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unfamiliarsculptures

This leopard sculpture is obvara fired! This technique involves dipping a hot piece right out of the kiln into a yeast solution, creating unpredictable and unique patterns. This sculpture will be available this Friday, June 12th at 8pm Eastern time.

k-times-two

Someday, together, we'll shine - ~21"x~32" - Punchneedle wall hanging, acrylic yarn. 2025

Based on this piece in Utena? (Oh My!) UTENA! [Newtype, November 1997] by T. Takeyuki.

I messed up a little bit-- in tracing, I forgot to mirror the piece (punchneedle is worked from the back). Thankfully the piece works both ways, and I caught the error in time to at least get the signature looking correct from the front!

I also originally intended this as a rug. But due to a variety of factors*, I didn't have enough of the dark purple/blue. To ensure it would last the whole piece, I used an extremely low pile, and in the process of trimming I realized there was no way this thing would survive foot traffic. So a wall hanging it became. *me falling in love with a 20-year+ discontinued colorway of yarn

#image #pahein posts #crafting #got did #punchneedle #fiber arts #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #anthy #utena #fanart

dao478

Just a long long time before I expand on this

cosmonautroger

Kawase Hasui

bobbole

Kawase Hasui, Starlit Night by the Ocean

miamaimania

“Mebae, Rinne Tensei [Germination, Soul Transmigration]” (1990) ❋ Yayoi Kusama — acrylic on canvas

aemperatrix

ANDY LOVELL Swirls & Eddies, North Devon / North Cornish Coast / Swans, Incoming Tide silkscreen prints

zephyrbug

Eldritch siren 🫧🩻👁️

I wanted to do a little something for mermay with a little monster design! She’s lightly inspired by my OC Ekānta and a very old mermaid piece I did in 2019! All around was a fun idea to revisit!

Back to regular scheduled art pile to share, then it’s artfight prep time!

treely-ruly

Palette cleaning painting (you know when you have a watercolour palette and you've got a billion muddied colours on the mixing tray??)

sillybeanies

meet... Mossy!

Mossy is a handmade custom beanie baby created by me :D (using @beanbagbuddies4life's pattern for a scorch spoof, which can be found here)

He's made from 100% thrifted and recycled materials, including his label which i printed on my thrifted sticker printer. I even gave him a custom poem:

If you wander in the forest deep You may just find where I sleep Among the delicate fern's arches Safe beneath the verdant branches

I deviated from the pattern a bit in not giving him a mouth (for both aesthetic and practical reasons) and also narrowing the belly considerably to make him able to stand up. The wings I traced from scorch's wings. He came up a little smaller than scorch though its hard to tell as his fluff adds a lot of body :3

next up im thinking of making a larger beanie buddy version!

here he is with his big brother scorch <3

beanbagbuddies4life

MOSSY :0

systlin

So my sister wants to start sewing more, because

a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

And I, of course, crashed into the group text like “GET A PEN I HAVE WEBSITES FOR U” and honestly I’m thrilled about this

systlin

“Where did u get all this”

“Bets, u know I’m a 15th degree blackbelt of buying shit on the internet”

“oh yeah tru”

hermesmuse

Op can may we inquire about the website list

systlin

Linen; https://www.graylinelinen.com/

cotton and Silk thread; https://redrockthreads.com/

Linen thread and wool fabric; https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/ (they’ve got wool stuffs and worsted wool fabric for $15 a yard! I just got three yards of navy worsted wool I’m making a constellation winter skirt from)

More linen thread and wool; https://wmboothdraper.com/ (just ordered wool broadcloth to make a coat)

Silk fabric (THE best place to get silk lining fabrics and raw silk fabric):https://www.dharmatrading.com/

A varying assortment of wool and silk and cotton and even some leather, use coupon code spring2020 for 50% off your full order, worked yesterday when I bought some stuff there; https://metrotextilesnyc.com/

Wool. You want wool coating for under $20 a yard? Sure you do. It’s here. Not a huge variety of colors, most are black or brown, but hey https://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/Catalog?refinementIds=4096748&Keyword=wool&pageSize=16

wingedtyger

I don’t know a lot about sewing, but I want to make or have my mom make some linen pants & shirts for when I’m watering, because it gets to 105 here and we have mosquitos so I need to be covered. What type of linen do I buy? Also, linen pajama shorts, yes/no?

(I’ve been wearing my renfaire pants which are a linen mix, I think. But the frikking mosquitos that hide in the tomatoes get my arms)

systlin

Medium weight is what I’d go with.

And linen pajama shorts is a HARD yes.

beggars-opera

Renaissance Fabrics is good for all sorts of things

Mood doesn’t specialize in natural fabrics but they do have basically every fabric ever made so

the-merry-otter

For wools, I cannot recommend Woolsome enough! They’re a bit more expensive then the above links, but they have a spectacular range of colours and weights, as well as diamond pattern and herringbone weaves. They also have a range of linens, though not as extensive.

Historical fabrics for re-enactors

justgarb

Tiedtohistory.com has sheer voile linen

The Linen Lab has a variety of weaves, weights, and colors available

Period Fabric has a variety of wools, but switch to the full website if you’re on mobile

eroscestlavie

I need to stop replying to “how do you make friends in your 30s?” threads because all my answers boil down to “you have to want to know people instead of have friends” and I don’t think people wanna hear that

eroscestlavie

It’s like. People can tell if you don’t really like or connect with them. If you aren’t truly enamored with someone you will have a hard time coming up with activities to do together to deepen the friendship. Because you don’t really like that person that much.