#featherstitched

[put3rb0y]

Every buddy look at my dragons I play a little too much flight rising

(Featherstitch, Senwith, Famine, Ink, Sunset, and Champagne)

[omophagic-beast]

A look at the Mantles of Before the Flood: Land

Before the Flood launches in a week! (A fact which I'm very excited about, and not at all nervous about for sure.) Which gives me the perfect amount of time to start talking about the Mantles, the roles players take on in the game.

There are six of them, Land, Legend, Nature, Nation, Weal, and Woe. Each representing a fundamental force in the world, and each using their own mechanics and playstyle to do so.

We'll start, as is custom, with Land.

Land was the mantle of the very firmament that expands beneath our feet. With time, even the earth can shift, and Land embraced change with the same steadfast demeanor it awoke with.

Land is the mantle of the earth itself, carving valleys and building mountains. It is that which marks the map while the rest deliberate over details.

To play as Land, you'll need four casting stones, two in a light color and two in a dark color, as well as something to write with and something spacious to write on.

Land starts off each round of Before the Flood by casting their stones onto their paper, with the light ones marking areas of high altitude on the map and the darker ones marking areas of low altitude. Land decides how these areas are marked to show this, and while the round continues onward and the other mantles take their turns, Land stays dedicated to their parchment, pen constantly moving to add various features.

They can add anything from forests to deserts, rivers and roads, waterfalls and lakes, whatever they feel fits. However, importantly, Land does not add the landmarks to the map. Landmarks being the named items of importance that the other mantles create over play.

Whether it's a field of flowers, a library, The In-Kind Fox, Folt’s Featherstitched Forge of Fiction, or simply something strange and new, all landmarks are marked down by Legend.

Who I'll talk more about tomorrow! In the meantime you can presave Before the Flood on Backerkit to be notified when the campaign goes live. Who knows, maybe if we get 100 presaves before launch I'll have something special to show off ;3

Legend has been posted, check it out here!

[darkandstormydolls]

Part four of my fantasy costuming project: Daemon!

Link to the masterpost:

So the daemoni (does that pluralization remotely follow the rules of English grammar? No! Am I a fantasy writer who can do what I want? Yes!) are an interesting sort. They’re creatures of the water, which has a lot of implications for how they work but mostly for this purpose it means that they spend a lot of time in the water

I made this outfit out of linen, which would definitely be the most common fabric used in their clothes (often with a little bit of magic to made it not soak up water and get heavy and clingy). There’s three main pieces: pants (more of a capri-length would be more common, but I don’t like that style and I am a firm advocate in making/choosing costumes that work with your comfort level with clothes, so I went with the still occasionally seen full length pants instead), a shirt (honestly this is long enough to wear as a summer dress but it is over pants and serving a shirt like purpose in this outfit, so that’s what I’m calling it. Also the hem ended up an inch or two longer than I had expected it to), and a vest over top (which is generally an optional item of clothing, but very common).

The shirt has a fairly wide neckline and can be just pulled over my head, although admittedly that might be a bit trickier with the horns that daemoni usually have. There isn’t really a lot of complex stuff to talk about in this outfit: the vest has a very narrow facing along all the edges to finish it off, and there’s a facing at the neckline of the shirt, other than that it’s all hems. Just like how demons can’t overheat, it would take a lot of daemoni to be affected by cold (like, their blood starting to freeze), so additional layers are very rarely added, and this combined with the fact that many of them wouldn’t be spending a lot of time in direct sun, at least not for longer periods of time, means that short sleeves are standard. Just like the elves, the daemoni will often decorate their clothes with embroidery, especially as trim, and since I was working with fairly boring items of clothing here, I absolutely took the chance to decorate them here. There’s a bunch of featherstitching on the vest, two lines of chain stitches in different colors at the neckline, hem, and sleeve hems of the shirt, and a more complicated border on the pant hems. I had a lot of fun with the embroidery on this one, both because my embroidery skills had improved since making my fae clothes and also because I was trying out a lot more different stitches and designs this time.

Close up looks

I wove the sash for this outfit in the same was that I made the sash and trim on my demon clothes, although this one is just striped and lacks a pickup pattern. I opted to wear a bunch of jewelry with this one (conveniently, I have an absurd amount of costume jewelry from flea markets, plus an additional absurd amount that isn’t my style but that I keep for costumes like this one) because the daemoni are known for their gemstones and pearls (plus, it just felt appropriate for the species associated with water). There are also a handful of anachronisms with this outfit: mostly, the fact that I have my hair pinned up with the hair stick from my elven clothes (daemoni don’t usually wear their hair long), and the fact that I’m wearing boots (I have spoken before about my dislike of sandals, and I had even less desire to go barefoot. Perhaps a few daemoni might take to wearing fae-style boots if they were to spend a lot of time on land).

