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yes!!! one million points to u lol

i've been wanting to do a porcelain pattern tapestry for the longest time but didn't know which one to choose - i eventually landed on willow cause it is so iconic and also i thought it would translate well. it's complicated, but not so much so that the details get lost in the stitches. (well... they still kinda do but WHATEVER it's recognizable at least)

and now that i've finally finished dedicating my life and soul to this agonizing process i can finally start on... yet another porcelain tapestry LMAO

Hello everyone. I have finally finished my crochet tapestry that took 7 months and spanned 1 stressful move, 1 new job, and like 4-5 depressive episodes. So now I’m going to bother everybody about it for like a while.

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WELLLL if you insist ehehe

(you are now locked into an unskippable cutscene)

^ THIS is the classic porcelain pattern willow! it was made in the 18th century and every single source I've read talking about its creation lists a different european guy as having first designed it but basically there were a whole lot of porcelain manufacturers with their nose in each others' businesses so it's hard to say when or by whom the pattern actually first came to being

this style of design is known as chinoiserie, which basically means european designs inspired by chinese exports. because china had such wide-reaching and successful exporting of their porcelain wares a looot of other countries were deeply inspired by their designs and wanted to make some of their own to compete. this design specifically became kind of The Standard for chinoiserie designs, and likely if you went to any antique store near you, you'd probably find at least a handful of things in this pattern, lol.

because of how many times this pattern has been replicated there are a lot of different variations in design and color and such, but I based my pattern off of the churchill one in the pic above - I think it retains most of what I think are the most important and iconic parts of the pattern... and they just had the most high quality photos I could use for making the pattern.

trying to translate such a complicated design into basically pixel art to make the pattern was kinda troublesome and i did have to do a loooot of back and forth to decide what elements were important enough to fit in and which were fine to leave out for simplicity's sake. there are typically supposed to be 3 figures on the bridge and one on the boat but considering they were about the size of 2 single crochets i decided i really couldn't get them in without just muddying the composition and making it look confusing.

the damn willow tree was honestly the most agonizing part to draft because it's like THE whole center of the composition but it's such a wiggly organic shape and is also sort of squished between bigger compositional elements... but i think i'm pretty happy with how it ended up!

here's my original pattern :> i made it in clip studio first and then imported it into stitchfiddle to finalize the colors and everything

Hello everyone. I have finally finished my crochet tapestry that took 7 months and spanned 1 stressful move, 1 new job, and like 4-5 depressive episodes. So now I’m going to bother everybody about it for like a while.

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Here it is actually on the wall!! I need to get a dowel for the bottom as well to straighten out those waves (and get rid of those 2 test tassels in the corner….) but I’m so happy with how it looks. It makes all my other tapestries look minuscule in comparison lmao

Hello everyone. I have finally finished my crochet tapestry that took 7 months and spanned 1 stressful move, 1 new job, and like 4-5 depressive episodes. So now I’m going to bother everybody about it for like a while.

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And a picture of it serving its true purpose as the world’s most overcomplicated cat bed

Hello everyone. I have finally finished my crochet tapestry that took 7 months and spanned 1 stressful move, 1 new job, and like 4-5 depressive episodes. So now I’m going to bother everybody about it for like a while.

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Hello everyone. I have finally finished my crochet tapestry that took 7 months and spanned 1 stressful move, 1 new job, and like 4-5 depressive episodes. So now I’m going to bother everybody about it for like a while.

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makes fanart of my own fanfic just because

do you love becoming aware of your place in the narrative and doing everything you can to subvert it but still falling into the same fate regardless? try Mouth Bear today!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65712961

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Ok real promo post cause my roommate roasted me for my lack of information in the other one:

Swimming Upstream Into the Mouth of a Bear:

The world was not built for you. The world does nothing to accommodate you. Think of yourself like an insect evolved to resist pesticide - you grow in spite of, not because of, the narrative of the world. God's mighty hand inks you in the same way he would an extra in a crowd shot. Fuzzy, indistinct, vague.

You are tired of it.

Why not try something new?

Aka: I wrote a misa fic on a whim and wanted to post it teehee

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15,345 single crochets later and I’m FINALLY DONE

Progress pics behind the readmore!

Thank u fantasy high freshman year for accompanying me thru this entire thing. Literally finished the last episode as I was crocheting the top border

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who let these FREAKS loose in my mind. it's a mess in here

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ummm. i like these freaks. that's all

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first comic ive ever been able to finish and it's a dumb vent comic... c'est la vie !!

had to let myself be unhappy with how rushed and crappy this one looks or else i'd never finish it

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so sorry to anyone who saw 1 piece of fanart from me and then followed me expecting more. unforch i can only draw like 1 thing per fandom before my brain blows up. understand that i wish i wasnt like this either

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i have hired this fucking thing to stare at you

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on it boss o7 o7 o7

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quint but like.... animated movie vers. he is seconds from doing the don bluth head waggle

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my fanart of the teapot from the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik art nouveau jugendstil tea and coffee service... painted when I should have very much been working on more pressing tasks

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good evening quint nation how r we doing tonite