Okay it’s just the color test, and it’s just a dollar-store foam(!) frame, and I didn’t get the box of pins out to properly stretch it, but I still love it and have officially changed my mind about before-Thanksgiving Christmas decorations: this is going in my house NOW.

#urbanthreads #santa #dragon #machineembroidery

If you have scrolled this far in the TL, you might need a healing potion. Here you go.

Some people sticker up their laptops. I don't have a laptop (and my Pi's portable case has no real flat surfaces) so I sticker up my embroidery machines and, here, one of the cutting machines (Silhouette Cameo 1). The machine that cut the sticker, in fact.

#dragon #stickers

FINALLY

(some kind of pun goes here, about not throwing away my shot but instead about having had to show that I got my shot, gonna need to workshop it a little)

Spoonflower authorize the cut-and-sew orcas for sale in time for the fat quarter sale this weekend challenge.

(They're not gonna, but I ordered a black one and a nebula one myself. At least the various colors of cut-and-sew pugs are available.)

#diy #pug #cutandsew #artwithopensource #spoonflower #fabric #plushie #printondemand

My big embroidery machine has a lower-res screen, so sometimes it looks like it's making counted cross stitch patterns. Maybe I should... 🤔

(The big "+" is the current needle position/center of the design, not part of the preview.)

#machineembroidery #countedcrossstitch #herbiethelovebug #thelovebug #53

There’s a whole tutorial on my site (under Free Patterns) on how to make these in the hoop. It includes the pre-made 5x7 and 7x5 pouches, and instructions on how to resize them to any hoop size you’ve got. I could do 20cm square ones (almost 8”), and probably will when we empty out the Coco Dino-Bites cereal bag, just because I can.

#machineembroidery #inkstitch #zipperpouches #artwithopensource #mms #pocky #cardinal #embroiderylibrary

Another recycled package zipper pouch.

Turning chip and candy packaging into zipper bags is a thing you are apparently obligated to do when you have an embroidery machine.

Finally back to little sparklies and scalies, and remembering how "fun" photography of them is. Gotta not blow out the white one, but gotta capture the iridescence, also gotta do regular things like focus...

Also I'm tempted to make a purple one with white eyes now (though I don't have white eye-beads currently) just to go with that white one.

#dragon #plushie #miniature #iridescent