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[dzasta15]

The Batman (2022)

[notquitehuman-creations]

going out by myself tomorrow wish me luck 👍

[foxcassius]

also i think i planned out all the sweaters i want to make next year. at the very least, i have 8 planned. 6 for me 1 for jenni and 1 for jiwon

[catgirlmissy]

I made a huge fabric order yesterday including mochi minky, it’s from a local seller so I don’t have that many colour options but i picked everything that looked interesting 

[catboyvader]

i have somwthing i need to do so yall already Know im not doing that and working on smth else instead

[askshivanulegacy]

There's definitely a difference between something being honestly fully handmade and something just being a cheap craft project, but then, there are all kinds of levels of crafters, and they all exist at the craft markets.

People have been making earrings and pendants and the like out of craft store supplies for forever and selling it as "handmade" in craft markets. It's custom work insofar as someone else took the time to work separate components into a finished piece. The fact that you can recognize wires and beads from a store doesn't mean anything. You go to a craft store enough times and you recognize the parts when you see them. And nobody makes those from scratch, lol, I'm not sure what else anyone would expect.

But then, that's also why I don't buy a lot of that stuff. When you recognize the bits, you think you could make it yourself (but do you?).

That's just what lower level crafts are. It's not until you get into jeweler territory that you get truly handmade things, and then you pay the price for it.

It's a shame if fabric and material quality is dropping, but there have always been "custom" "handmade" crafts at all price points and skill/energy levels.

I feel like something that doesnt get talked about enough is how fast fashion is coming to hobbies as well. Sure, you can sew, knit, and crochet something better than youd buy in store, but good luck finding quality materials

Want a fabric that doesnt fray from being gently caressed? Want yarn thats not 100% plastic and splits if you touch it wrong? Good luck finding that if you dont have a genuinely good crafts store near you.

Go on any thread where people are trying to figure out where to buy fabric. 50% of it is people saying big stores are servicable, online stores work, or the like, and the other 50% are talking about how bad the quality is or how the quality of a website dropped because it was bought out

Were running into a problem where fast fashiob is so integrated into society that even the ability to make your own, comfortable and long lasting, clothes is being threatened by capitalism

[dognonsense]

Question...how do you make your patches? They seem so fuckin cool. I'm working on a vest and a jacket atm, and I'd like for them to be done by the time a pride fest rolls around next month.

Main technique I use for making patches nowadays is linocut. Its best suited for mass production of patches.

Make sure to remember your carving the mirror image so you have to flip all the text. Using tracing paper to flip the design is a good trick, as well as leaving graphite marks on side, then pressing that to the lino to leave the marks in the same spot. Another trick with pencil is to view what ur carving in negative space quickly, put a paper over your design and shade over it with pencil, darker marks will be where you haven't carved yet.

I use speedball fabric ink, it takes 1 week to set then will be fine to be washed. I have magenta, violet, turqouise, and white. They have a limited range of fabric colors at the store. I have seen gold and silver fabric paint for sale and I will investigate it one day.

I use a speedball roller, i find the smaller one to be better than the big one as I can be more precise and waste less ink.

I got a fancy handle for $40 but the screws fallen out so its broken now so just get some heavy books. I used to use a mug. Whats important is pushing your whole body weight into it.

I got a speedball carving tool with different heads I can swap out so I can cut into the lino at different deepness and widths. The heads are stored inside the tool since its hollow and has a screwable removable bottom. I use linocut or dollar store erasers for my carvings. Make sure to wash the ink off your linocuts after your done using them.

A thing to increase the lifespan of you're linocuts is to use wood glue, some cork or wood pieces, and glued the lino stamps onto them. I dont do that yet so my stamps fall appart from overuse sometime and because I cut way too deep into the lino since I hate chatter.

Chatter is the term for in linocutting when theres little messy lines and stuff. It makes the art more recognisably to be linocut. My work is very clean with no chatter which is why people don't notice its linocut usually. This is a stylistic choice, with diy styles having a lot of chatter can look really cool so experiment with leaving bits of extra uncarvered lino sticking out in ur stamp. I need to experiment and buy some more lino.

You can also use multiple linocut stamps together to make a patch. Some patches ive made have like 8 different stamps. Ive made a dog nonsense patch where each letter was their own eraser stamp. You can also use different colors between the different lino stamps on the same patch to add more color. An effect I like to do is first stamp it in color, then the next day I stamp it in white over the same spot but shifted to the right and down slightly. It makes the text have a cool border 3D effect I love doing.

If making a more detailed picture with colors, i reccomend hand painting patches. I use white fabric paint mixed with acrylics for color to get all the shades i need. Acrylic paint mixed with fabric softener works too.

If doing words and you dont want a unique font reccomend using letter stamps. If you want a unique font for that i recommend hand paint for individual or linocut for mass produce.

The positive of letter stamps is the font is neat and can be done quickly. I know from lending them to my roommate that they are very helpful if you have dyslexia and have trouble getting letters right.

A visual effect of the letter stamps is that have a nice boxy edge effect, its an imperfection that adds a personally touch to it. I have both lower and upper case stamps that I got from michaels. You can use a hair band or elastic to hold a bunch of letter stamps together to make a word stamp.

You can use other stamps than letters that you find at craft stores for example my racoon print is a craftstore stamp.

You can also find big plastic letter stencils at the dollar store that you can use to do lettering by filling in gaps with a sponge or or paintbrush. They make special paintbrushes just for using stencils.

