Crafting Creature

"Ninja Star" tessellation, which I came up with today. The photos show the basic pattern and the tessellated form, against the light and front lit (different sides). Someone may have come up with this already (I'm not well versed in existing patterns) but it's new to me. #origami #tessellation

(I think that title is just the conventional English translation, because the book was never actually translated or published under that name, but that’s what the English-speaking community calls it.)

252 squares of 4 cm and only one I considered not salvageable from a messed up cut. I’m gonna make a soma cube with these.

My army grows.

A cross stitch of Bliss, the default wallpaper of Windows XP.

i’m going to an ostara celebration today! this is the second time that i’ve embroidered ferns, and i’m happy with how it turned out. i started with a darker green and integrated a lighter color as i got closer to the ends of the fronds to create a gradient :)

THE MOSS SPREADS 🍀

This jumper was inspired by grief, and the isolation that sometimes comes as a result of people seeing the depths and complexity of that grief. The creatures on the front are modelled on this cover of a horror novel I read nearly 2 years ago called Monstrilio, about a grieving mother who grows her 11 year old son from a piece of his deceased body’s lung. The whole process of designing and knitting this, especially as I was recovering from top surgery - something that was greatly opposed by my family, felt like a reflection on love, grief and its monstrosity.

Finished my blackwork plants sampler. Pattern by the Steady Thread