#sewing arts

[bucky-boychik-barnes]

so the cataloguing of my aunt's thread is taking longer than expected for what should be obvious reasons

[anxiousangerball]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

[ineffectualdemon]

Fibre crafts are 50% soothing repetitive action and 50% "God Fucking Damnit"

[onbearfeet]

A conversation at a wedding, beside the gifts table. There is a large box wrapped in violently purple paper sitting beside the table.

Guest: That's a big box. Wonder what's in it.

Me: A custom handmade quilt on an oak quilt rack.

Guest: Really?

Me: Yup. Wanna see?

Guest: Sure.

Me: *shows pics on my phone*

Guest: Wow. You made that?

Me: Yep. Finished it last night.

Guest: That's amazing. Very purple.

Me: Yeah, (bride) asked for that.

Guest: Oh, she knows about it?

Me: I worked with her on the design. But she hasn't seen the finished quilt yet. It's a surprise.

Guest: So you take commissions? Could you make one in, say, two weeks?

Me: That depends. Do you have ten thousand dollars?

Guest: What.

Me: Materials, labor, overtime to make that deadline--yeah, it would start at 10K. Might be higher if you wanted expensive materials or some really fancy technique.

Guest: That's a lot of money!

Me: It is.

Guest: Did you charge (bride) that much?

Me: No. Hers is a gift.

Guest: A ten thousand dollar gift?

Me: Well, to the extent that I am part of a quilting tradition at all, the tradition I'm part of is that quilts can ONLY be given as gifts. Anyone who could casually afford to pay for the amount of work involved in a quilt is probably not someone to be trusted with art.

Guest: Art?

Me: ART.

Guest: ...

Me: I also made her a nice satin dressing gown, which she wore for hair and makeup earlier.

Guest: Is that art, too?

Me: I mean, it's got pockets.

[datgreenmonstah]

My salmon bag I finished last night, wanted to make something for myself for once. This is what I came up with.

Enjoy!

[nonbinary-octopus]

honestly yeah, fiber arts is magic. you cast spell of warm gloves, spell of nice hat, spell of stuffed animal.

material component: yarn

wand: single hooked wand or double pointed wands, depending on caster's preference

mechanical component: specific motions repeated in a particular pattern

time component: a while

look seriously the first step in a knitting recipe is "cast on", and then it's a bunch of letters and numbers incomprehensible to anyone not versed in the arcane art. that's a spellbook. yes it's a book of knitting patterns but also. it's a spell book.

[nipuni]

"I am a higher dimension life form, I am a complex space-time event"

A step by step process of this will be available at my Patreon next month, you can find prints of my work at my Store 😊

[fiberfantasies]

Fiber arts is just Math in sheep's clothing

[rumade]

Teeny tiny pineapple block quilts by artist Amy Pabst

Here's some with my hand to give you an idea of scale on each block:

I did get to chat a little with Amy while she was in her gallery zone. She said she works often with silks, including reclaimed ones, and she finger presses her work rather than using an iron. The pastel rainbow piece above is called Soft Pride, measures 41cm x 41cm, has 11,925 pieces, and took her about 4 weeks to make. She does not use a magnifying glass while she works, relying purely on her eyesight, but she does make sure to take regular eye rest breaks every 10-20 minutes.

Sharp Dressed Man; 33cm x 33cm, 5,700 pieces.

[bucky-boychik-barnes]

If any other cross-stitchers are on Tumblr, where online do you like to buy kits?

The only local craft store with a good selection is Hobby Lobby, and I don't want to give them money. :(

[kentnaturaltribrid]

• “June is the Pearl of Summer, shining with warmth and joy.”

• “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”

Below is Another one of the Eldritches. Had to go on and attempt at making one of them be screaming or at least an attempt at making some noise, which is the upper right hand area of the scenery. Also have it being quite embraced as of well, afterwards of course. So went with green and pink on either sides. Lastly, went with the Darker Renstics for the most part . The eyes being dark blue and the rest being rustic browns for the body and legs . Of which this little one has 10, roughly. Getting there, but for the time being might not have much time for them during the Weekend to make. The shrinking takes at least an hour and then making them takes another hour or so to get them where I want them to be, and then there’s well putting them in the finish and all that while takes about another hour or so depending on the loose ends that needed the most time to fix and all that. Then there’s that even at full size, still have something to finish, but that will have to wait. However, these little ones are not exactly the easiest to have a finished one upon the piles and Ontop of that their proportions are usually a one leg that which is must be of equal length roughly or else close to equal that which gives it more than enough time and flexibility of space within the 4 by 6 regardless of whether or not there’s time for one of them to be finished. Anyway, doing most of them during this June through possibly even July for the most part as there’s at least enough time for that to be fair enough for the pile to be built upon over time. As it is June 1st, there’s also not much else to do that will finish off the project or off the pile especially now that it’s Completely missing the pieces of the Eldritches and also a few other things, but those can be done later much more than these little ones. Plus, there’s not much else that fits the pile of it in any of the colors that I have available and at the regular ready, which doesn’t say much else except that I haven’t had much more than time to replace the ones that got finished off and haven’t had much time for doing much of anything than these little ones or other projects in the last few weeks so that’s about it and it’s not like I’ve had any other projects in the pile except for those which should’ve been finished a while ago. Besides, these little Eldritches are mostly for passing a large amount of time on making pieces that definitely fit with the much darker theme including that which fits with the other ones that I have in the other drawings of the journal pages that which consist of a few other ones of Dark secrets and other dark knowledge and stuff like darker sides and souls amongst other things they also have darker colors for representative and also they have many of them a dark past or small pieces of which they have a lot of dark events in one go or even darker than usual personality type. Of which they’re complicated, but still have similar patterns of the same variety of personalities and various secrets amongst many things else. Still quite complicated and complex towards a level of depth and even a level of lesser than standard knowledge is not exactly going to help with that they’re beings of power and intelligence rather than beings of knowledge and experience, they’re much less likely to be a lot of the things that which one would expect from them to be. For one thing, they’re from the start all knowledge in only one areas and advanced aspects of the universe and the other is that they are not exactly the same types as the others of their own, especially since some of them have less complexity and lesser levels than most of the similar characteristics that which they share but with that said they interact with the other of which is the members and the peoples of whicb they have the strongest connection and the most interested in the individual influence on the universe from them is highly complex. They’re basically a Zerkith level of complexity rather than Zenith. That being said , they’re not all in one place at every aspect of time and are much more complex.

• “That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.”

[bananna-threads]

Hand embroidered, self drafted, birch tree inspired buttonup shirt.

[melmov]

They’re meeting Bruce and Damian at the boardwalk

Part 2

[lilly-townshend]

hey STEB NATION (me and 5 other fish enthusiasts) how are we feeling

[basil-kat]

Fish plush

[allegorechoquilts]

A seasonal throw for my home (Oct. 2024)