You can also get plastic stencils in the shapes of things, i got some for children and use a horse stencil for my horse smoking weed patch. Easier than drawing a horse myself.

Another technique I use for more unique clean patches is gel plating. I haven't tried printing laserprint images with it as ive seen online a lot but I will try one day. What i personally do is use it to make imprints with chains and physical objects.

Another thing i use with gelplates are any stamps or linocuts that dont have words, or words ones that i fucked up with and forgot to mirror when carving. It flips mirror image twice with the gel plate so it goes back to being right again on the patch.

Another patch making technique is using foamboard cut into shapes glued onto cardboard. This is good for a quick test of a design and is very cheap to make. It will not hold under water so is more difficult to clean.

[demilypyro]

If I made something for you (something knitted, sculpted, etc etc) is there anyway I could send it to you?

Asking before I enter a craftstore

I mean I don't maintain a PO box or anything so I wouldn't know how you'd arrange that. So no, I guess. Sorry.

[coveredinredpaint]

Hi! I'm trying to start making my first battle jacket, but idk where to start, any tips?

thanks you for your atention!

-🐛

heyey!

i remember making a post about this but once again i cant find it. so ill just make one again.

step one is gathering inspo! i personally use tumblr and pinterest. sketching out ideas you have to see how they fit together also helps create an idea of what you might want. if you want to make sure you like the placement of a patch or chain, you can attach it with safety pins first.

dont let yourself be stopped by gatekeepers or elitists, its your jacket and thus there are no rules. although i do advise you to not put political patches on your back, to prevent bigots from attacking you from behind.

also dont put big and/or sharp spikes on gear youre going to be wearing while in the moshpit. you dont want to seriously injure yourself someone else, also make sure you dont have any patches attached with safetypins on your jacket while in the pit, for the same reason

if you dont have a jacket yet id advise looking out for them on fleamarkets, garagesales, thriftstores or online secondhand sites like vinted. i advise buying one that is a bit bigger on you, cause jackets tend to shrink a bit when you sew patches onto them. also a sturdier one like denim or leather (dont buy "vegan" (plastic) leather itll disintegrate in a year) makes sure your jacket will last longer.

i made a tutorial on making patches last year,

also made a tutorial on making bottlecap buttons

for chains id look in hardware or craftstores, spikes can be found in craftstores sometimes but etsy is a good alternative. if you have other alternative friends you can also trade with them! i get a lot of my coolest stuff from my friends.

ehh i think thats about it? let me know if you want some more in depth info about something.

[whattheheckmidoriya]

Aizawa crochets. He makes scarves, little beanies, and gloves. Sometimes, he'll even make little plushies for Eri. The weather is getting cold and he notices his students are shivering? He somehow walks into class the following week with a box of crocheted beanies, all matching his student's hero costumes and tells them to grab the one that matches theirs.

He pins the whole idea on you. Someone asks who made all those beanies? He won't hesitate to point them towards you. Aizawa refuses to be caught— Hizashi wouldn't let him hear the end of it if he knew the truth.

Shinso rats him out. Poor boy spent an unhealthy amount of time at the craftstore during the weekend as Aizawa picked out the right colored yarn.

He sometimes makes you wear the stuff he's making. Is it too big? Too small? Are the colors looking okay?

Thank you, and welcome to my TEDtalk😌🤝🏼💖

[molabuddy]

HELPPP THE NEWEST PIKMIN 4-KOMA the rescue corps get puddle's leafling makeover but the way thetre drawn is just. i , jsust . i cant get over it .,.,,. ,., ,.

i struggle to tell who is who even. this is bugs , this is single celled organisms this is craftstore pompoms ,.., doing thre stupid dandori dance& they dont even have any eyes . im gonna die

[gryffindraws]

Halloween 2011: The first costume I ever put together myself! I was so proud of it! and then everyone thought i was a duck (poorly drawn dramatic recreation below). Perry the platypus was my very favourite blorbo. he was my little guy. Breakdown of my 12 year old self's creative process below.

This was the first costume I ever made myself. Before I always got like Walmart princess and witch costumes. I was convinced that 2011 would be different.

-Foam hat and duckbill mask (from Dollarama).

-Teal craft shirt from Micheals. I actually still have this shirt and use it as pjs. At the time it was scratchy craftstore quality but it has literally held up to 13 years of use with barely a fray.

-Foam tail. I (my mom) bought giant sheets of orange foam from Micheals that I sewed togther to create the crosshatched texture. I used velco on the back of my shirt to attach it. I actually literally just used the leftover velcro this morning (see, sometimes hoarding materials is a good thing)

-The feet were also orange foam. I cut retangular pieces to glue to the top of my black Uggs (it was 2011 afterall) and toes to the foot part of the shoe. I thought I was a genius for this and I'm pretty sure I kept them on my shoes past halloween.

In addition to a nurse asking me if the guy on my shirt was an angry bird, literally everyone thought I was a duck that night and it made me very sad lmao.

[waytiretua]

Here’s that big project I’ve been talking about, this is Thimble, my test fan-fraggle! A couple months ago I challenged myself to create the best puppet I could using mostly just the materials I could get from regular craftstores.

I’m now working on a replica of Boober fraggle with a much higher materials budget (yay for being able to hide seams!). I’m hoping to get him done before the end of the fraggle rock exhibit up in atlanta, as it would be cool to bring him up there for a direct comparison!