Silver Seams

Embroidery machines are filament-type 3D printers, fight me.

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Some embroidery machines still take diskettes. Some embroidery machines can *make* diskettes. I don't recommend trying to use them in the embroidery machine, though.

(Spouse suggested the six-coaster set should instead be five since somehow one of the disks was always missing when you needed to reinstall, but I figure that will happen organically anyway)

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First knee replacement done, and I am back at my embroidery machine (if not at the light box) getting extremely important designs stitched out. 😆

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I guess my Tumblr career is going to be incredibly short-lived: I get "looks like an error" any time I try to upload an image, for like the last week.

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The snake shape was a bit of a challenge but I'm kind of happy with it: it optimizes for a square hoop (this one is a 4x4", for the smallest embroidery machines) but also wraps up into a fun knot since ball pythons are named for that (it's a defense mechanism).

You can see what it looks like flat in the mini pin version behind it.

(Yes, there is a "pumpkin pie" morph, though it's not usually quite as defined as this.)

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There is a definite conflict between "I love iridescent/holo/sparkle vinyls" and "I gotta take good pictures of these things."

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I actually made this design last year, then didn't get it stitched out in time to publish. And then this year I almost didn't make it either (dropped it as a freebie because c'mon, it's the 17th!).

People with ADHD should be granted paras for life.

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The October tier design: an in-the-hoop ball python. Doing the full markings would have been too much (embroidery makes it stiffer and harder to turn) so I went with just the suggestion of them on the body. Alas, I had to make it read from tail-to-head so I could have a dash right behind the head. This one's the 8x8 design; you can see an "inchie" charm behind it.