#draw textured yarn

[yolktcha]

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[tj-crochets]

No crafting updates today, but I learned how to draw shells! And snails! And how to imply a hermit crab!

[cutiepieautistic]

Moofia mozzarella(tokidoki) stimboard

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*This was a request!

[sensenotsense]

i also made lil phone charms and dittos out of the ""clay"", but i am still waiting for them to dry and i need to buy paint and shit. also the sprites i wanna try to make them out of the ""clay"", but i need some sort of reference being making anything. i thought it was too hard so i havent made them yet lol

[batbetbitbotbut]

New project! Screaming in excitement and fear!

@swords-n-spindles sent me this incredible cloudy grey handspun - it's a 3ply (chain plied to preserve the gradient) lace weight merino/silk blend as soft as a dream. The plan is I will weave it into a scarf and send it back to them.

There are 550 metres of yarn, which is enough for it to be the weft of a scarf but not the warp+weft, so I needed to choose warp yarn to go with it and a pattern which will show it off. I had some options for wools of about the same weight, but I worried that the handspun would get lost in the texture of the fabric when I want it to stand out, so instead I chose a thinner silk which will be the "tabby" (background) layer in both warp and weft. I'm hoping silk will give the whole scarf good drape and shine.

The handspun will be a "supplemental weft" which sits on top of or moves through this background layer. Various patterns in Strickler inspired me but ultimately I planned my own thing, after trying and failing to draw nice random squiggles or find a suitably aesthetic hill profile. I will probably keep second-guessing myself forever. But I'll never make anything if I don't push ahead anyway!

[muletia]

[tfp] obsessed!optimus prime x human!reader

inspired by this very old ask about you giving opti diy crochet charms

cw: hardcore pinning, obsessive thoughts, optimus is bad with dealing with emotions

word count: 700

something small that I needed to get off my system <3

Digits glide over the soft yarn with calculated subtlety. A thumb slowly traces the indentations of the intricate patterns, acquainting itself with the texture of the interwoven chains and half-double stitches, magically linking together into a shape. A few motions are enough for him to memorize every dent and placement of the material, yet he does not cease his journey, still gently stroking the creation. After dozens of times, the tenderness gives way to adoration — he is aware of it, but cannot stop, incapable.

But he knows he should. Optimus uses this friendly gesture to feed the fire, burning ever fiercer with every movement of his thumb, taking advantage of your kindness to nurture the warped, unworthy-of-your-innocence feelings that slip further and further beyond control. He despises himself for it — oh, how he loathes himself — but has long since grown accustomed to self-hatred, his ever-present shadow at every turn. Hatred was familiar. The feeling of receiving gifts from you was a vibrant novelty he had yet to learn how to handle, for it terrified him with its rawness.

Crochet charms, as you called them. Everyone on Team Prime received a few, so he should not be assigning such immense significance to his own. Should simply be happy with the gift, accept it, and maybe glance at it occasionally, recalling your eyes gleaming with excitement like beads and your broad smile, radiating pure joy, as you handed your tiny creations to his massive servo. A star and a sunflower — both incredibly delightful, almost as much as your expression when you saw that he had accepted your present.

"Tomorrow, I can help attach them to your mirror in the alt mode. If you’d like to, of course" you told him, and though he longed for nothing more than to fall to his knees before you and beg you to do it now, the only thing he managed to utter was:

"I would be delighted."

But he cannot simply be "delighted". Cannot just set your creations aside and occupy himself with other things when a piece of you is so close to him. Cannot fall into indifference, seeing it as an affront to you. Wants to cherish the crumbs of attention you have given him, to savor this non-physical affection he is unworthy of but treasures more than the ability to sustain himself with energon. Wants to linger by the proof of your kindness for as long as he can, fully aware of his madness yet unable to put its source away.

His thumb moves to the sunflower, gently pressing into the material. A gift from you. You. He never asks for anything, demanding only the preservation of safety. Optimus doesn't seek glory, gold, or riches, for he has found them in you — and you are the most magnificent treasure he could have ever dreamed of. Yet you went a step further, crafting something with your own hands, dedicating your precious time to him. You called your gift modest, but in this, he cannot agree with you, for to him, it was everything. And soon, it would permanently become a part of him.

It is an exhilarating thought, but also a treacherous one, for he knows these are the last moments he will hold your creations in his servos. The final moments to touch, to encode the texture into his memory, to relish the sight of your affection woven into physical form. Wanting to make the most of it, he brings the crochet charms closer to his faceplate, pressing against the soft fabric. Closes his optics, sharpening the remaining senses, focusing entirely on the feeling of having a piece of you so close to him. Knows he is defiling your gifts, that he should have let them be long ago and forced himself to suppress his erratic emotions towards you, but he cannot, craving to draw every ounce of impure satisfaction from this moment.

