#all the embroidery

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

November: Oscar Winners

Moulin Rouge / Nicole Kidman as Satine

Year: 2001

Designers: Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie

Like the so-called "Hindi Wedding Dress," this is a costume for a play-within-a-play. Since the costumes for this movie are already very stylized and flashy, it must have been a challenge for the designers to make these costumes look even more theatrical. Hence the fantasy headpiece--and if you told me this one was also based on the Australian frilled lizard, I would find that completely believable.

[leche-flandom]

I rewatched P&P during my Halloween crafting and I forgot how much I loved this part

Elizabeth: It is possible for a woman to be settled too near their family...

Darcy: Yes, exactly. You would not wish to be always near Longbourn.

Darcy, inside his head probably:

Lizzy:

Darcy:

[almondpiglet]

ppl were drawing mikus from all over so heres habesha miku and her lil twin sibs rin and len!!

[tj-crochets]

A teeny tiny embroidered bead* lizard for my jacket!

*no actual beads were used but I figure if I can crochet a bead lizard I can embroider one

[fractangle]

Pride month vest project, a patch a day #14: All Pride is Kink to Bigots

[emiink]

Made some Star Trek pants because I have a problem!!!! Had a lot of fun with this project and I’m gonna wear it everydayomgeheheheh :D !

A very special thanks to @strawberfolk for all their gracious help and for cradling me in their arms when the sewing machine literally attacked me at gunpoint

[chiangyorange]

the chain but on a scale of who says hooray yippee and wahoo

is this anything.

[sennedjem]

COLLAR IS DONE AAHHHH, so I had to do a side by side with the game model!

Almost 50 hours of actual embroidery, plus roughly another 10 for the border stitching details, all done by hand. Whew! But look at it, I’m so damn proud!

I hadn’t initially planned on lining this, but now I think I will for a more finished feel. So that’s next, then sewing up the sleeves/sides, and then it’s back to embroidery hell for the hem xD And in the meantime, I need to get back to the stitching details on the trousers, because I can only do a little of that at a time before my hands start screaming at me.

[sweetmapple]

@alberichfanpage mentioned that Freyja talks about Jerren but even if we had the option to ask Ansbach about Varre, I’d imagine we’d get something like this

[rhiannon-shadowsinger]

Another Scratch finished and soon to be headed off to his forever campsite 💜

Want a Scratch of your own? 💜

https://winchesterpenandink.etsy.com

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

November: Oscar Winners

Shakespeare in Love / Colin Firth as Lord Wessex

Year: 1998

Designer: Sandy Powell

I've featured some of the women's costumes from this film before, but the men deserve some attention as well. Lord Wessex wears this magnificent outfit when he comes to inform Viola that a match has been arranged between them. The embroidery on his doublet and cloak is simply jaw-dropping in its variety and intricacy. I've included some closeups to show both the details of the embroidery and the texture of the various materials.

It's a shame we can't see what he's got for footwear, and we also never see him wearing the hat. He also manages to make the ruff look like something a person might actually wear on a regular basis.

[questwithambition]

Something incredibly satisfying about knowing your craft and the confidence that goes with it. Just the casual “yeah I could make that”. Want a band tee? Yeah I can embroider my own with the lyrics I want. Bridesmaid dress too long? Yeah I can hem it. Need new slippers? Yeah I can crochet a pair (and give them bunny ears). And of course it’s not perfect but nothing beats that feeling of being able to craft your own solution with your own two hands

[plumadot]

hey it's our favourite undead monk/tavern keeper/guild master :D

[misseandc]

Another hand embroidered panel of All Might that I think is especially relevant with the events of the past few days ❤️

Time taken to embroider: 27 hours

[starsofarda]

... You know what, having to figure out the embroidery patterns for Tolkien related embroidery makes me feel feral.

If I was an Elven maid, tasked with sewing all those bloody stars on the heraldry banners I would be asking for a compensation equaling my weight in fucking GOLD.

"Yes, my Lord, I will sew these stars all over, but IF I AM NOT GETTING MY WEIGHT IN GOLD and *Insert Elvish king/prince she has a crush on* as my SPOUSE you are gonna go into battle with barely threaded banners and Morgoth will LAUGH at you all".

[stitchposts]

This is so obvious it's almost petty to talk about, but it keeps happening so I am increasingly faced with needing to decide to bring it up. Can everyone who advocates for not reposting art and for crediting artists start bringing that same energy to photographs of traditional art? Especially fiber arts and sewing related things, due to very prolific scraping accounts that repost things from elsewhere on the internet here to tumblr and a few years ago stopped crediting the artists at all. They never asked permission, but credit has just dried up entirely and it's galling to see.

I know non fiber artists don't really have the experience to see this, but just like visual arts, fiber artists develop pretty clear styles. So if a blog is posting elaborate pieces of infamously time consuming arts that cover a wide range of styles, once or twice a day, with no credits or discussion of themselves as an artist - that shit's stolen as fuck.

It feels like I'm going insane sometimes because thousands of people who otherwise yell all day about how artists need to be credited, just think that sewing related photographs pop into existence without needing to be linked to the person that made them.