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Trying to chart out a border element from embroidery in a historical context

Accidentally created Godzilla instead

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Let's see how this is for side blogs

If you have boop next to your username, you're getting booped. Period.

It might be more than once.

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“Great Tits!”, inspired by the Great Tit, a small insectivorous bird with a black and white head, blue wings and tail, olive green upper body and yellow underparts.

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Rare, never before seen raw footage of the Soda Cup Warp in progress! (aka I forgot I had it in my draftssssss)

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First Ever Tablet Woven Band!

I finished the band! Once I got going with it, it really rolled right along, and I'm very happy with the finished product. I can't want to try more patterns!

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Download this easy DIY clothing repair guide (only 10 pages) from Uni of Kentucky

link to PDF

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More cowls.

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I am very bad at uploading my yarnwork... Let's do a Magnus Archives yarnwork masterpost #2, also featuring Malevolent

By the way I have commissions open now, check it out I guess.

All pixel art done by my bestie @podaliedja

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embroidery ghost 🧵

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Crochet Eye Sweater by CarolineMoorenc

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Inktober Day 1 - Dream

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How many times can I stitch variations on colour wheels? At least a few more, anyway. My own design.

This is the second piece I've done that blends contrasting colours in blackwork, and I'm learning to trust the process. In both cases, it looked horribly messy while I was stitching, but then when it was finished and I could step back to look at it, I could finally see the gradient effect I was going for.

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insane how many people just have these incredible artists in their families who get no recognition outside of crocheting circles because this art form is devalued for its association with women

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Here are some (not very good) photos of me wearing it! I'll have to get some better ones at my parents house later, because there is absolutely no good space to take photos in my apartment. I don't have any other 1830's things to go with it, and don't currently have plans to make any. I just wanted this dressing gown specifically.

Anyways! There are 6,957 triangles, all sewn together by machine, but most of the actual garment construction is by hand. The unevenness from all the patchwork seam allowances made it very fussy, and the tailoring took at least twice as long as it would have in a normal fabric. The velvet was also a challenge, being the soft drapey wobbly kind, but I managed. I accidentally made my triangles a bit smaller than the ones on the original (C. 1835, Powerhouse Museum collection.) which means there are more triangles than there had to be, but that's ok. I really enjoyed doing the patchwork, it's the most wonderfully soothing brainless task ever and I will definitely make more patchwork things.

I'm very happy with how it turned out! It's comfortable and fits pretty well, and is warm but not excessively so.

I kept timesheets for everything, and I haven't added them up yet, but once I do I'll know exactly how long all of this took.

I also filmed it, but the youtube video won't be out for quite a while, because I still have to write and record some more stuff and then edit a very very very very large amount of clips.

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thinking about the red dress that took 353 embroiderers from 48 countries 13 years to make

humanity is inherently good, actually, and there is joy and power in creation and art transcends boundaries and we’re all in this together and whatnot

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120 hours and a half of crocheting; 50,400 stitches; 2,9 kg of yarn. It measures 1.5mx2m. The most slavic thing I’ve ever made is finally done.

Validate me pls.

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I've gone back to working on my hexies quilt as a break from knittjng and I've gotten pretty far in the pattern I originally laid out.

HOWEVER

I did my original math horrendously wrong and if I follow my pattern as written the final quilt will be only 28 inches wide. 😭

I need to add nearly forty columns of hexies and 8 rows of hexies to make the final quilt the actual size I intended. Which also means, I'll have to change my color pattern to accommodate this change and cut out more hexies.

I enjoy the process, which is why I'm making this project to begin with, but this drastic shift in project scope is a lot to handle right now.