i like it on the pointy end

So far I've only mixed up the main batch of colors, but I'll split them up and create a palatte of tints and shades once I have access to a scale again.

I don't have any fancy tools and have been blending the fiber by hand, so it's probably best I have a forced break for the sake of my fingers. Once I'm done I should have a very useful set of 57 2g swatches to play with! (Plus 5 more for a set of grayscale swatches)

The ratios are presented in the same order as the wool swatches in the photo above it. I didn't simplify any of the ratios so you'll have to deal with 2:2s instead of 1:1s, oops.

I sews it

Jardín en proceso

The Art of Sphere Geometry

A few years back a book hit the JoAnne Fabrics shelves that created a small flurry of sales in white cotton yarn, DMC floss, & silk thread.

Being a University town - the store's shoppers were a regularly replenished variety of ages, ethnicity, & cultures. Although a mere 5% of the student body had ethnic ties to Asis in general (with less than half of that percentage claiming Japan as family heritage) - this crafting art captured everyone. After all, it was the 90s & the rise of Anime & Manda made all things Japanese chic.

Temari are soft, layered, hand sewn, traditional, up-cycled balls decorated with geometric embroidery. This ancient art saw a resurgence in the middle 90s - especially in college towns.

The practice required very few tools, time, & a little patience. The payoff was the dopamine hit of buying yarns & threads required to build the base, followed by beautiful flosses, perle cottons, & silk for the final designs. Besides - who doesn't love a ball?

Especially ones this stunning.

Today there are many more books, websites, & video instruction dedicated to this remarkable fiber art. For anybody with a needle & an interest in geometry, this might be your new art project

By rotating the direction of the hemp leaf pattern, it creates a pattern resembling constellations or crystals.

Spun like threads connecting stars, this is the hemp-spun fabric, 麻紡- ASTER-.

Painted onto a denim-like chambray fabric, the design is then created using sashiko stitching.

Each page holds 10 colors, and I’ve got 40 layers so it can store up to 400 colors right now!! Of course it remains to be seen if the binder is thick enough for that, but I can always search for a thicker binder if I ever get to that level.

I’d also like to get some thicker paper, or perhaps dividers to be a more sturdy option between the layers but for now old notebook paper is doing the job well enough.

4/16 of my yubinuki project

all four of these have the same stitches in the same place, but sewn in different orders.

switching it up for my next few, in technique and colour. here's #5:

these are the original shirts (link to blue, link to red)

the colors of the team are red and blue and i loved the idea of making them a sort of complementary situation in which each shirt is complete piece in and of itself but is also part of a two-piece composition, and i love the design of both of them

so i got to drawing, and these are the sketches i came up with, based on those shirts

there is something i enjoy so much about creating accurate objects on this particular way i have of approaching cross stitch designing, which is based around the smallest element and building something both simplified from the real object, but detailed enough to be recognizable using the same "smallest possible" principle around it

the constrictions lead me to making choices that make them efficient and visually readable, it is a very enjoyabe challenge

procreate has no way of putting a line through pixels, so this is a rough idea that i then polished on pc stitch

yall im SO happy with these designs holy shit!

ive already stitched a couple of rows from the top of the blue one, and im sure i'll have them ready for next friday when i hope ill be able to give it to them

hand for scale!

This is Hayley Tsang Heather's Peony – Pfingstrose Shawl. I made this shawl out of Fyberspates Gleem Lace in the colorway 733 Everglade, and used 896 6/0 Miyuki Rocailles in the color: transparent silver-lined dark gold (RR-4).

quick recap: february as of right now

its missing some more beer bottles (i drank a lot that month lol), maybe some small embellishments with beads, and the biggest thing missing rn is the scales at the front

march:

big part of my month was working at a portable altars workshop with trans friends and organizations in a huge museum in my city, so i chose it as the base for all the other elements; as of right now it is missing several embroidered animals, mars and venus, and im thinking about adding clouds to the background, but i also want to add clouds to april and may ...... its been a. couple of "airy", dissociative months so it feels fitting but I don't like such a blatant motif repetition so idk we shall see

april is literally just a sketch atp lmfao

its meant to be a constellation of the things that kept me afloat that month, the spine being the houses of my friends, the outer limbs my hobbies and things i did for myself to feel better

Check out this Humble Bundle!

It's focused on embroidery, decorative stitch work, and sashiko, with a couple others thrown in.

I just got the collection, so let me know if you want a preview of any of the books!

It looks like it just opened, and has all 17 books or 3 books as options. It looks like it will be open until Tues 23 June 1800 GMT.