#db2025

[mleelunsford]

It's that time of year! The Desert Bus charity event starts this Friday and once again I'll be making the poster for it!

Every year I watch the entire week long event and add their antics to the poster over time, which you can buy! Find out more info about the event at desertbus.org

[micro-toad]

Pikmin Party Quilt - Desert Bus for Hope 2025

I returned to my home of FPP (foundational paper piecing) quilting this year for my Desert Bus contribution. I considered doing another pixel style, but I couldn't work out a satisfactory composition or detail level for the little pikmin. I wanted something that felt playful, cute and graphic to really catch the bold colours and iconography of pikmin.

This quilt is about 81" square, minus the rounded corners, and was about 700 different pieces, I always ay about because sometimes I do editing of the pieces on the fly when I get them printed out. I had a lot of fun getting the colours just right and I worked really hard on the pattern this year to make sure I could sew every seam by machine and not have to do any Y-seams or hand sewing.

I'm also in love with the quilting pattern, I want it on a quilt I get to keep, it looks so good. Anyways, love these little guys and I hope they are going to be happy in their new home

Also, since this year's run hasn't started, all ye viewers have a chance to win it as it will be a giveaway this year on Sunday, November 13th sometime between 6pm-11:59pm (PST). Here is a direct link if you wanna see it or check out any of the other very cool prizes available. https://desertbus.org/2025/prize/DHVMJVWJRDTB

[sarahserinde]

Desert Bus approaches once again and the prizes are now up on the site, so here's what I was working on for about a third of the year.

This year my cross stitch piece is based on the MtG card art for Run Away Together by Omar Rayyan. I really enjoyed the Bloomburrow set and this image is lovely even if you don't know anything about Magic.

It took more than 250 hours of stitching and many more hours refining the pattern and selecting the right colours (and then pulling out colours that ended up being Wrong and replacing them with better ones, because I am too picky for my own good).

This will be a live auction on the Desert Bus stream on November 17th at 10am PST, raising money for Child's Play Charity. And if auctions aren't your thing (they're not in my budget either), there are a ton of amazing giveaways and a lot of shenanigans to enjoy too. For more info, check out the Desert Bus site. Hope to see you there!

[cyclesprefectpress]

[video description: recording of letterpress printing a 11x17 print from a hand-carved linoluem block. it's printed on a flatbed press, where the carved block sits on a flat table, and the ink rollers pass over the surface to distribute ink. then the sheet, wrapped around a large metal cylinder, is rolled over the type to contact the relief surface and transfer the ink. end description.]

wip1 wip2

[origamihoshi]

because Desert Bus is going on it means Clickbait finally gets to go through HW. one expansion a year isn't too bad, someday they'll be caught up

[pb-dot]

It's mid November, which means it's time for the most tastefully unhinged donothon of the bunch. Oh yes, it's Desert Bus For Hope again. Watch some seriously funny people, Loading Ready Run and Friends, play the most boring game ever designed. They're driving a bus, though the desert from Tuscon, AZ to Las Vegas and back again in real time, and they're going to do everything they can imagine, and surely a few things they can not, to stay sane for the duration of the many trips.

Tune in for improv games, talking about obscure media, the best lego-based communication game there is, random dance parties, dramatic readings, minecraft probably, and who knows what else.

Watch this video on Twitch Live

[islanderscaper]

Supplies obtained, chart created and printed, let the knitting commence! #dbcraftalong #db2025

[cyclesprefectpress]

[video description: recording of letterpress-printing the design on the backs of a set of playing cards. they're printed in a clamshell-type press, which opens and closes as a hinged V. on one half of the V is the relief material used to receive the ink, and on the other half are registration pins which hold the paper in place. when the V closes the relief material presses the ink into the surface of the paper; when it opens a sheet is removed by hand and a blank one put in its place. end description.]

wip 1 : wip 2 : wip 3 : wip 4

this is the smartest printing order i've ever done for a card deck and it feels SO weird. still a little stressful but like. where's the cliff edge. the imminent ruin. i'm so free :D ✨