juniper@'s Makerspace

[craftyjuniper]

And here is the tiger to go with the turtle. (Tiger child has informed me he wants to wear the turtle costume as soon as he's big enough.)

[craftyjuniper]

Wish I'd taken pictures when I STARTED the turtle shell, but I'm still pretty pleased. I may never get the glue off my hands though.

[craftyjuniper]

Waiting for the paint to dry so I can flip it over and do the other side. I love thrift stores, they make it so much easier to do Halloween costumes for kids because I don't have to sew the base layer.

[h-y-m-n-o-i]

Radio

How delighted you must have been, radiant Apollo, when we learned to transmute song into light and back again.

[craftyjuniper]

Quilting done, now for the binding. (Hand sewing. Not my favorite thing.)

[craftyjuniper]

In progress. (With bonus helper hand! ;-) We had guests over, so I had to pack up the sewing machine for a bit. Hopefully I'll get back to it before too long.

[craftyjuniper]

I loathe ironing bindings. But that’s the last I should need the iron for *this* quilt. Bleh.

Tomorrow, I attach the walking foot and do the super boring part: quilting the top to the batting and backing. Then I get to do the super, super boring part of hand sewing the binding.

This is the boring part. Piecing together the top is the fun and it comes at the beginning.

[craftyjuniper]

Canyon River Reflects the Sky

Border: cut, pinned, sewn Batting and backing: pinned down Binding: cut

Small humans would like me to sew more tonight (sewing machines being super cool and all) but my back and shoulders are emphatically vetoing this idea.

Tomorrow.

[craftyjuniper]

Oh hey, I DID remember to take a picture of the fabric.

[craftyjuniper]

I should’ve done photos of the fabric strips, but I didn’t. Here’s a quilt top. In progress.

[nateswinehart]

You gotta have a plan…

[just-shower-thoughts]

Mammals both produce milk and have hair. Ergo, a coconut is a mammal.

[blogtitletaken]

I know you’re being facetious, but this is an actual issue with morphology-based phylogeny.

[castiel--for--king]

*leans over and whispers to person beside me* what are they talking about

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

*leans over and whispers back*  Human ability to quantify and categorize natural phenomena is sketchy at best and wildly misleading at worst

[nonlinear-nonsubjective]

consider the coconut

[bemusedlybespectacled]

this reminds me of that time Plato defined humans as “featherless bipeds” and Diogenes ran in with a plucked chicken screaming “BEHOLD A MAN!”

[kascaban]

i love how you say “it reminds me of that time” like you were there.

[heartgemsona]

listen if an immortal feels brave and supported enough to come out we should respect them

[baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

This post is a journey

[virtuous-thing]

1 Reblog = 1 Respect

[dovewithscales]

I maintain that humans started attempting classify animals, and some god or another made the platypus, and is still laughing.

[eldbitch-horror]

Zeus: *hits joint* okay so like. It’s gonna have a duck bill right. But an otter body okay? And then a beaver tail. It’s a mammal. But. It lays eggs!

Hades: wait wait dude. Give it. Give it poison. Make it poisonous

[dovewithscales]

Athena: You mean venomous, and make sure the eggs have both reptile and bird traits. Hermes: *takes the joint* Give it extra senses. Poseidon: It should be aquatic.

[hyratel]

I MEAN where’s the lie

[dovewithscales]

Demeter: … And where exactly do you expect me to put this? Everyone: Australia.

[craftyjuniper]

I have nothing to add.

[craftyjuniper]

Today, I cheated and resurfaced my dining room table. Until the kids stop scraping the surface, it’s not worth it to do it properly with sandpaper and varnish, so I cheated and used contact paper. It will definitely do!

[respectfulmemes]

[craftyjuniper]

Yeah. This.

[craftyjuniper]

I painted a pretty thing. I am VERY pleased with how this came out. The kanji is "dragonfly."

[craftyjuniper]

It's interesting how I seem to keep acquiring followers who are not at ALL interested in making stuff out of fiber, iron, ceramics, or wood, but are very interested in the stuff that ultimately is intended to make more humans…

I’m getting tired of blocking them. :-/ Bah.

[craftyjuniper]

Not a quilt. However, Winterpup has a fondness for things orange and purple, and I didn't want him to feel left out when his brother got a quilt. (He'll get a quilt in a few years.) So! Polarfleece throw blanket ftw.