that looks exactly liek the one I am using, but mine isn't elastic which I think I prefer. I mean I wear the braces to bed mostly because I sleep weird and have to basically force my wrists to not be bent at weird angles, so if the brace is too bendable I just know I'll be right back in painville. !!!! good okay I'll see if they sell such things around here then, that sounds downright blissful. (I luv y'all but I'm not in the US so I can't access your stores without shenanigans :P)
Glassmakers I still know nothing about glassmaking but this just appeared on my dash and it is an Etsy creator who makes these beautiful spindly glass spiders. (That's also your warning, link has [glass, but realistic] spiders.) Link
been finishing some projects. this has been done for months, it just wanted blocking. i finally have the exfunc to do such things! just as i was getting the tablet to take the picture, the following occurred hermes: *stands up* me: don't do it hermes: *slowly puts one paw on the edge of the towel, looking at me* me: bitch don't do it hermes: *slowly sits back down* i don't know if he was being extra good and listening to me, or if he just doesn't like the smell of wet wool. :D
My crafty roommate just got a bunch of Perler beads, so I snagged some to try making some pixel art. The first thing I tried to do was my pixel art design for Kamen Rider Leangle's card, but we don't have nearly enough of the dark green for that. I decided to lower my expectations to the plausible, and play around with the suit symbols instead. Spoiler: My pixel art version of the card symbols, aka the quadrants of Homestuck I didn't even have enough of the dark green to do the club as it is! So I took some time to count what I had out, do a little redesigning, and come up with colorful alternate versions. I ended with 11 x 12 versions of each symbol, where the outer color is the suit's main color, and the inside reflects the other colors of their cards:
I'm working on a super-secret cross-stitch project (among the rest of my many still-unfinished projects), and I saw a sparkly rainbow floss at the store (not exactly that one, but the same shine and texture) and decided to use it because HEY WHY NOT. I can't get it to photograph well for love or money and it's HELL to handle, but holy shit is it worth it for how shiny and awesome the project is coming out.
I am afraid I rather messed up my knitting :P It's a good thing I'll see my mother again this week, she can make it all better for me :P
Back in the Drawing Thread a few months ago, I posted about a challenge I set myself; to design a bunch of symbols, all consisting of three strokes (one large stroke of 1 or 2 swirls, two smaller strokes that could be straight or curved but couldn't spiral.) I showed off all my drafts as of that point, and gave a little info about them. I've continued working on them, and some have changed shape and some have been discarded, but some I still quite like and intend to use for crafty crap. And since I recently took up the perler beading stuff... That top little color circle is going to be my test one, for trying out my roommate's crafting iron for heating these things up. To the right I've got my symbols for Bone, Ideals, and Breath. Thoughts and concerns: The green and yellow/orange and white one is Bone. The white is the symbol, and it's supposed to be a very stylized mammoth skull. The colors are for flavor, a hint of warm soil and plants growing. But I'm worried that the orangey color makes it look like a pumpkin. The purple and white and yellow/pink/blue one is Ideals, and it's supposed to resemble a unicorn. The horn part is clear enough, I think, but I'm not sure that the rest of the shape in any way resembles a horse head... and one of my roommates said that she had a hard time seeing the purple symbol through the loud colors. The blue and light blue one is Breath, and I think its design is good. My main worry is whether that's enough contrast to be easy to see. Thoughts/feedback?
Once you mentioned what the shapes were I could easily see them, even the unicorn head. I think the ah-HA! effect of that is neat. Not sure how you could increase contrast on Breath, maybe scatter white into the light blue?
so i'm really excited about the project i'm planning with @roach where she draws me goofy animals and i applique and embroider them and build a quilt around them. but it is a pretty ambitious project, and i'm not comfortable with my quilting skills just yet. so i'm doing some practice projects. i have this little problem, tho. which is that i have a hell of a time finishing one thing before starting the next. :P so i haven't quite finished the pot holder because i got the backing on crooked, and picking out my stitches to redo it seems so discouraging bleh. but i have a ton of this great fabric with little sumi paintings of japanese villages, and i got a hexagon cutter, and it turns out making english paper piecing hexagons is incredibly relaxing? and i can do it while watching tv, if the tv isn't very actiony. so i've been watching nature documentaries and working on a hex quilt. my plan is to intersperse the village hexes with hexes of plant prints -- i have a lot of those, i can't resist a good meadow or leaf or bamboo print -- and make little clusters of those in a blue-and-purple stormy ocean. and then when i've got it all put together so it looks like a map of a mysterious archipelago, border it with -- i haven't decided, pirate ships? sea creatures? hiroshige woodcut prints? anyway, knowing my habits i'll probably lose momentum when it gets too big to work on while nerd-crushing on iain stewart. geologists are not allowed to be that cute, what the fuck.
does anyone have tips for yarn storage? I have everything just thrown in a drawer right now and it is not ideal.
I store mine in cardboard boxes same as my fabrics. Or in shopping bags on the floor because i'm a slob >.>
So those with skills...is there anyway to salavage my botched attempt at a circle skirt? (I should have made a template, my own fault really) Spoiler: photos