I really like this costume. It’s very comfortable, and all the linen makes it really nice to wear in warm weather (although admittedly I don’t get my worldbuilding costumes out as much as I would like), and despite the issues I ran into trying to find the fabric for the pants (none of the four fabric stores near me sell grey linen apparently, even in the upholstery sections, and I am slightly wary of buying fabric online, especially for something like this where I would want to be able to feel the texture and drape), it was pretty easy but still satisfying to make

[exittotheartscape]

A formal outfit for Mettle!

[doomchylde]

Can I just say I love @featherstitched 's soft keychains?

[toast-part-two]

Hello yes and in my effort to be the perfect cottagecore bf I have taken up embroidery. The kit came yesterday so I started with the side of some rad cool shorts that used to be old ratty sweatpants before I cut the legs off. It’s not super good because I don’t have a pattern or a hoop and it’s probably not the right kind of fabric, but I think it’s really cool even if it’s pretty much only French Knots :)

Anyways if you’re bored take up embroidery I bought my kit for like $10 and taught myself via experiment and YouTube videos in like twenty minutes I highly reccomend it 👌👌👌

[impistry]

Good night Pi

[quirkysewingknit]

#366days day 58, #wip The theme of our local Arts & Crafts club meeting last night was Fabric painting and we were all given a flower which was painted on paper with special inks and then heat pressed onto fabric. We then outlined it with a running stitch and finished using a method of our choice. I chose some embroidery stitches. Seed stitch for the flower centre, straight stitch on the petals and feather stitch on the leaves. We also painted letters onto fabric but you can see mine in a future post as it will hopefully be partnered with this flower.#fabricpainting #embroidery #zoknitandsew #featherstitch #straightstitch #seedstitch #painting #artsandcrafts #flower https://www.instagram.com/p/B9EOieNFQPQ/?igshid=8kyv5ue7lymj

[black-ravens-stitch]

Hi this is my first post! Anyway I'm crocheting an infinity scarf using the feather stitch and it's an amazingly awesome stitch

[missdarkgarden]

One of the antique corsets I’ll be showing at my #Kickstarter tea. Just a day and a half left to get tickets! I’ll be doing a Skype version for anyone not able to attend in person. Link in bio #darkgardencorsetry #antiquecorset #embroidery #corsetry #teaandtalk #featherstitching #foundationsrevealed #historicalcostume #victorianclothing https://www.instagram.com/missdarkgarden/p/Bt1K4RpA_qO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kscbf2vzjzd1

[dehartfoto]

Sometimes the tension is on point! I LOVE that there are still stitches and techniques for me to learn after 20+ years of crochet. #crochet #featherstitch https://www.instagram.com/p/CecdygLLrAb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[the-mrs-k]

Finished the baby blanket project I started right before going to visit my dad in hospice. 39x54 inches (?) done in acrylic yarn using a very tightly done feather stitch. #crochetersofinstagram #featherstitch #babyblanket https://www.instagram.com/p/CLkclOSjMzW/?igshid=14fxpfowh3k66

[bumblebeeappletree]

In This Video You Will Learn 15 Basic Hand Embroidery Stitches.This Video Is For Absolute Beginners

Stitches Included In This Video are#Runningstitch#Backstitch##stemstitch##Splitstitch#Buttonholestitch#Crossstitch#herringbonestitch #satinstitch #frenchknots #featherstitch #frenstitch#chevronstitch#Cretanstitch

#lazydaisystitch

[exittotheartscape]

Some Mettle sketches!

She is initially fine with following her destiny and has hobbies related to it, such as knitting. But she has also begun studying sorcery in secret, which is something her family would not be pleased to hear due to their rough history with magic.

[arianezurcher]

My assistant is always nearby and ready to “help” when needed. #stitching #improvisationalstitching #handstitching #linen #handdyedlinen #featherstitch #arianezurcherdesigns #arianezurcherontheotherhand #arianezurcheryoutube #arianezurcherstitching #catsofinstagram #slowstitching #madebyhand #abstractstitching #abstractart #embroidery #embroideryart #embroiderydesign #stitchingart #thethreadgatherer #houseofembroidery #paintersthreads #burlap #handdyedcheesecloth #cheesecloth https://www.instagram.com/p/CHlmXn3n6H9/?igshid=la5785qaiq1r

[eimiyuki-blog-blog]

Rainbow patches! I learned a lot from feathers tutorial on patches. First time making patches! These were fun to make. @featherstitched #featherstitch #rainbowpatch #embroiderypatches #superkawaii #kawaiiaf✨ #rainbows #pride🌈 #lgbtq🌈 #craftylife #whileyouwatchtv #obsessions https://www.instagram.com/p/CEMnR8KJDZg/?igshid=gr9czzorsyd2