He clings to the gifts more tightly. Just a little longer. A nanoklik, he tells himself — but he cannot bring himself to turn his helm away.

[kiame-sama]

Wait Riddle's baby's name is Petal? Like the yarn unicorn plushie from that one ask about giving the Dorm Leaders crocheted bbies🥺

(Reminder, i just used Riddle's skin tone for his Foal, feel free to imagine the hair texture and skin tone differently to match. I am also happy to draw them with different hair texture and skin tone if asked.)

Exactly like the Yarn Babies. The gentle petal of a rose that needs to be guarded by the thorns from all who would seek to do the flower harm. Riddle is the thorns to keep his precious daughter safe from everyone. He is also the guard to keep his Human mate safe. He will protect both fiercely because countless eyes are drawn in by the unique foal. Where the Unicorns of the Queendom of Roses have a tendency to prefer the pastels, none will be able to find fault with the half-Human due to the addiction others have to her. Riddle knows this and he will not tolerate anyone trying to steal his daughter away.

[no-pants-dan]

Anyway, here's what I'm working on right now

Hand for scale

This pattern is fun and I'd like to try it on some thicker yarn for something really blocky. I'm starting to get into the rhythm of an even beat, but it's tricky with such thin, high contrast yarn because everything stands out so much.

8/2 cotton at 22 epi for some Christmas dish towels. When I do this again, I'll do 24 epi because the thread is finer than I realized. Truthfully, I misrememberd the size we used for the class I took in the spring and just...did not verify before ordering. Oh well! I'm curious about how these will wash up-- so far I'm worried they're too fine to feel very towel-y. But I've got a whole bunch now so I guess I'll just have to figured something out! I think the next thing I will try is a waffle texture. I'm thinking that'll help make the towels thicker and more substantial.

Here's my sampling section:

It turns out that all the patterns for the towels I planned to weave on this warp just do not work the way I was hoping. The birdseye and zigzag are fine, but I have to go back to the drawing board on this one.

[mint-termsandconditions]

The girlies are fighting:

Random interactions:

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[purpurkat-makes-things]

Hello! After having some time to get over my loss for the Pokemon TCG Illustration contest, I decided to write up a small blog entry about the process and include some WIP pictures. Feel free to look below if you want to read my ramblings on the process.

Idea Generarion-

So coming into this contest, I knew I wanted to make a mixed media piece. In terms of theming I chose something that not only reflected a “magical moment” for a Pokemon (in this case meeting a legendary Pokemon), but also a moment when playing the games myself. In fact this piece was inspired by my awe when I first encountered a box legendary in game, as before I thought my teacher was lying to me when he said you can catch the legendary on the box!

This is the concept sketch that started it all! At the time my main concern was getting ideas down and seeing how they looked. Thinking about things like how would the composition would look, how would the colours look. So on and so forth.

I didn’t want to focus too much on the sketch and wanted to start making the physical object, so out of some cheap paper I started making a set up testing out size, scale, composition. I didn’t want to get too attached to the original sketches only to realise I couldn’t make it in real life… I went though a few drafts trying to get things right, slowly adding in aspects such as background objects and higher quality drawings.

After completing the draft I bought the images back into procreate to experiment with colours. This is the point where I made the mistake of thinking I had plenty of colours to choose from, not realising I would be limited by what I could buy from various yarn shops. That or hope I could find the right colour online, but that was always a gamble. If I don’t stop talking about this now I’ll get sidetracked talking about how much I miss yarn shops…

Anyways, I cut out the individual pieces that I would make within the background and used them as a guide for crochet assets. For this part I wanted to use different stitches to create textures such as the ripple stitch, bobble stich and some cable stitches, I feel bad as I never took any work in progress photo so of them. Let’s pretend you’re looking at a photo of a half finished crochet abstract shape.

Finally onto the main event, the Pikachu (and Suicune). The decision to make Pikachu a plush was based on what I would have liked to make for the 2022 illustration contest (if I wasn’t geographically challenged!!) Despite being British I decided it would be fun to make anyways, so I could experiment. I never got around to that but decided it would be fun to try for this edition.

Making the pattern was HARD! As I wanted Pikachu to have a unique pose, I had to work out different methods to plush i’ve made in the past which have been somewhat relaxed in their posing. I ultimately ended up making each part individually, pinning it together and then making adjustments as needed. It didn’t start out great however I ended up with this weird Pikachu shaped thing that did the job. Throughout this process I would regularly photograph it in the background to try and catch any issues early on. For example if the ground needed to be a different shape.

