#embroidery practice

[otakumakes]

An update on the yuki embroidery

[pretendingday]

i made a little jacket ❤️

[every-moment-a-different-sound]

Edwin and Charles sheet ghost embroidery patterns

@deadboyween day 11- Halloween

If anyone wants to have a go at these patterns, you can download the PDFs here 💜

[lulu-spooks]

Back on my embroidery bullshit

And yes it’s moomin again

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 324

gonna be another jacket patch once i figure out what i wanna do with the border

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

my friend went shopping at a local-to-them store to get me more silk threads for my birthday for Lucanis, and they got here today 💜 it’s SOOOOO hard to find good greys with similar undertones and now i’ve got those and some lovely purples. i’m having a different friend test using her Silhouette machine draw the big version of the pattern for me onto fabric since I would really like it to be 10inches wide which is alas outside the range of usual printers… will be very exciting if we can get it to work, lots more potential for big pieces!! in the meanwhile perhaps i will do what you’re supposed to and stitch a small scale rough version as a color test before i commit to the giant version…

[chiropteracupola]

fancy waistcoat lounging...

[this is the waistcoat - suggested by @boltlightning!]

[cottonvitellius-axv]

dmc on muslin, single-sided

[itisi-asimplegay]

first crochet project in almost 3 years! we'll see how it turns out but it's fun so either way I'm pleased

[mask-maker-907]

Soo... I had an Idea. I'd been watching a few too many bookbinding videos on Youtube and figured that it can't be that hard to rebind a manga, right? Yes it's not made of the archival quality, acid free paper like 90% of the bookbinders I watch use, however, I don't really care if it lasts for years, so if the pages yellow then it's fine.

However, the second part of the Idea was to use a manga series, specifically Dragon Ball, and to give it nice covers. Mostly the Idea was that I can use the stars on the Dragon Balls to number the books and the last one will have all seven balls with all their stars.

It adds up to 28 stars so 28 books.

Fans of the series will know that there's 42 volumes.

Fans of math will know that 28 doesn't go evenly into 42.

Thankfully I didn't have to worry about splitting a volume into thirds or figuring out what .3333 of a book will look like. Because 42 divided by 28 is nicely 1.5, so every three volumes will make 2 books.

Now, if you hadn't figured it out yet, I've never done book binding before. And I was planing on embroidering the cover to make my Idea a reality. Which I've also never done before.

But if you know how Ideas are, they grab you and don't let you go until you start working on them so...

Tada! It's a book!

It's not the prettyist but it's noticeably a book! It even works as a book!

The spine is a little crunchy because all I had was printer paper and file folders and I used file folders for the first one and printer paper for the second.

Book two turned out much better. Still not the best, but I like it more than book one. Not sure if I will continue and do all 28 books but I'm happy I did these two and the Idea has calmed down now.

[things-from-strings]

prepping a new pair of work pants👖🧵🪡

i am thisclose to landing an exterior house cleaning job. rly hoping i get it; i'm sick of doing interiors!

[ashzillaa]

[nine-fingered-entity]

problem with finishing knitting project is i now have to start new knitting project. what is this nonsense?

[fructidors]

happy @logic-and-philosophy week have some mixed media blackout poetry i did this summer and forgot to post :)

[penguino713]

Pathologic Fest Day 18: House on the Outskirts

“Your veins are all swollen... Does being close to me make your blood stir?”

[thescrapwitch]

In Journal of Solitude, May Sarton writes about her struggle on not feeling like her work is being seen vs accepting that the work itself is enough. I wanted to make a little embroidery piece of it for myself, just as reminder for my relationship with my own writing.

“to see the work itself stand alone

and make its way heart by heart

as it is discovered by a few people

with all of the excitement of a person

who finds a wildflower in the woods”