My Art

Sideblog for my art. This has just my arts and crafts projects because they get lost on my main. Embroidery, glass scratching, pop up cards, writing, friendship bracelets, cakes, and more.

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I wanted to get into embroidery last year and of course the first project that popped into my head was a massive one. So here's the masterpost for the Discworld jacket I'm currently working on. The plan is to have at least one motif for every book and cover the whole thing. Wish me luck.

This is a work in progress, so I'll update this post when I finish new stuff.

Feel free to suggest things that should be on there. I've still got a list I'm working through, but any ideas are appreciated. 😊❤

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I've been working on Great A'Tuin on and off since July 2022. My rough estimate is that it took me 150 hours total. That's the low end btw. I think it was totally worth it, though! ❤

Next up: the luggage and Errol.

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At least this one only took me two months. Progress! Meet my version of the Death of Rats.

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These have been done since August, but I forgot to update the jacket post. Oops.

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I just wanted to say thank you for sharing the embroidery you're doing in your discworld jacket, seeing it inspired me to do some embroidery on my own denim jacket and in doing so I found a craft that I love. So thank you.

You're welcome!

And that's so cool!! I hope you have fun with the new hobby and project. 😊💜

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For everyone wanting to know what the embroidery jacket as a whole looks like because it's been a while: this is it. As you can see, it's getting crowded - but not nearly crowded enough to stop. My estimate is that it'll take me at least a few more years to finish this project. Possibly a decade if I really do want to fill every single as of yet empty space.

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I finally made an embroidery piece for one of my favourite books in the Discworld series. Feet of Clay is amazing. So here is Dorfl, patched-up with a big heart. I think I saw a similar embroidery at some point, but can't find it for the life of me.

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I embroidered these in August while I was either at the airport waiting to go to the Birmingham Discworld Convention or already there. Includes: the hat full of sky, and quotes from Interesting Times and two from Hex: -May you live in interesting times. -+++out of cheese+++ (which I put right next to the Death of Rats) -+++Divide by cucumber error. Restart universe.+++

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The first embroidery pieces for the Tiffany Aching books on my Discworld jacket:

-a chalk horse (the Uffington Horse)

-a stylised frying pan with the quote "Make all things yours!"

[arkodian]

I wanted to get into embroidery last year and of course the first project that popped into my head was a massive one. So here's the masterpost for the Discworld jacket I'm currently working on. The plan is to have at least one motif for every book and cover the whole thing. Wish me luck.

This is a work in progress, so I'll update this post when I finish new stuff.

Feel free to suggest things that should be on there. I've still got a list I'm working through, but any ideas are appreciated. 😊❤

[arkodianart]

I've been working on Great A'Tuin on and off since July 2022. My rough estimate is that it took me 150 hours total. That's the low end btw. I think it was totally worth it, though! ❤

Next up: the luggage and Errol.

[arkodianart]

At least this one only took me two months. Progress! Meet my version of the Death of Rats.

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An embroidery piece of the luggage from the Discworld series, ivory teeth, lolling red tongue and almost two dozen legs included. I somehow also managed to make it seem like it's grinning. Took me two months with two-thread embroidery. 😂

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your Discworld jacket has inspired me to actually get off my arse and start planning my own painted denim jacket for my country's Discworld convention which will be in my state this year. I've been planning it half heartedly for the past few months but now I'm going to put actual effort into it. I have untill july to do it, it will be fiiiinnnne

I'm always happy to hear my art inspired others to do some of their own; your idea sounds amazing! I'm so curious how it'll turn out. If you ever put any of it on tumblr/the internet, could you tag me? If you can still find me on this hellsite (affectionately), lol.

Anyway, good luck with your project! And the best things often come into being after a mad scramble with an impossible deadline. 😉

I'm actually working on the next embroidery piece and am trying to finish more until a Discworld convention I'm going to. Funny how the world works. ^^

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New embroidery piece! This time one for Maskerade - a white half mask with red writing underneath that reads "PS: Ahahaha!!!" Because obviously i had to include the written maniacal laughter. 😂

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My first embroidery piece for Hogfather. 😊❤️

It resembles an atom, but with electrons orbiting teeth and coins and the quote "show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy" written in a circle around it.

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I cried the first time I saw your A'Tuin embroidery and I'm crying again now that it's done. It's incredible. I hope your family (whoever that may be) passes it on for years and years as a heritage piece because it's completely incredible

Awww, thank you so much! ❤️ (and sorry for only answering you now.)

I hope the jacket will outlive me. But it is still a piece of clothing I'm actually wearing (occasionally), so we'll see if it survives. And what I do if it doesn't. Probably cry, tbh, and then figuring out how the save the embroidery pieces and put them on something else. 😂

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Meet the Death of Rats, the newest embroidery on my discworld jacket, finished just in time for the 25th of May. ^^

[arkodian]

I wanted to get into embroidery last year and of course the first project that popped into my head was a massive one. So here's the masterpost for the Discworld jacket I'm currently working on. The plan is to have at least one motif for every book and cover the whole thing. Wish me luck.

This is a work in progress, so I'll update this post when I finish new stuff.

Feel free to suggest things that should be on there. I've still got a list I'm working through, but any ideas are appreciated. 😊❤

[arkodianart]

I've been working on Great A'Tuin on and off since July 2022. My rough estimate is that it took me 150 hours total. That's the low end btw. I think it was totally worth it, though! ❤

Next up: the luggage and Errol.

[arkodianart]

At least this one only took me two months. Progress! Meet my version of the Death of Rats.

[arkodianart]

Your work is gorgeous! I'm in awe of your Discworld jacket. How do you organise your embroidery threads? I've only recently taken up the hobby, but I'm already struggling with the number of different colours and keeping them separate. Do you have any tips?

I've only recently gotten so many colours that I had to organise them in a different manner (got lots of thread from friends and family for Christmas).

I repurposed a display case I put gems in as a child because the dimensions were perfect. Now it looks like this and hangs on my wall (plexi glass removed because it kept reflecting light):

But I started with a handful I put in a fabric bag until I realised they got all tangled up. The next stage was finding out bobbins exist and winding it onto those. And then I got this one:

That was my first organiser. You can usually find them in arts and crafts stores or online. Now I use it as my portable embroidery kit because it fits into my backpack. I'd say go for one of these; they're definitely big enough. And prevent your mum from getting you 200+ colours of embroidery thread (or don't. It does look kinda cool).

As for organisation: I sort by colour, but you wouldn't believe how difficult that can get. Does the blueish grey go with the blues or greys? What about the yellowish brown? So I just do my thing. Any bigger batches of colour (why was buying 12x metallic thread cheaper than buying just the three I needed??) are in extra boxes. I'm struggling with space as is.

Hope that helped!

[arkodian]

Hey! I saw your embroidery project for Great A'Tuin and I love it! I'm starting to embroider a bit myself and would love to do something Discworld related, but I'm having a hard time finding patterns I like. Would you be willing to send me the pattern of one of your easier projects, maybe the hourglass? I'd be more than happy to compensate you for your time and effort :)

If just having a drawing would be enough, I can post it for you. I usually draw what I want to embroider in pencil or pen beforehand, just linework, no colours, sometimes using references and sometimes not.

The hourglass is an original, but I could't find it immediately - I did find some of the other things I've done or am planning to do. If those sketches look helpful enough to you, let me know in a reblog or comment and I'll keep looking for the hourglass drawing. 😊

Examples:

As you can see - it's a mess.