#master craftsman

[toyastales]

Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta SWB 1962

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[agent0tter]

Thank you for so many wonderful gifts

Chrono Trigger

Dragon Quest

Dragon Ball + Z + GT + KAI + SUPER + LMNOPTQ+

Sandland

Blue Dragon

Dr Slump

Wonder Island

Cowa!

Kajika

Tobal

Jaco the Galactic Patrolman

And so many other one offs for weekly shonen jump...

[x-chaotic-echo-x]

The cast of CR have talked about how Bells Hells is like a party or NPCs and if you ask me Chetney seems very much like the Umagorn-type NPC who the questing travelers go to because he’s the only one with the skill set in his craft to work with XYZ so I really hope at some point some random npc adventuring party tracks him down after following his breadcrumbs all over Wildmount and Marquet (and Wildmount again and Marquet again) to be like “Master Chetney please we entreat you, you are the only one with the skill to inlay the Runic Auspice of Avalir into the Heartwood of the Divine Tree, will you help us?”

He’d name his price and salivate over the wood and then immediately change his mind and tell them to get lost when they told him after he did it his work would have to be _inlaid_ with dirty, stinking refined residuum. Leading to an npc questline where they have to try to convince him that the fate of divinity is more important than his beef with mixed media woodwork.

[bmadds1]

My YouTube suggestions after watching ten episodes of C3:

[little-clementine]

The Master Craftsman 🌲

[ask-ethari-anything]

As for becoming a master-craftsman: Did you have to make a special test? And is there a special celebration afterwards? Or did the others simply started to call you "master" over the time, because your work is so good?

To be elevated to Master Craftsman in the Silvergrove, I crafted my first masterwork and defended its design, build process--including new techniques I invented--and practical effectiveness before the Crafters’ Council. Runaan was my hot assistant. He also listened to my speech approximately 73 times so I could practice. Luckily, I was very motivated to get it right! 

And the council was duly impressed. They voted unanimously, and then they all asked to hold it and try it out, but I said I had to ask its owner. Runaan generously let me show it off, and I nerded out for a solid hour in the meeting chamber with them, before Runaan gently tapped my elbow and said, “My heart, please forgive the intrusion, but... you are missing your own party, and Tiadrin will have both our heads if I don’t fetch you out to it.”

We all laughed at ourselves--craftsmen are such dorks--and headed outside to where Tiadrin had prepared a village fete. She and Lain always knew I could do it, and so did Runaan. And naturally Rayla cheered the loudest. 

Walking out hand in hand with my husband as he wore that bowblade across his chest and smiled so proudly at me was one of the happiest moments of my life.

[fuckyeahneedlework]

Hi everyone - 

This is what’s kept me from you for a few weeks. I had to race to get this done by the deadline. I enrolled in EGA’s Master Craftsman program in Counted Thread, and Step 1 was “Make a sampler in cross-stitch.” This is mine, called Belka & Strelka.

Belka and Strelka were the first living creatures to orbit the Earth and return safely, which they did on August 19, 1960. I would bet any amount of money that you can find lots more great information about them here on Tumblr, or on the Internet, or even in your local library. (Or, if you’re in Moscow, at the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, where they are currently located, in taxidermy form, flanking their Korabl-2 Sputnik space capsule.)

When I heard “sampler,” I thought of something that was very American - many extant antique cross stitch samplers are American, and many of the surviving English samplers aren’t in great shape, or feature more stitches than just cross stitch. I was also interested in what an American thing would look like if it had a heavy Russian influence. GEE, I WONDER HOW THAT WOULD LOOK. 

I can also tell you that this Master Craftsman program is quite exacting: there are six steps, which must be passed in sequence. The deadlines are October 1 and April 1; if Belka & Strelka hadn’t been done and mailed to the chair by October 1, I would have had to wait to turn it in until April, which would have thrown off my entire stitching calendar. Yes, I have a stitching calendar. Don’t you?

I am delighted to report that not only did I get them done and mailed by the deadline, I have already gotten them back - and I passed the first step of the program, with flying colors. Belka & Strelka is now at the fancy frame shop, getting an extremely fancy frame job that features actual silver, a navy blue silk mat, and museum glass, and I will share a picture of that with all of you when they return to me.

You will likely have a chance to see them in person at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, the Woodlawn needlework show, the Stan Hywet Stitchery Showcase, and other county fairs throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania in 2020. Thank you for your kind understanding, and please let me know if there’s anything else I can tell you about this.

Step 2 is next. 

Belka & Strelka, stitched mid-June 2019 - September 29, 2019

Five shades of Au Ver A Soie silk thread on 32ct White Zweigart linen fabric

12″ x 14″

[vonzora13]

Masken aus Leinen und Baumwolle. Rot oder schwarz. // Masks made of linen and cotton. Red or black.♥️🖤