Where did I go write?

tools, resources, prompts, other crafty things... aaaand remarkably little actual writing

[wheredidigowrite]

Read in 2026

Raven King, Maggie Stiefvater

Opal, Maggie Stiefvater

Yule Be Home For Solstice, Sharon K Angelici

Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel

Binti, Nnedi Okorafor

Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor

Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells 📙📙📙📙

Binti: The Night Masquerade, Nnedi Okorafor

The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline

Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey 📙📙

Dragonsinger, Anne McCaffrey 📙📙

Dragondrums, Anne McCaffrey

Waking Gods, Sylvain Neuvel

The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Patrick Rothfuss

The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater

Exit Strategy, Martha Wells 📙📙

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

Dragonsdawn, Anne McCaffrey

Platform Decay, Martha Wells

Key for this year

🟦 - Blue for new reads

🟩 - Green for in progress

📙 - Book to indicate additional reads

This list will be updated as the year passes. As always, feel free to toss reading recommendations in my ask box!

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btw I’ve found these stretches from the WAK blog very helpful when knitting a lot:

Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!

especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it’s really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)

[gingersnappish]

Also good for artists drawing with pencils/on a tablet/with a pen!

[not-poignant]

Also good for writers

[sageiswherethemageis]

And crocheters (that word looks wrong)

[eyesinthecrypt]

Say hookers coward

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge! More hands!

[stahsm]

Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy

[thatisuseful]

Damn, that's useful

[fluidstatick]

Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!

[sp0r3bunny]

I was testing different brushes and made this

[sosuperawesome]

Sushi Scarf Pattern // Grumpy Marys

[asoftspotforangels]

some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:

Point Defiance Steps

Mates

Rising Tides

Vashon Steps

[ikkosdumpster]

FABRIC ART FABRIC ART FABRIC ART!!!! SCROLL UP THOSE WERE WOVEN

[atrusovaartist]

Acrylic on canvas 40×50 cm

«New Lindau Lighthouse »

Painting this with three kids around was… honestly, almost impossible.

Stressful, chaotic — a calm sunny day somehow turned into a full storm around me.

And the hardest part?

Trying to bring it to completion while everything was still wet…But maybe that energy stayed in the painting too.

[booksmyquerencia]

Last day of March ... 🍀🍀🍀🌱

[aforest2006remaster]

yesterday i made a beetle out of soda tabs and wire. we took the bus home.

[lana-writes]

My rebind of The Last Unicorn is finally done and it turned out so pretty 🥹

[kuvaton]

[04k96]

[theenbyroiderer]

I don't know where I got this lot of old lace, but I really appreciate owning it. The whole bundle is more than I've managed to photograph, and it mostly seems to be samples and/or salvaged little bits. The smallest pieces are like the size of my thumb. And so intricate!

[holespoles]

Botanical Applique Quilt by Chinami Terai (Japan)

寺井ちなみ「緑のヴァリエ」

[the-book-ferret]

dreams do come true…

[okayyoureacab]

Hexagon Quilt

[rumade]

This is the second time I've seen a video of this technique and this explanation is so clear! It does use more fabric than English paper piecing (EPP) but you end up with a double sided hexagon so don't have to source fabric for the backing.

I'm doing EPP at the moment but I have a hole punch to make the papers and just use leaflets and junk mail, so it doesn't feel wasteful. I don't think it's difficult either- in the video she mentions it's not for beginners, but I don't have that much experience with hand sewing or EPP and I've been finding it pretty easy so YMMV

[lindstromm]

I saw this video yesterday and was seized with the need to try it out immediately. Lookit my cute lil' hexagon baby!!

Here is what the backside looks like. OP notes this takes more fabric than paper piecing, but that excess fabric makes it already triple-layered. Besides not needing backing fabric, I don't think you'd need batting for this quilt at all. It's already thick and soft just from folding all that fabric into a hexagon.

[lannamichaels]

Hexagon quilt tutorial video by tiktok user camelscrafts. Method:

Each hexagon begins as a 6" circle. camelscrafts does this by creating a paper template using a compass. According to the video, a 6" circle will create a hexagon that is 2.5 inches tall.

These hexagons are hand-sewn. Thread the needle.

With the fabric right side facing, find the center of the circle by folding it in half right sides together, then folding it in half again (wrong sides are facing). The top of the triangle shape is the center of the fabric circle.

Make a small stitch into the center of the fabric. The wrong side is still facing.

Unfold the circle. There will be a small stitch in the center.

Now the hexagon is created by folding the circle into itself: With wrong side facing, take the needle to one of the edges of the fabric (it doesn't matter which one). Pull the needle through and pull the thread tight. This will fold down the fabric and create an edge of the hexagon. Crease the fold with your finger.

This fold has two corners, one at the top and one at the bottom. Put the needle into one of the corners and pull the thread taut. This will create another fold.

Continue this going around the circle until all of it is folded down, creating the hexagon. camelscrafts notes that the last corner pulled in may be a little bit "wonky" (no precise point in the corner) if the corners were not done precisely. However, that corner is pulled into the back, so is not visible from the front.

The hexagon is now formed. Sew around the folds in the middle of the circle to hold the folds in place. Tie off and cut the thread.

Attach hexagons to each other along the sides. With right sides together, whip stitch the sides together.

[headspace-hotel]

things i Like

industrial pipes

water treatment plants

Those metal stairs on the side of old buildings

Rusted girders

Bare lightbulbs especially dangling from wires

Broken pavement that has been patched and crumbled away over and over again

Bridges

Railroad tracks

Telephone poles full of staples and nails

old brick walls with the paint peeling off

places where a wall has been patched over and over again

concrete blocks

old fluorescent lights

Crappy motels

Empty strip malls

Tunnels underneath the road

Gates with old padlocks wrapped around them

Barbed wire

rebar poking out of piles of concrete

Bundles of wires running along ceilings and walls dividing up into their own directions

Air conditioning units huffing out warm breath

Narrow alleyways between old buildings

Long-abandoned concrete planters and flowerpots filled with cigarette butts and random scraggly weeds

Old apartment buildings with tarnished metal letters on the thickly repainted old doors and porch lights full of dead bugs and doors that stick shut

Grimy windows

Bent and rusty metal roofs

Things covered in many many layers of paint

Abandoned warehouses

Streetlights that flicker weirdly

Crumbled stairs

Half collapsed Chain link fences

Old walls that have been repaired and caulked and sealed with foam and painted over again

Concrete foundations of buildings that are no longer there