i wanna brainwash you into loving me forever

Reform dress, 1900-05 by Koloman Moser

This dress is made of silk.

— 𝑰𝒔𝒍𝒆 𝑶𝒇 𝑺𝒌𝒚𝒆, 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅.

Started stitching the Milky Way in. Slowly making progress on it as I am hiding the travelling thread so the back will look nice.

Progress on the constellation quilt has come along quite a lot now. Finished the binding on the quilt over the weekend. I prefer to machine stitch the binding to the front then hand stitch the back side. It gives such a nice finish to the quilt. Took the time to measure it also and it ended up being 72" by 72" (183cm by 183cm).

Behold the stars of the constellations of the northern sky! I love how this quilt has turned out. It was a lot of fun to work on and the effect is so cool in person. Overall I would estimate it took about 90-100 hours to complete. Give or take 10 hours if you want to count the time I spent custom dying the fabric.

I made sure to get a nice photo of it in daylight. For once I also remembered to get a quilt label on it. The back really shows the difference in readability of the quilting on the ice dyed fabric compared to the solid front. Thank you everyone that has followed this. I am glad you all found joy in it.

where as taking the idea would be taking someone else’s idea and expanding on something that wasn’t your own

Exactly.

However, be careful not to use “It’s not lifting, it was just inspiration…” as an excuse not to give another author credit where credit is due. If someone’s work inspires you to write something that’s in a similar vein, whether the original work was in the same fandom or not, it’s kind to the other writer (and to readers who may also want to see more of a concept, just like you did) to note that! AO3 lets you do that by checking this box:

I even give credit in my author’s notes at the top of a fic if I’m inspired by a specific chapter of ACOTAR or by a work that’s not on AO3, like a movie, poem, or book.

In the case that made me make this post yesterday, it was definitely lifting, because someone made a comment on one of my posts that detailed a very specific idea that I had and said something like “I’m going to turn this into a fic!” without even asking if that was cool or not.