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Mostly just here for pretty pictures

[hyydraworks]

Have been behind the social media grind as I work on stocking up many lil guys, including these brand new forbidden popsicles. 🤞 they have a safe glaze firing, because after that these chickens are hoping to happily inhabit any plant pot that will have them.

[littlestpersimmon]

cave angel fish

[wholesome-animal-images]

Hey, that’s me

[itscolossal]

Historic Architecture Emerges from Stone in Matthew Simmonds Ethereal Sculptures

[littlestpersimmon]

Recent portraits of cats I painted for people :]

[orangeblossombitch]

Sea horsin' around in the emerald seagrass

[sheishine]

Moray Eel and Carnivorous Anatomical Heart (2024). ウツボと食虫解剖心臓 (2024)。

[wyrmscraft]

Another two fabric quilt on the go. This one may end up being for me because I love both of these fabrics. I ended up buying about six or so meters each of them with no plans because I like them so much.

I’m gonna do nine patches and bordered squares and put them on point.

I saw a photo of something similar in creams and reds a long time ago and took a screen shot of it, and saw it while I was scrolling through my ‘Quilts to Make’ file. Decided to pull these out and give it a go.

No idea what size it’ll end up, but if I stick to 6x7 blocks with a border it should end up about 64”x72” I think. Which is a nice throw size to cuddle on the couch with.

Of course…

If I really like it after I lay it out, I may have to make more blocks and make it big enough for my bed.

[wyrmscraft]

Oooh that’s pretty.

Not enough to make bigger, I think more contrast between the two fabrics would look even better, but this will make a lovely couch quilt!

She ended up 70”x85”, which is a pretty nice twin if a bit short, but it would also layout on a queen with little overhang if someone was looking for a display kind of quilt.

I have a dark teal cotton in mind for backing and Robin’s Egg blue for the quilting thread, which is basically the same colour as the light blue fabric.

Haven’t decided on whether to use the space fabric for the binding or the backing fabric for binding. Either would work.

[wyrmscraft]

Had to continue the space theme with the quilting. Pattern is called Interstellar and I did use Robin’s Egg thread on the top and a medium light grey on the back so you could see the stars and swirls on the backing.

I did end up using the constellation fabric for the binding and love the way it looks against the border.

I know I said I was thinking teal for the back, but this blue and black crosshatched print I found in my stash looked nice. I think it was actually what I was originally going to use with the constellation fabric LOL I had enough to back it and just went with it.

[teleportbooks]

Ficbinding: All-Consuming by ratbones

This is a Guardian zombie apocalypse AU! I'm using @helle-bored's typeset, which had a very neat stenciled/stamped aesthetic. The binding was loosely inspired by the Antarctic-published books that were bound in boards from wooden crates, but I went my own direction with the concept (in part because I wanted to practice sewing on cord with my sewing frame).

I had originally intended to give the wood a natural grayish weathered look (while I have lots of scrap wood in the basement, I didn't have anything suitable that had been sitting outside for years) but the iron acetate & tea combo that I treated the wood with had a much stronger effect than expected. I'm a fan of how it turned out though!

For the sewing, I referenced Exposed Spine Sewings by Keith Smith, this is a method that uses extra wraps around the cord to climb between signatures instead of a kettle stitch at the head and tail. The cords are laced through the boards and glued down; the furniture tacks are mostly for the aesthetic and only somewhat functional (I pre-drilled the holes they're hammered into because I was worried about the possibility of splitting the wood, so they're not in there as tight as they otherwise could be).

[hellinglaozu]

I made wangxian fan art (pun intended)🪭

[aphrostiel]

data has a soft spot for spot

[hawkstar5]

Let him have Spot on the bridge NOW!!!

[cottoncandy-art]

ducky

[spicymochi]

silly birds

[teleportbooks]

Something different from my normal bookbinding here! This was a gift for my dad, it's a copy of my great-great-grandfather's civil war diary. I bound it in a softcover leather longstitch binding. The stitching around the edge looks kind of like a blanket stitch, but it's actually an edge binding originally intended to be worked in leather lacing, and has more of a braided look to it if you look at it from the edge.

My family doesn't have the original copy of this diary anymore--I was working from a scan of a typewritten copy that was made a generation or two after the original, I'm not sure exactly when. Pieces of the diary feel like they were written after the fact, not day-of, and I frequently found myself wishing I could see what the original pages looked like.

I added a pocket to hold several maps, because they were very helpful to me (not a civil war history buff in the slightest) to put what my ancestor was doing into a larger context. The maps are by Hal Jesperson.

Fun fact I didn't know before making this book: my ancestor's unit was the first to open fire at the battle of Gettysburg! There's a monument to his unit at Gettysburg, so I included a photo of that in the book as well.

If you have seen the previous book I bound for my dad, you may notice a pattern! This civil war diary (or rather, the transcript of it) was one of the only connections my grandfather had to his grandfather, since his parents died when he was young. So when he fought in wwii, he wanted to make sure that he left a record of it for his family, too. And now I've bound them both!

[bowelfly]

hands you an assortment of creatures

[samimarkart]

flamboyant cuttlefish :)

[blirbie]

👻 KARMA CODE | 因果 👻

Art of @wrecklwj's fic for the @bottomjibigbang