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green, for some fucking reason:

Here is the latest tapestry attempt. I made a little loom with a thrifted picture frame and some nails, and let me tell you, hammering nails into a wooden frame should not be as difficult as that was. It took way more force than I was expecting to actually get the nails in the wood, and some of them kept falling out, so I had to supplement with glue. And most of them are crooked and weird, but it is functional and that's the important part.

I debated on what picture to do, and yeah, I should have started with something a little simpler, but I was struck with the soft shelled turtle (me? making a rottmnt donnie related craft? preposterous), so here we go. I did decide about halfway through that my loom is just too small to do something so detailed, which does mean I will be making a larger one at some point, because I have ideas. I do want to work through some of my problems first, like how to keep the wefts even at the bottom without pushing into the nails (which makes it a pain to take off), how to stop gaps between color changes, and how to weave in the ends in a way that doesn't drive me nuts.