the mad know EVERYTHING

plural system sideblog age: 18+ sanity is not our speciality

[craftexchange]

Well the post I made earlier apparently vanished, so take two: welcome back to the last Show and Tell Saturday of May! I'm on the hunt for quilting inspiration as I design some wall hangings for my bedroom. What's new in your world this week?

[dragonmintmp4]

we finished the project we started last week! that being a small plush moth for our partner which we made the pattern for!

we're very happy with how it came out!

[dragonmintmp4]

prev asked for more info so:

it is approximately 7cm from antenna to the end of the wings (near the butt) and 10cm across the widest part of the wings

the materials are felt, sewing machine thread (it goes through felt better than embroidery thread in my experience), and stuffing for inside the body

we can totally make an actual pattern for this! or at least a usable-to-someone-else pattern, since this was the prototype version! we'll share it here when it's done.

[dragonmintmp4]

and tada!

we've never made a sewing pattern before, nor do we often use them, so we're not super familiar with how they are typically done. i hope this is useful to anyone interested!

some additional notes:

"attach" just means sew it on. maybe that's front stitch maybe that's backstitch i don't know.

ladder stitch is probably not the best stitch but it gets the seams on the inside so that's what i used!

put stuffing in the body! i realise that that is not on there. um. yeah.

upper and lower wings should overlap

you may just need to use your best judgement for some of this. i believe in you.

feel free to ask us for clarifications!

[untitledcatgame]

The manager and their very well paid intern

[craftexchange]

Well the post I made earlier apparently vanished, so take two: welcome back to the last Show and Tell Saturday of May! I'm on the hunt for quilting inspiration as I design some wall hangings for my bedroom. What's new in your world this week?

[dragonmintmp4]

we finished the project we started last week! that being a small plush moth for our partner which we made the pattern for!

we're very happy with how it came out!

[dragonmintmp4]

prev asked for more info so:

it is approximately 7cm from antenna to the end of the wings (near the butt) and 10cm across the widest part of the wings

the materials are felt, sewing machine thread (it goes through felt better than embroidery thread in my experience), and stuffing for inside the body

we can totally make an actual pattern for this! or at least a usable-to-someone-else pattern, since this was the prototype version! we'll share it here when it's done.

[thedawnpack]

it's a good thing we're mostly inclined to polyamory because a fun relationship complication unique to plurality is "so that partner of yours who was one distinct member? yeah they're now two people"

[greelin]

i ❤️ faceless character designs like yesss keep the mask on… Obscurity is so hot

[greelin]

“what if you could see their face” well i neither want nor need any of that. i’m right where i want to be

[craftexchange]

Well the post I made earlier apparently vanished, so take two: welcome back to the last Show and Tell Saturday of May! I'm on the hunt for quilting inspiration as I design some wall hangings for my bedroom. What's new in your world this week?

[dragonmintmp4]

we finished the project we started last week! that being a small plush moth for our partner which we made the pattern for!

we're very happy with how it came out!

[mentholmutt]

[lin-ghostling]

Fox

[fourleafisland]

warmup sketch

[deadelated]

imagine coming home and your mom found your steampunk clothes and shes just there with her arms crossed

[deadelated]

she's holding up a ziplock bag of gears and springs asking you what they're for

[deadelated]

[axia-chan]

broken doll

[87sukiyaki]

[entirelyfiller]

If "help" is forced upon you without your consent then it's not help.

[craftexchange]

Welcome back to Show and Tell Saturday! I'm psyching myself up to tailor some clothes - hopefully I don't maul them in the process :) What's new in your world this week?

[dragonmintmp4]

working on a sewing pattern to make my partner a little moth plushie! i have some black felt with white star patterns on it that i think will be perfect.

(not a great photo but this is what i'm working with so far! might make an actual pattern to share if it turns out okay)

[oursystemblog]

[simzart]

[czvxqhv]

He Likes Foxes.

He told me, once, that he likes foxes.

Not in the way children like animals they have only seen in picture books, softened into harmless things with oversized eyes and predictable tempers.

He likes them as they are.

He likes foxes, and that told me more about him than he intended. Because foxes are not easy creatures to love.

They are beautiful in a way that keeps its distance. Their coats look too immaculate for the lives they lead, as though elegance and survival were never meant to coexist, and yet in them they do. Their fur wasn't made for us to touch, they aren't dogs. They move like they are apologizing to no one. Quietly. Deliberately. As if every step has already considered the consequences. They are careful.

But foxes have to kill in order to live.

And somehow, they remain gentle to look at. There is something deeply honest about that.

A fox does not pretend to be harmless. It does not flatten itself into something easier to approach. Some will let your hand come close. Some will bare their teeth before you touch them. Some bite. Some only watch from the edge of the trees, deciding whether your presence deserves their curiosity. They are prudent.

To love a fox is to accept uncertainty as part of its nature.

It means understanding that beauty does not guarantee softness, and that caution is not rejection. It means recognizing that affection can exist inside an animal that still belongs, irrevocably, to the wild.

And I think that is why he loves them.

Because he understands that tenderness is not the absence of instinct.

That something can be wary and still worthy of devotion.

That moods shift.

That silence does not always mean distance.

That a creature can flinch, hiss, retreat, and still choose to return.

He does not ask the fox to be less itself.

He simply waits until it comes closer on its own. He gives it time.

And perhaps that is what I love most about him.

Not that he likes foxes.

But that he knows how to stand beside something untamed without needing to tame it.

How to admire what could hurt him and call it beautiful anyway.

How to offer his hand without insisting it be taken.

If I were a fox, I would be one haunting his footsteps.

Suspicious. Restless. Half-hidden.

And eventually, despite every instinct telling me to keep my distance, I would lie down beside him.

Because some people do not mistake caution for cruelty.

Some people understand that wild things love differently.

And he likes foxes.

So I think he would understand me too.