#and i am embroidering

[bending-sickle]

me: *halfway through an embroidery project on black cloth*

my mother: you know, i have black cloth stowed away

well whoop-dee-doo, what am i supposed to do, start over?

[egophiliac]

NEW BIRTHDAY THEME IS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!

BIRTHDAY SLUMBER PARTY, HERE WE COME

I think the theme is more loungewear than straight-up pajamas, but hey, I'm not complaining! (and -- look, we still have the groovies, I'm not giving up hope for animal kigurumi until I gotta)

[starfata]

I commissioned this from genecianter on instagram- Annabeth weaving Percy's burial shroud, as it was described in Battle of The Labyrinth. Isn't it amazing?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I came here for the silly haha doodles, but I've stayed for the absolutely blazing commentary in the tags. Your analysis of this story is so so so good! Thanks for all the work and thought you put into this!

I am just a silly little comics blog. I am not hiding anything in the tags, no way. Never.

[tmae3114]

so I've been looking up advice about hand embroidering on velvet for a project idea I had and I just found an article that was ABSOLUTELY written via AI because, well

[theworldisabrokenbonebutitishome]

Happy Merlin anniversary to all who celebrate!

I started making this cushion cover 2 years ago, after a lot of not working on it, I finally finished it this afternoon.

'upastige draca' is the incantation Merlin uses to make a dragon for his Pendragon after revealing he's magic. I had briefly considered thank you or hold me but @mid-n0vember's suggestion was better.

[nipuni]

This week's photos 😊📸

[iliothermia]

Good morning! I've been meaning to ask, will you ever have kippot in your shop again? 🥺 I recall you selling them at one point and I really loved the design(s)

And if not, do you have any recommendations for artists who make kippot w/greek motifs?

I actually just reached out about making some more. I want to remake my pomegranate design and a simpler olive design. I'll have more info soon!!!

[milkweedman]

finished my hat finally and its super warm and comfy and i keep putting it on and then feeling the strong urge to knit more warm items. and then i take the hat off and can be normal. and then i look at the hat. and im like oh its such a warm and comfy hat though why would i not wear it ? so i put it back on and then the urge returns.

may have knit a cursed hat, basically ?

[edandstede]

ed and stede are tucked up in their bed wearing matching his & his sleep masks right now. if you even care

[justthreadyall]

are there people out there that love DIYing their clothes, making patches, embroidering/dyeing/visibly mending clothes, etc. that have a softer style? i see a lot of punk stuff when scrolling through those tags (and scrolling pinterest lol) and it is extremely rad but it’s not exactly my style lol. i would love to see your projects :]

[phoenixmetaphor]

serennedy week 2024 valentine’s edition - day 6 - cowboy au

even more cowboy au comicsssss woooooo!

phoenix, did you draw a whole ass cowboy au and not draw a single cowboy hat? yes. yes i did. it’s not my fault the ganados took leon’s hat, ok?

the vague idea is that leon is under the impression that luis is a snake oil salesman. which isn’t an entirely wrong impression to have, but luis’s reasons, as ever, are a little more complicated. you get into debt with some bad people and they ask you to spread some weird tonics around and then bad things happen and you run away and start a new life somewhere, okay? and then maybe somewhere ends up under the influence of a cult! time is a circle. it’s fine. it’s whatever.

anyway sorry if things start looking like i exported them as low quality .jpegs, we are experimenting with anti-ai glazing.

details below

[spectacledraws]

hmmm environment and texture study thing of the one of my fav parts of RD.. Micaiah and Soren’s dialogues are so everything

[dailypokemoncrochet]

Additional crochet Stakataka tidbits

Took at least 17 hours, including the approaches I scrapped before finishing. I was inconsistent with timing because I kept trying different things, but once I decided on a specific approach, I timed the process more accurately

There are embroidered eyes on the inside of each wall (7-8 rows of 3, minus the spots with gaps, so around 96) and the opposite side of the top face (3 rows of 3)

There are gaps in each wall with a single brick that is attached loosely so it can rotate to face in or out

Each of those bricks is also slightly offset so that by default they appear a bit sunken in when viewed head on. Viewed from the bottom you can see how they protrude inside

Different approaches I tried: 1) crocheted each individual brick (137 total) that I could string and stack together, 1a) varying sizes of individual bricks, 2) crocheted the walls larger with more spaces for rotateable bricks, 3) conceptualized the divisions as the top part being a single hollow piece consisting of the top face plus two outer rows, and the walls as 4 flat uniform pieces under it, crocheted accordingly

The biggest reason I scrapped an attempt was realizing how tedious it would be to make. Too many pieces overall, too much detail making pieces too big, the usual reasons.

I did run out of one gray yarn and that was my cue to start a different approach because I wasn't happy with that one anyway

The legs are so wobbly and can't support the weight of the full piece but they look pretty close to what I wanted them to. 4 legs, each with 6 bricks, all embroidered with eyes. Will make them smaller if I made another Stakataka (unlikely)

This was the 704th Pokemon overall, 6th of December 2024, and last of 2024! Will update the recap.

It's not as evident because of the blue highlights, but each wall isn't shaped like a regular rectangle. The left and right sides have 3 protrusions so they're more shaped like the # sign if there were another row to it.

I still think I could make it so that it were composed of 137 individual bricks, but the whole piece would be much larger than I normally make and also take a LOT of time, more than I think is worth it

[myangxart]

shop update 12/16 at 2pm CST! 🌸

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[arataka-reigen]

Today's embroidery project was a little cherry blossom tree, and the one that took me the longest to complete so far