Photographing the final price was interesting. I felt bad for my partner as I essentially turned my dining table into a mini photography studio! I spent several days waiting for different lighting opportunities and experimenting with different light. Marking down different camera angles to ensure I have all of my bases covered. I easily took over 100 photos to get the perfect shot! In the below photo you can see washi tape being used to rest out different positions for the sculptures.

And that leads me to the peice! Even though i’m sad I didn’t make the top 300, I am pleased with the work I did for this piece (and my flygon entry too!). I’m glad I decided to experiment with ts peice and look forward to refining my methods in the near future!

[watercolourcritters]

Part of why I'm so passionate about the concept that anyone and everyone can make art is because - yeah, look, I know I can draw well. I know I can make pictures that look like what they're supposed to. But fuck, don't you know that that's not all that art is? Don't you know that it's so much more than that?

This fall I did collage with my mother. She's 64 years old, she's never done collage in her life, didn't even know it was a possibility. "I don't have a creative bone in my body," she says, when she sees my paintings. But suddenly - with magazine clippings and markers and glue and paper, she made these beautiful pieces, full of expression and life and love. "Oh," she says, "I didn't know I could create something like that. I didn't know it could be so fun."

There's so much more to art than drawing and painting. And even drawing and painting is so much more than making something look like it's "supposed to." And even more importantly, it's so much more than making something "look good." It's about expression, and exploration, and finding new ways to say something. And sometimes it's just about trying something new, and having fun with it. It doesn't have to be deep, or meaningful, to have value.

Explore, and play, and create. Play with shapes, play with colour, play with texture. If you want to paint or draw something that looks like it does in real life, try! And keep trying, and trying, because it never comes out right the first time you do. But please, try other things, too. Slap some paper and glue on a page and see what you can make with it. Explore with yarn, and fabric, and anything else you can create with. Mold dollar store modeling clay, and scribble on cardboard, and see what happens. There's so many possibilities. Don't you want to explore?

But I promise you - you can create art. So please, try.

[leolaroot]

aenar ⤴️ thats her hiking cane its quadtipped with ice spikes. indoors where she has a grippy floor she usees a more standard rubber single tipped cane. she knit her own sweatwr and mittens :3 shes hiking out to the cave she likes to craft in, a natural spring runs through and fills it with a soft song :) i forgot to add in her project/supplies bag and hopefully by the next drawing she will have a haircut that isnt sapphire. 😐

"yay im having somuch fun desiging my original character" neelix i regert to inform you this is accidentally a stevens universe woman.

[oluka-art]

My art for @storm-leviosa-fanfics' adorable knitting fic! Drawn as part of the @batfam-big-bang.

Please also take a look at the other art made for this fic by @jennguyen-draws !

Image description in ALT text and under the read more:

A digital art of two polaroid photos on a wooden table. They are viewed from directly on top. One polaroid picture lies on top of the other, both skewed a little bit. The bottom polaroid shows a sleeping Bruce Wayne with part of a green scarf in the process of being knit. There is written text at the bottom of the polaroid which reads "asleep!". The top polaroid shows Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) and Robin (Damian Wayne) posing for the picture together. Black Bat has her arm around Robin's shoulders and is throwing up a peace sign. Her body language is happy. Robin is relaxed but alert. They are standing in front of a grey brick wall. Batgirl is wearing a purple knitted shawl on top of her uniform and Robin is wearing a big knitted scarf in the colours of his uniform, on top of his uniform. There is written text at the bottom of the polaroid which reads "Showing off the threads". The wooden table is a rich brown colour with visible wood texture. On the bottom left corner of the art, two light grey knitting needles cross each other and rest partly on one polaroid. On the top right corner, the bottom of an emerald green ball of yarn rests on the table. A bit of yarn is unspooled towards the left.

[berrythep4nda]

HeadCanon time

Have this for today

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We all know the ninja trains their elemental power and physical strength together, fighting/combats/harsh or difficult movement/etc, it shows a few times throughout the series, but I like to imagine them having different individual training on their own struggle and needs outside of it (fun creativity edition!)

Either Wu introduce it to them or they find it themselves

Here are some of the ideas I thought about for each of the ninjas :

Jay - i feel like he'll enjoy playing puzzles, It can help his focus and create some images other than blueprints, it also helps him develop an ability to solve a problem from a different perspective (finish the puzzle from Whatever piece first) and he have a bunch of puzzle set collection with different size either he find from his parents place or the ninja buys some for him just for fun, he never gets bored of playing them

Kai - I'd put him in knitting, it can help with his patience lesson, he'll learn soft creativity and take a rest from his long history of black smithing (fire, iron, hammer, etc) (+control his fire power as to not burn the yarn)

Cole - i think pottery fits him, it helps him to learn how to manage his strength level, balance, patience and creativity, and it helps to express his joy in being messy in what he does, at the monastery that is

