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Dallas Nagata White
@dallasnagata.bsky.social
Semi-retired photographer; sewing & textile enthusiast; embroidery hobbyist; textile print designer; casual artist; degenerate gamer. 📍Honolulu, Hawaii
That’s awesome! I just see them when I take my son to school, but it’s a struggle to get nice photos of them without showing the location 😅 This is one from yesterday:
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It’s rainbow season 🌈
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I miss the freedom of roaming with my real camera to photograph dramatic clouds.

This was shot with my phone while walking to pick my son up from school.
October 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
After a total of three pharmacy visits, got it done. 🫡
September 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Let's go depression and physical inactivity! 😎
August 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Happy birthday to @edfff.com ❤️
August 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Returning to my roots of buying art supplies as mental health treats. New cheap (no pressure) sketchbook from Ross for $6 and some pencils and erases from Daiso for like $18 (Daiso is not cheap anymore). And some LADS stickers for $14 because that’s what I use to disassociate from the real world.
August 20, 2025 at 4:37 AM
We have a four year old now! ❤️ Spent his little family birthday picnic teaching him to fly kites and slide down the hills on cardboard.
August 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Kodachrome and her namesake ❤️
August 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Kodachrome Bear Nagata White
April 12, 2009 - August 2, 2025
August 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I finished my random lilikoi flower embroidery!

I stitched this on a vintage linen handkerchief with a drawn thread hem that I bought from a fundraiser for my fiber arts guild. It was very casual and not super planned out, but I wanted to stitch a little something for one of my friends 💕
August 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
He wore it to the bon dance a little reluctantly…at the very least I should have added some little ties to the front to help keep it on a bit better since his shoulders are so narrow. Honestly, I should have just made him a jinbei instead 😅 But now that I can self-draft happi costs, I can make mine!
July 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Finally did some sewing! Drafted this happi coat from measurements for my almost-16-month-old, and it took two attempts, but it came out okay! I hand-stitched a blind hem for the bottom hem too. I’m so out of practice with sewing garments though….
July 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
In other news, I sprouted a grain of brown rice on a wet paper towel, and now my baby rice plant is growing happily in a non-draining pot that I keep flooded. Living up to my 永田 family name while living in a condo! 😆
July 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Why is everything I love to make meticulous and time consuming?

Decided to embroider a lilikoi flower on a vintage handkerchief (one of several that my local fiber arts guild gave to me) as a gift to a friend. I love how it’s turning out, but I can barely work on it with a baby who won’t sleep. 🫠
July 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Lāhainā Noon attempt, except this was the flattest surface in my neighborhood with my five minutes of preparation, so there’s still tiny bits of shadow. 😅 Someday I’ll find a flat surface ahead of time…
July 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I was computer-less for a month, but @edfff.com built me a new one just in time for our 15th wedding anniversary today ❤️

(I got him something “crystal” as a traditional gift. His present is better 😅)
July 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Doing my part to keep the pattern companies in business. (Except most of these were on sale so with the total it averages $5 per pattern 😅)

Never have to buy myself a pattern again, just need to make my new wardrobe with my fabric stash if my unhelpful little assistant allows it.
June 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Here’s an update from Simplicity that I got from this Reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/sewing/s/N...

So their ownership has changed but no imminent shutdown. I feel like the best action is maybe is to keep buying patterns to show potential buyers there’s value in keeping the company going?
June 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
My attempt at a paper/bead lei as designed by Ben Franklin Crafts Hawai’i! It’s made using a flower paper punch with gradient cardstock, pony beads, and crochet thread. I thought their sample looked fun so I wanted to try it for myself.
May 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Doing a closet clean out. This is before and after kids, but also a decade between these two photos 😅
May 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
May the Fourth be with you, Bluesky!

(This Mara Jade cosplay photo is a decade old 😱)
May 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Finally actually put up koinobori outside! I didn’t hang it off my hallway balcony railing since I’m not sure about HOA rules, so it’s hanging over my legal grey-area hallway garden instead. 😅
May 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Infinity Nikki has customer dyeing now, so I made my mermaid dress into a rainbow.

Also, this photo mode is the only photography I manage these days.
May 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Baby had been playing with a car in the kitchen, then started freaking out, so I came over to find it gone. I checked under the fridge and stove before seeing he had stuck it through the broken window screen into the hallway outside 😅
May 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM