#slubbies

[obfuscobble]

Attention Brevard County Snail Lovers

There are absolutely breathtaking and occasionally melanistic Bulimulus Guadalupensis breeding at the DMV. There are less than gorgeous but very captivity friendly and long lived Bulimulus Sporadicus at HD Dental, some of which have patterns reminiscent of Drymaeus Dormani.

Best snailing spot is the hibiscus around the side dumpster of Chase Bank at Melbourne Mall: vigorous Praticolella Griseola who make good nursemaids, truly pedigree Zachrysia Provisora who need your home so they won't be invasive, and shockingly beautiful Drymaeus Multilineatus whose young occasionally climb the streetlights.

Polygyra Septemvola prevalent near all water sources but particularly hardy specimens live on the riverward side of the Eau Gallie library wall. They have a mix of lovely stripes near the swingset and a stripeless population nearer the dock. Richly coloured brown or ruddy ones are rare but breed with striped ones to make quite handsome offspring- though they're all extremely tiny.

Allopeas Gracile extant in many Brevard soils but do NOT do well in captivity; admire them and leave them be. All salt marsh snails (Succinaea species) should likewise be left extant.

Very Important!

Do not ignore the infinite love offered by Leidyula Floridana leatherleaf slugs. If you can find one or two, they will be your new best friends and favourite pets. Well second after the Zachrysia who will watch anime with you and eat like gentlemen. The leatherleaf slugs love cuddling but also love escaping- such rumpus escapades are part of the charm. Raised from an egg it takes a pet no prawwwblem.

[denimhead]

THE STRIKE GOLD 10OZ GREY SLUB SELVEDGE DENIM WORK SHIRT

[dykeredhood]

With all the knitting I do, I haven’t made a wool shawl or capelet for myself

[acosmic]

trusted sources will attest that i have been obsessing over spiderwebs plus lace for at least the past 1.5 years, and this would be easier and less painful to execute than the “irish crochet with spiderwebby mesh ground connecting spider and trapped bug motifs” idea.

this is almost definitely knit, but i’d be surprised if it wasn’t inspired by teneriffe lace. it would be a lot of fun to copy it that way - you’d lose the stretch but who cares about that part

[kattling]

I loved and cherished my time at art club yesterday

[kuzushiii]

They are all so silly,,

my beloveds...

[rival-rook]

Man I have gone thru every emotion with this project but it finally has ended happily!!

This is 2 oz of the 4 that I got at Black Sheep this year, first spin on my new (to me - she's 35 years old!) Schacht Matchless wheel. I really had a hell of a time with this fiber - it was very well prepared but with my health problems I had a really hard time keeping it consistent. It's overspun and under spun, overplied and under plied, slubby thru some of the silk portions and suddenly way thinner thru the purple. Which is why I was shocked that it was perfectly balanced when I took it off the noddy. I'm thrilled bc I was giving up hope on it being suitable for the intended project - I think it'll make a beautiful warp! I was intending to have the other half be the weft and make a fun weird plaid but seeing it in the skein I think that will be too busy and I'll use plain black alpaca instead. It's 282 yards so it'll have to be a pretty big shawl but that's hardly a problem! I'm just so relieved that it's actually balanced.

[obfuscobble]

I see  snails of green sweet slubbies too their bent eyestalks  say they like their food and I think  to my self: how I love gastropods

[mabaki]

VS Art Party! September 2024! EU and NA

I'm trying to simplify my stuff lmao

Character names below

EU

Moyra

Deissy

Nio Starrkin

Nutcracker Halle

Rhikl

Utopica Wodna

Maelmordha

Briester

Slubby McSlubface

NA

Szhor

Azilab

Finn Longshot

Illuso

[kuzushiii]

OMG I LOVE SCUGS!!! Please throw more at me I beg

uum uh umm *throw a bunch of scugs at you* *runs away*

[hooksbooks]

Renegade Exchange '24: Her Kingdom As Great

I participated in @renegadeguild's typesetting and bound fic exchange, in which we trade typsetting/bound fic wishlists with other participants and then typseset/bind at least one fic from their list and send it to them.

This post is about the first fic I bound for @celestial-sphere-press: Her Kingdom As Great by MarbleGlove.

I was excited to see this fic on my requester's wishlist, because I've read this series in the past and really enjoyed it. I liked the imagery of the golden wheat berries from the Nearly Endless Plains being used in embroidery on clothing, so I wanted the cover to feature embroidered wheat sheaves.

My first step was to work on the book cloth. I knew I wanted something tan that looked kind of hand-woven, so I went to the fabric store and got some linen-look fabric that I liked. I also experimented with three different ways of making it into bookcloth: backed with tissue paper filled with Heat'n'Bond (right), filled with a 50/50 mix of starch paste and matte acrylic medium (bottom), and filled with the paste/medium mix with a piece of tissue paper on the back (top).

