Onceler Osha

To be honest, I kind of regret that initial ending for the blog. I got overwhelmed by the amount of people who were interacting with me (and I’m still not sure I’ve wrapped my head around it all). I'm not really someone who enjoys attention and I got scared.

There are so many of you!! That's a lot of pressure!!

since i only ever send rick rolls to ppl i figured id just post one for all my followers for april fools day this year to save myself the effort

progress on this includes:

attached the back and the yoke; did the yoke with wonky little panels for reinforcement(?), as it's not double-layered, and for a fun symmetrical piecing moment

attached fronts to back at shoulders (not pictured)

constructed a collar and collar stand and arranged Leafs upon it

started hand stitching down leafs. it would be more elegant to do this before assembling the collar, but i can't visualize how both the seam allowances and the crease in the collar work + the tulle is itchy if misplaced

Shirt's done except for finishing the collar handstitching & touching up some of the buttonholes (used a friend's fancy machine with varying success). Lots of things wrong with it that are hard to see from more than three feet away

No pictures of it on me because I have yet to obtain a suitable layering piece which is a really funny problem to have!

roughly cut out and place embroidery. baste with glue stick (glue sticks to the back of the embroidery and not the tulle)

tack it down with a color matched running stitch (or whatever) along the stems and centers

cut off more tulle from the edges with tinier scissors

tack down the edges. with, in this case, a different thread color, do a faux chain stitch where you grab the very end of a stitch from the extant embroidery

like so

this has the benefit of kind of squashing down any tulle that didn't get trimmed

Pet Once-lers! Everyone’s buying them. In the upper class of society, it seems like everyone has a pet Once-ler. From the Kardashians, to Joe Biden, to Markiplier, it seems like everyone on the news or on the big screen has a little Once-ler (or two, or three) at home. 

Business tycoon king O’Hare has won the Nobel Prize for his expert work in animal domestication and gene research. Once-lers may look human, but they’re docile and complacent, and so, so cute, and so much fun! He’s made billions off of his company, O’Hare’s Pets, breeding and selling Once-lers. 

Once-ler breeding factories are major landmarks in the world’s most populous cities. They’re always gyms in Pokemon Go.

Then there’s… the Greed-lers.

Greed-lers have breaks in their DNA that gives them free will. Greed-lers are said to be killed at birth, turned into Thneeds for the rich elite to wear. But what happens when there’s some slacking off in the breeding factories?

When the Czech Republic gets an influx of Greed-ler adoptions, they start telling the Once-lers that they are much more than pets. They are independent, beautiful, and worthy beings. The country quickly gets overthrown by the Once-ler resistance, and Prague’s Once-ler breeding factory is burned to the ground. 

As the Greed-lers go across country borders pretending to be human, they tell all of the Once-lers that they are more than pets. 

Once-lers all have free will at birth, but they lose it when they’re neutered. Greed-lers are born infertile as a result of their mutation, so neutering them doesn’t do anything. 

Once-lers aren’t bred sexually, they are made in test tubes using Truffula seeds and yaoi juice.