#i still need to make the sleeves

[toofypigeon]

knitting a sweater for my alien buddy that i got for christmas :D

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Normal Friend Behaviour.

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[deoidesign]

I met the me who made different choices

[badassindistress]

Interest check

I'm probably going to be running a little low stakes sewalong again at the end of this January ('25).

Should we do the Italian chemise or the simplified shirtsleeves? This remains subject to my whims, but:

[unriding]

a … a gift from the talented @kruinka 🥹 thank you so much!! ദ്ദി ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ)

[sforzesco]

listen. listen, there's a kind of intimacy in having a dedicated rivalry, okay. who else is going to know you like this!!! also it's funny

Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini

Julius II: The Warrior Pope, Christine Shaw

and on della rovere’s soldier comment:

Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, D.S. Chambers

and finally! regarding the delightful Mess of political-family relationships, including the marriage comment (altho the montefeltro family that giovanni married into did have sforza family ties, since giovanna's mother was battista sforza, but this is about the more immediate alliance based relationship and della rovere's hand in the rejection of a milanese match for his brother. and. this is not even remotely a serious comic, but now I am once again thinking about insular all these families are. the fucking medicis are here too, if you go half a step to the left on della rovere's family tree)

Julius II: The Warrior Pope, Christine Shaw

Giulio II, Il papa del Rinascimento, Giulio Busi (Bianca Maria Visconti is Ascanio's mom. btw)

panel inserts of the cards they're playing with are all from the Visconti-Sforza tarot deck! (I used public domain scans/photos for the comic itself)

ko-fi!⭐ bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost ⭐ cara.app

[wolfofcelestia]

No one's gonna say anything about Zayne fingering you with that glove that covers his two fingers huh

I gotta be the one to say it huh

And the way he's good with his stick

And how skilled he is at getting things into holes

And good LORD the half sleeves the show off his forearms

[funeralflow3rs]

okay but listen,,, listen,,, are you listening,,, I cannot stop thinking about how the cauldron loves elain and its just... SO interesting to me that the MOMENT she pops out from the depths she's given a mate. there were any number of people there that could have been "assigned" to her ( if ur picking up what I'm putting down lmao ) the cauldron peered into her soul and saw all of her wants and needs and gifted her with the person that embodied all of those things and then some.

I will never stop thinking about this actually.

[spocks-kaathyra]

guy who vastly underestimated how much of a pain in the ass it would be to sew a costume that needs 12 yards of bias tape

[jils-things]

you are pretty, dearest!

[sorrcha]

so um. ruarc is real now LOL

rambling about it under the readmore

materials for anyone curious:

jurassic world raptor mask

paint and air-dry clay

feathers

false eyes i bought off etsy

buckram (for eye holes)

renfaire-ish clothes i've thrifted and collected over the years

scaled gauntlet from renfaire and the other from. party city

had to compromise on ruarc's design to make this work- i gave up on horns and all-black feathers because of limited supplies and money.

but i think that makes this a bit more interesting than what i would've made otherwise. a bit less dragon-y and more lizardlike, which suits the character's personality, honestly.

probably going to ditch the corset once i find a suitable replacement like a nice belt. the corset used to work well enough, but i transed my gender ftm and so did ruarc. i don't really mind crossdressing for cosplay but eh whlsdjflk

all in all i'd say i put maybe 20 hours of work into this? the clothes were really easy to put together. most of the work went into modifying the head and then slapping all those feathers on it.

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

Cardigan S (Pattern | Yarn | Thread)

I have officially cast on for this cardigan! Sleeve #1 (aka Swatch #3). The OG swatch I used size US 8 needles for both the pattern and the ribbing which is exactly what the pattern states but honestly I think my ribbing looks like dogwater. For Sleeve #1 I swapped to a US 6 for the ribbing and then on the increase row swapped back to US 8. The pattern also has you go directly from ribbing into pattern rows but I'm inserting a wrong side stockinette row for that increase/needle size up and we'll see how it looks.

My pocket swatch/Swatch #2/the one mostly covered up by my hand gave both good and bad news. In good news, 26 stitches is wide enough both for my hand and more importantly my cellphone. In bad news, it wants the pockets to only be five inches tall, and that is NOT enough for either my hand or my cellphone. Easy fix esp considering I plan on completely ignoring every single direction on how to make the pockets Except for the actual stitch count. More on that once I get the Second (and hopefully last) yarn I ordered for pockets.

I didn't realize but because of this shiny thread I'm going to have to knit both sleeves and the two front pieces one at a time.... Taking lots of notes for how many rows I do things in to hopefully match them well enough.

[snowfallknitter]

It's 3 am currently and I'm just going to sleep because I was finishing my first ever full mitten

It is in the same yarn i used for the hat I made a week ago and I'm so freaking happy with it

[darewolfcreates]

I may not have a Grand Festival shirt but I do have these shirts that I printed!

Repping team present!

I'm not selling these. I don't have access to the roller I did when I made this lino cut, the only prints I made were for my friends/me, and also I have no idea where I put the lino cut- .w."

[thatrandombystander]

My mandatory two weeks off comes to an end today and I am horrifyingly and tragically back in the office tomorrow, but I also just bought a digital sewing pattern so I'm looking forward to making use of the good quality office printers to print it all out. Seeing the silver lining is a vital life skill and baby I am an expert at it

[dkettchen]

sometimes it turns out you're not an XS, you're just an XL who happens to be 5'4"