Kaleidoscopic Gloom Art

Crochet, lino, digital art and more! they/them queer music blog: kaleidoscopic-gloom

[wisphunt]

My final for the first year of my fashion and textile course :] fossils cardigan featuring living fossils like coelacanth and lots of dinosaur bones. Big love letter to palaeontology and natural history. Got super into my knitting machine but I wasn’t very adept with it yet so I sort of crocheted around the edges of my pieces and sewed them all together, and crocheted some edges/ribbing. The buttons are handmade from polymer clay. Used some second hand gold yarn I found in a charity shop and a whole bunch of mixed variegated wool together. My most ambitious project yet I completely just did not speak to people for that final month I was working on this 😭

Some close ups:

And my watercolour paintings this piece was based on:

[worrywyrms]

comb jelly

[theprofessional-amateur]

One thing about me is I am a hobby/skill/special interest enabler.

You so much as hint you are interested in trying a thing, expanding a skill set, attempting a project above your (perceived) current abilities, kinda curious about something, I turn into the fucking sickos meme.

[theprofessional-amateur]

“That always seemed interesting, I kinda want to try doing it”

Me:

[theprofessional-amateur]

Then when you do try it, I wanna see it. Show me your creation!

"it isn't very good/no one want to hear about it/it is nothing"

WRONG

I do. I wanna hear about it. I want to see what you made.

[veryluckyclovers]

2026 new year’s resolution/last full moon of the year wishes

[kaleidoscopicgloomart]

Been having a lot of fun making vision boards for 2026 ✨💜

[kaleidoscopicgloomart]

So close to winter break!!

I've been working on various Christmas presents, but have also taken some time to make inspo/ideas boards for 2026! Feeling very purple 💜

I love to make collages and then mix/blend/liquify them all together to make a ✨vibe✨

[eggsdoodz]

⋆༄.

[phlesbiandullet]

every minute no phupload i take 1 health damage ough ah ough ah ough ah ough ah ough

[kaleidoscopicgloomart]

[kaleidoscopicgloomart]

Learned how to make a pixel brush in procreate 👀 y'all would not believe how I've been doing stuff before now

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I love doublets and I would save for years to afford one worth hundreds of dollars but for the love of god no one makes reenactment 15th-16th century clothes worth shit… even the really well-made stuff absolutely pales in comparison to the historical pieces because modern clothing makers do not seem to give a shit about texture 😭

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

“find someone from the SCA” you don’t understand. even the best of the best of the best SCA stuff doesn’t look truly historical quality. you simply cannot make convincing 16th century clothing with modern tools and materials. what I want would cost like $15,000 to make today.

[knight-of-ashes]

Insert my rant about the way almost all modern linen is chopped way the fuck up to be weave-able on machines meant for cotton, which has a much shorter staple length. Linen used to be a material that was insanely strong and you simply can't get it anymore. This is a photo of a hole in my linen sheet made by my heel. These sheets are barely over a year old and it's almost certainly because of the staple length problem.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

😭 hell is empty!

[wanderingjunkdrawer]

Might I offer 🫴 this notion to any who come across this ol' post:

learn the process of fabrication

Are your linens to cotton-y? Here

Try my 1780s flax spinning wheel.

Too modern? Not primitive enough? Then, perhaps something in a nice drop spindle will do?

Complete with instructions.

Next - the weaving - and this

can be borrowed (if you live close enough and have a truck ) & luckily there are local weaving teachers.

Granted, It's a lot to go through for a doublet that will not be worn everyday. We live in different times but fabrics are still being made this way - everyday, all over the world.

There are people who have made such a journey in fabrication & invited us along for the ride. The indomitable Beth Smith comes to mind - who plans, instructs, & completes garment after garment all while telling great stories. But she would be the first to say - it is a commitment to process & skill.

We take clothing for granted - even though to be clothed is a state of survival - in most modern societies.

[kaleidoscopicgloomart]

Me as soon as there's a slight chill in the air:

I love being gay and full of soup.

Soup season begins

[siltandsand]

Sometimes I think about cross stitch and think about the fact that people have been doing pixel art about 2,500 years before any sort of pixels on screens were invented.

[kaleidoscopicgloomart]

So glad to have finally finished this!! It's been a minute since I've crocheted a tapestry, and I love it so much!🫐🥰

[sosuperawesome]

Jurassic Threads on Etsy

[reemillustrated]

[theinternetarchive]

knitted textures from 'the encyclopedia of knitting,' lesley stanfield and melody griffith, pub. 2000.

[kaleidoscopicgloomart]

Little art tour before I take everything down

Moving later this year, wanted to capture everything I have up now