#craft in progress

[msyinyangkitty]

Update on the moondrop hat I've been working on. It's going good so far. I'm using a 5mm size yarn.

I still need to make and sew on more stars. Also got white somewhat fluffy yarn for the rim of the hat.

Biggest lesson I've learned so far while experimenting, if you're going to sew in stars. Make sure the yarn you use for the stars, is the same size yarn that you use for the hat. Or else the star will look weird.

[crystallized-cheese]

so like imagine Undertale characters but they're all crafts supplies (Undyne and Alphys) (Toriel and Asgore) (Frisk and Flowey) (Napstablook and Mettaton)

[johannesviii]

People in the tags of my other diy bottle caps pins post pointed out there was a version without glue so I'm gonna explain it as well even if it's more well-known

you need

bottle caps (the ones made of metal obv)

pliers

safety pins

pull tabs (torn from drink cans)

pinch the edge of the cap and fold it towards the bottom side of the cap in one place, then do it again a second time on the opposite side

trap a safety pin under the pull tab but over the folded sides of the cap. make sure it's still possible to open and close the safety pin. you might have to slightly bend the tab in the middle to make room for the safety pin

pinch the edge of the cap and fold it towards the bottom side of the cap again in order to trap the pull tab under it

continue folding and flattening the cap until the pull tab holding the safety pin is completely trapped. unless you're very very lucky, the other side won't be perfectly round nor perfectly flat, but still! congrats! you made a diy button/pin with stuff you mostly found on the ground!

now paint the other side with whatever you like and varnish it and stuff. have fun be free

[the-simple-diamond-bunny]

I Got about 5 yards of fabric twine in this ball and it’s smaller than a tennis ball. It’s a work in progress, I’m gonna make it as big as a basket ball. Stay tuned.

(Part 2)

[sheepwater]

Lil animal heartslabyul I made out of paper :D

[kirby-the-gorb]

[bluedesignwall]

I promised to post some pictures of the big blue star hexie quilt laid out on the floor yesterday and then forgot to do it. The quilt is now so big I had to turn it the other way so it would fit in the room. It is not easy to get a picture of the whole thing. I stood on a stool and held my phone up by the ceiling to take the full shots. The stool made a loud crack under me as I did that and I thought maybe I should not be doing this while home alone. I climbed down pretty quickly. Anyway, one more side panel to go and then I will attach them all to the middle. Then I have to decide on the final border. Progress will slow from here on in while I work my way through my UFO pile. All five quilts on my UFO pile require quilting which I will have to do by hand.

[leier-coyol]

Needle felted lagiacrus update

dude looks a little fuzzy cause I haven't trimmed him

[black-occamy-arts-and-crafts]

Haven't been posting for a while because a lot of sad, family-related stuff happened in my life recently. But the world rolls on and so do I - and embroidery is my sanity anchor.

Therefore, please enjoy the progress of the last two weeks or something:

I'm getting anxious to start pulling the canvas from underneath the embroidery already, but I want the whole thing complete before I do.

And here's side-by-side comparison of the previous photo vs current:

[patheticjayce]

Not much of an update today, worked on filling out the anomaly thing-y and started texture on the silhouettes (which I forgot to take a picture of, will post tomorrow!)

I'm anticipating quite a lot of detail work so I am glad to have basic shapes down so I can really start to get creative with it!

*Jayce Approves*

[tele-mesmerism]

squares progress: 100/300!

i got another shade of purple so now ive been able to make some squares with the blue thatll be the end of the spectrum. ive been having a lot of fun with color combos and the ◇ shape and diagonal stripe patterns recently.

ive made at least a square a day every day since i got my loom so progress has been steady!

[pomkyn]

Making some leaves to put on the hems of the shawl

The tutorial i found ended up being great for this. Simple enough once you understand it and it makes an entire leafy vine. Will say though, i am 98% sure i missed a step somewhere, but im too far deep to do something about it.

This is the tutorial I used by Elena Rugal,

[ungimbaledlaser]

Hello 👋 I am working very slowly on a thread painting of a Thrawn comic panel but haven't posted about it over here. I haven't done anything like this before so it is an experimental process. Anyway, here is a post about my adventures so far:

1) Sourcing materials

A spontaneous trip to the craft store with comic in hand for adequate colour matching

2) Drawing my outline from reference onto soluble adhesive fabric

I began by doing the lineart in outline stitch. At this point, I also started the line shading from the comic lineart but quickly realised embroidery isn't like drawing at all and the colour needs to go down first! So you'll note those chin shade lines got unpicked and only thick lineart remained while I do colour!

3) Eyeball time!!

Although I planned to do all the lineart first, I really wanted to see how the colour would look so I jumped in and did one of his eyes to give me a bit of dopamine. This is a combo of outline stitch and satin stitch.

4) Blue!!!!

This is where I am currently at! In further search of dopamine, I continued onto the skin around his eye. At this point, I realised I needed a fourth shade of blue but luckily had a nice navy already that worked quite well.

I am likely going to redo the black shade lines - I tried to replicate them from the comic but I'm not sure they work that well. Might just need to adjust their direction a bit more. I will actually return to doing the lineart now before my pencil marks fade away.

[johannesviii]

Someone on discord asked how I was making pins with bottle caps so here goes nothing

you need

bottle caps (the ones made of metal obv)

pliers

safety pins

paper

glue

optional acrylic paint

optional paint varnish (the kind you would spray on top of an acrylic painting)

I'm only saying "optional" because sometimes you just like what's already printed on the bottle cap. I mean look at this puffin, it's so cute. But you should probably spray the print with varnish anyway if you don't want it to disappear too quickly (that cap on the left was in my pocket for like 3 months and the print has already disappeared around the edge)

pinch the edge of the cap with the pliers and turn it slightly toward the top side of the cap. Continue to do so around the entire cap but don't try to flatten it all in one go cause it's kinda hard. It should only take two minutes or so anyway

almost there

there, it's flat now. If you want to paint or write something on it, add a couple of layers of acrylic paint on it before you paint/write what you actually want on the pins

I wanted skeleton parts on mine because I saw someone with pins like that and idk where they bought them

I drew them with a Pitt pen on top of 4 layers of white acrylic

spray a coat of varnish on them but PLEASE do that outside, you do NOT want to breathe that stuff. Then wait a few hours for it to dry

on the back, add 1) glue 2) one safety pin 3) a thin paper across the pin - squish the paper against the wet glue. When it's dry, add another layer of glue on top. Just drown the back of the pin in crystal glue otherwise it's gonna break too easily. Just make sure the safety pin can still open and close easily

let it dry until the next day just to be sure. Tug on the safety pin a bit to make sure it's glued correctly

congrats you've made pins with bottle caps

[ansitru]

An excuse to create another "fuck you" bouquet? Don't mind if I do. 👀

[pennybunpirate]

Guys. Guysss. Took me 3 weeks but I finished the sculpting 🤩🤓

Now I get to paint it (awesome) while hoping it'll continue to go well (mildly stressful). Ah, the rollercoaster of making art 🙃

Some closeups and a video under the cut, for ✨funsies✨

Ps. The light is a random led fairy light I had, the battery box is covered in clay and the cable is inside a tentacle 🙃