

THANK YOU!!!

Darn that all sounds very complicated. I don’t play but I do enjoy hearing how things work

I'm here for the artsy craftsy stuff. Still, I played this in the background while doing other things. Your voice and inflections are very pleasant. 💜

I really love your perspective on LARP stuff, because many of my friends are heavily into LARP, so I've got a weird level of LARP knowledge for someone who typically only does Tabletop Roleplaying games (I know so much about Empire despite never having played); I hear secondhand bits and bobs about so many LARPs, but your directness sort of helps to tie these fragments together (in particular, the algorithm first led me to your Evermore video, which I think was great at drawing out general, but concrete insights from that comparison).

"Reptiles."! Ahahaaa

Yesssss, communicate to your players. Overshare. I'd rather you spoil a surprise than leave out a critical detail that would have made me not book on. You can even offer different levels of information to people who want it - it's increasingly common in some circles to have multiple player-facing timetables for the event. One says "expect to play from 8am til 1am and meal times will be at 9, 1 and 6", one says that plus "there will be events at 11, 2, 4, 9 and 11 so plan your naps and breaks around that" and one says "the event at 11 will be a wedding, it will be interrupted by horrible protesters, the event at 2 will be..." That lets people decide for themselves where they want to be on the scale from well-informed to spoiler-free.

OH YAY WELCOME TO TUMBLR!!! The only social media site I actually look at!!!

Yess, one of my favourite genres of video! Strong opinions about a subject I am unfamiliar with and not at all invested in!! That does sound frustrating, bleh. If someone invited me to a costume ball and then halfway through it went "Surprise! It's a pool party now!" I'd certainly be very annoyed and unprepared.

How odd that organisers don't get that. Just saying "it's a mystery" is setting up for failure in terms of player satisfaction.

Writing a LARP game sounds amazingly difficult. You made my head all buzzy about what it takes to write and run a successful game.

Great points! I was in a Vampire Larp where the GMs were of the opinion that if you weren’t having fun, it was your fault. But also hid the clues to the story behind things like contacts and influence that were incredibly hard to access without an unreasonable amount of teamwork (very much in the theme of a filing cabinet in a basement with a locked door and a sign regarding leopard attacks). And these were folks that had been gaming together for at least a decade. It really helped inform our much smaller tabletop group vis a vis expectations and storytelling.

I absolutely now make judgements about if I'll have a good time at a game based on the character gen/responses to queries about trigger warning lists: so many games would be so much better if there was just more transparency of what you're actually doing and give players reason to trust you in case stuff goes wrong.

Sounds incredibly complex. Thank you for the video.

I both play DND and am a GM for DND games and I find this really helpful to set up my games even if I don't LARP... mostly because I have way too much social anxiety to try and be somebody else and then deal with any number of interactions which I don't understand and or may have a separate meaning that I am assuming 😂

as always interesting and compelling discussion. I am still trying to find a group in my community that can integrate my disabilities. Not up to creating one on my own at this time. I wait in hope that you and others like you will inspire groups and creators to examine their games to make them better for the hobby as a whole. Thank you I enjoy all your content.

I so wish I could have gotten involved in LARP when I was younger! I’m in my 50s and just started playing DnD within the past year, so I’m still learning it, but I’m probably entirely too old to LARP, especially as a beginner, but I really feel like I’d love doing it.

As a Game Master for Tabletop games, this is all helpful for players as well as those running Larps. I feel it is important to be mindful of possible triggers as well as the type of game and gameplay for players of my games. It is frustrating if I am trying to build story points for a future game based on character backstory, and only 1 or 2 players give backstory before the game starts. On the flip side, I have been a player that joined a high seas adventure game that turned out to just be one solution mystery. I was bored and had all the wrong skill sets and character concept. I was the cleric, but was told we already had several healers, so I made a fighter cleric. Imagine my surprise and the parties when in the middle of our first fight, I was asked to heal and responded with a , "I am not that type of cleric."

Love these ideas! I'll be trying a few variations of this skirt. Has anyone tried adding shoulder straps or braces for taking the weight off the waist? I'm imagining for a heavy cotton with big and busy pockets

the conclusion image was so on point the amount of times i've encountered situations i didn't sign up for in (d&d) games is too many. maybe it's a neurodivergent thing but i'd also really like full clarity on what's going to happen so it doesn't, you know, trigger my ptsd

I made one of these using your instructions and some fabric I bought from a charity shop, it's fantastic 😂.

Last xmas i gave up on making my own clothing because of too much complicated patterns and processes (the previously made-by-be dont fit me nicely anymore). Now i know what path to follow to make a skirt that not only will fit me tru all the monstrous eating but also the recovery afterwards lol seriously, *thank you* for such concise and easy tutorial. If i remember to, i'll comment when i decide to finally make it have a very very nice day, Ash!

Love your videos! You're awesome!!

Wear an apron with pockets over the skirt if a house skirt. But outing skirt I would just keep rosary and hankerchief in pockets, as I would usually have a handbag for most other things

You were talking about the crazy patchwork and I really want to do this eventually for a bard characters’ gambeson because that would look so cool! I just need to collect more colors of twill scraps!

Thank you for posting this! Folks in the 18th century had amazing style and it's so practical

❤ very helpful

In case anyone finds this tip useful…. The “completely useless waste” - I chop it smaller and use it to fill and make my own tailor’s hams. I save it in a food bag along with cut-off threads. Then I spend ten minutes every now and again chopping it up into pieces no larger than 1cm square. I put the prepped waste into another food bag. Rinse and repeat as I collect scraps. Then I make an egg shape, size of my choice, in a double layer of strong cotton fabric, leaving an opening, 3-4 in wide. As I create the chopped-up filling, I pack it into the cotton egg hard enough to make it difficult for me to sew up the gap - that’s when I know you’ve got it packed enough! 😁 To get a nice, packed tailor’s ham soaks up a lot of scraps. 😊 Thank you for all you share. ❤

Brilliant video, thank you!!!

could you make this reversible?

I save up my scraps/offcuts and use them to stuff soft toys that I occasionally sew or knit. Also, I actually said, out loud, to the completely empty house, "Wow, Ash, that looks great!" when you first revealed the pieced quilt top. Because it does!

Ooh, I've got the same knitting needle box as you have!

From a quilter who has not done a lot of quilting but also hates waste: you don't have to square up every single thing. Also if you do, use your cabbage as stuffing for toys etc

My mom and I want to make these reversible!

As a quilter who makes costumes, wears Lolita fashion, and larps: high five! It looks awesome! You can add the "useless waste" with fiberfill as stuffing for stuffed animals/pillows/pincushions etc. but yeah, the scraps always just seem to generate more patchwork...

Your design looks so good! Just finished my first quilt the other day (9 square blocks from old check shirts) and was thinking of doing a log cabin one next with my eclectic collection of fat quarters.

I have The Pile TM. I hate the pile. I don't know why I ever got the pile. O out of 10. If you ever find a pile, DON'T BUY ONE!!!!

Pockets are for my hands. Any garment without them that should have them is cheating the wearer. I feel naked without pockets wherever pockets should be!

I must add that I am a quilter with a large fabric stash

Don't worry, you are not alone.....

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After sewing for a good chunk of the day (inspired by this video), I still don't have many blocks. I have little scraps of fabric that are sewn together. I should go iron them flat so I can sew on more bits and pieces. That's the one thing I don't really like about quilting. There is so much ironing involved.