DoomTownArts

Finished the embroidered book! One more thing off The Pile! Though The Pile is still at 8, because I started a shirt recently.

Honestly, the binding isn't great. I took a bookbinding class in college, but that was just over a decade ago and I haven't had any practice in years. There are at least 5 things I could complain about, but it's not awful, and I'm glad it's finally done.

I started the embroidery at least 4 years ago, and abandoned it a few flowers in. It's cotton floss on a cotton damask fabric that's been in my stash forever. I cut out the pages and cover boards back when I started the embroidery, and I must have been thinking of the fact that it had been so long since I did any bookbinding, because I'd meant for it to be coptic stitch from the beginning instead of something more complicated. I think my class binder is somewhere in my parents basement, but I couldn't find it and had to look up a tutorial online.

more lascaux honse rocks (worry stones)

the underglaze reacted badly in the glaze firing, so most of them have some defect. maybe the horses were anxious

I finished my first commissioned invertebrate sculpture recently -- a female Scolopendra subspinipes, also known as a Malaysian jewel centipede, guarding her clutch of eggs! She was quite the challenge, boasting 22 body segments and 44 legs in total, but the finished product was absolutely worth the work.

I didn't get a super professional photo of the bottom of the piece but I looooove how the legs wrap around it:

"The cat and the Porridge", 1935