Arty Ankylosaurus

Multi billion dollar corporations: We make crap AI ads because we rather hang themselves than pay an extra cent for a quality work.

Midsize art supply manufacturer: We commissioned a watercolor artist to make an illustration for every color of our watercolor palette and make it into an art book with swatches.

Now this is the kind of thing I am here for. I'm generally not a fan of "people being good at things on the internet", mostly when it's presented in that tiktok/asmr/perfectionism style.

Hand-weaving a basket in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica

Sometimes I make art instead of knitting (most often it's watercolour or pen and ink). There's a lot of it here so I took pictures of a few and started a ko-fi shop. Some of the pieces aren't framed, but these landscapes are already in frames with double mats.

@spawn1644 @a-realm-of-flowers your suggestions have become reality!

Not actually a maze although I might try charting a sock maze at some point I'm sure it could work. Adding that idea to the infinite project backburner.

Went outside for good lighting so the colors are accurate for once. I continue to be a huge fan of the yarn it is so pretty. Also tried a shadow wrap heel for the first time, which is basically a far superior short row heel and I will never be doing a short row heel again.

I’m gonna do nine patches and bordered squares and put them on point.

I saw a photo of something similar in creams and reds a long time ago and took a screen shot of it, and saw it while I was scrolling through my ‘Quilts to Make’ file. Decided to pull these out and give it a go.

No idea what size it’ll end up, but if I stick to 6x7 blocks with a border it should end up about 64”x72” I think. Which is a nice throw size to cuddle on the couch with.

Of course…

Not enough to make bigger, I think more contrast between the two fabrics would look even better, but this will make a lovely couch quilt!

She ended up 70”x85”, which is a pretty nice twin if a bit short, but it would also layout on a queen with little overhang if someone was looking for a display kind of quilt.

I have a dark teal cotton in mind for backing and Robin’s Egg blue for the quilting thread, which is basically the same colour as the light blue fabric.

Had to continue the space theme with the quilting. Pattern is called Interstellar and I did use Robin’s Egg thread on the top and a medium light grey on the back so you could see the stars and swirls on the backing.

I did end up using the constellation fabric for the binding and love the way it looks against the border.