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Fabric Obsessed Witch

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Faunwood’s Adorable Menagerie of Miniature Ceramic Critters Is Primed for Adventure

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Idk if people keep up with Rick Riordan but he’s publishing a book (series?) about Nico (his first gay character.). And in true riordan style he got himself a queer co-author for this endeavor

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When your fella works for Tumblr and is like "guess which '4' is me" *taptaptaptaptap*

"Did you get it?"

*taptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptap"

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Now I've seen the film I'm going through the glass onion tag and people have fluffy headcanons about Hugh Grant's five seconds cameo. How Phillip is baking for his husband and calls him "Blanc" because of some cutesy backstory...

No.

That is the face of a man who has been lockdown stress baking for two months and has more bread in the house than he can eat and his partner's been hogging the bath instead of helping him eat the damn bread and now said partner's weird ass job is at the door and the bastard is getting some actual purpose in this hell time and good for him and lucky wanker and that is when you address your husband by his last name.

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How People Make Crayons - Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1981)

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#quilting

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Michele Carragher, the head embroider on Game of Thrones, made this awesome tutorial to show how she created the dragonscale fabric that appears on several of Daenarys’ costumes in S3 and S4.

Ms. Carragher says that the dragonscale fabric was created because “In season 3 the Costume Designer Michele Clapton wanted a Dragonscale like textured embroidery that starts to emerge on three of Daenery’s costumes, which becomes heavier and more pronounced, growing and evolving as the season progresses” (Carragher).

In stages 9-11 of the tutorial we see how the textile evolves from lightly to heavily embellished. This progression is meant to illustrate Daenarys’ personal growth and the growth of her dragons (source).

Here’s a link to Ms. Carragher’s website.

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Interviewer: Is there, like, a story behind that haircut?

SMG: I don’t know. I think it broke–my hair. I think it was just in the middle of doing so many things and my hair was literally fried and I think it broke. And I just think no one knew what to do with it. But I also could be totally making that story up right now. I really don’t know. I mean, why would someone do that voluntarily to themselves? You know what? I have the answer. I did it voluntarily as a lesson for all of you, so that you didn’t have to make that mistake. So you know what? You’re welcome. (source)

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"have you cleaned out the bobbin case?"

The sewing equivalent of “Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?” is “Have you tried re-threading the machine?”

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Love this color combo

Yoshijiro Urushibara: Camellias in a vase (1938)

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OMG the dots and pleatssssss

Summer dress, 1880. Museum de Orsay. x x

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I do this as a job, and I always need this reminder.

Pssst

Hey, are you an artist or writer with WIPs?

Come here… I got a secret for you pssst come ‘ere

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Something that I first applied to working with children, and have applied in a limited form to working with adults: you don't need to tell someone when they read your instructions wrong. Sometimes it's enough to point out what they did right and then whatever they didn't do? You ask them to do it in more precise words, and you make it sound like it's a new request. Remarkable how fast things get done this way.

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begging everyone to watch the French contestant introducing herself at Miss World she's last if you want to skip some other fucking wild deliveries