#a game of thrones

[flying-ham]

since I just finished my big sansa embroidery project, I wanted to talk about the process of creating it and my inspiration

I was inspired by this piece that I stumbled across totally by accident. I was actually researching ptolemaic era egyptian weaving but found this 20th century embroidery and immediately thought of sansa. I created a sketch of sansa and lady in october of 2022 and then traced it on white cotton using a tracing pencil against my window.

I then began outlining my stitches with a chain stitch using a single strand of embroidery thread. I found that this was really nice for outlining while still blending my colors. For the cream colored thread on sansa’s dress I didn’t outline, which achieved a less blended and more distinct layered effect.

For the majority of the work, I used a technique called needle painting, where the artist uses a series of long and short stitches involving various shades of single strand embroidery thread. This technique was used for the entirety of sansa and lady’s figures.

The weirwood tree was a tricky piece for me to work on. Initially I used a technique of horizontal satin stitches to fill in the tree, but ultimately restarted and chose to do vertical chain stitches to imitate real tree bark. I used three shades of tan and cream, using a single strand of the darkest shade, two strands of the medium shade, and three strands of the darkest shade. This created an effect also similar to real tree bark, which I tried to capture in the second picture.

The final touch was adding sansa’s hairnet. I used a metallic silver thread and clear beads, basing it on the amethyst hairnet used to murder joffrey. While the amethysts in the book are black, I used clear beads to match her home of winterfell, where her jewels would match the snowflakes in the godswood.

and that's sansa and lady! It may have taken over a year and a half on and off, but I'm super proud and excited about everything new that I learned and improved with embroidery throughout the process. If you have any questions or comments, my asks and messages are always open, I absolutely love talking about embroidery!!

[cynicalclassicist]

This is one of those early odd bits.

jon snow: im a bastard. everyone hates me. i want to die. and im 14

tyrion for some fucking reason:

[quiddling]

this guy again

[siren-crown]

Sansa Stark, the giant slayer

Based on Artemisia Gentileschi's David and Goliath

[whatsupidontknow]

Dany and her silver <3 another day, another WIP

[fairyplam]

I offer you- Jon snow 🤲🏻❄️

[aco1yte]

Shitty little doodle based on something my friend and I were talking about lol

[motorway-south]

enough with the "who haunts the narrative?" olympics. let's talk about who doesn't haunt the narrrative. jon arryn's death kickstarts the entire plot and STILL no one gaf

[jacaeryspilled]

beauty throughout asoiaf houses

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targaryen beauty

stark beauty

lannister beauty

baratheon beauty

martell beauty

arryn beauty

tully beauty

tyrell beauty

greyjoy beauty

dayne beauty

[zuralgaa]

Ashara Dayne

[polysucks]

I drew Arya in the Smallwood acorn dress like a year ago and then I forgor about it.

So have Arya in the Smallwood acorn dress doodle

[malleefies]

Elia Martell and Lyanna Stark ✹ ⏾

held sketch requests on insta and someone requested the two of them <3 i love them bouf...

[thekeytothenorth]

robert baratheon's small council was hysterical actually:

• old ass father figure

• boybestfriend's wife's weird incel friend

• lannister boot licker maester

• the most influential spy in the world who definitely cannot be trusted

• hated repressed younger brother

• hedonistic teenage gay brother as master of laws (??)

• secret targaryen loyalist

[tarokki06]

The lady Sansa Stark at the Hand's tourney

[whatsupidontknow]

She does have astonishing eyes

I know, I know, she’s meant to be ugly, I’m sorryyyyyy