First draft of my Anomalocaris quilt block, at a quarter scale. Working out this plan of attack was, hopefully, the hard part!
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First draft of my Anomalocaris quilt block, at a quarter scale. Working out this plan of attack was, hopefully, the hard part!
My dad sent me this…
I’m not crying… no. Yeah. I am crying.
Aaahhh, I almost forgot to post this!
Really my partner @saxitlurg did most of the work; they linocut the stamp and figured out what paint to use and stamped it on the fabric, AND did the tedious seam ripping to get the pocket off, then I sewed the stamped fabric on the pocket and sewed the pocket back on the pants. I also did the little patch in the corner. It came out awesome!
I was originally planning to do something like this with a quilt square, rather than stamped fabric, and I probably still will at some point. Jean pockets just seem like an obvious target for this!
Also, this is clearly some kind of reptiloid chimera. The wings of a dragon, the thagomizer of a stegosaurus, and the fins of a mosasaur! Note the border work, which gives it a bit of a sci-fi theme!
Not craft related, but I feel very accomplished; I just blindly deleted my entire email inbox.
Like a WEEK ago I went in trying to clear it out sensibly. Unsubscribing, marking spam as spam, searching for messages from the same address and deleting them all at once. Got it down from 5k+ to 2k+. Yay me. Didn’t find a single thing I actually needed for anything but the short term, like a shipping confirmation.
Today it was up to 6k+. I was sitting here thinking I should be able to manage my email, while spam messages are just eating the entire system.
Whole inbox deleted. Gone. If I didn’t move it to a folder at some point in the past, I DON’T NEED IT. Probably deleted like… three or four messages I would have otherwise sorted into some folder or another, “just in case”. I can’t think of any time I’ve needed one of those “just in case” messages.
Ahahaha, free at last. Let this peace last for a thousand years.
Skirt!
It came out a touch too big, and making it took MUCH LONGER than expected! Gotta make practice pieces to get good!
I measure so carefully, and somehow what I end up with isn’t what I intended. It’s frustrating.
LOOK AT THE AMAZING HAT MY PARTNER @saxitlurg MADE!
They said the design goal was that it should look like I rolled around on the forest floor, so I think this captured it. I need to go run in the woods soon.
ALSO, THEY SPUN THE GREEN YARD THEMSELVES!
Another piece for my Cambrian quilt! A Vauxia sponge.
Hildegard got a mask for the Halloween ball.
My partner @nikolaijanak made the mask, and it is BEAUTIFUL! I painted the stick, which, y’know, also pretty!
It is best to be in disguise at the Halloween ball.
Wiwaxia, at last!
I had some minor delays while I unlearned some gifted-kid-school-experience-induced-perfectionism, and made some sponges and whatnot to fill in some quilt space, but here it is, a wiwaxia at last!
Unplanned Hobby Day!
Today hasn’t been a crafting day, but it’s been a good hobby day! I biked to the park to volunteer for the Park Run, where my “job” is to bike out to the turn around point, put up the turn around sign, then sit there and read a book while I get to say hi to and maybe briefly chat with every passerby and their dog. I started Furiously Happy, by Jenny Lawson, which I’ve read before and definitely recommend!
Later I did some gardening work, mostly clearing out the dead pea plants, and gathering dried seed pods, as well as trimming and gathering blackberries! While I was working on the pea plants I took this picture:
A curl of pea tendril cast a perfect shadow on a seed pods!
As some bonus hobbying, some of the glass left all over this patch by the previous owners (SO MUCH RANDOM GLASS) looked pretty cool, and I found a decorative stopper, so I suddenly took up archeology as a hobby and started digging up the bottle shards, with my handy dandy hand sheers.
I’ll see what I can reconstruct later!
Got a bit of cleaning done, showered, and then my partner had prepared a whole fondue plate, because they’re amazing! We tried to use the chocolate fountain we got from goodwill, but the cheese was too thick; it was still delicious!
THEN we planned out the Guild Lands for the D&D world we’re building together, Urda!
It’s a chaotic adventurer’s market, and a densely packed mini-city, all in one! It includes a packed market, cramped but posh housing for the rich, even more cramped and significantly less posh housing for everyone else, a hospital and healing district crammed up against a cheaper market, bathhouses, temples, docks, a party district, a theatre… everything adventurers might need as they return from one adventure and prepare to set out on the next!
Fantastic hobby day!
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Unplanned Hobby Day!
Today hasn’t been a crafting day, but it’s been a good hobby day! I biked to the park to volunteer for the Park Run, where my “job” is to bike out to the turn around point, put up the turn around sign, then sit there and read a book while I get to say hi to and maybe briefly chat with every passerby and their dog. I started Furiously Happy, by Jenny Lawson, which I’ve read before and definitely recommend!
Later I did some gardening work, mostly clearing out the dead pea plants, and gathering dried seed pods, as well as trimming and gathering blackberries! While I was working on the pea plants I took this picture:
A curl of pea tendril cast a perfect shadow on a seed pods!
As some bonus hobbying, some of the glass left all over this patch by the previous owners (SO MUCH RANDOM GLASS) looked pretty cool, and I found a decorative stopper, so I suddenly took up archeology as a hobby and started digging up the bottle shards, with my handy dandy hand sheers.
I’ll see what I can reconstruct later!
Got a bit of cleaning done, showered, and then my partner had prepared a whole fondue plate, because they’re amazing! We tried to use the chocolate fountain we got from goodwill, but the cheese was too thick; it was still delicious!
THEN we planned out the Guild Lands for the D&D world we’re building together, Urda!
It’s a chaotic adventurer’s market, and a densely packed mini-city, all in one! It includes a packed market, cramped but posh housing for the rich, even more cramped and significantly less posh housing for everyone else, a hospital and healing district crammed up against a cheaper market, bathhouses, temples, docks, a party district, a theatre… everything adventurers might need as they return from one adventure and prepare to set out on the next!
Fantastic hobby day!
Echmatocrinus, from the Cambrian!
You don’t know what color they were either, so you can’t say it wasn’t pink and blue.
Woo, behold my quilt square hangers! Made with scrap wood, scrap fabric, yarn, glue, and five nails. Now I can hang my finished squares up instead of piling them under the cat bed, AND show them off to all visitors!
Wow, I am so far from done with this quilt. Like, I’m making the hardest squares first, so hopefully it’ll get progressively easier, but wow. I guess the other benefit of hanging it is that I’ll see it come together, and fill in!
Stars!
I had a lot of fun doing the stars on the recent shirt repair, and suddenly wanted to try this rainbow star. My partner generously donated their jeans to the experiment, and I’m super happy with how it came out!
Embroidery day!
My partner’s shirt had a ripped seam near the top, which I repaired yesterday, in red! It’s a visual representation of the effect of certain substances on embroidery style over time; very scientific.
Then today, when they were on their way home, they pulled a stray thread and the rest of the seam pulled apart!
I’m too slow with a needle to do anything super decorative all the way down, but I added some stars and one moon, and it came out pretty cute!
My partner made this comic, and it is beautiful and amazing, and you’re all missing out by not seeing the original on paper because it’s even prettier there!
Opabinia, another Cambrian creature!
This is my second attempt at this design, the first one was messier to do, had some bits that weren’t technically FPP, and unfortunately just had the opabinia blend into the background, so after all that work it barely showed up! D:
I liked this design, but it’s too hard to see. Also I made that one before deciding they should all use the same background. Next time, i’m definitely choosing a background that doesn’t include every color I like, making it difficult to contrast with XD
I’m throwing myself into a big quilt with hardly any experience; this probably won’t be the last block I redo, or the last design I have mixed feelings about!