Kes Beacon @kesbeacon - Tumblr Blog

Author, artist, crafter, all-round creative.

Currently working on my novels Oathbreaker and The Meat in the Machine.

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Right, so, explanation needed. These were started back in April, during a hot spell, but not finished till afterwards, so I don't know if they work. Maybe I will by time of posting.

Every summer, I have a problem: thigh chafing. My thighs chafe on each other, and also on the seams of clothes, especially at the crotch. And I don't know if you've noticed, but every item of commercially-produced bifurcated garment (boxers, trousers, leggings, shorts, pyjamas, tracksuit bottoms, etc) has THE SAME CROTCH CONSTRUCTION with a nice chunky seam running up between the thighs. So I chafe on one, and I change to another, and the other one's seam just makes it worse.

The only thing that has worked to date is putting a plaster on the spot, but that gets expensive and the skin gets irritated.

So that's where these extremely stupid-looking shorts come in. They are a midlayer, since the crotch is open, but they are a very light cotton muslin and they are designed to place two very smooth curves of fabric right up between my thighs, one on each side of the crotch. The curve is edged with bias binding of the same fabric, with the stitching on the 'outside'. The fabric between the thighs is held smooth and down with elastic.

Like I say, they look really stupid. But they should squish down under whatever outer layer I am wearing, and they should PROTECT MY THIGHS FROM GETTING RUBBED.

EDIT from after I queued the post but before it posted. They... sort of work. Like, I walked a long way on the hottest day of the year and I didn't chafe. Unfortunately, I was still very uncomfortable and I kept having to adjust them.

So maybe it's most annoying when it. sort of works.

#i fucked this project up in like 600 ways #but it's underwear! it doesn't matter #sewing #clothes #fibre crafts #like literally the french seam on one side is on the outside and on the other it's on the inside #but who cares

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Transcendent transceratops

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/92519412

I'm... drawing again??

#it's all going in the queue rather than being posted right away but like #i'm drawing again!!!!#this DOES mean i haven't written last night or tonight #because more drawing means less writing #but ohhh baby i missed the feeling of making an image out of a blank page

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A tale of divine horror and found family

You’ve all been following the Road to Aser as it released - well, here it is as a full PDF!

Finally, a finished pair of socks! These are the Quetzalcoatlus socks, featuring several flying azhdarchid pterosaurs and one standing on a pile of rocks. Yarn is Drops Nord. Heel is an 'afterthought' style heel (peasant heel?) but I had two strands of the orange yarn so it wasn't weaker than the rest of the sock.

#quetzalcoatlus #azhdarchid #pterosaur #paleoart #socks #knitting #stranded colourwork #fibre crafts

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So you know that hoody that’s been going around? That, but Peregrine.

A few months ago, just after we got married, me and my partner had to go up to A&E in a hurry (everything's fine now). I grabbed the first yarn that came to hand to continue making hexagons for my sky blanket (not pictured) and then realised it was too thick. However, I was stuck in A&E with no other yarn available so I was like, fuck it. Phone bag time.

This fits my phone only (my work phone and my phone is too much phone) but it's very useful when I wear skirts with no pockets (booooo!)

#it's easier to make a lil bag like this than to add pockets to a skirt lol #crochet #bag #purse #fibre crafts

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The Godwrangler.

Elmyar has never had cool, up to date art. So I decided it was time to illustrate their coolest moment - that moment they beat the god of time in a duel of intellect.

#elmyar was my first ever ttrpg campaign character haha