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The Road Goes Ever On embroidered by seejor.

“After 100ish hours of work, I’m so happy to say this beast is done!!

For the most part, I had an idea that I thought would be cool, drew it up, and transferred it to fabric (here’s the hoop pre-stitching). Prior to this piece, I’d only done florals – some from patterns I bought online (Namaste Embroidery) and some of my own design – so really I just wanted to see if I could embroider a dragon. I hadn’t been embroidering long but was feeling ballsy.

So that’s the pattern… as for color choices: the mountain, clouds, fog, and trees were entirely a product of I’d bought a bunch of floss I thought was pretty and kind of went together and figured why not give it a try. I love how the mountain came out. The gold for the text was my favorite gold I’d worked with in a sunflower piece (I have an entire floss organizer of just shades of yellow because of that piece, so the gold pieces pretty much just followed). Smaug’s colors and pose in general were inspired by an illustration of Smaug Tolkien did that I’ve always loved.

Process in general: I kind of made most of it up as I went along. I knew what effect I wanted in various sections and if I couldn’t figure out a way to make it look the way I wanted with stitches I knew, I’d go googling. The pile of gold Smaug is on is all seed stitch (I don’t know if it’s technically seed stitch, but that’s what I’m calling it) and literally caused me to set this piece down for two years.

- the implement I used to transfer the design was a Sakura Gelly Roll white pen. In a pinch, the gel ink can be removed (like when I edited out the two other mountains)

- I wore a reasonably high powered, rechargeable headlamp for a lot of this project in an attempt to have my stitches be as precise as possible. It ain’t pretty, but it worked pretty well!”

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reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

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He’s Tired™

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Lego Swimming Pool Layout

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BY 小同学手工

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I am a Jedi. Like my father before me.

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HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN Behind the scenes of 'Ahsoka' (2023)

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I love you dusty depressed Obi-wan sneaking cuts of sand whale meat I love you salty overprotective Uncle Owen who won't even let Obi give Luke a toy plane I love you light sabers buried together in the desert I love you baby Leia climbing trees trying to avoid family functions I love you Sony discman Droid L0LA I love you downtown Tokyo planet Daiyu I love you scene of Obi-wan telling Leia he’s not buying her gloves then two seconds later buying the gloves I love you Obi’s hallucination of Anakin drowning in 12 yards of fabric on the distant hill I love you sequence of Vader terrorizing a village to find one (1) old man I love you bacta bros writhing in separate tanks simultaneously I love you Obi sneaking Leia out of an imperial fortress in an oversized coat I love you 40-year old Padawan Anakin I love you "All he'll see is me" I love you Tala the fuckin badass I love you Vader force-holding a whole freaking ship I love you big Obi-Wan/Vader showdown I love you helmet scene I love you "I'm sorry, Anakin, for all of it" I love you "I am not your failure Obi Wan" I love you "you didn't kill Anakin Skywalker, I did" I love you dresses-like-a-college-art-teacher-and-will-wreck-your-shit Aunt Beru I love you Reva letting go of her anger and choosing a better path I love you Obi-wan telling Leia a little bit about her birth parents and Leia being okay not knowing more I love you Palpatine being low-key tired of Vader’s shit I love you creamy white jedi robe Obi-wan I love you "Hello there" I love you Force Ghost Qui Gon showing up 2 hours late with Starbucks I love you Disney Plus limited series Obi-Wan Kenobi

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Your daily dose of cat memes

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#THE RETURN OF THE KING

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN as ANAKIN SKYWALKER/DARTH VADER in OBI-WAN KENOBI (2022) and AHSOKA (2023)

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