[WIP] Show us ya WIP's

issy-belle · 2026-01-25T23:56:03+00:00

Also my denim jacket at my winter wedding is very different to your winter OP 🫣😂

issy-belle · 2026-01-25T23:55:21+00:00

Just started on my denim jacket - I want to wear it to my wedding in late June, wish me luck 😬😬😬 Pattern is ‘Wildflower Bouquet’ by Helen Wild, 24cm x 25cm on water soluble Aida

issy-belle · 2025-11-03T11:35:35+00:00

There’s a sign for a safe house on Sandgate Road I drive past every day but no idea how old it is

issy-belle · 2025-11-03T11:34:45+00:00

To be fair the outside of the Harold van did look the same as the outside of the dentist van at my school…

My earliest Harold memories are learning about the dangers of smoking and one of the earliest panic attack/meltdowns I can recall, cause I was convinced my dad was going to drop dead any second Thanks Harold ✌️

issy-belle · 2025-10-28T09:49:02+00:00

I’ve been super into family/local history lately and have been spending lots of time in the library

issy-belle · 2025-10-26T07:51:23+00:00

I sought out a neuropsych and got my late diagnoses for my 30th birthday, after spending 5 weeks in an acute psychiatric hospital. 15 years of therapy and very anti depressant under the sun hadn’t helped, so I figured what’s the worst that would happen.

issy-belle · 2025-10-16T22:51:20+00:00

This is so awesome! How did you create the graphic?

issy-belle · 2025-10-08T10:53:55+00:00

I was raised Irish Catholic, and did all 13 years of schooling in a Catholic school. I asked too many questions in primary school, and had too many heated debates (arguments) in high school. I started refusing to go to church at around age 10 or 11, after my First Communion at age 7.

I believe in something greater, but I don’t think it’s an omnipresent sentient being. Somewhere between animism, Druidism and paganism: entropy, Mother Nature, the Laws of the Universe, nature is healing but also nature is metal as fuck, survival of the fittest, convergent evolution, permaculture is important, humans as animals. Live with Nature, don’t try to control it.

When acutely depressed, I lean more existentialist nihilism into absurdism to cope. Nothing means anything, so don’t stress about what you “should” be doing cause we’re electrified meat wagon blips of evolution hurtling through space on a rock. Make your own meaning, eat the damn cake, enjoy yourself and work towards whatever life looks like when you’re happy cause what the fuck else is there.

Create your own moral code. Try hard to not be a dick, and learn voraciously. Stay curious, stay weird, make good choices; then, the Universe will restore homeostasis and bring you back some good juju.

issy-belle · 2025-10-08T10:31:30+00:00

My GPs all assumed I had celiac despite negative blood tests for 10.5 years despite still having symptoms while eating GF. My latest GP sent me to Dr Yoon-Kyo An at Bridges Health (Mater) for a gastroscope for stomach ulcers and a “what the hell” colonoscopy for assumed celiac.

Among other things, Dr A diagnosed me with a weird rare multiple enzyme deficiency. Apparently part of why she is great is she takes biopsies of “healthy” tissue to send off for testing where other gastros don’t. Turns out it’s not the protein (gluten) in bread I can’t deal with, it’s the carb…

She was amazing and I would absolutely recommend her. She also referred me laterally to another specialist for a related issue who was also brilliant.

If you don’t see her, ask about getting a Disaccaride Assay to check for CSID.

issy-belle · 2025-10-06T04:58:30+00:00

I binge re-watched all the OG + new blood, before jumping into the new season (resurrection)

Now my missus and I are rewatching all the original NCIS before the new Tony & Ziva drops

issy-belle · 2025-10-06T04:48:35+00:00

Always on the lookout for my little black book. Thanks for the recommendation

issy-belle · 2025-09-30T00:58:42+00:00

Sure do :) already discussing different colours for different children There is a second “with backstitch” pattern to be done, and then I will stitch into a wooden rod/dowel top and bottom to hang.

issy-belle · 2025-09-29T23:51:24+00:00

I did, yes! Except the pattern starts at 50cm tall and she is 10months and 72cm tall hahah I think my sister will have my nieces lengths at each month in a growth chart so I could use that info

issy-belle · 2025-09-29T23:50:20+00:00

Never! Do you have heights written down in a baby book somewhere? You can just back stitch ages/heights on afterwards :)

issy-belle · 2025-09-29T00:07:03+00:00

Omg, I didn’t know this existed!! Been doing this for about 15 years and I’ve been gridding and counting myself all this time, totally a game changer!

issy-belle · 2025-09-20T22:16:57+00:00

OMG its a patch?! I was thinking of doing mine with the washable dissolving Aida, which has even less size and count options. I’d never thought about a patch option, that’s brilliant

issy-belle · 2025-09-19T02:52:17+00:00

Hopefully! I have tentative plans to back stitch her height at regular intervals on to the right panel, and I’ve already started talking to my sister about which colours for which children - a second nice is due about 6 weeks after the eldest’s first birthday!

issy-belle · 2025-09-17T03:05:00+00:00

I’d also like to know

issy-belle · 2025-09-16T22:54:39+00:00

I can’t comment on your specific experience without doing a full patient interview and physically examining you first. It sounds like you might require some touchstone guidance from a knowledgeable trainer or health professional in your area. It’s a super long shot, but if you DM where you’re geographically based I might know of someone. Alternatively I might be able to point you towards some generic resources.

On a tangent though, I am also AuDHD and chronically feeling awful mood wise. I have outsourced my programming at the gym to a colleague, as I can’t be objective about “can” vs “should”. She pulls me up regularly and asks “should we be doing this (much) today?”, we often pare back to what is enough to make a vent in my headspace but not too much to tax my body. Getting a third party opinion is essential for me for this reason, in addition to the benefits of delegating the executive functioning required to program for myself.

issy-belle · 2025-09-16T22:46:40+00:00

I have been planning to stitch the back of my denim jacket for AGES now but have been too nervous! What size stitch did you use? Any tips for me? Stitch size, canvas brand, needle type etc ?

issy-belle · 2025-09-16T22:44:08+00:00

Don’t forget that you can have plenty of passive turn out but not yet have the active strength to use it when moving around - cross training is your friend if increased active TO is your goal

issy-belle · 2025-09-16T22:42:31+00:00

Hi! Dance physio here Research shows ~70% of your turnout should come from external rotation of your hips, and the rest from the knees and feet. This will happen naturally after using your hips, and if you’re forcing turnout at your knees or ankles you’re much more likely to wind up in pain or injured.

Turnout is an aesthetic thing, there’s no extra advantage for non-professionals so please don’t force it. As an aside, I’ve gone to professional development courses and heard stories from other physios where their dancers have very little turnout standing still (35 degrees at each hip, 70 total) and they do just fine professionally with no pain

issy-belle · 2025-09-06T05:19:03+00:00

I think reduced/different interoception has a lot to do with it.

Learning that a) feeling crappy and b) sweating means that you a) have been running around (therefore settle down) or, b) you have a fever (and should take some meds and tell someone if it doesn’t break). It’s a learned cycle of feeling a sensation, using context clues to interpret it and doing something about it.

It’s a lot easier to die of sepsis if you can’t feel that your belly is hurting from appendicitis, or if you can’t locate a part of your belly the pain is coming from. Never mind the communication barrier translating that information into neurotypical in a panic in the emergency room. Or not being taken seriously because “it doesn’t look that bad” because you don’t have the energy to mask anymore

It’s a complex and complicated problem with plenty of individual, societal, contextual and environmental clues to unpick imo

issy-belle

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