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oh! the space needle is a cute mascot base for seattle’s MLB team! i wonder how they managed to communicate that in a big foam costume?

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so our friend who goes by Irregular Joe in robot wars circles has crafted The Luggage, who is "a 13.6kg sportsman featherweight"

just look at it go!!!!

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I don't know the regulations elsewhere, but in some countries, including the United States, where I am, your type & screen "expires" after a few days, and it will need to be repeated before you get another transfusion. We also will never, EVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, transfuse type A or B or AB blood into your body going only on your word (or anyone else's word, or an ID card) that you know what type you are. We test you. Every time. And until we test you, we will only give you type O, because that's the only type that won't kill the other types dead if they get the wrong one. This is why for us there's not really any point in knowing your blood type ahead of time in case of an emergency; the testing will still need to be done before you get anything but O. And then, 3 days later, the test will expire, and if you still need blood, you'll get tested again.

We do all this because Shit Happens - someone screwed up your test the first time, the wrong patient's blood got labeled as yours, you were carrying a fake ID when the ambulance brought you in, you developed a new antibody since your last transfusion, your blood type CHANGED (rare, but can happen), etc, etc - and the blood bank is the only department in the lab where if enough errors go unnoticed, we can directly kill a patient.

So, depending on where you live, this is possibly why you don't know your blood type - whoever treated you never ordered it because they didn't expect you to need a transfusion (a surprising number of surgeries are pretty light on blood loss these days, actually), so there was no reason to test you at that time. It's also possible it's suppressed/not visible to patients in whatever system they use.

the shiiiinneeee, its so prettyyy!!!

tyyy!

I'm sorry, I'm going to infodump about them because I love them! the shine is because I use silk thread!

I'll try to illustrate this this because it's hard to explain, but ngl my photo taking is a bit sporadic so these are all from different projects!

so this is the base of them. a strip of card (if using as a thimble: measure around the middle of your middle finger) with a strip of BIAS CUT woven fabric wrapped around it.

then you need (a) padding and (b) to mark out a (usually even) number of segments. I'm doing 16ths at the moment, but 8 is probably the most common.

I've done a bunch of experimenting different ways of doing both of these, unsure on the best yet tbh! traditionally (a) is silk fibre

the first stitches, basically match up the lines in zigzag patterns. you can get an incredible amount of pattern out of sewing little zigzags. mine and all of these below are silk, but I've also used all sorts of thread, and even used 8/2 bamboo for a bracelet once

look at them.....

the colour..the geometry..