I ended up liking the last option the best, though it meant the fabric lost the slubby linen-like texture I had selected it for. I wanted to go all-in on the tan wheat-tone theme, so I also printed the text on cream paper instead of white (the right typeset in the picture above).

I also added a tan bookmark, embroidered on gold headbands, and added an oxford hollow (although this book is a bit too thin to really need it).

When I went to cover the book, I had every intention of using gold HTV foil. However, I didn't take into account how the beads would inhibit me moving the iron around like I usually do with HTV (to avoid issues with the steam holes). It didn't end well. In fact, it ended very horribly.

The foil only partially stuck, and when trying to use the tip of the iron to apply heat only on the bits that hadn't stuck, the iron left a big black stain on my bookcloth. Luckily, it came out pretty well with a bit of baking soda on a nearly-dry toothbrush. I ended up asking a neighbor for some gold paint and using some regular vinyl as a stencil, which worked out OK. I found out later that it works better if you put down a layer of acrylic medium or the like first to avoid bleeding around the edges, but you live and learn.

Technical details:

Quarto size (quarter-letter, about A6)

Sewn on tapes

Sewn-on made endpapers

Chisel-trimmed

Rounded but not backed

Sewn-on endbands

Sewn-on bookmark

Oxford hollow

The tapes are frayed and glued to the exterior of the boards

The mull is also glued to the exterior of the boards

Full bookcloth cover

Things I especially liked about this bind:

The embroidery. It turned out pretty much exactly how I had envisioned it

The filled bookcloth. I don't think I'll do it by default, but I liked how it turned out and I like having it as an option in my back pocket

Things I'd like to improve for next time:

The title. I don't mind the paint rather than HTV foil, but I didn't love that it bled under the edges of the stencil. Next time I'll try using acrylic medium to seal the edges first, and see how that turns out.

The endpapers. I've been applying my endpapers with the covers open because I was concerned that they'd pull weird and possibly rip at the hinge. Unfortunately, this causes a big wrinkle in the endpapers that does not look nice. I figured out while doing the back endpaper that it actually is just fine to apply the endpapers as I close the covers on them because of the way I taper my boards and glue the mull on the outside of the cover.

Overall I'm moderately pleased. It's the highest-effort book I've made so far, and it turned out nearly how I had envisioned it with only minor issues.

[makerandbean]

some 50/50 merino/sari silk i’ve been spinning for the past few days.

horrible to draft, delightful squishy slubby yarn as a result.

[mordremrose]

JOYOUS SEPTEMBER ART PARTY EVERYONE

Had a fantastic time, wildlife issues non-withstanding!! Bit low on energy this time around so i dont have any funny quips, but I had a fantastic time and i hope everyone else did too!

EU Art: Murramia Bittentale, Ray Statics (who played some really lively music for us, thank u!), Slubby Mc Slubface, Mabaki, my own Curo Shadeclaw, Nio Starrakin, our lovely host Aemryn of Dusk and Moyra of the Dawn!

NA Art: Feyn Cerelia, Pepiya, Deserter Krovv, Cyna Crystalclaw, Railvia, Owldera, Azilab and my Honeydew Zaitinne!!

As always, if you’d like to be tagged with your toons, let me know!

[kuzushiii]

Gorm

Gorm

[pagan-stitches]

More Treasures Unearthed in My Pre-Spring Cleaning

I’ve been using the lighter colored box for years as a daily work basket, but forgot they I used to pair it with another carved piece from India.

I’m now using the darker box to store spools of thread which I don’t use nearly as often as my embroidery floss.

More than half of the spools are really nice wool thread that my mother had bought when she was experimenting with using wool in her quilts. When she didn’t get into it, I inherited the thread!

[milkweedman]

TDF DAY 4 (2 July)

Today I spun the other ply, which was this carded jacob wool. This particular jacob fleece has very long locks, and I have found carding is not necessarily the way to go.

It was very very inconsistent and broke a lot, because there were so many tiny short clumps of fiber that I'd hit that were never effectively processed.

On the other hand, if i wanted a low effort slubby yarn, this is the perfect fiber for it.

I did find the white vs the gray spun up very differently. The white was still pretty obliging and drafted easily, while the gray did not want to draft so much.

Anyway, I also plied it on my wheel this evening.

Haven't blocked it yet, very curious to see what will happen. It's ridiculously inconsistent the whole way, but it's only for a bag, so who cares.

It's 94 yards/86 meters and weighs about 1.2 ounces/35 grams.