#fear jacket

I should have been posting updates for this as they happened, but things just kept overlapping and I'd forget to take a picture, and then I'd want to keep sewing-

So I didn't. But it's all okay, because today you get to see the finished product! That's right

The Fear Jacket is done!

[Image description: First picture: the front of a jean jacket which has been heavily embroidered with depictions of fears from the Magnus Archives

Second picture: the back of a jean jacket which has been heavily embroidered with depictions of fears from the Magnus Archives

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There will be more detailed image descriptions that describe on each design at the bottom of the post.

I have been working on this coat for two years, though there was a six mouth period when the pandemic started that I took a break. I'm gonna be honest, the coincidences between the patterns and real life events back then kinda freaked me out. Thankfully the break gave me the space I needed to get over it. And I've finished it now!

Now that this is done, as well as my wizard coat, I'm working on knitting the autumnal cloak. That one promises to be a long project as well, what with the sheer number of colors to work through.

However, I'm going to take commissions from friends for things now, to break up the monotony. Scale mail vests and gloves, yarn wigs, smaller embroidery projects. Maybe if I gain enough confidence, I'll open up commissions to the general public

[Image description: the first photo is of the front of an embroidered jean jacket. The sleeve cuffs are covered with a yellow fractal pattern, and the shoulders have black suns on them. The left breast has a solid honeycomb pattern on it with a grey worm in one of the combs, and the right breast has a gradient of light blue to dark blue with a falling stick figure. The lower right side has ribs embroidered on with meat showing in between the bones. On the opposite side from the ribs there is dirt embroidered to appear to be falling from the pocket. On the front of this pocket there is a figure in a red circus ringmaster's coat peering from a seam. Opposite this figure is an elaborate fire pattern. There are two visible tiny skulls on the coat.

The second photo is of the jean jacket from the back. There are eight eyes across the shoulders, with a large spider's web across the back below them. On either side on the bottom edge are clouds of mist. Above the mist on the left side there is a knife and a bone-colored flute crossing each other. In the same position on the right there is an open mouth lined with fangs. There are three tiny visible skulls on the coat.

[Image description: the first photo is of the front of am embroidered jean jacket. The sleeve cuffs are covered with a yellow fractal pattern, and the shoulders have black suns on them. The left breast has a solid honeycomb pattern on it with a grey worm in one of the combs, and the lower right side has ribs embroidered on with meat showing in between the bones.

The second photo is of the jean jacket from the back. There are eight eyes across the shoulders, with a large spider's web across the back below them. On either side on the bottom edge are clouds of mist.

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I decided on doing ribs for the Flesh, and while I wish they were a bit more gross looking, I'm please with how fast I got them done. Also, I refuse to make the worm in the Corruption look more realistic, out of fear that I won't be able to make myself touch it.

I've already started on the next pattern; if you can find it and guess what it is you get my admiration.

Close ups of the two new patterns below!

[Image description: the first photo is a close up of the embroidered honeycomb pattern. The hexagons are yellow with orange edges. There is a grey worm emerging from one hexagon, with an open mouth.

The second photo is a close up of the embroidered rib pattern. There are three ribs that are a solid ivory color, with meat in between that is a mottled red color. The meat continues above and below the ribs before ending in a ragged edge.

I have completed the Vast, and fuck, are my fingers tired.

[Image description: the first photo is of the front of am embroidered jean jacket. The sleeve cuffs are covered with a yellow fractal pattern, and the shoulders have black suns on them. The left breast has a solid honeycomb pattern on it with a grey worm in one of the combs, and the right breast has a gradient of light blue to dark blue with a falling stick figure. The lower right side has ribs embroidered on with meat showing in between the bones.

The second photo is of the jean jacket from the back. There are eight eyes across the shoulders, with a large spider's web across the back below them. On either side on the bottom edge are clouds of mist.

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I originally thought about letting the denim serve as the blue background, and just embroidering a stick figure falling somewhere, but I think this is more impressive and more importantly, balances out the Corruption on the other side. It definitely needed to be something with a very different color scheme, and the Vast worked best for that.

[Image description: a close up of the blue gradient. The top color is nearly white, and the bottom color is a deep indigo. The stick figure is close to the top of the panel.

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So I paused the Fear Jacket for the last year, because the last three patterns were uncomfortably prescient and I started embroidering the Corruption right before the pandemic began.

Since then, I've been knitting a massive coat. The pattern is from a book, and it's made out of patches shapes vaguely like feathers. I'm using autumn colors and it's gonna eventually be great. I'm maybe a quarter of the way done.

And I'm bored of knitting the same thing over and over. So vaccines are going out, and I'm taking up the Fear Jacket again

I did it guys, I finished the Dark. The first one was a little warped because I didn't put it in an embroidery hoop, but it's not very noticeable and I fixed it on the second one. After this, I'm going to stop keeping it symmetrical so I can fit everything in there.