Idk This Is Just Stuff I Like

Ignore the URL. This is an appreciation blog for all kinds of crafts!

[embroiderycrafts]

Easter bunny! by Obegripligen on reddit.

[things-from-strings]

he's helping 🧡❤️💜

for anyone who wants the spider pattern: it's available out there to buy online if u give it a quick search

that said, i have to admit... i actually didn't buy it 😅 i just squinted real hard at pics of other ppls projects, & figured it out from there (this is also how i taught myself to crochet in the 1st place)

FAFO forever ✨️✌️✨️

[tj-crochets]

Both sleeves are equally done now! Still not totally sure what I’ll do for the shoulders but I can leave it as-is for now

[tj-crochets]

I have an idea for a night sky embroidery piece with the moon either appliqued or embroidered (probably appliqued) and then stars (maybe a constellation) dotted around and lines of embroidery in shades of blue (light close to the stars, dark further) like echo quilting around each star so they kind of meet like ripples in water, but idk if it should be on this jacket as the back patch or on the denim vest that's still waiting for me to pick what to embroider on it

[nestingtendencies]

Lassë Shawl by K.A.M.E. Crochet on Ravlery

[wyrmscraft]

Funny colours to put together, but I swear it’s gonna look so good.

I never would have picked these colours out on their own, but they are the colours in the panel, so it’ll match.

[wyrmscraft]

Oh my gooooooooood I love this.

Still have to quilt it (and figure out what to put on the back) but wow.

I say that a lot about my quilts, but i fall in love with almost every one for different reasons 💖

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Ebroiderers are to be feared, for their precision, dedication, and patience to stab something many MANY times.

[geralt-of-riviass]

I need as many people as possible to see this cause I'm all giddy about this project and how good it turned out.

Cross stitch Rocky puppet made with plastic canvas.

[sanguine-humor]

phm is decently popular in japan and i mostly see this when i check twitter and see accounts posting pictures of handmade rocky plushies that are so fucking round looking it brings a tear to my eye

[sanguine-humor]

he keeps me sane

[sanguine-humor]

btw, idk if this will be seen by any of the countless people who already have seen and reblogged this post, but heres the original guide posted on how to make the chibi-rocky! the OP also has a separate guide for a more accurate rocky, though obviously less simple of a guide than the little thingy shown off

(im surprised this post gained any attention, haha, if i had known i would have just shared the guides, the more handmade pebbles in the world the better)

[bwabbitv3s]

I finished the last constellation tonight. All 40 of them are now done! Went through and double checked and every stitch is in place for them and all the beads are in place. Which just leaves the milky way part to do.

[bwabbitv3s]

Started stitching the Milky Way in. Slowly making progress on it as I am hiding the travelling thread so the back will look nice.

Looks pretty cool and keeps the readability of the other stitches. Very happy with it. Just a thousand or so to do. As they are in a grid roughly every centimetre apart.

[bwabbitv3s]

Update on the constellation quilt. I have gotten the last Milky Way stitch done now. Which means the quilting part of this project is done. My next step will be to baste the edges down, remove the pattern, trim the quilt square, and lastly attach the binding.

[bwabbitv3s]

Progress on the constellation quilt has come along quite a lot now. Finished the binding on the quilt over the weekend. I prefer to machine stitch the binding to the front then hand stitch the back side. It gives such a nice finish to the quilt. Took the time to measure it also and it ended up being 72" by 72" (183cm by 183cm).

With that done I could finally start removing the pattern. Which is taking both less time and more time that I thought it would. As it rips really easily so that goes fast, but the tiny corners and removing it under the beads is slow. You can now see the difference in the glow effect with it against the dark front of the quilt instead of the pattern.

[bwabbitv3s]

Behold the stars of the constellations of the northern sky! I love how this quilt has turned out. It was a lot of fun to work on and the effect is so cool in person. Overall I would estimate it took about 90-100 hours to complete. Give or take 10 hours if you want to count the time I spent custom dying the fabric.

I made sure to get a nice photo of it in daylight. For once I also remembered to get a quilt label on it. The back really shows the difference in readability of the quilting on the ice dyed fabric compared to the solid front. Thank you everyone that has followed this. I am glad you all found joy in it.

Those that are interested, here is the pattern I used by Haptic Lab. I made the large northern hemisphere version, and plan to make the matching southern hemisphere one next year. I also got your back for the less crafty people. Haptic Lab sells finished quilts in this pattern, both as a large quilt and a small one.

[stahsm]

Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy

[thatisuseful]

Damn, that's useful

[fluidstatick]

Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!