But I think gardening fits him in the flying bounty, there's a special room for his potted plants in the bounty and at the door hang a sign that said "Cole's green village", no ninja complains at the name, and Cole love that room very much, it helps him connect with his earth power while being high above the ground, who knows how many feet away they sometimes are

Zane - cooking, we can see that through the series, but I feel that fits him in a way, it helps him in terms of creativity outside of the book, he can make something new based on his knowledge on the use of the ingredients, baking too! He likes the warm soft/chewy-like texture, different from his hard cold metal

Nya- GIANT CANVAS WATER PAINTING, that's something fun she'll like, and she doesn't need to make a clear drawing, she can create an abstract base on her emotion/feelings, I imagine she'll love the freedom of pulling that brush wherever she like and the giant size of the canvas would be enough space whenever she have big thoughts, and the result doesn't have to be something logical, doesn't have to be something perfect in symmetrical and use, math isn't in the topic neither does wires and machine, she can create anything freely just how she want it to without thinking about the failing and the uses

Lloyd - oooo this one I'm not too sure, I was going for a bonsai tree gardening, with it being a long lasting plant and him being kinda immortal (I don't think he's immortal, he can just live long, what's the name for that?) he'll have something to rant to that he feels can understand his perspective

But now, I feel like he'll enjoy whatever his siblings do,

he'll play puzzle with Jay,

he would be a size example whenever Kai wants to make something wearable or Lloyd would even learn a bit or so by watching Kai

He'd be happy to receive a pottery gift from Cole, asking him how he made it or even watch him make it, he'll help at tending Cole's garden alongside Zane if Cole can't (sick/mission/etc), learning the meaning of flowers and what good they can make out of the plants

Zane, ooooh he'll have the first taste of Zane's successful new baked goods, he even let Lloyd steal a few cookies before dinner and kept it a secret between them, while the other ninja accused each other on who finished the last cookies

He would gladly be nya's model for her new painting or even play some color beside her with a paper or a smaller canvas, nobody is surprised when they find the both of them covered in paint by the end of the day

[the-love-cult]

June 19th is coming up fast and I know you’ve been feeling a bit unsure about sharing your AU stuff lately. No pressure at all but if you want, I’d love to hear any ideas you have!

I want to share some thoughts about Doodle (Sketchbook) since they’re one of my favorite teachers at least within my own AU

🧵 Doodle is a costume designer who pours their artistic vision into creating clothing, sketching out designs and piecing together outfits from yarn and fabric! Their work focuses on children’s theater, where they devote much of their time to exploring fashion inspired by fairy tales and whimsical themes. Instead of following trends, they create whatever feels the most playful and imaginative!

🧵 Yellow is their favorite color (representing the sun) which they see as balancing Lucid (whom they view as the moon). The two share a strong, inseparable bond, much like siblings!

🧵 Since childhood, Doodle has struggled with taphophobia. They first noticed it when they began obsessively drawing images of a hand reaching out from beneath the dirt. Though they don’t know the exact cause of this fear, it’s clear that even the thought of playing in the dirt even as a joke, deeply unsettles

🧵 Doodle is bisexual and identifies as paper (Specifically the vivid, craft-style construction paper often used for art projects)

🧵 Their favorite treat is churro bites covered in rainbow sprinkles! The rough, crunchy texture feels just like crayons 🧵 Doodle can bring to life anything they create with their hands whether it’s a clay sculpture, a paper plane, an origami flower, or a papier-mâché piñata. Nobody really knows the reasoning behind it but you can picture lots of tiny wooden birds fluttering around the art studio, helping Doodle keep supplies in order! 🧵 Doodle is extremely sensitive to bright, neon colors and typically favors soft pastels or muted tones instead. Being around intense, saturated hues for too long often gives them headaches and makes them feel queasy! 🧵 They love sunflowers -> favorite insect is the bumblebee 🧵 Other nicknames they go by are (Dot, Scribbles & Doodlebug) 🧵 Song I associate with them - ( D/N/A - Azari )

[cheesenames]

one thing that really intrigued me in tpm was the texture of shmi’s shirt. maybe they were trying to make it look like it was old and pilled, but to me it looked more like someone had deliberately spun the yarn to have slubs—which adds fun texture but reduces durability. anyway i have no idea what tatooine’s textile industry is like, maybe shmi does every step of her clothing production herself, but there’s a decent chance that the person who spun the yarn, the person who picked it to weave with, and the person who chose the resulting cloth to sew a garment with were three different people, all of whom presumably know enough about cloth to realize they’re sacrificing some functionality to get a more visually interesting result. i don’t have some grand conclusion to draw from this, i just think it’s an interesting detail to toss into the environment of tatooine