A Spark of Creativity

A blog about creative works that inspires me. Some are my own, but most of it is reblogged.

[angeryspaghett]

okay so I just pulled these from the molds and holy shit. holy shit???

HOLY SHIT?

I MADE THESE?? WITH MY OWN HANDS?

[loriniiassparkofcreativity]

Wonderful?

[loriniia]

You have been requesting more clothing photos here, so I want to show you my latest project. This is a gift for my mother, and I'm trying a new nålbinding technique where you braid the edge. I learnt it from this blog (, and decided to give it a go.

Miten tehdään lettikoriste. How to make a braid decoration.

Kintaat minulle. Mittens for me. Näin kuvan neulakinnastekniikalla tehdystä lettikoristeesta kintaissa. Oli aivan pakko kokeilla, miten se

This is the second new technique I try with this project. The other one is called Russian join, which is a technique used to join two ends of yarn together. Usually, with nålbinding, you splice the ends togehter, but that is not always possible (like with this yarn, for some odd reason - it is 100 % wool and not superwash, so theoretically it should work, but it doesn't 🙄 ).

So, anyway, all in all, I'm quite happy with it, despite the smaller mistakes I made. But then again, a friend told me that the Irish say that all handmade projects need to have some small flaws. You usually put your heart and soul into making them, and the flaws allow it to get back out 😉

[loriniiassparkofcreativity]

Reblogged from my larp blog, since I know there are some yarn fans here aswell. Enjoy 🙂

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people on tumblr tend to be pretty good about the whole “you should pay artists thing” but i just want to put out there: that includes fibre artists

i can’t count the number of times i’ve been knitting or embroidering something and someone is like “oh can you make me one?” and then they get offended when i tell them they’d have to pay me.

real talk: nice yarn/wool is expensive. sewing machines are expensive. for every handmade skirt or stuffed animal you see online there are at least a half-dozen prototypes in the creator’s closet that can’t be sold.

and that’s not even getting into the time spent on these projects. i have some things i’ve probably spent in excess of 100 hours on. i can’t even fathom making a living wage knitting stuff, because nobody would ever pay that much.

tl:dr; fibre artists deserve to be paid for their time and skill just like visual artists and if you can “buy something just like that at walmart for $5″ please just do that and stop wasting our time

[loriniiassparkofcreativity]

I agree with this. I'd also like to add that in my experience, this goes for most type of crafts. People think it's expensice, but they have no idea how much time and effort it takes to make things by hand.

When I talk to people about money, most agree that a good and reasonable hourly wage is around 100 SEK. For me, to make a dress completely by hand (i.e. the last one I made for my larp costume), takes about 15 hours, but that's just the sewing. That does not include the time I spent choosing and preparing fabrics, or the cost for the material itself.

So, let's add another five hours of work, and 3 meter wool, app. 300 SEK/meter. What I actually _should_ be paid for a handmade dress would be (20*100)+(3*300)=2000+900=2900 SEK.

This is how we should value handmade things. They take time and effort. Given this, 2900 SEK is a lot of money, but it's not expensive for these kind of clothes.

[latinoking]

Coleen Theisen “fore-edge painting is a way of hiding a painting on the edge of book so that it can only be seen when the pages are fanned out.”

[loriniiassparkofcreativity]

Cool!

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Breakfast in the Ashton household. Mary tells her husband, Clark, that she is pregnant with child number four.

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😃🙌💕

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[loriniia]

Layer 2 of my Kir-characters wedding clothes. Thin wool fabric and brocade, all hand sewn.

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Eeveelution Quilt made by April Roberts

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Succulent / Woodland / Berry Jewelry

Woodland Tales Store on Etsy

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[magic-memester]

what a dandy crown 🌼🌻

[wolfy-gecko]

Anybody know how to do this? Im dumb an I dont know how

[jeep-truck]

Yeah can someone tell me how to make flower crowns I’ve always wanted to learn how

[patton-deserves-the-universe-de]

Oh I would love to make flower crowns and give them to all of my friends for pride month, if someone could tell me how!

[vangoghsmoonchild]

Have it, sweet people. I love you.

Btw, if you have questions tell me uwu

[loriniiassparkofcreativity]

Good to know this.

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lettersoflovebyjo on Instagram / Etsy

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HOW TO MAKE A CUTE DRESS OUT OF SHORTS

put shorts on

put legs in one leg hole

pull up and on to shoulder

instant fashion

[glitterweave]

And here we have glitterweave sporting a beautiful Sunset Yellow 

NEVER forget to accessorize 

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well one of us is going to have to change

[littlekingtrashboy]

Guys

I really think

I’m winning this. 

(Yoga pants do the trick)

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Ladies…..please….

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Send this to all the straight boys

[alltimevirgilant]

I love this so much

[love-is-a-chemical]

I know I just rebloged this but I need this on my account twice.

[disaster-wombat]

Yes honey 👏

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Thanks to Gabriela Fischer of Fun Meals 4 Kids for this food art featuring bananas and other nutritious and delicious foods!

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[sartorialadventure]

Here is the Blog of the Game of Thrones Costume Maker

There is so much going on in that crazy HBO show Game of Thrones that we rarely get to stop and appreciate the finer details that go into its creation. Michelle Carragher is the talented embroiderer and illustrator behind the lavish costumes worn by many of the characters, and her blog is like a se