[watsdaughter]

tags by @gallusrostromegalus

[teaboot]

OH HELL THE FUCK YES

[crochethub]

After 10 months of dedication, I finally finished! I confess I was hesitant to post it, since I'm not a professional, but I feel I achieved a good result. by TheresaZoe

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[animorphs-30]

"Just tell them we're Animorphs." "Tell them we're what?" "Idiot teenagers with a death wish."

THE ANIMORPHS30 ZINE IS HERE!!!

(And thanks to @gros-chat-fait for this beautiful cover art!!)

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the series, creators of the fanbase have come together to bring you a zine of nearly 200+ pages (at which point I'm not even sure we can call it a zine anymore! The correct term at this point would be anthology!), filled with art and writing.

You can download it as a PDF here, or if you just want to view it without downloading, it's available on Canva here.

Currently I'm still working on options for getting a printed release, but self-printing is still an option! Stay tuned—there should be a self-print mirror available shortly (I'll just need to change some links to QR codes, among other things).

Okay, I think that's all I have to say for now! Here's to thirty years!!!

[eialyne]

Participating in @animorphs-30 was super near and dear to my heart, as Animorphs was arguably one of the first book series I threw myself into as a child. I mean I'd loved reading prior to then, but they are my earliest memories of waiting anxiously for each volume's next release and being top of my list when the school's book fair came around.

I still love the series and and eagerly awaiting for when my niblings are old enough that I can suggest they give it a try :3 Alas, I did run into some time management issues right at the end of the project, so just the panels made it into the zine itself, and not the assembled cube!

Read More just has some assorted WIP shots.

[animorphs-30]

this is so cool!!! thanks for participating in the zine!!

[hellokittythrowingupbees]

If anyone has the post from (i think) knitblr where a person was talking about how they " don't turn [their] work and just go from Continental knitting with their rught hand to English knitting with their left back and fourth " could you please send it my way?

I started knitting again and doing it this way and genuinely it's clicking so much more for me, I need to thank them

I know they kinda look pretty bad still, but it is a THOUSAND times better than how I started and I had the relatively same amount of knowledge (i had to search up how to do a knit stitch before doing this)

[okayyoureacab]

Hexagon Quilt

[rumade]

This is the second time I've seen a video of this technique and this explanation is so clear! It does use more fabric than English paper piecing (EPP) but you end up with a double sided hexagon so don't have to source fabric for the backing.

I'm doing EPP at the moment but I have a hole punch to make the papers and just use leaflets and junk mail, so it doesn't feel wasteful. I don't think it's difficult either- in the video she mentions it's not for beginners, but I don't have that much experience with hand sewing or EPP and I've been finding it pretty easy so YMMV

[lindstromm]

I saw this video yesterday and was seized with the need to try it out immediately. Lookit my cute lil' hexagon baby!!

Here is what the backside looks like. OP notes this takes more fabric than paper piecing, but that excess fabric makes it already triple-layered. Besides not needing backing fabric, I don't think you'd need batting for this quilt at all. It's already thick and soft just from folding all that fabric into a hexagon.

[lannamichaels]

Hexagon quilt tutorial video by tiktok user camelscrafts. Method:

Each hexagon begins as a 6" circle. camelscrafts does this by creating a paper template using a compass. According to the video, a 6" circle will create a hexagon that is 2.5 inches tall.

These hexagons are hand-sewn. Thread the needle.

With the fabric right side facing, find the center of the circle by folding it in half right sides together, then folding it in half again (wrong sides are facing). The top of the triangle shape is the center of the fabric circle.

Make a small stitch into the center of the fabric. The wrong side is still facing.

Unfold the circle. There will be a small stitch in the center.

Now the hexagon is created by folding the circle into itself: Take the needle to one of the edges of the fabric (it doesn't matter which one). Pull the needle through and pull the thread tight. This will fold down the fabric and create an edge of the hexagon. Crease the fold with your finger.

This fold has two corners, one at the top and one at the bottom. Put the needle into one of the corners and pull the thread taut. This will create another fold.

Continue this going around the circle until all of it is folded down, creating the hexagon. camelscrafts notes that the last corner pulled in may be a little bit "wonky" (no precise point in the corner) if the corners were not done precisely. However, that corner is pulled into the back, so is not visible from the front.

The hexagon is now formed. Sew around the folds in the middle of the circle to hold the folds in place. Tie off and cut the thread.

Attach hexagons to each other along the sides. With right sides together, whip stitch the sides together.

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[fatbottomedgal]

Kinger and Queenie, crocheted by me! I finished these just in time to take them with me to a screening of The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act, which was fantastic because I was clinging to them the entire time for emotional support.

Plz do not ask me about the pattern I used, I basically free handed 75% of them