trying this out

[blacberries]

crochet colorwork ive done lately

[okaysuredotbiz]

need a hand?

[catastrophicallykat]

Pattern block quilt progress!

I assembled the first set of shapes and played around with a layout. I'll be making this up as I go

[catastrophicallykat]

Finally starting on this EPP quilt. It makes me feel like a little kid again, playing with geometry blocks at recess

[catastrophicallykat]

Another night of hand sewing progress! I'll be deciding the next sections as I go and mirroring them around the quilt.

[catastrophicallykat]

Another round is attached, and my actual pattern blocks arrive today so I can plan out the next sections.

[catastrophicallykat]

Thank you, pattern blocks! The first set of the next round are assembled. They'll get attached once I make the second set. In the meantime, it looks like a rainbow snowflake 🌈❄️

[thegeekstressart]

You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?

So it was with this desktop greenhouse.

I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.

I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.

I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.

I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…

Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.

I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.

This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.

I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.

Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.

In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…

I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.

Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.

[vintage-ukraine]

Paradise-Tree by Nina Sayenko, 1993

[aanxii]

Teeth of the Valley

[artisheaven]

Freedom Quilt by Jessie B. Telfair (1913-1986) Parrott, Georgia, 1983.

[crafblr]

btw I've found these stretches from the WAK blog very helpful when knitting a lot:

Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!

especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it's really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)

[handweavers]

some of the woven pieces i've worked on this past week ➰

[theinternetarchive]

textile of silk and linen, russian c. 1800-50.

[mybeingthere]

ALICIA LASNE, French, b. 1986

Born in 1986, in Rouen.

Alicia tells:

"When I embroider, I restore within myself the security I need to avoid sinking. Like a truth, a pictorial language that is my own and authentic, I restore order to chaos. Like a very instinctive being who captures everything, who absorbs everything that others feel, in the visible and the invisible.

A dialogue is created with what surrounds me, I expect nothing, I plan nothing, I assume nothing, everything is dictated. Words, colors, shapes, it's like a mechanism, a machine that allows me to be safe inside myself, as well as outside. I absorb everything, like an animal absorbs everything from its environment.

I sew up like one sews up life. As we stitch together human beings, as we stitch together nature, forests, rivers, insects. I create ex-votos in the image of a shaman invested with a mission: That of stitching up the wounds that we too often inflict on ourselves. I embroider like we embroider stories. All the stories. The ones that we would like to be real and then the less beautiful ones. I sew, embroider, sew again, heal by letting myself be carried by this symbolic gesture. An ancestral knowledge that has spanned the centuries."

Alicia Lasne

https://www.atelier-veron.com/categorie.../alicia-lasne/

[arsvitaest-deactivated20260111]

C.F.A. Voysey, Dulek carpet, ca. 1920. Hand-knotted wool.

[iamjapanese]

Allison Holt（British）

Against The Rocks 2. On The Rocks 3. Spiral Wave 4. The Seventh Wave Freehand machine embroidery on painted silk via

[clarawinnie]

HOT HEAD 7 color needlepoint on 10” mesh 12x9 inches Personal project

[thomforsyth]

MOVING IMAGES CMYK Embroidery | Evelin Kasikov

[killyridols]

wishing by katrina sánchez, 2024, knitted yarn, fiberfill & fabric, 28 × 26 inches

[crochethub]

Postmortem doily by Noiah