#making things

[justkeepstitching]

Sweet Summer Tomato

Pattern Time!

[femboycatofmystery]

You Should Draw Again

Pretty much all children draw at some point, and then one way or another, most of us stop. I think a lot of us stop because we just got old enough to look around us and feel self conscious about not being one of the kids who was "good at art", or if you had a past like mine, for worse reasons. But whatever the reason, it's a bad reason.

And overcoming it will help. Maybe your art won't be very good (and it certainly won't be at first), but you'll get practice in one of the most important things you can do: rebelling against the lie that you can't start what you're not already good at.

[neil-gaiman]

hi neil !

i have to write a short story for the final assignment worth 90% of my creative writing uni module, it has to be 4k words. i’ve been putting it off for months because 1) i’ve been depressed and can’t find the motivation to do anything, 2) im deathly scared of it being bad because 3) graduating my course counts on the grade i’ll get for it. writing and reading has been a huge motivator to not give up on a future for myself. i am basically terrified of writing and submitting it. all the ideas i have feel bad, or i can’t execute them, or it’s not what the marker would be looking for. i’ve had the deadline extended into summer but i just can’t bring myself to write anything. how do you make yourself write when it matters so much? when something big rests on its quality, and it scares you?

thank you so much :)

There was a colourist I knew who wanted more than anything to colour a comic book I was writing. I got him pages early to start colouring, talked to him about what we were trying to achieve. He was really smart and brilliant and I knew he'd do a great job. The editor was waiting for his work to come in.

He may have started. He may not. I don't know. All I know is he was so obsessed with it being perfect that he never sent the pages in. The person who wound up colouring the comic got the job because we were out of time and our first choice had never sent anything to the editor.

The moral I took from this is that any work, no matter how bad, is better than no work, no matter how brilliant.

I pass this along to you, in the hope that it helps. Divide 4000 by how many days you have to go, and then double that. That's what you have to write each day to get 4K written, with enough time to revise it thoroughly on the other side. Get anything down in the first half of the time. Make it brilliant in the second half of the time.

Good luck.

[zegalba]

Issey Miyake: Making Things, Paris (1998)

[vee-lociraptor]

rat john doe malevolent in the fourth dimension what will he do

inspiration is obvious but for the uninitiated. @james-spooky 's malevatouille which won't get out of my head. also this post by lotte that made me realize i needed to crochet him because i cant draw.

anyway. read malevatouille it's really good. james is plaguing us all with it /pos

[socialbutterfly19]

Two sides to everything

[nemirutami]

seaside sunset

[gael-garcia]

Station Eleven ep 08

[seeminglydark]

wish me luck dear tumblerdarlings, as i got forth and take everything i learned and test run screenprinting Caro's FREAK shirt...

[podcastpeep]

My hama beads logo is officially ironed and up in my room.

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

Solarpunk Action Week GOOOOOO

Y'all it is Solarpunk Action Week and we are STOKED for it! Christina's already been posting videos (unfair; she totally has a six-hour headstart lol), she's got the writing group meeting on Friday, and I'm looking forward to skilling UP when it comes to gardening, landscaping, building, and all-around 'round-the-house solarpunky improvements.

Who knows, I might knock together my courage and try to patch up those pairs of jeans using the sewing machine, of which I am very afraid for some reason.

Anyway. What are you fine folks up to for SPAW?

[justkeepstitching]

Under the Moonlight

I've been trying to maintain my sanity during these unprecedented times by pouring myself into my needlework. I completed most of this in the past week or so, which is impressive even for me because this is a big pattern. The finished piece is 17.5 x 10.25 inches and consists of 7,705 stitches.

This pattern reminded me of the moonlight scene from Our Flag Means Death where Stede tells Ed, "You wear fine things well."

Pattern Time!

[olive-pup]

Hey y'all, the Queer Virtual Makerspace is up and running on discord, if you're interested in makerposting, getting and sharing advice, tool sharing, and just vibing with other makers, DM me for an invite link

[brokenmusicboxwolfe]

Gah! I have GOT to stop adding character’s to Mom’s box! I’m already pushing it to get it done in time.

See, I am painting a Discworld themed box for Mom. Knowing I would be pressed for time with LIFE doing it’s thing to me, I have myself permission to ignore scale and proportions when I doodled characters around the sides. I declared “pencils down” quickly because painting takes forever. There was space for more, but I knew I couldn’t do it.

So now, deep into painting (which is going slowly, partly because of feline help …looking at you Nony!) I keep going “Oh, I didn’t include Vetinari! Or Susan. Or…” I have 30 characters on it, 22 of them unpainted still, and I wish I could add more?!?

Anyway, so far:

I’ve got the disc from space on the lid. It’s “finished” (ie I have no time to fiddle with it more)

All around the sides I’m working on an assortment of characters. (Pretty much whatever popped in my head at the moment I doodled!)

On the inside of the top I have VERY rough sketch of the Librarian, looking more like classic Dr. Zaius I’m afraid. If I have time I will redo it before painting. If not, well, it’s inside the box.

On the inside bottom….Nothing!

That’s a problem!

I will do a Christmas greeting for Mom on the underside of the box, like I usually do, but the inside needs something. I ALWAYS paint the inside bottom of my boxes! Always!

Nothing. No ideas at all.

Any suggestions?

[zegalba]

Issey Miyake: Making Things (1998)