#hand crafting

[thefrogprinceofbellair]

Embroidered Cicada WIP

[lackadaisycal-art]

Hand-made hot water bottle cover of my favourite book, because sometimes you need something tactile to work on

[crownedstoat]

Craftsman at work

[leo-fie]

I'm in the "making dolls of my blorbo" phase now.

Auryen Morellus from the Legacy of the Dragonborn mod for Skyrim. Great mod all around, tickles the autism part of my brain in just the right way. Also the mod authors understand how fans tick and have an in game doll version of him in the in game gift shop of the museum.

And that's what the actual guy looks like.

I just think he's neat. So neat that my mom and me set out to make the doll IRL. Mom made the doll head and body, I made everything else. First time dollmaking, but I had done enough other crafts that it wasn't a problem. Don't ask how much time it took. But now he's done and adorable.

[craft-my-world]

Alright, current project time. My grandmother-in-law gifted me these pieces of a teddy bear pattern her mother used to make, so I'm trying to fill in the bits of the pattern that are missing.

That meant, a trip to the fiber arts discord I'm part of to ask for help. Which lead to this from one of the hand sewing folks:

And now, I have this as an attempt to pull it all together:

Going to cut it apart and see if I can't make a bear out of it

[leiyahime]

Wollefest Leipzig

What a wonderful day yesterday!!

tl;dr: I need more glass jars X'D

And I'm glad there aren's too many festivals a year XD The way to Leipzig was easy, I left waaay too early so I had time to look around! There was an apple (?) orchard on my way and it looked like a sea of white in the morning sun! It was soo beautiful! (No pictures since I went by car)

Then I met my dear friend at the train station and we walked over to the glass hall of the Neue Messe. The nostalgia. And since the book faire was a few weeks ago the glass panels were already cleaned xD

It was nice and spacious. so it was possible to look at everything. And to leave money *coughs* much money! and to talk to the two people from my spinning group who were there at the booth of the German hand spinning guild.

Soo many colours! Soo much beautiful stuff! *.* I could have spent at least another 100€

And the loot:

front: 70% polwarth/15% Tencel/15% silk from friendly sheep

Spindle: suppoted, maple/coloured wood from the same shop

Nalbinding needle made of horn and scissors from die Garnspinnerin

red Wensleydale locks from... idk anymore

below the locks: 40% wool (Falkland, Merino)/20% llama/20%Eri silk/20% baby camel from frau wöllfchen

violet: 25% Suri Alpaca/25% royal baby alpaca/25% Ramie/25% tussah silk, the colourful bag is 100% tussah silk, and a pair of hand carders *.* (not in picture) from stefis wolle

blue batt: 40% angora/40% silk/20% merino, grey batt: 35% angora/35% silk/25% Merino/5% alpaca from Seidenhase

the bag in the back: 100% baby alpaca raw fleece. So now I know my first scouring project xD also can't reconstruct the booth I got this

the cardboard box: DIY kit for a sewing machine pincushion in grey from Hühnerstall kreativ! was alrady considering to get one last year but I ran out of money.

Not in picture: two stitch markers, a brooch in the form of a black sewing machine and a knitting pattern for wrist warmers.

I only wanted to get 500g of fibres bc of space reasons... well... I failed.

When we were done at the festival, we went to the city to get some ramen for lunch/early dinner which was also very delicious. and after that I returned home (Or almost home. There were traffic problems on my way for which I was waaay too tired so I decided to stop at my dad's and tackle the rest of the way this morning.

Now I'm home and can rest a bit before work.

[self-made-dandy]

It's been .. difficult, the last few months to find any inspiration to work on my projects. I have several things stalled rn, but to fight off my depression I decided to something fast and easy that I was allowed to mess up on, and came out with this shirt!

It doesn't sit right to be fastened, all the gathers are a bit wonky, and the piece of fabric was miscut so it's a tight fit

. Technically I need to add fasteners for the sleeves at the least before it's 100% done.... But it's done enough, and that feels good. Heck, I may even wear it out when I'm able!